Tuesday April 28th 2009 - links page

Major defeat for Bush/Obama position on secrecy - Hip Hip Hooray!!! - mpg
   ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/28/secrecy/index.html
Must Read - Obama™ Update -- A quote...."The first sign that the Obama DOJ would replicate many of the worst and most radical arguments of the Bush DOJ was in the Jeppesen case, a lawsuit brought by five victims of the CIA's rendition and torture program (including Binyam Mohamed).  The Bush administration had argued that the entire "subject matter" raised by the lawsuit (the rendition program) was such a gravely important "state secret" that the court could not consider any lawsuit relating to that issue.  That argument was a by-product of one of the Bush DOJ's most controversial actions:  its radical expansion of the "state secrets" doctrine.  Whereas that privilege was once an evidentiary privilege enabling the Government to declare specific documents too secret to use in litigation, the Bush DOJ converted it into an all-purpose shield allowing them to have entire lawsuits dismissed even where the lawsuit alleged that the President's conduct was illegal." also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/28-14
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Court rebuffs feds, reinstates torture suit  ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/28/BAC417AH7A.DTL&tsp=1
Related Article - Obama™ Update -- A quote...."(04-28) 11:58 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court rebuffed the Obama administration's assertion of secrecy today and reinstated a lawsuit by five men who say a Bay Area subsidiary of Boeing Co. helped the CIA fly them to foreign countries to be tortured." - also posted at CommonDreams   ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/04/28-7
For more on this issue see....Come Fly the Un-Friendly Boeing Skys  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-052207-053107#BOEING
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Face of the “New Democrats” - Arlen Specter Gives The DINOs Absolute Control. God Help Us All…
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/face-of-the-new-democrats-arlen-specter-gives-the-dinos-absolute-control/
Obama™ Update -- Some quotes...."Normally, after 8 years of CheneyCo, I would be pleased to see the dems in control for at least a couple years.  But I’m not brain dead, nor am I blinded by or easily distracted by, cheap partisan theatrics that feel like they’ve been written by a lazy and unusually dull high-school student....." -- "I won’t bore you with another explanation of what the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) is or what they support; suffice to say, they just love NAFTA, the Security and Prosperity Partnership,  unrestricted free-trade, the privatization of every dime in the government that doesn’t end up in their pockets, No Child Left Behind, the Help America [Not]-Vote Act, torture, warrentless wiretapping, big business (they REALLY love Big Business), AIPAC, and war. - Those “New” democrats just love them some war. Can’t get enough of the stuff."
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Obama's Iraq: The Picture of Dorian Gray  ---  http://rebelreports.com/post/100759562/obamas-iraq-the-picture-of-dorian-gray
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."Remember when Barack Obama made that big announcement at Camp Lejeune about how all US combat troops were going to be withdrawn from Iraqi cities by June 30? Liberals jumped around with joy, praising Obama for ending the war so that they could focus on their "good war" in Afghanistan. -- Of course, the celebrations were and remain unwarranted.  --- http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/129362/all_troops_out_by_2011_not_so_fast%3B_why_obama%27s_iraq_speech_deserves_a_second_look/?page=entire  ---  Obama's Iraq plan is virtually identical to the one on Bush's table on January 19, 2009. Obama has just rebranded the occupation, sold it to liberals and dropped the term "Global War on Terror" while, for all practical purposes, continuing the Bush era policy...."
also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/28-7
& Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m53791&s1=h1
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Waterboarding Approved Specifically To Justify Iraq War By Craig Murray  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/?p=6476
A quote...."I have just learnt something which has convinced me that Bush, Cheney and Rice are indeed evil in the sense that Hitler was evil. I did not actually believe that until today. -- The excellent and much-respected Marjorie Cohn, President of the National Lawyers Guild of the USA and Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, has discovered that waterboarding was first approved in July 2002 by Condoleeza Rice, specifically to force confessions of links between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein."
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The dubious Zelikow shortcuts  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4644.shtml
Related Article - A quote...."Two issues trouble me relating to Philip Zelikow’s New York Times op-ed, The Dubious C.I.A. Shortcut. One, he seems to be flip-flopping on the legality and efficacy of torture to gain reliable intelligence, in this case from the C.I.A and Pentagon. Second, even as Zelikow headed the 9/11 Commission and wrote the final draft of its findings in April 2004, his commission report was based on secondhand C.I.A. and Pentagon “torture” reports, not face to face, independent interviews."
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The Wrong Torture Question  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/42124
Special Note - A quote...."When Americans get "ethical" these days they ponder the great moral mysteries, like "Is public health coverage fair to insurance companies?" or "If we increase the military budget but reduce one section of it, can the whole world still be safe?" or "Would you still oppose torture if it worked?" -- Let me suggest a few reasons why I think that last question is the wrong one. -- First, torture DID work. It forced false agreement with war lies, helping to launch a long-desired illegal war. And it persuaded many Americans that some very scary and very foreign people were out to get them, people so scary that they had to be tortured in order to talk with them, people whose every false utterance, aimed at stopping the pain, instead generated color-coded horror warnings."
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Busting the Torture Myths  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/42142
A quote...."Scott Horton, who has led coverage of Bush-era wrongdoing, exposes three pervasive myths—and the surprising reason Cheney and Rove are keeping the issue alive.

• A torture memo writer refused to comply with a warning about criminal risks—and exposes the truth about the policies.
• Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are convinced that Bush-era torture policy is a promising political product for a party down on its luck.
• Donald Rumsfeld gave step-by-step directions for techniques used at Abu Ghraib.
• Torture techniques originated from the White House shortly after 9/11—long before they were arguably needed on the battlefield.
• Torture was used by Cheney and Rumsfeld to find justification for the invasion of Iraq.
• Jay Bybee was confirmed to a lifetime appointment as all eyes were on Colin Powell’s speech to the U.N. about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.

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Pelosi the Hawk  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6078
A quote...."Reports by international human rights groups and from within Israel in recent weeks have revealed the massive scale of war-crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law, committed by Israeli forces during their three-week offensive against the Gaza Strip earlier this year. Despite this, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has steadfastly stood by her insistence that the U.S.-backed Israeli government has no legal or moral responsibility for the tragic consequence of the war." -- also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/28-3
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Washington’s concerns grow amid Iraqi anger over US raid  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/iraq-a29.shtml
A quote...."Protests in Iraq over Sunday’s US special forces raid in Kut, the capital of the predominantly Shiite Wasit province, will only add to the mounting concerns in the Obama administration and American military over the country’s ongoing instability."
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Assad to Obama: Leave Iraq or face crisis  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92913&sectionid=351020206
A quote...."Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned Obama that Washington will face a crisis in the Middle East if he does not pull US troops out of Iraq. - If US President Barack Obama does not remedy the mistakes made by the Bush administration, he will face a serious crisis in the region within a year, Assad said in Vienna on Tuesday."
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A new order emerges in Lebanon  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KD29Ak02.html
A quote...."Calls for engagement with Hezbollah in Lebanon are increasing in Washington, Britain is opening dialogue with non-state players and the Syrians are back in the international arena. Steadily, the Middle East leftovers of the George W Bush era are being eroded, and people like Lebanese warlord Walid Jumblatt are preparing for the new alignments." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/195914
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Iran vows to find Iraq bomb masterminds - Yeah, they're called al-CIA-duh in Iraq. (courtesy CLG) - mpg
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92610&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Tehran warns that the perpetrators behind the Iraqi bomb attacks that killed dozens of Iranian pilgrims 'would not go unpunished'. -- A fresh wave of violence erupted in Iraq on Thursday after a deadly bomb exploded near a restaurant on the northern outskirts of the Diyala province. The explosion left 88 people killed, most of whom were Iranians."
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Iran sheds light on arrested terror suspects  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92722&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Iran's Intelligence Ministry has disclosed few details about an 'Israeli-backed' terrorist group which was plotting a wave of bombings in the country. -- Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei said on Monday that the ministry had picked up on a series of suspicious activities which prompted the agency to focus its attention on the suspects."
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Saakavili's "Order No. 2" - Georgian Plots?  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/hallinan04282009.html
A quote...." At the bottom of the recent demonstrations that have packed the capital city of Tbilisi with tens of thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of Georgian President Mikheil Saakavili is an investigation by the European Union (EU) as to who started last summer’s war between Georgia and Russia. According to a report in the German newspaper Der Spiegel, “A secret document may prove that the Georgian president had planned a war of aggression in South Ossetia.”
For more on this issue see....American Selective Attention Deficit Disorder (ASADD) - 08-16-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/americanselectiveattention-blog-mpg-081608
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Is Ukraine’s NATO policy dead?  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/Politics/2009-04-29/Is_Ukraine_s_NATO_policy_dead.html
A quote...."The Ukrainian government is no longer interested in joining NATO, according to a leading expert on the country’s foreign policy. -- Anatoly Oryol, director-general at Ukraine’s Centre for International and Comparative Studies, believes the authorities in Kiev have stopped conducting a pro-NATO policy."
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Turkey eyes S-400 missile shield  ---  http://www.metimes.com/Security/2009/04/28/turkey_eyes_s-400_missile_shield/2487/
A quote...."ISTANBUL, Turkey, April 28 (UPI) -- Turkish officials have stated their willingness to consider purchasing the Russian S-400 strategic missile-defense system, Russian officials said."
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NAM: Solidarity against Unilateral Sanctions  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=75302&Itemid=1
A quote...."Havana, Apr 28 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Abelardo Moreno announced on Tuesday that the Movement of Non Aligned Countries (NAM) will be in solidarity with nations that have been unilaterally sanctioned, subjected to embargos or hit by natural disasters. During a briefing for journalists in the second day of the NAM ministerial meeting, Moreno said that the paragraph approved by high ranking representatives is very important from the conceptual point of view."
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Lebanon arrests another suspected spy for Israel  ---  http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=101474
A quote...."SIDON: The Lebanese Armed Forces arrested Tuesday in the southern coastal city of Sidon's suburb of Haret Saida a man suspected of dealing with Israel. LAF sources told The Daily Star that units for the military intelligence arrested a man named Mojahed Awad, who is a member of a cell suspected of dealing with the Israeli Mossad."
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Calamity Jane Harman Shoots Herself in the Foot  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/04/28/calamity-jane-harman-shoots-herself-in-the-foot/
A quote...."The exposure of the Jane Harman-AIPAC axis of treason has exploded the illusion of the Israel Lobby’s invulnerability. Here they thought they had the AIPAC espionage trial swept safely under the rug, or nearly so, what with the prosecution of two former top Lobby officials seemingly stalled indefinitely, and the Justice Department "reviewing" whether to pursue the case. Not only that, but accused Israeli spy Steve Rosen is riding high, having recently been instrumental in the downfall of Obama administration appointee Charles Freeman. Slated to take up a key post, which would have had him writing the president’s daily intelligence briefing, Freeman was lynched by a bipartisan mob of neocons and Israel-firsters, with the disgraceful (albeit not sufficiently disgraced) Rosen leading the charge."
For more on this issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US - Jane Harman
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409#JANEHARMAN
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Israel in Massive West Bank Land Grab - posted at Palestine Chronicle  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15036
  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=cae3ac89f47e4dc6217fa916248879ae&mode=details#cae3ac89f47e4dc6217fa916248879ae
A quote...."Israel is planning a huge West Bank land grab that would further isolate Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) and leave a future Palestinian state unviable, the Israeli Peace Now group has revealed."
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Zero Palestinian Evictions, now!  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2009/04/6399
A quote...."The inhabitants’ associations, international networks, voluntary groups, NGOs, public agencies, citizens of the world, express their indignation at and denounce Israel’s continual policies of eviction and demolition carried out against the Palestinian people, both Palestinians ’48 (citizens of Israel) and Palestinians ’67 (in the Occupied Palestinian Territory)."
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Hamas urges Egypt to open border with Gaza  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/28/content_11274876.htm
A quote...."GAZA, April 28 (Xinhua) -- The Hamas-controlled Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza appealed Tuesday to the Egyptian authorities to open Rafah border crossing urgently and to ease the movement of sick people." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/195930
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The Swine Flu Outbreak and Other Bio-Warfare Matters From CLG.....  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/

