MPG'S
DAILY
RAPSHEET
AND
BLOTTER
ON
THE
"GREAT GAME" -- 03-25-10 to 03-31-10 -- links
page
@ www.reficultnias.org
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Editor's note : From now on each weekly blog page will have
several items
culled from the past called "9/11 - From The History
File" : It's for those who didn't know, and also for those who
forgot....or are trying to forget.
Editor's note - War Update, War Alert, War Warning, Red War Warning
and War
Imminent
- refer to articles
regarding the upcoming war with Iran. In the order they appear as
shown above, they represent less serious to more serious possible
threats of war. - mpg
As of 08-08-08 a new category of war warning will be included, the
above warnings will have the prefix (WWIII) added to them to indicate
the
possible outbreak of greater hostilities. - mpg
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Wednesday March 31st 2010 - links
page
Attention
Deficit
Democracy ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25116.htm
A quote...."By Ralph Nader - March 31, 2010 "Information Clearing
House" -- A society not alert to signs of its own decay, because its
ideology is a continuing myth of progress, separates itself from
reality and envelops illusion. -- One yardstick by which to measure the
decay in our country’s political, economic, and cultural life, is the
answer to this question: Do the forces of power, which have
demonstrably failed, become stronger after their widely perceived
damage is common knowledge?"
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Blogs:
Crucial
or
a
Waste
of
Time?
--
Crucial
for
Spreading Accurate
Information
---
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/is-blogging-useful-or-waste-of-time.html
Charts - A
quote...."We've all seen it. - A story that bloggers have bird-dogged
for many months, gaining so much traction that the mainstream media is
finally forced to cover it. - David Steele - former 20-year Marine
Corps infantry and intelligence officer, the second-ranking civilian in
U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence, and former CIA clandestine services
case officer - says that blogging is crucial for saving our country. -
Dan Rather points out that “roughly 80 percent” of the media is
controlled by no more than six, and possibly as few as four,
corporations. As I wrote in July: - This fact has been documented for
years, as shown by the following must-see charts...."
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Webster
Tarpley
Covers
Globalized
Terrorism
to
usher
in
a
Total
Police State on
Alex Jones
---
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/31/video-webster-tarpley-covers-globalized-terrorism-to-usher-in-a-total-police-state-on-alex-jones/
Videos - From the TheAlexJonesChannel
---
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel
WT&AJ(1/4)
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjbYXlUBqoM
WT&AJ(2/4)
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOVkSj-xtw8
WT&AJ(3/4)
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNEBx31dktY
WT&AJ(4/4)
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJja7ZwUuFg
---
(AJYuTb
-
10m
-
March
31,
2010)
-- A quote...."(March 30) – Alex
talks with historian, journalist, author and regular guest Webster
Tarpley. Mr. Tarpley is the author of numerous books...." - Related articles.....
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Twelve
killed by twin bombings in Russia's Dagestan
--- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8596084.stm
Single
terrorist group may be behind Moscow, Dagestan bombings - Putin - multiple articles
--- http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100331/158378898.html
11,
including
9
police
killed,
28
injured
in
Kizlyar
blasts
---
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14973273&PageNum=0
Georgia
accused
over
Moscow
Metro
bombing
---
http://nwotruth.com/georgia-accused-over-moscow-metro-bombing/
Chechen
rebel
leader
claims
responsibility
for
Moscow
subway
attacks
---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/01/c_13233345.htm
New attacks
in Russia as bomb wave hits Dagestan police in wake of Moscow metro
terror - video
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nva_HAJtNw
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Bin
Laden
Inc.
to
Release
Their
2010
Appearance
Schedule
---
http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/bin-laden-inc-to-release-their-2010.html
Must Read Satire -
Washington--Rita Katz of SITE today released the 2010 schedule for the
remaining appearances by Bin Laden Inc. Ms. Katz said she found the
document while surfing the web and has been invited to the Senate to
give testimony and details about Bin Laden's 2010 itinerary. - Ms. Katz
says that the fact her father was caught in Iraq spying for Israel and
executed by Saddam Hussein has no bearing on her activities. Nor should
anyone infer anything from the fact that she has been on the FBI's
payroll. - Nor should anyone think that since her team is made up of
RAND spooks and Israeli Jews that they would have ulterior motives." --
For more on Rita Katz see....Judeo-Christian
C/C
&
US
-
Rita
Katz
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409#RITAKATZ
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Bin
Laden
threatens
US
over
purported
9/11
perp ---
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5754.shtml
posted at OnlineJournal
---
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
Related Article - A quote...."It’s another one of those wonderful
chestnuts from the grave of Osama bin Laden, this time via the March 25
Washington Post, which can so easily slip by into fantasy land. - This
Osama is sporting a freshly-died brown beard (what happened to the
silver and gray ones?) and is warning us not to mess with homeboy
Khalid Sheik Mohammed or else he {Bin Laden) will ice any Americans
Al-Qaeda captures." - For more on
this issue see....US
Fake
Intel
/
Propaganda
-
Osama
bin
long
gone
Laden ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#OSAMABINGONE
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Federal
Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretaps Were Illegal - WOW!! A judge that wasn't bought, or
intimidated....yet.
--- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01nsa.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the
National Security Agency’s program of surveillance without warrants was
illegal, rejecting the Obama
administration’s effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the
most disputed counterterrorism policies of former President George W.
Bush. " - bold by website editor - Is
ANYBODY
going
to
go
to
jail
for
this?
-
mpg
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CCR
Asks
Supreme
Court
to
Rule
Government
Cannot
Keep
Secret
Whether It
Spied on Guantánamo Attorneys
---
http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/ccr-asks-supreme-court-rule-government-cannot-keep-secret-whether-it-spied-g
A quote...."March 31, 2010, New York, NY – Last night, the Center for
Constitutional Rights (CCR) asked the Supreme Court to take up its
warrantless surveillance case, Wilner v. National Security Agency
(NSA). CCR and co-counsel argue that the Executive Branch must disclose
whether or not it has records related to the wiretapping of privileged
attorney-client conversations without a warrant. Lawyers for the
Guantánamo detainees fit the officially acknowledged profile of
those subject to surveillance under the former administration’s
program, and the Executive Branch has argued in the past that it has a
right to target them."
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Special
U.S. prisons unconstitutional: lawsuit ---
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN3014363320100331
A quote...."(Reuters) - U.S. prison units specially designed to muzzle
communications by inmates considered extremist are unconstitutional and
discriminate against Muslims, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday
by the Center for Constitutional Rights."
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"ElBaradei: Western policy in Mideast a total
failure ---
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3870425,00.html
--- Former IAEA chief slams Western support for tyrants
31 Mar 2010 Western policy in the Middle East has been a 'total
failure' and risks creating a new generation of Islamic radicals,
Mohammed ElBaradei says. "Western policy towards this part of the world
has been a total failure, in my view," the former International Atomic
Energy Agency chief told The Guardian in his first English-language
interview since leaving the UN post. "It has not been based on
dialogue, understanding, supporting civil society and empowering
people, but rather it's been based on supporting authoritarian systems
as long as the oil keeps pumping." - Paragraph quoted from CLG --- And the drugs, don't forget the
drugs. And the money, don't forget that either. See articles
shown below. - mpg
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U.S.
War
Zone
Commanders
Spend
Billion
Dollars
a
Year
in
Cash - On
who? - mpg
---
http://www.allgov.com/Where_is_the_Money_Going/ViewNews/US_War_Zone_Commanders_Spend_Billion_Dollars_a_Year_in_Cash_100330
A quote...."Lawmakers in Congress are beginning to grow concerned over
the amount of cash being distributed by American military commanders in
war zones. Provided so the military can make friends with local
citizens and help struggling economies, the amount of appropriated for
the Commander’s Emergency Response Program (CERP) is now more than $1
billion a year."
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Afghanistan
now
world's
top
cannabis
source:
U.N. ---
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62U0IC20100331
Just remember folks, the
Taliban had eliminated opium production in Afghanistan and no one had
even heard of pot!!
What's next, cocaine!?!? Gary Webb
--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb --- was right, the US-NRE/MIC/CIA Axis is one
of the world's biggest drug dealers. - mpg - A
quote...."(Reuters) - Long the world's largest producer of opium, the
raw ingredient of heroin, Afghanistan has now become the top supplier
of cannabis, with large-scale cultivation in half of its provinces, the
United Nations said on Wednesday."
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The
alienation of Hamid Karzai ---
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LD02Df02.html
A quote...."It must have been the first time in the history of the
United States that an incumbent president had to undertake a 26-hour
plane journey abroad with repeated mid-air refueling to meet a foreign
leader - all for a 30-minute pow-wow. - The staggering message that
came out of US President Barack Obama's hurried mission to the
presidential palace in Kabul to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai last
Sunday afternoon is that his own AfPak diplomats have let him down
badly."
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Aafia
Siddiqui:
Victimized
by
American
Depravity ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64691&hd=&size=1&l=e
Special Note - A
quote...."In March 2003, after visiting her family in Karachi,
Pakistan, government Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agents, in
collaboration with Washington, abducted Siddiqui and her three children
en route to the airport for a flight to Rawalpindi, handed them over to
US authorities who took them secretly to Bagram prison, Afghanistan for
more than five years of brutal torture and unspeakable abuse, including
vicious beatings and repeated raping. -- Bogusly charged and convicted,
Siddiqui was guilty only of being Muslim in America at the wrong time.
A Pakistani national, she was deeply religious, very small, thoughtful,
studious, quiet, polite, shy, soft-spoken, barely noticeable in a
gathering, not extremist or fundamentalist, and, of course, no
terrorist."
also posted at TANSG
---
http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/aafia-siddiqui-victimized-by-american-depravity/
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Iraq’s
Post-Election
Mess
Could
Take
Months
to
Unravel ---
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/03/31/iraqs-post-election-mess-could-take-months-to-unravel/
A quote...."Over three weeks have passed since the Iraqi election, and
its resolution seems as uncertain as ever. The top two factions, the
Iraqiya bloc of Ayad Allawi and the State of Law party of Nouri
al-Maliki remain at each others throats, and neither seems to be making
much progress in gaining partners among the smaller blocs." - also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/221419
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28
Nations
Helped
US to Detain Suspects ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64689&hd=&size=1&l=e
Data Base - A
quote...."Twenty-eight nations have cooperated with the U.S. to detain
in their prisons, and sometimes to interrogate and torture, suspects
arrested as part of the U.S. "War on Terror."
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EXCLUSIVE:
Iran
Nuclear
Scientist
Defects
to
U.S.
In
CIA
'Intelligence
Coup'
---
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/iran-nuclear-scientist-defects-us-cia-intelligence-coup/story?id=10231729
A quote...."An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared
last year under mysterious circumstances, has defected to the CIA
and been resettled in the United States, according to people briefed on
the operation by intelligence officials."
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Missing
Iran
N-scientist
'defected
to
US' ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122132§ionid=351020104
Related Article -- A
quote...."An Iranian nuclear scientist, who has gone missing since
June, has defected to the United States, where he is helping spy on
Tehran's enrichment work, US media report."
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Minister
warns
about
US
activities
in
Lebanon ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122147§ionid=351020203
A quote...."Lebanese Minister of State for Administrative Reform,
Mohammad Fneish, says the former Bush administration took advantage of
divisions in Lebanon through agreements and other activities."
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US
cannot
rule
the
world
alone,
says
Nicolas
Sarkozy
---
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/us-cannot-rule-the-world-alone-says-nicolas-sarkozy/story-e6frg6so-1225847455815
A quote...."FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for US economic
reforms and, in comments echoing Franco-American spats of the past,
said Washington cannot "run the world" alone."
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Africom
and
the
USA's
Hidden
Battle
fo
Africa
http://accra-mail.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13162:africom-and-the-usas-hidden-battle-for-africa&catid=66:world&Itemid=215
PDF
---
http://accra-mail.com/index.php?view=article&catid=66%3Aworld&id=13162%3Aafricom-and-the-usas-hidden-battle-for-africa&format
=pdf&option=com_content&Itemid=215
A quote...."What is the current meaning of "War against Terror"
for Africa? The true intention of America's recent military
interventions in the African continent (both covert and open) is
nothing other than the expansion and consolidation of Western capital."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64697&hd=&size=1&l=e
---
For more on this isue
see....Africa
-
the
Next
Target
-
02-28-08
-
mpg ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/africathenexttarget-blog-mpg-022808
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Russia,
Venezuela to set up JV to develop Khunin-6 oil field
--- http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/04/01/5874991.html
Full quote...."Russia and Venezuela have signed an agreement on setting
up a joint venture to develop Khunin-6 oil field, Venezuela's Energy
ministry said in a statement. The agreement has been signed during the
7 session of the Russian-Venezuelan intergovernmental commission in
Caracas. Russia's share in the joint venture is 40%. The oil field's
proved reserves amount to 53 billion barrels. This year the oil
production is expected at 50,000 barrels a day and next year it will
increase up to 450, 000 barrels a day."
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Eight
Colombians
Arrested
in
Venezuela
on
Spy
Charges ---
http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=354621&CategoryId=10718
A quote...."Eight Colombians who own and run an ice cream business in
the west-central state of Barinas were arrested by Venezuelan
authorities and charged with espionage."
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Why
there
is
no
mainstream
investigative
journalism
about
the
Israel
lobby
- Because of their money?!?!? - mpg
---
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/03/why-there-is-no-mainstream-investigative-journalism-about-the-israel-lobby.html
A quote...."Today on my drive back to NY from PA I listened to some
fine journalism about religion and politics, and it highlighted
everything that is wrong with our coverage of Israel/Palestine." - also posted at AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/why-there-is-no-mainstream-investigative-journalism-about-the-israel-lobby/
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
They
Died
So
That
We
Can
Live,
And
Their
Spirt
Lives
On
- Land Day 2010
---
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/photo-essay-they-died-so-that-we-can-live-and-their-spirit-lives-on/
Must View Photo Essay - A
quote...."For a quarter of a century, the Palestinian minority in
Israel has celebrated Land Day on 30 March 30 as a protest against
Israel’s discriminatory policies toward its one million Palestinian
citizens and to underline its collective and individual rights. Land
Day, or Yoam al-’Ard in Arabic, is also a commemoration of the bloody
confrontations with state “security” forces that took place in 1976
when six Palestinians were killed and some 100 injured."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64696&hd=&size=1&l=e
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My
Beautiful
Palestine ---
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15850
Special Note - A
quote...."This is to all of the Palestinian parents in exile and the
long trail of olive trees they've planted around the globe. -- A few
days ago, my father emailed me a photo of my mom and him standing
proudly next to my newest sibling; a young olive tree they've planted
in their garden in Queensland Australia. I was moved beyond belief
looking at that photo and thinking of my beautiful Palestine."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64676&hd=&size=1&l=e
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IOF
assaults
on
Land
Day
demos:
4
youths
shot
at
close
range
---
http://ingaza.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/iof-assaults-on-land-day-demos-4-youths-shot-at-close-range/
A quote...."Four non-violent demonstrators were shot at close range
with live ammunition by Israeli soldiers during six simultaneous
protests throughout the Gaza Strip commemorating “Land Day”." - also posted at Uruknet ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64695&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Chaos
at trial for Palm Sunday detainees ---
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=273156
A quote...."Ramallah – Ma'an – Israeli military judges inhaled thick
tear gas used to disperse protesters in front of the Ofer military
court on Wednesday, as men detained during a peaceful Palm Sunday
demonstration were set to be tried." - also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64679&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israel's
policy
of
land
theft ---
http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/850-israels-policy-of-land-theft
A quote...."A Palestinian human rights report has accused the Israeli
Occupation of confiscating approximately 160,000 acres of Palestinian
land during 2009 by abusing various laws, such as the Barren Land Law
and the laws on closed areas and fallow land."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64680&hd=&size=1&l=e
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More
Israeli
Incursions
into
Gaza
---
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=824a10fc82ddca04805c0e6ec8f91c6f&mode=details#824a10fc82ddca04805c0e6ec8f91c6f
A quote...."Israeli forces supported by tanks and bulldozers have
reportedly made two other incursions into the Gaza Strip, local sources
say. - The Israeli army crossed into the southern Qarara region late
Tuesday and then invaded Dair al-Balah in central Gaza. - The latest
incursions follow several more conducted by the Israeli military over
the past week."
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The
PA
Abuses
Journalists
to
Protect
the
Occupation ---
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2010/03/31/the-pa-abuses-journalists-to-protect-the-occupation
A quote...."Two days ago the Israeli military arrested a leader of
Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, Abbas Zaki, during his
participation in a peaceful demo in Bethlehem demanding the freedom of
movement and worship on the sidelines of the celebrations of Palm
Sunday, and transferred him to Ofer prison. This crime took place under
the silence of the Palestinian Authority officials while its “security
forces” attacked the journalists covering the event in order to prevent
them from publishing the news about this shameful incident of arrest of
Palestinian leaders and peaceful demonstrators."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64694&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Palestinian
Christians
to
be
barred
from
Old
City ---
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=273216
A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an - Palestinians, particularly Christians
will be barred from entering Jerusalem's Old City and accessing the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Saturday, when eastern Orthodox
Christians observe Sept An-Nour, or Saturday of light."
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Palm
Sunday
Marchers
Break
Out
of
Bethlehem
28Mar10 ---
http://australiansforpalestine.com/palm-sunday-marchers-break-out-of-bethlehem-28mar10
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1uBMnPBFCQ ---
(YuTb -
7min 7sec - March 28, 2010)
Video - Action Update - A
quote...."Around 200 Palestinians, Israelis and internationals walk
from the Nativity Square to the direction of Jerusalem, against the
restrictions imposed by the Israelis especially restrictions on the
right to worship and freedom of movement as many Christians will not be
able to go to Jerusalem to celebrate Easter in Jerusalem. The crowd
managed to outnumber and surprise the Israeli soldiers and security
forces at Bethlehem checkpoint and managed to walk through. After
having walked 300 meters on the road to Jerusalem, they were stopped by
Israeli soldiers. After having declared the march over and as they were
walking back to Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers attacked the crowd and
violently arrested around 15 persons, among them a Palestinian
cameraman, an Israeli photographers, members of the popular committee
from Al Ma’sara, and staff from Holy Trust."
