Wednesday April 14th 2010 - links page

76 Senators sign on to Israel letter  ---  http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0410/76_Senators_sign_on_to_Israel_letter.html
76 Senators: list in PDF   ---  http://www.aipac.org/Publications/SourceMaterialsCongressionalAction/Signatories_to_Boxer-Isakson_Letter.pdf
333 Repesentatives: list in PDF  ---  http://www.aipac.org/Publications/SourceMaterialsCongressionalAction/Signatories_to_Hoyer-Cantor_Letter.pdf
and in HTML  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/signatoriestoaipacslettersofbetrayal-aipac-041410
Special Note - Now you know who NOT to vote for come this November folks.  It's either YOUR country or it's AIPAC's.  It's time for you to CHOOSE which it shall be.  And just to let you all know....you're running out of time. - mpg - A quote...."More than three quarters of the U.S. Senate, including 38 Democrats, have signed on to a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton implicitly rebuking the Obama Administration for its confrontational stance toward Israel. - The letter, backed by the pro-Israel group AIPAC, now has the signatures of 76 Senators and says in part:"
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25227.htm
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Special army unit ready to be deployed on American soil just before Nov. elections (Update)  ---  http://www.examiner.com/x-37620-Conservative
-Examiner%7Ey2010m4d13-Special-army-unit-ready-to-be-deployed-on-American-soil-just-before-Nov-elections
Related Article - A quote...."In October of this year, one month prior to the November midterm elections, a special army unit known as 'Consequence Management Response Force' will be ready for deployment on American soil if so ordered by the President."
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Lawrence Wilkerson Demolishes Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld’s Lies about Guantánamo  ---  http://www.fff.org/comment/com1004d.asp
Special Note - A quote...."Those of us who have been studying the recent career of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson were not surprised when, last week, he submitted a declaration (PDF) in a lawsuit seeking compensation from the U.S. government that was filed by former Guantánamo prisoner Adel Hassan Hamad. A Sudanese hospital worker, Hamad was sold to U.S. forces by their unscrupulous Pakistani allies in the summer of 2002, but was only released from Guantánamo in December 2007." - 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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Obama’s Record On Guantanamo Just As Shoddy As Bush’s  ---  http://pubrecord.org/commentary/7420/obamas-record-guantanamo-shoddy/
A quote...."During his 2008 campaign, President Obama promised the country “change we can believe in.” Yet, more than a year into his administration, he has delivered “more of the same” on issues pertaining to Guantanamo Bay. The island prison is still open, detainees still await trials, and officials have recommended the worst of George W. Bush’s policies — indefinite detention."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65079&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Obama's disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/13/AR2010041303067.html
A quote...."World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow. -- They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck. -- In the middle of it all was Obama -- occupant of an office once informally known as "leader of the free world" -- putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press."
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Invisible Empire Sneak Peek #4 — Call Boy Rings Exposed
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/invisible-empire-sneak-peek-4-%E2%80%94-call-boy-rings-exposed.html
Ahhhh, more on the country they used to call America, but which many now call the New Roman Empire. - mpg -- A quote...."Invisible Empire exposes the dark world of sexual abuse and exploitation by members of the world’s power elite. A 1989 scandal appeared on the front page of the Washington Times linking the then Vice-President as well as Congressman Barney Frank to a network of male escorts (including underage). Yet none of those involved were removed from power or challenged in an significant way. Why? And what are the implications for society?"
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Opium and the CIA: Can the US Triumph in the Drug-Addicted War in Afghanistan?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/scott-pd2.1.1.html
Must Read - Charts - Maps - A quote...."Alfred McCoy’s important new article   ---  http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18523  ---  (TomDispatch, posted on Global Research, April 5, 2010) deserves to mobilize Congress for a serious revaluation of America’s ill-considered military venture in Afghanistan. The answer to the question he poses in his title – “Can Anyone Pacify the World's Number One Narco-State? – is amply shown by his impressive essay to be a resounding “No!” . . . not until there is fundamental change in the goals and strategies both of Washington and of Kabul."
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Americans [Neo-Romans] Kill Muslims Like Roaches  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/americans-kill-muslims-roaches-0
Special Note - A quote...."The latest American atrocity in Afghanistan – the wanton slaughter of civilians on an inter-city bus near Kandahar – is yet more bloody proof that the United States military offensive in the Muslim world has all the characteristics of a race war. The men, women and children in the packed, full-size bus found themselves suddenly boxed in between two American convoys on a highway of death – a place where the natives are instantly liquidated if they are unfortunate enough to find themselves in proximity to U.S. soldiers. Such highways of death inevitably appear whenever U.S. troops are deployed among populations that Americans think of as less than human. "
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65085&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Iran announces batch of higher enriched uranium  ---  http://www.yorkdispatch.com/nationworld/ci_14881910
A quote...."TEHRAN, Iran—Iran has succeeded in producing its first significant batch of further enriched uranium, the country's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi said Wednesday, a move defying U.N. demands to halt the controversial program."
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Iran says it is ready for uranium exchange if IAEA is guarantor
  ---  http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1547809.php/Iran-says-it-is-ready-for-uranium-exchange-if-IAEA-is-guarantor
A quote...." Tehran - Iran said Tuesday that it would be ready for a uranium exchange if the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) acted as the guarantor. - 'We are ready to deliver 1 ton of our 3.5-per-cent-enriched uranium to the IAEA,' the chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali-Akbar Salehi, told the ISNA news agency."
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China to send Iran gasoline as UN mulls sanctions  ---  http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/apr/14/shippers-china-sending-gasoline-to-iran/
A quote...."SINGAPORE — SINGAPORE (AP) - A state-owned Chinese refiner plans to ship 30,000 metric tons of gasoline to Iran after European traders halted shipments ahead of possible new U.N. sanctions, according to Singapore ship brokers."
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Iraq Vets: Coverage of Atrocities Is Too Little, Too Late  ---  http://www.truthout.org/iraq-vets-coverage-atrocities-is-too-little-too-late58527
Special Note - A quote...."The WikiLeaks video footage from Iraq taken from an Apache helicopter in July 2007 showing soldiers killing 12 people and wounding two children has caused an explosion of media coverage. But many Iraq vets feel it is too little and too late."
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Iraq's main Shiite blocs inch closer to power-sharing agreement
  ---  http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=113804#axzz0l6tXbaYu
A quote...."Talks on an alliance between Iraq’s two main Shiite Muslim blocs to form the next government appear to be nearing a conclusion, with the main sticking point being how to nominate a prime minister, officials said, as violence killed six today."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65073&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Maliki Aides Claim Sadr Alliance to Be Announced Soon  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/04/14/maliki-aides-claim-sadr-alliance-to-be-announced-soon/
A quote...."Top allies of Iraqi Prime Minister and State of Law bloc leader Nouri al-Maliki say that his bloc is putting the finishing touches on a deal to ally with cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Iraqi National Alliance (INA), a move which would all but guarantee the two would be able to form the next government of Iraq."
