Wednesday April 28th 2010 - links page

The Anti-Imperialist League and the Battle Against Empire  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods134.html
Must Read - A quote...."When the US government decided not to grant independence to the Philippines, Filipino rebels led by Emilio Aguinaldo determined to resist American occupying forces. The result was a brutal guerrilla war that stretched on for years. Some 200,000 Filipinos lost their lives, either directly from the fighting or as a result of a cholera epidemic traceable to the war. -- That American forces were engaged in a colonial war to suppress another people's independence led to a great deal of soul-searching among important American thinkers, writers, and journalists. What eventually became the American Anti-Imperialist League began at a June 1898 meeting at Boston's Faneuil Hall, where people concerned about the colonial policy that the US government may choose to adopt in the wake of the war gathered to speak out against the transformation of the United States into an imperial power."
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U.S. Flag Recalled After Causing 143 Million Deaths --- http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-flag-recalled-after-causing-143-million-deaths,17248/
Must Read Satire - A quote...."WASHINGTON—Citing a series of fatal malfunctions dating back to 1777, flag manufacturer Annin & Company announced Monday that it would be recalling all makes and models of its popular American flag from both foreign and domestic markets"
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25343.htm
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Deadly new Russian weapon hides in shipping container  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/223670  ---  Who wants to join the Club?
A quote...."A Russian company is marketing a devastating new cruise missile system which can be hidden inside a shipping container, giving any merchant vessel the capability to wipe out an aircraft carrier. - Potential customers for the formidable Club-K system include Kremlin allies Iran and Venezuela, say defense experts. They worry that countries could pass on the satellite-guided missiles, which are very hard to detect, to terrorist groups."
From Reuters  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63P2XB20100426
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Club-K Container Missile System  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xupOQSvnas  ---  (YouTube - 6 min 13 sec April 27, 2010)
Video - Related Video - Some quotes...." April 27, 2010

• Club-K Container Missile System is designated for hitting surface and land targets by 3М-54ТE, 3М-54ТE1 and 3М-14ТE cruise missiles.
• Club-K Missile System can be installed on coastal positions, surface ships and vessels of different classes, railway and automobile platforms.
• Club-K Missile System is housed in 40-feet standard marine container.
• Functionally Club-K Missile System consists of Universal Launching Module (ULM), Combat Management Module (CMM) and Energy-Supply and Life-Support Module (ES&LSM).
  

The launcher with 4 missiles is housed in the Universal Launching Module. The ULM is designed for preparation and missile start-off from transport-launching containers. -- CMM and ES&LSM can be constructively arranged and made in the form of separate standard marine containers. - bold by website editor

You can just see all those poor little countries who are future targets of Israel's and the US-NRE's PNAC Protocols  --- 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409  ---  salivating over the potential protection this missile system could offer them.  That's about 175 countries out of the 190 currently on the planet. It seems pretty obvious folks that after ten years worth of non-stop, unbridled, mayhem and murder across the globe by the parasitic class that runs this country, (which includes AIPAC/Israel), that this has got to be the easiest weapons system to market and sell to anyone, anywhere, anytime....ever.

