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Editor's note : From now on each weekly blog page will have several items culled from the past called  "9/11 - From The History File" : It's for those who didn't know, and also for those who forgot....or are trying to forget.

Editor's note - War Update, War Alert, War Warning, Red War Warning and War Imminent - refer to articles regarding the upcoming war with Iran.  In the order they appear as shown above, they  represent less serious to more serious possible threats of war. - mpg

As of 08-08-08 a new category of war warning will be included, the above warnings will have the prefix (WWIII) added to them to indicate the possible outbreak of greater hostilities. - mpg
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Wednesday March 23rd 2011 - links page 

More Tales From The Zio-Sphere..... 

Was Stuxnet Designed to Cause A Melt-Down On Que 
03-23-11 
mpg 
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Stuxnet - Wikipedia  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet 
Must Read - A quote...."Stuxnet is a Windows computer worm  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm  ---  discovered in July 2010 that targets industrial  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_engineering  ---  software and equipment. [1]   ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#cite_note-0  ---  While it is not the first time that hackers have targeted industrial systems, [2]  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#cite_note-Siemans-Cyber-1  ---  it is the first discovered malware  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware  ---  that spies on and subverts industrial systems,[3]   ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#cite_note-compworld-2  ---  and the first to include a programmable logic controller  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_logic_controller  ---  (PLC) rootkit. ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit  ---  [4]  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#cite_note-3  ---  [5]  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#cite_note-4  ---  The worm initially spreads indiscriminately, but includes a highly specialized malware payload that is designed to target only Siemens  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens  ---  Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCADA  ---  systems that are configured to control and monitor specific industrial processes. [6]  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#cite_note-5  ---  [7]  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#cite_note-APtehran-6  ---  Stuxnet infects PLCs by subverting the Step-7  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinCC  ---  software application that is used to reprogram these devices.[8]  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#cite_note-Keizer1-7  ---  Unlike most malware, Stuxnet does little harm to computers and networks that do not meet specific configuration requirements; "The attackers took great care to make sure that only their designated targets were hit...It was a marksman’s job. [27]  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#cite_note-broad20110115-26  ---  While the worm is promiscuous, it makes itself inert if Siemens software is not found on infected computers, contains safeguards to prevent each infected computer from spreading the worm to more than three others, and to erase itself on 24 June 2012.[21]  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#cite_note-gross201104-20  ---  For its targets, Stuxnet contains, among other things, code for a man-in-the-middle attack  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack  ---  that fakes industrial process control sensor signals so an infected system does not shut down due to abnormal behavior.[21]  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#cite_note-gross201104-20  ---  [27]  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#cite_note-broad20110115-26  ---  Such complexity is very unusual for malware.  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware  ---  The worm consists of a layered attack against three different systems:"  
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Japan's Nuclear Crisis, Stuxnet and SCADA Defenses
  ---  https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/12628-Japans-Nuclear-Crisis-Stuxnet-and-SCADA-Defenses.html 
A quote...."Stuxnet is a highly sophisticated designer-virus that wreaks havoc with SCADA systems which provide operational control for critical infrastructure and production networks, such as those used to operate a nuclear power plant. -- Stuxnet-type viruses are uniquely dangerous because they are capable not only of affecting network computer systems, they can also cause actual physical damage to the equipment the networks control." 
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Stuxnet is World's First Cyber Super Weapon  ---  http://www.tomsguide.com/us/stuxnet-cyber-weapon-worm-trojan,news-8122.html 
A quote...."Wired reports that Stuxnet is designed to attack the Siemens Simatic WinCC SCADA system. These SCADA systems are installed in big facilities (like nuclear plants and utility companies) to manage operations. It's taken researchers three months to come to a conclusion as to what Stuxnet's creator had in mind when it was written. Experts now say that the worm is designed for sabotage and that the level of sophistication behind it suggests it may have had the support of a government or state-run organization. -- Frank Rieger, chief technology officer at GSMK, told Bloomberg that the building of Stuxnet would have cost at least $3 million and taken a team of 10 programmers six months to complete. -- "All the details so far to me scream that this was created by a nation-state," Rieger told Bloomberg in an interview." - bold by website editor 
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Iran's Top Stuxnet Expert Killed  ---  http://www.news-worthy.info/irans-top-stuxnet-expert-killed/4146/ 
A quote...."News-worthy.info — Prof. Majid Shahriari, who died when his car was attacked in North Tehran Monday, Nov. 29, headed the team Iran established for combating the Stuxnet virus rampaging through its nuclear and military networks. His wife was injured." 
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Israel used Stuxnet against Iran with US help
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/israel-used-stuxnet-against-iran-with-us-help/ 
Russia claims Stuxnet could have triggered second Chernobyl
  ---  http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Russia-claims-Stuxnet-could-have-triggered-second-Chernobyl-1179493.html 
Israel, with U.S. help, tested Stuxnet at Dimona before attacking Iran
  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=626234 
Stuxnet Autopsy Fascinates And Frightens
  ---  http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/Stuxnet-Autopsy-Fascinates-And-Frightens-2-13-2011.asp 
Israel: smart enough to create Stuxnet and stupid enough to use it
  ---  http://warincontext.org/2010/10/01/israel-smart-enough-to-create-stuxnet-and-stupid-enough-to-use-it/ 
Stuxnet: Another “Conspiracy Theory” Turns Out To Be True
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/stuxnet-another-conspiracy-theory-turns-out-to-be-true.html 
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If Stuxnet was designed solely to attack centrifuges and electronic turbines that's one thing.  If however it was designed to interfere with the emergency shut-down procedures of any process, specifically those in nuclear power plants, that's a completely different matter altogether.   

Israel has faked attacks or transmitted fake information to trigger attacks several times in the past. If their goal was the complete destruction of Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant using the Stuxnet worm -- instead of just slowing its construction -- what's outlined below would've been the most likely scenario.   

The Stuxnet worm was actually intended not to be discovered until AFTER the Bushehr plant had been loaded with fuel and gone online. Nuclear plants and their systems are at their most vulnerable during emergency shut-downs. The OBVIOUS policy of the Iranians to any perceived attack, no matter how tenuous or uncorroborated, would be to scram the reactor and shut-down the plant as fast as possible at the first sign of trouble.   

The possible sequence is as follows.....   
Thankfully the Stuxnet worm was discovered before the fuel was loaded and the plant went operational.

Of course in this scenario Israel could just as easily have scrammed the Bushehr reactor through the Stuxnet worm itself, but a "triple play" like this, were "incompetent" Iranians scram their own brand new reactor full of "bugs" because of their paranoid delusions about a non-existent attack thus causing a catastrophic melt-down damaging the whole Middle East would play out a lot better....after all, they'd be "doing it" to themselves.  Besides, it's just the sort of "triple play" operation Israel loves to carry out. They've done others before....   

Just think -- four remoted planes, three controlled demolitions and one completely incapacitated air defense system....another brilliant "triple play". 

It would be sad if this is what unintentionally happened to Japan's nuclear reactors, if their safe shut-down was impeded -- in any way -- by the presence of the Stuxnet worm in their control systems (obviously it wouldn't have been deliberate and Stuxnet wouldn't have been "activated" with its final instruction-set according to the speculative scenario shown above).   

Still, it is strongly recommended that all of Japan's reactor control systems be examined to see if they've been penetrated and possibly compromised by the Stuxnet worm.  Perhaps Stuxnet should also be analyzed to see if it has been designed to have specific affects on systems as they undergo emergency shut-down procedures or how it affects the operation of water pumps, or if Stuxnet has any tell tale signatures of being designed to receive updates or additional code to implement such destructive actions.   

Obviously if Stuxnet is found to have contributed to Japan's disaster, than steps will have to be immediately taken by the entire international community to permanently sanction and isolate Israel and the United States. - mpg   
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Israel’s Fingerprints Are All Over 9/11 (And I’m Not Afraid to Say It!)
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/23/israels-fingerprints-are-all-over-911-and-im-not-afraid-to-say-it/ 
Special Note - A quote...."I agree that attempting to discuss politics based on ethnic or religious distinctions is usually misguided (although the various groups which constitute the ‘Israel Lobby’ are almost totally motivated by ethnic and religious based ideologies and imperatives). But it gets more tricky when it comes to analyzing the interface between states. I think we do need to recognize that the U.S. and Israel are two different, autonomous, sovereign states whose interests often differ markedly in the Middle East. It is commonly held in international relations theory that states act in their own interests." 
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American Reality Check, Dr. Alan Sabrosky On 9/11  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/23/american-reality-check-dr-alan-sabrosky-on-911/ 
Special Note - A quote...."Most Americans are aware that 9/11 was covered up.  Some know much.  Some are very uninformed.  What is more important is that few Americans are aware that many within our military know about 9/11, who planned and executed it and absurd the claim that terrorists were involved is.  For the past decade, many of these, soldiers, military leaders, have fought in wars they know were rigged by a massive act of treason with very provable foreign elements. -- Some, now many, have died.  Most have suffered, some catastrophically.  All have seen America torn apart and humiliated.  Those who know the truth about 9/11 know how serious the humiliation really is, how the American people were duped and then bled to death by, well, let Dr. Sabrosky explain." 
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[Israeli] Knesset Passes "Nakba" and "Segregation" Laws  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/60921 
A quote...."The Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) passed, on Tuesday at night, two bills into law. The so-called “Nakba law”, and a bill, deemed “segregation law”, by opponents in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories." 
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Jerusalem Bombing Likely To Be A Mossad False Flag
  ---  http://www.revoltoftheplebs.com/categories/news-analysis/jerusalem-bombing-likely-to-be-a-mossad-false-flag/ 
A quote...."A bomb has struck a crowded bus stop in West Jerusalem, killing at least one person and wounding 30 in what authorities said was the first major attack in the city in several years. At least eight Palestinians, including children, were killed in Israeli mortar attacks and airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. - Al Jazeera -- The terror attack in Jerusalem, follows a set pattern. Israeli’s attack Gaza with airstrikes & tanks, kill civilians so as to provoke & incite counter violence & then Mossad cells engineer a false-flag terror attack. This has been recorded & observed by various analysts." 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

The Failure to Stand Up to Evil Leads to Insanity, Poverty and the Loss of All Our Rights
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/failure-to-stand-up-to-evil-leads-to.html 
Must Read - (Outstanding!!) -- A quote...."....the evil are aware of their evil and desperately trying to avoid the awareness. Rather than blissfully lacking a sense of morality like the psychopath, they are continually engaged in sweeping the evidence of their evil under the rug of their own consciousness (or attempting to redefine their evil as good). The problem is not a defect of conscience, but the effort to deny the conscience its due. We become evil by attempting to hide from ourselves. The wickedness of the evil is not committed directly, but indirectly as a part of this cover-up process. Evil originates not in the absence of guilt but in the effort to escape it. Since they will do almost anything to avoid the particular pain that comes from self-examination, under ordinary circumstances, the evil are the last people who would ever come to psychotherapy. The evil hate the light – the light of goodness that shows them up, the light of scrutiny that exposes them, the light of the truth that penetrates their deception."
also posted at  DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/24/the-failure-to-stand-up-to-evil-leads-to-insanity-poverty-and-the-loss-of-all-our-rights/
& ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/failure-stand-evil-leads-insanity-and-loss-all-our-rights
& PrisonPlanet  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-failure-to-stand-up-to-evil-leads-to-insanity-poverty-and-the-loss-of-all-our-rights.html
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What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – March 23rd, 2011
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/23/what-really-happened-with-michael-rivero-march-23rd-2011/ 
MRVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/282170614  ---  (JustInTV - 2hrs - March 23nd, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero extensively covers the on-going disaster in Japan, the parasitic class's attack on Libya, the Fed's on going stupidity (light bulbs were mentioned a lot), the Banksters (a.k.a. "money junkies") and many other issues....mpg
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

Smoke stalls work at Japan reactors  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171335.html 
A quote...."Smoke rising from Japan's damaged nuclear power plant has once again stalled efforts to reconnect power lines to the reactors and restore cooling systems." 
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Global food scare widens from Japan nuclear plant
  ---  http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/global-food-scare-widens-from-japan-nuclear-plant-20110324-1c6yg.html 
A quote...."Russia, Australia, Canada and Singapore joined a list of countries shunning Japanese food imports Thursday as radioactive steam wafted anew from a disaster-struck nuclear plant, straining nerves in Tokyo." 
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Workers pulled at Japan nuke plant as smoke rises
  ---  http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9M3I3Q80.htm 
Radiation News 03-23-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (7 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/23/radiation-news-3-23-11/ 
3 nuke workers hospitalized in Japan
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171439.html 
Russia bans food imports from Japan following nuclear incidents
  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20110324/163179575.html 
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More On The International Situation.... 

The Assault On Libya.... 

Libya: Murder and Plunder Masquerading as “Humanitarian  Intervention  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27749.htm 
A quote...."March 23, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- On March 20th 2003 Western forces launched their “Shock and Awe” attack on Iraq, heavily bombarding Baghdad and elsewhere, massacring hundreds if not thousands of innocent men, women and children. On March 20th 2011 the very same forces attacked Libya, beginning what many believe will be yet another mass slaughter." 
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Frustration Mounts on the Streets of Benghaz  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,752580,00.html 
A quote...."In the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi, tensions are mounting between conservative reformers, trigger-happy youths and Gadhafi loyalists. There is growing frustration at the lack of jobs as companies pulled out of the city. The absence of progress is putting the revolution at risk." 
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27750.htm 
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Note To Progressives Who Back a No Fly Zone on Libya  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27754.htm 
A quote...."March 23, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Iraq alone should have made any progressive support for Western military intervention in Libya negligible. It is very sad to see that didn't happen. The corporate media has, again, succeeded in getting many well intentioned progressives to think within its box."
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Libya war divides NATO  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/nato-m24.shtml 
A quote...."The war against Libya has ignited a heated conflict within NATO. After several days of negotiations, the 28 members of the military alliance were unable to agree on the command structure for the action against Libya. On Monday, the conflict escalated to the point where the German and French delegations walked out of a NATO Council meeting on the war." 
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NATO is the enemy of the peoples of the world and peace - Unhand the Middle East!
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76158&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Gates hints at open-ended war in Libya
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171384.html 
Russia condemns civilian deaths in Libya
  ---  http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1627916.php/Russia-condemns-civilian-deaths-in-Libya 
Airstrikes fail to deter Gaddafi forces - contains video
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/20113242425700917.html 
Western warplanes bomb army base in Tripoli
  ---  http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/03/24/142790.html 
Libyan rebels form 'interim government' - contains video
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/2011322193944862310.html 
China intensifies condemnation of Libya air strikes
  ---  http://thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=12938 
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Stop Arming Dictators  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27753.htm 
A quote...."March 23, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Instead of forking over $150 million a day to the weapons industry to attack Libya or selling $67 billion in weapons to the Saudis so they can repress not just their own people, but those of Bahrain, we -- the ones being asked to forgo Social Security to help pay for empire -- should demand those who purport to represent us in Washington stop arming dictators in our name. That might drain some bucks from the merchants of death, but it would give nonviolent protesters throughout the Middle East a fighting chance to liberate themselves." 
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Afghan strongman ‘raped, killed and tortured’
  ---  http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/afghan-strongman-lsquoraped-killed-and-torturedrsquo-15123329.html 
A quote...."The head of Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission has urged Hamid Karzai's government and Nato to investigate allegations that an Afghan strongman employed by United States Army Special Forces embarked on a spate of war crimes, including rape, the summary execution of children, and torture." 
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Child among 4 dead as [US-NRE] airstrike hits cars in Khost
  ---  http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/03/23/child-among-4-dead-airstrike-hits-cars-khost 
A quote...."KHOST CITY (PAN): An airstrike by NATO-led forces killed four people, including a child, in southeastern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76140&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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NATO trucks attacked in Pakistan  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171376.html 
A quote...."Militants have destroyed at least three supply trucks belonging to US-led forces in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province." 
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Canada’s Conservative government almost certain to fall, triggering May election - Hip Hip Hoorya!!
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/cana-m24.shtml 
May Harper and all his ilk never be seen again in the light of day, like the night-crawlers they are may the skulk in darkness for the rest of their days. - mpg -- A quote...."After delivering an austerity budget Tuesday that was quickly rejected by all three opposition parties, Canada’s minority Conservative government faces all but certain defeat in parliament, possibly as early as today." 
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More on the World Wide Revolution..... 