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Iraq favours Shell, Total, KOGAS for gas fields  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE63D2F620100414
A quote...."BAGHDAD, April 14 (Reuters) - Iraq will invite 15 companies before the end of the year to bid to develop three gas fields and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L), Total (TOTF.PA) and South Korea's KOGAS (036460.KS) are favoured, an Iraqi oil official said on Wednesday."
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Taliban defiant following Marjah operation  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LD16Df03.html
Special Note - A quote...."Despite February's assault by 15,000 troops on the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, its ranks are unhurt, uncowed and poised to retaliate, Abu Hamza, who claims to command 300 rebel fighters operating in southern Afghanistan, told the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in a telephone interview."
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US forces leave Afghan risky valley  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123397&sectionid=351020403
A quote...."US troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan's Korengal Valley ending nearly nine years of NATO presence and intense fighting there."
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Three U.S. lawmakers sponsor Afghan pullout plan  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63D4O520100414
A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Wednesday that would require President Barack Obama to develop a detailed timetable to draw down U.S. forces from Afghanistan."
also posted at YahooNews  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100414/us_nm/us_afghanistan_usa_timetable
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Kyrgyz authorities reject Bakiyev's resignation terms  ---  http://en.rian.ru/exsoviet/20100415/158592982.html
A quote...."The Kyrgyz provisional government has rejected the terms set by deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev on his resignation and can only guarantee his personal security, interim Prime Minister Roza Otunbayeva said on Thursday."
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Kyrgyz president 'must stand trial'  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/04/201041482412294846.html
A quote...."The leader of Kyrgyzstan's self-declared interim government has said that Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the president who fled the capital, Bishkek, following violence, must stand trial for "spilling blood" in last week's protests."
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Russia back to Latin America — Medvedev  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20100415/158587036.html
A quote...."Russia is set to develop close cooperation with Latin American countries, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said during his visit to Argentina, the first top-level official visit in the history of diplomatic relations between the two countries." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/222616
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India, Russia agree details of joint 5G-fighter project  ---  http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20100311/158159986.html
A quote...."India and Russia have agreed in general on shared responsibility for the joint development of the fifth-generation fighter, the chairman of the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) said."
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Ukraine forms parliamentary coalition to end political chaos  ---  http://en.rian.ru/exsoviet/20100311/158159861.html
A quote...."The Ukrainian parliament on Thursday formed a majority parliamentary coalition loyal to new President Viktor Yanukovych and appointed a new prime minister, ending a political stand-off between the legislature and the head of state."
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Japan islanders reject US base  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123316&sectionid=351020406
A quote...."Three mayors from a Japanese island, slated to host a US military base, are to write a letter to President Barack Obama expressing their refusal to the plan." - also posted at AlethoNews   ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/japan-islanders-reject-us-base/
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/222570
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[Venezuelan] Government: $120 Billion to Be Invested in Venezuela’s Orinoco Belt
  ---  http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=355376&CategoryId=10717
A quote...."CARACAS – Venezuelan Energy and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said some $120 billion will be invested over the next seven years in the Orinoco Belt, which the U.S. Geological Survey says is the largest petroleum accumulation it has ever evaluated."
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Venezuelan President Visits Nicaragua  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=179251&Itemid=1
A quote...."Managua, Apr 14 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will start a visit to Nicaragua on Wednesday and sign agreements with his Nicaraguan peer Daniel Ortega."
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LatAm Presidents to Meet in Bolivian Summit  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=179280&Itemid=1
A quote...."Cochabamba, Bolivia, Apr 14 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Evo Morales confirmed on Wednesday in this city that presidents of Nicaragua and Venezuela, Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez, respectively, will attend the First World People's Conference on Climate Change."
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Honduras Army Backs up the Police - Hillary must be so proud to have helped create a martial law state!
  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=179309&Itemid=1
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Apr 14 (Prensa Latina) Honduran President Porfirio Lobo decided to mobilize army troops to back up security tasks by the police. -   The measure was adopted Tuesday when Lobo met with the ministerial cabinet, local press reported."
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Turkey: World is turning a blind eye to Israel's nuclear weapons  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1162220.html
A quote...."Turkey's prime minister said Sunday that the world is turning a blind eye to Israel's nuclear program and that he intends to raise the issue at the nuclear summit in Washington."
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Journalist threatened with extradition, arrest by Mossad  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11202.shtml
Journalist Under Attack - A quote...."An Israeli journalist who went into hiding after writing a series of reports showing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders faces a lengthy jail term for espionage if caught, as Israeli security services warned at the weekend they would "remove the gloves" to track him down." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65074&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israel Black Ops Revealed – Treachery or Truth telling?  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/04/14/video-israel-black-ops-revealed-treachery-or-truth-telling/
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp3NHXYnAUc  ---  (RTYuTb - 3 min 46 sec - April 14, 2010)
RTVideo - Related Video - A quote...."(RussiaToday )- An Israeli court has lifted a gagging order stopping the country’s media from reporting on the trial of a young journalist accused of leaking highly classified documents to the press. The chief of Israel’s security service called the former soldier’s actions ‘every enemy state’s dream’."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Endless casualties of Israel’s “buffer zone”  ---  http://ingaza.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/endless-casualties-of-israels-buffer-zone/
The Israeli thugs are knee-capping people now!  What a bunch of sick people they are. - mpg -- A quote...."Mahmoud Shawa, 19, was shot just below the knee by an Israeli soldier during a non-violent demonstration against the Israeli-imposed ‘buffer zone’ near Nahal Oz border crossing. He was rushed to the Shifa Hospital bleeding heavily." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65068&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Human rights centre claims that 2000 sick detainees are held in Israeli prisons
  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/904-human-rights-centre-claims-that-2000-sick-detainees-are-held-in-israeli-prisons
A quote...."According to the Centre for Prisoner Studies in the Palestinian territories, there are 2,000 sick Palestinian and Arab detainees being held in Israeli prisons. This constitutes 25% of the total number of Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody. Sixteen of these prisoners are seriously ill with cancer." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65077&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israel detains 13 Palestinian in WB  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/west-bank/5487-israel-detains-13-palestinian-in-wb
A quote...."West Bank, April 15, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained today 13 Palestinian from different cities in the West Bank."