You've got all of South America (threatened by the US-NRE's seven new bases in Columbia) all of Central America (countries which over the last fifty years have experienced countless death squads and miliary coups curtesey of the US-NRE), all of Africa (which is next on the US-NRE's target list),  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/africathenexttarget-blog-mpg-022808  ---  all of Asia (no one wants to be the next Vietnam, Combodia or Laos) and of course, last but not least, the number one garden spot for weapons sales during the last twenty years....the Middle East.  There's at least a hundred countries that would probably want to acquire this system right now. - mpg
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Resistance declares right to defend itself  ---  http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=114343#axzz0mT8GtA6E
A quote...."BEIRUT: Hizbullah Wednesday reacted to US claims it was stockpiling Scud missiles by saying it had a right to defend itself, as a senior UN official said tensions were expected to “dissipate” soon. -- “The resistance has the right to use all legitimate means to build its capacity to defend Lebanon,” Hizbullah MP Hassan Fadlallah told AFP. He added that US arms were “annihilating” civilians in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, and were the chief “cause of all suffering in the region.” -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/223738
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Syria’s Scuds, Israel’s Security And One Big Smokescreen  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/jawad270410.htm
Special Note - Geo-Political Analysis -- A quote...."In the self-sensationalising world of modern media, some truths are better witnessed than told. Over the past fortnight, major media outlets have converged on Syria’s alleged delivery of scud missiles to the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. By examining how the story first came to limelight, as well as the manner in which media sources have uncritically covered the story, one can begin to notice the vastly degenerated state of today’s media and its deeply polarising effects."
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Qatar blasts Israel on Scud claims  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=124804&sectionid=351020203
Related Article - A quote...."Qatar's Prime minister has charged Israel with posing new threats against Lebanon and Syria by accusing Damascus of supplying Scud missiles to Hezbollah."
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War propaganda from Afghanistan  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65503&hd=&size=1&l=e
War Presstitute Alert - (The NYT....again) -- Quote of the Day...."The New York Times yesterday excitedly declared that the imminent Battle of Kandahar "has become the make-or-break offensive  of the eight-and-half-year [Afghanistan] war" and is "the pivotal test of President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy."  As Atrios suggests, there never is any such thing as "make-or-break" because we never leave no matter how completely our war and occupation efforts fail.  That's what led to the countless Friedman Units  of the Iraq War:  the endless proclamations that The Next Six Months will be Decisive, only to be repeated at the end of the six-month period of failure as though the prior one never happened. -- Just consider what's being said now about how the Kandahar offensive is the "make-or-break" battle of the war and the "pivotal test" for Obama's war strategy by comparing it to what was said a mere two months ago about the now clearly failing assault on Marjah:"
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Few Afghans Back Karzai, Pentagon Warns  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/04/28/few-afghans-back-karzai-pentagon-warns/
A quote...."The Pentagon has issued a new report to Congress about the ongoing war in Afghanistan, warning that the Taliban is increasing the size of their insurgency even as support for President Hamid Karzai remains sparse in the most important regions. -- In fact of the 121 districts cited as “key” to winning the war in the report, only 29 of those districts had populations seen as even sympathizing with the Karzai government."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/223731
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Canada's Afghan detainee scandal gets constitutional  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/apr/28/canada-afghanistan
Harper's cover-up continues - mpg -- A quote...."It's been five months since diplomat Richard Colvin first levelled the charge that all detainees handed over to Afghan authorities by Canadian troops had been tortured. Since then, politicians – and those citizens who have actually noticed – have been embroiled in procedural geekery, wrestling with the issue of the government's refusal to release relevant documents to the case."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65489&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Blackwater trained Canadian troops  ---  http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Blackwater+trained+Canadian+troops/2954144/story.html
A quote...."The National Defence Department has spent more than $6-million having its troops trained by the controversial Blackwater security company, whose own employees have been accused of needlessly killing civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, documents show."
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Freedom Samples - Abu Ghraib Galore...  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65477&hd=&size=1&l=e
Multiply her anger by tens of millions....you'll get the picture folks. - mpg -- A quote...."This time got detailed testimonies from shiistan's dungeons. I will not reproduce the whole Human Rights Watch report here...  ---  http://www.uruknet.info/index.php?p=m65444&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  just  headlines...mouth watering headlines for the sexual perverts of the new world order, of America......"
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Iranian plane buzzes carrier in Middle East  ---  http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/04/navy_iran_ike_encounter_042810w/
A quote...."An Iranian maritime patrol aircraft buzzed the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower at sea in the Middle East last week, passing within 1,000 yards of the ship, but American defense officials sought to downplay the encounter as relatively common."
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ACLU to Obama: ‘Entire world is not a war zone’  ---  http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0428/aclu-obama-entire-world-war-zone/
Not True - The parasitic one percent which actually runs this country, along the Saudi Royals, in collusion with Israel, spent more than thirty years supporting  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306  ---  almost every single Wahhabist, Salafist, Jihadist organization in the Middle East to create an "arch of instability", which culminated with their direct involvement in carrying out 9/11, all in an effort to initiate their "long war", their "thirty years war", their PNAC Protocols.  They have absolutely no intentions of stopping these plans now. - mpg
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France's EDF to sign deal in St. Petersburg to join South Stream project  ---  http://en.rian.ru/business/20100429/158793186.html
A quote...."French energy producer EDF will sign an agreement to join the South Stream gas pipeline project with Russia's energy giant Gazprom and Italy's Eni during the International Economic Forum due in Russia's second city of St. Petersburg on June 17-19, Gazprom has said."
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The Politics of Fear – From the War on Terrorism to Tyranny – Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25335.htm