Egypt passes law criminalizing protests - Oh, oh.  Looks like more "freedumb & da'mockery" US-NRE style. 
  ---  http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/371465 
A quote...."The Egyptian government on Wednesday passed a law criminalizing protests and strikes. Under the new law, anyone organizing or calling for a protest will be sentenced to jail and/or a fine of LE500,000." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76156&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Yemen parliament imposes state of emergency  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12831981 
A quote...."Yemen's parliament has passed sweeping emergency laws following escalating street protests against the 32-year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh."
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Yemen's opposition rejects Saleh's offer of early elections
  ---  http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1628229.php/Yemen-s-opposition-rejects-Saleh-s-offer-of-early-elections 
A quote...."Sana'a - Yemeni opposition groups on Wednesday rejected president Ali Abdullah Saleh's offer to hold early elections and said they would continue to protest against his rule and the emergency law imposed on the country." 
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Yemeni protesters call for march on palace  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/2011323125747532175.html 
A quote...."Opposition groups vow to oust Ali Abdullah Saleh from power as parliament approves emergency laws after weeks of unrest." 
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Syria security forces kill 12 in attack on Daraa mosque, witnesses say
  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/syria-security-forces-kill-12-in-attack-on-daraa-mosque-witnesses-say-1.351283 
Death toll hits 15 in Syria uprising - contains video
  ---  http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/03/24/142784.html 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Gaza, Déjà vu: Context Matters  ---  http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2011/03/gaza-deja-vu-context-matters.html 
A quote...."Over the past 24 hours I couldn't help but feel I have lived these moments before. I suppose that is because recent events are so similar to events which lead to the beginning of Israel's 23-day campaign in Gaza which left over 1,400 dead, most of whom where civilians." 
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Clashes with Israeli Army in Beit Omar; One Injured, 5 Arrested
  ---  http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9760&Itemid=64 
A quote...."Hebron - PNN The Israeli army seized several shared taxis at the entrance to Beit Omar, confiscating the keys of four of them and arresting two of the occupants." 
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IOF Kills 4 Palestinian Civilians, Including 2 Children, in Artillery Shelling and Four Members of the Palestinian Resistance in Aerial Bombardment in Gaza City
  ---  http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7317:iof-kills-four-palestinian-civilians-including-two-children-in-artillery-shelling-and-four-members-of-the-palestinian-resistance-in-aerial-bombardment-in-gaza-city&catid=36:pchrpressreleases&Itemid=194
A quote...."The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has continued to commit war crimes in the Gaza Strip and intensified its artillery and aerial bombardment in populated areas. These bombing missions are clearly targeting Palestinian civilians. Yesterday, 22 March 2011, IOF killed four Palestinian civilians. Two children were killed. A man, his grandchild, his cousin and neighbor were also killed. Another eleven civilians, including eight children, were wounded, three seriously. These civilians were targeted while playing football near their houses in al-Shejaeya neighborhood in the east of Gaza city." 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76128&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Israeli army imposes another curfew on village near Nablus
  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/2164-israeli-army-imposes-another-curfew-on-village-near-nablus 
A quote...."The Israeli army has imposed another curfew on the village of Awarta, south-east of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. This comes six days after a previous curfew was lifted in the wake of the murder of five settlers in the illegal Itamar settlement adjacent to the village." 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

New-home sales collapse in Feb. - Sales hit a new record low  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/economy-politics 
A quote...."Housing prices fade, says FHFA  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fhfa-says-housing-prices-drop-03-in-january-2011-03-22  ---    Existing-home sales drop 9.6%  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/existing-home-sales-sink-96-in-february-2011-03-21  ---  Sales of new single-family homes tumbled 16.9% in February, as high unemployment, tumbling prices and a glut of cheaper alternatives brought activity in the housing market to a near-standstill." 
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Tuesday March 22nd 2011 - links page

More Tales From The Zio-Sphere..... 

The Surprising PNAC Connection to Libya  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/03/21/the-surprising-pnac-connection-to-libya/ 
A quote...."If you want to know exactly what’s happening or about to transpire, keep an eye on Neocons like Bill Kristol at rabid Zionist Murdock’s Fox News, the former head of PNAC when they made their famous study, proposal and ‘Statement of Principles’ preceding the staged 9/11 events and ensuing bogus “war on terror”. -- It looks like despite Obama’s “promises” to not send troops, we’re about do it anyway. Surprise. So expect a real good reason to be fabricated soon, like tales of horrific atrocities by Gaddafi, to make sure the public is behind it. A false flag or two within Libya is probably on the table right now, like the staged theatre fire massacre in Abadan, Iran during the Iran revolution." - Topix ||  9/11-Planning Guidance Docs  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409 
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Nuclear power plants shut down in Germany  ---  http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/nuclear-power-plants-shut-down-in-germany/ 
A quote...."Ed note–Ostensibly, the reason for the nuclear reactors in Japan going into meltdown mode was an earthquake followed by a tsunami. No such dangers exist in Germany, yet they are shutting down their reactors–Do they know something the rest of us don’t, perhaps dealing with a computer worm known as Stuxnet designed to destroy reactors such as these?" 
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Egypt [lost] LE 100 billion from gas exports to Israel since 2005
  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/2153-egypt-loses-le-100-billion-from-gas-exports-to-israel-since-2005 
A quote...."Egyptian petroleum experts have estimated that the country's losses over the past six years from supplying natural gas to Israeli to be more than one hundred billion Egyptian pounds." 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

EXCLUSIVE: CIA Psychologist's Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush's Torture Program
  ---  http://www.truth-out.org/cia-psychologists-notes-reveal-bushs-torture-program68542 
Must Read - For The Record - A quote...."Dr. Bruce Jessen's handwritten notes describe some of the torture techniques that were used to "exploit" "war on terror" detainees in custody of the CIA and Department of Defense. -- Bush administration officials have long asserted that the torture techniques used on "war on terror" detainees were utilized as a last resort in an effort to gain actionable intelligence to thwart pending terrorist attacks against the United States and its interests abroad. But the handwritten notes obtained exclusively by Truthout drafted two decades ago by Dr. John Bruce Jessen, the psychologist who was under contract to the CIA and credited as being one of the architects of the government's top-secret torture program, tell a dramatically different story about the reasons detainees were brutalized and it was not just about obtaining intelligence. Rather, as Jessen's notes explain, torture was used to "exploit" detainees, that is, to break them down physically and mentally, in order to get them to "collaborate" with government authorities. - In other words to tell lies....mpg 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76114&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909 
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A Few Ugly Truths about the Death State and Its Supporters  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76080&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Quote of the Day...."What is there to thank our soldiers for? They are not defending our freedoms. They are not keeping us safe from our enemies. They are not protecting us from terrorists. They are not guaranteeing our First Amendment rights. They are not defending U.S. borders. They are not guarding U.S. shores. They are not patrolling U.S. coasts. They are not enforcing no-fly zones over U.S. skies. They are not fighting "over there" so we don’t have to fight "over here." They are not avenging 9/11. They are not safeguarding the American way of life. Oh, and they are not ensuring that I have the liberty to write what I do about the military. -- What, then, should we thank our soldiers for? Should we thank them for fighting an unconstitutional war, an unscriptural war, an immoral war, an offensive war, an unjust war, or a senseless war? Should we thank our veterans for helping to carry out an aggressive, reckless, belligerent, and interventionist foreign policy? Should we thank the military for sucking $1 trillion out of the federal budget?" 
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The “Kill Team” Photographs  ---  http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/03/the-kill-team-photographs.html 
Special Note- A quote...."It’s the smile. In photographs released by the German weekly Der Spiegel, an American soldier is looking directly at the camera with a wide grin. His hand is on the body of an Afghan whom he and his fellow soldiers appear to have just killed, allegedly for sport. In a sense, we’ve seen that smile before: on the faces of the American men and women who piled naked Iraqi prisoners on top of each other, eight years ago, and posed for photographs and videos at the Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76110&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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CNN correspondent slams Fox [Faux-News] over ‘human shields’ report  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/ 
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US-NRE Presstitution Exposed - A quote...."CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson blasted Fox News on Monday for its report that Libyan authorities used him and other journalists as "human shields" in order to prevent an attack on Muammar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli the night before. Robertson said Fox News' "allegation is outrageous and it's absolutely hypocritical." 
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Webb: "This isn't the way our system is supposed to work"  ---  http://americansjourney.blogspot.com/2011/03/webb-this-isnt-way-our-system-is.html 
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuG6NfldBdo  ---  A quote...."It is ironic that the only people who do not yet realize that we are living in a dictatorship are the professional liars in the media and the lemmings in Congress.  Poor Webb.  I wonder what it's like being him - just kind of bumbling around talking with a paid omitter in the media about this myth that our government has checks and balances.  One such mythical check is the "power of the purse" - where Congress can take away the dictator's money - but why do that when the merchants of death that got our "representatives" into office in the first place will  be the first to feel the pain?" 
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Strangling of the Free Internet Begins  ---  http://www.infowars.com/strangling-of-the-free-internet-begins/ 
A quote...."(Infowars) – AT&T’s pending acquisition of T-Mobile USA has the tech world buzzing with various pros and cons of what this merging would mean for the consumer. Among the pros are the possibility of having a single mobile standard (4G LTE) and a market where phones aren’t restricted to a single carrier. The cons include having less choice between carriers and rate plans, millions of customers suddenly being subject to a more restricted terms of service, and the loss of what T-Mobile customers considered to be a much better overall customer experience." 
also posted DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/22/strangling-of-the-free-internet-begins/ 
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Second ATF Agent Talks About Sanctioned Gun Trafficking to Mexican Drug Cartels  ---  http://cryptogon.com/?p=21370 
A quote...."“ATF’s primary mission is to make sure that we curtail gun trafficking.” -- That’s why Jaquez tells CBS News he was so alarmed to hear his own agency may have done the opposite: encouraged U.S. gun dealers to sell to suspected traffickers for Mexico’s drug cartels. Apparently, ATF hoped that letting weapons “walk” onto the street – to see where they’d end up – would help them take down a cartel." -- also posted at BLN
 ---  http://blacklistednews.com/Second-ATF-Agent-Talks-About-Sanctioned-Gun-Trafficking-to-Mexican-Drug-Cartels/13163/0/20/20/Y/M.html 
Source:  CBS  ---  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/21/eveningnews/main20045609.shtml 
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CIA-ISI cold war and Davis episode  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/22/cia-isi-cold-war-and-davis-episode/ 
The Raymond Davis File - A quote...."ISI-CIA cooperated with each other throughout the war against Soviet forces in Afghanistan in 1980s. The latter never felt offended on being kept in the backseat concerning planning; coordination, training, equipping and launching of Mujahideen were concerned. The US provided intelligence, funds, arms and fighters from other Muslim countries only. The ISI was eulogised and given due credit for the successful conclusion of the war. Its stature grew so high that it was seen as the most potent and effective spy machine in the region and second to none. After 1990, when the US hastily abandoned Pakistan and consequently Pak-US relations got strained, ISI also came in bad books of the US and ignited CIA-ISI cold war. During the two short tenures of PPP, an effort was made to shorten the long arm of the ISI." 
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(NorCalTruth) – Another one in a series of interviews with architects, engineers, chemists, physicists, and now an explosives loader conducted by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/22/an-interview-with-controlled-demolition-explosives-loader-tom-sullivan/  ---  Video List.... 

Tom Sullivan - Explosives Loader - (YuTb - 9min21sec - Mar 19, 2011) - Source:  ae911truth
Robert McCoy-High-rise Architect - [Part 1] - (YuTb - 16m - Dec 11, 2010) - Source:  ae911truth
Robert McCoy-High-rise Architect - [Part 2] - (YuTb - 14m40s - Dec 11, 2010) - Source:  ae911truth
Mark Basile Chemical Engineer - (YuTb - 13min52sec - Mar 19, 2010) - Source:  ae911truth
Jeff Farrer (Physicist) - Part 1 - (YuTb - 14min43sec - Mar 19, 2010) - Source:  WHBG
Jeff Farrer (Physicist) - Part 2 - (YuTb - 9min12sec - Mar 19, 2010) - Source:  WHBG
Jeff Farrer (Physicist) - Part 3 - (YuTb - 10min58sec - Mar 19, 2010) - Source:  WHBG
Stephen Barasch (High-rise Architect) - (YuTb - 10min31sec - Feb 24, 2011) - Source:  ae911truth
Niels Harrit-Chemist - (YuTb - 8min45sec - Nov 03, 2011) - Source:  ae911truth
Steven Jones (Physicist) - Part 1 - (YuTb - 13min26sec - Oct 24, 2010) - Source:  WHBG
Steven Jones (Physicist) - Part 2 - (YuTb - 12min31sec - Oct 24, 2010) - Source:  WHBG
Les Young High-rise Architect - (YuTb - 10min31sec - Mar 19, 2011) - Source:  ae911truth

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Tom Sullivan - Explosives Loader - (YuTb - 9min21sec - Mar 19, 2011)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5IgqJXyLbg 
Source:  ae911truth  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ae911truth 
Robert McCoy-High-rise Architect - [Part 1] - (YuTb - 16m - Dec 11, 2010)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-3FQtZnk2A 
Source:  ae911truth  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ae911truth 
Robert McCoy-High-rise Architect - [Part 2] - (YuTb - 14m40s - Dec 11, 2010)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfdkNYeYpmo 
Source:  ae911truth  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ae911truth 
Mark Basile Chemical Engineer - (YuTb - 13min52sec - Mar 19, 2010)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZNQq7XBLwc 
Source:  ae911truth  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ae911truth 
Jeff Farrer (Physicist) - Part 1 - (YuTb - 14min43sec - Mar 19, 2010)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnhJJSld1A0 
Source:  WHBG  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/WAHRHEITSBEWEGUNG911 
Jeff Farrer (Physicist) - Part 2 - (YuTb - 9min12sec - Mar 19, 2010)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ6780tRPRc 
Source:  WHBG  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/WAHRHEITSBEWEGUNG911 
Jeff Farrer (Physicist) - Part 3 - (YuTb - 10min58sec - Mar 19, 2010)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne5IVCAh9OU 
Source:  WHBG  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/WAHRHEITSBEWEGUNG911 
Stephen Barasch (High-rise Architect) - (YuTb - 10min31sec - Feb 24, 2011)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_S5wx7_d20 
Source:  ae911truth  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ae911truth 
Niels Harrit-Chemist - (YuTb - 8min45sec - Nov 03, 2011)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lU-vu2JvZY 
Source:  ae911truth  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ae911truth
Steven Jones (Physicist) - Part 1 - (YuTb - 13min26sec - Oct 24, 2010)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjeK4OU2CEc 
Source:  WHBG  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/WAHRHEITSBEWEGUNG911 
Steven Jones (Physicist) - Part 2 - (YuTb - 12min31sec - Oct 24, 2010)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBdM3xHeqc 
Source:  WHBG  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/WAHRHEITSBEWEGUNG911 
Les Young High-rise Architect - (YuTb - 10min31sec - Mar 19, 2011)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zceJhfYV69M 
Source:  ae911truth  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ae911truth  
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Webster Tarpley & Alex Jones: Libyan Assault/Invasion Planned Months Ahead!!
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/22/webster-tarpley-alex-jones-libyan-assaultinvasion-planned-months-ahead/ 
AJVideo - WT&AJ(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOSPmTcocDE  ---  WT&AJ(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW5oO61450M  ---  (AJYuTb - 10/15min - Mar 22, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex & Webster break down the history of western sponsored terrorism and who stands to gain in the latest attack on another middle eastern Oil rich country." 
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The Piper Report Mar 21, 2011  ---  http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/the-piper-report-mar-21-2011/ 
Audio - A quote...."Why aren’t responsible Republicans and Democrats talking like Farrakhan? A lot of people don’t like Farrakhan—that’s their problem—but he’s virtually the only public figure in America today of any consequence who has laid the facts about the Libyan crisis on the line. -- On tonight’s broadcast, Michael Collins Piper gives his 100% endorsement to Minister Farrakhan (whom Piper has met on a number of occasions) and urges sensible Americans to pay heed to Farrakhan’s words." - ||  DownLoad Mp3  ||  ---  http://michaelcollinspiper.podbean.com/mf/web/vr3684/MCP21MAR2011b.mp3 
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Global Domination  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/22/global-domination-charlie-mcgrath/ 
CMcGVideo - Alt  ---  (YuTb - 3min 25sec - Mar 21, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/crabbydogtrix 
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03-22-11 rest of show Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/282104373 
MRVideo - (JustInTV - 2hrs - March 22nd, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero extensively covers the on-going disaster in Japan, the parasitic class's attack on Libya, Israel's criminal endeavors, and many other issues....mpg 
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The Alex Jones Show – March 21st, 2011  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/22/the-alex-jones-show-march-21st-2011/ 
Must View Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV6VRAAeIhY  ---  (AJYuTb - 2hr7min43sec - Mar 21, 2011) - Source: TheInfoWarrior  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/THElNFOWARRlOR  ---  A quote...."Alex talks with Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist, author and columnist specializing in intelligence and international affairs, Wayne Madsen. He publishes the Wayne Madsen Report. Madsen will talk with Alex about photographs of American soldiers posing with bloodied and partially-naked Afghan bodies they had killed. Alex also covers the latest on the stricken Japanese nuclear plants and the radiation threat and the unfolding drama in Libya as the U.S. and its coalition attack the country. Author, researcher, and GCN radio host Webster Tarpley also talks with Alex about the invasion of Libya. Alex also takes your calls." - Alex Jones completely, absolutely, TOTALLY off the hook again as only Alex can be!! (WOW!!)  By the way, when he describes all the terrible things the US-NRE and its military is doing around the world, do NOT scoff, it's actually much, much, worse than most of you can imagine.  It's out there though, on the web, you can go find it, if you really want too....if you can stomach it. - mpg 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

Radionuclide Blankets United States; Authorities Insist Levels Are Harmless
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/radionuclide-blankets-united-states-authorities-insist-levels-are-harmless.html 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgRadiation Alert - Maps - A quote...."Contradicting Barack Obama’s assertion last week that radiation from Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant would not even reach Hawaii, the mainland United States has been blanketed with radioactive Xenon 133 particles, while spent nuclear fuel pools at Fukushima have now reached boiling point and threaten to spew out more radioactive smoke." - also posted at ActivistPost
  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/03/radionuclide-blankets-united-states.html 
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What They're Covering Up at Fukushima  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/takashi03222011.html 
A quote...."Hirose Takashi has written a whole shelf full of books, mostly on the nuclear power industry and the military-industrial complex.  Probably his best known book is  Nuclear Power Plants for Tokyo in which he took the logic of the nuke promoters to its logical conclusion: if you are so sure that they're safe, why not build them in the center of the city, instead of hundreds of miles away where you lose half the electricity in the wires? " 
also posted AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/what-theyre-covering-up-at-fukushima/ 
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Fukushima Update: Reactor 1 Core Now At 380 Degrees Celsius, 80 More Than Normal Running Temperature
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fukushima-update-reactor-1-core-now-380-celsius-80-more-normal-running-temporature 
A quote...."The latest news from Japan is not the radiation has now been found in various leaf vegetables in Fukushima, including cabbage and parsley: after all that was to be expected following the radioactive rain of the past few days. The news this time comes straight from TEPCO which finally admits that the temperature of Reactor 1 is 380-390 Celsius (715-735 Fahrenheit), which apparently is a "worry" as the reactor was meant to run at a temperature of 302 C (575 F). That is when the reactor is fully operational, not when it is supposed to be in a cold shut down mode." 
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Radiation News 03-22-11 - A Dprogram Round-Up - (29 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/22/radiation-news-3-22-11/ 
Japan's premier halts farm shipments
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171250.html 
Japan reactor pumps knocked out
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171189.html 
A Closer Look At The Three Most Dangerous Radioactive Isotopes
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/radiation-now-400-times-normal-40-km-fukushima-closer-look-three-most-dangerous-radioactive- 
Engineer Reveals Major Cover Up Case Against Japanese Government and TEPCO
  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/494-engineer-reveals-major-cover-up-case-against-japanese-government-and-tepco.html 
Following Radioactive Rain, Radiation In Tokyo Jumps 10 Fold, Iodine 131 Surges To 85,000 Becquerels
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/following-radioactive-rain-radiation-tokyo-jumps-10-fold-hitachinaka-iodine-131-surges-85000 
Fukushima Update: Reactor 1 Core Now At 380 Degrees Celsius, 80 More Than Normal Running Temperature
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fukushima-update-reactor-1-core-now-380-celsius-80-more-normal-running-temporature 
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More On The International Situation.... 