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Settlers uproot WB olive orchards  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123388&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian orchards in central West Bank, damaging a vast area of olive stands by uprooting hundreds of trees." - For more on this issue see....Israel's Scorched Earth  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israelsscorchedearth-weblist-mpg-022510
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Israeli Apartheid in al-Naqab  ---  http://pulsemedia.org/2010/04/14/israeli-apartheid-in-al-naqab/
A quote...."The Government of Israel is putting me on trial next week (Monday, April 19th, 11:00am in Beer Sheva): for expressing my displeasure at the brutal home demolitions in the Unrecognized Bedouin Villages. The government and its acting bodies do not want any resistance to the implementation of their racist policies, and therefore wish to scare and intimidate those who speak out…"
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/israeli-apartheid-in-al-naqab/
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Israeli Regime Worse than Apartheid
  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=234ce6949989f168eb975c3c73fb7e38&mode=details#234ce6949989f168eb975c3c73fb7e38
posted at Palestine Chronicle  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/fund_raisers.php?id=14
A quote...."Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat says Israel has turned into a regime worse than South Africa before the collapse of apartheid. -- "Never in the darkest hours of South African apartheid were the blacks prevented (from using) roads that whites were using," the official said, referring to measures taken by Israel to segregate Palestinian allegedly to secure Jewish settlers in the occupied Palestinian territory. -- "If the occupation continues, there will be villages, towns in the West Bank, and refugee camps that will be within walls," Erekat said."
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An immaculate conception?  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11207.shtml
Must Read - A quote...."The Palestinian Authority is pregnant! Indeed, it is the unelected and American-imposed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad who is pregnant. He told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in a recent interview that "the time for this baby to be born will come ... and we estimate it will come around 2011." Unlike females of the human species but like female whales, the gestation period for male Palestinian collaborators with the Israeli occupation extends at least to two years."
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Ratigan Presents Financial Fraud For Dummies (Literally)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/ratigan-presents-financial-fraud-dummies-literally
Alt  ---  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/36522064#36522064
Must View MSNBCVideo - A quote...."Dylan Ratigan and the Story Pirates have dumbed down the biggest generational theft in US history to the level where a Sesame Street fan can get it... Or is that a master ES trader with laser precision liquidity withdrawal reflexes? Anyway, it is somewhat sad to witness the transition of America from at least a passably respectable nation to one in which it is made plainly obvious to children, that to succeed in life one must cheat, lie and steal with the best of the the bankers."
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Fed Shouldn’t Reveal Crisis Loans, Banks Vow to Tell High Court  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ax8ulGXswn4E
Related Article - A quote...."April 14 (Bloomberg) -- The biggest U.S. commercial banks will take their fight against disclosure of Federal Reserve lending in 2008 to the Supreme Court if necessary, the top lawyer for an industry-owned group said."
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U.S. Economy: The Move Towards Deflation is Underway  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18666
Special Note - A quote...."Those of you 60 years old and older will spend the next 25 years struggling to survive one of the worst depressions in history or doing whatever you can to support your children and grandchildren. -- The move toward eventual deflation is underway. It won’t happen tomorrow, but it is underway. The situation regarding the credit crisis has never been solved, unless you want to keep two sets of books in perpetuity and mark-to-model until the end of time. De-leveraging is in part still in process. The banks have a long way to go. In fact, one has made toxic garbage attractive to banks and bottom fishers. Banks and investment houses as owners and buyers will get taken off the hook by government via loans. This program is supposed to take underwater homeowners on to dry land, when in fact it’s another banking and Wall Street giveaway you will get to pay for."
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March Foreclosures Surge To Absolute Record, At 369,491, 19% Jump from February
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/march-foreclosures-surge-absolute-record-369491-19-jump-february
Related Article -  A quote...."RealtyTrac reports the next catalyst that will surely take the Dow to 12,000 by 9:31 am tomorrow. "Foreclosure filings were reported on 367,056 properties in March, an increase of nearly 19 percent from the previous month, an increase of nearly 8 percent from March 2009 and the highest monthly total since RealtyTrac began issuing its report in January 2005." - Keep in mind folks, as long as the Fed keeps pumping (with your tax dollars and other programs, see this,  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25125.htm  ---  and this)  --- 
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/imf-prepares-global-cataclysm-expands-backup-rescue-facility-half-trillion-contribution-glob  --- the market will keep going up....but it's starting to look a little frayed around the edges. - mpg
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Income falls 3.2% during Obama's term  ---  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/13/personal-income-falls-32-during-obamas-15-months/
Related Article - A quote...."Real personal income for Americans - excluding government payouts such as Social Security - has fallen by 3.2 percent since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis."
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Consumer prices rise 0.1 percent in March  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100414/bs_nm/us_usa_economy_prices
Related Article - A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. consumer prices rose 0.1 percent in March, a government report showed on Wednesday, matching economists' expectations for a tame reading and giving the Federal Reserve leeway to maintain ultra-low interest rates."
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Retail sales increase 1.6% in March  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/retail-sales-increase-16-in-march-2010-04-14
Related Article - A quote...."The Commerce Department on Wednesday said sales totaled $363.2 billion - the fifth gain in six months. Excluding autos and trucks, sales climbed 0.6% to $300.5 billion. -- Retail sales are now 7.6% higher compared to one year ago, though economists question if the momentum can be sustained. Most consumers have seen little increase in wages over the past few years. [and they won't for many more years to come] -- This surge in spending reflects a decline in the saving rate rather than a surge in income, [but yes indeedee, they still keep spending what they don't have] since real disposable income probably fell in the quarter," [behavior like this has to be literally wrung out of a consumer, the fact that consumers were so quick to "believe" Ben Bernanke and "believe" they could spend their way out of the worse recession since WWII less than a year and a half after it started is a VERY bad sign.] chief economist Nigel Gault of IHS Global Insight said in an email."
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U.S. Trade Deficit Jumped 7.4% in February  ---  http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/u-s-trade-deficit-widened-7-4-in-february-to-39-7-billion/19437320/
Related Article - A quote...."The U.S. trade deficit widened 7.4% to $39.7 billion in February, the Commerce Department announced Tuesday, as rising imports outpaced rising exports."
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Borrowing insanity  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/LD16Dj01.html
A quote...."The US government has added US$4.11 billion of deficit spending every single day since September 2007. That means the Obama administration is borrowing $287.70 a week for each non-taxpayer-paid worker in the country - which non-taxpayer-paid workers will then have to pay back! And the so-called US government gets away with this!!!" - bold by website editor
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332 Days Till Dow 36,000, As SPY Has Become A 4x Leveraged ETF On The XLF
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/332-days-till-dow-36000-spy-has-become-4x-leveraged-etf-xlf
Quote of the Day...."At today's rate of market melt up, we will hit Dow 36,000 in 332 days, or on March 12, 2011. This should occur a few days before Bernanke finally agrees to raise the discount rate to 0.50 bps. Also, at today's rate of price change, we will hit $715/bbl on the same day. We are confident that gas at $30/gallon will cause the Fed Chief Execution Officer to evaluate his conclusion that his brilliant monetary policy is not causing the single biggest asset bubble in US history. Last and not least, total US Federal debt on that day will be about $14.5 trillion, and when adding all the off-balance sheet items, should hit about $120 trillion. We have less than a year before total Alice In Wonderland oblivion. Oh, and since the latest episode of market melt up began, the SPY is trading as a 4x leveraged ETF on the XLF. Ignore that this statement makes no sense. Just buy. Buy everything. Then repo it to the Fed, they are particularly receptive to used single ply toilet paper, and then buy on repo margin. Insanity is here."