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Free
Gaza
Movement
to
Launch
Cargo
Ship
from
Ireland
---
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/5512862-free-gaza-movement-to-launch-cargo-ship-from-ireland
Action Alert - A
quote...."Today, Wednesday 31st March, the Free
Gaza
Movement, --- http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-5512862
/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mcmVlZ2F6YS5vcmc= --- a human rights
organisation which has successfully
sent a number of boats into Gaza through the Israeli naval blockade,
announced that it had bought a 1200 tonne cargo ship at an auction in
Dundalk, Ireland."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64678&hd=&size=1&l=e
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London
supermarket
occupied
in
Israel
boycott ---
http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2010/03/london-supermarket-occupied-in-israel.html
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlQQbHrDO4s ---
(YuTb - 2
min 14 sec - March 31, 2010 0
Action Alert - Video - Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because we've been talking with
Israel for
sixty
years with NO
results. - mpg -- March 31, 2010 — Shoppers occupied Waitrose
supermarket in London in protest over the support for illegal
settlements in Israel. Much of the produce sold as 'Israel' actually
comes from stolen lands in Palestine. - more info on http://www.waronwant.org"
-- For
more on how
to
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the
upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/ --- of this website. - mpg
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Swedish
fashion
chain
H&M
under
pressure ---
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11176.shtml?u
tm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
Alt
--- (YuTb -
4min 20sec - March 24, 2010)
Action Alert - Video - Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because the Israelis won't
change their policies unless they're MADE to. - mpg -- A
quote...."More than a year ago, several concerned Swedish organizations
asked fashion chain H&M about its plans to extend its franchise to
Israel. H&M's management denied the rumors but refused to provide
written confirmation. In March, H&M unexpectedly opened a store in
Tel Aviv and a second store in Jerusalem's Malha shopping mall. The
mall is built on the Palestinian village of al-Malha which was
ethnically cleansed during the 1948 Nakba. In several European cities
activists protested H&M's presence in Israel."-- For
more on how
to
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the
upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/ --- of this website. - mpg
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Movie:
Jaffa
the
orange’s
clockwork
by
Eyal
Sivan ---
http://www.creative-i.info/2010/03/31/movie-jaffa-the-oranges-clockwork-by-eyal-sivan/
Film Event - A
quote...."he film is a political essay excavating the entwined visual
and political history of that famous citrus fruit originating in
Palestine and known worldwide as the ‘Jaffa Orange’."
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Keiser
Report
№29:
Markets!
Finance!
Scandal! ---
http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/0/A5v-I8JrPxA
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5v-I8JrPxA ---
(RTMKYuTb
- 26 min 58 sec - March 31, 2010)
MKVideo - More Max! - (Regarding Brown's "bad gold sale" and
gold price supression) -- A quote...."This week Max Keiser and
co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals of Brown's Bottom, the worst
economic judgment of all time and Bono's private equity, "the worst
investor in America." Max chats to Brits in Trafalgar Square and also
talks to Mark Schapiro, author of the Harper's article, "Conning the
Climate: Inside the Carbon Trading Shell Game"."
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UK
Treasury
Relases
FOIA
On
Gordon
Brown's
1998
Gold
Sale,
Catches Tony
Blair Lying, Questions US Treasury's Good Delivery Standards
---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/uk-treasury-relases-foia-gordon-browns-1998-gold-sale-catches-tony-blair-lying-questions-us-
Related Article - A quote...."One of the bigger stories in the UK over
the past several days, has been the increasing pressure on Prime
Minister Gordon Brown to justify his sale of 395 tons of gold in 17
auctions in the period from 1998 through 2002, when Brown was
Chancellor of the Exchequer, a role identical to the one Tim Geithner
now performs in the US as Treasury Secretary. The issue is that in the
abovementioned period, gold was trading at the rock bottom prices of
the past two decades, and as such his rush to sell is estimated to have
cost UK taxpayers £6 billion. One reason previously given to
Parliament, to explain the transactions from Treasury ministers and
Tony Blair was that the sale was made 'on
the
technical
advice
of
the
Bank
of
England.' Today the UK
Treasury has released long-withheld FOIA documents which disprove this
claim, and indicate that in fact the BOE was if not completely against
selling the bullion then certainly waiting until the price improved."
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More
Financial
Bubbles
Ahead
in
the
US
Housing
Market
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18416
Special Note - A
quote...."We are in a vast home inventory expansion and builders are
going to build 535,000 new homes. The projected foreclosure rate could
give us as much as a 3-year home inventory, up from present levels of
about a year, if one includes the lenders shadow inventory. This past
week the home building index rose 7.1% and it is up 25.1% year-to-date.
The retail index rose 17% y-t-d, yet unemployment stubbornly clings to
22-1/8%. In fact, the retail index is up 87.4% y-o-y. We would say that
index is grossly overpriced. As you can see bubbles have a way of not
wanting to die quickly. This is caused by man’s disparately wanting to
cling to the past attempting to take the easy way out rather than
adapting to change. Government tries to keep sections of the economy
alive rather than letting the cleansing process take its course. "
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March
Records
Fastest
Ever
CMBS
Delinquency
Deterioration
In
History
According
To
TREPP
---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/march-records-fastest-ever-cmbs-delinquency-deterioration-history-according-trepp
Chart - Related Article
- A quote...."On top of the previously announced record delinquency
rate for Fannie, here comes some even worse news out of commercial real
estate, which together with record high downtown vacancy rates, should
be enough to push all REITs to 1052 week highs tomorrow. RealPoint has
just released its March CMBS delinquency data, according to which
delinquencies hit an all time high 6%. Not to be ignored, according to
TREPP this number is even worse, at nearly 8%, after the single biggest
monthly spike in 30 day + delinquencies."
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Euro
regains
value
amid
soaring
US
unemployment ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122160§ionid=3510213
A quote...."The European single currency has risen sharply against
dollar after an unexpected rise in private-sector job losses painted a
grim picture of the US recovery."
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Chicago
PMI
Weaker
Than
Expected,
Advance
Release
Spooks
Market,
Inventories
Surge
Boost Index
---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/chicago-pmi-weaker-expected-advance-release-spooks-market-inventories-surge-boost-index
Chart - A quote...."For
those wondering what caused the market to take a beating at 9:42 AM
Eastern, it was the 3 minute advance release of the Chicago PMI to
subscribers (a topic we have discussed previously). The index came out
for the general mort consumption at 9:45 AM, when the bulk of the loss
had already taken place. As for the actual data, add the PMI to the
latest set of double dip inflection indicative data. After declining
sequential increases of 5.8%, 4.8%, and 1.8%, the March PMI recorded a
substantial downward move of -6.1%, from 62.6 to 58.8. And as you can
see on the chart below, if it had not been for the Inventories
subcomponent, which surged by 24% from 42.4 to 52.4, the index would
have likely posted a double digit drop. As for the credibility of an
inventory build up so late in the stimulus cycle, we will leave that to
the integrity of the actual data. "
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China
Must
Reduce
Reliance
on
Treasury
Bills,
China
Daily
Says ---
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601089&sid=a1x3bbdGa.sw
A quote...."April 1 (Bloomberg) -- China should be cautious about
investing in or selling U.S. Treasury Bills because of the risks they
present, the China Daily quoted Cheng Siwei, former vice- chairman of
the standing committee in the National People’s Congress, as saying."
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Bank
Of
England
Estimates
Global
Output
Losses
From
Financial
Meltdown
At Up
To $200 Trillion
---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/bank-england-estimates-global-output-losses-financial-meltdown-200-trillion
A quote...."As Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman observed,
to call these numbers “astronomical” would be to do astronomy a
disservice: there are only hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy.
“Economical” might be a better description. It is clear that banks
would not have deep enough pockets to foot this bill. Assuming that a
crisis occurs every 20 years, the systemic levy needed to recoup these
crisis costs would be in excess of $1.5 trillion per year."
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When
It
Comes
to
Innovation,
Is
America
Becoming
a
Third
World
Country?
---
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/when-it-comes-to-innovati_b_512280.html
A quote...."Is America turning into a third world country? That was the
provocative topic of a panel I took part in last week at a conference
sponsored by The Economist entitled "Innovation: Fresh Thinking For The
Ideas Economy." -- Once upon a time, the United States was the world's
dominant innovator -- partly because we didn't have much competition.
As a result of the destruction wreaked by WWII, the massive migration
of brainpower to the U.S. caused by the war, and huge amounts of
government spending, America had the innovation playing field largely
to itself. None of these factors exist as we enter the second decade of
the 21st century." - also posted at
ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25113.htm
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Tuesday March 30th 2010 - links
page
Blueprint
for
Truth,
The
Architecture
of
Destruction
-
Architects
and
Engnrs
for
9/11
Truth
(1121
of them)
---
http://dprogram.net/2009/04/18/video-how-the-towers-fell-blueprint-for-truth-the-architecture-of-destruction/
Must View Video - From the history file - aprox. 03-30-09 - (previously posted)
Alt/1 ---
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8182697765360042032#
Alt/2
---
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4617650616903609314#
---
(GoglVid
-
1hr59min
-
1
year
ago)
--
A quote...."This is the
best
9/11 presentation on the web. If you only see one 9/11 video, see this
one. Richard Gage delivers the most complete argument to date that the
official story defies reality, logic, and the laws of physics. Included
in his presentation are clips from 9/11 Mysteries and Loose Change.
Richard Gage is the founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
located at ae911Truth.Org"
---
http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=dprogram.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F
%2Fwww.ae911truth.org%2F&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fdprogram.net%2F
--- For more on this issue
see....Reficultnias's
9/11
Central
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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Ed
Asner
voices
AE911Truth
TV
spots
airing
in
New
York ---
http://www.infowars.com/ed-asner-voices-ae911truth-tv-spots-airing-in-new-york/
Contains Video - Action Alert
- Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QGX6gh5cDc
--- A
quote...."Another first. AE911Truth runs first-ever television ads on
NY1 this Tuesday, 3-30 and Friday, 4-2. Featuring the voice of Ed
Asner, these 30-second spots mention nanothermite, show WTC 7 imploding
and have great coverage of the AE911Truth website. They will also
coincide with Week 3 of the “Building What?!” campaign."
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9/11
Reconstruction:
Mental
Before
Physical ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25112.htm
A quote...."March 30, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- The failure
to rebuild the World Trade Center site in Manhattan has received
endless attention. But public anger about this failed
reconstruction should not been seen so negatively. After all,
mental reconstruction has also still not been successful and is surely
more needed, with too many Americans still accepting the official
government story about 9/11. This, despite a huge amount of
compelling evidence that elements of the US government played some
role, despite a very large, active 9/11 truth movement, and despite an
impressive number of highly credible people demanding a new
investigation as documented at patriotsquestion911.com."
---
also posted at GlobalRsrch
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18397
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US
Recants
Claims
on
'High-Value'
Detainee
Abu
Zubaydah
---
http://www.truthout.org/government-quietly-recants-bush-era-claims-about-%22high-value%22-detainee-zubdaydah58151
Must Read - Propaganda Exposed!
- A quote...."The Justice Department
has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration
had made about "high-value" detainee Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo
prisoner who at one time was said to have planned the 9/11 attacks and
was the No. 2 and 3 person in al-Qaeda. -- Additionally, Justice has
backed away from claims intelligence officials working in the Clinton
administration had also leveled against Zubaydah, specifically, that he
was directly involved in the planning of the 1998 embassy bombings in
East Africa. -- Zubaydah's name is redacted throughout a 109-page court
document the government filed in US District Court in Washington, DC in
response to 213 discovery requests Zubaydah's attorneys made in
connection with his habeas corpus case, which sought evidence to
support the government's position that Zubaydah was a top al-Qaeda
official. -- But he is identified on the first page of the filing by
his real name, Zayn Al Abidin Muhammad Husayn. He was the first
detainee captured after 9/11 who was subjected to nearly a dozen brutal
torture techniques, which included waterboarding, and was the catalyst,
the public has been told, behind the Bush administration's "enhanced
interrogation" program. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has publicly
admitted that personally approved of Zubaydah's waterboarding. -- His torture was videotaped and the tapes
later destroyed. The destruction of 90 videotapes of his interrogations
is the focus of a high-level criminal investigation being
conducted by John Durham, a federal prosecutor appointed special
counsel in 2008 by then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey." - bold by
webiste editor - also posted at 9/11Truth
---
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20100331032431804
---
For more on this issue
see....9/11-Iraq-Torture
Fables
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909
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Advocate of 9/11
Censorship on Obama's Short List for Supreme Court ---
http://911blogger.com/node/23056
A quote...."Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law Professor and Confidant of
Obama was
appointed to be Obama's head of the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs.
-- He became infamous within this movement for writing a paper on how
to best to combat "Government Conspiracy Theory Groups," including by
covert infiltration, as described by Glen Greenwald. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/15/sunstein
--
And
now
rumor
has
it
that
he's
on
a
short
list
to
replace
John Paul
Stevens on the US Supreme Court. http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/the-horrible-prospect-of-supr...
--
That's
great
-
Eh?
A
real
Constitutionalist
there
who
will
stand
up
for
the
Bill of Rights, including dissent and free speech.
He would be a shoe in for confirmation - what with his Neocon, Big
Brother Street Cred with Republicans and Obama's support. If Obama
nominates this guy it will be one more in a long list of Obama
sell-outs to the Security State." - also
posted
at DProgram
---
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/30/advocate-of-911-censorship-on-obamas-short-list-for-supreme-court/
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CNN
Attempt
To
Portray
Patriots
As
Terrorists
Backfires,
Segment
Fails
To
Air
---
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/30/cnn-attempt-to-portray-patriots-as-terrorists-backfires-segment-fails-to-air/
AJVideos - AJ(1/2)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYE5hcS_x5M
AJ(2/2)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukWGnph1PIs
A
quote...."(PaulWatson) – A CNN Anderson Cooper segment which was set to
demonize critics of big government and Obamacare as violent extremists
backfired after radio host Alex Jones pointed out that corporate media
outlets like CNN were responsible for killing over a million Iraqis as
a consequence of their repeated lies about weapons of mass destruction."
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CNN
Fails
to
Stop
Fall
in
Ratings ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/business/media/30cnn.html?hpw
Related Article - Hey....Alex, this
one's for you. - mpg -- A quote...."CNN continued what has
become a precipitous decline in ratings for its prime-time programs in
the first quarter of 2010, with its main hosts losing almost half their
viewers in a year."
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The
Fear
Factory
Revisited:The
Hutaree
9
and
Remembering
Liberal
Warnings
of
the
Growing
Fascist State
---
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/the-fear-factory-revisitedthe-hutaree-9-and-remembering-a-liberal-warning-of-the-growing-fascist-state/
Special Note - Contains Video - Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc --- A
quote...."As the liberal and “progressive” blogosphere breathlessly
hypes the demonization of militia groups and Tea Party members as the
real “homegrown terrorists” in America, I would ask you to pause for a
second, take a breath, and just THINK for a minute. -- You would think
that after electing Barack Obama, most “progressives” and liberals
would have learned a little something about jumping to conclusions
based solely on emotion based rhetoric. You would think that they would
be wary at this point of those who would mislead them with emotion
based appeals which do nothing more than re-affirm their existing value
structure. Let’s hope the lessons of the award-winning ”Product Obama”
campaign aren’t lost on all the liberal intelligentsia." - Video shown below....
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Talk - Naomi Wolf -
The End of America ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc --- (YouTube 47
min 47 sec - October 14, 2007)
Must View Video - From the history file
- Oct. 14, 2007 -- A
quote...."Talk by Naomi Wolf author of "The End of America: Letter of
Warning To A Young Patriot" given October 11, 2007 at Kane Hall on the
University of Washington campus." -- || Mp3
|| --- http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/25782
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Naomi
Wolf
Thinks
the
Tea
Parties
Help
Fight
Fascism
--
Is
She
Onto Something
or in Fantasy Land?
http://www.alternet.org/news/146184/naomi_wolf_thinks_the_tea_parties_help_fight_fascism_--_is_she_on_to_something_or_in_fantasy_land__?page=entire
Interview - A
quote...."March 30, 2010 | In her bestselling "End
of
America:Letter
of
Warning
to
a
Young
Patriot", ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=atQRGgAACAAJ&dq=end+of+america&cd=1
---
[GoglBkSrch]*, ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=atQRGgAACAAJ&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0
---
Naomi
Wolf
outlines
the
10
warning
signs
that
America
is headed toward a fascist takeover. Using
historical precedents, she explains how our government is mimicking
those of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin through practices like
surveillance of ordinary citizens, restricting the press, developing
paramilitary forces and arbitrarily detaining people." -*links
added
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The
Real
Anti-Americans ---
http://buchanan.org/blog/the-real-anti-americans-3831
A quote...."As Democrats, after a Sunday rally on the Capitol grounds,
marched to the House hand-in-hand to vote health care reform, Tea
Partiers reportedly shouted the “n-word” at John Lewis and another
black congressman. A third was allegedly spat upon. And Barney Frank
was called a nasty name. -- Tea Partiers deny it all. And neither audio
nor video of this alleged incident has been produced, though TV cameras
and voice recorders were everywhere on the Hill."