Article#1 -- "Involuntary quarantine an option if swine flu explodes into epidemic  ---  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30457076/  ---  28 Apr 2009 Quarantine may seem the stuff of mediocre melodramas, but if the swine flu explodes into an epidemic, involuntary isolation could become a reality for more than a few unlucky Americans. The federal government can declare a state of emergency. But the power to isolate or quarantine citizens, rests in the hands of the states, or in some cases, local governments. In a health emergency, people can be forced into isolation or quarantine without the government getting a court order first. [See CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/  ---  items: DoD to carry out 'military missions' during pandemic, WMD attack
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/DoD_to_act_in_pandemic.html  ---  08 Mar 2009 and DoD to 'augment civilian law' during pandemic or bioterror attack
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/DoD_to_augment_civilian_law.html  ---  11 May 2007.]" -- Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Article#2 -- "California declares a state of emergency over swine flu
  ---  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/governor-la-county-declare-state-of-emergency-for-swine-flu.html  ---  Governor, L.A. County declare state of emergency 28 Apr 2009 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) today proclaimed a state of emergency over the spread of swine flu, expediting state agency responses to the outbreak. The proclamation orders all state agencies to use staff and equipment to help the Department of Public Health under coordination of the California Emergency Management Agency. The order suspends rules requiring competitive bids for services, material, personnel and equipment needed to respond to this [US generated]  ---  http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/jan1404hybrids.html  ---  outbreak and waives some certification requirements for public health laboratories to help in the state’s expansion of testing capabilities. [Heads up! US pharma-terrorists are poised to make an even bigger killing than those who benefited from the 9/11 terror attacks (Rudy Giuliani, Lucky Larry), the Iraq-Afghanistan-Pakistan oil/gas/opium pipelines (Bush, Cheney Halliburton, etc.), and the Wall Street bailout.]" -- Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Article#3 -- "KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B62C8724D%2DA
E8A%2D4B5C%2D94C7%2D70171315C0A0%7D&dateid=38741%2E5136277662%2D858254656  ---  24 Jan 2006 KBR said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. The maximum total value of the contract is $385 million and consists of a 1-year base period with four 1-year options. The contract provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs, KBR said. The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster, the company said." -- Paragraph quoted from CLG   ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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CLG's Other Recent Articles -- List:

NJ identifies 5 probable swine flu cases
  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jh7zhZfeuQ1MFXLAAS5j_9pN-9OQD97R4JFG2
Swine flu fear for hundreds of NY children
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/swine-flu-fear-for-hundreds-of-ny-children-1675367.html
Cases of swine flu confirmed in Marin County
  ---  http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/north_bay&id=6785003
WHO raises its pandemic alert level on swine flu
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/27/AR2009042700360.html
Swine flu 'unstoppable,' WHO warns
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/28/swine-flu-mexico-scotland
CDC: 'Fully expect we will see deaths'
  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090428/ap_on_re_us/us_swine_flu_cdc
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Other Articles

Swine flu is a man made virus ?  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnSX_jS0STA  ---  (RT YouTube - 1 min 26 sec - April 28, 2009)
Video - WMR - A quote...."Investigative journalist from Washington Wayne Madsen says the outbreak of the swine flu virus is raising suspicions. The sources quoted by him say it could be manmade.
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The Spread of the Swine flu Outbreak  ---  http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20090428/121350431.html
InfoGraphic
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U.S. swine flu cases rise, more expected  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE53P1TK20090428
A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 40 people in five states have been sickened by new strain of swine flu that doctors fear may cause a pandemic, U.S. officials said on Monday, promising more cases to come."
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Flashback: Another Flu Pandemic Causing "Accident" Occurred in 2005  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/april2009/280409Accident.htm
A quote...."Every time there is a pandemic scare, it comes from a laboratory  -- Previous to revelations just weeks ago that American vaccine company Baxter Inc "accidentally" shipped out vaccines contaminated with live avian flu virus, a similar incident was reported in 2005."
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North Carolina "Involuntarily Isolating" Suspected Swine Flu Patients  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/april2009/280409Involuntarily.htm
A quote...."Disturbing reports have emerged that suggest North Carolina is involuntarily quarantining patients who may have the flu virus that is thought to be spreading across the U.S. and the rest of the globe."
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Ron Paul Warns Swine Flu Scare Will Be Used As Precedent For More Big Government  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/april2009/280409Paul.htm
A quote...."Step back and think for a minute before rushing and panicking" is the message coming from Texas Congressman Ron Paul who has warned that the swine flu scare will once again be used as a precedent for big government intrusion."
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S&P/Case-Shiller 20-City Home Price Index Fell 18.6% In February
  ---  http://www.dailymarkets.com/releases/2009/04/28/spcase-shiller-20-city-home-price-index-fell-186-in-february/
Full quote...." (RTTNews) - U.S. home prices saw continued broad based declines in the month of February, according to a report released by Standard and Poor’s on Tuesday, although the annual rate of decline in prices did not set a new record for the first time in sixteen months. -- The report showed that the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-City Composite Home Price Index fell at an annual rate of 18.6 percent in February, a modest deceleration from the 19.0 percent drop in prices that was reported for January."
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GM to force more than 1,000 dealers to close  ---  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30458421/
A quote...."DETROIT - General Motors Corp. told its dealers Tuesday that it will force 1,000 to 1,200 underperforming locations to close their doors as the automaker tries to thin dealer ranks to make the remaining outlets more profitable."
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Wall Street pay back to pre-crash levels - Ha, Ha, Haaaaaa!  And you poor peons thought Obama worked for you?
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/pers-a28.shtml
A quote...."The New York Times reported Sunday that compensation at six of the largest US banks is on track to return to the record levels that preceded last year’s financial crash."
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Two-thirds facing a pay cut or freeze [in Britian]  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/twothirds-facing-a-pay-cut-or-freeze-1674828.html
Deflation Alert - A quote...."More than two-thirds of British companies plan to cut or freeze their workers' salaries this year, the British Chambers of Commerce said yesterday, as it warned that private sector employers face a desperate battle to survive the recession."
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'Deeper' recession ahead says IMF  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8011907.stm
Deflation Alert - Chart - A quote...."The global economy is set to decline by 1.3% in 2009, in the first global recession since World War II, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says. - In January, the IMF had predicted world output would increase by 0.5% in 2009." - Editor's note: the figures for 2010 are highly suspect. - mpg
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Irish economy faces record downturn  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92898&sectionid=3510213
Deflation Alert - A quote...."From 2008 to 2010 Ireland is to suffer the largest contraction of any industrialized country since the 1930s, think-tank predicts."
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Honda posts record loss of $1.92 billion - And they make good, well designed cars. - mpg
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92917&sectionid=3510213
A quote...."Japanese automaker Honda has reported a net loss of 186.16 billion yen ($1.92 billion) in its fourth fiscal quarter ending March 2009."
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Germany, GM Crops, Bovine Growth Hormones, and ‘The World According to Monsanto’ (Update)  ---  http://www.chycho.com/?q=Monsanto_Germany
A quote...."Earlier this month Germany banned the cultivation of Monsanto’s GM corn, “claiming that MON 810 is dangerous for the environment. But that argument might not stand up in court and Berlin could face fines totalling millions of euros if American multinational Monsanto decides to challenge the prohibition on its seed”, which is exactly what they have decided to do."
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Monday April 27th 2009  - links page