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Fun With Fibonacci And The Great Depression  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fun-fibonacci-and-great-depression
Chart - A quote...."The Fib retracement from the highs to the lows in the cycle is now nearly 61.8 (at 1,228)"
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Some Interesting Charts......

A Bad Decade: 10-Year Private Income Growth Goes Negative
  ---  http://innovationandgrowth.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/a-bad-decade-10-year-private-income-growth-goes-negative/
Fred's Intelligent Bear Site - (Dow Jones Industrial Average Inflation Adjusted)
  ---  http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eintelligentbear/com-dj-infl.htm
Long Term Chart: Inflation Adjusted Dow Jones Industrial
  ---  http://www.tradersnarrative.com/long-term-chart-inflation-adjusted-dow-jones-industrial-3691.html
Two S&P 500 Charts: Rolling 10-Year Returns, Inflation Adjusted Performance - (click on charts to enlarge)
  ---  http://seekingalpha.com/article/119165-two-s-p-500-charts-rolling-10-year-returns-inflation-adjusted-performance
So, How Are Stock Prices Now That We're Back At DOW 11,000? They're 30% Overvalued
  ---  http://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-pe
Stock Market PE - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://www.angrybearblog.com/2010/03/stock-market-pe.html
Note this chart....StkMktP/E  ---  http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zh1bveXc8rA/S6KJkTddaOI/AAAAAAAABFY/ruWZZJzENJU/s1600-h/Clipboard01.jpg
Long-Term Evidence on the Fed Model and Forward Operating P/E Ratios - (August 20, 2007)
  ---  http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc070820.htm
Secular Bear Markets and the Volatility of Inflation - (June 2009)
  ---  http://www.hussmanfunds.com/rsi/secbearinflation.htm
It's almost time to turn bullish on stocks - (Apr 06, 2009)
  ---  http://www.moneyweek.com/investments/stock-markets/its-almost-time-to-turn-bullish-on-stocks-14710.aspx
Sometimes it Actually is Different
  ---  http://www.safehaven.com/article/7039/sometimes-it-actually-is-different
The "Secular Bear" Thesis Re-Visited
  ---  http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/milhouse102307.html
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China's GDP grows 11.9% in Q1  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-04/15/c_13252225.htm
A quote...."BEIJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 11.9 percent year on year in the first quarter to 8.06 trillion yuan (1.19 trillion U.S. dollars), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Thursday."
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Tuesday April 13th 2010 - links page

The American Way: In Defense of George W. Bush
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1956-the-american-way-in-defense-of-george-w-bush.html
Must Read - From the History File -- aprox. Wed May 20, 2009 -- A quote...."The Case for the Prosecutionalt  To see the Bush Faction in the dock -- charged with launching a war of aggression and creating a worldwide gulag of torture and illegal detention -- is of course the fervent dream of millions of people across the globe. Such a sight would seem to provide tangible proof that the ideal of justice cannot be vanquished entirely by the brute force of elite power. -- The evidence supporting these charges is mountainous, and growing all the time. What's more, the essentials are undisputed, even by the defendants themselves."
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Hamid Karzai, R.I.P.  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/04/11/hamid-karzai-r-i-p/
Must Read -- A quote...."The war in Afghanistan, which George W. Bush started  ---  http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/11/bush-and-rumsfeld-
let-osama-escape.php  ---  and Barack Obama pledged to win,  ---  http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/12/live-coverage-of-obamas-west-p.html  ---  is over – and we lost. No one realizes this, quite yet, but give them time – because the fruits of our defeat are already a veritable cornucopia. And the reason can be summed up rather neatly in two words: Hamid Karzai. -- The fashion-plate  ---  http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&
rlz=1B3GGLL_enUS371US371&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=karzai&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0  ---  heralded as the savior of Afghanistan  ---  http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/15/karzai/  ---  by the Bush administration is turning into the Americans’ harshest critic: from quite credibly claiming  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/01/AR2010040101681_pf.html  ---  that the US was trying to manipulate the recent Afghan election in order to give its sock-puppets the advantage, to declaring that he’s about ready to join the Taliban,  ---  http://dailycaller.com/2010/04
/05/karzai-says-hell-join-the-taliban-if-un-keeps-pressuring-him/  ---  President Karzai is making waves – and coming in for a barrage of disdain from the Washington cognoscenti, who cavil he’s an "unreliable partner."  ---  http://www.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22karzai%22+%22unreliable+partner%22  ---  Translated into ordinary language, this means he isn’t kowtowing to Washington’s whims, and is instead seeking to pursue his own aims  ---  http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/eric_margolis/2010/04/09/13530691.html  ---  shocking, isn’t it"
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25198.htm
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The Puppet Tries To Cut His Strings  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis186.html
Must Read - Related Article - A quote...."As Henry Kissinger once rightly observed, it is often more dangerous being America’s ally than its enemy. -- Watching Washington’s growing anger at Afghan president Hamid Karzai, one recalls the unhappy endings of such former US allies as South Vietnam’s Diem, Iran’s Shah, Indonesia’s Suharto, Nicaragua’s Somoza, and Pakistan’s Zia ul-Haq. -- Washington has been loudly hinting it would like to oust Karzai, but so far it has not managed to identify a suitable replacement who commands any respect or tribal support from Afghans."
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Take This Empire and Shove It!  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25200.htm
Must Read - A quote...."By Cindy Sheehan -- April 12, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Dear Reader—raise your hand if you don’t know that atrocities happen in war. Now put your hands in the air like you just don’t care. -- Psychologist, Robert Jay Lifton, who is a pioneer in the study of what drives otherwise “normal” human beings to commit war crimes calls war: “an atrocity-producing situation.” Atrocities have been committed in every war since the beginning of time, and the sad thing is the barbarity hasn’t decreased. Recently a US soldier tried to justify to me committing atrocities because the "British did it to the Native Americans" in the French-Indian War. This soldier was essentially agreeing with Lifton."
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Why Politics Is Not the Answer - Hey folks, just DON'T vote for DemoRepubs!! - mpg
  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/ostrowski/ostrowski97.1.html
Special Note - Quote of the Day...."Political action has rarely in human history caused government to shrink in size and power. The natural tendency of government is to grow and expand its powers. The events of 2008–2010 illustrate that. Over time, it will tend to tax and spend more, hire more people and assume more power over our lives, liberty and property. Government policies change continually but if you look closely, it is almost always in the direction of bigger government. If you favor bigger government, you really don’t have to do anything. Just sit back and enjoy the show. By the natural laws of politics, governments will tend to grow. If you check back in five years, it is highly likely that the government will be bigger and more powerful. Government in America has grown enormously since about 1917, the start of American involvement in World War I. No coincidence there; war grows the state."
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Tax Day 2010: Most of every dollar you pay in federal taxes is spent on...  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-8254-0-22-22--.html
Special Note - A quote...."Health care? Social Security? An economic stimulus bill? Wars? Bailing out Wall Street banks? Education? Our nation's infrastructure?  Each may be a good guess based on the issues that get attention in the mainstream media. -- The correct answer may be that 53% of the federal tax being collected in 2010 has already been allocated for defense spending."