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FBI
Agent
Discovered
at
Center
of
Alleged
Hutaree
Conspiracy ---
http://www.infowars.com/fbi-agent-discovered-at-center-of-alleged-hutaree-conspiracy/
Geeeee Whiz!!! What a
surprise (roll the eyes) - A quote...."The FBI had an informant
inside the Hutaree group and he participated in the alleged conspiracy
to kill law enforcement officers, according to The Wall Street Journal
today. -- In sworn testimony, Thomas William Piatek is described as a
Cooperating Witness and an undercover FBI agent." - Regarding this issue see quote shown
below....
"....please
note,
the
FBI
is
really
good
at
creating
wannabe
"terrorists"
out
of
illiterate, dope-smoking, homeless, dim-wited,
crack addicts, living
in trailer parks and empty warehouses. By the way, from this
website
editor's point of view should all this time, energy and tax payer
dollars the FBI is so lavishly spending on behalf of our parasitic
class's
plans of propaganda detract from the search for actual terrorist groups
out there -- and after hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been
tortured, imprisoned and millions made homeless or murdered under the
US-NRE's auspices, rest assured there are a few out there
-- and this
lack of focus results in a REAL terrorist attack, Americans should hold
every member of the FBI responsible."
-- *mpg* -- posted at
03-29-10
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How the Left
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the FBI ---
http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=5565
A quote...."Now we are back to the Brown Scare, to militia hysteria, to
fears that the out-of-power anti-government right, Christian groups,
separatists, gunowners, opponents of national social programs, census
and tax resisters and so forth are a great threat to American security.
With all the Bush-era anti-Muslim hysteria and war on terror
authoritarianism still in place, we have under Obama a revitalization
of 1990s-style paranoia about “hate groups,” survivalists and indeed
the entire populist right. Just as Bush conservatives could not
differentiate Saddam Hussein from Osama bin Laden, or an innocent
Muslim doing charity work in Pakistan from an engineer of 9/11, or an
antiwar American activist from an anti-American enemy within giving
comfort to the enemy abroad, so too do the Obama leftists conflate
peaceful separatists with violent racists, peaceful survivalist militia
men with Timothy McVeigh. " -- Folks,
it's
called
Mutt
&
Jeff,
Good
Cop
Bad
Cop,
the
Two
Faced Janus of this
One Party State, the
parasitic class has been playing this sorry old piece of horse crap on
the American people for the last sixty years....and it's REALLY getting
boring. - mpg
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Website
Back
Online ---
http://buchanan.org/blog/website-back-online-3824
Web Censorship Attack/Attempt
- A quote...."After nearly five days our website is back online. Our
most grateful thanks go to Josh at CrisisHost.com web hosting
company. He continues to help us get through every attack from those
who do not want you to read the content on our website. Josh owns one
of the very few companies that truly supports our right to free speech.
- See below the email I sent to our BRIGADE email list. Seems that not
everyone received it. - Please consider
supporting our work. ---
http://buchanan.org/blog/keep-us-online --- It’s not easy
keeping this website up
and running – Thanks!"
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The
Plight of Mass Unemployment in America. What are the Causes?
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18393
Must Read - A
quote...."In an interview with Detroit Free Press and USA Today just
before his "jobs summit" in December, President Obama said "It's just
not going to be possible for us to have a huge second stimulus, because
frankly, we just don't have the money." And "I want to be clear:
while I believe the government has a critical role in creating the
conditions for economic growth, ultimately true economic recovery is
only going to come from the private sector." This was just two
days after he announced a $30 billion per year escalation of the war in
Afghanistan. (emphasis added) -- The president opened the
summit itself by saying that we had to face the fact that our resources
are too limited to finance job creation. But he failed to mention
that the $1.4 trillion deficit tripled last year's deficit due, in
large part, to the bank bailout, which "according to the Inspector
General of TARP, was allocated up to $23.7 trillion (of the people's money) in cash
handouts, loans, debt guarantees and other subsidies" to the financial
sector. (1) That's in addition to the loss of $1.3 trillion in
revenue due to the Bush tax cuts that went overwhelmingly to the
already superfluously wealthy. (2) (italics added)"
also posted at ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25104.htm
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The
crisis
of
neoliberalism ---
http://www.creative-i.info/2010/03/30/the-crisis-of-neoliberalism-by-gerard-dumenil/
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTX5LfKef8M ---
(RNNYuTb -
8min 57sec - March 30, 2010)
RNNVideo -- A
quote...."Dumenil: Neoliberalism imposed a new discipline on worker,
cutting the progress of purchasing power. -- Bio: Dr. Dumnil is
one of the worlds foremost theorists of neoliberalism and economic
crisis and is the author of numerous influential books, many of which
have been translated into several languages. These include "Capital
Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution (2004)" and his
forthcoming "The Crisis of Neoliberalism: from the subprime to the
great contraction."
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177
Countries and Counting - The Bases of Empire ---
http://www.counterpunch.org/swanson03292010.html
Book Review - A quote...."The
Bases
of
Empire:
The
Global
Struggle
Against
U.S.
Military
Posts,"
--- http://books.google.com/books?id=nPAgU6lhAT4C&
dq=The+Bases+of+Empire:+The+Global+Struggle+Against+U.S.+Military+Posts&source=gbs_navlinks_s
[GoglBkSrch]* ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=nPAgU6lhAT4C&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0
---
a
collection
edited
by
Catherine
Lutz,
has
the
potential to
open
American eyes to both the empire they pay for and permit, and to the
world's responses to it. Included in this book is an overview of the
empire of bases, and a detailed look at several parts of the world,
starting with Latin America and the Caribbean, where the U.S.
government's driving mission is the maintenance and expansion of bases,
and where communism has been replaced as an excuse by drugs as much as
by terrorism." - *links added
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Our
President
Is
Deceiving
the
American
Public”:
Pentagon
Papers
Whistleblower
on
President
Obama
and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
---
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/30/our_president_is_deceiving_the_american
A quote...."We are joined by a man who played a major role in
efforts to end the Vietnam War in the 1970s. In 1971, the then-RAND
Corporation analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked to the media what became
known as the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified history outlining
the true extent of US involvement in Vietnam. After avoiding a life
sentence on espionage charges, Daniel Ellsberg has continued to speak
out against US militarism until the present day. [includes rush
transcript]" --
|| Real Video Stream || ---
http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2010/march/video/dnB20100330a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=00:40:52
|| Real Audio Stream || ---
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|| More…
|| --- http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/30/stream
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Allawi's
lead
is
now
in
jeopardy ---
http://www.smh.com.au/world/allawis-lead-is-now-in-jeopardy-20100330-rbkt.html
A quote...."BAGHDAD: A commission with responsibility for stopping
former Baath Party loyalists from returning to public life in Iraq has
mounted a challenge to the country's recent election, saying six
candidates who won seats had been banned from standing. -- The
Accountability and Justice Commission played a prominent role before
the election this month, outlawing dozens of candidates and sparking
fears of another mass Sunni boycott, as well as concerns that it had a
political agenda."
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Iraq's
new
ruling
elite
show
contempt
for
voters ---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/29/iraq-elite-contempt-voters
A quote...."The first indication of problems arose in January, when the
justice and accountability commission – the organisation charged with
pursuing the de-Ba'athification process set in train by the Americans
in 2003 – issued edicts seeking to ban 511 individual candidates and 14
party lists from the elections. On the eve of the vote the commission
banned a further 50 candidates. Meanwhile, Ali Faisal al-Lami, the head
of the justice and accountability commission, also ran as a
parliamentary candidate, in a blatant conflict of interest indicative
of a system where governmental institutions have been colonised by
political parties and run as private fiefdoms."
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Sadr
Calls
for
Referendum
on
Maliki ---
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/03/30/sadr-calls-for-referendum-on-maliki/
A quote...."Sadr has a long history of enmity toward both Maliki and
Allawi, and Maliki’s issuance of an arrest warrant for Sadr just days
before the vote could come back to haunt him, now that the cleric is so
politically powerful. In the meantime, delegates from both blocs have
been flocking to Tehran, Sadr’s base of operations, in an effort to
curry support. -- The call for a referendum, however, is somewhat
perplexing. Few would seriously imagine that such a thing would be
possible, and once a caretaker government takes over there would appear
to be no legal authority capable of authorizing it."
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Media
Disinformation
regarding
America’s
Afghan
War ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18367
Special Note - Presstitute Alert
- A quote...."Examining a microcosm can shed light on the larger
reality. I have chosen to analyze a small mountain hamlet, Chagoti Ghar
(Chergotah), located some forty kilometers east of Khost city in
eastern Afghanistan in a time frame separated by eight and a third
years – November 23rd 2001 and March 24th 2010. Both times, two Afghan
civilians perished as a result of foreign occupation fire. In both
instances, the U.S corporate media was silent. Both times, to pierce
the veil of silence spun by the American military industrial media
information complex (MIMIC) a person had to turn to independent,
regional media;"
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A Bomber
Jacket Doesn't Cover the Blood ---
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/29
A quote...."President Obama has taken a further plunge into the kind of
war abyss that consumed predecessors named Johnson, Nixon and Bush. --
On Sunday, during his first presidential trip to Afghanistan, Obama
stood before thousands of American troops to proclaim the sanctity of
the war effort. He played the role deftly -- a commander in chief,
rallying the troops -- while wearing a bomber jacket. -- There was
something candidly macabre about the decision to wear that leather
jacket, adorned with an American Eagle and the words "Air Force One."
The man in the bomber jacket doesn't press the buttons that fire the
missiles and drop the warheads, but he gives the orders that make it
all possible. -- One way or another, we're used to seeing presidents
display such tacit accouterments of carnage."
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US-NATO
Atrocities
Committed
in
Afghanistan:
How
Did
We
Become
this
Pacified
to
War? ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25107.htm
A quote...."If the U.S. public looked long and hard into a mirror
reflecting the civilian atrocities that have occurred in Afghanistan,
over the past ten months, we would see ourselves as people who have
collaborated with and paid for war crimes committed against innocent
civilians who meant us no harm."`
also
posted
at GlobalRsrch
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18402
& OnlineJournal
---
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5747.shtml
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Canada
tells
Clinton
troops
are
leaving ---
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EP1ALG0&show_article=1 --
i.e.
Hideous Hillary strikes out. - mpg
A quote...."OTTAWA (AP) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that Canada's military
mission in Afghanistan will end in 2011. -- Clinton went on Canadian
television on Monday and said the U.S. would like Canadian troops to
remain in Afghanistan past 2011 and suggested they could switch from a
combat to a training role."
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No
means
no,
PM
tells
Clinton - Yeah.....in
addition
to being hideous, she's hard of hearing too. - mpg
---
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/no-means-no-pm-tells-clinton/article1517001/
Related Article - A quote...."Prime Minister Stephen Harper told U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this morning that Canada’s combat
mission in Afghanistan ends in 2011. -- Mr. Harper and Mrs. Clinton met
for [just] 20 minutes [well that was short and sour] at
a hotel in Aylmer, Que., across the river from Ottawa where G8 foreign
ministers are meeting today."
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Making
a
Killing:
US-NATO
Fuel
New
Arms
Race
in
the
Middle
East ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18400
A quote...."Now, here’s where it gets interesting. The top four arms
suppliers to the region are the US, France, Germany and Britain – the
very Western powers that are falling over themselves to warn the
“international community” of the “threat posed by Iran”. -- Tellingly,
within the wider Middle East region it is the Gulf enclave opposite
Iran that is the growing hotspot for Western arms deals."
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Offering No
Evidence, US Continues anti-Iranian Propaganda Drive
--- http://empirestrikesblack.com/archives/209
Special Note - Presstitute Alert
- (The New York Times again for the
nth time, maybe they should get an award for being one of this nation's
top producing Presstitutes?) -- A quote...."The Obama
administration is ratcheting up its war threats against Iran in a
calculated effort to provoke a crisis with Tehran that could produce a
general war in the Middle East. In multiple venues—planted articles in
the press, the release of a think tank study on military options,
speeches at the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, and congressional
declarations—Washington is building a case for a new eruption of US
military aggression."
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Turkey
to
build
railway
to
connect
with
Iran:
report ---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-03/30/c_13230949.htm
A quote...."Turkey is preparing to build a railway in its eastern part
to connect its railway network with Iran, the semi-official Anatolia
news agency reported Tuesday. -- The railway will link eastern Turkish
destinations of Kars, Igdir, Aralik and Dilucu and is part of the
Istanbul-Islamabad railway project, said the agency." - also posted at Mathaba
--- http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=623169
& GlobalTimes
---
http://world.globaltimes.cn/europe/2010-03/517486.html
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Iran
rediscovers
value of Persian roots ---
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LC30Ak01.html
A quote...."Over the weekend, Iran hosted the presidents of Iraq,
Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan to celebrate Nowruz, the
ancient Persian new year marking the first day of spring that is
celebrated by some 300 million people around the world who together
form an important cultural bloc."
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Pakistani
MPs
abandon
US
visit
over
body
scanning - Hip
Hip Hooray!! Good for them! - mpg
---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122076§ionid=351020401
A quote...."Pakistani lawmakers belonging to different political
parties have refused to visit the United States amid a row over body
scanning at American airports. -- A senior member of the Pakistani
Parliament told Press TV on condition of anonymity that 18 lawmakers
had rejected official invitation extended by the US embassy in
Islamabad. -- The lawmakers say they would not visit the US until their
exemption from scanning at US airports."
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Japanese rally against US base
---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121988§ionid=351020406
A quote...."Thousands of Japanese from Tokunoshima Island have gathered
to protest against the government's plan to relocate a US base to their
island."
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World
Bank
official
says
no
case
for
yuan
revaluation ---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/business/2010-03/31/c_13231749.htm
A quote...."BEIJING, March 31 -- A leading figure from the World Bank
has rejected U.S. government claims that the Chinese yuan is
undervalued."
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Europe
unlikely
to join any new yuan offensive ---
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62S2L520100329
Special Note - A
quote...."(Reuters) - If Washington picks a fight with China over the
weakness of the state-managed currency, it will do so without European
reinforcement, not least because the euro has weakened in tandem with
Greece's debt crisis."
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The
growing
danger of trade war ---
http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/pers-m31.shtml
A quote...."Demands for trade war measures against China are mounting
in Washington as the April 15 deadline approaches for the US Treasury
Department to submit its semi-annual report to Congress on currency
matters. The key issue is whether to declare China a “currency
manipulator” and thus open the way for retaliatory US penalties."
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Ecuador,
Venezuela
Discuss
Military
Cooperation ---
http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=354430&CategoryId=10717
A quote...."QUITO – Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and Venezuelan
counterpart Hugo Chavez met on Friday for talks that centered on joint
economic initiatives, but the visiting head of state also raised the
possibility of military cooperation in the face of threats posed by the
U.S. “empire.”"
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Brazil,
Uruguay
to
Boost
UNASUR ---
http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=175134&Itemid=1
A quote...."Montevideo, Mar 30 (Prensa Latina) Uruguayan Foreign
Minister Luis Almagro said on Tuesday that the presidents of Brazil and
Uruguay agreed to give a boost to UNASUR''s performance as a
pro-integration and political coordination factor in the region."
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Colombia:
FARC
Frees
Pablo
Emilio
Moncayo ---
http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=175136&Itemid=1
A quote...."Florida, Colombia, Mar 30 (Prensa Latina) The Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) released Sgt. Pablo Emilio Moncayo."
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U.S. Bases
in Colombia Rattle the Region ---
http://www.progressive.org/danglmarch10.html
A quote...."Palanquero is at the heart of a ten-year, renewable
military agreement signed between the United States and Colombia on
October 30, 2009, which gives Washington access to seven military bases
in the country. Though officials from the U.S. and Colombian
governments contend the agreement is aimed at fighting narcotraffickers
and guerrillas within Colombian borders, a U.S. Air Force document
states the deal offers a “unique opportunity” for “conducting full
spectrum operations” in the region against various threats, including
“anti-U.S. governments.”
also
posted at CommonDreams ---
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/19-6
& UpsideDownWrld
---
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/colombia-archives-61/2412-us-bases-in-colombia-rattle-the-region
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Israel
Threatens
Lebanon - A New Middle East War? ---
http://www.counterpunch.org/hallinan03302010.html
A quote...."When Israeli Minister without Portfolio Yossi Peled said
recently that a war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah was “just a matter of
time” and that such a conflict would include Syria, most observers
dismissed the comment as little more than posturing by a right-wing
former general. But Peled’s threat has been backed by Israeli military
maneuvers near the Lebanese border, violations of Lebanese airspace,
and the deployment of an anti-missile system on Israel’s northern
border."
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Israeli
leak
suspect
held
in
secret
house
arrest
---
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-leak-suspect-held-in-secret-house-arrest-1930672.html
A quote...."For the past three months, a 23-year-old Israeli journalist
has been under a secret house arrest over charges that she leaked
classified information suggesting that the Israel military violated a
legal ruling on killings of militants in the West Bank."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64644&hd=&size=1&l=e
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UN
chief
says
Israeli
settlement
activities
illegal ---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-03/27/c_13227243.htm
A quote...."SIRTE, Libya, March 27 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary General Ban
Ki- moon said Israeli settlement activities are illegal and against the
international law, stressing that they should come to an end. -- In a
speech at the opening session of the 22nd Arab Summit, the UN chief
addressed that the significance of Jerusalem should be respected as a
capital for both Israel and the future Palestinian state."