Obama's Sins of Omission  ---  http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/25/obamas_sins_of_omission/
Must Read - A quote...."THE HISTORY of American liberalism is one of promoting substantively modest if superficially radical reforms in order to refurbish and sustain the status quo. From Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal to Bill Clinton's New Covenant, liberals have specialized in jettisoning the redundant to preserve what they see as essential. In this sense, modern liberalism's great achievement has been to deflect or neutralize calls for more fundamental change - a judgment that applies to President Obama, especially on national security."
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Obama Has Missed His Moment  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090427_obama_has_missed_his_moment/
Must Read - Obama™ Update -- A quote...."Barack Obama has squandered his presidency. He had a fleeting moment to challenge the casino capitalism and financial recklessness of our economic and political elite. He could have orchestrated a state socialism that would have provided a safety net for tens of millions of Americans faced with dislocation and misery. The sums he has doled out to Wall Street could have been used to force companies to keep workers on the job or create new banks to open up credit. But he lacked the foresight and the courage to challenge entrenched power. And now we are headed down one of two frightening roads—massive deflation or hyperinflation. Neither will be pleasant."
also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/27-1
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From Bunker Hill to Baghdad - Pinter's Dispatch to Obama  ---  http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22499.htm
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."For leftists, Obama has been a total bust. He's escalated the war in Afghanistan, increased the cross-border bombings of Pakistan, hemmed and hawed about prosecuting war crimes, refused to actively lobby House members to make it easier for workers to organize (EFCA), and surrounded himself with bank industry reps who've committed $12.8 trillion to sinking financial institutions with no assurance that the money would be repaid. Apart from a trifling bill on stem cells, Obama has done absolutely zero to confirm his bone fides as a liberal. The truth is, Obama is neither liberal nor conservative; he's simply an inspiring orator and a skillful politician who has no strong convictions about anything. If he achieves greatness, it will be because he was thrust into a crisis he couldn't avoid and reluctantly acted in the best interests of the American people. That possibility still exists, although it seems more unlikely by the day." - also posted at Globrsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13377
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America’s Shame  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis145.html
A quote...." Nations that use torture disgrace themselves. Armed forces and police that torture inevitably become brutalized and corrupted. "Limited" use of torture quickly becomes generalized. "Information" obtained by torture is mostly unreliable. -- I learned these truths over fifty years covering dirty "pacification" wars, from Algeria to Indochina, Central and South America, southern Africa, the Mideast, Afghanistan, and Kashmir in which torture was commonly used."
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They Are Telling Us They Will Torture Again  ---  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/25/724310/-They-Are-Telling-Us-They-Will-Torture-Again
Some quote...."And I think we better listen to them. If you haven't heard that promise in the arguments they're making, let me point them out, because that is what they are saying, very clearly. - The latest argument the Republicans are making is that investigating torture is nothing more than 'criminalizing policy differences'." -- "Remember, Obama ended torture by executive order, just as he ended the restrictions on federal funding of stem cell research. And that means torture can resume, by the simple means of another President revoking that order. Torture now holds the same status as stem cell research, or federal hiring procedures, and they want to keep it that way." -- Yeah, this is EXACTLY what happens when citizens let their own constitution become "Just a Goddamn piece of paper". - mpg
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The International Criminal Court and A Rogue Empire  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/42076
A quote...."One of the best books published in Canada last year is one of the best books published in the United States thus far this year: "The Sun Climbs Slow: The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice,"  ---  http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100467450  ---  by Erna Paris. -- It's appropriate for this story to come to us from our northern neighbor. This is largely a history of the development of international law, culminating in the surprising success of the creation of an international criminal court (ICC). The ICC now has 108 countries as state parties, and the theoretical power to prosecute war crimes by anyone anywhere on earth." -- Well, we'll see about that. - mpg
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David Broder and media culpability for Bush crimes  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/26/broder/index.html
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."I read David Broder's truly wretched screed yesterday -- in which he demands immunity for Bush officials from investigation and prosecution and attacks those who advocate accountability -- and decided that I wouldn't write about it until today because I didn't want it to infect my Saturday.  For purposes of catharsis, I did immediately note on Twitter that Broder's article was "a tour de force of Beltway sickness - even for him" and that "the Washington press corps has exactly the 'dean' it deserves."  Fortunately, Hilzoy, Scott Lemieux and Roger Ailes -- among others -- have now made most of the points quite conclusively that need to be made about the morally depraved joke that David Broder is, leaving just a couple of observations worth noting." - also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/27-7
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‘US media puts American society into a cocoon’ --- http://www.russiatoday.com/Politics/2009-04-27/_US_media_puts_American_society_into_a_cocoon_.html
Quote of the Day...."There are a handful of media companies in the US that tend to have one commitment: not to inform the people and serve the public, but to allow their shareholders to make money. -- Media is a commercial product that does not have the goal of illuminating society, or strengthening democracy and people’s knowledge, but to just have people watching TV to stick around for the commercials." - bold by website editor
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The criminalization of journalism  - Oh!!  The spiteful, childish, pettiness of a so-called "super-power". - mpg
   ---  http://progreso-weekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=922&Itemid=1
Special Note - A quote...."Air France Flight 438, from Paris, was to land at Mexico City at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 18. Five hours before landing, the captain's voice announced that U.S. authorities had prohibited the plane from flying over U.S. territory. The explanation: among the passengers aboard was a person who was not welcome in the United States for reasons of national security."
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CIA and the Washington Post: Joined at the Hip -The presstituting whores are at it again. - mpg
   ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/42085
Special Note - A quote...."Under the stewardship of Fred Hiatt, the editorial and op-ed pages of the Washington Post have gradually moved to the right. Post editorials and op-eds have defended the decision to go to war in Iraq; opposed any improvement in bilateral relations with Russia; refused to acknowledge Israel’s misuse of military power in the Middle East; and lobbied against the need for investigation of the detention and interrogation programs of the Bush administration."
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"... The Horrible Truth"  ---  http://www.truthout.org/042409A
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."The US occupation of Iraq, which has become the full responsibility of President Barack Obama, is once again a bloodbath. Not that it had ceased to be violent, brutal and chaotic, for not one day has passed since the US invasion of Iraq was launched that hasn't found several Iraqis being senselessly slaughtered. But rather than talking about three Iraqis being killed today, or two dozen, we are again talking about several dozen, and over 100 wounded, as we are seeing recently. Each of these Iraqis have been killed as a direct result of the US occupation of Iraq - their blood splattered on the hands of President Obama, who, during a visit to Baghdad's airport on April 7, praised the US military for their "extraordinary achievement" in Iraq." -- also posted at CounterCurrents  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail270409.htm
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US Bracing for New Prisoner Abuse Photos  ---  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46638
A quote...."While the content of the new images is not known, some members of Congress, who viewed them in a classified setting, have said they are far worse than the Abu Ghraib images." - bold/inderline by website editor
also posted at AntiWar  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/fisher/2009/04/27/us-bracing-for-new-prisoner-abuse-photos/
& CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/04/27-6
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Al-Maliki Denounces US Raid as Violating SOFA; Larijani dissatisfied with US  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2009/04/al-maliki-denounces-us-raid-as.html
A quote...."AP reports that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has denounced a US raid in Kut as a violation of the security agreement between Washington and Baghdad. -- WaPo goes further and says that al-Maliki is actually calling for the troops involved to be prosecuted in Iraqi courts."
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Clamour in Iraq for justice over deadly US raid  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/04/27/clamour-in-iraq-for-justice-over-deadly-us-raid-2/
A quote...."We are a peaceful family and I'm still in shock at how they suddenly raided our house, vandalised everything and killed my brother and his wife," said Iraqi police captain Muamar Abdul-Munin, who was detained in the U.S. operation along with six others and released after government protests. -- "We have started pressing charges against the U.S. forces. We want the guilty to be brought to justice."
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Pakistan goes its own pace on militants  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KD28Df02.html
A quote...."ISLAMABAD - When is a peace deal not a peace deal? The one signed between the Pakistani government and militants in the Swat area in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) in February which imposed sharia law in return for a ceasefire could be such a deal."
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Argentina Hosts Trilateral Summit  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74785&Itemid=1
A quote...."Buenos Aires, Apr 27 (Prensa Latina) A trilateral summit to be held on Monday in Buenos Aires by Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay is aimed at formally ending the border dispute the latter two countries were having from the Chaco War 70 years ago. The meeting will be attended by Bolivian president Evo Morales, who arrived in this capital Sunday night, Paraguay�s Fernando Lugo, with Cristina Fernandez as host."
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The Bush Administration Used Communist Intimidation and Torture Tactics
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/not-only-did-bush-administration-adopt.html
A quote...."The communist tyrant launches an "investigation" into a nuclear accident in his country. - But to make sure that nothing critical is said about the way the government operated the nuclear power plant or how it responded to the accident, the government places "minders" in every interview. - The minders loom over the witnesses in an intimidating fashion, tell the witnesses that everything they say will be reported to the central government, and they even jump in an answer some of the questions directed at the witnesses. - Would the Western nations accept the results of the investigation that the government "could not have known" of the dangers from the nuclear power plant, and that the government did everything it could to minimize the damage? - Of course not."
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Witness Who Fingered 9/11 "Mastermind" Was Himself Crazy  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/witness-who-fingered-911-mastermind-was.html
A quote...."I have previously pointed out that the self-confessed 9/11 "mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed also falsely confessed to crimes he didn't commit. - However, a second witness - Abu Zubaida - fingered Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the 9/11 mastermind (Zubaida was subsequently severely tortured for many months. But he initially identified KSM even before being tortured). - So we have independent confirmation that KSM was the chief architect of 9/11, right? - Well, the New Yorker notes this week:"
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Israel Split as Syria Sees No Peace Talks Soon - posted at Palestine Chronicle  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/fund_raisers.php?id=14
  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=c17aca683571fa413efafbdbec581a0b&mode=details#c17aca683571fa413efafbdbec581a0b
A quote...."Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Sunday insisted on the return of the Golan Heights but said he could not foresee peace talks with Israel anytime soon as Israel's foreign minister said that he could not see Syria as "a real partner" in any type of agreement."
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Ahmadinejad: Obama support of 'Gaza massacre' was big mistake  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1081205.html
Must Read - A quote...."In a rare interview with American television, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized U.S. President Barack Obama for his "support of the massacre of Gazans" during Israel's offensive on the Hamas-ruled coastal territory earlier this year. -- "The gentleman's [Obama] support of the massacre of Gazans in support for the criminals who were responsible for that atrocity was a major mistake on the part of the gentleman," Ahmadinejad told ABC reporter George Stephanopoulous during an interview aired Sunday on 'This Week'. -- "I think that if Mr. Obama wants to help with the Palestinian issue, he has to move in accordance with justice, fair play and also, again, I am calling for the right for the Palestinians to determine their own fate,"
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Telegraph UK Tries to Undermine the Positive News Coming Out of the Ahmadinejad Interview
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/telegraph-uk-tries-to-spin-positive-news-out-of-ahmadinejad-interview/
A quote...."I guess the rule is, if there is good news about President Ahmadinejad out of Iran to report, you have to make up at least two horrible lies about him to go with it in the report. If you have a 6 paragraph article, you dedicate the first paragraph to smearing him with old lies, then the next one is about the ‘good news”, then in the last 4 paragraphs you find whatever out of context quotes you can find and use them to smear him even more."
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Iran Arrests Bombers Linked to Israel: Minister - posted at Palestine Chronicle  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/fund_raisers.php?id=14
  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=e594343f96c950c04cb2ce23da21f9fa&mode=details#e594343f96c950c04cb2ce23da21f9fa
A quote...."Iran said on Sunday it has arrested members of a terrorist network linked to Israel who planned a number of bombings in the capital ahead of the June presidential election, even as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran was ready to back a Palestinian deal with Israel."
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Some Might Call It Treason  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/04/26/some-might-call-it-treason/
Must Read - A quote...."The real Harman story is about Israel intelligence operations directed against the United States which have brought about the systematic corruption of the America’s political system by a foreign power aided and abetted by friends strategically placed throughout the government and the media. Just imagine if Harman had obtained either senior intelligence position that she sought. She would have had access to every sort of top secret intelligence possessed by the US government and would have been in a good position to influence policy. From the Israeli perspective, she would have been their spy, a highly placed agent of influence who could also provide every bit of sensitive intelligence in the CIA cupboard. The apparent fact that she agreed to help an agent of a foreign government and was to be rewarded with advancement makes her something like Kim Philby, the British spy of the 1960s who progressed through his own system while secretly working for another country, Russia. Philby was a whole lot smarter, but the essential betrayal was the same. Those who argue that Israel is no Cold War Russia miss the point, as the national interests of the U.S. and Israel are far from identical, particularly after a series of right-wing governments in Tel Aviv has culminated in the current monstrosity of Netanyahu-Lieberman." --  also posted at ICH  ---  http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22503.htm
For much more on this issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US - The Jane Harman Saga
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409#JANEHARMAN
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Israel's secret plan for West Bank expansion
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israels-secret-plan-for-west-bank-expansion-1674759.html
A quote...."Israel has taken a step towards expanding the largest settlement in the West Bank, a move Palestinians warn will leave their future state unviable and further isolate its future capital, East Jerusalem."
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AI: Investigate misuse of US Weapons in Gaza  ---  http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2009/04/ai-investigate-misuse-of-us-weapons-in.html
Alt - (YouTube - 2 min 44 sec - April 23, 2009)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eim8OF9vXc8
A quote...."Chris Cobb-Smith, member of Amnesty International's recent fact-finding mission to Gaza and former British artillery commander, speaks on the misuse of white phosphorus in Gaza. - http://www.amnestyusa.org/gaza"
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Israeli Use of Palestinians As Human Shields  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman270409.htm
A quote...."The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights is a Gaza-based Palestinian NGO mandated "to promote, protect and prevent violations of human rights in general, and economic, social and cultural rights in particular, to provide effective aid to those victims of such violations, and to enhance the quality of life of the community in (Gaza's) marginalized sectors."
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Physicians offer chilling account of Gaza atrocities  ---  http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=101419
A quote...."BEIRUT: Renowned Chinese-English physician Dr. Swee Ang gave a moving testimony on Saturday of Israel's destruction in the Gaza Strip as witnessed in her recent trip to the tiny Palestinian enclave. "Cluster bombs, deliberate assassinations of whole families that they would line up and shoot," Ang said as she listed a number of acts committed by Israel during its 22-day assault on Gaza in December and January that left over 1,400 Palestinians dead." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m53771&s1=h1
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Signs of worsening malnutrition among children  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10479.shtml
A quote...."GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IRIN) - Rising poverty, unemployment and food insecurity in Gaza, compounded by the recent 23-day Israeli offensive, have increased the threat of child malnutrition, say UN agencies, health ministry officials and healthcare non-governmental organizations in Gaza." -- For more on this issue see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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Nablus: Palestinian teenager in critical condition after being shot by settler  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/04/nablus-palestinian-teenager-in-critical.html
Full quote - An Israeli settler shot and critically a Palestinian teenager from the northern West Bank village of Madama, south of Nablus, on Monday. - According to Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official in charge of settlement-related issues, an Israeli from the settlement of Yizhar, deliberately fired at 18-year-old Muhammad Na'im Faraj, hitting him in the back. - Faraj was transferred to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, where medical officials said he was in critical condition. - Daghlas told Ma'an that Faraj and other members of his family were tending their land near the settlement when a settler stepped out of his car and shot at him." - bold by website editor
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Non-violent protests against West Bank barrier turn increasingly dangerous  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m53772&s1=h1
A quote...."Palestinian demonstrations intended to be peaceful met with Israeli teargas, stun grenades and sometimes live ammunition."
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Scottish delegation decides to bring more convoys to break siege on Gaza
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7lO4xucIsAdo2NQTC2kbTRACB9A
W%2fq%2bNqkIH3e%2fyIKGqHYZN9HKZCOE3VhNxwh9fCho0%2f9pthqY0xbGMS2iL0hoObV%2fCD0v7iJ%2b13KJ4HdLQ%3d
Action Update - A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Members of the Scottish delegation who left the besieged Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing point a couple of days after they paid a solidarity visit to it vowed to lead more convoys to the Gaza Strip in a bid to rescind the blockade on the 1.5 million Palestinians living there."
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Genocide' brings Palestinian embassy to Venezuela  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92776&sectionid=351020704
A quote...."The latest Israeli war against the people of Gaza has pushed Venezuela diplomatically closer to the Palestinians and away from Tel Aviv. -- Venezuelan and Palestinian officials signed a document on Monday and formally established diplomatic ties; a Palestinian embassy was also inaugurated in Caracas."
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Flu Is a Combination of Swine Flu from 3 CONTINENTS, Plus Avian and Human Flu
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/flu-is-combination-of-swine-flu-from-3.html
Special Note - Some quotes...."It is not unprecedented for viruses from several different animals to "recombine" within a single animal. For example, the 1918 flu pandemic appears to have been a combination of pig and human viruses." -- "This swine flu is unusual because it combines virus segments from 3 different animals - birds, pigs and humans - and also from 3 different continents - Europe, Asia and North America. -- As the Wall Street Journal puts it:"