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Your Tax Dollars at War: More Than 53% of Your Tax Payment Goes to the Military  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25206.htm
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."April 13, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- The budget for the 2011 fiscal year, which has to be voted by Congress by this Oct. 1, looks to be about $3 trillion, not counting the funds collected for Social Security (since the Vietnam War, the government has included the Social Security Trust Fund in the budget as a way to make the cost of America’s imperial military adventures seem smaller in comparison to the total cost of government). Meanwhile, the military share of the budget works out to about $1.6 trillion."
also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/13-4
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Engineers of Human Souls: The Pentagon's Cult of Killing Strikes Again
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1955-engineers-of-human-souls-the-pentagons-cult-of-killing-strikes-again.html
Must Read - Some quotes...."U.S. Troops Fire on Afghan Bus, Killing at Least 5 Civilians  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/world
/asia/13afghan.html  ---    American troops raked a large passenger bus with gunfire near the southern city of Kandahar on Monday morning, killing as many as five civilians and wounding 18, Afghan authorities and survivors said...." -- "....it is very clear why these troops would have decided to "light up" a bus crammed with civilians that was pulling subserviently off the road to let even more of the occupier's military muscle barrel through their invaded homeland. It's because for generations, the Pentagon has been employing every mind-bending technique it can find to turn human beings into killing machines."
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One Marine’s ‘Liberty Walk’ for the Rest of Us  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/one_marines_liberty_walk_for_the_rest_of_us_20100411/
Must Read - A quote...."I met  Ernest Logan Bell, a 25-year-old Marine Corps veteran, as he walked along Route 12 in upstate New York with a large American flag strapped to the side of his green backpack. There was a light drizzle and he was wearing a green Army poncho. Bell was on a six-day, 90-mile-long self-styled “Liberty Walk” from Binghamton to Utica in a quixotic campaign to challenge Democratic incumbent Rep. Michael Arcuri in the 24th Congressional District. He camped out along the road for three nights and stayed in cheap motels the other nights and was accompanied by Kevin Barlow, an unemployed welder. Bell opposes the health care law, calls for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, advocates the abolishment of the Federal Reserve, is against the bailouts for Wall Street and wants to see immediate government relief for workers trapped in prolonged unemployment, including his own."
also posted at ICH   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25197.htm
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Planning the Peace and Enforcing the Surrender: Deterrence in the Allied Occupations of Germany and Japan - PDF
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25204.htm
Special Note - Alt/PDF  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/pdffiles/jinh.2009.40.1.pdf  ---  A quote...."What exactly did the United States plan to do in the case of resistance? This study seeks to address the gap in both the historical and political-science literature by examining policy designed for the initial period of occupation in Germany and Japan. - Journal of Interdisciplinary History, xl:1 (Summer, 2009) - Posted April 13,2010"
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Chances of Maliki’s reappointment slim  ---  http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=
World_News&subsection=Gulf%2C+Middle+East+%26+Africa&month=April2010&file=World_News2010041331014.xml
A quote...."BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki’s chances of being reappointed appear to be fading as potential coalition partners turn against him a month after a general election that produced no clear winner."
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Anti-American anger grows in Afghanistan -- http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/anti-american-anger-grows-in-afghanistan/article1532189/
A quote...."Protesters take to the streets after U.S. troops open fire on passenger bus outside Kandahar city, killing four civilians "
also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/13-8
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Kandahar crossroads for NATO  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LD14Df03.html
A quote...."ISLAMABAD - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has threatened to attempt to delay or have cancelled the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's planned summer offensive against the Taliban in the southern province of Kandahar, even as more than 10,000 American troops have poured in for the battle. -- However, there may be a more compelling reason to delay the Kandahar offensive, which, after the recent operation in Marjah in Helmand province, would be the biggest in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001: across the border in Pakistan, the tribal areas are not, as had been planned, cleared of militants."
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Gods and Monsters - Fighting American Wars From On High
  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175232/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_view_from_mount_olympus__/
Special Note - A quote...."The Greeks had it right.  When you live on Mount Olympus, your view of humanity is qualitatively different.  The Greek gods, after all, lied to, stole from, lusted for, and punished humanity without mercy, while taking the planet for a spin in a manner that we mortals would consider amoral, if not immoral.  And it didn’t bother them a bit.  They felt -- so Greek mythology tells us -- remarkably free to intervene from the heights in the affairs of whichever mortals caught their attention and, in the process, to do whatever took their fancy without thinking much about the nature of human lives.  If they sometimes felt sympathy for the mortals whose lives they repeatedly threw into havoc, they were incapable of real empathy.  Such is the nature of the world when your view is the Olympian one and what you see from the heights are so many barely distinguishable mammals scurrying below.  The details of their petty lives naturally blur and seem less than important. -- In the last week, we’ve seen -- literally viewed -- a modern example of what it means in our day to act from the heights, and we’ve read about another striking example of the same." - also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/13-7
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Pakistan air force 'killed scores of villagers'  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistan-air-force-killed-scores-of-villagers-1944011.html
A quote...."Dilla Baz Khan was pulling a woman from the rubble of an air raid when Pakistani jets screamed back into the valley for a second bombing run, killing scores of people in a village which locals say had been supportive of army offensives against militants along the Afghan border."
also posted at Uruknet   ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65055&hd=&size=1&l=e
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"U.S. military playing expanded role in Pakistan  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/price_obusha_afpak_war_031009.html  ---  Officials: Elite trainers number more than 100 12 Apr 2010 U.S. Special Operations Forces on a 'training' mission in Pakistan are playing an expanded but largely unseen role in the country's counterinsurgency campaign, working with paramilitary units to "hold and build" tribal areas as militants are cleared. A Pentagon proposal would deepen that role by creating a special $10 million pool of funds the trainers could spend more quickly on civil affairs and humanitarian projects contractors' bogus 'rebuilding' projects in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in coordination with their Pakistani counterparts." - Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/  ---  Gee whiz, US-NRE special forces on continuous "training" missions in Pakistan.  We've all seen this sort of fiasco before. - mpg
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Israel Up To No Good On Kidnapping Propaganda  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/04/israel-up-to-no-good-on-kidnapping.html
War Alert - This looks very serious, Israel is up to NO good!! We will see how this shakes out, but I see trouble coming....


"I've just read this so called "frantic terror alert" issued by the Zionists in full HERE.  ---  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3875626,00.html  ---  Claiming that "all" Israelis in the Sinai must return to Israel immediately due to the "threat "of being kidnapped. I don’t buy this for one minute, not one second, not one nano second!"
