Wednesday March 24th 2010 - links page

"Something troubling has occurred in the market for default protection on the debt of the world's biggest borrower." -- As the folks at Standard Poor's Valuation and Risk Strategies division noted in a research note Monday, the difference between the spread on U.S. sovereign credit default swaps and an equivalent benchmark for AAA-rated euro-zone sovereigns flipped into positive territory March 12. As U.S. CDS spreads expanded to their widest levels in two years, that cross-region gap blew out to 5.7 basis points last Friday before narrowing to 4.7 Tuesday."

Tuesday March 23rd 2010 - links page

Social Inequality in America: Widening Income Disparities.  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18281
Must Read  - Quote of the Day...."The mid-twentieth century "deal" between the "opulent minority," the government and the people left the "opulent minority" with the lion's share of the country's wealth, but a little bit more of that wealth was shared with the workers who created it.  The government was the referee who enforced the rules, and the years between the end of the Second World War and 1970 were America's most prosperous overall, producing the largest, wealthiest middle class in history.  --  Americans assumed that this was the new normal, that a solid social contract was now standard operating procedure.  But this overall prosperity was only a glitch in minority rule, a safety valve to stem the pressure of a popular, revolutionary mood that had been building since the Civil War and had come to a head during the Great Depression.  Now the country is returning to its natural state, including the immense chasm between the incomes of the "opulent minority" and the rest of us, as squalor once again stands side by side with splendor."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25067.htm
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"The LOBBY's 1962 Blueprint for Taking over America..." - http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/lobbys-1962-blueprint-for-taking-over.html
Special Note -- A chilling description of just how far this nation has fallen. - mpg -- "We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered, the populace has become docile and easily ruled. As all geldings in nature, their thoughts are not involved with the concerns of the future and their posterity, but only with the present toil and the next meal." -- 48+ years of lies, subterfuges, bribes, threats, assassinations, spying on the USA, false-flags, infiltrating Christian groups, intimidating colleges and brainwashing their students and control of the MSM have helped install Israel as the de facto head of the USA." -- For more on this issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409
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How Sovereign is Europe? Washington has Murdered Privacy Rights at Home And Abroad  ---  http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18273
A quote...."In the Swiss newspaper Zeit Fragen, Professor Dr. Eberhard Hamer from Germany asks, "How Sovereign is Europe?"  -- He examines the issue and concludes that Europe has little, if any, sovereignty." - also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/23/how-sovereign-is-europe-washington-has-murdered-privacy-rights-at-home-and-abroad-paul-craig-roberts/
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AIPAC is in Session so Lie about Iran  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/aipac-is-in-session-so-lie-about-iran/
A quote...."As our elected “leaders” are paraded onstage, one after the other, to swear allegiance to the service of another nation no matter what laws they break, no matter who they illegally assassinate on foreign soil, no matter how many innocent civilians they killed during Operation Cast Lead, and no matter how blatantly they insult our Vice President and our President… all elected leaders must bow and scrape to the power of AIPAC’s lobbyists. And waht does AIPAC want?  A war with Iran, that’s what."
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Syria, Iran, Turkey call for OIC emergency meeting  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-03/24/c_13222146.htm
A quote...."DAMASCUS, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Parliament speakers of Syria, Iran and Turkey agreed on Tuesday to invite heads of parliamentary councils of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to hold an emergency meeting on recent Palestinian-Israeli clashes, the official SANA news agency reported." -- also posted at Mathaba  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=623115
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Maliki Aide: We Won’t Recognize Election Results  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/03/23/maliki-aide-we-wont-recognize-election-results/
A quote...."An aide to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki today insisted that his State of Law party will not recognize the final election results, expected later this week, because the election commission declined their request for a manual recount."
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Destroying educational institutions or using them for military purposes is a war crime  ---  http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics230310.htm
Special Note - A quote...."The Education system in Iraq, prior to 1991, was one of the best in the region; with over 100% Gross Enrolment Rate for primary schooling and high levels of literacy, both of men and women. The Higher Education, especially the scientific and technological institutions, were of an international standard, staffed by high quality personnel". (UNESCO Fact Sheet, March 28, 2003)[1]. -- As a result of U.S. ongoing Occupation of Iraq, today Iraq is more illiterate than it was five or a twenty-five years ago, because the U.S. Administration and U.S. forces occupying Iraq began to root and destroy every aspect of Iraq’s education. -- Iraqi educational system was the target of U.S. military action, because education is the backbone of any society. Without an efficient education system, no society can function, writes Ghali Hassan in May 2005.[2] --  Facts have proven him right. This is also one of the conclusions of the book "Cultural Cleansing in Iraq".  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=w-9VPgAACAAJ&dq=Cultural+Cleansing+in+Iraq&cd=1  ---  [3] - [GoglBkSrch]"
  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=w-9VPgAACAAJ&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0  ---  links added -- also posted at Uruknet
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64446&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  & GlobalRsrch
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18295  ---  For more on this issue see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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Nimrud's Lamentations, Nimrud's Wrath. 1  ---  http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2010/03/nimruds-lamentations-nimruds-wrath-1.html
A quote...."Who and What were you 6'000 years ago ? You and your nations were NOTHING, you were not even in existence... you were nothing, had nothing...not that it changed much since...  I love History, specially ancient History...History is a bit like God...it enlightens and teaches the ignorant, humbles the arrogant...but in your case, you are genetically predisposed for arrogance...and what an end yours will be !  Forget about you, you ignorant barbaric hoards, you uncultured, uncivilized, backward people...you covetous, jealous, envious, Godless people... "
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64432&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Nimrud's Lamentations, Nimrud's Wrath. 2  ---  http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2010/03/nimruds-lamentations-nimruds-wrath-2.html
A quote...."I've been holding on to the pictures...for over 5 years now...I hid them, refused to share them with anyone...I would take them out every once in a while, study them, watch them closely, read the faces...and stack them away again...and for over 5 years, the wrenching pain, the fire I feel in my gut has not subsided not one iota...on the contrary, it keeps growing...a smoldering braise...and nothing will ever extinguish it..."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64439&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Civil War Certain as "Afghan National Army" Now Over 60% Tajik  ---  http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2010/03/civil_war_certa.html
Special Note - i.e. versus the Pashtons - mpg - A quote...."There are any number of "Big lies" put forward by the USA in Afghanistan and slavishly repeated by our politicians and media. Here are a few of the "Big lies":

• The Karzai government is democratically elected
• The Afghan anti-occupation fighters are all Taliban supporters
• Most opium is produced in Taliban controlled areas
• Women's rights are now respected in Afghanistan

But I want today to tackle this particular "Big lie":

• The Afghan National Army is ethnically balanced.

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China seeks Russia alliance to counter US dominance  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121532&sectionid=351020404
A quote...."Looking to form a counterbalance to the power of the US, Beijing called on Moscow, as one of the emerging market economies, to enter into an alliance with China seeking to increase their leverage in global affairs." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/220748
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Iran, Turkey plan to triple trade volume to $30bn  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121491&sectionid=351020102
A quote...."Iran announces a joint Tehran - Ankara plan to triple bilateral annual trade volume from the current $10 billion to $30 billion in the future."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/220724
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Nationwide strikes in France against Sarkozy  ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/03/23/international/i045219D34.DTL
Action Update - A quote...."Nationwide strikes in France hobbled public services from transport to schools Tuesday, with unions hoping their action would put the brakes on reforms planned by President Nicolas Sarkozy two days after his party's stinging defeat in regional elections."
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Journalist Attempts Citizen's Arrest of Blair in EU Parliament  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18300
Action Update - A quote...."Brussels - A Brussels reporter attempted to place Tony Blair under a citizen's arrest on Monday (22 March) for his role in the invasion of Iraq, during a visit by the former UK prime minister to the European Parliament for a hearing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
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Whose Streets? (Our Streets between 1pm and 4pm With a Permit)
  ---  http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/2010/03/whose-streets-our-streets-between-1pm.html
Action Update - A quote...."On the 7th commemoration of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, there was a rally and march in DC sponsored by the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition that was attended by about eight thousand people."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25064.htm
& DesertPeace  ---  http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/cindy-sheehans-arrest-in-her-own-words/
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More on Obama's Insurance Bail-Out-Boondoggle No-Care Bill....

Closing Time: An Historic Confirmation of Corporate Power
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1947-closing-time-an-historic-confirmation-of-corporate-power.html
A quote...."Official transcript of remarks by President Barack Obama after the March 21 vote in the House of Representatives on H.R.3590: Motion to Concur in Senate Amendments to Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act....