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The Swine Flu Outbreak and Other Bio-Warfare Matters From CLG.....  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/

Article#1 -- "Pentagon Prepared for Flu Outbreak
 ---  http://www.military.com/news/article/April-2009/pentagon-prepared-for-flu-outbreak.html?col=1186032310810  ---  27 Apr 2009 In a worst-case scenario that the current flu crises threatens military operations, the Defense Department has already stockpiled enough vaccines to meet demand across the services, a Pentagon spokeswoman told Military.com April 27... It was only in January -- well before the Mexico outbreak -- that the commander of the Pacific Fleet noted his troops' preparations for a pandemic or epidemic of infectious flu. "The U.S. Pacific Fleet is part of a broader joint and combined effort to be prepared to deal with a pandemic flu outbreak," Adm. Robert F. Willard said on Jan. 28. [See CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/  ---  items: DoD to carry out 'military missions' during pandemic, WMD attack  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/DoD_to_act_in_pandemic.html  ---  08 Mar 2009 and DoD to 'augment civilian law' during pandemic or bioterror attack  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/DoD_to_augment_civilian_law.html  ---  11 May 2007.]" -- Paragraph quoted from CLG
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Article#2 -- "DHS: Americans should prepare for second flu pandemic, even if this one 'fizzles out'  -- http://www.forbes.com/feeds/reuters/2009/04/26/2009-04-
26T165622Z_01_N26489892_RTRIDST_0_NAPOLITANO-SAYS-US-SHOULD-SHOULD-PREPARE-FOR-NEW-FLU-OUTBREAK-SO.html  ---   [LOL! Not *too* blatant, are they?] 26 Apr 2009 Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says that the US should prepare for a new flu pandemic -- even if this one 'fizzles out.' [See: CDC to conduct avian flu pandemic experiments -- http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1104186283991_7/  ---  27 Dec 2004 The researchers, from the influenza branch of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, will mate H5N1 and human flu viruses in a process known as reassortment. Viable offspring will be tested in animals thought to be good surrogates for humans, to see if the viruses can infect, can be transmitted easily from infected animals to healthy ones and to note the severity of disease each provokes.]"
Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Article#3 -- "Sanofi-Aventis, Blackwater of bugs: Sanofi Aventis Invests 100 Million Euros In New Facility In Mexico to Produce Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Vaccine  ---  http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/142835.php  ---  2009 Sanofi-aventis, announced the signing of an agreement with the Mexican authorities to build a 100 million euro facility to manufacture influenza vaccine in Mexico. The announcement was made during a ceremony attended by Felipe Calderon, [unelected] President of Mexico, and Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, who was in Mexico City for a State visit. "By building this new facility, sanofi-aventis is proud to contribute to the strengthening of Mexico's health infrastructure and is eager to support Mexico's exemplary commitment to public health through influenza immunization and pandemic readiness", said Chris Viehbacher, Chief Executive Officer of sanofiaventis. [Now, that's what I call foresight! See also: Baxter working on vaccine to stop swine flu, though admitted sending live pandemic flu viruses to subcontractor
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/baxter_flu_vaccine_260409.html  ---  By Lori Price 26 Apr 2009.]
Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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CLG's Other Recent Articles -- List:

WHO confirms pandemic alert level raised to 4
  ---  http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE53Q6JK20090427
Obama's host dies from 'flu-like symptoms'
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obamas-host-dies-from-flulike-symptoms-1674743.html
Obama Admin. Releases Stockpile of Antiflu Virus Drug
  ---  http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=7434061
World 'counting down to pandemic'
  ---  http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/2367167/World-counting-down-to-pandemic
Swine Flu Fears Prompt Global Quarantine Plans
  ---  http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090426/VIDEO/904262000/1021/SPORTS05?Title=Swine-Flu-Fears-Prompt-Global-Quarantine-Plans
Flu pandemic: British government's emergency plan
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/27/flu-emergency-plan
Swine flu confirmed in UK
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/27/swine-flu-scotland
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BLN's Recent Articles -- List:

OBAMA GREETED IN MEXICO BY MAN WHO DIED DAYS LATER OF FLU SYMPTOMS
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEsNownABJ6Q&refer=worldwide
Possible Outbreak At NYC Prep School
  ---  http://wcbstv.com/health/swine.flu.nyc.2.994071.html
8 Students Test 'Probable'
  ---  http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/75-Kids-From--1-NY-School-Sick-in-Possible-Swine-Flu-Scare.html
Mexico City residents staying at home
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE53N22820090425
Calderon Declares Emergency; Power to Quarantine
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEsNownABJ6Q&refer=worldwide
WHO declares international concern
  ---  http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97PNI383&show_article=1
CLOSE TO 1,000 SUSPECTED CASES
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE53N22820090424?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22&sp=true
HEALTH EXPERTS CONSIDER RESPONSES TO OUTBREAK
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aoGUVYG8hWLs
2 cases found in Kansas
  ---  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682/
New swine flu likely widespread
  ---  http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N25472826.htm
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A Conversation About the Economy  ---  http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10251
Alt  -- (Alt inclds prvw & ful lgth) - (Google Vid - 424 - 56:01  - Apr 27, 2009)  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5175875799956521756
Must View Video - Charlie Rose interviews.... Joseph Stiglitz, Kate Kelly, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Bill Ackma. -- A conversation about the economy with Bill Ackman, major investor and hedge fund manager of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, Kate Kelly of The Wall Street Journal, Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times and Joseph Stiglitz, economist and a member of Columbia University faculty."
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Europe faces ever deepening recession  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/euro-a28.shtml
Deflation Alert - A quote...."Particularly revealing in the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook issued last week is its estimation of the precarious state of the European economies. -- The IMF described the United States as lying at the centre of the global economic crisis, but also predicted a worsening recession in Europe. It estimates that the euro zone’s economy will contract by 4.2 percent this year, significantly worse than its January forecast of a 2 percent decline."
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MSM: GM to cut 21,000 US factory jobs, shed Pontiac  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/04/27/msm-gm-to-cut-21000-us-factory-jobs-shed-pontiac/
Deflation Alert - A quote...."General Motors Corp. could be majority owned by the federal government under a massive restructuring plan laid out Monday that will cut 21,000 U.S. factory jobs by next year and phase out the storied Pontiac brand.
The plan, which includes an offer to swap roughly $27 billion in bond debt for GM stock, would leave current shareholders holding just 1 percent of the century-old company, which is fighting for its life in the worst auto sales climate in 27 years."
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U.S. toxic-asset plan stirs fears  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-toxic-assets27-2009apr27,0,7994438.story
A quote...."The government will take on a mountain of risk while trying to create an artificial market for the loans and debt securities. Critics worry about possible fraud and further banking system damage."
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Money for Nothing - But the Chicks Ain't Free   ---  http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content/your-tax-dollars-bought-hookers-wall-street  ---  mpg
   ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27krugman.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Special Note - On July 15, 2007, The New York Times published an article with the headline “The Richest of the Rich, Proud of a New Gilded Age.” The most prominently featured of the “new titans” was Sanford Weill, the former chairman of Citigroup, who insisted that he and his peers in the financial sector had earned their immense wealth through their contributions to society." -- For more on this issue see....Having Fun With Your Tax Dollars
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html
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Treasury Needs Record $361B April-June Borrowing
  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Treasury_Needs_Record_%24361B_April-June_Borrowing/15412/0/8/8/Y/M.html
Related Article - A quote...."The Treasury Department said Monday it will need to borrow $361 billion in the current April-June quarter, a record amount for that period. - It's the third straight quarter the government's borrowing needs have set records for those periods. - Treasury also estimated it will need to borrow $515 billion in the July-September quarter, down slightly from the $530 billion borrowed during the year-ago period. The all-time high of $569 billion was set in the October-December period."
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Rabid With Debt  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner377.html
Related Article - A quote...." How do you feel now?” asked a reporter for a local investment magazine. “I mean, you’re a contrarian…and you were right about so much?” -- “Not exactly,” we explained. “Yes, we saw the problem coming. And we expected the government would do all the wrong things – which it has. But we never imagined that they’d do so many stupid things all at once.” -- There are only two examples from modern history of depressions such as this – the ’30s in America and the ’90s in Japan. Both times, the governments did stupid things. But this time, the U.S. government has outdone them all. They’ve committed $13 trillion to programs that make no sense theoretically…and have never worked when they’ve been tried."
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Mish Shedlock: It's Fallen and It Can't Get Up
  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2009-04-27_118_its_fallen_and_it_cant_get_up.mp3
Audio Interview - Regarding the importance of debt/insolvency versus the so-called "credit crunch". - mpg
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Fed To Tell BofA, Citi To Raise Billions More In Capital  ---  http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/04/fed-to-tell-bofa-citi-to-raise-billions.html
A quote...."WSJ has yet another leaked version of the stress test results. In summary, both Bank of America and Citi will be urged to raise up to billions more in capital. As this is likely yet another form of PR manipulation, ZH will not comment on this topic until more data is available." -- For more on this issue see....The Green Light - 01-16-08 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thegreenlight-blog-mpg-011608
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Sunday April 26th 2009 - links page

The Financial Barbarians at the Gate  ---  http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22490.htm
Must Listen Audio Analysis - A quote...."The Financial Barbarians at the Gate" with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. Europe; worsening financial situation and indebtedness; the history of banking and the criminalization of the banking system; tax policy; real estate asset inflation; US imperialism via the monetary system; neoliberal/neofeudal economics; classical political economy; finance capital breaking away from industrial capital; the financial crisis leading to a political crisis; similarities with the Roman Republic; what measures labor should take." -- For more on this issue see.....Enforcing the Rules -- Too Little, Too Late - 02-27-09 - mpg.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/enforcingtherulestoolittletoolate-mpg-reficultnias-022709  ---  See also the quote shown below....

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Poor debtors go to jail and are billed for the privilege  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4634.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."A doctor in the Midwest wrote to me again this past Friday about how the economic mess is destroying people. -- He wrote, “One of my patients is a . . . 40ish CPA and she was in for an eye problem yesterday . . . She was distraught over the state of the economy and its effect on her clients. She has had many this year who have lost their homes to foreclosure. To her -- and her clients’ -- dismay, the bank or lending institution is issuing 1099 forms for re-po’d property to the victims. Apparently, since the hapless former homeowners are effectively ‘forgiven’ the remaining amounts on their loans, that is imputed as earned income and they are turned into the IRS for large tax liabilities!!! How’s that for justice? She said that she had actually had people speak seriously about killing themselves!”
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The capital well is running dry and some economies will wither
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/5220118/The-capital-well-is-running-dry-and-some-economies-will-wither.html
A quote...."The world is running out of capital. We cannot take it for granted that the global bond markets will prove deep enough to fund the $6 trillion or so needed for the Obama fiscal package, US-European bank bail-outs, and ballooning deficits almost everywhere."
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Here They Come To Save The Day  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff17.html
A quote...."With much fanfare this week, Congress and the Administration began a series of actions designed to protect over-leveraged consumers from the high fees imposed by credit card lenders. As with most other initiatives devised by government, this policy will create a host of unintended consequences that will undermine the benefit the program hopes to create."
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Taking Liberties with Price Stability  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/mogambo8.html
A quote...."Paul Volcker, the legendary former chairman of the Federal Reserve who heroically defeated a raging inflation, against powerful political opposition, which was the result of massive government spending in the ’60s and ’70s on wars and increased entitlement spending, and who is now mysteriously part of the ridiculous Obama team of economic nitwits occupying in the White House, has finally said something!"
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A Glimmer of Hope  ---  http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FM71j6-VkNE/SfTzSUTN-QI/AAAAAAAACJo/F9skNKTaT-Y/s1600-h/GlimmerofHope.jpg
A great magazine cover and a pictorial example of what always happens to the "little" financial guy. - mpg
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Do It for the Sake of Your Children
04-26-09 - revised 04-27-09
mpg