The Assault On Libya.... 

A View of the NWO War Room  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/03/22/a-view-of-the-nwo-war-room/ 
Must View Maps - A quote...."Nothing like a map to know where you’re going. In the case of the NWO, the world is like a chess game, where they move all the major pieces and just crush the pawns that get in the way. -- But if you want to know what’s coming, look how clearly things appear when you can assess where power is placed. Here are a few things I found enlightening when looking at the global positioning of the invading US arm of the NWO, precursor of the Army of the “United Nations”." 
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Left Cover Flying Fast and Furious for Obama – They Refer to Libya as “armed aerial peacekeeping”
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/left-cover-flying-fast-and-furious-for-obama-they-refer-to-libya-as-armed-aerial-peacekeeping/ 
Must Read - A quote...."It’s a perfect example of just how morally bankrupt the liberal left has become  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/power_concedes_nothing_without_a_demand_20110314/  ---  in America and shows how far some of them will go to protect the rapidly tarnishing image of their favorite product.  ---  http://adage.com/article/moy-2008/obama-wins-ad-age-s-marketer-year/131810/  ---  Over at the Huffington Post, the new ”progressive” home of Andrew Breitbart,  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrewbreitbart/npr-is-collateral-damage-_b_834482.html  ---  David Wood  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/21/libya-air-war-pilots-civilians_n_838733.html  ---  seems to be doing his best impression of every Fox News anchor back in March of 2003 after the Shock and Awe started in Iraq." 
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The Libyan War of 2011  ---  http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110319-libyan-war-2011#ixzz1HHgjjcIW 
A quote...."The Libyan war has now begun. It pits a coalition of European powers plus the United States, a handful of Arab states and rebels in Libya against the Libyan government. The long-term goal, unspoken but well understood, is regime change — displacing the government of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and replacing it with a new regime built around the rebels." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76102&hd=&size=1&l=e 
& ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/stratfor-libya-west-and-narrative-democracy 
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A Foolish and Unconstitutional War  ---  http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/03/22/a-foolish-and-unconstitutional-war/ 
Second Quote of the Day...."“The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” -- So said constitutional scholar and Senator Barack Obama in December 2007 — the same man who, this weekend, ordered U.S. air and missile strikes on Libya without any authorization from Congress. -- Obama did win the support of Gabon in the Security Council, but failed with Germany. With a phone call to acquitted rapist Jacob Zuma, he got South Africa to sign on, but not Brazil, Russia, India or China. All four abstained. -- This is not the world’s war. This is Obama’s war."  --  *Patrick J Buchanan* - also posted at RichardPoor'sBlog
  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/03/foolish-and-unconstitutional-war.html 
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Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter  ---  http://tarpley.net/2011/03/19/obamas-bay-of-pigs-in-libya/ 
A quote...."Washington DC, March 19 – Late today US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against the sovereign state of Libya." -- also posted at BLN
  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/Obama%E2%80%99s-Bay-of-Pigs-in-Libya%3A-Imperialist-Aggression-Shreds-UN-Charter/13161/0/5/5/Y/M.html 
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Bravo, Angela! Germany Pulls Out of NATO Operations While Kucinich Calls Obama’s Attack on Libya ‘An Impeachable Offense’
  ---  http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2011/03/bravo-angela-germany-pulls-out-of-nato.html 
A quote...."Breaking: Germany has pulled out of NATO operations due to disagreements over the mission in Libya. To add to that, Germany did the unthinkable: it voted in favor of a UN Security Council resolution calling the Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory illegal and demanding the immediate halt of all settlement activity. Whoa. -- Then, Ms Merkel did something very strange: she ordered the shutdown of Germany’s nuclear reactors." 
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Who's in charge? Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart
  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/03/whos-in-charge-germans-pull-forces-out.html 
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Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23847 
A quote...."The attacking forces are expected to deploy more cruise missiles, Predator drones, and bombers, seeking to destroy the Libyan air defense system as a prelude to the systematic decimation of Libyan ground units. International observers have noted that US intelligence about Libya may be substandard, and that many cruise missiles may indeed have struck non-military targets." 
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An Open Letter to War Loving (Democratic/Republican) Frauds  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76119&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."by Cindy Sheehan - I know many of you don't really care, but in exactly 15 days, it will be seven years since my oldest son (whom I never "abandoned" and raised with his father and three siblings until he went into the Army when he was 21), Casey was killed in this Empire's insane War OF Terror. Was Casey the first, or the last? No--but he was my first and the shock knocked me out of my quiet complacency--which was just as wrong as the Empire's unending wars." 
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U.S. rescue chopper shoots six Libyan villagers as they welcome pilots of downed Air Force jet
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1368633/Libya-war-US-chopper-shoots-6-villagers-welcomed-Air-Force-F-15-crash-pilots.html#ixzz1HLu2XHBP 
A quote...."Six Libyan villagers are recovering in hospital after being shot by American soldiers coming in to rescue the U.S. pilots whose plane crash-landed in a field. -- The helicopter strafed the ground as it landed in a field outside Benghazi beside the downed U.S. Air Force F-15E Eagle which ran into trouble during bombing raid last night. -- And a handful of locals who had come to greet the pilots were hit - among them a young boy who may have to have a leg amputated because of injuries caused by a bullet wound." 
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A Hundred Years of Rain: Air War Comes Full Circle in Libya
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2110-a-hundred-years-of-rain-air-war-comes-full-circle-in-libya.html 
Alt  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76084&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Tripoli under new round of airstrikes
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76077&hd=&size=1&l=e 
The Vultures By Carlos Latuff - cartoon
  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/?p=32126 
Since When Was it "Leftwing" To Love Imperialism?
  ---  http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/2011/03/since-when-was-it-leftwing-to-love.html 
Alt  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76104&hd=&size=1&l=e
Lies, Damn Lies, and Humanitarian Intervention
  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/03/lies-damn-lies-and-humanitarian.html 
China calls for immediate cease-fire in Libya
  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/03/china-calls-for-immediate-cease-fire-in.html 
Src: AP@Yahoo  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110322/ap_on_re_as/as_china_libya_3 
Obama’s Libyan scenario for Venezuela
  ---  http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/03/22/obama-libyan-scenario-for-venezuela.html 
US escalates military onslaught against Libya
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/liby-m23.shtml 
Battles rage for control of Libyan towns - contains video
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/2011322193944862310.html 
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Russia's Sukhoi Superjet 100 to make first passenger flight on April 12  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110323/163158097.html 
A quote...."Russia's Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger airliner will carry out its first passenger flight from Armenia's capital of Yerevan to Moscow on April 12, officials in Russia's Far Eastern Khabarovsk Territory said on Wednesday."  
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Russia hopes Turkey will approve South Stream  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110322/163151099.html 
A quote...."Russia hopes Turkey will eventually give the green light to the section of the South Stream gas pipeline project that crosses its territory, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday." 
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Rubber Bullets Fly at Anti-Obama Protest In Rio
  ---  http://blogs.forbes.com/kenrapoza/2011/03/18/rubber-bullets-fly-at-anti-obama-protest-in-rio-o-globo-reports/ 
A quote...."A molotov cocktail was launched in front of the US consulate in Rio de Janeiro late Friday in protest of the arrival of President Barack Obama, the O Globo newspaper in Rio reported.  Military police reacted by firing rubber bullets into the gathering of 200 at around 18:30 local time. A CBN news reporter suffered a minor injury from the shots and traffic was blocked." 
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More on the World Wide Revolution..... 

In Bahrain, anti-regime protests rage on  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171242.html 
A quote...."Thousands of Bahraini people have taken to the streets of the capital city of Manama despite the brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters by the regime."  
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Yemen leader isolated after generals defect
  ---  http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/yemen-leader-isolated-after-generals-defect-15122069.html 
A quote...."Yemen's embattled President was hit by a wave of defections among his generals yesterday as tanks from rival factions took to the streets of the capital." 
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Yemen: Armor Deployed As Army Officers Defect To Opposition
  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/Yemen%3A-Armor-Deployed-As-Army-Officers-Defect-To-Opposition/13153/0/3/3/Y/M.html 
A quote...."Tanks and other armored vehicles were deployed in Yemen’s capital, Sanna, today as a senior army commander defected to the side of demonstrators calling for the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh." - Source:  EurAsiaReview
  ---  http://www.eurasiareview.com/yemen-armor-deployed-as-army-officers-defect-to-opposition-21032011/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eurasiareview%2FVsnE+%28Eurasia+Review%29&utm_content=Google+Reader 
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Syria fires governor after seven protesters killed
  ---  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/syria-fires-governor-after-seven-protesters-killed/article1951488/ 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Israeli forces detain journalist in Awarta  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=371241   
Israeli Press Censorship - A quote...."RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- Sources at Voice of Palestine Radio told Ma'an that the station's director of programming was detained by Israeli forces in the village of Awarta, after the village was locked down under a military curfew."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/israeli-forces-detain-journalist-in-awarta/ 
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Israeli Army Cooperates with Settlers in Attacks on Palestinians
  ---  http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/settlers-violence/3429-israeli-army-cooperates-with-settlers-in-attacks-on-palestinians- 
A quote...."Following the killing of five settlers in Itamar on 11 March, there has been a substantial increase in violence toward Palestinian residents of the West Bank by the Israeli army and settlers, who act in tandem." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76082&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Israel Bombs Residential Area of Gaza City - March 22, 2011 - Ken O'Keefe  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl1a1VhBVhc 
Video - (YuTb - 12min57sec -  Mar 21, 2011) - Source:  1worldcitizen  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/1worldcitizen  ---  A quote...."The American taxpayer continues to pay for Israel to terrorise children by dropping bombs on residential areas of Gaza. Women and children were injured in Israel's latest bombing." 
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Israeli attacks kill eight in Gaza  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/2011322162920193682.html 
A quote...."At least eight Palestinians, including children, have been killed in mortar attacks and airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. -- The deaths occurred in two separate attacks on the eastern part of Gaza City on Tuesday, witnesses said. -- Two of the dead were aged 11 and 16, and four of them were from the al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, a spokesman for the group said." 
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Israeli Attacks on Gaza Continue: Death Toll Stands at Eight, Including Three Children
  ---  http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9755 
Related Article - A quote...."Gaza-PNN- Three Palestinian were killed on Tuesday evening and another one injured when Israeli fighter jets struck Gaza City, bring Tuesday's total death toll today to eight, including three children. At least 32 others were injured by the attacks as well." 
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Israel kills 9 Gazans in day of strikes  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=371373 
Related Article - A quote...."GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes killed four Palestinians in an air strike on Az-Zaitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City on Tuesday evening, medics said." 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

US Inflation On Track To Hit 8.3% In 2011  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-inflation-track-hit-83 
A quote...."Chasing all the fluttering glow in the dark swans over the past month has put some of the key issues facing the US economy on the backburner. But just like today's surging inflation update in the UK confirmed, there is only so long that any given crisis can be used a distraction from the real problems at hand. And here is where we stand: per a quick check with the recently released and constantly updated MIT billion price project, which just happens to correlate 93% with the CPI, 2011 inflation in the US is trending at an 8.3% annual rate of increase." 
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UK Misery Index Hits 20 Year High  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/uk-misery-index-hits-20-year-high 
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Earlier we briefly noted the surge in UK February inflation which coupled with the ongoing decline in GDP, and increased deficits indicates that the UK economy is in dire need of reliquification, which alas won't come (or so the rumor goes) precisely courtesy of ongoing money printing. Just confirming this deterioration visually is the UK Misery index (combination of inflation and unemployment), which has just hit a 20 year high." 
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Portugal braces for govt collapse over debt vote  ---  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Portugal-braces-for-govt-apf-4252480887.html?x=0&.v=4  
A quote...."LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Portugal's government is on the verge of collapse after opposition parties withdrew their support for another round of austerity policies aimed at averting a financial bailout. -- The expected defeat of the minority government's latest spending plans in a parliamentary vote Wednesday will likely force its resignation and could stall national and European efforts to deal with the continent's protracted debt crisis." 
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Monday March 21st 2011 - links page

More On The Zio-Sphere..... 

The Things Israel Does  ---  http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2011/03/things-israel-does.html 
A quote...."As I and others have always said... If you dig deep enough into any evil that the World is facing today, you usually find the criminal state of Israel's involvement in some shape or form.  But if you ever attempt to bring this to public attention, you have to suffer their usual false cries of "antisemitism", and in most cases they are allowed to get away with their evil actions!" - Source:  ThisIsZionism
  ---  http://thisiszionism.blogspot.com/2011/03/things-israel-does.html 
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One of The Darkest Evils the World has ever Known  ---  http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2011/03/one-of-darkest-evils-world-has-ever.html 
A quote...."Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Wasn't it Israel that sent 50,000 African mercenaries into Libya? So... aren’t the NATO coalition now bombing, strafing and tomahawking Israel’s mercenaries? Meanwhile, isn’t the reason that the assaults didn't stop (possibly Gadhafi doesn't have control) is because Israel is in control of them? There's a whole lot of irony here. Someday, lambs will suck in vengeance at the teats of irony. -- Now... it's been acknowledged that Israeli security was in charge of the Fukushima nuclear plant. The plant didn't automatically shut down as it should have. The Stuxnet was confirmed in the computer systems near  Fukushima and the US and Israel have publicly taken credit for inventing it? Please correct me if I am wrong."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/21/one-of-the-darkest-evils-the-world-has-ever-known/ 
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Report: Palestinian anti-wall activist tortured, threatened with rape and execution by Shin Bet because of BDS activities
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/03/report-palestinian-anti-wall-activist-tortured-threatened-with-rape-and-execution-by-shin-bet-because-of-bds-activities.html 
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel! Because it has Israel running scared. - mpg --A quote...."The Israeli government’s repression of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement is growing ever more harsh. Domestically, earlier this month, “the Knesset plenum…approved in its first reading a ‘boycott law,’ which would levy harsh punitive fines on Israelis who call for academic or economic boycotts against Israeli institutions,” according to Ha’aretz." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  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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Neo-Con Israel Firster Bill Kristol calls for U.S. ground forces in Libya
  ---  http://www.revoltoftheplebs.com/categories/rogues-gallery/neo-con-israel-firster-bill-kristol-calls-for-u-s-ground-forces-in-libya/ 
A quote...."The operation to create a no-fly zone in Libya has just begun, but already conservative Fox News pundit Bill Kristol is wishing the U.S. would send in ground troops “sooner rather than later.” 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

"Silver Coins A Unique Form Of Domestic Terrorism": Liberty Dollar Founder Convicted of Counterfeiting
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/silver-coins-a-unique-form-of-domestic-terrorism-liberty-dol.html 
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJhMwxL_KR8  ---  A quote...."Bernard von NotHaus, the man behind the Liberty Dollar and the Ron Paul Liberty Dollar, was convicted in federal court Friday of coining and circulating counterfeit money.  What fascinates us about this case is the language used by the US Attorney who prosecuted the case.  Working for the Western District of North Carolina, Anne Tompkins issued a statement that, among other things, accuses von NotHaus of committing "a unique form of domestic terrorism": 
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The Lies Reach Critical Mass  ---  http://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/the-lies-reach-critical-mass/ 
A quote...."The Empire that rules over us like all others before it has resorted to lies to keep the society together. In a small community trust is like the mortar that holds separate bricks together to form one cohesive and enduring building. Yet even the dimmest bulb can clearly see that America is failing to function and is near collapse. -- We have reached a point where the lies are no longer believed by the majority. In the preceding sentence I left out the word citizens because Empires do not have citizens with rights. Everyone below the rank of Emperor is a slave." 
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Evo Wants “Gangster” Obama Stripped of Nobel Prize and UN Re-Named
  ---  http://www.boliviaweekly.com/evo-wants-gangster-obama-stripped-of-nobel-prize-and-un-re-named/1798/ 
A quote...."As US President Obama visits neighboring Chile, Bolivian president Morales has called on the Nobel committee to strip him of his peace prize and has called for the United Nations (ONU in Spanish) to be renamed “ONI,” The United Nations of Invaders. “If the Nobel Peace Prize committee was to dignify this prize, they should revoke it from the US President,” said Morales at a press conference. Morales himself received the $50,000 “Gaddadi Human Rights Prize” before becoming the Bolivian president and said that the world should ask itself if Obama is defending peace or provoking massacres. Morales said that the United Nations was bombing hospitals and schools on the pretext of savings lives. He said that the Libya invasion was just a pretext to invade and take Libya’s natural resources. " 
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03-21-11 Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/282041021 
Must View Video - (JustInTV - 2hrs - March 21st, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero extensively covers the on-going disaster in Japan, the parasitic class's attack on Libya, Israel's criminal endeavors, the shenanigans in Wisconsin, the rail-roading of Bernard von NotHaus, and many other issues....mpg 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants....