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Iran: Haven’t We Seen This Movie Before?  ---  http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/112982-0/
War Alert - The parasitic class's techniques are so childish and so boring it brings one to tears.  It's truly tiresome to see them use the same stupid game plan over and over again.The only way it could work is to have a population so dumbed down, so indifferent to truth, so immoral, that they just let it happen. - mpg -- A quote...."In the joint interview* with Hillary Clinton and Robert M. Gates on Sunday, the buzz words were all there: international terrorism, Al Qaeda, Iran’s nuclear program, the need for UN Resolutions and the fact that such Resolutions will not stop the USA from taking further action, an international coalition being built, Teheran not wanting to follow the diplomatic path…and Iran was mentioned no less than eighteen times."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/222507
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'NATO supported Jundallah'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123246&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sent a letter to the UN chief, condemning NATO intelligence forces' support of the leader of the Jundallah terrorist group." - For more on this issue see....US Support of Terror - MEK-PKK-Others
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#MEK-PKK-OTHERS
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Brazil rejects new Iran sanctions  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123157&sectionid=351020104
A quote...."Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim has stated that Brasilia prefers diplomacy for solving the dispute over Iran's nuclear program rather than tough measures."
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China still favors diplomacy on Iran  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123154&sectionid=351020104
A quote...."Chinese President Hu Jintao has asked his US counterpart Barack Obama to give diplomacy a chance in dealing with Iran's nuclear program. "
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U.S., Israeli attack on Iran would be 'unacceptable' - Russia military  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100412/158538895.html
A quote...."Any airstrike against Iran by the United States or Israel would be "unacceptable," the chief of the Russian General Staff Nikolai Makarov said on Monday."
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Iran’s calls for a nuclear-free Middle East should be backed  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5785.shtml
posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
A quote...."From April 17-18, Iran intends to host a nuclear disarmament summit just four days after Washington concludes a nuclear security summit to which Tehran was not invited. Under the banner “Nuclear energy for everyone, nuclear arms for no one,” Iran calls for a nuclear-free Middle East and an end to nuclear proliferation globally."
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Israel must denuclearize, Erdogan says  ---  http://presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=123061&sectionid=351020204
A quote...."The Turkish premier says the international community should take action to disarm Israel as part of the efforts to make the Middle East a nuclear weapons-free zone."
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Kyrgyzstan Row: Bakiev agrees to resign, interim govt promises security for ousted leader  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEUZNcDFr6c
Video - RussiaToday   ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  April 13, 2010  — The interim government is preparing for talks with the ousted president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Human rights lawyers are on their way to the president's native town in the south of the central Asian country to mediate the talks. Earlier Bakiyev agreed to step down as president on the condition of guaranteed security for him and his family."
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Kyrgyz interim gov't abolishes Bakiyev's immunity, issues ultimatum demanding surrender
  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/13/c_13249097.htm
A quote...."BISHKEK, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Kyrgyz interim government on Tuesday issued an ultimatum for President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to surrender hours after it abolished his presidential immunity, said a senior official of the interim government on Tuesday."
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Latvia’s Cruel Neoliberal Experiment  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18636
Special Note - A quote...."Latvia is being devastated by two global wars. On the geopolitical front is the Cold War’s coup de grâce. Neoliberals have managed to de-industrialize Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union, persuading parliaments to dismantle government support for economic renewal. The “Washington Consensus” has backed a policy of giving away public enterprises and land to a newly minted oligarchy of insiders, and helped them sell shares to Western investors. The ensuing economic wreckage has helped avert future military rivalry to U.S. hegemony."
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Webster Tarpley Breaks Down Mysterious Polish President Kaczynski’s Death on Alex Jones Tv
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/04/13/video-webster-tarpley-breaks-down-mysterious-polish-president-kaczynskis-death-on-alex-jones-tv/
Must View Videos - posted at TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel
AJ&WT(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxLMF8rVdbk
AJ&WT(2/2)  ---   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-PlHtOhFvg 
A quote...."Alex welcomes back Webster Tarpley to discuss the latest on the Mysterious death surounding Polish President Kaczynski."
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Venezuela: Coup and Countercoup, Revolution  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18618
Special Note - A quote...."Venezuela commemorated the eighth year anniversary of the coup d'etat backed by Washington that changed the bolivarian revolution forever -- In just 47 hours, a coup d’etat ousted President Chavez and a countercoup returned him to power, in an extraordinary showing of the will and determination of a dignified people on a revolutionary path with no return. The mass media played a major role in advancing the coup and spreading false information internationally in order to justify the coup plotters’ actions. CIA documents revealed US government involvement and support to the coup organizers."
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Pulse of the Planet - WOLA vs. Honduran Democracy  ---  http://www.counterpunch.com/pine04122010.html
A quote...."America, the past year has seen increasing U.S.-Latin American hostilities, largely centered around the June 28th, 2009 violent military coup d'etat that ousted democratically-elected Honduran president Manuel Zelaya. And while the U.S. role in Honduras appears to many Latin Americans to be a continuation of its imperialist policies in the region over the past century, there is one new twist in the case of Honduras: much of the State Department's behind-the-scenes work is being carried out by one of the most respected human rights NGOs in Washington: the Washington Office on Latin America."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65031&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Liberals Smear Wikileaks  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/04/13/liberals-smear-wikileaks/
Must Read - A quote...."Activists intent on releasing evidence of crimes committed by a powerful government are harassed and followed  ---
http://gawker.com/5502461/exclusive-secret+sharing-website-wikileaks-offers-new-details-on-alleged-us-surveillance  ---  by police and intelligence agents: a restaurant in which they are meeting comes under surveillance,  ---  http://gawker.com/5502461/exclusive-secret+sharing-website-wikileaks-offers-new-details-
on-alleged-us-surveillance  ---  and, subsequently, one of their number is detained by the police  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/205505-WikiLeaks-
Monitored-by-U-S-Icelandic-Authorities-Over-Pentagon-Murder-Video  ---  for 21 hours. Their leader is followed on an international flight  ---
http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/10962400912  ---  by two agents: and, in a parking lot of foreign soil, one of their number is accosted by a "James Bond character"  ---  http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=29653  ---  and threatened. Computers are seized, and on the group’s Twitter account  --- 
http://twitter.com/wikileaks  ---  the following message appears...."
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Unprovoked Cops Viciously Beat Student Then Charge Him With Assault  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/april2010/130410beating.htm
A quote...."Charges against a Maryland student were dropped yesterday after video was released showing three unprovoked police officers violently beating him to the ground with batons following a basketball game last month."