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Cutting
aid
to
Israel
is
quickly
becoming
conventional
wisdom
---
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/03/cutting-aid-to-israel-is-quickly-becoming-conventional-wisdom.html
Action Alert -- Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because it's the moral and just
thing to do. - mpg --
A quote...."Business Week writer Celestine Bohlen makes a
case
for
cutting
US
financial
ties
with
Israel: ---
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-30
/end-israel-s-u-s-allowance-so-both-can-gain-celestine-bohlen.html
---
The
advantages
for
the
U.S.
are
obvious:
It
would
save money at a time when the federal
debt is zooming out of sight. The sums aren’t great — a drop compared
with the $1.4 trillion budget deficit in fiscal 2009 — but it would
take some of the sting out of Israel’s stubborn opposition to U.S.
policies." -- For
more on how
to
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the
upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/ --- of this website. - mpg
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Israeli
Boycott
Campaign-
Set
to
Kick
off
on
30th
March
---
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=0e3f0fb5f7cfdd8402bfc27d992f7a47&mode=details#0e3f0fb5f7cfdd8402bfc27d992f7a47
Action Alert -- Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because if the world doesn't,
Israel will continue to murder
innocent men, women and children. - mpg -- A quote...."A
coalition of Palestinian solidarity movements are tightening their
plans for a major Israeli boycott campaign, set to kick off on Tuesday
30th March. Consumers will be urged to boycott all Israeli products as
part of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, in protest
of the government's expanding Zionist policies, which has seen tensions
rise in Palestine over the past few weeks." -- For
more on how
to
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the
upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/ --- of this website. - mpg
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Health
workers
and
advocates
support
call
for
U
of
Arizona
to
divest ---
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11175.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
Action Alert -- Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because it MUST be done. - mpg -
A quote...."A joint group of more than 50 Jewish,
Christian, Muslim and agnostic medical and health advocates of the
Tucson and surrounding region, following student initiative, are
calling on the University of Arizona to divest from corporations
benefiting from the global health and humanitarian crisis in Palestine
caused by Israel's military occupation, supported by the United
States." -- For
more on how
to
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the
upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/ --- of this website. - mpg
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Children
of
Gaza ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25110.htm
Alt
--- http://www.archive.org/details/ChildrenOfGaza ---
(Englands Channe 4 (UK)’s Dispatches - 47 min 59 sec Monday 15th March
2010)
Must View Video - A
quote...."A moving, must-see video that first aired on Channel 4 (UK)’s
Dispatches on 15 March. BAFTA-winning filmmaker Jezza Neumann follows
the lives of three children for over a year. The children are amazing:
well-spoken, reflective, resilient, understandably vengeful and
fearful, but very endearing. The toll this inhumanity has taken is also
clear." -- "How You Can Help
-
To
donate
to
the
children
in
this
film,
and
for
information
on how to
help them and others, please visit this website http://childrenofgazafund.org/
"
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Palestine's
"turbulent
priest"
delivers
a
blistering
Easter
message ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64664&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."He warns of the relentless Zionist programme to completely
Judaise Jerusalem, alter its features, expel its people, destroy its
houses, seize its land and build numerous settlements. "We lament
Jerusalem, and miss its beautiful ceremonies. This year thousands of
tourists will weep with us. They will not be able to march the 'Way of
the Cross' with Palestinians. There will be no national Palestinian
Folklore to discover or Arab religious crafts to take with them as
gifts, and no local prayers, hymns and music to experience in the warm
faith of believers in Palestine. They will be shocked entering the Holy
Sepulchre to find Israeli police inside."
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EU
officials
to attend Palm Sunday detainees' court appearance ---
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=272952
A quote...."Hebron – Ma'an – Representatives of the European Union,
French and Spanish offices in Jerusalem will attend the court
appearance of a Fatah Central Committee member detained on Palm Sunday
during Bethlehem protests, the official's aides said."
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"We
are
defending
our
culture":
an
interview
with
Samir
Joubran ---
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11169.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=
feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
A quote...."Earlier this month the Palestinian group Le Trio Joubran
gave a concert in Geneva to support the work of the Association
Meyrin-Palestine, which is planning to build a cultural center in Gaza.
Le Trio Joubran is comprised of three brothers, Samir, Wissam and Adnan
Joubran, who play the oud, a pear-shaped instrument from the Middle
East related to the lute. The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri
Nieuwhof spoke with Samir Joubran about the trio's music."
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IOA
plans
more
expropriation
of
Palestinian
land
in
OJ
---
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7%2b1di5PulJ9AxsApbZj%2bn
dFNPdpSXGAWnb1b5hY9w5cC%2fCqXDOR6TpmgAbNnuA7%2b4o9YuU6KwXR2foUyUDclrwTxxl8TvA7uH%2bkvPekIy56c%3d
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces
(IOF) have barred farmers in Aisawiya town in occupied Jerusalem from
reaching their farmlands in a bid to expropriate them later."
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Israel's
war
against
children ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64673&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."Naseem Jawad Abu Dakka, 14, was playing in front of his
grandfather’s house, under the lemon tree in the front of the house,
800 metres from the area where Israeli army the made an incursion,
firing tanks shells and bullets. One medium calibre bullet entered his
back and exited from his chest, leading to a fracture in the spine in
the ninth and tenth vertebrae. The second bullet pierced his chest and
has harmed him so much that his spleen had to be removed."
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Egyptian
forces
detain
12
Gaza
children ---
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=272769
A quote...."Al-Arish – Ma'an – Egyptian authorities detained 12
Palestinian children attempting to enter Egypt on Monday, through
Gaza's subterranean tunnel complex." - also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64653&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israel's
blood
diamonds ---
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11170.shtml
A quote...."Israel -- which stands accused of war crimes, crimes
against humanity, ethnic cleansing, genocide, the crime of apartheid,
extrajudicial executions within and outside the territory it controls
and persistent serious breaches of the Geneva Conventions -- is the
world's leading exporter of diamonds (see Figure 1 below). Israeli
companies import rough diamonds for cutting and polishing, adding
significantly to their value, and export them globally via distribution
hubs in Antwerp, London, Hong Kong, New York and Mumbai."
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My Father
was a Freedom Fighter Released in the US ---
http://empirestrikesblack.com/archives/224
Book Review/Release - A
quote...."LONDON/NEW YORK – "My
Father
was
a
Freedom
Fighter:
Gaza’s
Untold
Story", ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=V-VlPgAACAAJ&dq=My+Father+was+a+Freedom+Fighter:+Gaza%E2%80%99s+Untold+Story,&cd=1
---
[GoglBkSrch], ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=V-VlPgAACAAJ&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0
---
the
latest
book
by
Palestinian-American
author
Ramzy
Baroud,
was
released in the United
States, on Tuesday, March 30, 2010, the author and the publisher of the
book announced today. - Released in January 2010 in the U.K. and in
many countries around the world, the book has already garnered the
praise of many authors and intellectuals. It was described by
Aljazeera as “a book that finally placed Gaza back into the heart of
the Palestinian struggle.” - *links added/changed
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========== ====
State
Debt
Woes
Grow
Too
Big
to
Camouflage ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/business/economy/30states.html
A quote...."California, New York and other states are showing many of
the same signs of debt overload that recently took Greece to the brink
— budgets that will not balance, accounting that masks debt, the use of
derivatives to plug holes, and armies of retired public workers
who are counting on benefits that are proving harder and harder to
pay." - also posted at Yahoo
---
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/109211/state-debt-woes-grow-too-big-to-camouflage
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Monday March 29th 2010 - links
page
The
Neoliberals;
A
Bi-partisan,
Hybrid
Political-Corporate
Party
in
Service
of
Predatory
Globalization
---
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/the-neoliberal-party-the-bipartisan-trickle-down-party-of-abject-greed/
Special Note - A
quote...."The Road to Neoliberalization: A bi-partisan not-for-profit
Think Tank called ”The Neoliberal War on Democracy Foundation” -
They don’t want you to know their name, much less to speak it. They
don’t want you to know they exist, much less to join them. They
don’t want your participation, they don’t want your suggestions,
because quite simply put, they don’t want you."
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[former]
CIA
Officer-
Robert
Steele
Stresses
the
Importance
of
Blogging
---
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/29/video-cia-officer-robert-steele-stresses-the-importance-of-blogging/
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4lLzSJhEPA ---
(YuTb
10m58s March 26, 2010)
Video - Special Note - (For hard working bloggers everywhere....)
-- A quote...."This is a follow up montage to those who say Bloggers
and making videos (Vloggers) and those who comment, are not making a
difference"
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You
Say You Want a Revolution? Think Again ---
http://www.lewrockwell.com/maloney/maloney20.1.html
Special Note - Quote of the Day...."At this point
in time, the average American citizen neither understands nor desires
liberty. Today, even in the unlikely event of victory on the
battlefield for the forces of liberty, it would all quickly amount to
nothing. Freedom is impossible to force onto a people, and we would
soon find, as even did God with the rebellious angels He cast out of
heaven, that he "who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his
foe." (Milton, 32) -- So leave your AK hanging over the fireplace, it
is not time for that." - Yet. - mpg
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Saudis
fund
Balkan
Muslims
spreading
hate
of
the
West
[&
East] ---
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7078771.ece
Special Note - They've been doing this non-stop for
almost thirty years folks, with the FULL
support of the US-NRE, Israel and Britain. - For more on this issue see....US
Support
of
Terror
-
Madrasas ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#MADRASSAS
---
A
quote...."SAUDI
ARABIA
is
pouring
hundreds
of
millions
of
pounds
into
Islamist
groups in the Balkans, some of which spread
hatred of the West and recruit fighters for jihad in Afghanistan. -
According to officials in Macedonia, Islamic fundamentalism threatens
to destabilise the Balkans. Strict Wahhabi and Salafi factions funded
by Saudi organisations are clashing with traditionally moderate local
Muslim communities. - Fundamentalists have financed the construction of
scores of mosques and community centres as well as handing some
followers up to £225 a month. They are expected not only to grow
beards but also to persuade their wives to wear the niqab, or face
veil, a custom virtually unknown in the liberal Islamic tradition of
the Balkans."
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Terrorists
responsible for Moscow blasts will be eliminated - Putin (WRAPUP 1)
---
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100329/158349758.html
Multiple Articles, Vids, and More
- (Related Article?) -- A quote...."The terrorists behind the two
blasts that killed at least 38 people in the Moscow metro system on
Monday morning will be eliminated, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin vowed."
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Maliki
Orders
Elected
Sunni
MPs
Detained
as
Vote
Dispute
Turns
Ugly
---
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/03/27/maliki-orders-elected-sunni-mps-detained-as-vote-dispute-turns-ugly/
A quote...."It is only one day after the results were announced, and
already the battle to form the next government in Iraq is turning ugly,
as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki seems intent on eating into rival
Ayad Allawi’s two seat plurality any way possible."
also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/221098
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Former
CIA
asset
Allawi
touted
as
next
Iraqi
prime
minister ---
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/iraq-m29.shtml
A quote...."The result of the March 7 Iraq election has given the
largest bloc of seats in the 325-member parliament to the Sunni-based
and ostensibly secular Iraqiya coalition headed by Iyad Allawi, a
former CIA asset and one-time US-installed prime minister. With just 91
legislators, however, Allawi needs to strike agreements with other
factions to obtain the necessary 163-seat majority." -- also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/221172
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Sadrists
Pivotal
Party,
Vows
Liberation
of
Iraq
from
Foreigners;
Tehran
attempts
to
Broker
Alliance
---
http://www.juancole.com/2010/03/sadrists-pivotal-party-vows-liberation.html
A quote...."No sooner, the article says, than the election tallies
began coming in did the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
begin gradually releasing Sadrist prisoners who had been in Iraqi
penitentiaries for years. Al-Hayat's sources say that in Babil
Province, orders were received from the government to release members
of the Sadr Movement, in an attempt to mollify that group. -- Sadrist
leader Liqa' Al-Yasin said that the Sadrists have now become the spinal
column of the Iraqi National Alliance. He said that the movement had
demonstrated that it had a large public base, and asserted that that
base is cultured, aware, and abiding by the principles both of Islamic
Law and the Nation. Al-Yasin said that the Sadrists would work for the
liberation of Iraq and the realization of national sovereignty.
[Translation: they want US troops out of their country tout de suite.]"
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Iraq:
The
Exodus
Continues ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64623&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."What's wrong with this picture? Eight years
after the U.S.-led invasion, with the phased American military
withdrawal already underway and following elections this month that the
Obama administration hopes will mark the closing chapter of U.S.
involvement in Iraq, there are still
more Iraqi refugees leaving their
country than returning to it. According
to
the
latest
report ---
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/page?page=49e486426
--- from the U.N. High Commission on Refugees,
released last week, 24,000 Iraqi refugees sought asylum in the
industrialized nations in 2009. But that's not counting those who
crossed into Syria or Jordan, who have in the past tended to be more
numerous but are not covered in the U.N. surveys. According
to
a
Brookings
Institution
ongoing
Iraq
watch, ---
http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2010/0216_iraqi_displacement.aspx
---
there
are
now
1.2
million
Iraqi
refugees
in
Syria,
and
around 450,000 in Jordan." - bold
by website editor
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Washington
[i.e.
AIPAC]
ratchets
up
war
threats
against
Iran ---
http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/iran-m29.shtml
War Alert - A
quote...."The Obama administration is ratcheting up its war threats
against Iran in a calculated effort to provoke a crisis with Tehran
that could produce a general war in the Middle East. In multiple
venues—planted articles in the press, the release of a think tank study
on military options, speeches at the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, and
congressional declarations—Washington is building a case for a new
eruption of US military aggression."
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An
Israeli
attack
on
Iran
via
the
Saudi
route
is
practically
impossible
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=220728
Alt
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/anisraeliattackoniranviathesaudiroute-wariniraq-cached-032910
War Alert - Tactics Alert - From the history file
- (originally written in
2006) - Which means the
US-NRE or the Saudi Royals or Both
will have to participate in the attack on Iran. - mpg -- A
quote...."An Israeli airborne attack on Iran via the Saudi route is
practically impossible because of the long distance to prime target at
Natanz, near Esfahan and the ability to safely refuel in mid-air, at
least twice... " -- See also....
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Israel:
A Handful of Aerial Tankers and More Regional Sway
--- http://www.lebanonwire.com/0808MLN1/0808220116STR.asp
Alt
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/israelahandfullofaerialtankers-stratfor-cached-032910
Israel
Bolsters KC-707 Refueling Fleet ---
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2428785/posts
Alt
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/isrealbolsterskc707refuelingfleet-abendavid-avweek-cached-032910
Ankara
won’t
allow
Israel
to
use
Turkish
airspace
in
attacking
Iran
---
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=173817&bolum=100
Israeli Air
Force increases KC-707 Tanker Fleet - contains video
--- http://armoredd.com/blog/archives/2074
Alt/Vid
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UhMjrx61qA
How
would
Israel
attack
Iran?
---
http://www.examiner.com/x-17537-Defense-Dept-Examiner%7Ey2009m9d26-How-would-Israel-attack-Iran
EADS:
Saudis
will
double
order
for
A330
aerial
refueling
tanker
---
http://blog.al.com/press-register-business/2009/07/eads_saudis_will_double_order.html
EADS
tanker
program
affirms
maturity
with
refueling
of
NATO
AWACS
aircraft
---
http://www.eadsnorthamerica.com/1024/en/breaking_news/2010%20Press%20Releases/2010_02_02_aerial_refueling_milestone.html
Saudis
Seek
E-3
Fleet
Upgrades
---
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/saudis-seek-awacs-upgrades-04405/
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Turkey
PM says opposed to Iran sanctions, urges diplomacy ---
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1159931.html
A quote...."Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he did
not favor imposing economic sanctions to pressure Iran into showing
that it has no covert nuclear weapons program. - Erdogan discussed
different approaches with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel to
international efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions, but made
clear Turkey's reluctance to back the use of sanctions." -- also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/221209
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Protests
worldwide
on
Aafia
Siddiqui
Day,
Sunday
March
28,
2010 ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64620&hd=&size=1&l=e
Action Update - A
quote...."Today is the seventh anniversary of the day that Pakistani
neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her three young children were
reportedly abducted in Karachi, leading to Aafia’s disappearance for
over five years — when she was apparently held in secret prisoners and
subjected to appalling abuse — before she resurfaced in Afghanistan and
supposedly attempted to shoot a number of US soldiers."
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US
Bagram
Airbase
hit
during
Obama
visit ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121910§ionid=351020403
A quote...."The US Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan has been hit by
rockets during an official visit by President Barack Obama to the
war-torn country. -- Afghan officials told Press TV on Monday that
three rockets targeted the airfield."
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Taliban
claims
shooting
down
NATO
chopper
in
S
Afghanistan ---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-03/29/c_13229069.htm
Some quotes...."KABUL, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Taliban militants fighting
Afghan and NATO-led troops have claimed responsibility for shooting
down a NATO helicopter that crashed in Afghanistan's southern Zabul
province on Monday morning." -- "In the press release, the NATO-led
ISAF forces also ruled out the involvement of hostile fire in the
chopper crash, adding there are no indications that it was caused by
insurgent action." -- "This was the third NATO chopper crashed in
Afghanistan over the past week. Previously two helicopters crashed in
Wardak and Kunduz provinces respectively." -- Editor's
Note - If the Afghan resistance can get their hands on, or even
worse (or better from their perspective), be able to manufacture
(they're really not all that hard to make) effective, long range (ten
to twenty miles), man-portable anti-aircraft and anti-amour weapons,
the US-NRE's and Israel's neo-colonial ambitions for countries
throughout the Middle East would come to an abrupt and highly expensive
halt. -- Think of what would happen if Iran decides to make these
weapons in quantity and stockpile them in the event they're attacked by
Israel. Which it appears they are in fact doing. All they'd
have to do is release their stockpiles after they'd been attacked and
that would be the end of that. - mpg
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Russian
‘Nuke’
Bombers
Invade
UK
Airspace…Again ---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7997-0-28-28--.html
A quote...."People may be surprised to know that our crews have
successfully scrambled to intercept Russian aircraft on more than 20
occasions since the start of 2009. -- "Our pilots, navigators and
indeed all the support personnel at RAF Leuchars work very hard to
deliver the UK Quick Reaction Alert Force 24 hours a day, which can be
scrambled in minutes, to defend the UK from unidentified aircraft
entering our airspace, or aircraft in distress." -- Gawd Dang!! Ain't that amazing
folks!! The UK scrambles their jets within minutes every time an
alert occurs to intercept those Ruskies whereas on 9/11 it took almost
TWO HOURS for the US-NRE's vaunted Air Force to even TRY to intercept
some slow flying passenger jets. Just think about it for awhile
folks....it'll come to you. - mpg
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Russia
to have military training centre in Kyrgyzstan ---
http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/03/29/5772588.html
A quote...." Russia and Kyrgyzstan have confirmed commitment to an
agreement between their Presidents at a summit last summer for a
Russian military training centre on Kyrgyz
territory. Head of the Collective
Security Treaty Organization Nikolai Bordiuzha told this to the press
on Monday after emerging from talks with officials in the Kyrgyz
capital Bishkek. He said a formal paper is in the
works. The planned training centre would
replace all existing Russian military facilities in Kyrgyzstan
and be available for use by the Joint Rapid Reaction Force of the CSTO.