West coast rain is dumping the Japanese meltdown radioactive byproducts of Iodine,Tellurium & Cesium onto CA --- http://revolutionarypolitics.com/?p=5005
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgRadiation Alert - A quote...."3/20 (4:15pm): Rain water results show trace levels of radioactive iodine (I131,I132), cesium (Cs134, Cs137), and tellurium (Te132). The amounts show that the activity we are observing originated from any of the three operating reactors that was shut down since I-131 and Te132 half-lives are less than 10 days...." 
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Extreme Exposure - The Danger of Spent Nuclear Fuel  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/alvarez03212011.html 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgA quote...."The spent fuel pools at Units 3 and 4 at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex are exposed to the open sky and might be draining. The radioactive dose rates coming off the pools appear to be life-threatening. Lead-shielded helicopters trying to dump water over the pools/reactors could not get close enough to make much difference because of the dangerous levels of radiation." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/the-danger-of-spent-nuclear-fuel/ 
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Radiation poisoning of food supply in Japan 'is a lot more serious' than first feared, as eggs and milk go on 'danger list'
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1368357/Radiation-poisoning-food-supply-Japan-lot-feared-eggs-milk-danger-list.html 
A quote...."Tap water, leafy vegetables, eggs, meat and milk in a 50-mile radius of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant were placed on its ‘danger list’." 
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Work To Restore Power Delayed As Smoke Seen at Fukushima Reactors
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/03/21/work-to-restore-power-delayed-as-smoke-seen-at-fukushima-reactors/ 
A quote...."Work to restore power and key cooling functions to the troubled reactors at the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was marred Monday by smoke that rose from the buildings housing the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors, the plant operator said." 
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No Quick Fix Seen at Japan’s Nuclear Plant, Pic Shows Reactor 3 Destroyed?
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/03/21/no-quick-fix-seen-at-japans-nuclear-plant-pic-shows-reactor-3-destroyed/ 
A quote...."FUKUSHIMA, Japan – Officials raced Monday to restore electricity to Japan’s leaking nuclear plant, but getting the power flowing will hardly be the end of their battle: With its mangled machinery and partly melted reactor cores, bringing the complex under control is a monstrous job." 
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Radiation News 03-21-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (19 articles)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/21/radiation-news-3-21-11/ 
Smoke, steam rise from Japan N-plant
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171123.html 
WHO spokesman: Japan food safety situation "serious"
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/21/us-japan-quake-who-food-idUSTRE72K12J20110321 
Gov't orders 4 prefectures to suspend some food shipments
  ---  http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/govt-orders-4-prefectures-to-suspend-some-food-shipments 
Taiwan finds radiation on imported Japanese beans
  ---  http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9M2QHQ00.htm 
Radioactivity found in Japan seawater
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171118.html 
27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is Much Worse....  ---  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.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 
Radiation near Japanese nuclear plant 1,600 times normal level
  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20110322/163138036.html 
Radiation Protection, Now and Long Term
  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/03/radiation-protection-now-and-long-term.html 
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More on the World Wide Revolution..... 

Saudi Arabian invasion of Bahrain  ---  http://www.presstv.com/Program/170556.html 
Video - Alt1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/presstvglobalnews#p/u/15/I0YRPjfHUJw  ---  Alt2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0YRPjfHUJw  ---  (YuTb - 12m45s - Mar 18, 2011) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/PressTVGlobalNews  ---  A quote...."Topics talked over in this edition of Press TV's Comment are as follows:  Saudi Arabia's invasion of Bahrain -- UNSC draft resolution for intervention in Libya. This allows far greater involvement than the mere no-fly zone. -- Galloway suggests that a deal was done between the US and Arab rulers, whereby the Arab League would back the no-fly rule over Libya and in return the US would acquiesce to the Saudi invasion of Bahrain." 
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Defections plague Yemeni leader  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/2011321164113728994.html 
Contains Video - A quote...."Military leaders, ambassadors and tribal chiefs in Yemen have made clear their support for pro-democracy protesters, ramping up pressure on Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's president, to step down. -- Following a wave of defections, Mohammad Nasser Ali, Yemen's defence minister, appeared on state television on Monday maintaining that the army still backed Saleh." 
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Yemen President Fires Entire Cabinet  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/03/20/yemen-president-fires-entire-cabinet/ 
A quote...."Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s ability to maintain his rule is in growing doubt Sunday, following the announcement that he is firing his entire cabinet. He has promised to form a new one." 
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Top army commanders defect in Yemen - contains video
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/2011320180579476.html 
Things fall apart for Yemen's regime
  ---  http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/03/21/142409.html 
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More On The International Situation.... 

The Assault On Libya.... 

The Libyan Air Defense System. Libya's Surface to Air Missile (SAM) Network  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23841 
Weapons Tech Analysis - A quote...."Libyan strategic SAM assets are subordinate to the Air Defense Forces, which in turn are subordinate to the Libyan Air Force. Currently believed to be divided into five separate regional commands, the Air Defense Force operates a variety of Soviet-era equipment. The following strategic SAM systems are currently serving within the Libyan Air Defense Force: S-75 (SA-2 GUIDELINE), S-125 (SA-3 GOA), and S-200 (SA-5 GAMMON)." 
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Arab League Slams Libya Attacks Amid Reports of Growing Civilian Toll
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/03/20/arab-league-slams-libya-attacks-amid-reports-of-growing-civilian-toll/ 
A quote...."Having been instrumental in pushing the UN to approve the resolution authorizing the no-fly zone over Libya, the Arab League has found itself quickly regretting its Faustian bargain. Now, with reports of civilian casualties on the rise, they are condemning the massive air strikes by the US, France and Britain."    
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West in "Mediaeval Crusade" on Gaddafi, Putin Says  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27737.htm 
Contains Video - A quote...."March 21, 2011 -- (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday a U.N. resolution authorizing military action in Libya resembled "mediaeval calls for crusades" after Western forces launched a second wave of air strikes." 
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Congressman: "We're In Libya Because Of Oil"  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/congressman-were-in-libya-because-of.html 
A quote...."Well, we're in Libya because of oil. And I think both Japan and the nuclear technology and Libya and this dependence that we have upon imported oil have both once again highlighted the need for the United States to have a renewable energy agenda going forward." -- *Congressman Ed Markey*  
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Gates Says Targeting Qaddafi Goes Beyond UN Resolution on Libya
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-20/gates-says-targeting-qaddafi-goes-beyond-un-resolution-on-libya.html 
A quote...."Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the U.S. military campaign against Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi should be limited to the terms of a United Nations resolution rather than being broadened to target the leader directly." 
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Libya hands out 1m weapons to citizens - Oh oh....
  ---  http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/libya-hands-out-1m-weapons-to-citizens/story-e6frf7k6-1226025072991 
A quote...."LIBYAN officials have begun handing out weapons to more than a million of its citizens and will complete the operation "within hours," state news agencies reported today." 
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UPDATE: The American Dilemma in Libya: To Bomb, Invade, Partition, Or All of the Above
  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/update-american-dilemma-libya-bomb-invade-partition-or-all-above-0 
A quote...."UPDATED: As Khadafi’s forces prepare to encircle the rebel stronghold at Benghazi, western media remain curiously unable to “provide a coherent overview of rebel politics, beyond an incandescent hatred of Khadafi.” However, the corporate press seem to have suddenly “undergone a crash course in the intractable nature of Libyan tribal politics,” an indication the U.S. is considering drawing a line in the sand to effectively partition Libya." 
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World War 03-21-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (21 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/21/world-war-3-21-11/ 
Explosions rock Libyan capital - contains video
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/2011321211920642649.html 
Live Blog Libya - March 22 - al Jazeera live blog
  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/live-blog-libya-march-22 
Tripoli under new round of airstrikes
  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-03/22/c_13790976.htm 
Alt  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76077&hd=&size=1&l=e 
UK Government refuses publicly to rule out ground troops in Libya
  ---  http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/uk-government-refuses-publicly-to-rule-out-ground-troops-in-libya/ 
Britain deploys SAS troops in Libya
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171099.html 
African Union demands 'immediate' halt to Libya attacks
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76033&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Medveded calls to stop Libya conflict started by 'shameful' govt actions
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/2/KRhogaEkrX8 
video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRhogaEkrX8  ---  (2m31s 03/21/11) Src RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday 
Libya Bombing: 'Interventions never end!'
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/5/PuRj8Z1g2lI 
video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuRj8Z1g2lI  ---  (RTYuTb 5m38s 03/21/11) Src RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday 
UN rejects emergency meeting sought by Libya
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76065&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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US Army 'kill team' in Afghanistan posed for photos of murdered civilians
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/21/us-army-kill-team-afghanistan-posed-pictures-murdered-civilians 
A quote...."Commanders brace for backlash of anti-US sentiment that could be more damaging than after the Abu Ghraib scandal." 
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Africa Must Unite Against Neocolonialism And Imperialism  ---  http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=205367 
A quote...."Over half a century ago, one of Africa’s most illustrious sons, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah fearlessly fought for and led the present day Ghana to achieve independence from British colonial rule. At the time, Nkrumah did not only believe that the Blackman was capable of managing or worse still, mismanaging his own affairs, but he also foresaw and exposed the subtle machinations and exploitations by the Western powers to perpetually maintain the status quo by ensuring that the African continent and indeed most part of the world remained divided and for that matter incapacitated economically, politically, and most importantly militarily." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76066&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Palestinians call on world to intervene as Israel escalates Gaza attacks
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7Cgcrk0Mpc6btXWT2gCqRTozTK5
7Qr%2fJQRWtlIlHPQ8FU1b2BFGqyNfk%2fBrOLc1fp3Svc5%2fo%2f%2fi%2f3cdfDstj1UPTrjhgp39VBr%2fp9MREdPpE%3d 
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian government in Gaza has called upon international organizations to intervene as Israel increases aggression on the Gaza Strip. -- ”The government has sent urgent messages to the UN and Arab League Secretary-Generals and to a few European Union nations revealing serious Israeli escalation plans against the Gaza Strip, asking them for immediate intervention to stop the current escalation,” said Dr. Yousef Rizqa, political advisor to Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya." 
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Israeli airstrikes injure 17 Palestinians  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171113.html 
A quote...."Witnesses said the target of the raid was a car repair workshop, AFP reported. -- Earlier on Monday, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon issued a death threat against Hamas leaders. -- Israel regularly carries out attacks on Gaza, killing and injuring Palestinians. Tel Aviv launched a deadly war on the strip at the turn of 2009." 
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Israel engaged in ethnic cleansing: UN investigator  ---  http://thisiszionism.blogspot.com/2011/03/israel-engaged-in-ethnic-cleansing-un.html 
A quote...."Israel's expansion of Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and eviction of Palestinians from their homes there is a form of ethnic cleansing, a United Nations investigator said on Monday. -- U.S. academic Richard Falk was speaking to the U.N. Human Rights Council as it prepared to pass resolutions condemning Israeli behavior on territory it has occupied since 1967." 
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In a New Crime, IOF Kills Two Children in Central Gaza  ---  http://www.pchrgaza.org/
portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7309:in-a-new-crime-iof-kills-two-children-in-central-gaza-&catid=131:new 
A quote...."On Saturday evening, 19 March 2011, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) used excessive and lethal force which resulted in the death of two Palestinian children who were nearly 300 meters from the border east of Juhr Addik village in the central Gaza Strip. It should be noted that on Thursday morning, 17 March 2011, IOF warplanes dropped leaflets on border areas in the different parts of the Gaza Strip warning Palestinians to avoid coming within 300 meters of the border fence with Israel." 
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Settler [crazed homeless illegal alien] opens fire on funeral procession  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=370839 
A quote...."HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Two Palestinians were shot Monday afternoon when a settler [crazed homeless illegal alien] disembarked from his car on the Jerusalem-Hebron road and opened fire on a funeral procession heading to the Beit Ummar cemetery. 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76073&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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UN: Massive increase in home demolitions  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=369913 
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The latest numbers from the United Nations show a two-fold increase in the number of Palestinian homes and agricultural buildings destroyed by Israel order this year, causing concern among officials."  
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76052&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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17 Palestinians Injured In A Series Of Air Strikes In Gaza  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/60912 
A quote...."Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that the Israeli Air Force carried out a series of air strikes on Monday night after midnight and on Tuesday at dawn, wounding seventeen residents, including two women and seven children." 
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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (10-16 March 2011)
  ---  http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7292:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-10-16-march-2011&catid=131:new  -- Every week of the year, and those living in the US-NRE do absolutely nothing about it. - mpg   
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

[US] Existing-home sales fall 9.6% in February - Prices drop to lowest level since 2002
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/existing-home-sales-sink-96-in-february-2011-03-21 
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Sales of previously owned homes dropped 9.6% in February and prices fell to their lowest level since 2002, reflecting a continued slump in the U.S. real estate market." 
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[US] Unemployment rises in nearly all metro areas  ---  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/18/business/main20044747.shtml 
A quote...."Unemployment rose in nearly all of the 372 largest U.S. cities in January compared to the previous month." 
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PIMCO Buys Government Debt Outside the U.S., Citing Inflation  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/03/pimco-buys-government-debt-outside-us.html 
A quote...."PIMCO, the world's biggest bond fund, who recently announced it was dumping their U.S. Treasury holdings, now says it is buying foreign debt in 'Rising Star' nations.  Stating that the "pipeline of inflation is starting to hit globally," PIMCO said emerging markets can best weather the inflation storm." 
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Volume Is Back...To Abysmal  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/volume-backto-abysmal 
Mrkt Tech Note - A quote...."To all the sophisticated technical and fundamental analysts out there, we have some simple time and money saving tips. When the volume in the market plunges like today, the market will surge. End of story, no more 'sophisticated' analysis needed. As the charts below show, after exploding in the beginning of last week, purely due to various mutual and hedge funds succumbing to the dreaded affliction known as "selling", volume has since plummeted allowing the HFTs to step right back in with the vapor melt up program on full tilt." 
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'Portugal on brink of demanding bailout'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171125.html 
A quote...."Portugal Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos says the country's political crisis looks increasingly likely to give it a "big push" towards an international bailout." 
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Sunday March 20th 2011 - links page 

No posts. - mpg 

Saturday March 19th 2011 - links page 

More On The Zio-Sphere..... 

Sinking Liberty  ---  http://www.amconmag.com/blog/the-uss-libertys-final-chapter/   
A quote...."The attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats on June 8, 1967 has almost faded from memory, but new evidence suggests that the White House might actually have had prior knowledge that the ship would be struck by Israel’s armed forces. In the worst attack ever carried out on a U.S. Naval vessel in peacetime, 34 American sailors and civilian personnel were killed and 171 more wounded in the two hour assault, which was clearly intended to sink the intelligence-gathering vessel operating in international waters collecting information on the ongoing Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/sinking-liberty/
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France tries four over Israel boycott  ---  http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/france-tries-four-over-israel-boycott/ 
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel! Because this case demonstrates if Israel is not stopped now....they'll never be stopped. - mpg -- A quote...."Four French pro-Palestinian activists have stood trial over their call for a boycott of all Israeli products manufactured in the occupied Palestinian territories. -- The trials are the latest measure taken against those who dare criticize Israel, including members of the long-running Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. -- The anti-Israel campaign is in retaliation against Tel Aviv’s treatment of Palestinians, a Press TV correspondent reported from Paris on Friday." - 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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Helen Thomas: Playboy Interview  ---  http://www.playboy.com/articles/helen-thomas-playboy-interview/index.html 
Interview - And this is how it starts out - A quote...."PLAYBOY: So is this how you pictured retirement? 