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Obamacare: Culling the Baby Boomers  ---  http://www.infowars.com/obamacare-culling-the-baby-boomers/
Special Note - A quote...."The bill passed last night attacks Medicare directly. It will cut over $150 billion to hospitals, nursing homes, and hospices. Obama and the Democrats expect to realize a “savings” by cutting over $200 billion to Medicare Advantage, nearly $40 billion to home health care for seniors, and over $20 billion in reduced Medicare payments to hospitals that service a large number of low-income patients, according to the ARRA News Service."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/22/obamacare-culling-the-baby-boomers/
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Obama health bill sets the stage for assault on Medicare and Social Security  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/pers-m24.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."Behind the celebrations of the health care overhaul lies a definite perspective. The authors of these commentaries see the legislation as a major step in confronting profound problems facing American and world capitalism. They are hailing what they consider a breakthrough in reining in massive US deficits that are destabilizing the world financial system. -- It has for decades been deemed politically impossible to attack basic entitlement programs in the US, such as Social Security and Medicare, which account for an enormous and rising portion of the federal budget. Now, with Obama’s health care plan, the stage has been set for slashing these programs. This is the reason for the general jubilation in media and financial circles."
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Health-Care Stocks Up After House OK's Overhaul  ---  http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?
storyid=201003221132dowjonesdjonline000249&title=at-a-glancehealth-care-stocks-up-after-house-oks-overhaul
A quote...."THE NEWS: Health-care stocks led the stock market higher Monday after the U.S. House Sunday approved a historic health-care overhaul designed to bring health insurance to 32 million more Americas while subjecting U.S. industries to a dramatically redrawn and newly regulated marketplace."
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14 states sue to block health care law  ---  http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/23/health.care.lawsuit/
A quote...."(CNN) -- Officials from 14 states have gone to court to block the historic overhaul of the U.S. health care system that President Obama signed into law Tuesday, arguing the law's requirement that individuals buy health insurance violates the Constitution."
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UK Expels Israeli Diplomat Over Dubai Case  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25059.htm
A quote...."March 23, 2010 "AP" -- LONDON – Britain took the extraordinary step Tuesday of expelling an Israeli diplomat for the first time in more than 20 years, after concluding there was compelling evidence that Israel was responsible for the use of forged British passports in the plot to slay a senior Hamas operative in Dubai."
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The ties that bind America to Israel are beginning to fray and break
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/21/israel-america-palestine-settlements
Special Note - A quote...."It was always striking to watch the smugness with which Israeli politicians sold Americans the idea that the only issue in considering the conflict with the Palestinians was what Ariel Sharon called, with deeply rolling Rs, the "tehrroar". The ever-expanding Jewish settlements, the annexing of land, expulsion of Palestinians, the killings of Arab children, the crimes of occupation, were discarded as an irrelevance. No one in George Bush's White House cared to challenge Sharon on that." -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25060.htm
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Tell Me Again, Who Made The Desert Bloom?  ---  http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2010/03/palestinians-made-the-desert-bloom.html
Must View Photo Gallery - Some quote...."In December 1945 and January 1946, the British Mandate authorities carried out an extensive survey of Palestine, in support of the work of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. The results were published in the Survey of Palestine,  ---
http://www.amazon.com/Survey-Palestine-Vol-Information-Anglo-American/dp/088728213X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268959450&sr=1-1  ---  which has been scanned and made available online by Palestine Remembered;  ---  http://www.palestineremembered.com/index.html  ---  all 1300 pages can be read here.  ---  http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Books/Story831.html  ---  One of the subjects investigated in the Survey of Palestine is land use; specifically, which crops were Palestine's leading agricultural products at the end of the British Mandate, and whose farms were producing them."  --  "Photos: All the photographs of Palestinian farmers cultivating their crops in Palestine under the British Mandate are from Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History Of The Palestinians 1876 - 1948,  ---  http://www.amazon.com/Before-Their-Diaspora-Photographic-Palestinians/dp/0887281443/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&
s=books&qid=1268959387&sr=8-1  ---  by Walid Khalidi." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64417&hd=&size=1&l=e
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

American Must Never Hear the Truth About Gaza - Must be more "ol'dat freedumb & demockracy" - mpg
  ---  http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/americans-must-never-hear-the-truth-about-gaza/
Press Censorship Alert - A quote...."During the Bush Administration, Mohammed Omer had a problem obtaining a visa to enter the United States for a speaking engagement. Condoleeza Rice intervened and the visa was granted. -- During the Obama Administration, Mohammed Omer WAS DENIED a visa to enter the United States for a speaking tour AND NO ONE INTERVENED. -- We were promised a ‘CHANGE’….. it looks like we got it!"
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64418&hd=&size=1&l=e
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MACINTYRE: Ramat Shlomo: Inside the town that will test Obama to the limit  March 23, 2010
  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/macintyre-ramat-shlomo-inside-the-town-that-will-test-obama-to-the-limit
Map Graphic - A quote...."Ask Rabbi Sam White what he thinks of the global political row over plans to expand the community in which he lives, prays and studies, and he answers bluntly: “I don’t see the problem. God gave us the land of Israel.” The notion that the location of Ramat Shlomo, on land occupied after the 1967 Six Day War and officially expropriated six years later, might belong to another people is wholly alien to the 32- year-old Salford-born rabbi. “There’s no question. It’s in the Torah, which says that God gave the land to the Jewish people.”
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Dr Mads Gilbert on Gaza (3 parts) March 23, 2010  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/video-dr-mads-gilbert-on-gaza-3-parts-9mar10
MG(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3DQCQc3R64
MG(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB2K52CwNg4
MG(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KWI2beM8GI
Videos - (YouTube - 10m - March 07, 2010) -- A quote...."Norwegian Doctor Mads Gilbert volunteers in a hospital in Gaza, and reports about the international neglect towards the Palestinians’ suffering."
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The US' choreographed "outrage" at Israel  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11154.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
A quote...."Obviously, the Obama Administration is hardly concerned about Israeli violations of international law, previous agreements it has signed, or the human rights of the Palestinians. The implication throughout is that had the announcement come a week before Biden visited (or even a day before, as the Bethlehem announcement did) there would have been no problem. Indeed, just one week later, after the Israeli government announced construction on an additional 426 East Jerusalem settlement homes, Clinton "bolstered her support for the Jewish state," according to The Washington Post."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64447&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israeli forces raid Gaza strip  ---  http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2070422&Language=en
A quote...."GAZA, March 23 (KUNA) -- Israeli army and tanks raided on Tuesday afternoon the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip. -- Palestinian sources told KUNA here that four tanks and several bulldozers entered near Beit Hanoun crossing, northern Gaza Strip. -- Sources added Israeli tanks fired on Palestinian lands in the area. -- The fire did not result in casualties and Israeli bulldozers immediately razed the land, it noted. -- Also, Israeli forces raided near the Sufa crossing east of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip."
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Israeli forces strike northern Gaza, reports of injured  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=271111
A quote...."Gaza – Ma'an – The Israeli airforce launched two airstrikes on the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya overnight Wednesday, Palestinian sources said."
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Palestinian organizer tortured in Israeli jail  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/03/11873?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=
feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."Omar Alaaeddin, who is involved in organizing demonstrations in the village of alMa’asra south of Bethlehem, was arrested a week ago on Sunday at the Container Checkpoint, as he was making his way back home from Ramallah, with a group of students and university professors. The groups was in Ramallah to see a theater play. Alaaeddin was beaten repeatedly, both by the soldiers who detained him, and later, in the Israeli Russian Compound jail in Jerusalem. He reports to have been kicked, punched and even electroshocked with a taser by the soldiers and his jailers."
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In Australia, a day of solidarity with Palestine  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11156.shtml
Action Update - A quote...."In an important show of solidarity, 500 individuals participated in pro-Palestine activities on Friday 19 March in Melbourne, Australia, protesting against both the brutality of Israel's actions in recent weeks and the ongoing support of the Australian government for Israeli apartheid."
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Keiser Report №27: Markets! Finance! Scandal!  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/0/qJ-LOB_3bag
Alt  ---   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ-LOB_3bag  ---  (KRYuTb - 26 min 52 sec - March 23, 2010)
Video - A quote...."This week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals of Ben Bernanke's zero reserve requirements proposal; the game of IMF chicken between Greece and Germany; the sinister German hedge fund spy plan; and Max Keiser for President of Greece?! Keiser also talks to Business Insider's Gregory White about deflation, inflation and moving to Asia!"
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Bernanke Running Amuck  ---  http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/bernanke-running-amuck-6-38429
Chart - A quote...."Fed Chairman Bernanke is running amuck, and for the first time since the birth of the U.S. dollar, our government is egregiously abusing its power to print money. -- Specifically, from September 10, 2008 to March 10 of this year, he has increased the nation’s monetary base from $850 billion to $2.1 trillion — an irresponsible, irrational and insane increase of 2.5 times in just 18 months. -- It is, by far, the greatest monetary expansion in U.S. history. And you must not underestimate its sweeping historical significance."
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US Debt Update: 6 Months To Revised Debt Ceiling Breach  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-debt-update-6-months-revised-debt-ceiling-breach
Related Article - A quote...."Just in case some people forget what the trade off to the market melt up is, today we are starting a periodic daily report of the Treasury's total debt subject to the statutory limit. Today's total: $12,607,140,000,000. We started March at $12,383,717,000,000. We started the fiscal year (October 1) at $11,853,434,000,000. We have added $223 billion of debt in the last three weeks, and $755 billion in just 5 months." - bold by website editor
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Federal Housing Administration Head: "We Are At The Point Right Now Where No One Trusts the American Housing Finance System"
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/federal-housing-administration-head-we.html
A quote...."Federal Housing Administration head David Stevens said recently that no one trusts the housing finance system. As the Washington Post writes...."