The Organization brings this country and Kyrgyzstan together with
Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan."
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Putin, China's Xi
vow 'strategic' support in first meeting ---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/221100
A quote...."MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Xi
Jinping, tipped to become China's president, hailed the strength of
bilateral ties Tuesday as they looked to forge a counterbalance to the
power of the US. -- "We are in favour of Russia playing an important
role in international and regional affairs," Xi, currently China's
vice-president, said after the pair held their first talks. "We will
surely support you."
also posted
at WarInIraq
---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/221100
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Castro’s
secret
archives:
US
Special
Ops
prepares
to
snatch
five
decades
of
damaging
material ---
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5738.shtml
A quote...."(WMR)
--- http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ --- WMR has
learned from knowledgeable sources in the Pentagon that the
U.S. Special Operations Command has recently been tasked to come up
with a covert operation designed to snatch the secret archives complied
over five decades by former Cuban President Fidel Castro. -- Our
sources report that among Castro’s archives are documents proving the
collaboration of top U.S. Mafia figures, including Mafia financial boss
Meyer Lansky, with the CIA in the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy in Dallas in 1963. Castro apparently kept track of many of
those involved in the assassination of Kennedy because they were also
actively involved in anti-Castro plots associated with right-wing Cuban
exiles that were organized out of Miami, New Orleans, Houston, and
Dallas, cities where the Mafia was extremely active."
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Honduras:
The
risks
of
Practicing
Journalism ---
http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=174630&Itemid=1
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Mar 29 (Prensa Latina) Honduras has become one
of the most dangerous places to practice journalism if we take into
account the murders of five journalists during March. -- The
most recent crimes took place last weekend in Olancho department, where
hired assassins massacred Jose Bayardo Mairena and Victor Manuel Juarez
some minutes after they finished a space news program in Super 10 radio
station in Catacamas locality." -- Hillary
must
be
so
"exicited"
by
her
new
death
squads,
she
might
even
be
"turned on" by the photos in the article above. These are the
people you vote for folks, and this is what they knowingly enable. - mpg -- For more on this
issue see....Hideous
Hillary's
New
Death
Squads
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/archives/archfile-mnpg-110209-010210.html#HHNDS
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Obama
Just Got His Private Army ---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-8021-0-15-15--.html
A quote...."Remember when Obama said he wanted a “national security
force”? Not the national guard, but a civilian one that has not sworn
to uphold the Constitution? On July 2, 2008 in a speech in Colorado
Springs, Barack Obama called for a police state. -- Remember that first
alarming glimpse of what that army might look like? Notice how much
these “Hitler youth” type young men talk about health care! -- Obama
just got his private army… …And no one seems to have noticed. It
is buried in the Senate revisions to the health care bill."
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More on
Obama's Insurance Bail-Out-Boondoggle No-Care Bill....
Rep.
Burgess: Government Can Force Us to Buy General Motors Products If
Obamacare Mandate Upheld in Court
--- http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/63435
A quote...."CNSNews.com also asked Burgess, “If the federal government
mandates that you have to purchase health insurance, is there any legal
commodity that the federal government cannot require individuals to
purchase?” -- “That’s the next step and what else?” said Burgess.
“Could the federal government require all of us to purchase a General
Motors product? And the answer is yes.” -- “If this mandate is
ruled, upheld by the courts, it opens the door for all kinds of
mischief by the federal government,” he said. “We’ll be better
off not opening this door or closing it very, very quickly.”
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====
Algerian
authorities
arrest
Mossad
agent
holding
forged
passport
---
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7xKq0heBgvE3HdIxIUBR9WKWsj5mO1AgoP
OLFaBFN%2bqOy8%2bXzx9c%2b7vvT7vlC%2biQA5%2fwyAWX5EFUqWCsGBYvs3tIhWW2o%2bxSOG8AZn2AA204%3d
A quote...."ALGERIA, (PIC)-- Algerian newspaper revealed on Sunday that
the authorities in Algeria arrested a secret agent working for the
Mossad, Israel’s intelligence apparatus, and holding a forged Spanish
passport." - also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64622&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Report:
Israel
copied
thousands
of
passports ---
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=272431
Special Note - Hey folks....remember the fifteen "named"
Saudi "citizens" out of the nineteen
"terrorists" (patsies) who carried out 9/11, many
of whom ---
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/hijackers.html
--- later
turned ---
http://guardian.150m.com/september-eleven/hijackers-
alive.htm --- out to be
alive? ---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1559151.stm --- No
doubt
many
of
the
terrorist-patsies
were
indeed
Saudi
citizens,
but
many
of
them
also weren't who the FBI claimed them to be. That EXACT sort of thing will
usually happen with pass-port
duplication. Gee, one wonders why the 9/11 commission didn't
investigate this issue, or the FBI. One TRULY wonders what
country would have
been highly
motivated to "help" lamp-light (pave the way) for a terrorist attack on
the US-NRE to enable the completion of the PNAC
Protocols? ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409
---
A quote
shown below....
"Further, the
process of
transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be
a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new
Pearl Harbor"
Must be just ANOTHER one of
those amazing coincidences, ain't that right folks? - mpg
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Militia
Raids
Part
Of
Government
Effort
to
Provoke
Violence,
Purge
Dissent
---
http://www.prisonplanet.com/militia-raids-part-of-government-effort-to-provoke-violence-purge-dissent.html
Ahhhh, but please note, the FBI
is really good at creating wannabe
"terrorists" out of illiterate, dope-smoking, homeless, dim-wited,
crack addicts, living
in trailer parks and empty warehouses. By the way, from this
website
editor's point of view should all this time, energy and tax payer
dollars the FBI is so lavishly spending on behalf of our parasitic
class's
plans of propaganda detract from the search for actual terrorist groups
out there -- and after hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been
tortured, imprisoned and millions made homeless or murdered under the
US-NRE's auspices, rest assured there are a few out there
-- and this
lack of focus results in a REAL terrorist attack, Americans should hold
every member of the FBI responsible. - mpg -- A
quote...."News of a bust on nine members of a militia group in Detroit
who were planning to “levy war” against the United States and “oppose
by force” the nation’s government, should be treated with extreme
suspicion, given that every major terror bust in the U.S. in recent
years has been contrived." - also
posted at DProgram
---
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/29/militia-raids-part-of-government-effort-to-provoke-violence-purge-dissent/
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Tzipi
Livni:
“the
ONLY
targets
are
Military
targets”
A
Video
by
Shadi
Nassar
---
http://www.creative-i.info/2010/02/27/tzipi-livni-the-only-targets-are-military-targets-a-video-by-shadi-nassar/
Video - (This is a must view
video) - Alt/Vid#1-BlipTV
---
http://blip.tv/file/3272175
Alt/Site
---
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/27/tzipi-livni-the-only-targets-are-military-targets-a-video-by-shadi-nassar/?utm_source=feedburner&
utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PalestineThinkTank+%28Palestine+Think+Tank%29
Alt/Vid#2-VodPod
---
http://vodpod.com/watch/3133520-tzipi-livni-the-only-targets-are-military-targets-a-video-by-shadi-nassar?pod=creativei
AltSite
---
http://youngfoxredux.blogspot.com/2009/01/truth-about-gaza-massacre-video.html
---
This video was previously
posted
on this site, but I can't find it anywhere. Most curious. As a result
of this indiscretion by this website editor, it'll be posted at the top
of
this page for a period of thirty days, 'till 03-28-10 - Please post it
on your website and pass it on. - mpg -- A quote...."A truly
outstanding video by Shadi
Nassar that shows clips of Tzipi Livni and others, during the Israeli
wanton destruction of Gaza known as “Operation Cast Lead”. Her words
contradict the actions of her government and army."
For more on this issue see....No
Leadership
From
Obama.
-
Oh
Contraire!
-
12-28-08
-
mpg
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/noleadershipfromobama-ohcontraire-mpg-reficultnias-122808
& Gaza
Invasion
of
12/27/08 ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/thegazainvasion-mpg-weblist-122708
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A
Thirteen
Year
Old
Girl
in
Israeli
Jail ---
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2010/03/28/a-thirteen-year-old-girl-in-israeli
A quote...."Israeli soldiers detained a thirteen-year- old girl from
her home in the Old City of Hebron on Tuesday the 23rd of March.
At about 5:45 PM, CPTers followed four soldiers as they entered the
girl’s home and ordered the entire family to the roof. Once on
the roof, a fifth soldier from a permanent post on a neighboring
Israeli settler home ordered the family’s three teenage daughters to
one side of the roof. The soldier singled out the thirteen-year-
old and accused her of throwing a stone. The girl’s mother
protested saying that minutes before she had notified this soldier
about settlers throwing stones at her as she hung her laundry and that
he had seen settlers throwing stones. She was dumbfounded that
the soldier’s response was to call another unit of soldiers to detain
her daughter." - also posted at
Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64608&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Revealing
maltreatment
in
Israeli
Jails ---
http://paltelegraph.com/palestine/gaza-strip/5113-revealing-maltreatment-in-israeli-jails
Full quote...."Gaza, March 29, (Pal Telegraph) The Palestinian Center
for Defending the prisoners, and according to one of the editors who
were released from Israeli jails, revealed that one of the prisoners
patients was blinded and lost the sense of sight, showing that the
prisoner suffered initially from a simple disease in his eye like
"Ophthalmology spring," while the Prison’s administration has refused
to provide treatment to him, and rejected his submission to the prison
doctor, which resulted, after months, his health deteriorated rapidly
and that cost him the sense of sight. -- The Palestinian Center for
Defending the Prisoners warned that the continued adoption by the
Israeli occupation authorities and the prison administration of the
policy of the deliberate medical neglect against the prisoners in the
prisons, considering that it as a “ deliberate and slow death”
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64618&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Army Invades Khan
Younis, Israeli Leaders Weigh Resumption Of Assassinations
--- http://www.imemc.org/article/58308
A quote...."Several armored military vehicles carried on Sunday morning
a limited invasion into Khan Youni, in the southern part of the Gaza
Strip. The latest attack comes admits talks of a likely resumption of
assassinations in the coastal region. Israeli Finance Minister called
for “reoccupying” Gaza and “eliminating Hamas”. " - also posted at AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/israeli-army-invades-khan-younis-leaders-weigh-resumption-of-assassinations/
& WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/221133
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It's
Official
-
America
Now
Enforces
Capital
Controls ---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/its-official-america-now-enforces-capital-controls
Special Note - Financial Warning
- Capital Controls (have now
been implemented!) -- A quote...."It couldn't have happened to a
nicer country. On March 18, with very little pomp and circumstance,
president Obama passed the most recent stimulus act, the $17.5 billion
Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (H.R. 2487), brilliantly
goalseeked by the administration's millionaire cronies to abbreviate as
HIRE. As it was merely the latest in an endless stream of acts destined
to expand the government payroll to infinity, nobody cared about it, or
actually read it. Because if anyone had read it, the act would have
been known as the Capital Controls Act, as one of the lesser, but
infinitely more important provisions on page 27, known as Offset
Provisions - Subtitle A—Foreign Account Tax Compliance, institutes just
that. In brief, the Provision
requires that foreign banks not only withhold 30% of all outgoing
capital flows (likely remitting the collection promptly back to the US
Treasury) but also disclose the full details of non-exempt
account-holders to the US and the IRS." -- Everybody should take their capital out of
the US-NRE NOW!!! - mpg
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The
NY
Fed's
Trading
Desk
Head
Laments
The
End
Of
Stupid
Leverage
And
Wants
His
Derivatives
Back (Or Why We Are Stuck With ZIRP For A Long, Long
Time) ---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/ny-feds-trading-desk-head-laments-end-stupid-leverage-and-wants-his-derivatives-back-or-why-
---
A quote...."Does anybody notice the blatant contradiction
between what the Fed "wants" and what Dodd's proposed toothless reform
is expected to "achieve." Regulatory capture and hypocrisy aside, it is
reading between Brian's lines that is critical. Sack realizes that the
Fed will need to start raising rates at some point: be it in H2, in
2011, 2015, 2999, some time. In the meantime the marginal benefit to
banks P&Ls as a function of the record steepness is already getting
exhausted. The only way to counteract this: begin the shadow leverage
play once again. However, to cover up its tracks, the Fed wants banks
to preempt its flattening initative by expanding on securitization
ahead of rate hikes, thus minimizing the impact of the most artificial
monetary environment in the history of America. Should we go from a 300
bps curve to 100, it is a virtual certainty that merely that move alone
will be enough to if not destroy a few of the TBTFs, then require a new
and much more sizable reimplementation of TARP. What is most troubling,
is that the Fed, just like the clueless-in-all-matters-economic Obama
administration does not realize the difference between supply push and
demand pull."
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More
Than
Meets
The
Bottom
Line:
Are
Banks
Getting
Crushed
Due
To
Negative
Swap
Spreads
And
The $154 Trillion IR-Derivative Market?
---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/more-meets-bottom-line-are-banks-getting-crushed-due-negative-swap-spreads-and-190-trillion-
A
quote...."Lots of confused chatter in the bond community as to why the
negative swap spread story (anywhere between 7Y and 30Y) is being
largely ignored by the media. After all, the associated market, which
according to the BIS was roughly $154 TRillion
in June 30 makes the Greek bond debacle and various sovereign CDS
discussions in the media pale in comparison. As several bond traders
pointed out, the likelihood of negative
spreads having been modelled out by the TBTFs is very low, if any,
meaning that unhedged bank IR-swap exposure is suffering massively, and is likely to surpass all record past
prop desk losses. In fact, rumors abound that a few of the desks
having placed leveraged bets on spread divergence over the past months
and years are currently in critical condition, yet nobody is discussing
this for fear of another round of bank run concerns among the TBTF
banks."
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March
29,
2010
Total
Debt
Subject
To
Limit:
$12,629,674,000,000
---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/march-29-2010-total-debt-subject-limit-12629674000000
A quote...."Total US Debt Subject To Limit: $12,629,674,000,000.
Total debt at the beginning of March: 12,383,717,000,000
Net debt (includes Trust Funds and marketable debt) issuance
month to date: $246 billion."
- Net Bills issued: $107 billion
- Net Notes issued: $138 billion
- Net Bonds issued: $13 billion
"Debt limit: $14,294,000,000,000.
Debt capacity: $1.665 trillion and dropping. At $220 mBillion per month in
net new issuance as projeced by the CBO, this will last the US just
under 8 months."
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Film:
Money as Debt ---
http://dprogram.net/2009/02/16/film-money-as-debt/
Alt/1
---
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544#
Alt/2
---
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5352106773770802849#
(GoogleVideo - 47min:07sec - 2 years ago)
Video - Special Note - From the history file - 2 years ago - (previously posted) -- A
quote...."Paul Grignon’s 47-minute animated presentation of “Money as
Debt” tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is
and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the
message out." - For more on this
issue see....$1.3
Quadrillion
and
Counting
-
09-18-08
-
mpg
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/alt1-3quadrillionandcounting-blog-mpg-091808
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Ireland
poised
for
new
bank
bailout ---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/29/irish-banks-bailout
A quote...."Irish taxpayers face pouring billions more euros into their
troubled banking sector on what is being dubbed "bailout Tuesday". --
The government is expected to take bigger stakes in Allied Irish Banks
and Bank of Ireland as the property lending spree that took place
before the 2007 credit crunch continues to knock holes in their
battered balance sheets."
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Saturday March 27th 2010 - links
page
An
Act of Treason by Members of the United States Congress?
--- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25090.htm
Video - Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BahjX9nI5k ---
(YouTube -
2 min 19 sec - March 27, 2010) -- A quote..."March 27, 2010 — It must
have been realised that the letter to Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, signed by nearly 300 members of the U.S. Congress, affirming
their commitment to Israel, would be widely publicised and fall into
the hands of that illegal Apartheid State, so the writing and signing
of that letter should be considered an act of treason. - The letter has
totally undermined the power of the President of the United States by
virtually telling Israel: "It does not matter what you do to the
Palestinians, how many illegal structures you build on the territory
you stole from them; how you behave towards the Lebanese, or what you
have in mind for Iran, we, the signatories on this letter are with you,
all the way." -- That's right folks,
working for another foreign power, especially one with only five and
half million people, to the detriment of a nation with three hundred
and twenty million people, and actually signing a letter to that effect
practically swearing fealty to such a country, is not only treason,
it's stupid! - mpg
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Stop
Funding
the
Israelis ---
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/03/23/stop-funding-the-israelis/
A quote...."If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to
the AIPAC conference isn’t a reason for the US to declare – finally –
that they’ve had quite enough of the "special relationship," then
nothing is. After ambushing the Vice President of the United States
with an announcement that new "settlements" are in the works, the Prime
Minister then took his anti-American jihad to the enemy’s very gates,
in Washington, D.C., where he invoked what Cato policy analyst Justin
Logan trenchantly described as "the fallacy of ‘39": - also posted at PatrickBuchanan ---
http://buchanan.org/blog/
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Bibi's
Hollow
Victory ---
http://www.creators.com/opinion/pat-buchanan/bibi-s-hollow-victory.html
A quote...."Given the irreconcilable positions, the deadlock, why will
Israel not prevail as she always prevails in such collisions? Why would
Bibi's "No" to Obama's demand for a halt to the building of settlements
and a cancellation of the 1,600 housing units in Jerusalem not be the
final and irrevocable answer that Obama must grudgingly accept? --
Answer: There is a new party to the quarrel: the U.S. military, in the
person of Gen. David Petraeus. -- According to Foreign Policy magazine,
in January, a delegation of senior officers from Petraeus' command were
sent to brief Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael
Mullen." - also posted at ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25083.htm
---
And no sooner did the
letters
leave Buchanan's pen than did David Petraeus back down, (see article
shown below). It was Staff Adm. Michael Mullen himself who was once
reputed to have said of Petraeus that he was an "ass-kissing little
chicken sh-t". If accurate, never were truer words spoken. - mpg
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Petraeus
Backs
Down
-
Petraeus
to
Ashkenazi:
I
never
said
Israel
policy
endangers
U.S. ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25085.htm
A quote...."March 26, 2010 "Haaretz " -- Commander of the U.S.