THOMAS: I’m not retired! I was fired. In fact, I’ll die with my boots on. I’m still writing and I’ll continue to write and ask hard questions. I will never bow out of journalism. " - bold by website editor - Oh yeaaah..... 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

9/11 TRUTH: FDNY Fire Fighters report explosions in WTC during collapse  ---  http://www.federaljack.com/?p=21087 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXLvLDf41zE  ---  (YuTb - 41sec - Mar 19, 2011) - Source:  Federaljacktube4  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/Federaljacktube4  ---  A quote...."(FEDERALJACK)   Never before seen footage of two FDNY Fire Fighters discuss explosions during the collapse of the WTC on 9/11. This footage was only released by NIST after they were sued." - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html 
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Possible New Oil Spill 100 By 10 Miles Reported in Gulf Of Mexico (Update: Spill Photos)
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/possible-new-oil-spill-100-10-miles-reported-gulf-mexico 
A quote...."Black Swan Clusterflock +1. As if earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear meltdowns and war was not enough, the Examiner now discloses that a replay of the BP oil spill could be in the making, sending WTI to the (super)moon, the economy collapsing, and Ben Bernanke starting the printer in advance of QE 666. To wit: "The U.S. Coast Guard is currently investigating reports of a potentially massive oil sheen about 20 miles away from the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion last April." 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

Radiation vs Contamination - The Difference is Deadly 
03-19-11 
mpg 

British Scientist Christopher Busby: The Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation – Alex Jones TV
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/18/british-scientist-christopher-busby-the-health-effects-of-ionizing-radiation-alex-jones-tv/ 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgRadiation Alert - Must View AJVideo - CB&AJ(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joPoEj5e_G4  ---  CB&AJ(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7NO8FdkTQM  ---  CB&AJ(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6i5SZ-70VE  ---  (AJYuTb - 15min - Mar 18, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex continues his coverage of the Japanese nuclear reactor mega-disaster. He talks with Christopher Busby, a British scientist and activist known for his work on the health effects of ionizing radiation. In addition to his academic appointments he is the director of Green Audit, an environmental consultancy agency, and scientific adviser to the Low Level Radiation Campaign which he set up in 1995." 
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Website Editor's note:  Regarding the video shown above, this website editor has seen a lot of really stupid comments on the blogs recently regarding the radioactive plume coming from Japan, the exact same sort of stupid comments this website editor witnessed during previous nuclear accidents like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, so let's make this perfectly clear to everybody.   

Full body "radiation" dosage projections using radiation from outside the human body directed against the human body, such as the dose you receive during an x-ray, or from cosmic rays while flying a plane, or the various forms of high energy electromagnetic radiation one can receive from certain electronic or industrial devices, has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TOXICITY OF THIS PLUME!   

Got it folks?   

"Contamination", that is inhalation or ingesting of -- or direct contact with -- radioactive particles that emit alpha, beta or gamma radiation is a totally different issue than receiving an outside body dose of x-rays or gamma rays.    

Inhalation or ingesting of -- or direct contact with -- these particles is usually deadly.  Bio-concentrations of these particles in nature and their subsequent consumption or ingestion by people and/or their subsequent bio-concentration within the human body is deadly. Uptake and bio-concentration in specific human tissues or organs is deadly.   

A pico-gram of alpha-emitting plutonium dust sealed in a lab vile will do nothing to you and will hardly register on a Geiger counter (Alpha radiation is "able to be stopped by a few centimeters of air, or by the skin").  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_particle  ---  If however you inhale, or ingest it, you are dead. Period. End of story. Everybody got it?   

Articles that purport to discuss the effects of "radiation" but which do not address the distribution of these particles by quantity and type (that means Alpha and Beta emitters) in radioactive releases, their subsequent bio-concentration  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagnification  ---  or bio-accumulation  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioaccumulation  ---  (in nature and/or the human body), their longevity (half-life), and their radioactive affects once inhaled or ingested on adjacent human tissue, will be ignored by this website editor.   

Such articles and comments are more than disingenuous, they are dangerous, they are no different than putting the label "flour" on a can of arsenic and placing that can into someone's kitchen cupboard.   

The fact the mass-media and members of nuclear industry have consistently refused to make the distinctions shown above regarding radioactive releases is a sign of their complete lack of concern for the welfare of the people living on this planet, and also a vivid demonstration, once again, of their complete lack of moral character. - mpg   
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MOX plutonium fuel used in Fukushima’s Unit 3 reactor two million times more deadly than enriched uranium
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/mox-plutonium-fuel-used-in-fukushimas-unit-3-reactor-two-million-times-more-deadly-than-enriched-uranium.html 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgSpecial Note - Related Article - A quote...."Largely absent from most mainstream media reports on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is the fact that a highly-dangerous “mixed-oxide” (MOX) fuel in present in six percent of the fuel rods at the plant’s Unit 3 reactor. Why is MOX a big deal? According to the Nuclear Information Resource Center (NIRS), this plutonium-uranium fuel mixture is far more dangerous than typical enriched uranium — a single milligram (mg) of MOX is as deadly as 2,000,000 mg of normal enriched uranium." 
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Exposed: Nuc fuel rods inside wrecked reactor as experts predict radioactive plume will reach Britain in two weeks
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367524/Japanese-tsunami-earthquake-Nuclear-fuel-rods-exposed.html 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgA quote...."These pictures show overheating fuel rods exposed to the elements through a huge hole in the wall of a reactor building at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant. -- Radiation is streaming into the atmosphere from the used uranium rods at reactor number four, after a 45ft-deep storage pool designed to keep them stable boiled dry in a fire." 
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Food, water now radioactive in Japan; sales halted while governments play the radiation doublespeak game
  ---  http://www.naturalnews.com/031759_radioactive_food_Japan.html 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgA quote...."(NaturalNews) As the situation in Fukushima continues to deteriorate, radiation levels keep rising. Now the food and water near (and inside) Tokyo is becoming irradiated. Reuters reports that the water in Tokyo is now contaminated with radioactive iodine." 
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Multiples Worse than Chernobyl  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/multiples-worse-than-chernobyl/ 
A quote...."In Japan, cover-up and denial persist. In a March 18 press conference, Tokyo Electric’s (TEPCO) spokesman claimed water-dousing lowered radiation levels from 312 microsieverts per hour to 289. However, 48 hours earlier, chief cabinet secretary Yukido Edano said radioactivity levels were misreported in microsieverts instead of millisieverts – 1,000 times stronger. -- Contrary to other reports, TEPCO’s spokesman also said water remains in Unit 4′s cooling pool. In fact, there’s none. Nothing the company says is credible." - Source:  SteveLendman
  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/03/multiples-worse-than-chernobyl.html 
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Governments Have Been Covering Up Nuclear Meltdowns for Fifty Years to Protect the Nuclear Power Industry
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/governments-have-been-covering-up.html 
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRdC5I0Yn2k  ---  A quote...."As a History Chanel special notes, a nuclear meltdown occurred at the world's first commercial reactor only 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles, and only 7 miles from the community of Canoga Park and the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles."also posted at ZeroHedge
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/governments-have-been-covering-nuclear-meltdowns-fifty-years-protect-nuclear-power-industry 
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U.S. Government Cannot Be Trusted On Radiation Plume  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/u-s-government-cannot-be-trusted-on-radiation-plume.html 
A quote...."Given the brazen contempt with which the EPA lied to ground zero workers in telling them that the air was “safe to breathe” on 9/11, government agencies cannot be trusted to give accurate information about the Fukushima radiation plume, which is set to reach California on Friday according to the United Nations." 
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Mainstream media halts accurate reporting on Japan's worsening nuke catastrophe disinfo campaign now underway
  ---  http://www.naturalnews.com/031748_mainstream_media_nuclear_catastrophe.html 
A quote....."(NaturalNews) Almost as if on cue, the mainstream media today halted nearly all accurate reporting of the worsening situation in Japan, writing off the whole thing as a "non issue." This all happened in a seeming coordinate effort following President Obama's speech on Wednesday that urged Americans to NOT prepare for anything. The American people, Obama insisted, should simply watch television to "stay informed." 
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Presenting The Latest Digitalglobe Satellite Photo Of Fukushima, As Thermal Imaging Continues To Be Top Secret
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/presenting-latest-digitalglobe-satellite-photos-fukushima-thermal-imaging-continues-be-top-s 
A quote...."According to the latest Digitalglobe overflight, the situation in Reactor 4 continues to deteriorate. We wonder where precisely in the Reactor 1,3, and 4 wreckage are the working water pumps that are about to be electrified? Far more importantly, since heat appears to be the biggest issue, why have no thermal or IR photos been released to the public, and most importantly why is the Japanese government actively covering up thermal data?" 
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Radiation News 03-19-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (29 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/19/radiation-news-3-19-11/ 
Meltdown Japan - Fallout Tracking - News - Health Solutions - multiple links - forums
  ---  http://snardfarker.ning.com/group/meltdown_japan_reactor 
Japan earthquake: Radiation found in food near nuclear plant
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8392328/Japan-earthquake-Radiation-found-in-food-near-nuclear-plant.html 
Some High-Level Radiation Reach Japan’s Food Chain
  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/483-some-high-level-radiation-reach-japans-food-chain.html 
Radiation Found In Tokyo Tap Water As Japan Halts Sale Of Fukushima Area Food Products
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/radiation-found-tokyo-tap-water-japan-halts-sale-fukushima-area-food-products 
Threat from Japanese nuclear emergency widens
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/fuku-m19.shtml 
Wind Shift at Japan Reactor Site
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/wind-shift-at-japan-reactor-site.html 
The Next Nagasaki - Nuclear Fears Stalk The World
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23788 
Japan death toll exceeds 8,000
  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-03-19-japan-earthquake_N.htm 
Running from Tsunami: Dramatic rescue.... video
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/0/vC0OFT8WWHk 
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC0OFT8WWHk  ---  (RTYuTb - 2m15s - Mar 18, 2011) 
Src:  RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday 
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More on the World Wide Revolution.....

The Dead, The Dying And The Wounded -- Murder On The Streets Of Yemen - 42 Protesters Killed
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27724.htm 
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
Video - WARNING! - Viewer discretion advised - YemenSnipers  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcOqLeRsEq8  ---  30Killed200Woounded  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtzFSUIbX1M  ---  Every10secs  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afo6JlIXSuM  --- (YuTb - avrg 5/6min - Mar 18,2011) - A quote...."At least 41 people were killed and scores wounded after the Yemeni security forces opened fire on protesters at University square, in the capital Sanaa. Security forces opened fire in attempts to prevent protesters from marching out of the square where they were gathered, sources said. Medical sources said the death toll was likely to rise. -- Pro-government "thugs" also opened fire on protesters from houses close to University square, witnesses told the AFP news agency. Reports said protesters rushed into the surrounding buildings and threw six alleged gunmen from the rooftops." 
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Yemen's US-backed leader fails to stop uprising
  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hfmjQhGpoI84WNufFSWMdbmYj6gg?docId=1382dd9769f94979947298b3a691656e
A quote...."SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A crackdown that killed dozens failed to stop massive demonstrations against Yemen's U.S.-backed president, as crowds of thousands clashed Saturday with security forces smashing their protest camps and even seized control of one southern city." 
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Yemeni troops on streets as two party members quit
  ---  http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC110319-0001237/Yemeni-troops-on-streets-as-two-party-members-quit 
A quote...."SANAA - Two prominent members of Yemen's ruling party resigned on Saturday in protest against the killing of dozens of anti-government protesters, while troops enforced a state of emergency in the capital."
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Bahrain opposition vows more protests  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=44981 
A quote...."MANAMA - Bahraini opposition leaders vowed on Thursday to press on with "peaceful" pro-democracy demonstrations, despite the deadly military force used to try to quell their protests." 
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UN chief slams killing of Yemeni protesters
  ---  http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/19-Mar-2011/UN-chief-slams-killing-of-Yemeni-protesters 
32 protesters shot dead in Yemen bloodbath
  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=44992 
Yemen seethes as death toll climbs to 52
  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110319/wl_afp/yemenpoliticsunrest 
Syrian police seal off city of Daraa after security forces kill five protesters
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/19/syria-police-seal-off-daraa-after-five-protesters-killed?CMP=twt_fd 
Investigator Videos - video collection
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/91177info 
Iraqis rally for third day of Bahrain protests
  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110319/wl_mideast_afp/bahrainpoliticsunrestiraq 
Qatar confirms sending troops to Bahrain
  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=44990 
High turnout in Egyptian constitutional poll
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/20113196242356485.html 
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More On The International Situation....

The Assault On Libya....