Democratic complicity and what "politicizing justice" really means  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/24/democrats/index.html
Must Read - A quote...."Bush-defending opponents of investigations and prosecutions think they've discovered a trump card:  the claim that Democratic leaders such as Nancy Pelosi, Jay Rockefeller and Jane Harman were briefed on the torture programs and assented to them.  The core assumption here -- shared by most establishment pundits -- is that the call for criminal investigations is nothing more than a partisan-driven desire to harm Republicans and Bush officials ("retribution"), and if they can show that some Democratic officials might be swept up in the inquiry, then, they assume, that will motivate investigation proponents to think twice."
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Obama, Democrats move to block torture investigation  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/tort-a25.shtml
Special Note - Obama™ Update -- A quote...."In the face of mounting opposition from the Republican Party and the national security apparatus, President Obama and leading Democrats have indicated they will block any independent commission to investigate the widespread torture of prisoners under the Bush administration in “the war on terror.” - also posted at GlobRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13369
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Straight to the Top  ---  http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/04/hbc-90004849
Special Note - A quote...."The torture trail starts and ends in the White House. That is perhaps the most inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the flurry of documents released in the last week—first the OLC memoranda, then a newly declassified report of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and finally an amazing document that Attorney General Eric Holder released yesterday, which has still gained little attention. The Holder note presents a summary of CIA interaction with the White House in connection with the approval of the torture techniques that John Yoo calls the “Bush Program.” Holder’s memo refers to the participants by their job titles only, but John Sifton runs it through a decoder and gives us the actual names. Here’s a key passage:"
also posted at ICH  ---  http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22491.htm
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Democrats' 'Battered Wife Syndrome'  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/042509.html
Special Note - A quote...."In recent years, the Washington political dynamic has often resembled an abusive marriage, in which the bullying husband (the Republicans) slaps the wife and kids around, and the battered wife (the Democrats) makes excuses and hides the ugly bruises from outsiders to keep the family together."
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Editor's Special Note: By the way gentle readers, let this website editor assure you that there will be no indictments or independent commissions or any special prosecutors appointed whatsoever regarding what the Neocons did to promote illegal wars, torture, 9/11, the destruction of this nation's constitution or the rape of this nation's treasury at any time now, or in the foreseeable future.

You're probably asking yourself how could anyone make such a blanket, categorical statement, with such utter finality....

well just think about it....

Did Bush pardon any of his cronies despite numerous articles and assertions stating he would do so, some of which were even posted on this website.  The answer is of course, no, he didn't.

Why not?  Why would Bush take such an enormous risk given the mountains of evidence against him and more importantly, against those who supported him?  Why would he take such a gamble knowing that he and his fellow Neocon travelers were actively hated and despised by a majority of his fellow countrymen?

As you ask yourself these questions no doubt a horribly dark suspicion has probably just formed in your mind and you, like this website editor, have jumped to the only logical and obvious conclusion.

They made a deal.  Probably as far back as when Nancy Pelosi stated she'd "take impeachment off the table" the Demo faction of the DemoRepub party made a deal with the Bush family, Neocons and the MIOC elites.  No doubt they said "hold an "honest" election; allow us to assume power and "service" our Bankster/East Coast/APAIC elites and we won't prosecute anyone from your faction - EVER.  It's as simple and easy as that to get away with mass murder, theft and pillage in this country.

One should note that if Obama does not allow investigations into the prior administration's illegal conduct, along with the required subsequent prosecutions, he will be violating several treaties the US has already signed with the international community. Essentially making his future signature, Congress's legal assent and this Nation's word, effectively not worth the paper they're written on. If that happens there would be absolutely no reason for any country or international organization doing "business" with this nation in the future to ever expect it to honor any of its agreements or commitments, including those of supporting its currency or paying back its bonds.

One should also note that if any of those tortured were tortured to fabricate evidence or coerce false confessions, and because of these activities the true perpetrators who carried out the attacks on 9/11 were not properly identified, Obama has possibly opened himself up to charges of obstruction of justice regarding not only the cover-up of the torture itself, but also regarding the ongoing cover-up as to who actually facilitated and financed the crime of 9/11.

But don't blame the DemoRepubs for all this; instead, for those of you who voted for Obama or Bush you should blame only yourselves. Next time you go into the polling booth, assuming we the "little people" are even "allowed" to go back into the polling booth again, please vote for someone other than a DemoRepub.

If not for your conscience or for that of your own future welfare....at least do it for the sake of your children. – mpg
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Torture? It probably killed more Americans than 9/11
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/torture-it-probably-killed-more-americans-than-911-1674396.html
A quote...."The use of torture by the US has proved so counter-productive that it may have led to the death of as many US soldiers as civilians killed in 9/11, says the leader of a crack US interrogation team in Iraq." -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22497.htm
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What Should Obama Do?   ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/042609b.html
 posted at Consortium News  ---  https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/consortiumnews/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2043
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."President Obama is displaying ambivalence in handling the issue of torture and abuse. He clearly wants to do the right thing and, as a result, has put a stop to torture and closed down the CIA’s secret prisons where the worst abuses occurred."
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Torture and American Exceptionalism  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/042609a.html
 posted at Consortium News  ---  https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/consortiumnews/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2043
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."If President Barack Obama refuses to hold the Bush administration accountable for torture, his decision would be the latest example of American exceptionalism, the concept that the United States doesn’t have to operate by the same moral and legal standards as other nations."
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Sweden spied on CIA 'terror flights': report  ---  http://www.thelocal.se/19050/20090424/
A quote...."The government led by former Prime Minister Göran Persson knew that Sweden was used as a transit destination for clandestine CIA flights transporting suspected terrorists, according to a report in the Expressen newspaper on Friday."
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Spain’s Socialist Party government suppresses torture probe of Bush officials  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/pers-a25.shtml
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."The Obama administration and Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE) government are working in tandem to prevent the prosecution of top Bush officials."
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President of Everything  ---  http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/apr/20/00006/
Must Read -- Obama™ Update -- A quote...."In December 2007, Sen. Barack Obama’s reassurances to the Boston Globe suggested that he understood constitutional limits on executive and government power. He knew that there were things the “president does not have power under the Constitution” to do, including unilaterally authorizing military action and surveilling citizens without warrants. He said he would “reject the Bush administration’s claim that the president has plenary authority under the Constitution to detain U.S. citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants.” -- "But in just three months, we have seen what Obama means when he talks about “reach.” He doesn’t mean “our reach” but his own. His sense of that reach, and the abrupt and scary speed with which he’s used it, marks him as an executive with a tentacled grip—multiple, crushing, inescapable. No longer the cautious critic of presidential power of the campaign trail, he now sees nothing as beyond his grasp."
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Anger at deadly U.S. military raid in southern Iraq  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/04/26/anger-at-deadly-us-military-raid-in-southern-iraq/
A quote...."BASRA, Iraq, April 26 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iraqis protested against U.S. forces on Sunday after U.S. soldiers killed a man and a woman in an overnight raid that was condemned by the provincial governor."
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Iraq: US raid 'crime' that breaks security pact  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m53729&s1=h1
A quote...."BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister denounced a deadly U.S. raid on Sunday as a "crime" that violated the security pact with Washington and demanded American commanders hand over those responsible to face possible trial in Iraqi courts."
also posted at Google  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hwK_CSpBxsNuVUEaDuOwmSSCiqGwD97QD2T80
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Two Iraqi commanders detained after deadly US raid  ---  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090426/twl-two-iraqi-commanders-detained-after-2802f3e.html
A quote...."Iraq detained two of its own army commanders on Sunday after the US military carried out a deadly house raid without the knowledge of the Iraqi government, the defence ministry said." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/195694
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[Britian's] military humiliation in Afghanistan is a scandal - and the cover-up is an even greater one
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5220226/Our-military-humiliation-in-Afghanistan-is-a-scandal---and-the-cover-
up-is-an-even-greater-one.html
A quote...."One of the best kept secrets of our recent politics, thanks to the news management of the Ministry of Defence, was how our occupation of southern Iraq turned into one of the greatest humiliations in the history of the British Army. In the end, after our hopelessly ill-equipped and undermanned contingent had been forced to abandon to the insurgents the two main cities of the region, Basra and Al Amarah, the Americans and Iraqis had to intervene to take them back. Last Christmas, having failed in our mission, we were contemptuously ordered to leave his country by the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/195695
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'Civilians flee' Pakistan clashes  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/04/200942734754696588.html
A quote...."Thousands of people are flooding out of Lower Dir as the Pakistan army takes on Taliban fighters in the district. Civilians were streaming out of the area due to the army's "accurate" and "spread out" assault a source told Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Pakistan, on Monday."
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Presidential Paranoia - Mubarak's Expanding Enemies List  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/amiri04242009.html
A quote...."A telltale sign of a dictator’s waning influence is increasing paranoia. And this is exactly what Egypt’s U.S.-backed dictator, President Hosni Mubarak, is suffering from. -- At a time when criticism over Egypt’s abetment of the Israeli siege and attack on Gaza is intensifying, and its traditional role as leader of the Arab world is being eclipsed, Mubarak’s standing and legitimacy in the eyes of his people has plummeted. His paranoia, conversely, has skyrocketed."
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Calls for further fragmentation of Balkan states continue
  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/Politics/2009-04-25/Calls_for_further_fragmentation_of_Balkan_states_continue.html
A quote...."The state of Bosnia-Herzegovina was formed over a decade ago as a result of the breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. But after a bloody civil war that tore the region apart, the peace is still far from being perfect. Some groups never accepted the ethnic melting pot of Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats that is modern Bosnia."
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Ecuador's Correa wins landslide victory - Hip Hip Hooray!!   That's a LANDSLIDE, all you Neocon morons. - mpg
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92667&sectionid=351020706
A quote...."Leftist President Rafael Correa has declared victory in the presidential elections as Ecuador's first leader chosen without a runoff in 30 years. -- "The people have given us the most splendorous victory of probably the last 50 years," Correa said at a press conference in his home town of Guayaquil Sunday."
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Mercenaries Exposed at Buenos Aires Book Fair  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74523&Itemid=1
A quote...."Buenos Aires, Apr 26 (Prensa Latina) The despicable role of US-hired mercenaries against the Cuban Revolution all over the world will be exposed at the International Book Fair of Buenos Aires on its Cuba Day. Five books on that subject, all of them written by Professor and Researcher Jose Luis Mendez, will be available at the fair, attended by more than 1,250 exhibitors from 42 countries and two international agencies."
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POLITICS-BOLIVIA: Unraveling the Conspiracy  ---  http://ipsnews.net/text/news.asp?idnews=46627
Special Note - A quote...."LA PAZ, Apr 24 (IPS) - The dismantling of a commando made up mainly of men described by the Bolivian government as foreign mercenaries could lead authorities to the people who organised around a dozen different attacks carried out since 2006 in the city of Santa Cruz."
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The Irishman and the 'plot' to kill the Bolivian President
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-irishman-and-the-plot-to-kill-the-bolivian-president-1674009.html
Related Article - A quote...."Police say the would-be assassins were captained by Eduardo Rozsa Flores, who led an extraordinary life that began and ended in Santa Cruz, a hotbed of Morales opposition. Mr Flores, who was born in the city in 1960 to Hungarian and Spanish parents, grew up in Hungary, where he was a communist youth leader and acted as a translator for Carlos the Jackal. After covering the start of the Yugoslav wars as a journalist, Mr Flores formed an international volunteers' brigade fighting for Croatian independence. When the war ended in 1995, he turned to writing poetry and political essays, played himself in a film based on his life, swapped Catholicism for Islam and supported causes from Hungarian nationalism to autonomy for Santa Cruz." -- Gee, one wonders just who he could possibly been working for...(wink, wink).  Perhaps he worked for a firm that was a subcontractor for Casting Individuals Associates? - mpg
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Jane’s Harman Us  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers108.html  ---  More on the "Bimbo From Rand"
A quote...."Few sights are as delicious as a tyrant swinging high overhead, hoist by her own petard. The one currently dangling aloft is Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA). She’s worth half a billion dollars, [Crime really does pay in the Beltway - mpg] making her the wealthiest thief in the den of ’em we call Congress, with a mansion that can host "over 120" guests for dinner. -- Her riches haven’t kept her from leeching off taxpayers near Los Angeles for seven terms, though they may explain why she pegs herself as "the best Republican in the Democratic Party." So good a Republican, in fact, that she rabidly defended the Bush Administration’s domestic spying. Indeed, when the New York Times first revealed a few years ago that the regime was reading our emails and eavesdropping on our phone calls, Jane indignantly suggested that we need "some limits on press immunity [to prosecution]"
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Pentagon's Cyber Command to Be Based at NSA's Fort Meade  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m53733&s1=h1
A quote...."While one can reasonably support government efforts to protect critical infrastructure such as electrical grids, chemical plants, nuclear power stations or the nation's air traffic control system from potentially devastating attacks that would endanger the health and safety of millions of Americans, these goals can be achieved by writing better programs. Yet from its inception, Cyber Command has been theorized as a nodal point for launching crippling attacks against the civilian and military infrastructure of imperialism's enemies."
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Every [British] phone call, email or website visit 'to be monitored'
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5215413/Every-phone-call-email-or-website-visit-to-be-monitored.html
Police State Alert - A quote...."The proposals will give police and security services the power to snoop on every single communication made by the public with the data then likely to be stored in an enormous national database."
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Incredible Grilling of UK Diplomat!  ---  http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/23/incredible-grilling-of-uk-diplomat/
Must View Video - A quote.......