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Existing-home sales fall for third straight month  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/existing-home-sales-fall-for-3rd-straight-month-2010-03-23
Related Article - A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Resales of U.S. homes and condominiums fell 0.6% in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.02 million, the lowest level in eight months, raising doubts about the durability of the housing recovery, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday."
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Existing Home Sales Double Dip Deteriorates With Biggest Increase In Months Supply Inventory In 20 Years
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/existing-home-sales-double-dip-deteriorates-biggest-increase-months-supply-inventory-20-year
Charts - (click to enlarge) - Related Article -A quote...."The double dip in housing is getting worse by the month. After hitting a nearly 6.6 million in existing home sales in late 2009, the number has now plunged to 5.02 million, a decline of 0.9% sequentially, and a major drop from the artificially induced peak."
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Dallas-Fort Worth commercial foreclosure filings top $1 billion
  ---  http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/032310dnbuscommercial.3b4450f.html
Related Article - A quote...." Commercial property foreclosure filings in the Dallas-Fort Worth  area top $1 billion for the upcoming April sales. - That's much higher than commercial foreclosure posting totals in recent months. - "It's certainly the highest we've seen in this cycle," George Roddy of Foreclosure Listing Service said Monday."
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Japan's export jumps 45.3% in Feb  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/business/2010-03/24/c_13222536.htm
A quote...."TOKYO, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Japan's exports surged 45.3 percent from a year earlier to 5,128.67 billion yen (56.99 billion U.S. dollars) in February, Financial Ministry data showed Wednesday. -- The rise is the third straight monthly expansion, confirming the export-oriented economy is recovering from the worst economic downturn in decades."
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Monday March 22nd 2010 - links page

"Georgie, it's our Seventh Anniversary, did you get me something?"
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/georgie-its-our-seventh-anniversary-did.html
Must Read - Contains Video - A quote...."March 19, the seventh anniversary of the Iraq War invasion passed yesterday. - No outrage on corporate television. No accountability. No regrets over 4,400 Americans dead, 30,000-plus wounded, and 100,000s traumatized for life. Most Americans know that the war was begun and sustained by self-conscious lies. Most don’t really care. - At least Haliburton, Israel and Iran were happy. And Haliburton’s stock went from went from $9.53 (Jan 1, 2003) to a high of $53.07 in 2008 in Bush’s last year in office before it caved in a sea of corruption."
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Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret: Former PM's deals are revealed as his earnings since 2007 reach £20million
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259030/Tony-Blairs-secret-dealings-South-Korean-oil-firm-UI-Energy-Corp.html
The politicians get rich and the poor keep gratefully giving their lives for them.  What is WRONG with people?!?! - mpg -- A quote...."Tony Blair waged an extraordinary two-year battle to keep secret a lucrative deal with a multinational oil giant which has extensive interests in Iraq. -- The former Prime Minister tried to keep the public in the dark over his dealings with South Korean oil firm UI Energy Corporation. -- Mr Blair - who has made at least £20million since leaving Downing Street in June 2007 - also went to great efforts to keep hidden a £1million deal advising the ruling royal family in Iraq's neighbour Kuwait. -- In an unprecedented move, he persuaded the committee which vets the jobs of former ministers to keep details of both deals from the public for 20 months, claiming it was commercially sensitive. The deals emerged yesterday when the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments finally lost patience with Mr Blair and decided to ignore his objections and publish the details." - also posted at Creative-i
  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/03/21/how-criminals-profit-from-war-blairs-fight-to-keep-his-oil-cash-secret%C2%A0by-jason-groves/
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"My fellow Americans, tonight I'm going to talk frankly about a pesky little nation called Israel ... "
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn03192010.html
Must Read - A quote...."Don’t get excited. It’ll never happen. Is there really a crisis in US-Israeli relations?  Yes and No. Yes, because the world’s premier power doesn’t care to have its vice president publicly humiliated by a midget of a nation whose entire population is smaller than that of Los Angeles county. No, because the elected politicians nominally running the government of the world’s premier power live in mortal fear of the Israel lobby in the United States. This time, as always, No will carry the day. (You can find a detailed narrative by Jeffrey Blankfort on this site today, from which much of this Diary is drawn.)"
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Israelis are behaving like spoiled rich brats  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/03/11866?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
Must Read - A quote...."The terrifying specter of non-violent resistance to the occupation and the apartheid regime is hovering over the State of Israel, and all the state’s dignitaries have been recruited to battle it. -- This non-violent resistance operates both in areas under Israel’s reign of control, in the form of a popular struggle on both sides of the green line, and across the globe, through the Israeli and international affirmative response to the Palestinian call for boycotts, divestment and sanctions on Israel, until it ends the occupation and grants full equality to people from both nations living under its rule."
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A Crisis in U.S. / Israeli Relations? Sure. But ...  Why Israel Always Prevails  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/blankfort03192010.html
A quote...."If the State Department had issued travel advisory warnings to US government officials about to travel to Israel, Vice President Joe Biden would have no doubt ignored them.  A better friend to Israel could not have been found in the 36 years that Biden represented Delaware in the US Senate and there was speculation that his popularity among Jewish voters and major Jewish donors was the primary reason he was added to the Democratic ticket. According to all reports, Biden’s trip was to mend fences with the Israeli officials and with the Israeli Jewish public which had become disenchanted with the Obama administration where the president’s popularity is measured in the low single digits."
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Former Obama Aide New Head of AIPAC  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/220637  ---  Oh, THAT figures! - mpg
Related Article - Full quote...."(IsraelNN.com) Lee “Rosy” Rosenberg, a jazz recording industry veteran capitalist who accompanied U.S. President Barack Obama on his campaign trip to Israel two years ago, takes over on Sunday as the new president of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Rosenberg also served on the president’s national campaign finance committee. -- The new AIPAC president hails from Chicago, the home state of President Obama, and also is on first-name terms with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, President Obama’s senior advisor…"
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Israeli education ministry censors Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/israeli-education-ministry-censors-universal-declaration-of-human-rights/
A quote...."On March 17, the following note appeared on the Promised Land blog:"