Military's Central Command Gen. David Petraeus phoned his Israeli
counterpart, Gabi Ashkenazi, this week to deny reports that he had
blamed Israeli policy for the failure in a regional solution and for
endangering U.S. interests." -- Squawk!!
Squawk!!
Cluck,
Cluck,
Cluck!
Squuuaaaawwwk!!!
-
mpg
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Norman
Finkelstein
–
3-23-2010
Democracy
NOW! ---
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/norman-finkelstein-3-23-2010-democracy-now/
Videos - Special Note - NF(1/2)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcoaYfLuygc
NF(2/2)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQsEncnYGaI
A
quote...."The first part of that interview is on Youtube so I have it
here on this site… Part 1 (of Part 1) is below… Part 2 (of Part 1) is
after the break. Watch those, then go to Democracy Now and watch the
best
interview
with
Norman
Finkelstein
I
have
ever
seen."
--- [Shown below]
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Part
II:
Scholar
Norman
Finkelstein
on
Next
Steps
Towards
Resolution
in
Israel-Palestine
---
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/3/23/part_ii_scholar_norman_finkelstein_on_next_steps_towards_resolution_in_israel_palestine
Must View Video - (Absolutely
outstanding
-
a
must
view!!)
-- A quote...."Norman Finkelstein is author of several books on the
Israel Palestine conflict. His latest is This Time We Went Too Far:
Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion. It’s available only at
OrBooks.com. - In Part II of our conversation, Finkelstein discusses
lessons he learned from Gandhi, the role of public opinion in politics,
and more."
|| Listen-Mp3
|| ---
http://media.libsyn.com/media/democracynow/wx2010-0323_finkelstein.mp3
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Obama
administration
pushes
for
more
war
funding ---
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/warf-m27.shtml
A quote...."Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton appeared on Capitol Hill Thursday, March 25, to launch
the Obama administration’s drive to secure nearly $40 billion in
supplemental appropriations, the bulk of it to fund the escalation of
the Afghanistan war."
also posted
at Uruknet ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64556&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Iraq
unable
to
deal
with
numerous
mass
graves ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121739§ionid=351020201
A quote...."A senior Iraqi official says Baghdad does not have the
means and expertise to deal with the high numbers of mass graves being
discovered. -- Ayam Sharif, the head of the Department of Terror and
Victims at the Ministry of Human Rights, said that 84 mass graves were
discovered in the country last year, all
of
which
held
victims
of
the
post-Saddam
violence
that
has
rent
the
fabric
of
the
country. " - bold by website editor - For more on this issue see....US
support
Death
Sqds ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/usdeathsquads-weblist-cmplt-111406
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Allawi
wins
Iraq
election
by
two
seats:
official
results ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64528&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."Former premier Iyad Allawi's secular Iraqiya bloc won the
most seats in Iraq's March 7 parliamentary election, two more than
incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's bloc, official results showed
Friday."
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Maliki
to
seek
court
order
for
vote
recount ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121826§ionid=351020201
A quote...."Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's coalition is set to
ask a court to order a manual recount of ballots cast in the March 7
polls, citing reports of fraud in two major cities."
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Maliki's
forces
move
against
winning
Sunni
candidates ---
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/27/91209/malikis-forces-detain-investigate.html
A quote...."BAGHDAD , Iraq_At least four Sunni Muslim candidates who
appear to have won parliamentary seats on the winning ticket of secular
leader Ayad Allawi have become targets of investigation by security
forces reporting to the narrowly defeated Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al
Maliki , according to interviews Saturday with relatives, Iraqi
security forces and the U.S. military."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64573&hd=&size=1&l=e
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US
marine to stand trial for Haditha killings ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64552&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."A US military judge Friday denied a bid to dismiss charges
against a former squadron leader accused in the 2005 killings of 24
Iraqi civilians after a roadside bomb attack."
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An
Unaccustomed
Truth:
American
Commander
Admits
Afghan
Atrocities
---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1949-an-unaccustomed-truth-american-commander-admits-afghan-atrocities.html
It appears to have been an
accident, admitting the truth that is, rest assured it won't ever
happen again. - mpg -- A quote...."One can only assume that the
regular editors of the New York Times were all out at a party, or left
early for a weekend in the Hamptons, or something -- but somehow, the
paper published a front webpage story that stated -- without the usual
thousand excuses and extenuations -- that American troops are routinely
slaughtering Afghan civilians at checkpoints. What's more, the story
unequivocally ties the civilian killings to the "surge" ordered by the
noble Nobel Peace laureate, Barack Obama." - also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64554&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Taliban
Securing
Kandahar
Neighborhoods
Ahead
of
US
Invasion
---
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/03/26/taliban-securing-kandahar-neighborhoods-ahead-of-us-invasion/
A quote...."NATO saw significant criticism for its invasion of Marjah
last month, after over a month of US pledges to invade the tiny farming
community gave local insurgents ample time to litter the roads with
IEDs, leaving them with a much more difficult than expected fight,
despite sending some 15,000 troops."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64540&hd=&size=1&l=e
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NATO Tries
to Silence a Truth-Teller in Afghanistan After Killing Pregnant Women
---
http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog/?p=1844
Propaganda Alert - Contains Video - A quote...."Q:
Why would U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan go out of their way to
smear a journalist? -- A:
Because he told the truth about a night raid that killed Afghan
civilians, including pregnant women. - Last week, I spoke with
Afghanistan-based journalist Jerome Starkey about his reporting on
special forces raids that killed civilians and NATOs surprising–and
disappointing–response. This video contains disturbing images, and an
even more disturbing story of violence, and an attempt to silence a
truth-teller. It shows why its absolutely essential that we keep
pushing back against the Pentagon’s message machine." -- also posted at ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25087.htm
& Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64566&hd=&size=1&l=e
For more on this issue see....US
Fake
Intel
/
Propaganda ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206
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Botched
raid
in
Afghanistan
covered
up
by
NATO
---
http://www.examiner.com/x-38220-Orlando-Independent-Examiner%7Ey2010m3d27-Botched-raid-in-Afghanistan-covered-up-by-NATO
Related Article - A quote...."In the predawn hours of Friday, February
12, two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials were
shot to death in their home in Afghanistan." -- also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64560&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Leaked
e-mail
links
Merkel
to
controversial
Afghan
air
strike ---
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0326/1224267101076.html
A quote...."CHANCELLOR ANGELA Merkel’s office was informed hours after
a German-ordered air strike in Afghanistan last September that
civilians were among the casualties, contrary to previous claims about
the controversial bombing."
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The Bloody Hands of
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ---
http://www.undispatch.com/node/9711
A quote...."(Kabul:) The insurgent group Hezb-i-Islami (there’s an
affiliated political party of the same name) is led by Gulbuddin
Hekmatyar,* ---
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=gulbuddin_hekmatyar
---
arguably
the
most
brutal
Afghan
warlord
of
the
past
30
years.
-
During the first half of Afghanistan’s civil war in the
1990’s, Hekmatyar’s forces committed atrocities that elsewhere in the
world are met with international arrest warrants and indictments for
war crimes and crimes against humanity –not hints of future inclusion
in government." - also posted at
Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64539&hd=&size=1&l=e
---
*link
added
--
For more on
this
issue see....
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========== ====
In
Afghanistan:
Embracing
Gulbuddin
Hekmatyar
Is
No
Method
at
All
---
http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2010/01/27/in-afghanistan-embracing-gulbuddin-hekmatyar-is-no-method-at-all.html
Special Note - From the history file -
January 27, 2010 -- A
quote...."One thing that remains consistent over the last 30 years in
observing America's participation in Afghanistan is that mistakes and
errors of judgment, no matter how egregious or self-defeating, never
seem to get corrected. In fact, in its effort to rationalize a growing
culture of war-making from Vietnam to Afghanistan, America has come
around to embracing the insanity of the fictional Colonel Kurtz."
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========== ====
*Wikipedia* - Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar#Role_in_the_anti-Soviet_resistance
---
"During
the
Soviet
invasion
of
Afghanistan,
Hekmatyar
received
millions
of
dollars
from
the
CIA through the ISI. Hezb-e-Islami
Gulbuddin received some of the strongest support from Pakistan and
Saudi Arabia, and worked with thousands of foreign mujahideen who came
to Afghanistan.[13] According to the ISI, their decision to
allocate the highest percentage of covert aid to Hekmatyar was based on
his record as an effective anti-Soviet military commander in
Afghanistan.[14] Others describe his position as the result of
having "almost no grassroots support and no military base inside
Afghanistan," and thus being the much more "dependent on Pakistani
President Zia-ul-Haq's protection and financial largess" than other
mujahideen factions.[15]"
That's right folks, out of the
eleven or so warlords in Afghanistan, the most vicious, the most vile
the most brutal of them all....got most of the US-NRE's, ISI's and
Saudi Royal's support. Guess that's what they mean when they say
bringing them "freedom and democracy". - mpg --
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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CIA
report
into
shoring
up Afghan war support in Western Europe ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64534&hd=&size=1&l=e
Special Note - Propaganda Alert - Wikileaks -- A quote...."March 26, 2010 -
This classified CIA analysis from March,
outlines possible PR-strategies to shore up public support in Germany
and France for a continued war in Afghanistan. After the dutch
government fell on the issue of dutch troops in Afghanistan last month,
the CIA became worried that similar events could happen in the
countries that post the third and fourth largest troop contingents to
the ISAF-mission. The proposed PR strategies focus on pressure points
that have been identified within these countries. For France it is the
sympathy of the public for Afghan refugees and women. For Germany it is
the fear of the consequences of defeat (drugs, more refugees,
terrorism) as well as for Germany’s standing in the NATO. The memo is an recipe for the targeted
manipulation of public opinion in two NATO ally countries, written by
the CIA. It is classified as Confidential / No Foreign Nationals..."
-
bold
by
website
editor
-
also posted
at ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25088.htm
& RawStory
---
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0326/cia-paper-reveals-strategies-manipulate-european-opinion-afghanistan/
& Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64569&hd=&size=1&l=e
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'CIA
seeks
using
Afghan
women
to
promote
war' ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121725§ionid=3510203
Related Article - A quote...."The CIA has called for recruiting Afghan
women in a public relations bid to persuade Europeans to support war in
Afghanistan, a document leaked to the media has revealed." - also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/221058
AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/cia-seeks-using-afghan-women-to-promote-war/
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Leaked
CIA
Report:
"Public
Apathy
Enables
Leaders
To
Ignore
Voters"
In
Waging
Endless
Wars
---
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/leaked-cia-report-public-apathy-enables.html
Related Article - A leaked CIA report PDF says:
---
http://file.wikileaks.org/file/cia-afghanistan.pdf
---
Public
apathy
enables
leaders
to
ignore
voters.
--
The
report
is
discussing apathy among the French and German people
to their countries' involvement in the war in Afghanistan, but the same
is true to the apathy of Americans towards the Iraq and other wars as
well. -- For a little background on the manipulation of public opinion,
see this
---
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/herding-sheep.html
--- and this."
---
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/12/5-reasons-that-most-corporate-media-is.html
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The
war
on
WikiLeaks
and
why
it
matters ---
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/27/wikileaks
Contains Videos - Special Note
- Related Article - A quote...."It's both interesting and revealing
that the CIA sees
Obama as a valuable asset in putting a pretty face on our wars in the
eyes of foreign populations. It is odious -- though, of course,
completely unsurprising -- that the CIA plots ways to manipulate public
opinion in foreign countries in order to sustain support for our
wars.
Now that this is a Democratic administration doing this and a
Democratic war at issue, I doubt many people will object to any of
this. But what is worth noting is how and why this classified
Report
was made publicly available: because it was leaked to and then
posted
by WikiLeaks.org, the site run by the non-profit group Sunshine Press,
that is devoted to exposing suppressed government and corporate
corruption by publicizing many of their most closely guarded secrets."
also posted at Uruknet ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64572&hd=&size=1&l=e
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War
on whistleblower: CIA spies on WikiLeaks for 'Pentagon murder cover-up'
exposure?
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64545&hd=&size=1&l=e
RTVideo - Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX_kcPyRw50 ---
(RTYuTb -
6 min 21 sec - March 26, 2010) -- A quote...."The Pentagon has been
accused of spying on a whistleblower website that specialises in
leaking top secret documents. The US Army has already labeled the
website as a security threat. Now Wikileaks - which won Amnesty
Internationals news media award last year - has issued a statement
claiming its editors are being investigated: WikiLeaks is currently
under an aggressive US and Icelandic surveillance operation, - the
claim published on Tweeter said."
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Something
Is
Rotten
in
the
State
of
Iceland ---
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/26/something-is-rotten-in-the-state-of-iceland/
Web Censorship Action/Alert
- Related Article - A quote...."Developing world violence aside, we’ve
become used to the
level of security service interest in us and have established
procedures to ignore that interest. -- But the increase in surveillance
activities this last month, in a time when we are barely publishing due
to fundraising, are excessive. Some of the new interest is related to a
film exposing a U.S. massacre we will release at the U.S. National
Press Club on April 5." -- Support
WikiLeaks in its effort to fight
intimidation.
---
http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=dprogram.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwikileaks.org%2F%23Change_you_can_believe_in
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Korea
Tensions
Pale
Alongside
Agenda
To
Attack
Iran ---
http://www.prisonplanet.com/korea-tensions-pale-alongside-agenda-to-attack-iran.html
A quote...."An incident in the Yellow Sea that could trigger further
heightened tension between North and South Korea is likely to be played
down by the globalist power structure in the U.S. because it threatens
the focus of their agenda in the middle east."
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No
assent
given
to
US
drone
attacks:Pakistan ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121727§ionid=351020401
A quote...."Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik says the US drone
attacks in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan are
carried out without the consent of Islamabad."
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U.S.
Plunges
Central
America
Back
To
Era
Of
Coups
And
Death
Squads ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18356
A quote...."March 24th of this year was the thirtieth anniversary of
the assassination of Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the Roman Catholic
archbishop of El Salvador. - His killing drew attention to the
murderous rampages of death squads in that nation and throughout
Central America as no other slaying had, although hundreds of thousands
of civilians were slaughtered in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and
Honduras before and during the 1980s by paramilitary formations usually
led by graduates of the U.S.'s School of the Americas and covertly
funded by the same nation's Central Intelligence Agency."
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Rule
by
fear
or
rule
by
law? ---
http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-02-04/opinion/17140386_1_martial-law-kbr-national-defense-authorization-act/2
A quote...."U.S. Rep. Jane Harman, D-Venice (Los Angeles County) has
come up with a new way to expand the domestic "war on terror." Her
Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
(HR1955), which passed the House by the lopsided vote of 404-6, would
set up a commission to "examine and report upon the facts and causes"
of so-called violent radicalism and extremist ideology, then make
legislative recommendations on combatting it." also posted at DProgram
---
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/27/msm-rule-by-fear-or-rule-by-law/
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9/11
Truth:
Treason
in
America
Conference ---
http://buchanan.org/blog/video-911-truth-treason-in-america-conference-3702
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-7GCs-2NUg ---
(RTYuTb -
8 min 23 sec - March 08, 2010)
RTVideo - A
quote...."There is a growing number of Americans who believe 9/11 was
an inside job. 9/11 truthers, as they are known, attended a two day
conference that was called Treason in America, in the hopes of bringing
awareness to their cause. Is this a signal that the movement is gaining
traction?" -- For more on this issue
see...Reficultnias's
9/11
Central -
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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‘Has
the
FBI
Infiltrated
the
Tea
Parties?’ ---
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/53938.html
HECK!
Who do you think has been doing all that nasty "agent provocateur"
stuff? OK, lets get a little bit real, some of the Tea Partiers
are a few
beers short of a six-pack, not to mention completely racist. But
who do you think encourages some of them in their anti-social
behavior?
Gives them a little nudge in the wrong direction? - mpg - A
quote...."A friend asked me that question yesterday.
Of course, I said. We know that Homeland Security considers Ron Paul
supporters and other libertarians to be potential terrorists (which is
all you need to know about the state’s use of that term). In the 1970s,
the FBI had agents at the tiny Libertarian party’s conventions. Now the
FBI and other spy agencies are vastly bigger. There are the federal and
state DHSs. Then there is the CIA, other intelligence agencies, and
what used to be called the Red Squads of state and local police
departments. There are probably hundreds of thousands of government
spies in the land of the free."
also
posted
at DProgram
---
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/26/%E2%80%98has-the-fbi-infiltrated-the-tea-parties%E2%80%99-lew-rockwell/
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The
McCain-Lieberman
Police
State
Act ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64518&hd=&size=1&l=e
Special Note - A
quote...."If enacted, it will advance what this writer addressed in a
December 2007 article titled, "Police State America - A Look Back and
Ahead," covering numerous Bush administration laws, Executive Orders
(EOs), National and Homeland Security Presidential Directives, edicts,
and various illegal acts targeting designated domestic and foreign
adversaries, dissent, civil liberties, human rights, and other
democratic freedoms." - For more on
this issue see....