Another Obama War  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/another-obama-war173.html 
Must Read - Website editor's note:  Since the US-NRE is now directly atttacking Libya, all future articles regarding Libya will no longer appear in the "world wide revolution" section and instead will be posted to the "international section". -- A quote...."....it is something of a joke that the US would push a war against Libya in order to save that country from dictatorship. More likely, the real issue here is the same one that inspired the wars against Iraq: the ownership and control of the oil. And even if freedom were the driving motivation, when in modern history has war ever actually brought that to people? All war by nation states today ends in massive civilian deaths, destruction of infrastructure, political upheaval without end (see Afghanistan and Iraq), vast expense, and bitterness all around." - also posted at Hamsayeh  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/society/482-another-obama-war.html 
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First Blood: American Missiles Rain Down on Libya
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2108-first-blood-american-missiles-rain-down-on-libya.html 
Special Note - A quote...."When the UN intervention into Libya was first announced, we immediately heard how the United States would not be in the forefront of the military action; the lead would be taken by other nations, with US acting largely as a supplier and facilitator for the "broad-based coalition" arrayed against Libya (including some real live Ay-rabs! as the interventionists enthusiastically noted.) But it took less than two days to give the lie to this claim. -- On Saturday, just after the French -- who have extensive oil interest in Libya -- jumped the gun on the UN coalition and started attacking Libyan ground forces, the United States joined in with a missile attack on Libyan cities. Not a few missiles; not 10 or 30 or 50 missiles -- but a full barrage of 110 Tomahawk missiles, slamming into Tripoli and Misurata." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76007&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Washington and the Civilians of Libya  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27728.htm 
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
Quote of the Day...."March 19, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Whether you believe that the United Nations resolution authorizing extensive intervention in the Libyan civil war is justified or not, and whether you believe that the admittedly eccentric forty two year rule of Muammar Gadhafi over a complex and fractious tribal society has been cruel or not, there is one thing that all objective observers should be able to agree on. All should agree that the rationale put forth by the United States government for supporting the impending NATO intervention, that this action is to be taken to bring about an immediate end to attacks on civilians, is one of the biggest acts of hypocrisy in a modern era ridden with hypocrisy." 
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Where are the UN resolutions to protect civilians in Bahrain?  ---  http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/18/where-are-the-un-res.html 
Second Quote of the Day...."Slate's Tom Scocca reminds us that the west's willingness to rescue pro-democracy protesters from brutal, murderous middle-eastern despots is highly selective. If you're rebelling against a dictator who's been a thorn in America's side, you get airstrikes and UN resolutions; if you're rebelling against tyrants who are forthcoming with their oil or ports, you're lucky if the Secretary of State will bestir herself for a round of finger-wagging as your comrades are coldly murdered in the streets." 
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Selective nature of UN intervention  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/19/selective-un-intervention-libya 
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27725.htm 
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
A quote...."When Israel bombed Gaza at the end of 2008 in a brutal action which killed 1,300 people and destroyed 20,000 buildings, there was no question of the US allowing the UN to impose a no-fly zone over Gaza to protect its people, 50% of which are children. Those who support the UN security council's authorisation of a no-fly zone over Libya (Britain, France and US line up for air strikes against Gaddafi, 18 March) need to reflect on the selective nature of UN intervention throughout the world and in the Middle East in particular." 
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President Hillary Clinton’s Shock and Awe  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/president-hillary-clintons-shock-and-awe/ 
A quote...."While Hillary Clinton met with 22 world leaders to decide the fate of Libya, they kept Barack Obama in the back of the bus and let real president take the lead. -- Last weekend President Peace Prize played his 61st round of golf while in office and then on Monday he attended a fund raiser while Hillary Clinton was secretly meeting with the leader of the opposition in Libya asking them to fake shooting down a plane so that the Coalition of the Craven would have an excuse to attack on Saturday. -- People are dying in Bahrain and Yemen and just like 2009 when Israel launched Operation Cast Lead on the Gaza strip killing 1,400 Palestinians and over 300 children, President Peace Prize doesn’t appear to give a sh-t. -- Today alone, based on the fabricated stories of Libyan military attacking a rebel stronghold, we have launched 110 Tomahawk Cruise missiles against various targets inside Libya.  Libyan’s are reporting civilian casualties." 
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King Hypocrite Obama: There Will be Blood in Libya  ---  http://www.infowars.com/king-hypocrite-obama-there-will-be-blood-in-libya/ 
A quote...."On Friday, the teleprompter reader in chief and NCAA basketball picker Obama bellied up to the podium in the East Room of the White House and read his script. He said Libyan thug Moammar Gadhafi has to stop attacking civilians or face military retaliation." 
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The UN Security Council Has Not Authorized Regime Change in Libya  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27726.htm 
 posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
A quote...."March 18, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --- It's a great thing that the Obama Administration has resisted calls for unilateral U.S. military action in Libya, and instead is working through the United Nations Security Council, as it is required to do by the United Nations Charter. -- Now, the Administration needs to follow through on this commitment to international law by ensuring that foreign military intervention remains within the four corners of what the UN Security Council has approved. If it does not, and instead Western powers take the view that we now have a blank check to do whatever we want, the certain consequence will be that it will be much more difficult to achieve Security Council action in a similar situation in the future, and those who complain that the Security Council is too cautious will have only themselves to blame." 
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Chossudovsky: New deadly war theater opened in Libya  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/2/eUZ7e90Fo80 
video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUZ7e90Fo80 
(RTYuTb 6m57s 03/19/11) - Src:  RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday 
No to imperialist intervention in Libya!
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/pers-m19.shtml 
Revealed: America’s Hidden Hand Behind The UN Resolution For A No-fly Zone Over Libya
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/19/revealed-americas-hidden-hand-behind-the-un-resolution-for-a-no-fly-zone-over-libya/ 
US leads 'Odyssey Dawn' initial attack on Libya
  ---  http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2011/0319/US-leads-Odyssey-Dawn-initial-attack-on-Libya 
Jets pound civilian targets in Tripoli
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170818.html 
Western warplanes, missiles hit Libyan targets
  ---  http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/03/20/142258.html 
Breaking News: Libyan Hospitals Attacked
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76006&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Libyans form human shield at Gaddafi's compound
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/19/us-libya-humanshield-idUSTRE72I3NB20110319 
48 killed by allied warplanes, missiles: Libyan state TV
  ---  http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article323162.ece 
48 dead, Gaddafi wants 'revenge'
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170834.html 
Spain, Norway, Denmark join war party
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170829.html 
Germany rejects Libya ceasefire monitoring role
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/19/us-libya-germany-monitors-idUSTRE72I00I20110319 
West overzealous on Libya
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/2011318132217965513.html# 
World intervenes in Libya, with unusual speed
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LIBYA_DIPLOMACY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-03-19-13-23-13 
Nigel Farage Blasts EU Council Pres for Being Friends with Gaddafi and now Bombing Him - video
  ---  http://www.truthistreason.net/nigel-farage-blasts-eu-council-pres-for-being-friends-with-gaddafi-and-now-bombing-him-hilarious-speech 
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHBMLil4JbI  
International forces bombard targets in Libya
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/201132002236603156.html 
Strikes on Libya - a military perspective
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/2011319214917473860.html 
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Behind the 2011 Orgy of Destabilizations: Pre-Emptive Coups by the CIA to Halt an Exodus of US Satraps and Viceroys Leading to a Multipolar World  ---  http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/behind-the-2011-orgy-of-destabilizations-pre-emptive-coups-by-the-cia-to-halt-an-exodus-of-us-satraps-and-viceroys-leading-to-a-multipolar-world/  ---  Must Read - Related Article - A quote...."The current goal of London and Washington is to stop a jailbreak by their former clients. Since the beginning of the end of the USSR in about 1980, the Middle East has been a unipolar Anglo-American show. The past 30 years of US-UK hegemony have been an historical oddity. Today, the Middle East is reverting to its more typical multi-polar complexion, with a revival of Chinese, Russian, Iranian, Turkish, and other interests – making a better deal for the Arabs more likely than under the recent Anglo-American-Israeli power monopoly. The current CIA destabilizations are supposed to abort this return of multipolarity to the Middle East." 
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The Great Anglo-American Gaddafi Deception  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/holland/holland44.1.html 
Special Note - A quote...."I’m writing about what I will call "The Great Anglo-American Gaddafi Deception" and today in the age of the internet and immediate news and opinion, this deception is not against a military enemy. Rather for several weeks it has served to mask a major American foreign policy shift from both the American people and our former allies in the Middle East color revolution movement." 
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Major, Long Planned, US Geo-Strategic Offensive for Domination of Africa  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/?p=31996 
Related Article - A quote...."Ghaddafi’s ‘crime’, despite shameful appeasement in recent years, was opposing AFRICOM & U.S. agenda." 
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Powerless Karzai is more helpless than Afghan civilians  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/19/powerless-karzai-is-more-helpless-than-afghan-civilians/ 
A quote...."Compelled by enormous human lose, billions of taxpayers’ dollars, American prestige and the deadline set for the withdrawal of all troops from Afghanistan Gen. David H. Petraeus had this to say to the Senate’s armed services committee “The momentum achieved by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2005 has been arrested in much of the country and reversed in a number of important areas,” 
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Turkish warplanes bombard areas in northern Iraq  ---  http://en.aswataliraq.info/Default1.aspx?page=article_page&id=141538&l=1 
A quote...."“Turkish aircraft pounded the area of Nirwa Rikan, east of al-Imadiya town on Saturday. The area, though remote and clear of any local residents, is home to headquarters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK),” an eyewitness near the attacked areas told Aswat al-Iraq news agency." 
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Iraq’s Falluja placed under tight curfew  ---  http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2011-03-19%5Ckurd.htm 
A quote...."Iraq’s restive city of Falluja is under tight curfew following anti-government demonstrations and attacks targeting Iraqi security forces and U.S. occupation troops. --  Three houses belonging to police officers were blown up and there were demonstrations in the city demanding the release of detainees and implementation of pledges made by the government to improve public services." 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76002&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Second segment of ESPO pipeline to be launched Dec. 2012 - energy ministry  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110319/163097571.html 
A quote...."The second segment of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline will be launched in December 2011, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Sergei Kudryashov said on Saturday." 
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Violent Protests Erupt, US Consulate Firebombed Ahead of Obama’s Brazil Visit
  ---  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/violent-protests-erupt-us-consulate-firebombed-ahead-of-obamas-brazil-visit/ 
A quote...."Protesters urging “Obama Go Home” staged a violent protest in Rio de Janiero Friday ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to Brazil.  According to AFP, police fired rubber bullets and used tear gas to break up a demonstration outside the US consulate after protesters firebombed the building." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Israel strikes Gaza after massive mortar barrage on south
  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-strikes-gaza-after-massive-mortar-barrage-on-south-1.350171 
Stupidity Alert - A quote...."Hamas claims responsibility for 10 of the more than 50 mortars fired on southern Israel earlier in day; Gaza medics say five Hamas officers and boy injured in Israeli air strike." - Attacking with totally ineffective mortars or rockets (which is illegal if directed at civilian targets) -- in a tit for tat exchange -- with somebody that is ten thousand times more militarily powerful than you are,  is the very definition of out right stupidity, if not insanity. - mpg 
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Village of Awarta faced mass arrests, violence and massive destruction during five days of curfew  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2011/03/17061/ 
A quote...."During the five day curfew in the village of Awarta, south of Nablus, the Israeli military raided homes and detained around 300 people, the youngest 14 years old. Some of the men were taken to the local boy school were they had to leave their finger prints and DNA and some were taken to the military base at Huwwra checkpoint. According to mayor, Qays Awwad, 55 men are still in Israeli custody. Some of the detainees reported that they had been abused by the soliders while they were detained and handcuffed. It has been reported that a 75 year old woman was handcuffed and had to sit on the ground while the soliders went through her home, and that an 80-year-old woman was beaten by soliders." 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m76015&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Jewish settlers raze vast tracts of Palestinian agricultural land east of Yatta
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7p2zSXG7ZC4mqXmcwVEUP6aJePpY
qJxLcmBWPXIs6oxitCEyIcMdAGva%2boGKurZ9aBXMuIiN4%2flBVoaawG7EVhW%2b3CQWLz7sXSEyFj96%2bt9w%3d 
A quote...."AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Dozens of Jewish settlers destroyed Saturday morning 50 dunums of agricultural lands belonging to Nawaj’a family near Susya settlement, east of Yatta town. -- A spokesman for the Palestinian family of Nawaj’a said the settlers under military protection sabotaged the lands, uprooted crops and blocked shepherds from getting to their grazing land." 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

Congressional Budget Office Projects $9.5 Trillion In Deficits By 2021, $2.3 Trillion More Than Obama's Estimate
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/congressional-budget-office-projects-95-trillion-deficits-2021-23-trillion-more-obamas-estim 
A quote...."Today the Congressional Budget Office slammed the president's unrealistic budget presented recently, concluding that the cumulative deficit over the decade between 2011-2021 would be $9.5 trillion, or $2.3 trillion higher than that estimated by the White House." 
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Goldman Sachs axe falls on 2,000 jobs as banking downturn gathers force
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1367734/Goldman-Sachs-axe-falls-2-000-jobs-banking-downturn-gathers-force.html 
A quote...."Goldman Sachs is axing nearly 2,000 jobs as the downturn in the investment banking industry gathers force. -- The Wall Street giant is slashing its 35,700-strong global workforce by 5pc  -  with 1,785 highly paid staff set to lose their jobs. -- The controversial firm, which paid £340m to settle a US fraud lawsuit last summer, suffered a 52pc profits plunge in the final three months of 2010 after the eurozone crisis rattled its clients." 
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Nearly 20% of Florida homes are vacant  ---  http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/18/real_estate/florida_vacant_homes/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin 
A quote...."NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's not always easy to feel sorry for sunny Florida. But they just got hit with another blow. -- On Thursday, the Census Bureau revealed that 18% -- or 1.6 million -- of the Sunshine State's homes are sitting vacant. That's a rise of more than 63% over the past 10 years." 
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Friday March 18th 2011 - links page

More On The Zio-Sphere..... 

Iranian Arms to Syria?  The Israeli Media Can't Get Their Stories To Line Up  ---  http://lataan.blogspot.com/2011/03/iranian-arms-to-syria-israeli-media.html
Israeli Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."Yesterday the Jerusalem Post ran a story about an Iranian aircraft that was commanded to land in Turkey by Turkish authorities as it was en route to Syria. The photo accompanying the story showed an Iran Air Boeing 747 ‘short’ version Jumbo jet with a collapsed nose wheel with the story claiming explicitly that the aircraft was carrying ‘military equipment and weapons’ which the Turkish police had found. The same story in Ha’aretz went further by reporting that the aircraft was allegedly transporting “weapons connected to Iran's nuclear program”, (though they were not able explain how or what sort of ‘weapons’ could possibly be connected in any way to Iran’s nuclear program). -- Today ‘Ha’aretz’ is running a story about the aircraft being released after nothing was found on the aircraft that was illegal. Not only was the Jerusalem Post story totally fabricated but the accompanying photo to the Ha’aretz story shows an Ilyushin-76, (a Russian version of America’s C-141 Starlifter), heavy lift aircraft now looking as though its ready to fly with the caption claiming that this is the Iranian aircraft that was forced to land in Turkey." 
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The Itamar Massacre: A Covert Operation? 
03-18-11 
mpg 

US trained forces arrested for Itamar massacre  ---  http://yourjewishnews.com/4631.aspx 
The Itamar Massacre Mystery - A quote...."Two members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' official security forces were arrested in conjunction with this past weekend's bloody massacre in which five family members were brutally stabbed to death inside their home in the Jewish village of Itamar, WND has learned. -- The names of the apprehended suspects will be released to the Israeli media within hours but were revealed to WND by security officials working on the murder. -- Two cousins are now in Israeli custody and are suspected in the slayings. Ahmed Awad is an officer in Abbas' Preventative Security Services in the northern West Bank city of Nablis. Iyad Awad is an officer in Abbas' General Intelligence services in Ramallah. -- Both the Preventative and General Intelligence services of Fatah are armed, trained and funded by the U.S." 
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Now what would two bona fide "made" men of the US-NRE/AIPAC/Israeli Consortium be doing contracting out the whacking of an Israeli family in the middle of the night by having them stabbed to death?  Most perplexing?  This family was probably not chosen at random, whoever is investigating this should look at who this family knew and what they were involved in.   

This smells suspiciously like a contract killing or covert operation to be blamed on Palestinian "radicals" as the article's author tries to do by linking the PA's General Intell to the Fatah party thence to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and finally Hamas.  A stretch by anyone's imagination, even an Israeli's imagination, especially considering BOTH the US-NRE and Israel (which the article conspicuously fails to mention) along with the Saudi Royals (ditto) have been paying billions to the Fatah and the PA for years to attack Hamas since their election in 2006.   

Now we're supposed to believe Hamas is going to carry out this act on behalf of their bitterest enemy?  An act that will discredit them in the eyes of the international community, strengthen Israel's siege against Gaza and lead to massive military attacks against them?  Who's kidding who?   

Instead this looks more like somebody got caught carrying out some sort of unsanctioned operation, and this article looks like somebody's desperately trying to get ahead of the facts in a clumsy and obvious attempt to obfuscate this investigation and spin it toward the "usual suspects", Israels current enemy dejour.   

The real question of course is what party or parties would hire the PA to carry out this operation, and why?  Since Israel is conducting the investigation we can all rest assured that any trails which would lead to Israeli involvement will be carefully erased. - mpg   
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More On The International Situation.... 

Just How Many More Times? 
03-18-11 
mpg 

The Peacenik's Payback: Obama Slaughters Pakistani Civilians to Revenge CIA Embarrassment  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/
component/content/article/1-latest-news/2104-the-peaceniks-payback-obama-slaughters-pakistani-civilians-to-revenge-cia-embarrassment.html
Must Read - A quote...."Another day, another two dozen human beings [now estimated at 80]  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27712.htm  ---  blown to bits in a marketplace by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. What was the occasion for this new bonanza of carnage? It was a release of pent-up fury at Pakistan for embarrassing the Potomac Poobah by actually arresting one of his hired guns for shooting people in the back in the street in broad daylight. -- For weeks, Washington wiggled around in twisted knickers as the Pakistanis put CIA goon-squader Raymond Davis through the horrible, evil process of ... er ... Western jurisprudence, which Pakistan inherited from colonial times. They arrested Davis, charged him with a crime, allowed him to procure defense counsel and then instigated a series of open court proceedings leading to a trial. This was simply unbearable, insupportable, to the Universal Defenders of Human Rights and the Rule of Law who hold such benevolent sway in the American capital." 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75947&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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At Least 41 Killed as US Drones Attack Tribal Jirga in North Waziristan
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/03/17/at-least-41-killed-as-us-drones-attack-tribal-jirga-in-north-waziristan/ 
A quote...."The latest US drone strike against North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan is amongst the deadliest in recent memory, with at least 41 [now estimated at 80]  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27712.htm  ---  people killed and other, unconfirmed sources speculating the toll may be upwards of 80. -- Making matters worse, this strike isn’t coming with the usual pretense of everyone slain being a “suspected militant.” Rather, the attack struck a tribal jirga (official meeting) for the Madda Khel tribe, in the town of Datta Khel. -- The casualties from the attack included six tribal elders who were overseeing the jirga, which was apparently to discuss the ownership of mineral rights, a number of children who were brought by their families to the gathering, and several members of a pro-government militia the tribe helped organize. - bold by website editor 
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The article speaks for itself.  This website editor is truly at a loss to properly express the disgust and anger felt regarding this incident. (Although Chris Floyd does a good job in the article shown above)   

Just how many town hall meetings, wedding parties, sporting events, hunting expeditions, and wood gathering groups are the murderous forces of the US-NRE going to incinerate?  Every single person in uniform is responsible for this non-stop, endless, continuous, series of tragedies, every single one!  They're all just a bunch of gang-banging, drolling, morons working for the Bankster Complex and the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium.    

And everyone, ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE on the entire planet knows they don't give a sh-t about this incident or for that matter, any of the other hundreds of murder-fests they seem to enjoy so much.  In fact everyone knows they don't give a sh-t about anything at all, including themselves.  It's high time to cut their pensions, their pay and their VA benefits....to zero!!  This website editor's patience, sympathy, and tolerance has all run out.   

From now on -- and that means FOREVER -- it will be the policy of this website editor to oppose giving benefits, of any kind, at anytime, for any reason, to anyone, who has EVER served in the US-NRE's insecurity/murder/theft industry.   

The morons in the military are on their own!  While this nation continues its long painful decent into its self-inflicted Great Depression, if the morons in the military want any more money, they can just get off their collective butts and go get it from the Banksters, you know, the guys who got roughly thirty trillion in guarantees, zero interest loans, asset swaps, toxic buy-backs and pay-outs from the American tax payer?   

After all, the Banksters are the people everyone in the military has been murdering for all these years so if those in the military/insecurity/murder/theft industry want any more money, they can damn well go get it from them!    