"The relevant link was to an article in Hebrew. I asked Noam which two articles had been specified, and he replied that the nrg.co.il article implied Article 14 and Article 18. These two articles are as follows:"
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EU official to Israel: Jerusalem is not Tel Aviv  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1158110.html
A quote...."European Union foreign ministers met in Brussels on Monday to look for ways to pressure Israelis and Palestinians into launching proxy peace talks, amidst fears that the peace process is in jeopardy."
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Mauritania severs all diplomatic ties with Israel  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121349&sectionid=351020506
A quote...."Mauritania has officially ended its relations with Israel one year after freezing all bilateral ties over Israel's deadly siege on the Gaza Strip."
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Lebanese army fires on Israeli jets  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121382&sectionid=351020203
A quote...."The Lebanese army says it has opened fire on two Israeli warplanes that were violating the country's airspace at medium altitude. - "The army's anti-aircraft guns fired at two Israeli warplanes overflying Hasbaya in southeastern Lebanon," the Lebanese army said in statement late Sunday."
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U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan are committing atrocities, lying, and getting away with it
  ---  http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=00440
Presstitute Alert - A quote...."Jerome Starkey recently reported for The Times of London about a night raid on Feb. 12 in which U.S. and Afghan gunmen opened fire on two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials -- an atrocity which NATO’s Afghanistan headquarters then tried to cover up. Now, in a blistering indictment of both NATO and his own profession, Starkey writes for Nieman Watchdog that the international forces led by U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal are rarely called to account because most reporters are too dependent on access, security and the 'embed culture' to venture out and see what's happening for themselves." - bold by website editor - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64406&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Brazil: Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah vital to peace  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121462&sectionid=351020706
A quote...."Brazilian president says the potential for concluding a Middle East peace deal requires the presence of Iran, Palestinian Hamas movement and Lebanon's Hezbollah at the negotiating table." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/220677
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‘Kingmaker’ Sadr Courted by Top Iraqi Parties  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/03/22/kingmaker-sadr-courted-by-top-iraqi-parties/
A quote...."The Iraqi election has produced a number of surprises, from the Iraqiya Bloc’s dominance throughout the Sunni majority provinces of the nation to the Kurdistan Alliance’s struggling to draw even a plurality in Sulaymaniyah, the home province of President Jalal Talabani."
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Sarkozy's party loses [Big in] regional election  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8579232.stm
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy arrive at the townhall of the 16th district to vote for the second round of the regional elections on March 21,2010 in Paris, France. - President Sarkozy's centre-right UMP party has suffered a heavy defeat in the French regional elections. - With over 97% of votes counted, the Socialist-led opposition alliance took 52% of the vote with the UMP on 35%. - Prime Minister Francois Fillon acknowledged the defeat, admitting the left's "success", and is expected to offer his resignation."
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French regional elections: second round confirms rejection of ruling party  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/fran-m23.shtml
Related Article - A quote...."The second round of the regional elections on March 21 confirms the massive rejection, in the first round a week ago, of the austerity policies associated with President Nicolas Sarkozy."
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The anti-Venezuela election campaign  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/mar/18/venezuela-election
A quote...."Venezuela has an election for its national assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest. I am referring to the international campaign. This is carried out largely through the international media, although some will spill over into the Venezuelan media. It involves many public officials, especially in the US. The goal will be to generate as much bad press as possible about Venezuela, to discredit the government, and to delegitimise the September elections – in case the opposition should choose to boycott, as they did in the last legislative elections, or refuse to recognise the results if they lose."
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Canada’s Long Embrace of the Honduran Dictatorship  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18237
A quote...."Ignoring the ongoing abuses of human rights in the country under the new coupist presidency of Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo, Kent has been following through with his promise to promote the normalization of the country's relations with the rest of the hemisphere. Lobo won fraudulent elections held in November under the military dictatorship in a context of repression and intimidation. The election was boycotted by the anti-coup movement, and the Organization of American States and European Union refused to send official observers. Despite this, immediately following Lobo's inauguration on January 27, Kent declared that Canada will “support President Lobo's efforts as he moves to fully reintegrate Honduras into the international and hemispheric community, including in the Organization of American States.”
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BWCF – Blair War Crimes Foundation  ---  http://blairfoundation.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/war-crimes/
Action Alert - Grim Photos  - Your tax dollars at work folks, just mutiply the images by about two million.  Think about it. Than think about it again. Than NEVER vote for a Demo or Repub again! - mpg -- A quote...."Little Ali’s injuries were caused in Iraq during the first week of “Operation Shock and Awe” by a very intense and short-lived thermal radiation. He lost his arms – as the image shows, they were incinerated."
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Gates admits concerns on US assassins in S. Asia - You gotta love this quote.....it says it ALL - mpg
  ---  http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121448&sectionid=3510203
Quote of the Day...."Quite frankly, in principle, I would have concerns about that but I don't know enough to know whether... it took place and if so, whether there was value added," Gates said Monday in a joint press conference with his Canadian counterpart, Peter MacKay, AFP reported. - bold/underline by website editor
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Wealth Creates Poverty? - Dr. Michael Parenti: "Terrorism, Globalization and Conspiracy"  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11635.htm
Alt1  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6573660441809242121#
Alt2  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4200603918677393456#
Video - From the History File - Oct. 9, 2002 - (GoglVid - 1hr - Oct. 9, 2002) -- A quote...."Globalization is an attempt to extend corporate monopoly control over the whole globe. Over every national economy. Over every local economy Over every life."
|| Real Audio ||  ---  http://www.workingtv.com/media5/parenti.rm
|| Win Media ||  ---  http://www.workingtv.com/media5/parenti.wma
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Alex’s Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth Speech at The Doubletree Hotel in Austin, Texas
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/03/22/video-alexs-architects-engineers-for-911-truth-speech-at-the-doubletree-hotel-in-austin-texas/
Must View Videos -  posted by TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel
AJ(1/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=836XlX2YKy0
AJ(2/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC5oLbAUd20
AJ(3/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4RqCIajdRM
AJ(4/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XE89KSCXdQ
(PPYuTb - aprox 10m each - March 22, 2010) -- A quote...."Alex Jones, International journalist, Radio Talks Show Host, and Documentary film maker, gave a speech on the importance of 9/11 truth on Saturday, March 20, 2010 at the Doubletree Hotel in Austin, Texas."
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9/11 Commission Failed the Citizens of America  ---  http://americansjourney.blogspot.com/2010/03/video-911-commission-failed-citizens-of.html
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aytlqvkTt8M  ---  (RTYuTb - 6 min 2 sec - March 19, 2010)
RT-Video - posted by 91177info  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/91177info  ---  A quote...."Thankyou to RussiaToday for reporting this very important development into who really was behind 9/11 which I reported on here" - For more on this issue see....9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909
& 9/11-Commission  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911commission-weblist-mpg-091306
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9/11: Those 19 Ayyyrabs and Their Mile Wide Trail of Evidence
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/911-those-19-ayyyrabs-and-their-mile.html
A quote...."We're led to believe that 19 devout Muslims liked to drink copious amounts of booze, snort dope, visit strips bars (leaving a copy of the Koran), that U.S. airport security would fail four times within a few minutes, that U.S. air defenses would fail across the board to intercept the hijacked airliners and that hijackers lacking in flight skills could conduct the exotic flight maneuvers that top gun fighter pilots say are beyond their own skills?"
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A little secret about Obama’s transparency  ---  http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/21/nation/la-na-ticket21-2010mar21
A quote...."The current administration, challenged by the president to be the most open, is now denying more Freedom of Information Act requests than Bush did." - also posted at AlethoNews   ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/a-little-secret-about-obamas-transparency/
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/220638
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A Spy Unsettles US-India Ties  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LC23Df03.html
Special Note - Cover-Up Alert - (the other shoe finally drops) -- A quote...."News that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had reached a plea bargain with David Coleman Headley, who played a key role in the planning of the terrorist strike in Mumbai in November 2008 in which 166 people were killed, has caused an uproar in India. -- The deal enables the US government to hold back from formally producing any evidence against Headley in a court of law that might have included details of his links with US intelligence or oblige any cross-examination of Headley by the prosecution." -- For more on this issue see....Just Give it a Rest OK!! - 11-27-09 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/justgiveitarestok-mpg-reficultnias-112709
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US Government Blocked 9/11 Commission  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl8EsR9OGg4  ---  (YouTube - 54 sec - March 17, 2010)
Video - posted by 91177info  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/91177info
A quote...."Now why would the BUSH administration do this? See the letter below...."
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9/11 Commission BLOCKED by Government FULL FOIA DOCUMENT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqIPcctnrjA  ---  (YuTb 3m12s - 03/18/10)
Video - posted by 91177info  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/91177info  ---  A quote...."Hello? Anyone out there?? How much more evidence does one need? 9/11 panel was warned not to probe too deeply by the US government.  Your staff has advised us that the Commission seeks to participate in the questioning of certain enemy combatants detained in the war against terrorists of global reach. Such action by the Commission would substantially interfere with the ability of the United States to perform its law enforcement, defense and intelligence functions in the protection of the American people."
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More on Obama's Insurance Bail-Out-Boondoggle No-Care Bill....