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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
Is
it
really
Lieberman's
intention to make
all 320 million "goyum" residing in this country into "Palestinians"?
If
so
he
should
be
complemented
on
his,
Israel's
and
AIPAC's
rather
grand
ambitions.
Still,
with
only
five
and
a
half
million
members
of
the
Jewish
community
living
in
this
country,
many
of
whom
don't
support
this
agenda, and only another five and a half million living in
Israel, many of whom support it fully, such ambitions may not only be
impossible to achieve, they
could even be highly counter productive, perhaps even dangerous. Maybe
he and his Israeli friends should rethink them? - mpg -- A
quote...."Glenn Greenwald calls the bill "probably the single most
extremist, tyrannical and dangerous bill introduced in the Senate in
the last several decades." -
also
posted at AmericanEveryman
-
posted
03-20-10
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/mccain-and-liebermans-enemy-belligerent-act-could-set-u-s-on-path-to-military-dictatorship/
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Pope
accused
of
mishandling
case
of
German
paedophile
priest
---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/26/pope-accused-priest-sex-abuse-germany
Germans
abandon
Catholic
Church
---
http://www.smh.com.au/world/germans-abandon-catholic-church-20100325-r002.html
Kueng
charges
Pope
with
role in cover-up
--- http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/article371032.ece
The Great Catholic
Cover-Up
--- http://www.slate.com/id/2247861/
Regarding the four articles
shown above....In the four and a half years this website has been up
and running this website editor has probably only posted ten articles
on this ongoing scandal. Not being Catholic, this website editor
is hesitant to give advice but each time the issue has been addressed
on this website, it has been strongly urged that this situation MUST be
taken care of.
That the Catholic Church has a duty to remove,
de-frock, prosecute and even ex-communicate any members of the Church
who engage
in these sorts of activities.
It should also be apparent by now
to absolutely everyone that the Church must not only lift the ban on
marriage for their priests, they should in fact encourage them to get
married, that only by practicing what they preach, the life time loving
union between a man and a woman -- and thereby encouraging people who
SHARE these values to JOIN the Church and encouraging those who don't
to LEAVE -- will they bring these abhorrent
acts of abuse to an end. - mpg
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More on
Obama's Insurance Bail-Out-Boondoggle No-Care Bill....
Don’t
Be
Fooled:
Republicans
Love
Government
Enforced
Healthcare
---
http://www.infowars.com/dont-be-fooled-republicans-love-government-enforced-healthcare/
A quote...."Forget all the self-serving diatribes by Republicans about
Obamacare. They are for government enforced health care. “Republicans
were for President Barack Obama’s requirement that Americans get health
insurance before they were against it,” the Associated Press reports
this morning. -- Republicans trumpeted the “obligation” (at gunpoint)
that Americans buy health care insurance from large monopolistic
corporations for decades, long before Hill and Bill attempted to foist
their version on the plebs. -- Republican statists view health care at
gunpoint as a “free-market route to guarantee coverage for all
Americans — the answer to liberal ambitions for a government-run
entitlement like Medicare." - also
posted at DProgram
---
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/27/don%E2%80%99t-be-fooled-republicans-love-government-enforced-healthcare/
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Flashback:
House
Speaker
Pelosi
admits
JAIL
is
fair
for
not
buying
health
insurance
–
11-9-09
---
http://www.prisonplanet.com/flashback-house-speaker-pelosi-admits-jail-is-fair-for-not-buying-health-insurance-11-9-09.html
Contains Video - A
quote...."During a press conference at Swedish Medical Center in
Seattle, Nancy Pelosi skirted a surprise question, twice. The questions
pertained to 5-year jail terms and $250,000 fines for those refusing to
buy health insurance under her plan. However, she did say her plan was
“fair”."
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
When
it
comes
to
E
Jerusalem,
‘NPR’
misleads
and
misinforms
---
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/03/when-it-comes-to-e-jerusalem-npr-misleads-and-misinforms.html
Presstitute Alert - AIPAC Lackey Alert - A
quote...."It’s been almost two weeks since I wrote to National Public
Radio’s senior Washington editor, Ron Elving, and to the network’s
ombudsman, Alicia Shepard, to ask why Elving used an Israeli
formulation – "disputed" area – to characterize East Jerusalem, instead
of calling it "occupied," the term used by the U.S. government, the
United Nations, the International Court of Justice, and virtually every
other international body. So far, neither has replied." - also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/221063
& AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/when-it-comes-to-east-jerusalem-%E2%80%98npr%E2%80%99-misleads-and-misinforms/
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By the
Maps: Understanding Israel's Increasing Grip On Jerusalem
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64580&hd=&size=1&l=e
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v-Tpg9xN5k ---
(YuTb -
5m32s - March 26'10)
Must View Video - (Here's the TRUTH) - A quote...."A
video briefing explaining Israel's continued and expanding grip on
Jerusalem since the occupation began in 1967."
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Erdogan
Netanyahu's
statement
on
Jerusalem
"madness"
---
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7aXzmb6x7iI2smtMb53RmM8HM3
SE3FpLrEpQkWfXFdP4wehMuHiDnQjwdP2fVh35bwUakzTfUJUEdvn7MvOgQNkUdtLMp%2fAG%2fCtHG4pLPXsY%3d
A quote...."TRIPOLI, (PIC)-- Turkish premier Recep Erdogan has
described Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu's statement about
retaining Jerusalem as the eternal, unified capital of Israel as sheer
"madness". -- He said in a statement at the inaugural session of the
Arab summit in Libya that the statement would lead to serious
consequences affecting the enire region."
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UN
chief
says
Israeli
settlement
activities
illegal ---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-03/27/c_13227243.htm
A quote...."SIRTE, Libya, March 27 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary General Ban
Ki- moon said Israeli settlement activities are illegal and against the
international law, stressing that they should come to an end. -- In a
speech at the opening session of the 22nd Arab Summit, the UN chief
addressed that the significance of Jerusalem should be respected as a
capital for both Israel and the future Palestinian state."
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Israeli
invasion
into
southeastern
Gaza
kills
4,
injures
8,
destroys
a
home
and
ravages
farmland
---
http://ingaza.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/israeli-invasion-into-southeastern-gaza-kills-4-injures-8-destroys-a-home-and-ravages-farmland/
A quote...."On 26 March, fighting erupted between Palestinian
resistance and invading Israeli soldiers when IOF jeeps, tanks, and
bulldozers invaded, supported by F-16s, Apache helicopters and unmanned
drones from above."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64563&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Palestinian
Political
Prisoners ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64558&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."The numbers vary but range at any time from over 7,000 to
12,000 or more. In April 2008, the Adalah Legal Center for Arab
Minority Rights in Israel cited 11,000, including 345 children and 98
women. Over 1,000 suffered from chronic or other diseases. Around 150
were seriously ill from heart disease, cancer, and other diseases, and
195 or more Palestinians died or were killed in prison since 1967."
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"Foreign
fraud
aimed
at
controlling
territory
in
Sinai
has
Israeli
involvement"
---
http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/829-qforeign-fraud-aimed-at-controlling-territory-in-sinai-has-israeli-involvementq
A quote...."Sinai PpeninsulaIt has been alleged that foreign control of
large swathes of the Sinai Peninsula has been obtained through fraud.
The claim was made by Egyptian writer and intellectual Fahmi Howeidi,
who revealed that over "800 sq.km of the peninsula has been obtained by
foreigners, including Israelis, by fraudulent means". An additional
1000 residential units in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh's have
also come under foreign control fraudulently. The land deals in
question have been concluded by an Egyptian corporation that is,
claimed Mr. Howeidi, a front for a German company which used eleven
lawyers to "fix 450 judicial rulings through which the registration and
payments outside Egypt took place successfully".
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Obama:
Inside
Man
for
the
Greatest
Heist
in
History ---
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/obama-inside-man-greatest-heist-history
A quote...."Black America and “progressives” lurched into self-imposed
irrelevancy at precisely the time that finance capital was swallowing
the American state whole. Barack Obama is the Great Facilitator of Wall
Street's desperate effort to loot itself out of oblivion. Disaster is
certain if we remain without a movement that confronts both the
banksters and Obama."
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Bankers
named
suspected
conspirators
in muni case ---
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62P31N20100326
A quote...."(Reuters) - Nearly 30 bankers from more than a dozen
financial companies have been named by the federal government as
suspected co-conspirators in a broad investigation into pricing of
certain municipal derivatives, according to court documents."
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The Case for
Buying Foreign Bonds from Low-Deficit Countries ---
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/
A quote...."Bill Gross is recommending that investors buy the debt of
low-deficit countries. Via Business Week:
"As Pacific Investment Management
Co.’s Gross, manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, said yesterday
in an interview with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Radio that [U.S.] “bonds
have seen their best days.” Pimco, which announced in December that it
would offer stock funds, is advising investors to buy the debt of
countries such as Germany and Canada that have low deficits and higher-
yielding corporate securities."
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========== ====
Four
banks fail; FDIC pulls back on loss shares ---
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62Q02J20100327
A quote...."(Reuters) - Four small banks across the United States were
seized by regulators on Friday evening, ticking up the year bank
failure tally to 41."
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Central
Banks
Stashing
Away
Gold
at
Brisk
Pace ---
http://moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Central-Banks-gold-reserves/2010/03/25/id/353816
A quote...."Central banks around the world added 425.4 metric tons of
gold to their reserves last year, the biggest increase since 1964,
according to the World Gold Council." - also posted at BLN
--- http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=8008
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Thursday March 25th 2010 - links
page
Israel's
Triumph
to
Disaster
-
Who
will
stop
Israel
in
its
relentless
expropriation
of
Palestine
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18274
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."The
U.S. won't stop Israel, clearly. Not when Israel continues to play such
a significant role in guaranteeing its regional interests (by crushing
radicals and nationalists). And not when Israel continues to be the
USA's most reliable and stable ally in this volatile region (the
Israeli public actually wants closer U.S./Israel ties, unlike Turkey's
or Saudi's or Egypt's or Jordan's public). Since Kissinger, the U.S.
has done nothing but support Israel's deepening colonial expansion in
occupied Palestine: diplomatic, financial, and military. For reasonable
people, the U.S. is as much a problem for Palestinians as Israel is.
For unreasonable ones, they look toward the U.S. for ‘even-handedness’
and ‘brokering peace,’ as if it hasn't already picked sides at least 40
years ago. Changing the U.S. relationship with Israel is changing U.S.
interests in the region: there's no way round it. No begging, no
beseeching, and no ‘change we can believe in’ will achieve that. Only
real change: of politics and interests. The right question to pose is
not whether the U.S. will put pressure on Israel. But: how can we get
the U.S. out of the Middle East? One million Arab dead in Iraq is one
million too many. And five million internally and externally displaced
is five million too many. Wars and occupations don't bring peace and
security."
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Obama
squeezed between Israel and Iran ---
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LC26Ak01.html
Must Read - A
quote...."The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual
show in Washington would hardly be out of place in a Quentin Tarantino
movie; picture a giant hall crammed with 7,500 very powerful people
regimented by a very powerful lobby - plus half of the United States
Senate and more than a third of the congress - basically calling in
unison for Palestinian and Iranian blood."
- also posted at ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25073.htm
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Targeted
Citizen
-
English ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64482&hd=&size=1&l=e
Alt ---
http://vimeo.com/10302596 --- (Vimeo - 15 min - Sat, Mar
20, 2010 4:54am EST)
Must View Video - Absolutely outstanding!! -
mpg -- A quote...."The film “Targeted Citizen” (15 minutes), produced
by filmmaker Rachel Leah Jones for Adalah, surveys discrimination
against the Palestinian citizens of Israel. With the participation of
experts Dr. Yousef Jabareen of the Technion and Dr. Khaled Abu Asbeh of
the Van Leer Institute, as well as Adalah attorneys Sawsan Zaher, Abeer
Baker and Hassan Jabareen, inequality in land and housing, employment,
education and civil and political rights are eloquently addressed.
These interviews are reinforced by the contrasting informality of
on-the-street conversations conducted by Palestinian comic duo
Shammas-Nahas and punctuated by the hard-hitting rhymes of Palestinian
rap trio DAM. The film's theme song “Targeted Citizen,” written and
recorded by DAM especially for Adalah, tells it like it is without
missing a beat. "
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Have
a Nice World War, Folks ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25081.htm
Must Read - A
quote...."March 25, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- America has
emerged from the era of outright aggression on the rest of the world
and into the age of nuanced terror. -- Here is news of the Third World
War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered
Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to
Yemen and now the Horn of Africa. In preparation for an attack on Iran,
American missiles have been placed in four Persian Gulf states, and
“bunker-buster” bombs are said to be arriving at the US base on the
British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. -- In
Gaza, the sick and abandoned population, mostly children, is being
entombed behind underground American-supplied walls in order to
reinforce a criminal siege. In Latin America, the Obama administration
has secured seven bases in Colombia, from which to wage a war of
attrition against the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia,
Ecuador and Paraguay. Meanwhile, the secretary of “defence” Robert
Gates complains that “the general [European] public and the political
class” are so opposed to war they are an “impediment” to peace.
Remember this is the month of the March Hare."
also posted at GlobalRsrch
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18331
& ESB
--- http://empirestrikesblack.com/archives/127
& Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64503&hd=&size=1&l=e
& DProgram
---
http://dprogram.net/2010/03/25/have-a-nice-world-war-folks-john-pilger/
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Trivializing
War ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25076.htm
A quote...."March 25, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Captain
Ferguson (not his real name) gets up early in the morning, and has
breakfast with his wife and children. At the office, Captain Ferguson
sits in front of the computer on and off for almost eight hours every
day. At the end of the day he heads back home. Captain Ferguson’s wife
is glad to see him back to discuss the events of her day. He does the
same, with one omission. By most measures, it has been a beautiful day."
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Obama
Presses
for
$33
Billion
War
Supplement - Haaaa,
Haaaa
Ha!! - It just never ends. -
mpg
---
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/03/25/obama-presses-for-33-billion-war-supplement/
A quote...."In a move that was widely expected, Obama Administration
officials headed to the Senate to press for approval of a $33 billion
war supplemental bill, with most of the money going to pay for the
Afghan War."
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Obama
backtracking
on
detainee
rights,
critics
say ---
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/25/nation/la-na-obama-detainees25-2010mar25
A quote...."Reporting from Washington — The newest option for detaining
terrorism suspects -- an Afghan prison that serves the same purpose as
the lockup in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- suggests that President Obama's
policies are becoming more like those of his predecessor, George W.
Bush, in the view of human rights groups and legal experts."
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When
presidential
sermons
collide ---
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/25/obama/index.html
A quote...."That "Look-Forward/Not-Backward" formulation is one which
Obama and his top aides have frequently repeated to argue against
any investigations in the U.S. Why, as Obama sermonized, must
Indonesians first look backward before being able to move forward,
whereas exactly the opposite is true of Americans? If a leader is
going to demand that other countries adhere to the very "principles"
which he insists on violating himself, it's probably best not to use
antithetical clichés when issuing decrees, for the sake of
appearances if nothing else."
also
posted at ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25075.htm
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Covering
up
American
War
Crimes,
From
Baghdad
to
New
York
---
http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/covering_up_american_war_crimes_from_baghdad_to_new_york/
A quote...."All I read was a brief item on the CBS News website quoting
Simpson...."
“The US government does not want
it known that it was using chemicals on human beings in a country whose
leader it overthrew ostensibly because he retained the capacity to do
the same thing.” -
also posted at
ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25072.htm
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Sadr
Emerging
as
Kingmaker
in
Iraqi
Election;
Will
Muqtada
demand
Quicker
US
Withdrawal
---
http://www.juancole.com/2010/03/sadr-emerging-as-kingmaker-in-iraqi.html
A quote...."March 25, 2010 - The London pan-Arab daily al-Hayat [Life]
reports in Arabic that that the Shiite State of Law coalition and
the Shiite Iraqi National Alliance say they are prepared to make an
alliance before they enter the new parliament. This move reduces the
chance that current prime minister Nuri al-Maliki will get a second
term."
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Heavily
censored
Afghan
documents
raise
new
questions
about
transfers
---
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jHNpzZ6nKb5c_m_MGtOpwaWw0mRQ
A quote...."OTTAWA — Newly released documents show a Canadian soldier
alleges that Afghan authorities routinely executed detainees his unit
handed over to them. - The stack of records disclosed Thursday by the
federal government also says detainees at a Kandahar prison told
Foreign Affairs and Corrections Canada officials on a site tour that
they had been tortured."
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61
Killed
as
Pakistan
Bombs
Schools,
Mosque ---
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/03/25/pakistan-kills-61-in-orakzai-strikes/
A quote...."Pakistani warplanes attacked a number of sites in the
Orakzai Agency today, including a mosque, a school, and a religious
seminary, killing 61. Security officials initially labeled all 61
“suspected militants,” though locals later conceded that a great many
of them were actually innocent civilians."
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Russia
will
launch
Bushehr
plant
despite
US
pressure ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121641§ionid=351020104
A quote...."Russia says it will go ahead with the inauguration of
Iran's Bushehr atomic power plant despite growing opposition from the
United States."
also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/220900
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Renewed
Push
for
Iran
Sanctions
Targets
China,
Turkey ---
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/03/24/renewed-push-iran-sanctions-targets-china-iran/
A quote...."The US and Western allies appear to be renewing their push
for “crippling” sanctions against Iran, though they have already
conceded that such moves are unlikely in the next several months and
opposition seems to remain in place." - also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/220856
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The
Organization
of
American
States
(OAS)
without
the
US.