In the meantime they can just stay the f-ck away from the rest of the law abiding, decent, hard working, non-murdering, people in this country!  - mpg   
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Updates: 

80 people reportedly killed in U.S. drone strike in Pakistan
  ---  http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7323900.html 
Alt  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27712.htm 
Alt  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75968&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Pakistan Cancels US-Afghan Talks After Drone Strike
  ---  http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/south/Pakistan-Summons-US-Ambassador-on-Drone-Attack-118237949.html 
Pakistan to boycott Afghan meeting over deadly US strike
  ---  http://www.dawn.com/2011/03/18/pakistan-to-boycott-afghan-meeting-over-deadly-us-strike.html 
Thousands of Pakistanis rally against US
  ---  http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_646648.html 
NWA elders vow to take revenge
  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011%5C03%5C19%5Cstory_19-3-2011_pg1_2 
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Investment bankers salivate over North Africa  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/investment-bankers-salivate-over-north-africa/ 
A quote...."Investment banking is usually thought of as a field that values stability. Yet the greatest rewards are often attained through destabilization. -- North African regimes and leaders have their obvious faults and flaws. Autocracies have an inherent weakness in their tendency to ossification. This basic reality is reflected not just in the obvious lack of democratic institutions, but also in the economic structures of the North African states. Regimes which have persisted for many decades tend to retain many of the economic characteristics of the era in which they were formed." 
Topix ||  The International : Scene with Umberto Calvini - Transcript - 02-20-10 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theinternationalscenewithumbertocalvini-tnscpt-mpg-reficultnias-022010 
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The Rogue CIA Secretly Hearts Islamic Fundamentalists  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2011/03/rogue-cia-secretly-hearts-islamic.html 
Related Article - A quote...."The U.S. military-industrial complex has consistently used Islamic fundamentalists for their own nefarious ends in the global geopolitical game, who have proved their usefulness whether as a militant religious force in Afghanistan's war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s, or as the ideal boogeyman in the global war on terrorism in the 21st century. Say what you will about the globalist securocrats who influence U.S. foreign policy, they are not stupid. You have to give them a lot of credit for designing a grand mythology and suckering the American people and the West into destructive, unwinnable, and criminal wars. Why look to Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran for villains when there are already plenty in Washington and New York?" 
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The Middle Class In Iraq Destroyed. What Can Be Done?  ---  http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m75927&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Special Note - A quote...."In the past eight years hundreds of academics have been killed in Iraq. They were not accidental victims of the violence prevailing in the country, but the target of a focused and systematic campaign to destroy the Iraqi state, researchers say. In Ghent specialists from all over the world gathered to investigate the humanitarian catastrophe." - bold by website editor 
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/the-middle-class-in-iraq-destroyed-what-can-be-done/ 
Topix ||  The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707 
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Afghan warlord on US payroll accused of terror campaign  ---  http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-171144.html 
Special Note - A quote...."Kabul, Mar 18 : An Afghan warlord backed by US special forces is facing persistent allegations that he launched a two-year spate of violence involving burglary, rape and murder of civilians, desecration of mosques and mutilation of corpses." 
Topix ||  The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707 
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`Blood money was paid by Saudi Arabia' - [a.k.a the Saudi Royals]  ---  http://www.dawn.com/2011/03/18/blood-money-was-paid-by-s-arabia.html 
The Raymond Davis File - A quote...."WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia is believed to have arranged the blood money that allowed CIA contractor Raymond Davis to go home after nearly two months in a Lahore jail, diplomatic sources told Dawn." 
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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US Fleet Commander Met Head of Bahrain Defense Forces Before Crackdown; Opposition Leaders Arrested
  ---  http://firedoglake.com/2011/03/17/us-fleet-commander-met-head-of-bahrain-defense-forces-before-crackdown-opposition-leaders-arrested/ 
Special Note - Connect the Dots - A quote...."After the Bahraini attack on the Pearl Roundabout and residents of local villages, and the siege of the Salmaniya Hospital, the next phase of the crackdown took place overnight with a roundup of leading activists and opposition leaders. I’ll have more on that in a minute, but first, I continue to be surprised by the claims coming from Washington that the White House and Pentagon had no idea the Saudis were heading into Bahrain or that the crackdown was prepared for this week. -- This claim continues to ring ever-so-hollow given the visit from Sec. Defense Gates just two days beforehand, but there was another visit which has gone unnoticed in the American press that appears to make it even more unlikely. If you follow the Bahrain News Service (a state run operation), you would have read on Monday–the same day the Saudis crossed the causeway–that:...." 
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"Manama – Mar 14 (BNA) — BDF Commander-in-Chief Marshal Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa has today received US 5th Fleet Commander General Mark Fox, who arrived on visit to Bahrain, and discussed bilateral ties and growing relations, particularly military coordination and defence cooperation. Issues of joint interest also came under the spotlight. BDF General Command Court director Major General Yusuf Ahmed Al Jalahma attended the audience. (emph. added)" - also posted at BLN  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/US-Fleet-Commander-Met-Head-of-Bahrain-Defense-Forces-Before-Crackdown%3B-Opposition-Leaders-Arrested/13092/0/35/35/Y/M.html  ---  For more on this issue see article and comment shown below.... 
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After Gates leaves, Saudi Arabia sends troops to Bahrain
  ---  http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/saudi-arabia/110314/saudi-troops-bahrain-gates 
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  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75869&hd=&size=1&l=e  --- 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  ---  There goes that word "help" again. - mpg - posted 03-14-11 
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Saudi-backed crackdown in Bahrain exposes more U.S. hypocrisy
  ---  http://www.examiner.com/geopolitics-in-national/saudi-backed-crackdown-bahrain-exposes-more-u-s-hypocrisy 
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27702.htm 
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
Related Article - A quote...."Although U.S. officials condemned Bahrain’s use of deadly force against unarmed protestors on Wednesday, experts say the Obama administration is reticent to support the people because the Bahraini monarchy best serves U.S. regional interests. Critics accuse the U.S. of employing a double-standard – reluctant to oust the monarchy in Bahrain but more than willing to encourage Libyans to topple Moammar Gaddafi." 
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US House rejects Afghan withdrawal Bill  ---  http://rt.com/usa/news/us-house-rejects-afghan-withdrawal-bill/ 
A quote...."The US House of Representatives failed to pass a resolution by Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich that would have removed all US troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2011 – even though most Americans want out." 
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U.N. Reported Only a Fraction of Civilian Deaths from U.S. Raids  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54883 
A quote...."WASHINGTON/KABUL, Mar 17, 2011 (IPS) - The number of civilians killed in U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids last year was probably several times higher than the figure of 80 people cited in the U.N. report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan published last week, an IPS investigation has revealed." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75951&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Criminal war in Iraq enters 9th year  ---  http://www.answercoalition.org/march-forward/statements/criminal-war-in-iraq-enters.html 
A quote...."On March 19, 2003, U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq in an attempt to force the oil-rich country to accept imperialist rule. “National defense” and “building democracy” were simply lies to mask the real aim of the war: the de-nationalization of Iraq’s oil. Eight years later, over 1 million Iraqis are dead, millions are refugees and living conditions have deteriorated to the point that last year Baghdad was rated the least livable city in the world."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75972&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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The 8th Anniversary of a Genocide (a rant)  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75970&hd=&size=1&l=e  
A quote...."20th March 2003, under the guise of the 'War Against Terror' and democracy; the decimation of the cradle of civilisation, Iraq/ Mesopotamia began. It is more than the over 1 million dead or the over 2 million displaced. This was and still is, a deliberate destruction of a nation. It is after all STILL occupied. And what has happened in those 8 years?" 
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Iran Dispatches 13th Fleet of Warships to Gulf of Aden  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8912270489 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Navy dispatched its 13th flotilla of warships to the Gulf of Aden to defend the country's cargo ships and oil tankers against the continued threat of attack by Somali pirates." 
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Georgia braces itself for revolution  ---  http://collents.posterous.com/ce-news-george-braces-itself-for-revolution 
A quote...."The protests are due to start during the first week in May. It will be interesting to see if the "entire world" stands beside the Georgian people the same way they stand by the Libyan people, or the way they stand by the people of Bahrain." 
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Single system for air, space, missile defence monitoring: Medvedev  ---  http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-171446.html 
A quote...."Moscow, Mar 18 : Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today said a single system of air and space defence must be created in the context of problems pertaining to the formation of the European missile shield." 
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Russia says it has no plan to deploy missiles on disputed islands  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-03/19/c_13786736.htm 
A quote...."MOSCOW, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Russia was not planning to deploy anti-aircraft missiles on the four disputed Pacific islands, which are called the Northern Territories in Japan and the South Kurils Islands in Russia, said a high-ranking Russian official on Friday." 
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Russian 5G subs to be equipped with ballistic, cruise missiles - source  ---  http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20110319/163091053.html 
A quote...."Russia's proposed fifth-generation nuclear submarines will be armed with both ballistic and cruise missiles, a senior Navy source told RIA Novosti on Saturday." 
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US against return of Haiti's ex-leader  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170538.html
Of course.....BECAUSE HE WAS ONCE ACTUALLY ELECTED!!! - mpg - A quote...."Jean Bertrand Aristide told reporters he was returning to Haiti on Friday, despite pressures exerted on him by the US to avoid going home before the nation's second round of presidential election, scheduled for Sunday. - US President Barack Obama has voiced concern over Aristide's return to Haiti. He claims the move “could be destabilizing in the closing days of the election.” - Aristide had formally announced his desire to return to Haiti after the country's massive earthquake, last year." - Yeah, guess the US-NRE will have to ramp up the Haitian death squads again.....sigh, Murder Inc.'s work is never done, there are just so many people to kill. - mpg 
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Obama cancels public speech in Rio square: embassy - Cluck, cluck, cluck, Squawk! - mpg
  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/03/obama-cancels-public-speech-in-rio.html
A quote...."On Thursday, members of an advance US security team were seen inspecting the surroundings of Cinelandia, where anti-US banners could be seen hanging from a road-side fence. -- Some social and union groups have declared Obama a "persona non grata" and called for a protest, accusing him of a "bellicose policy of occupation" in foreign countries, and of attacking people "in the name of the war on terror." - Oh, by the way, you notice how the little chicken-[expletive] we have as this nation's "leader" is skedaddling out of the country right before it's about to be covered in radioactive by-products?  What remarkable timing he has. - mpg 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks 
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27703.htm 
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
Web Under Threat - More on the US-NRE's plans for a "Virtual Web Army" - your tax dollars at work folks. - mpg -- A quote...."The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. -- A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world." 
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While The World Burns – Charlie McGrath  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/18/white-the-world-burns-charlie-mcgrath/ 
CMcGVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU3eMV7XhbE  ---  (CMcGYuTb - 4min3sec - Mar 17, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/crabbydogtrix 
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Keiser Report: Mad Mob vs Midwest Mubaraks (E130)  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/17/keiser-report-mad-mob-vs-midwest-mubaraks-e130/ 
Must View MKVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRTfex2VQ7g  ---  (MKRTYuTb - 25min 54sec - March 17, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Producer:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – A quote...."(RussiaToday) – This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on the rathole to the Walker palace and a secret silver investor. In the second half of the show, Max talks to media historian and critical theorist, Michael Betancourt, about agnotologic capitalism and the aura of the digital." 
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What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – March 17th, 2011
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/17/what-really-happened-with-michael-rivero-march-17th-2011/ 
Must View MRVideo - Part1  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/281758227  ---  Part2  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/281758236  ---  (JustInTV - 2hrs - March 17th, 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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What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – March 18th, 2011
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/18/what-really-happened-with-michael-rivero-march-18th-2011/ 
Must View MRVideo - Part1  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/281825483  ---  Part2  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/281825669  ---  (JustInTV - 2hrs - March 18th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  Michael Rivero extensively covers the on-going disaster in Japan and other issues.... 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

Top US Nuclear Official: Japan Radiation May Already Be Over US  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/03/17/top-nuclear-official-japan-radiation-8991/ 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgRadiation Alert - A quote...."Another well written piece from the Daily Mail outlines the highlights of the latest developments in the Japan Nuclear Crisis."

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Radiation Set to Make Land Fall in T-Minus 24 Hours, Southern California – Alex Jones Tv
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/18/radiation-set-to-make-land-fall-in-t-minus-24-hours-southern-california-alex-jones-tv/ 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgRadiation Alert - AJVideo - AJTV(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25GaKVR7VY  ---  AJTV(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCekMad69F8  ---  AJTV(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tx0Nbn7_64&feature=player_embedded  ---  (AJYuTb - 10/15m - Mar 18, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex alerts the public of the impending dangers of what is to come to Southern California and the rest of the west coast in the form of a radioactive plume from Japan." 
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UC Berkley: Japan Nuclear Fallout Radiation Detected In California
  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/03/18/uc-berkley-japan-nuclear-fallout-radiation-detected-california-9153/ 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgRadiation Alert - A quote...."Coup Media Group reports the UC Berkley experts have detected the first Radioactive particles from the MOX Japanese Fukoshima reactors has begun to fall in California. Experts at UC Berkley have confirmed that radioactive particles are being detected." 
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Reports Of “Harmless” Radiation Reaching California Are a Whitewash
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/reports-of-harmless-radiation-reaching-california-are-a-whitewash/ 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgRadiation Alert - Contains Video - Alt  ---  A quote...."Exactly as we predicted would happen, authorities have cited “miniscule” levels of radiation reaching California as an excuse with which to downplay the threat to Americans of fallout crossing the Pacific from Japan, completely ignoring the fact that the bulk of the radiation from the two blasts at the Fukushima power plant will not reach the west coast until Monday." 
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How to Protect Yourself from Radiation  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/how-to-protect-yourself-from-radiation.html 
Related Article - A quote...."Preface: This is written for the millions of people around the world who are worried about radiation from the Japanese nuclear reactors. For those who are not worried about radiation from Japan, you can ignore this post, or save it for any future radiation scares closer to home." 
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'Water used to cool Fukushima flowing back to sea - effects hard to predict'  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZsUHTJyX5g 
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 11min 42sec - Mar 17, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."In an exclusive interview with RT, Sergey Shoigu, Russia's Emergencies Minister, discussed the work of emergency services and international rescue amid the growing threat of a nuclear reactor meltdown in Japan following the quake and tsunami." - It's "effects [are] hard to predict"?  Not really, try radioactive contamination of the entire Pacific food chain for many years, if not many decades. - mpg 
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The moment nuclear plant chief WEPT as Japanese finally admit that radiation leak is serious enough to kill people
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367684/Nuclear-plant-chief-weeps-Japanese-finally-admit-radiation-leak-kill-people.html 
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File:BWR Mark I Containment, cutaway.jpg's & png's  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/bwrmark1cutaway-cached-031811 
Web Censorship Alert - BWR Mark I Containment Cutaway jpgs & pngs are being rapidly  removed/deleted from the web. Examples: 
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BWRMrk1/sideview (not removed yet)  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BWR_Mark_I_Containment,_diagram.png 
cached (not removed yet)  ---  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4yaD_bArR1cJ:en.wikipedia.org  /wiki/File:BWR_Mark_I_Containment,_diagram.png+%28BWR%29+Mark+I+cutaway&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com
WikiCommons  ---  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BWR_Mark_I_Containment,_cutaway.jpg 
cached - etc., etc.  ---  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qtmBcrpNl54J:commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BWR_Mark_I_Containment,_cutaway.jpg+%28BWR%29+Mark+I+cutaway&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com 
Please download and distribute ASAP!  - mpg 
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The New Hiroshima (Part 2, Nasa Nato Nozi Nuke)  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/18/eric-may-the-new-hiroshima-part-2-nasa-nato-nozi-nuke/ 
Special Note - A quote...."HOUSTON, 3/18/11 — One week after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster of 3/11/11, the pieces on the global chessboard have become clearer, and it’s apparent that the sane world is in check. We witness a shattered Japan, a ruined nuclear power industry and highly fortunate Big Oil. -- The worldwide economic impact of the triple-evil event could reach a trillion dollars, with countless fortunes to be lost or won, depending ln whether you’re ignorant or informed. There’s no doubting that the disaster capitalists will turn this carnage into cash. That’s how all war cabals have prospered, from the Carpetbaggers to the Carthagenians." 
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Nuclear Apocalypse in Japan  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23764 
Special Note - A quote...."As the sun set over quake-stricken Japan on Thursday 17 March 2011, we learned that four of six Fukushima nuclear reactor sites are irradiating the earth, that the fire is burning out of control at Reactor No. 4's pool of spent nuclear fuel, that there are six spent fuel pools at risk all told, and that the sites are too hot to deal with. On March 16 Plumes of White Vapor began pouring from crippled Reactor No. 3 where the spent fuel pool may already be lost. Over the previous days we were told: nothing to worry about. Earthquakes and after shocks, tidal wave, explosions, chemical pollution, the pox of plutonium, contradicting information too obvious to ignore, racism, greed -- add these to the original Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Conquest, War, Famine and Death. The situation is apocalyptic and getting worse. This is one of the most serious challenges humanity has ever faced." 
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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Japan's Deadly Game Of Russian Roulette
  ---  http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2011/03/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-japans.html 
Radiation News 03-18-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (15 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/03/18/radiation-news-3-18-11/ 
Damage levels at the Fukushima I nuclear power plant - photo gallery - (12 photos)
  ---  http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20110318/163073248.html 
Tokyo Passengers Trigger U.S. Airport Detectors, N.Y. Post Says
  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/Tokyo-Passengers-Trigger-U.S.-Airport-Detectors%2C-N.Y.-Post-Says/13091/0/11/11/Y/M.html 
Src  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-17/tokyo-passengers-trigger-u-s-airport-detectors-n-y-post-says.html 
'We have been betrayed': Mayor of town near stricken Japanese nuclear plant....
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367208/Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Mayor-claims-people-abandoned.html 
Saltwater May Further Damage Nuclear Reactors
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/saltwater-may-further-damage-nuclear.html 
An interview with Linda Gunter of Beyond Nuclear: “This was a preventable catastrophe”
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/gunt-m19.shtml 
Japan Tsunami - Yahoo Video Collection - videos - (hundreds?)
  ---  http://news.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&p=japan+tsunami&fr=news-us-ss&section=video 
Japan hit by huge earthquake, tsunami - Yahoo Photo collection - (496 photos)
  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Japan-hit-huge-earthquake-tsunami/ss/events/wl/031111japanquake 
Disaster in Japan Live Blog: March 19
  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/disaster-japan-live-blog-march-19 
Mar18  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/disaster-japan-live-blog-march-18 
Mar17  ---  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 - al Jazeera live blogs  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live/asia/japan-crisis-march-15 
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More on the World Wide Revolution..... 