Also posted at ICH -- http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22495.htm
Check out the comments at ICH,  ---  http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tf2777/article22495_htm/  ---  the first three posted below....


Testimony: Settlers assault pregnant woman with sticks and stones, April '09  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m53670&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."I am eight months’ pregnant. On Friday, 10 April, I took my sheep to graze in an area southwest of our village, not far from the cattle farm of the Ma’on settlement. I was with other women from the village, among them Amneh Sallem 'Eid al-Hazalin and Khadrah Suliman al-Hazalin, and a group of children under the age of 15, among them Tareq Sallem 'Eid al-Hazalin, 13, Musa Suliman al-Hazalin, 12, and 'Omar Suliman al-Hazalin, 10."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/195658
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'Israel blackmailing Palestinian patients'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92646&sectionid=351020202
Some quotes...."Israel is extorting information about resistance groups in the Gaza Strip from Palestinian patients in exchange for medical treatment, Hamas claims. Hamas Health Minister Dr. Bassem Naim on Sunday claimed that Tel Aviv is providing medical treatment to Palestinian patients in exchange for intelligence about the resistance operatives and figures in Gaza, Ynet reported Sunday."  --  "He said patients who refused to cooperate were not allowed to cross over for treatment in Israel. Sick Palestinians are questioned for hours in the sun before being subjected to a humiliating physical search, Naim told the Scotts." - bold by website editor
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Awad: The Palestinian people will not allow anyone to waive their rights
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7KEFDVSOGkfKdLzKr2Yt1bxlFm
Dy3eh%2bHPqgakw6yPljdM9lTFtZ1JrGEyHqOvy8hkHf6arp4pp6uEWL07G8TKp7AuBA5T2LrD1uc55x3V6M%3d
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Mohamed Awad, the secretary-general of the Palestinian cabinet, stated that the Palestinian people and government would not allow anyone to give up the Palestinian rights and constants which are guaranteed by all international conventions."
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Legal group: Israel must allow UN investigation to proceed  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10483.shtml
A quote...."Calling the Israeli military's self-exoneration "lacking in credibility," the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) on Thursday categorically rejected the Israeli military's findings that its soldiers did not commit war crimes during "Operation Cast Lead" in the Gaza Strip. The NLG reiterates its call to US President Barack Obama to lend strong support to the UN -- commissioned investigation into the conduct of both Israel and Hamas during Israel's 22-day offensive -- something Hamas has already agreed to, but Israel has indicated it will block."
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Independent media and Gaza: When the mainstream is M.I.A.  ---  http://rabble.ca/news/2009/04/independent-media-and-gaza-when-mainstream-mia
A quote...."Major international media networks failed to cover the war from the ground in the Gaza Strip, as Israel barred international reporters from entering the besieged territory for the majority of the conflict. As global news networks including CNN and the BBC had no permanent correspondents on the ground in Gaza, major media institutions covered the conflict from the outside, reporting on the war from hilltops in Israel."
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The Deafening Silence of Elie Wiesel  ---  http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/the-deafening-silence-of-elie-wiesel/
A quote...."One would think that a man that supposedly suffered would be the first to speak out against others suffering….. but one would be wrong to assume something like that when the person involved makes his living by wailing about his own suffering…. caring nothing about the plight of others. -- This is what the ‘holocaust industry’ is all about….. it’s all about money and the hell with everyone else! Below is one person’s opinion on this matter…..
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The Swine Flu Outbreak and Other Bio-Warfare Matters From CLG.....  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/

CLG_Flu_Oddities  ---   http://www.legitgov.org/CLG_Flu_Oddities.xml  ---  database
A quote...."Bio-War, false flag terror alerts, bird flu and war profiteering by the Bush Dictatorship and neo-con Nazis."
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Article #1 -- "Drug companies prepare for swine flu epidemic
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceuticalsandchemicals/5225935/Drugs-companies-prepare-for-swine-flu-epidemic.html  ---  26 Apr 2009 Pharmaceutical stocks are expected to rise on Monday morning, after Roche and GlaxoSmithKline said they may need to supply millions of vaccine doses to help protect against the swine flu that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico. 26 Apr 2009 Vaccines from Roche, which sells Tamiflu, and GSK, maker of Relenza, have been shown to work against viral samples of the new disease. The drugs were also used to help protect against outbreaks of bird flu in Asia, providing windfall profits for the companies. Roche confirmed it already has a stockpile of 3m packs of Tamiflu ready for use by the World Health Organisation (WHO). [Well, knock me over with a feather!! Instead of facing trial and execution for war crimes, Donald Rumsfeld is going to make a killing - maybe even greater than Rudy Giuliani/'Lucky Larry' killings from the 9/11 terror attacks. See: Rumsfeld's growing stake in Tamiflu
  ---  http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/newsmakers/fortune_rumsfeld/  ---  Defense Secretary, ex-chairman of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing 31 Oct 2005 The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world. Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)'s chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush administration in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld.]" -- Paragraph quoted from CLG  --  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Article #2 -- "Obama orders active measures to deal with swine flu  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/27/content_11262791.htm  ---  26 Apr 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered his administration to take active and aggressive measures to deal with swine flu, which has infected at least 20 people in the United States. As one of the measures, the administration declared a public health emergency on Sunday. [See: DoD to carry out 'military missions' during pandemic, WMD attack  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/DoD_to_act_in_pandemic.html  ---  08 Mar 2009 and DoD to 'augment civilian law' during pandemic or bioterror attack  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/DoD_to_augment_civilian_law.html  ---  11 May 2007.]"
Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Article#3 -- "Mission accomplished: CDC to conduct avian flu pandemic experiments
 ---  http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1104186283991_7/  ---  27 Dec 2004 Can the highly virulent flu strain -- known as H5N1 -- actually acquire the ability to spread easily to and among people? And if it can, how likely is that dreaded event to occur? Early in the new year, U.S. scientists will begin experiments that should provide some answers to those questions... The researchers, from the influenza branch of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, will mate H5N1 and human flu viruses in a process known as reassortment. Viable offspring will be tested in animals thought to be good surrogates for humans, to see if the viruses can infect, can be transmitted easily from infected animals to healthy ones and to note the severity of disease each provokes." -- Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Article#4 -- "Baxter working on vaccine to stop swine flu, though admitted sending live pandemic flu viruses to subcontractor
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/baxter_flu_vaccine_260409.html  ---  By Lori Price 26 Apr 2009 The OMFG moment of the century. Illinois-based Baxter working on vaccine to 'stop' swine flu outbreak in Mexico (25 Apr 2009). But, looky here! Baxter admits sending live avian flu viruses to subcontractor --People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses somehow co-mingled [!] in the Orth-Donau facility. (27 Feb 2009) Is Baxter International taking a page from the Blackwater playbook? Just as Blackwater/Xe keep on killing to justify their multi-billion dollar contracts to provide 'security' in Iraq and Afghanistan, Baxter International is poised to make *billions* to vaccinate people against their pandemic." -- Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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CLG's Other Recent Articles -- List:

Baxter working on vaccine to stop swine flu, though admitted sending live pandemic flu viruses to subcontractor
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/baxter_flu_vaccine_260409.html
Swine flu: passengers inspected at Heathrow
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5225730/Swine-flu-passengers-flying-in-to-Heathrow-from-Mexico-inspected-on-runway.html
Swine flu: two admitted to hospital in Scotland as world braces for more cases
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5225729/Swine-flu-two-admitted-to-hospital-in-Scotland-as-world-braces-for-more-cases.html
US declares public health emergency for swine flu
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/26/AR2009042601194.html
Obama Was In Mexico For Swine Flu Outbreak
  ---  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/25/politics/main4968913.shtml
As Nations Try to Contain Flu, N.Y. Cases Are Confirmed
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/world/27flu.html
Israeli suspected of having swine flu in Mideast first
  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gW5lBZvuysU9NLUb7vMhSt2mC3UA
Briton quarantined as killer flu spreads
  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6169120.ece
New Zealand quarantines 25 amid swine flu alert
  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g-G1kSAM9yaH00eBrXD2S5s-3ZhgD97Q12800
Minister: 10 NZ students likely have swine flu
  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g-G1kSAM9yaH00eBrXD2S5s-3ZhgD97Q3UI82
Mexico Takes Powers to Isolate Cases of Swine Flu
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/world/americas/26mexico.html
Mexico declares national emergency amid outbreak
  ---  http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/6392734.html
Texas Gov orders 37,430 courses of antiviral medications from Strategic National Stockpile
  ---  http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/042509dntswswinesanantonio.23ffd9f.html
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The Swine Flu Outbreak and Other Bio-Warfare Matters From Alex Jones.....  ---  http://infowars.net/
Alex Jones Tv (HD) 1/9:Swine Flu Special Report  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/alex-jones-tv-swine-flu-special-report.html
 - Pt1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IhrIbIts-8
 - Pt2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH4jIn2I-mw
 - Pt3  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewt0g_HPRus
 - Pt4  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Ux-okjjR4
 - Pt5  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7BCiq9rW-I
 - Pt6  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_VA82Niam8
 - Pt7  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f2XOoR-Q3Q
 - Pt8  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_bmxU3CMM
 - Pt9  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh3GUIhuEug
Must View Videos - A quote...."Alex makes an emergency broadcast on the latest developments with the spread of swine flu."
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Alex Jone's Other Recent Articles - List

France finds 2 suspected cases of swine flu
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/france-finds-2-suspected-cases-of-swine-flu.html
NZ students ‘likely’ to have swine flu
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/nz-students-likely-to-have-swine-flu.html
Australian GPs warned as swine flu spreads from Mexico
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/australian-gps-warned-as-swine-flu-spreads-from-mexico.html
UK on alert for deadly swine flu
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/uk-on-alert-for-deadly-swine-flu.html
Briton quarantined as killer flu spreads
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/briton-quarantined-as-killer-flu-spreads.html
Peru, Costa Rica heighten alert for possible swine flu outbreak
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/peru-costa-rica-heighten-alert-for-possible-swine-flu-outbreak.html
Asian governments move swiftly to flu crisis mode
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/asian-governments-move-swiftly-to-flu-crisis-mode.html
Swine Flu Attack Likely A Beta Test
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/swine-flu-attack-likely-a-beta-test.html
FACTBOX: Economic costs of a flu pandemic
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/factbox-economic-costs-of-a-flu-pandemic.html
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Additional Articles on the Current "Outbreak" and possible future ones

New swine flu feared to be weaponized strain  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4631.shtml
A quote...."WMR   ---  http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/  ---  According to two mainstream media journalists, one in Mexico City and the other in Jakarta, who spoke to WMR on background, they are convinced that the current outbreak of a new strain of swine flu in Mexico and some parts of the United States is the result of the introduction of a human-engineered pathogen that could result in a widespread global pandemic, with potentially catastrophic consequences for domestic and international travel and commerce.
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Army Biolab’s Missing Vials May Never Be Found (Which, Oddly, Isn’t That Scary)
  ---  http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/04/ft-detricks-bug
A quote...."Vials of a potentially harmful pathogen have gone missing at Fort Detrick, the Army’s main biodefense lab. But don’t freak out. The samples of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis (VEE) virus are relatively small. The Army has found “no evidence yet of criminal misconduct,” the Washington Post reports. And the virus usually causes only “a mild flulike illness” — although “brain inflammation and death” are possible, too. “It has potential for use as a biological weapon
but is far less lethal than some other agents the lab works with.” -- also posted at RogueGov
  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Army_Biolab%27s_Missing_Vials_May_Never_Be_Found/15396/0/9/9/Y/M.html
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Fears of swine flu pandemic mount  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/04/20094271564061328.html
A quote...."The swine flu that may have killed more than 100 people in Mexico is suspected to have spread to Europe and Asia. - The US, Canada, Brazil, Spain and New Zealand have joined the list of countries where confirmed or suspected cases have been reported."
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No posts. - mpg

Friday April 24th 2009 - links page

"President George W. Bush had publicly described him as “al-Qaeda’s chief of operations,” and other top officials called him a “trusted associate” of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and a major figure in the planning of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. None of that was accurate, the new evidence showed."

A 'Copper Standard' for the world's currency system?
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/5160120/A-Copper-Standard-for-the-worlds-currency-system.html
Special Note - More likely a commodity standard.  After sixty years of watching the US-NRE crapping all over the entire world with its Dollar whenever it choose to do so, China has decided to take out some insurance to protect itself if the Fed/Bankster/Obama administration can't - or more likely won't - support the dollar when things begin to get tough. - mpg --A quote...."Hard money enthusiasts have long watched for signs that China is switching its foreign reserves from US Treasury bonds into gold bullion. They may have been eyeing the wrong metal." -- posted 04-17-09  --  also posted at BLN  --- http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-3942-0-13-13--.html
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Thursday April 23rd 2009 - links page

My Gawd, isn't it just soo awful?  If the CIA and other agencies aren't allowed to illegally torture people (many, if not most of them innocent)....well, they just won't gather any more intelligence, that'll teach all those voters when another "terrorist" (false flag) event occurs....so there, take that.  Humph!  Yeah thats right....all you voters are gonna get what you deserve.

"The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him." -- *Nuremberg Principle IV*

Wednesday April 22nd 2009 - links page

  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm
Clean Break or Dirty War? Israel’s FPD to the US- database - video
  ---  http://www.irmep.org/Policy_Briefs/3_27_2003_Clean_Break_or_Dirty_War.html
July 8-10, 1996: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu - timeline - database
  ---  http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a07081096cleanbreakcongress#a07081096cleanbreakcongress
The war on Iraq: Conceived in Israel - analysis
  ---  http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/conc_toc.htm
How PNAC and OSP Created the War - analysis
  ---  http://www.reachingtruth.com/pnacosp.html
Second Cheney aide cooperating in leak probe, those close to case say
  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/news/2005/Second_Cheney_aide_cooperating_in_leak_1019.html
A Clean Break and A Pretext for War - video - (YuTb - 1m33s - 021809)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNN9cMvnHdc
The spies who pushed for war
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/17/iraq.usa/print
A neoconservative clique seeks to ensnare our country
  ---  http://www.amconmag.com/article/2003/mar/24/00007/
Everything Old Is New
  ---  http://www.truthout.org/article/everything-old-is-new
9/11 Was Good for Us! -- The Case against Israel
  ---  http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/08/04/21/may.htm
The Pollard Affair Never Ended!
  ---  http://www.larouchepub.com/pr_lar/2002/090802pollard_affr.html
Before the Invasion, There Was Feith
  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/before-the-invasion-ther_b_41211.html
John McCain’s Chilling Project for America
  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080612_john_mccains_chilling_project_for_america/
A Real Clean Break in the Middle East
  ---  http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3508.html
Proof Israel/Richard Perle Dictating War On Iraq?
  ---  http://www.rense.com/general29/perl.htm
Thinkpiece - 9/11
  ---  http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/pjballes15.htm
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm - PDF
  ---  http://www.why-war.com/files/cleanbreak.pdf
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq.... - book review
  ---  http://www.wrmea.com/archives/Oct_2004/0410086.html

For more on this issue see....9/11 - Planning Guidance - A Clean Break
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409#CB

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