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Shurtleff leads 7 states in gun fight  ---  http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14871755
A quote...." Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and six other states filed a brief in federal court in Montana on Monday, arguing that the federal government has no constitutional authority to regulate firearms manufactured and sold within their borders."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Deport the Palestinians to Where They Came From – Israel  ---  http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15882
Special Note - A quote...."It was bound to happen. The Israelis have decided to opt for outright ethnic cleansing. As of April 13, 2010 - the Israelis military will be accorded the power to deport any Palestinian or any foreigner in the West Bank if their papers ‘aren’t in order.’ The IDF has already made it clear that the order will not apply to Israeli citizens in the West Bank - you know - the illegal Jewish settlers. In fact, if you are Mongolian and can produce a faded newspaper clip announcing your grandfather’s bar mitzvah - that will be sufficient documentation to acquire immediate Israeli citizenship and get a red carpet reception when you relocate to the occupied territories. They’ll even provide you with subsidized housing if you take them up on the offer." - bold by website editor -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25211.htm
& Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65052&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Ethnic cleansing in Palestine by ~Latuff2  ---  http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/Ethnic-cleansing-in-Palestine-160496766
Cartoon - (click on the image to enlarge)
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UK's discriminatory criminalization of dissent  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11199.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
Special Note - This is what Israel/AIPAC wants to do here in this country!! - mpg -- A quote...."We are very angry, very afraid, very sad, very upset. My wife, she is depressed. When she sees police in the street she's very frightened. They destroyed our life," says Badi Tebani. -- In January 2009, Tebani's teenage son Yahia was one of tens of thousands of people who joined demonstrations in London against the Israeli bombing of Gaza. At one of those demonstrations Yahia and many others were "kettled" -- surrounded by a police cordon and slowly let out in return for giving their names and addresses and for being filmed. -- That was the last Yahia knew of it until the following April, when the family home was raided by 20 to 30 police at 5am. The front door was forced open and Badi Tebani and his family were ordered to lie on the floor. His four sons were all handcuffed. Three police officers knelt on the back of Hamza, 23. He was sleeping in shorts, but they refused to let him put on any clothes, even though they'd opened the windows, letting in the cold. Computers, mobile phones and clothes were all taken and the family car was broken into. Badi and Hamza described how police played games on the boys' iPhones and made themselves coffee in the kitchen."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/uks-discriminatory-criminalization-of-dissent/
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Grassroots organizer targeted by PA, Israeli forces - Ditto!! - mpg  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11203.shtml?utm_source=
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A quote...."Mousa Abu Maria, father of a newborn baby and co-coordinator of the grassroots Palestine Solidarity Project (PSP) in the occupied West Bank village of Beit Ommar, was used to the sound of boots running on the ground and surrounding his home in the middle of the night."
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Anat Kam: I stole IDF documents to expose West Bank war crimes  ---  http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1162458.html
A quote...."Classified documents reveal that the Israel Defense Forces had committed war crimes in the West Bank, Anat Kam, the former soldier indicted for espionage over an alleged theft of top secret material, told the court earlier in the year, according to police documents released allowed for publication Monday at the request of Haaretz." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65030&hd=&size=1&l=e
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7th Anniversary of the shooting of Thomas Hurndall  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/04/12024
A quote...."The 11th April marks the seventh anniversary of the ultimately fatal shooting of British ISM activist, Thomas Hurndall. Tom was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper in Rafah, Gaza, whilst attempting to move two young girls out of the line of fire. He went in to a coma, and died in hospital 9 months later, on the 13th January 2004."
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Cementing Our Solidarity with the People of Gaza  ---  http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/56-news/1163-cementing-our-support-for-the-people-of-gaza
Action Alert - A quote...."The Free Gaza Movement calls on communities, schools, hospitals, trade unions and families across Ireland and the world to sponsor bags of cement and school supplies to send to Gaza. They will be loaded onto our Irish cargo ship, the MV Rachel Corrie, as part of an international flotilla of ships sailing to Gaza in May."
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Israel's 'crisis of legitimacy' -- Jared Malsin  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=276127
A quote...."I know something about how Israel's security forces treat journalists they view as hostile. In January, I was held for over a week in a dingy detention center at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport before being deported."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/israels-crisis-of-legitimacy/
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Gaza militant: Hamas stopping rocket fire into Israel  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1162472.html
A quote...."Hamas is forcing other Gaza Palestinian factions to guarantee they do not launch rockets or mortar bombs at Israel, a source told the French AFP news agency on Monday."
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Interview - Richard Becker - Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire  ---  http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2010/04/interview-richard-becker-palestine.html
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71a7pk2Pl6w  ---  (YuTb - 27m50s - April 13, 2010)
Video Interview -- A quote...."talkingsticktv — April 13, 2010 — Interview with Richard Becker, author of Palestine, Israel and the US Empire."
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A Banana Republic With No Bananas  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/banana-republic-with-no-bananas.html
Must Read - A quote...."Experts on third world banana republics from the IMF and the Federal Reserve have said the U.S. has become a third world banana republic  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/03/experts-on-third-world-banana-republics.html  ---  (and see this  ---
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/06/president-of-federal-reserve-bank-of.html  ---  and this).  ---
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/06/second-powerful-congressman-says-banks.html  ---  Are they right? Well, let's look at Wikipedia's description  ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic#Features_of_a_banana_republic  ---  of the four factors which make a country a banana republic."
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"Never Even a Whisper" at Fed's Open Market Committee Meetings -- http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/never-even-whisper-at-feds-open-market.html
Special Note - Ben Bernanke, William Dudley and Donald L Kohn are on the Fed's Open Market Committee  --- 
http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc.htm  ---  (FOMC). -- They are also on the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements  ---
http://www.bis.org/about/board.htm  ---  (BIS) - often called the "central banks' central bank". And Kohn is an alternate director for BIS. -- Alan Greenspan, of course, was a BIS director  ---  http://web.archive.org/web/20030801204404/http://www.bis.org/about/board.htm  ---  for many years. -- Dudley is also chairman of BIS' Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems  ---  http://www.bis.org/about/factcpss.htm  ---  (Tim Geithner - previously on the FOMC - previously  ---
http://www.ny.frb.org/aboutthefed/orgchart/geithner.html  ---  held that post). -- So there is clearly quite a bit of overlap between the two groups"
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Is the Fed Helping the Big Banks to Cook the Books?  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25203.htm
Special Note - A quote...."April 12, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- On Friday, the Wall Street Journal revealed details of a cover up by the nations largest banks that have been engaged in potentially-criminal accounting activities to conceal the amount of debt on their balance sheets. The SEC has been notified of the allegations and has launched a probe to determine whether further action is needed. Among the banks implicated, are Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Citigroup."
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CREDIT BUBBLE BULLETIN - Money good  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/LD13Dj01.html
Special Note - A quote...."The trump card of the belief that a reliably moderate rise in the general price level promotes economic dynamism and financial stability has been massive issuance of government "money". That card is now in play and is profoundly distorting market perceptions."
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Keiser Report: Special Greenspan Bubble edition  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/0/Vd02Ks-1LmU
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd02Ks-1LmU  ---  (MKRTYuTb - 24 min 45 sec - April 13, 2010)
Must View MKVideo - A quote...."This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals of financial crisis show trials in America; Citigroup alleges they could not possibly have predicted the collapse of a very obvious housing bubble; and former Fed Chairman, Alan Greenspan, tells the show trial commissioners that the financial world is far too complex for mere mortals. In the second half of the show, Max talks to economist Dean Baker about Citigroup's alleged profits."