Fact Sheet: The Truth About the Health Care Bill - Too late to do anything about it now....mpg
  ---  http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/03/19/fact-sheet-the-truth-about-the-health-care-bill/
Must Read - Table - (FactSheetTable) - http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/factsheetthetruthaboutthehealthcarebill-jhamsher-fdl-cached-032210
A quote...."We started down a dangerous road with Wall Street banks in the early 90s, allowing them to flood our political system with money and write our laws so that taxpayers would subsidize their profits, assume their losses and remove themselves from the necessity of competition.  By funneling so much money into the companies who created the very  problems we are now attempting to address, we further empower them to hijack our legislative process and put more than just our health care system at risk.  We risk our entire system of government. -- Congress may be too far down the road with this bill to change course and save themselves — and us.  But before Democrats cast this vote, which could endanger not only their Congressional majority but their ability to “fix” things later on, they should consider the first rule of patient safety:  first, do no harm."
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The Health Care Hindenburg Has Landed  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_health_care_hindenburg_has_landed_20100322
posted at TruthDig  ---  https://truthdig.wiredforchange.com/o/5225/t/3899/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2264
Special Note - A quote...."Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s decision to vote “yes” in Sunday’s House action on the health care bill, although he had sworn to oppose the legislation unless there was a public option, is a perfect example of why I would never be a politician. I respect Kucinich. As politicians go, he is about as good as they get, but he is still a politician. He has to run for office. He has to raise money. He has to placate the Democratic machine or risk retaliation and defeat. And so he signed on to a bill that will do nothing to ameliorate the suffering of many Americans, will force tens of millions of people to fork over a lot of money for a defective product and, in the end, will add to the ranks of our uninsured." - also posted at ICH
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25051.htm
& AmericanEvryman  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/the-health-care-hindenburg-has-landed/
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An attack on health care in the guise of reform  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/pers-m22.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."After months of closed-door negotiations with insurance CEOs and pharmaceutical executives, Obama made the absurd claim that the measure came “from the bottom up.” In fact, the legislation was entirely dictated from the top. It represents the opening shot in a sweeping attack on health care for working people. -- A staggering level of cynicism has been exhibited throughout the so-called health care “debate.” Evasions and outright lies have been utilized to conceal the real content of the bill. With its final passage, a media-led orgy of self-congratulation will no doubt follow."
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Defeat in Victory: the Democrat's Health Care Bill  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25050.htm
A quote...."March 22, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- What looks like a big victory for Obama and the Democrats may be their greatest undoing. It’s true that the passage of Obama’s health care bill represents a significant political victory for the Democrats. But sometimes a battle won could equal a lost war. -- It’s telling that Obama had so much trouble in getting his own party to pass the bill on a simple majority basis: the bill was so blatantly watered down with the corporate hose that anyone with their name attached to it feared future electoral doom."
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Virginia Calls Health Bill Unconstitutional, Files Suit  ---  http://www.infowars.com/virginia-calls-health-bill-unconstitutional-files-suit/
A quote...."The State of Virginia has confirmed that it will sue the federal government over the health care reform bill, declaring the legislation unconstitutional and legally conflicting. -- The Attorney General of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli, issued a statement last night, giving notification that the State will file suit as soon as the president signs the bill into law, later this week."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Never Again For Anyone  ---  http://www.ijsn.net/436/
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."IJAN and the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign just completed a ten-day, nine-city "Never Again for Anyone" tour in England, Scotland and Ireland with Hajo Meyer, an 85-year old survivor of Auschwitz, and with Haidar Eid, from Gaza via video and telephone. The tour reached over 1200 people with most events attended by 100-150 people. Eid and Meyer received a standing ovation at each. "
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SHOOT TO KILL POLICY  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/03/shoot-to-kill-policy.html
Special Note - Like in Ireland during our conflict the British had a "shoot to Kill" policy, and now in Palestine the Zionists have a "shoot to kill" policy.The problem with having a "shoot to kill" policy, is that it often causes civilian murders. And sometimes it even backfires. -- For instance, today Israel killed one of their own. Yup, a "friendly" fire incident at the border. A few Palestinians were trying to cross illegally, looking for work, because of the illegal Zionist siege on their country. They were totally and 100% unarmed civilians, as stated by the very same ZOF unit dealing with them. Suddenly another unit of ZOF soldiers arrive, trigger happy and looking to get in on the fun of shooting some Palestinians. Trouble is, they shot their own. serves them right, as the alternative would have been to murder unarmed civilians, rather than their fully armed comrades:"
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Who is killing whom in Israel/Palestine?  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64399&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."In Hebron, repeated settler violence has led to the shooting and beating of Palestinian civilians in the Old City and nearby neighbourhoods. Protests against these continual violations to their lives have only invited more attacks on the Palestinians from Israeli soldiers claiming to quell the protests. Tear gas and rubber-coated bullets have recently injured some 47 residents, in response, says Israel’s military, to stones thrown, although there is no way of knowing who fired the first shot or threw the first stone."
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Pictures From A Tragic Weekend  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1314
Photo Gallery - Special Note - A quote...."A tragic weekend in the villages around Nablus claimed the lives of four young men. Two died following a demonstration in Iraq Burin, apparently with live ammunition, a claim denied by the military. On Sunday two more were killed in the Awarta checkpoint. Below are pictures of the demonstration and its consequences. All Pictures by FLV."
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Gaza civil society to UN chief: siege more than "unacceptable"  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11152.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
A quote...."You are already well aware of the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza as a consequence of Israel's devastating military attacks and its siege. As recently as 27 December 2009, you called the blockade of Gaza "unacceptable." While this statement is certainly valid, it constitutes a gross understatement of the actual situation which amounts to slow genocide."
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“The best way to rob a bank is to own one” Part 1 By William Black
  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/03/20/the-best-way-to-rob-a-bank-is-to-own-one-part-1-by-william-black/
WB(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA_MkJB84VA
WB(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISsR7ZiWlsk
WB(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_xdQyfNLnc
RN-Video - Must View -  TheRealNews  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealNews  ---  (RNYuTb - aprox. 10m each - March 19&20, 2010) -- A quote...."William Black, author of "Best way to rob a bank is to own one",  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=SI3F8wEuT24C&
dq=best+way+to+rob+a+bank+is+to+own+one&source=gbs_navlinks_s  ---  [GoglBkSrch]*  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=SI3F8wEuT24C&
sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0  ---  talks about deliberate fraud on Wall St." - *links added
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Bonds Show U.S. Losing AAA  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=7912
A quote...."The bond market is saying that it’s safer to lend to Warren Buffett than Barack Obama. -- Two-year notes sold by the billionaire’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in February yield 3.5 basis points less than Treasuries of similar maturity, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Procter & Gamble Co., Johnson & Johnson and Lowe’s Cos. debt also traded at lower yields in recent weeks, a situation former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. chief fixed-income strategist Jack Malvey calls an “exceedingly rare” event in the history of the bond market." - From Bloomberg
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYUeBnitz7nU
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Underemployment At Record 20% According To Gallup  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/underemployment-record-20-according-gallup
Chart - A quote...."Just in case anyone needed confirmation that the DOL data is just a little, how should we say it, cooked, here comes Gallup with their March 15 undermployment number, which just hit a 2010, and series, high of 20%. This is obviously worse compared to both the beginning of the year (19.5%) and February (19.8%). Unlike the Dept of Labor's arcane voodoo which lately is based more on executive confidential memos and snowfall observations, Gallup's underemployment measure is based on more than 20,000 phone interviews collected over a 30-day period and reported daily."
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One Very Tragic Death  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/one-very-tragic-death
Website Editor's Note:  FYI: If you're the senior accountant, treasurer, VP in charge of finance, CFO, etc. and your firm is under investigation and you're eventually going to be called to testify, don't go skiing alone, or sky diving, or scuba diving, or take any long lonely walks in the woods.  Be sure to tell everybody you're definitely NOT suicidal, stay off the freeways, have your car checked frequently and NEVER go fly in your own plane, as a pilot, or as a passenger. - mpg -- A quote..."Reilly was the point man on Repo 105, the point person for E&Y's "investigation" into the Matthew Lee whistleblower campaign, Lehman's Level 2 and Level 3 asset valuation, the brain behind the idea to spin off Lehman's commercial real estate business, Lehman's Archstone investment, and likely so much more. Reilly stayed on at Lehman, solid as a rock, even as the CFO's above him rotated one after another. Tragically, on December 29, 2008, a 44-year old Gerald [sic] Reilly died while skiing alone on New York's Whiteface mountain...."
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Multiple strikes over new tax 'cripple' Athens  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121196&sectionid=3510213
Resistance is NOT futile....Down with the Banksters!! - mpg -- A quote...."Strikes over government-proposed taxes to help rein in Greece's burgeoning public debt have taken on new dimensions as more workers join the walkouts."
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China threatens US over currency rate dispute  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121383&sectionid=351020404
A quote...."Beijing has threatened to retaliate if the United States declares China a currency manipulator and imposes trade sanctions. -- The US Treasury is to rule whether China is unfairly holding down its exchange rate to gain a competitive edge in global markets."
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The multiple ways Monsanto is putting normal seeds out of reach
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-multiple-ways-Monsanto-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090203-854.html
A quote...."People say if farmers don't want problems from Monsanto, just don't buy their GMO seeds. -- Not so simple.  Where are farmers supposed to get normal seed these days?  How are they supposed to avoid contamination of their fields from GM-crops?  How are they supposed to stop Monsanto detectives from trespassing or Monsanto from using helicopters to fly over spying on them? -- Monsanto contaminates the fields, trespasses onto the land taking samples and if they find any GMO plants growing there (or say they have), they then sue, saying they own the crop.  It's a way to make money since farmers can't fight back and court and they settle because they have no choice."
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American Farmers Fighting Monsanto and Big Ag  ---  http://buchanan.org/blog/video-american-farmers-fighting-monsanto-and-big-ag-3784
Alt    ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1axAqJGEXI  ---  (YouTube - 7 min 25 sec - March 12, 2010)
Related Video - Special Note - A quote...."There are 2 million farmers and 300 million consumers in the US. Standing in between are a handful of companies who control how food gets from one side to the other. 250 independent family farmers and community activists gathered for a town hall meeting to share their own experiences with big ag."
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Sunday March 21st 2010 - links page

Saturday March 20th 2010 - links page

Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide And 7th Anniversary Of Invasion Of Iraq  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190310.htm
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25032.htm
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
By The Numbers - A quote...."It is the 7th anniversary of the illegal and war criminal invasion of Iraq by US, UK and Australian forces on 20 March 2003. What has been the human cost? -- As of 20 March 2010 post-invasion violent deaths in Occupied Iraq total 1.4 million (according to the eminent US Just Foreign Policy). -- Post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.8 million and post-invasion non-violent excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) total 1.1 million (based on 2006 revision data from the UN Population Division), this being identical to an independent estimate from under-5 infant deaths." - For more on this issue see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Iraq Deaths
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IRAQDEATHS
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Night Riders: Afghan Atrocity and American Values
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1946-night-watch-afghan-atrocity-and-american-values.html
Special Note -- A quote...."If you are an American -- or indeed, any denizen of "Western Civilization" whose security and values are supposedly being "defended" on the far-flung fields of the Terror War -- then take a good, long look at what is being done in your name, with your money, by the ever-surging Peace Laureate and his War Machine. From The Times:"