An
Alternative
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18275
A quote...."The Empire is getting ready to “act energetically” to foil
a constituent summit of the future Community of Latin American and
Caribbean States. Hugo Chavez has warned that Washington will sabotage
the epoch-making initiative. The conspiracy provides for launching
decisive attacks in Venezuela. Anything from the 2009 scenario for
Honduras to acts of terror is likely to be resorted to, to prevent a
new Community from “becoming a problem”."
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US
Seeks
to
Destabilize
Nicaragua ---
http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2010/march/23/centralamerica10032301.htm
A quote...."MANAGUA - Nicaragua is under a destabilizing strategy
similar to that aimed at other member countries of the Bolivarian
Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), said an article
published in Managua on Monday."
also
posted at BLN
---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7988-0-22-22--.html
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New
poll:
About
1
in
3
Americans
thinks
9/11
was
“a
big
fabrication”
---
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/new-poll-about-1-in-3-americans-thinks-911-was-a-big-fabrication/
A quote...."A new poll has shown that about 1 in 3 Americans — roughly
100 million people — think 9/11 was “a big fabrication.” The poll was
evidently commissioned and/or conducted by anti-9/11-truth forces, as
demonstrated by the headline: “Americans Disagree with Iranian
President on 9/11 ‘Fabrication.’” By framing the issue as one of
agreement or disagreement with media-demonized Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and focusing on those who disagreed, Angus Reid
Public Opinion was spinning the story as hard as it could possibly be
spun. But all the spin in the world
can’t hide the fact that these are the biggest MIHOP* numbers yet!"
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MOSSAD
Studios
seeking
an
actor
to
portray
Bin
Laden
---
http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/mossad-studios-seeking-actor-to-portray.html
Satire - A
quote...."Mossad Studios, the video arm of MOSSAD--'by deception shalt
thou make war'--is now holding casting calls for an actor to portray
one of our best creations, Osama Bin Laden. - The actor must have the
ability to seamlessly read script lines, without using his voice, since
we at MOSSAD studios will later dub in the sound track. - The physical
requirements for the actor are: To be about 55 yo; have the ability to
grow a full, shaggy-looking beard and speak Arabic. Height is not that
important, since the actor will be filmed sitting at a table next to an
AK-47. Note: Beard color is not important, since we at MOSSAD Studios
can dye the beard."
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Sources:
Iran-Contra
operative
linked
to
questionable
spy
program ---
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/24/spy.network.probe/
A quote...."Washington (CNN) -- A former high-ranking CIA official who
was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal has worked on an alleged ad hoc
spy program that the Pentagon is investigating, CNN has learned. --
Duane "Dewey" Clarridge -- who was pardoned for his alleged role in the
Reagan-era scandal by President George H. W. Bush in the waning hours
of his presidency in 1992 -- is using contacts in Afghanistan and
Pakistan to obtain information for the Pentagon, according to former
government officials familiar with the current program." -- also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/220855
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More on
Obama's Insurance Bail-Out-Boondoggle No-Care Bill....
Obama
Democrats
VS
Tea
Party
Republicans:
A
Fake
Fight
Over
Fake
Health
Care
Reform
---
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/obama-democrats-vs-tea-party-republicans-fake-fight-over-fake-reform
Special Note - A
quote...."There are real fights and there are fake fights, engineered
to distract attention away from the real deal. The shouting match
between Obama's Dems and the Tea party Repubs is one of those fake
fights. The health care legislation passed by the Obama Democrats is
incomparably worse than anything they could have passed right after the
presidential election, and significantly worse than anything Democrats
could have passed at midyear 2009. The president and his minions have
delayed as long as possible to guarantee the worst, not the best bill
for patients, and the best deal possible for Big Insurance, Big Pharma
and Big Medicine." - also posted at
Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64504&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Obamacare's
Passage:
A
Full-Scale
Retreat ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64495&hd=&size=1&l=e
Special Note - A
quote...."After eight years under George Bush, people demanded change.
Obama and congressional Democrats promised it, then disappointed by
accomplishing the impossible - governing worse than skeptics feared,
worse than Republicans across the board on both domestic and foreign
policies."
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Progressive
Front:
Well
Done,
Thou
Good
and
Faithful
Servant
---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1948-progressive-front-well-done-thou-good-and-faithful-servant.html
Special Note - A
quote...."Dennis Kucinich is now reaping the reward for
his high-profile bug-out ---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article
/1-latest-news/1945-pressure-drop-brave-sir-dennis-ran-away.html
--- on the Compulsory Corporate Profit Act of 2010,
---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1947-closing-time-an-historic-confirmation-of-corporate-power.html
---
also
known
as
"health
care
reform."
And
what
a
pearl
of
great
price
it
is!
Well
worth selling out your heatedly avowed principles for! I mean,
Mahatma Gandhi himself would traded his loincloth for a pinstripe suit
to bag some bling like this! Check it out: Dennis Kucinich the new face of Dem
campaign committee. ---
http://www.salon.com/news/dennis_kucinich_dohio/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/03/24/kucinich_email
---
That's
right:
Dennis
is
now
fronting
the
big-time
money-grubbing
operations
of
party
hacks!
Just
days
ago, Kucinich was
condemning
the
health
care
bill ---
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/kucinich-confirms-his-opposition-to-dems-health-care-reform-plan--even-if-hes-the-deciding-vote.php
---
as
a
bad,
tainted
piece
of
pork:
"a giveaway to the insurance industry
-- $70 billion a year, and no guarantees of any control over premiums,
forcing people to buy private insurance. I just don't see that this
bill is the solution."
But now, he's out there rattling the cup for the very ladlers of
corporate pork he has been castigating for months
- also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64498&hd=&size=1&l=e
---
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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Thanks
for
nothing,
Mr.
‘Health
Care
Reform’
President ---
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5734.shtml
posted at Online
Journal ---
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."If the Bobblehead Democratic president and
his pals have stopped bowing for a minute after signing the new
“Healthcare Reform Bill,” let me just read him an email I received from
writer William Carlotti. - “The following is a statement issued by an
association of 17,000 physicians (from 43 states) who are critical of
the current health care legislation and who support single-payer
national health insurance. Read their statement and call 312 782-6006
for accurate information about health care legislation or go to their
website, www.pnhp.org/stateactions.”
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Obama[no-care]
gives
sugar
plums
to
the
special
interests
---
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama-gives-sugar-plums-to-the-special-interests-88958037.html#ixzz0j6bOz1nL
A quote...."Tonight," President Obama intoned near midnight Sunday,
after the House had passed two health care bills, "we pushed back on
the undue influence of special interests. ... We proved that this
government -- a government of the people and by the people -- still
works for the people." -- But even before the president spoke, the
Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America -- whose $26.1
million lobbying effort in 2009 was the most expensive by any industry
lobby in history -- hailed the health package as "important and
historic."
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Top
Ten
Reasons
East
Jerusalem
does
not
belong
to
Jewish-Israelis ---
http://www.juancole.com/2010/03/top-ten-reasons-east-jerusalem-does-not.html
Must Read - A
quote...."Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the American
Israel Public Affairs Council on Monday that "Jerusalem is not a
settlement." He continued that the historical connection between the
Jewish people and the land of Israel cannot be denied. He added that
neither could the historical connection between the Jewish people and
Jerusalem. He insisted, "The Jewish people were building Jerusalem
3,000 years ago and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today." He
said, "Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is our capital." He told his
applauding audience of 7500 that he was simply following the policies
of all Israeli governments since the 1967 conquest of Jerusalem in the
Six Day War. -- Netanyahu mixed together Romantic-nationalist cliches
with a series of historically false assertions. But even more important
was everything he left out of the history, and his citation of his
warped and inaccurate history instead of considering laws, rights or
common human decency toward others not of his ethnic group."
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Netanyahu
Humiliates
Obama
with
another
E.
Jerusalem
Housing
Expansion;
Israeli
Troops
allegedly
used
live
Ammo;
UK
expels
Mossad
Chief
---
http://www.juancole.com/2010/03/netanyahu-humiliates-obama-with-another.html
Contains Videos - (The Millbrand video is really good)
- LF/Vid
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwAb-VxlV-I
Millbrand/Vid
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5pnzZXQ3Qg
A quote...."March 24, 2010 - Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu sets the tone for Israeli policy-- one that is earning him
few friends in the West. Three embarrassments broke for him on Tuesday.
First, yet another housing expansion in East Jerusalem was announced
while he was meeting President Obama. Then, the cover story of Israeli
troops accused of firing live ammunition at Palestinian protesters
began to unravel. Then British Foreign Minister David Miliband
unceremoniously tossed the Mossad London station chief out of the
country for counterfeiting British passports, to be used in an Israeli
assassination of a Palestinian in Dubai recently. Netanyahu personally
ordered that hit, and is responsible for the forging of real peoples'
passports and their use to commit a murder. Netanyahu is the one behind
these acts of arrogance, and they are emblematic of his mean brand of
politics."
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========== ====
Israel’s
Passport
Farm ---
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/03/25/israels-passport-farm/
Related Article - A quote...."The fake passports were of such high
quality that there is little doubt they were created by a state agency,
and no one doubts which state we are talking about here. The
Israelis, to date, have so far refused to admit they did it, let
alone apologize. "The Israeli government has shown no signs so far that
it will acquiesce in Mr Miliband’s demand that it pledge that ‘the
state of Israel would never be party to the misuse of British passports
in such a way,’" reports Sengupta in a follow-up article. "Such a
declaration would be tantamount to an admission of Israel’s guilt in
the killing of Mr Mabhouh, something it denies. [Israeli foreign
minister Avigdor] Lieberman said: ‘There is no proof of Israeli
involvement in this affair.’"
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========== ====
Israel
Palestine This Explains A Lot ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_lA_JJDyow --- (YouTube -
41 sec - March 02, 2008)
Video - Map - posted by wotdoesitmatter
---
http://www.youtube.com/user/wotdoesitmatter
---
A
quote...."Map
showing
transition
from
1946
to
2000.
Israel
Palestine."
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UN
Human Rights Council passes 3 resolutions condemning Israel
--- http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1158708.html
--- Hip Hip
Hooray!! - mpg
A quote...."The United Nations Human Rights Council passed three
resolutions on Wednesday condemning Israel over its policies related to
what it called Palestinian and Syrian territories, but the United
States voted against them all. - A further resolution, calling for a
fund to compensate Palestinians who suffered losses during Israel's
offensive in Gaza 14 months ago, is expected to be passed on Thursday."
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Jordan:
Israel
playing
with
fire
with
settlements ---
http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/03/25/jordan-israel-playing-with-fire-with-settlements/
A quote...."Jordan's king warned Israel in a rare public rebuke that it
is "playing with fire" with its settlement policy, and said in comments
published Thursday the Jewish state must decide whether it wants peace
or war."
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========== ====
Israel
is
Stealing
Palestinian
and
Arab
Water ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18299
Special Note - A quote...."This
long-standing aim of the Jewish state has been confirmed by
confidential documents published by the British Foreign Office, in
which David Ben-Gurion, writing in 1941, said, "We have to remember
that for the Jewish state's ability to survive it must have within its
borders, the waters of the [rivers] Jordan and Litani."
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Exclusive
/ Despite ["]row["], U.S. and Israel sign massive arms deal
--- http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1159155.html
A quote...."As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington this
week absorbing the full wrath of the Obama administration, the Pentagon
and Israel's defense establishment were in the process of sealing a
large arms deal."
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Be
Sure The Truth Will Find You Out ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25077.htm
Must Read - A
quote...."March 25, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Well it has
now emerged that the British Government used spies, lies and community
leaders to spew out anti-Palestinian propaganda during the Gaza War. --
And the proof is there, in black and white, for any of you who care to
wade through the weighty document called the Annual Report of the
Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC). -- Most MPs are still too
busy trying to tot up the shortfall left by the expenses scandal, to
leaf through the document which was quietly slipped into Parliament a
few days ago."
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Rendered
Homeless,
Family
Ordered
To
Pay
Its
Expulsion
Expenses ---
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=58280
Must Read - (For the OUTRAGE!) -- A
quote...."The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economical Rights (JCCER)
reported that the Israeli police handed Wednesday a Palestinian family
from East Jerusalem an order to pay 13.000 NIS, demanding family
members to pay the expenses of their expulsion from their home." - also posted at Uruknet
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========== ====
Weekly
Report
on
Israeli
Human
Rights
Violations
in
the
Occupied
Palestinian
Territory
(18-24
march
2010)
---
http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6325:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations
-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-18-24-march-2010&catid=84:weekly-2009&Itemid=183
Week in and week out, it's what
Israel and the US-NRE always do, everywhere they go. - mpg -- also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64499&hd=&size=1&l=e
---
A
quote...."
- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks
against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory (OPT)
- 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed by
IOF in the West Bank.
- IOF used excessive forced against peaceful Palestinian
demonstrations in the West Bank.
- 16 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, and two
Israeli peace activists were wounded by Israeli gunfire.
- Israeli warplanes bombarded a number of civilian targets in
the Gaza Strip.
- 22 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children and a woman,
were wounded.
- 3 houses belonging to Palestinians were damaged by Israeli
fire.
- IOF continued to fire at Palestinian farmers and workers in
border areas of the Gaza Strip.
- IOF conducted 10 incursions into Palestinian communities in
the West Bank, and 3 incursions into the Gaza Strip.
- IOF arrested 32 Palestinian civilians, including 9
children, two
women and two journalists, in the West Bank, and 22 Palestinian
workers, including 4 children, in the Gaza Strip.
- Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and
has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
- Israeli troops stationed at military checkpoints in the
West Bank
arrested at least 6 Palestinian civilians, including a child and a
woman.
- Israel has continued its settlement activities in the West
Bank
and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and
property.
- The Israeli Municipality of Jerusalem approved the
construction
of 20 housing units for settlers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of
Sheikh Jarrah.
- IOF confiscated 49 donums of land in Bitounia, west of
Ramallah.
- Israeli settlers uprooted 35 olive trees in Qaryout
village, southeast of Nablus.
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Fisherman shot
in the head and critically ill in Shifa’a Hospital in Gaza
--- http://palsolidarity.org/2010/03/11897
A quote...."Fisherman Hazem Gora’ani, age 26, from the town of Deir Al
Balah, south of Gaza City, was brought to Shifa Hospital with serious
head wounds around 9 o’clock this morning." -- also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m64502&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Keiser
Report
№28:
Markets!
Finance!
Scandal! ---
http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/0/KuxZtN7ybH0
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuxZtN7ybH0 ---
(MKRTYuTb
- 26min 29sec - March 25, 2010)
MKVideo - A
quote...."This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the
scandals of the Nobel Prize winner that threatens the world; the US
paying more than Buffett, and the big ambitions behind 12,000 calories
per day. Keiser also talks to Helen Skopis of Athens International
Radio about the Greek debt crisis." - Editor's Note: in Max's video it's
pointed out that Paul Krugman wants a 25% tariff on China to "punish
them" for their alleged currency manipulation.
Sure....right....absolutely. And it's just a coincidence that
everybody is also ganging up on China at the present tiem for their
support of Iran. Maybe Paul would like to join the New York Times
in ginning up another war against Iran like they did against Iraq and
murder another million people? Heck if he did so, he could win
the Noble Peace prize which he could add to the one he won for
economics. - mpg
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East
Asia
launches
$US120b
currency
swap
pact - Good
for them! Screw the Banksters!
- mpg
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http://www.theage.com.au/business/markets/east-asia-launches-us120b-currency-swap-pact-20100325-qx40.html
Special Note - A
quote...." East Asian nations Wednesday officially launched a $US120
billion ($A130.58 billion) regional currency swap agreement, giving
them a safety net against future liquidity shortages. - The Chiang Mai
Initiative Multilateralisation (CMIM) covers South Korea, China, Japan
and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). - Its
successful launch shows their commitment "to further enhance regional
capacity to safeguard against downside risks and challenges in the
global economy," according to a joint statement issued by Seoul's
finance ministry."
also posted at BLN
---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7987-0-13-13--.html
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$32
Billion
7
Year
Auction
Closes
At
3.374%,
Very
Weak
Auction
With
Huge
Tail
---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/32-billion-7-year-auction-closes-3374-very-weak-auction
Chart -A quote...."
- $32 Billion 7 Year closes at 3.374%, allotted at high
83.04%, previous at 3.078%!
- Bid To Cover at 2.61, Previous
at 2.98, average overpast year 2.67
- Indirect Take Down 41.87; Direct Take Down 8.11%
- Indirect Hit Rate 82%
- When Issued was trading at
3.338%, a massive tail
- 10 Year about to break 3.90%
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THE
Most
Important
Chart
of
the
CENTURY ---
http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2010/03/most-important-chart-of-century.html
Charts - (click to enlarge) -- Some
Quotes...."The latest U.S. Treasury Z1 Flow of Funds report was
released on March 11, 2010, bringing the data current through the end
of 2009. What follows is the most important chart of your lifetime. It
relegates almost all modern economists and economic theory to the
dustbin of history. Any economic theory, formula, or relationship that
does not consider this non-linear relationship of DEBT and phase
transition is destined to fail." -- "This is the dilemma created by our
top down debt backed money structure. Because all money is backed by a
liability, and carries interest, it guarantees mathematically that
there will be losers and that the system will eventually reach the
natural limits, the ability of incomes to service debt."
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Texas
witnesses
3.5%
average
income
fall
in
2009 ---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/business/2010-03/26/c_13225602.htm
A quote...."Nationwide, per capita income was 39,138 dollars last year,
2.6 percent down from the figure recorded in 2008."
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