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Report cites staggering level of US maternal mortality  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/apr2010/mate-a14.shtml
Another sobering statistic that proves the US-NRE is sooooo NOT number one! - mpg -- A quote...."Women in the US have a greater chance of dying from complications of pregnancy and childbirth than women in 40 other countries. A report from Amnesty International (AI), “Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA,” shows that US maternal mortality ratios have soared in recent years, rising from 6.6 deaths per 100,000 lives births in 1987, to 13.3 deaths per live births in 2006." - bold by website editor
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Nine Myths about Socialism in the US  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/206546-Nine-Myths-about-Socialism-in-the-US
By the numbers - A quote...."The fact is that the US is not really all that generous to our working and poor people compared to other countries. - Consider the US in comparison to the rest of the 30 countries that join the US in making up the OECD - the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. These 30 countries include Canada and most comparable European countries but also include some struggling countries like Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Slovak Republic, and Turkey. See www.oecd.org - When you look at how the US compares to these 30 countries, the hot air myths about the US government going all out towards socialism sort of disappear into thin air. Here are some examples of myths that do not hold up."
From CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/10
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Iceland Crisis Report: Banks’ Owners Owed the Most  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-8249-0-13-13--.html
A quote...."The majority owners of the three largest Icelandic banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir, and of the investment bank Straumur-Burdarás, were also their largest debtors, as the Special Investigative Commission’s crisis report, which was made public yesterday, has revealed."
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Argentina seizes pension funds to pay debts. Who's next?
  ---  http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/5504137/Argentina_seizes_pension_funds_to_pay_debts_Whos_next/
A quote...."Here is a warning to us all. The Argentine state is taking control of the country’s privately-managed pension funds in a drastic move to raise cash. - Should we worry about our pensions?" - also posted at BLN  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=8248  ---  Not at all!!  Worry implies doubts about the future, in this case there are no doubts, the government (i.e. the parasitic class) is going to loot, rob and steal every single dime from every single pension out there.....especially Social Security. - mpg
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IMF Prepares For Global Cataclysm, Expands Backup Rescue Facility By Half A Trillion For "Contribution To Global Financial Stability"
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/imf-prepares-global-cataclysm-expands-backup-rescue-facility-half-trillion-contribution-glob
Financial Alert - (The parasitic class is nervous about something, the PIIGS have already been pretty well discounted, although they're substantially increasing the strains on the world's financial system.  So what they're nervous about appears to be something else....but what? If this sort of thing keeps happening this website editor is going to have to markedly increase the chances  for a depression era economic down leg - currently 10% - versus the chances for severe stagflation - currently 90% - mpg) -- A quote...."And all the pundits thought that the IMF would be on the hook for just €10 billion... The IMF has just announced that it is expanding its New Arrangement to Borrow (NAB) multilateral facility from its existing $50 billion by a whopping $500 billion (SDR333.5 billion), to $550 billion."
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Emergency bailout plan for Greece: A new stage in world economic crisis  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/apr2010/pers-a12.shtml
A quote...."The European emergency plan for Greece represents a substantial reversal of the deal agreed at the EU summit just two weeks ago. At their meeting in Brussels at the end of March, European heads of state agreed to a proposal pushed by the German government aimed at avoiding a bailout of the Greek economy. At the summit, the German delegation, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, offered a guarantee to the Greek government on condition that it pay punitive rates of interest for the repayment of its debt, while making clear that any assistance would be given only as a “last resort.”
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Is the World's Second Biggest Economy On the Ropes?  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/is-worlds-second-biggest-economy-on.html
A quote...."Iceland has approximately the 101st biggest economy in the world. -- Dubai is also tiny. -- Greece is somewhat bigger, with the 27th biggest economy. -- When Iceland, Dubai and Greece tanked, that was horrible ... but not catastrophic. -- Portugal - the 37th biggest economy - may be next.  ---
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-johnson/greece-saved-for-now-is-p_b_533533.html  ---  It would be horrible if Portugal tanks. -- But Spain is also in real trouble. ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/portugal-greece-spain-default-worries-rise-2010-02-08  ---  As the 9th biggest economy, a default by Spain could be major. ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/7159456/Fears-of-Lehman-style-tsunami-as-crisis-hits-Spain-and-Portugal.html  ---  But none of these are in the same ballpark as Japan - the world's 2nd  ---  http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/asia/japan/2010/02/16/244912/Japan-still.htm  ---  biggest economy. Only the U.S. is bigger."
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Visualizing America's Tax Inequality, The Wealthiest 11,000 People, And Why Obama's Campaign Promises Mean 77%-91% Taxes For The Richest
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/visualizing-americas-tax-inequality-wealthiest-11000-people-and-why-obamas-campaign-promises
Chart - A quote...."Now that healthcare "reform|takeover" has passed, Obama is rightfully shifting his attention on tax "reform|takeover" for the very simple reason that America is getting bankrupter by the day, and at some point even our ever so patient creditors will say 'enough'. We take this opportunity to disclose the massive pain that lies in store for those who are currently benefiting the most from the endless stock market rally, of course assuming the president keeps his #1 campaign promise (which is a vast assumption). As the charts below demonstrate, American society is currently stratified beyond repair. In this vein, the Tax Policy Center calculates, that for a return to economic normalcy, or deficits at a "mere" 2% of GDP, households earnings more than $200/250k would see their tax rates going up to a stunning 91%. If the economic underperformance target is reduced to more palatable deficits at 3% of GDP, then the top earners would be hit with "only" 77% taxes."
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Monday April 12th 2010 - links page

Sunday April 11th 2010 - links page

U.S. Casualties in Afghan War Soar Toward 15,000 Dead and Injured
  ---  http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/03/u-s-casualties-in-afghan-war-soar-toward-15-000-dead-and-injure/
Well, it appears some more / Bio-Weapons-Components / Cannon-Fodder / Killer-Unit-Flesh-Packets / are being degraded or permanently disabled.  Guess the government will have to go ahead and purchase some more of them...yawn.  What's the big deal anyway, they're highly inexpensive to maintain, cheap to acquire and incredibly easy to manufacture (although they do take up to eighteen years to assemble).  Besides....all of these BWCs were actually un-educated enough to let the government inject them with all kinds of unknown, untested and highly dangerous vaccines, drugs and other chemicals for years.  Or let themselves be exposed to deadly depleted uranium.  So what the heck, since they don't appear to have any built-in self-preservation instincts whatsoever and since as a result they're probably going to wear-out or cease functioning anyway, instead of letting them be a burden to society while they continue to uselessly use their VA benefits, or try to rehabilitate themselves while they all slowly and inevitably deteriorate, why not just use them up in the US-NRE's various occupations?  After all, it would be the "capitalist" thing to do. - mpg  - posted - 03-03-10 -- For more on this issue see....The Bidding War - 10-14-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thebiddingwar-mpg-reficultnias-101409
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Saturday April 10th 2010 - links page

Friday April 9th 2010 - links page

Thursday April 8th 2010 - links page

Understanding Deep Politics Conference
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