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War After War After War - Another Year, Another Post - 1  ---  http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2010/03/another-year-another-post-1.html
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25030.htm
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."March 19, 2010 "Arab Woman Blues" -- Remembering, not that I have ever forgotten...remembering not that I have been given a chance to forget...  This post may not be a coherent, cohesive one... who gives a fuck ? I certainly don't...there is nothing coherent or cohesive about occupation and exile...and it's not like am up for a Pulitzer price in Literature either...  This post may be a collection of rambling lines...so what ? I've heard nothing but ramblings and rumblings for the past 7 years...and am no more royalist than the king...  This post might have no beginning and no end, this post might be a reflection of a state of limbo...who cares? It's been a limbo for two decades already...  -- For more on this sort of issue see....Now That's Just Sick - 10-25-09 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/nowthatsjustsick-mpg-reficultnias-102509
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Vanity of Vanities: The Iraq War Seven Years Later  ---  http://www.truthout.org/vanity-vanities-the-iraq-war-seven-years-later57824
A quote...."We are still shocked. We were never awed. We have not adjusted. The senseless waste of our blood and treasure, our honor and our reputation continue. Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom - the latter unleashed seven years ago today - have morphed into a single Operation Enduring Occupation, set to bankrupt this country financially as well as morally, to destroy our own security as it has that of the over 31 million people who populate Iraq and 32 million people of Afghanistan." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64349&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Look your victims in the eyes: this is Iran, these are Iranians to be killed in the next US war  ---  http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-18425-LA-County-
Nonpartisan-Examiner%7Ey2010m3d18-Look-your-victims-in-the-eyes-this-is-Iran-these-are-Iranians-to-be-killed-in-the-next-US-war
A quote...."If you don’t already know that claims for war with Iran are all provable and absolute lies, start here.  ---  http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner%7Ey2010m3d8-Its-time-Declare-lies-for-war-with-Iran-as-treason-against-our-soldiers-and-US-Constitution  ---  If you don’t know that US political and media “leaders” lie by omission that the US overthrew Iran’s democracy from 1953 to 1979 to install an oil-friendly dictator, and that the US supplied and directly aided the invasion of Iran from 1980 to 1988 to reinstall an oil-friendly dictator, continue here.  --- 
http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner%7Ey2009m11d21-US-overthrew-Irans-democracy-19531979-helped-
Iraq-invade-19801988-now-US-lies-for-more-war  ---  These acts killed up to a million Iranians. This history is the proper context to consider lying US rhetoric for war with Iran. And if you’re not absolutely comfortable that “lying US rhetoric for war with Iran” is what is happening, go back to the link in the first paragraph."
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Chinese report documents human rights disaster in the United States  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/pers-m19.shtml
A quote...."On March 13, China’s Information Office of the State Council published a report titled, “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009.” - This document was clearly intended as a rebuttal to the annual US State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2009, released two days earlier."
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Taliban controlling Marjah by night  ---  http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/88145
Article   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25031.htm  --- 
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Militants are regaining control of Marjah, residents have reported, less than a month after Western military officials claimed to have seized the Afghan town from the Taliban. - Marjah is now home to an occupation force numbering more than one Nato soldier or Afghan police officer for every eight residents. - But militants are stepping up an underground campaign against officials loyal to the Western-backed Karzai regime."
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IED attacks in Afghanistan more lethal  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-03-19-ieds_N.htm
Weapons Tactics Alert - A quote...."WASHINGTON — Attacks on U.S. and allied forces with makeshift bombs in Afghanistan are 50% more lethal than three years ago, reflecting insurgents' use of more powerful explosives and the increased vulnerability of troops who patrol more on foot than in the past. -- Lt. Gen. Michael Oates, director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Defeat Organization, told a House subcommittee that the casualty rate was "disturbing" and half that of troops hit by IEDs in Iraq."
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UN envoy slams Afghan peace sabotage  ---  http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/88181
A quote...."The former UN envoy to Afghanistan has suggested that Pakistan [must likely US-NRE "elements" within Pakistan] and the US may have deliberately sabotaged efforts to find a peaceful solution to the war recently by arresting senior Taliban militants at secret peace talks. -- Kai Eide, a Norwegian diplomat who just stepped down from the UN post, said that reconciliation talks that he and other UN officials had with senior resistance fighters were beginning to bear fruit until the process abruptly "halted following the arrests that took place in Pakistan."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64345&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Military Tribunal charges four with spying for Israel  ---  http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=112954
Full Quote...."BEIRUT: Four men suspected of collaborating with Israel have been officially charged by the Military Tribunal. The government’s representative at the tribunal, Judge Saqr Saqr, filed charges on Friday against Musa Ali Musa, and two individuals believed to be in Israel, Ali Mohammad Said and Hassan Hussein Abdullah. The three men were suspected of collaborating with Israeli intelligence and providing it with information about the offices and homes of Hizbullah officials. They allegedly received large amounts of money via mail in return for their services, and could face the death penalty if they are convicted. Saqr also filed charges against Bassam Jamil Yassin for collaborating with Israeli intelligence, communicating with it and providing it with information about Lebanese civil and military locations."
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Brazil steps between Israel and Iran  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LC18Ak03.html
A quote...."Talk about a Via Dolorosa. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is the first Brazilian president to visit Israel officially. Lauded for his charisma, swing and formidable negotiating powers - United States President Barack Obama refers to him as "the man" - little did Lula know that to engage his hosts this week he would have to give the Prophet Abraham a run for his money, no less. -- In the end, he stood his ground. He made no concessions. And unlike United States Vice President Joseph Biden last week, he even managed not to be publicly humiliated by his hosts."
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Lawmakers assail Ahmadinejad, propose debate  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121292&sectionid=351020102
OH MY GAWD!!  You mean the dictator Hitler-clone of Iran can't simply issue God like "signing statements"  ---  http://www.google.com
/search?hl=en&as_q=obama+signing+statements&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&
as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images  ---    and have them be instantly obeyed as our own beloved Emperor can? That he has to actually abide by the rules of his legislature and Iran's constitution?  How utterly awful, it means Iran is both more democratic and more constitutional than the US-NRE.  We can't let that happen now can we?  Let's go bomb the HECK out of them! - mpg -- A quote..."Three lawmakers on Saturday slammed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for launching an attack on the elected representatives of the people, saying he is legally obliged to execute the economic reform plan approved by the Parliament (Majlis)."
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Preparations for a Hit against Iran: Stopping Israel’s Next War  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18235
War Alert - Special Note - Quote of the Day...."That war is on the agenda, Selim noted, is beyond doubt. Israeli political and military leaders have been broadcasting such bellicose intentions loudly enough for the deaf to hear. Yossi Peled said he thought conflict with Hezbollah was inevitable. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned the Syrian government that if it were to intervene in an Israeli-Lebanese conflict, it would disintegrate. As if that were not sufficient, the Israeli Mossad had staged a Hollywood-style extravaganza to murder Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai on January 20. Four days later, Netanyahu declared that Israel would maintain control over parts of the West Bank for all eternity. He followed up with the announcement that Israel would designate three sites on the West Bank as part of Israel’s national heritage. These were all deliberately crafted provocations, aimed solely at eliciting a violent response from the other side: perhaps that Hezbollah would kidnap an Israeli soldier, or that Hamas would lob a few rockets across the border to Israel. Fortunately, to date, their response has been measured." - bold by website editor -- This article is classified as a "war alert" instead of a "war warning" because in this website editor's opinion, there are still substantial elements within the US-NRE that feel the scheduled attack against Iran should take place at the bottom of the "ten year war/economic cycle"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles
/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407  ---  sometime in 2011 or 2012 (assuming it didn't bottom out in 2009) and that launching an attack now would be inefficient as far as the ten year war/economic cycle goes.  Israel however feels that it's geo-strategic position is deteriorating and that they may be unable to complete their long planned extermination/forced relocation of the Palestinians as they had hoped. It is difficult to tell who is winning the debate at the moment. - mpg
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Latvia government collapses amid economic crisis
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/latvia/7466920/Latvia-government-collapses-amid-economic-crisis.html
A quote...."The People's Party, the largest group in a five-party coalition, walked out amid disputes over how to cope with the country's severe problems. - Unemployment has now hit 20 per cent and the economy contracted by 18 per cent last year. -  The People's Party quit after its action plan failed to get the backing of Valdis Dombrovskis, the Latvian prime minister, who labelled it "populist". - Mr Dombrovskis warned the People's Party's departure could cause yet further economic instability."
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Sudan signs peace deal with Darfur group in Qatar  ---  http://www.alalam.ir/english/detail.aspx?id=101121
A quote...."Sudan's government and Liberation and Justice Movement have signed a cease-fire, opening the way for political negotiations ahead of a full peace agreement." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/220415
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US-China tensions threaten to ignite trade war  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/pers-m18.shtml
A quote...."The past week has seen a marked intensification of the steady drumbeat of threats and provocations against China that has characterized the policy of the Obama administration since last September. That month, the White House signed an order imposing punitive tariffs on Chinese tire imports. This was followed in December by tariffs against Chinese steel pipe products."
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Blair's secret oil links to Mideast revealed  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121261&sectionid=351020601
A quote...."A watchdog in Britain has revealed that former UK Premier Tony Blair has secretly received cash from a South Korean energy company and from Kuwaiti royals."
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Private Army Sets Sights on Iceland  ---  Hopefully it's not one that's going to be hired by the Banksters. - mpg
   ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7888-0-22-22--.html
Special Note - Full quote...."A private company offering military support has expressed interest in working with the Icelandic government. Many Icelanders are strongly opposed to the idea. - The company in question is known as ECA Program. They are a private company that works in military training and support for governments around the world, and have most recently worked with India. Their interest in Iceland is apparently strong enough to warrant the use of images from Keflavík – where the NATO base used to be located until it closed in 2006 – on their website. They have already asked the Icelandic government if they can utilize the base for their private air force, and are willing to pay 200 billion ISK to do so. - However, the Campaign Against Militarism – in Icelandic group originally founded in opposition to the NATO base – is strongly against the idea. They point out that the comany’s background is shrouded in mystery, and that they amount to a mercenary group. Furthermore, the company was denied operation permission in Canada."
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Subversive Drive against Cuba, Venezuela Slammed
  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=172290&Itemid=1
A quote...."Caracas, Mar 20 (Prensa Latina) The US encourages and funds an international campaign to discredit Cuba and Venezuela, attempting to stop the processes of change in the region, a solidarity group denounced there Saturday."
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More on Obama's Insurance Bail-Out-Boondoggle No-Care Bill....