Tunisians protest Hillary’s visit  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011%5C03%5C18%5Cstory_18-3-2011_pg4_10 
A quote...."TUNIS: Hundreds of Tunisians marched through central Tunis on Thursday to protest the visit of US Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton. -- It was the third such demonstration in three days against Clinton, who earlier Thursday opened talks here with interim President Foued Mebazaa, who replaced ousted Zine El Abidine Ben Ali." 
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Bahrain bleeds from US bullets  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olZhBxNumIs 
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 3min 36sec - Mar 17, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."In Bahrain the monarchy now with the help of its neighbors in Saudi Arabia and the UAE continues to violently crackdown on protesters. The government has also arrested top political opposition figures. Meanwhile, the US has imposed economic sanctions against Libya and pushed for military options in response to reported violence at the hand of the government against the opposition there. So why do we here so little from the US President in response to the unrest in Bahrain?" 
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A Reign of Terror Unleashed in Bahrain  ---  http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2011/03/reign-of-terror-unleashed-in-bahrain.html 
Special Note - A quote...."A three-month State of Emergency declared yesterday in Bahrain by the government of King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa saw state security forces remove all restraint in a ruthless campaign of carnage directed against the mass of the Bahraini people. Repressive forces of the isolated monarchy were emboldened by thousands of invading Saudi troops, tanks and helicopter gunships, joined swiftly by special forces of the emirates and feudal sheikdoms of the region. " 
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Snipers shooting Yemeni civilians  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170613.html  --- Keep in mind folks, this is being done under US-NRE orders. - mpg 
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."With a state of emergency already in place, snipers deployed by the Yemeni government are still targeting civilians from rooftops. -- At least 50 people were killed on Friday alone, when protesters took to the streets to call for an end to the three-decade rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a Press TV correspondent reported. -- Following the peaceful protests, the Saleh regime launched a massive crackdown on Yemeni people before ordering a state of emergency. -- However, the state of emergency did not stop snipers from targeting the protesters." 
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UAE troops arrive in Bahrain  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170642.html 
BREAKING:  Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:0AM -- A quote...."Troops of the United Arab Emirates have arrived in Bahrain to join the Saudi Arabian troops which have been there since earlier this week. -- On Friday, Bahrain TV showed footage of a convoy of troops from the UAE arriving in the capital Manama. -- Earlier, Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa announced that three or four Persian Gulf countries would be sending troops to help quell the anti-government demonstrations that have rocked the country." 
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Indians slam Saudi presence in Bahrain  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170616.html 
A quote...."Led by the city's Friday Prayers Leader Syed Kalbe Jawad, demonstrators rallied in the Indian city of Lucknow -- the capital of Uttar Pradesh. -- Jawad said that “Saudi forces are killing innocent civilians in Bahrain only for holding anti-government demonstrations.” -- “I appeal for holding such protest in other parts of the country,” Jawad added." 
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U.N. Authorizes Military Strikes on Libya  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/03/17/u-n-authorizes-military-strikes-on-libya/ 
A quote...."The United Nations Security Council authorized military force Thursday against Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s security forces, opening the way for airstrikes within days. -- The U.N. action, pushed aggressively by France and the U.K., came as Col. Gadhafi’s security forces continued their assault toward Benghazi, the de-facto capital of rebels trying to end his 42-year rule." 
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Shame, Shame, Shame Once Again on the US and the UN.  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75969&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."By Cindy Sheehan - March 18, 2011 --Just hours ago, the UN Security Council led by the US has backed the use of "all necessary measures" against the oil rich country of Libya--including no fly zones." 
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Libya, Hypocrisy and Betrayal by the United Nations  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75960&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day, of the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the destruction of Iraq, 20th March, in Europe. Libya too will be destroyed - its schools, education system, water, infrastructure, hospitals, municipal buildings. There will be numerous "tragic mistakes", "collateral damage", mothers, fathers, children, babies, grandparents, blind and deaf schools and on and on. And the wonders of the Roman remains and earlier, largely enduring and revered in all history's turmoils as Iraq, the nation's history - and humanity's, again as Iraq and Afghanistan, will be gone, for ever." 
also posted at DandySalad  ---  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/libya-hypocrisy-and-betrayal-by-the-united-nations-by-felicity-arbuthnot/ 
& Creative-i  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/?p=31975 
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Ron Paul: Libya Airstrikes Unconstitutional – Only Congress Can Declare War
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/ron-paul-libya-airstrikes-unconstitutional-only-congress-can-declare-war.html 
A quote...."Mr. Speaker: I rise to introduce a resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the President is required to obtain in advance specific statutory authorization for the use of United States Armed Forces in response to civil unrest in Libya. As many in the administration, Congress, and elsewhere clamor for the president to initiate military action to support those seeking to overthrow the Libyan regime, Congress sits by, as usual, pretending that Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution does not exist. According to this long-ignored section, ‘‘The Congress shall have Power To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.”" 
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Libya declares ceasefire after West threatens attack  ---  http://www.gmanews.tv/story/215647/libya-declares-ceasefire-after-west-threatens-attack 
BREAKING:  03/18/2011 | 08:45 PM -- A quote....."(Update 1 - 10:18 p.m.) TRIPOLI/UNITED NATIONS, March 18 – Muammar Gaddafi's government said it was declaring a unilateral ceasefire in its offensive to crush Libya's revolt, as Western warplanes prepared to attack his forces." 
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A Contrarian View on Libya  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27722.htm 
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908  
Special Note - A quote....."March 18, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- It’s clear now, since the black ops and US and UK military advisors failed to defeat Qaddafi, they now want to bomb him and his troops; this is a violation of the UN Charter, and the Arab League is foolish for taking part in it. Paksitani news services last week reported the presence of hundreds of "military advisors" from the UK and US, and new uniforms, weapons, tanks and planes with the "rebels." Also, since the "rebels" had no air force, how is it that they could bomb two Libyan warships? Ah, too many odd things about this sudden, and well supplied "rebellion." 
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UN Resolution in Libya is about Oil and their Central Banking System
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/un-resolution-in-libya-is-about-oil-and-their-central-banking-system/ 
Special Note - A quote...."The UN Security Council passed the “no fly” resolution pertaining to Libya at around 6 pm this evening.  Five countries abstained from voting. -- But in the resolution, we can see what this is all about; getting the oil and getting our network of privately owned central banks into Libya. They will chop up the nationalized oil company of Libya and hand over their central banking system as well." 
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The Club Med War  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MC19Ak02.html 
Special Note - Geo-Political Analysis - A quote...."History may register that the real tipping point was this past Tuesday when, in an interview to German TV, the African king of kings made sure that Western corporations - unless they are German. (because the country was against a no-fly zone) - can kiss goodbye to Libya's energy bonanza. Gaddafi explicitly said, "We do not trust their firms, they have conspired against us ... Our oil contracts are going to Russian, Chinese and Indian firms." In other words: BRIC member countries. -- It's quite interesting that UN resolution 1973 had 10 votes in favor, zero against it, and five abstentions. These came exactly from the four BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), plus Germany. Brazil and Germany had voiced their deep skepticism over military action for days, preferring a diplomatic solution; but in the case of Russia, India and China, other (energy) motivations may have been at play. The top four BRICS members (the other is South Africa, which voted for resolution and formally joins the expanded group in April) tend to coordinate their voting in every major decision." - bold by websit editor 
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Egypt seeks to end gas exports to Israel  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170528.html  ---  Oh oh!! 
A quote...."A popular campaign by a group of Egyptian activists against gas exports to Israel has won a court case on the terms of the country's gas deal with Tel Aviv. -- The court ruled on the ministry of petroleum “not to export one single unit of gas before satisfying the local needs,” head of the Campaign against Gas Export to Israel Ibrahim Yousri told Press TV on Wednesday. -- For Egyptians, the issue of supplying the Israeli regime with gas has always been a contentious one. Egyptians view Israel as an enemy and oppose engaging in any kind of business with the regime. -- Egypt's gas supply to Israel has been one of the main economic conditions of the US-sponsored 1979 peace treaty between the two sides." 
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Yemen’s Tyrant and a Bloody Friday  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/18/yemen%E2%80%99s-tyrant-and-a-bloody-friday/ 
Special Note - A quote...."“Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others i.e. the U.S.” –The Tyrant, President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen." 
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It’s sure to burst
  ---  http://mycatbirdseat.com/2011/03/justin-raimondon-the-benghazi-bubble/ 
Libya violence continues amid ceasefire - contains video
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/201131934914112208.html 
Libya Live Blog - March 18
  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/libya-live-blog-march-18 
Mar17  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/libya-live-blog-march-17 
Mar16  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/libya-live-blog-march-16 
Mar15  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/live/africa/libya-live-blog-march-15
Mar14  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/live/africa/libya-live-blog-march-14 
Mar13 - al Jazeera Live Blogs  ---  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/live/africa/libya-live-blog-march-13
Libya: 11th hour bid to stop Gaddafi as US finally backs intervention
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8389007/Libya-11th-hour-bid-to-stop-Gaddafi-as-US-finally-backs-intervention.html 
West Spurns Libyan Call for Ceasefire  ---  Monitors, Threatens Attacks - war monger alert
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/03/18/west-spurns-libyan-call-for-ceasefire-monitors-threatens-attacks/ 
Libya: Col Gaddafi told to leave now or face the bombers
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8392091/Libya-Col-Gaddafi-told-to-leave-now-or-face-the-bombers.html 
Libya says it is adhering to cease-fire
  ---  http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/18/libya.civil.war/index.html?hpt=T1 
No to imperialist intervention in Libya!
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/pers-m19.shtml 
Russia Opposes Military Intervention in Libya
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23781 
Russia rules out taking part as West mobilises for Libya attacks
  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/244629
Libya Threatens Counerstrikes Against Civilians, Mediterranean Traffic If Attacked
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/libya-threatens-counerstrikes-against-civilians-mediterranean-traffic-if-attacked-un-set-vot 
Bahrainis gather for activist's funeral
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/170524.html 
Bahrain tears down protest symbol
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/201131823554586194.html 
Amnesty International Calls on Yemeni Authorities to Act on Sniper Killings of Protesters
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75965&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Alt  ---  http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20110318002&lang=e 
Yemen imposes state of emergency as 46 shot dead
  ---  http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/03/18/142070.html 
Yemeni forces massacre dozens of protesters
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/yeme-m19.shtml 
Yemen declares 'state of emergency' - contains video
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/2011318115434957754.html 
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More on America's Revolution....

Angry pro-union protesters storm DC  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrhORqrViQU 
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 2min 44sec - Mar 17, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Take a look at this intense pro-union protest that took place in Washington DC, the protesters stormed one of the most powerful lobbying firms where Republicans held an expensive fundraising dinner." 
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Michigan passes 'financial martial law' bill  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/03/michigan-passes-financial-martial-law.html 
A quote...."Activist Post Editor's Note: Finally, they're sending in the troops to arrest the banksters.  Oh wait, the tyranny is actually directed at the little people and coordinated by the banksters.  My bad! -- Michigan legislators have approved a bill authorizing state-appointed emergency financial managers to break union contracts that struggling cities and school districts have with their workers." 
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Judge temporarily blocks Wisconsin anti-union law
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/18/us-wisconsin-unions-order-idUSTRE72H5L020110318?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&  utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29
A quote...."(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked a controversial new law in Wisconsin that strips public employee unions of key collective bargaining rights." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Hamas and Democracy:  The Hypocrisy of British Foreign Secretary William Hague
  ---  http://lataan.blogspot.com/2011/03/hamas-and-democracy-hypocrisy-of.html 
A quote...."At a press conference in London yesterday with PA President Mahmoud Abbas, William Hague, Britains Foreign Secretary, told his audience that “Hamas should not be allowed to stifle the democratic expression of Palestinian opinion”. -- While it is true that Hague was not Foreign Secretary at the time when Hamas won 72 out of 132 seats in the Palestinian elections of January 2006, he did support Tony Blair’s Labour government decision, along with the US and Israel, to not recognise Hamas’s historic electoral victory. That is to say, Hague had no problem at all in ‘stifling the democratic expression of Palestinian opinion’ back in 2006. - Hague’s stance typifies Western right-wing arrogance and hypocrisy over the Palestine debate." 
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Palestinian Protests Mark 'March 15 Day of Rage'  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54887 
A quote...."RAMALLAH, Mar 17, 2011 (IPS) - Tens of thousands of Palestinians from across the political spectrum took to the streets throughout the West Bank and Gaza on Tuesday to mark 'March 15, the day of rage' to protest the political division between Hamas and Fatah." 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m75957&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

Currency Wars: RIP Shadow Banking System, Long Live QEx!
  ---  http://lcmgroupe.home.comcast.net/%7Elcmgroupe/2011/Article-Currency_Wars-RIP_Shadow_Banking.htm 
Must Read - Multiple Charts - Scribd - (click "full screen" to view) -- A quote....."We have unwittingly become trapped in the snarled net of years of bad Public Policy. Like corporations that look no further than this quarter's results, our politicos never stop campaigning to start the tough task of ruling responsibly. A winning election simply represents 'rewards' and 'spoils' to all before quickly resuming the next campaign. - Image has become reality! - As a result the never ending political pandering has led to false expectations, undeliverable entitlements and false optimism in the electorate that rejects the immediate and obvious realities. - The result of a degenerated political leadership process is we are on the brink of a massive and sudden reduction in the US standard of living." - also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-currency-wars-rip-shadow-banking-system-long-live-qex  ---  (seperate charts, graphs -- click to enlarge) 
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Drunk With Debt - St. Patrick's Day Special  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/drunk-with-debt-st-patricks-day-special.html 
Related Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtLclAfRgPY  ---  (YuTb - 2min 15sec - Mar 15, 2011) - Source:  BankruptingAmerica  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/BankruptingAmerica  ---  A quote...."Drinking our way through $14 trillion. -- As Seamus eagerly displays, years of overspending have left us drunk with debt. The US gross debt has reached $14 trillion — the size of the US economy.  This has only happened once before in American history: World War II." 
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Saving Money? Not In This Economy – 22 Facts That Prove Middle Class Families Are Being Savagely Crushed
  ---  http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/saving-money-not-in-this-economy-22-facts-that-prove-middle-class-families-are-being-savagely-crushed 
A quote...."The 22 facts that you are about to read are all real, although admittedly they are hard to believe.  The sad truth is that millions of middle class families in the United States today are being savagely crushed by this economy." 
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US Cost of Living Hits Record, Passing Pre-Crisis High  ---  http://www.cnbc.com/id/42130406 
Stagflation Alert - (And we all know who's to blame for this, his name starts with a "B". - mpg) -- A quote...."One would think that after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Americans could at least catch a break for a while with deflationary forces keeping the cost of living relatively low. That’s not the case. -- A special index created by the Labor Department to measure the actual cost of living for Americans hit a record high in February, according to data released Thursday, surpassing the old high in July 2008. The Chained Consumer Price Index, released along with the more widely-watched CPI, increased 0.5 percent to 127.4, from 126.8 in January. In July 2008, just as the housing crisis was tightening its grip, the Chained Consumer Price Index hit its previous record of 126.9." 
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I Think Today Is The Day The Dollar Breaks Down  ---  http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2011/03/i-think-today-is-day-dollar-breaks-down.html 
A quote...."Bernanke and The Tools need to keep interest rates artificially, sickeningly low. Their rationale is that their Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) and Quantitative Easing 2 (QE-2) are necessary so as to kickstart the economy. But they also recognize that if they raise interest rates, the Federal government would not be able to finance itself -- in other words, the Federal government will go broke if the Fed raises rates. This is really the crux of the matter: The Federal Reserve is in a position where they realize that if they raise rates, they bankrupt the Federal government. So they have to stand pat, and pretend to the public and to themselves that there is no inflation, it’s all just a mirage." 
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Big Drop In Industrial Production, Consumer Energy Products Blamed; Capacity Utilization In Line
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/big-drop-industrial-production-consumer-energy-products-blamed-capacity-utilization-line 
A quote...."The Fed reported February Industrial Production of -0.1%, a big drop from January's 0.3% increase, and a major miss from expectations of 0.6%. The primary reason for the drop was a decline in consumer goods final products which declined by 0.5%. Commentary from the Fed for the reason on this surprising decline: "The production of consumer goods fell 0.5 percent in February, largely because of weakness in consumer energy products." 
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PBOC Hikes Reserve Ratio For Third Time In 2011 By 50 bps  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/pboc-hikes-reserve-ratio-third-time-2011-50-bps 
BREAKING:  03/18/2011 07:16 -0400 -- A quote...."As if yesterday's revised Plaza accords was not enough, the complete domination of markets by central planners, er, banks continues as the PBOC has just announced another 50 bps hike in its RRR. Per RTT: "The People's Bank of China on Friday lifted commercial banks' reserve ratio for the third time this year to absorb excess liquidity in the system. The reserve requirement ratio (RRR) of commercial banks was raised by 50 basis points. New rate will be effective from March 25, the central bank said in a statement. Last year, the bank had raised reserve ratio six times. With the latest hike, larger banks will have to set aside 20 percent as reserves." And who can blame them:" 
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Royal Bank of Scotland pays £375m to 323 key staff  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12778142 
A quote...."Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has given details of the amount that it paid its top people in 2010. -- The bank announced that it paid a total of £375m to 323 people designated as "code" or key staff." 
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