CNN’s Cafferty: ‘Beyond Sleezy’ for Pelosi to Use Procedural Tactic on Health Bill  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/
2010/03/18/cnn%E2%80%99s-cafferty-%E2%80%98beyond-sleezy%E2%80%99-for-pelosi-to-use-procedural-tactic-on-health-bill/
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZDwWW5WDPQ
Must View CNNVideo - (CNNYuTb - 2m17s - 03/16/10) -- A quote...."Politically speaking, this is beyond sleazy. It’s meant to protect Democrats – especially those up for re-election in November – from having to make a tough vote. Pelosi says of this process, ‘I like it… because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill.’ In Nancy Pelosi’s world, accountability is a dirty word.”
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Impeach Obama Over ‘Slaughter Solution’?  ---  http://www.infowars.com/impeach-obama-over-slaughter-solution/
Related Article - We've got the "Demon Pass" strategy and the "Slaughter Solution"....what the HELL ever happend to democracy in this country? - mpg -- A quote...."The Democrats are assaulting the very pillars of our democracy. As the debate on Obamacare reaches the long, painful end, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is confronting a political nightmare. She may not have the 216 votes necessary to pass the Senate’s health care bill in the House."
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Why Did Kucinich Cave In To Obama?  ---  http://www.infowars.com/why-did-kucinich-cave-in-to-obama/
Special Note - A quote...."I am totally shocked by what has happened. - It had appeared that Dennis Kucinich had Obama worried, rather than the other way around. - It appeared with Obama and Kucinich “discussing” Health Care on Air Force 1 no less, that the opportunity existed where Obama might possibly consider making a concession or two, just to secure Kucinich’s vote. - Suddenly, and sadly, Kucinich just gave in, and got absolutely nothing back in return." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/why-did-kucinich-cave-in-to-obama/
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/220412
For more on this issue see....When the Time Comes to Actually Make a Difference, They Capitulate - 03-17-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/whenthetimecomestoactuallymakeadifferenc-mpg-reficultnias-031710
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Obamacare: It’s About Enriching Bankers and Wall Street  ---  http://www.infowars.com/obamacare-its-about-enriching-bankers-and-wall-street/
A quote...."In an effort to push through his totalitarian care bill, Obama promised the sky. One such promise was that he would give federal authorities the power to block unreasonable rate hikes. Just like the promise to put negotiations on C-SPAN, the promise to check rate hikes evaporated." -- For more on this issue see....Double Indemnity - 12-21-09 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/doubleindemnity-mpg-reficultnias-122109
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A History of Israeli-MOSSAD False-Flags Against the USA and others
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/history-of-israeli-mossad-false-flags.html
A quote...."Israel, our only 'friend' in the ME, wouldn't attack us, would they? --- OMG! Only a raving loonie and a certified 'anti-Semite' would accuse that 'peace' loving nation of Israel as being behind numerous false-flags, including 9/11 and preparing to set off another one to get Americans enraged so we'll "Shock and Awe" Tehran into oblivion."
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9/11: Strangeness that can't be explained, even by NIST
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/911-strangeness-that-cant-be-explained.html
A quote...."Ohio Task Force workers anchored this 600,000-pound beam from the World Trade Center lodged in a nearby building."
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Antiwar coalition fined by US government  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/antiwar-coalition-fined-by-us-government/
A quote...."A US antiwar organization says it has been targeted by the government because it wants US troops to immediately return from Afghanistan and Iraq. The ANSWER Coalition, which stands for “Act Now to Stop War and End Racism,” has been a staunch critic of the Bush and Obama administrations for their role in the Iraqi and Afghan war." - From PressTV  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121213&sectionid=3510203
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/220429
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John Yoo Says War Could be Used to Strike “Suspected Enemies” with Drones Inside U.S.
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/john-yoo-says-war-could-be-used-to-strike-suspected-enemies-with-drones-inside-u-s/
Contains Video - THIS is what happens when you let somebody like "John crush a child's testicles  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info
/article11488.htm  ---  Yoo", the torturer enabler extraordinaire, run around scott free!!  Would SOMEBODY please arrest him before more true Americans are tortured or murdered! - mpg -- A quote...."On March 19th former United States Attorney General John Yoo was confronted by author and activist David Swanson (whose blog After Downing Streetis provided as one of the links on this page) with the question, “Is there any law on the books that would prevent a war time president from shooting a missile from a drone at a suspected enemy within the United States?”
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Drones may be sent soon to help with border security, Napolitano says
  ---  http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-border_20tex.ART.State.Edition1.4c56cec.html
Related Article - Hey folks, when your family gets blown to bits while driving to see a new movie or while going to eat at their favorite restaurant (or perhaps even attend a wedding party)  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/droning_on_and_on_20100228/  ---  ....don't start whining and crying about it, because you've all now been WARNED! - mpg - A quote...."AUSTIN – The federal government may soon send unmanned aircraft to scour West Texas and the state's coastal waters in an effort to boost border security, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a letter to the governor sent Friday."
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McCain and Lieberman's "Enemy Belligerent" Act Could Set U.S. on Path to Military Dictatorship
  ---  http://www.alternet.org/rights/146081/mccain_and_lieberman%27s_%22enemy_belligerent%22_act_could_set_u.s._on_path_to_military_dictatorship
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Special Note - "Synagogue Bomb Suspects: Feds Badgered Us to Do It  ---  http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Synagogue-Bomb-Suspects-
The-Feds-Put-Us-Up-to-It-88579537.html  ---  Lawyers: Alleged NY bomb plot 'hatched and directed' by federal informant 19 Mar 2010 Defense attorneys say an alleged plot - PDF  ---  http://media.nbcbayarea.com/documents/Cromitie+et+al++Arrests+PR+%282%29.pdf  ---  to bomb New York synagogues was hatched and directed by a federal informant. Lawyers for four men from Newburgh have filed a motion to dismiss the terror indictment against them. They said the informant badgered the defendants until they got involved in the plot. They said the informant chose the targets, supplied fake bombs for the synagogues and a fake missile to shoot down planes. The motion said he also offered to pay the defendants, who attorneys alleged weren't inclined toward any crime until the informant began recruiting them." -- Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Retired U.S. general`s anti-gay comments anger Dutch  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=623077
Weren't the Dutch the ones who drew all those funny cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad?  Tsk, tsk, tsk, guess they can dish it out but they sure can't take it.  Especially when what's coming their way might actually be true. By the way folks, there's no such thing as "gay".  ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/letsbringbackpolygamy-mpg-reficultnias-082104.html  ---   mpg -- A quote...."Mar 19, (vancouversun) -- Retired Marine Corps general John Sheehan made the charge Thursday during a Senate hearing as he argued against ending the U.S. military's ban on permitting openly gay soldiers to serve. -- Sheehan said Dutch leaders, including the former chief of staff of the Dutch army, had told him that the presence of openly gay soldiers among the 400-strong Dutch contingent had been "part of the problem" that led to the fall of Srebrenica, and the subsequent massacre by Bosnian Serb forces of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys."
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East Jerusalem isn’t ‘disputed,’ it’s ‘occupied’  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/
east-jerusalem-isn%E2%80%99t-%E2%80%98disputed%E2%80%99-it%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98occupied%E2%80%99/
A quote...."During the “Week in Review” segment of this morning’s “Weekend Edition Saturday” show, Ron Elving referred at least twice to East Jerusalem as a “disputed” area. “Disputed” is the term the Israeli government and its advocates use and actively promote as an alternative to “occupied,” in hopes they can get out of the legal implications of occupation. -- But the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, the European Union, the UK, and the International Committee of the Red Cross, among other entities, all reject the Israeli usage and consistently use the term “occupied” in reference to East Jerusalem...." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/220407
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Hamas: Learning from mistakes  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LC20Ak03.html
Special Note - A quote...."DAMASCUS - Anyone who has watched the performance of Hamas or followed its rhetoric since its founding in Palestine in the late 1980s realizes that the Islamic group has greatly matured over the past 20 years."
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Israeli forces besiege Jordan Valley village  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=270129
A quote...."Tubas – Ma'an – Israeli forces shut down all entrances to the West Bank village of Bardala early Saturday morning, onlookers said. -- Agricultural roads between the northern Jordan Valley village and its lands were sealed off, and farmers were denied access to their lands."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64351&hd=&size=1&l=e
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

HALPER: The second battle of Gaza: Israel’s undermining of international law
  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/halper-the-second-battle-of-gaza-israels-undermining-of-international-law-2
Special Note - A quote...."The Israeli attack on Gaza in December 2008/January 2009 was not merely a military assault on a primarily civilian population, impoverished and the victim of occupation and besiegement these past 42 years.  It was also part of an ongoing assault on international humanitarian law by a highly coordinated team of Israeli lawyers, military officers, PR people, and politicians, led by (no less) a philosopher of ethics.  It is an effort coordinated as well with other governments whose political and military leaders are looking for ways to pursue “asymmetrical warfare” against peoples resisting domination and the plundering of their resources and labor without the encumbrances of human rights and current international law.  It is a campaign that is making progress and had better be taken seriously by us all."
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Dozens of Students Injured After Israeli Police Storm Negev Secondary School
  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/797-dozens-of-students-injured-after-israeli-police-storm-negev-secondary-school
A quote...."Eyewitness accounts given to our correspondent in the Negev confirm that on Wednesday morning, the playground of the Secondary Peace School in the town of Hurra in the Negev was turned into a bona fide battlefield after a vast police force invaded the school yard and threw stun grenades and tear gas, injuring dozens of students and teachers." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/220408
& AlethoNews - http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/dozens-of-students-injured-after-israeli-police-storm-negev-secondary-school/
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Israeli Army Kills [a] 16 Year Old Demonstrator Near Nablus  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/03/11844?utm_source=
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A quote...."Mohammed Ibrahim Qaddous, 16, was shot dead with live ammunition when a Border Police force raided his village of Iraq Burin near Nablus to quash a demonstration this afternoon. Another 16 year old was shot in the head and critically injured."
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ISM volunteer shot, hospitalized; ISM co-founder arrested  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/03/11832?utm_source=
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Special Note - A quote...."Friday’s demonstration in An Nabi Saleh saw an increase in violence and collective punishment from the Israeli military, as twenty-five demonstrators were injured, windows of cars and homes were intentionally shattered, and three were arrested. ISM volunteer Ellen Stark was shot at point blank range (4 meters) with a rubber bullet as she stood with medics, Popular Committee members and other internationals. ISM co-founder Huwaida Arraf was arrested while negotiating with the IOF to allow Ellen through the military line to get to the hospital." - bold by website editor
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Gazan Fisherman Struggle to Stay Afloat - Especially when your boats get shot up all the time by the IOF.
  ---  http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15818
A quote...."Gazan 45 kilometers long, beautiful Mediterranean coast is fished by 3,500 professional fisherman. Many more people earn their daily bread doing jobs related to this trade, such as producing and repairing nets, transporting fish and selling it at the markets, running restaurateurs etc."
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IOA to demolish two Palestinian homes in WB village
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7VXEcO5uHQD1jf2B9zLugOFDzXzam
Dkczm%2fT9K7ESiHIAc%2fBZbkTjFbPAcApUeiX8wk5%2bQDoYo5eHONDYfd7tuuGONLooqOwRxVaQ0If5Wuc%3d
A quote...."BETHLEHEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) decided to demolish two Palestinian homes in the village of walaja, east of Bethlehem, at the pretext that they were located in the path of the separation wall."
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Protesters challenge village closures  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=269938
A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an - Palestinian and international protesters joined half a dozen demonstrations across the occupied West Bank on Friday afternoon, in the first reaction to Israel's declaration of two villages as "closed military zones" last week."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64342&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Testimony: Siege prevents reconstruction of schoolhouse partially destroyed in Operation Cast Lead, Feb. 2010
  ---  http://www.btselem.org/English/testimonies/20100214_School_damaged_in_Cast_lead_Operation_still_unreparied_witness_Saed_Sultan.asp
A quote...."In August 2009 I became the principal of the Abu J’afer al-Mansur Elementary and Middle School for Boys, which is comprised of grades six to nine. The school was built in 1994, when the Palestinian Authority came to Gaza, and has 24 classrooms, a principal’s office, a teachers’ room, a science lab, a computer lab, a library, and a gym. -- The school was hit by gunfire and shelling during the war, and soldiers also held detainees in it. Also, Israeli bulldozers destroyed part of the school’s walls and damaged the electricity, water, and telephone infrastructure."
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Time to bury dead ideas about Palestine  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11142.shtml?utm_source=
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A quote...."There is a growing recognition that the Israeli settlement enterprise in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is, in practical terms, irreversible. The two-state solution, which for decades has been characterized as the preferred solution of an amorphous "international consensus" has generally been understood to involve a return to the pre-1967 occupation boundaries (referred to as the green line) with minor territorial adjustments by the parties. By now, even optimists refer to this solution as "unlikely" and "virtually impossible," while realists recognize that the concept has outlived its usefulness as a political aspiration."
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100,000 Indonesians demonstrate in support of the Aqsa
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7nsL4CkgVxZpHOIjsG43aGO9nS
FLv5ARzpvVOfGy5Zpd%2bFyA%2bw6L14XgsaVuK%2b6vlj9Ra1t8c5hyT9cTQ8LSo3ujjj%2bhBtZ8GG%2fEjHHlN%2bzo%3d
Action Update - A quote...."Around 100,000 supporters of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), a member of the ruling coalition, exploded onto the streets of the capital, declaring that Palestinians are not alone in the battle for the defense of the Aqsa."
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UC Berkeley student senate votes in favor of divestment  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11147.shtml  ---  Hip Hip Hooray! - mpg
Action Alert/Update -- Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because if the world doesn't, Israel will continue to defy the entire international community with impunity. -- A  quote...."Early yesterday morning, the University of California Berkeley Student Senate (ASUC) passed a bill to divest from companies that provide military support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Debate began the night before at 9:00pm and ended and six hours later when the vote was held at 3:00am. The session was attended by more than 150 students, educators and concerned community supporters, forcing the meeting to be relocated to a larger room. Never before has the senate chambers been so overcrowded, signifying the importance and interest in the issue of Israel-Palestine on the Berkeley campus. Ultimately, the bill passed with 16 senators in favor and 4 against."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64335&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Don’t Buy Into Occupation!  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1306
Action Alert -- Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because if it's not done, the Israelis will keep on murdering Palestinians. - mpg -- A quote...."On the 16th of March H&M will open its second store in Israel, this time in Malcha Mall in Jerusalem. This establishment is outrageous, given the Israeli claims for Jerusalem as the “united capital of Israel” and the violent policies of ethnic cleansing of the city that the Israeli state is currently involved in. It ties H&M to a clear political position – support for the Israeli defiance of international law." -- For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  of this website. - mpg
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America's "Houdini Recovery" under IMF-Type Austerity  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64344&hd=&size=1&l=e
Must Read - A quote...."It's what economist David Rosenberg calls recovery given plenty of supportive evidence, including...."

• Over five million homeowners behind on their mortgage payments;
• At record levels, foreclosures are alarmingly high; moreover, "the foreclosure pipeline is enormous;"
• "Housing, the quintessential leading indicator," turning lower again in starts, sales and prices;
• Instead of a normal 5 - 6 months home supply, the market has a 21 month overhang, including shadow inventory from the foreclosure pipeline;
• Mortgage applications for new home purchases down 13.9% on top of last year's 29.4%;
• Over six million Americans unemployed for at least six months, "a record 40% of the ranks of the joblessness;"
• Over 11 million full-time jobs lost since late 2007, and well over four and a half million since Obama took office, despite pledging to create them;
• Millions of jobs lost despite massive economic stimulus, and when it slows, watch out;
• A federal deficit over 10% of GDP, twice the 1930s ratio;
• Private capital growing at its slowest rate in nearly two decades;
• 30% of manufacturing capacity idle;
• 19 million vacant residential housing units - about 15% of the total;
• One in six Americans unemployed or underemployed;

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U.S. FDIC shuts down 7 banks, 2010 total now 37  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1917001120100319
A quote...."WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - Regulators seized seven more U.S. banks on Friday, as high unemployment and troubled loan portfolios continue to weigh on the sector."
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Markets spooked as Greek rescue plan crumbles
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/7475531/Markets-spooked-as-Greek-rescue-plan-crumbles.html
A quote...."Europe’s rescue plan for Greece appears to be crumbling after the country threatened to call in the International Monetary Fund unless Brussels comes up with real money on acceptable terms within a week."
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Divisions Between the US and Europe Widen Over Greek Financial Bailout  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18243
A quote...."On Thursday, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou told the European Parliament that the interest rate Greece is forced to offer investors for servicing its debt is unsustainable, and that his government had complained to the IMF. Papandreou said the inflated borrowing costs would more than offset his government’s savings from the sweeping austerity measures it has introduced."
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Thursday March 18th 2010 - links page

"Hundreds of job-creating projects are still on hold because Michigan businesses and entrepreneurs cannot get bank financing. We can break the credit crunch and beat Wall Street at their own game by keeping our money right here in Michigan and investing it to retool our economy and create jobs." -- *Virg Bernero*, Mayor of Lansing in the Detroit News, May 9, 2010