Must View BFVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_npwnbZDEQ  ---  (BFYuTb - 5 min 32 sec - April 25, 2010) - posted by boilingfrogspost  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/boilingfrogspost  ---  A quote...."Boiling Frogs Post presents an exclusive interview with Colonel Larry Wilkerson on the tyrannical presidency and politics of fear, Israel’s interests versus US interests and the question of loyalties, and more:"
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MI5 files on 7/7 attacks 'impossible' to access  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8649577.stm
And the cover-up continues - mpg -- A quote...."It would be "impossible" to reveal secret MI5 files about the 7/7 London terror attacks, a court has been told. - The claim has been made at a hearing to decide the format of inquests into the deaths of those killed in 2005. - Lawyers for the families of those who died argue the hearing should also look at whether the intelligence services could have prevented the attacks. -- Considering they helped to set them up....one would think so!! - mpg
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The Borders Are Closing In  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w143.html
Must Read- A quote...."Crossing the border of a totalitarian state — in either direction — is an experience fraught with visceral anxiety. Finding himself in the unwanted company of humorless, heavily armed goons of questionable competence and dubious intelligence, the traveler is vividly aware that he can be arrested, imprisoned, beaten, or even shot at whim. - The best thing to do in such circumstances, travelers are told, is to assume a posture of utter servility, meekly and quietly enduring whatever indignity inflicted on them until they are safely through the checkpoint. In coming years, it most likely won't be necessary to visit the border in order to have a sample of what Watts endured; experiences similar to his will become increasingly commonplace for citizens and other residing legally within the United States."
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Arizona Legalizes Racial Profiling  ---  http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2010/04/arizona-legalizes-racial-profiling.php
Related Article - A quote...."JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that Arizona's new immigration legislation - requiring law enforcement officers to stop everyone whom they have “reasonable suspicion” to believe is an undocumented immigrant and arrest them if they fail to produce their papers - demeans us all by effectively legalizing racial profiling..."
also posted at DProgram   ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/04/28/arizona-legalizes-racial-profiling-marjorie-cohn/
& CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/28-0
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ADL releases Report Similar to a (NO FLY LIST) Check for your Name  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/223721
Related Article - A quote...."Many like to blow off steam as "keyboard commandos", but now "they" are trying to make it seem serious enough to publish a report of their "findings". As things seem to be rolling down the "She pointed a Finger Gun at the Teacher so She is a Terrorist" slippery slope, I suggest remembering that what some think of as free speech, others are building lists around. -- Unfortunately, the Hutaree arrests may come to be seen not as the culmination, but rather as a first step in what may need to become a major national law enforcement operation."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Screenshot Of The Separation Wall  ---  http://palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1373
Must View Photo Gallery - A quote...."Some say you can’t decorate it, others see it as a form of political protest. A fact is that the Separation Wall, with a total length of some 760 km, offers an ideal outlet for activists, street artists, tourists, and locals to express themselves. The British guerrilla graffiti artist Banksy used the grey and concrete wall built by Israel through the West Bank as a canvas to give free reign to his thoughts."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65479&hd=&size=1&l=e
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A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won’t) - http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175239/tomgram:_noam_chomsky,_eyeless_in_gaza___/
Must Read - A quote...."The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange.  For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.  In this case, it is not only possible, but there is near universal agreement on its basic contours: a two-state settlement along the internationally recognized (pre-June 1967) borders -- with “minor and mutual modifications,” to adopt official U.S. terminology before Washington departed from the international community in the mid-1970s."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25333.htm
& Aussies4Palestine  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/chomsky-a-middle-east-peace-that-could-happen-but-wont
& AsiaTimes  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LD29Ak01.html
& CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/28-3
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Gaza: Protesting Under Fire In The Buffer Zone  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1374
Contains Videos - B'Tselem  ---  http://blip.tv/play/g%2BYegdnkfAI  ---  (Note: size window for best viewing) & ISM  ---  http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=0LPHHl0KMb4  ---  A quote...."A Palestinian youth, Ahmad Sliman Salem Dib, aged 19, died in the last hour at Shifaa Hospital, Gaza City. Earlier this morning, Dib was injured by Israeli fire, while attending a demonstration near the border fence with Israel, east of Gaza City, to protest the imposition of “no-go” zones by Israeli armed forces." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65497&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Gaza protester injured by Israeli fire dies in hospital  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=280186
A quote...."Gaza – Ma'an – A 21-year-old man protesting Israel's no-go zone in Gaza was killed on Wednesday, after Israeli forces opened fire on the march and hit the young man in the leg. Medics said he died in hospital."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65482&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Tunneling for Life in Gaza  ---  http://www.truthout.org/tunneling-life-gaza58953
Special Note - A quote...."Naseem has a closely-cropped goatee, and was wearing glasses and a black Fila sweatshirt when I met him. He is a bit heavy-set, and is 25 years old. The same as me, I tell him. Last December, he spent a couple of full days underground. He wasn't spelunking-he was practically buried alive. He used to work in the Rafah tunnel network, and was entombed for a couple days because an Israeli general ordered an Israeli F-16 to bomb a chunk of the Egypt-Gaza tunnel warren to smithereens. Luckily for Naseem, this didn't quite work-the tunnels were sturdier than expected." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65494&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Hamas: Egypt Forces Gas, Kill 4 Tunnel Smugglers  ---  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/28/ap/middleeast/main6441199.shtml
A quote...."GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Egyptian forces pumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians, Hamas officials said."
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UC Berkeley set to vote on historic divestment bill  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11235.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because if Israel is allowed to get away with these abominations, their actions will be copied in the future by many other violently racist states. - mpg-- A quote...."On Wednesday 28 April, the UC Berkeley Student Senate will make a final attempt to pass a bill calling for divestment of university funds from companies that profit from Israel's war crimes and occupation of Palestine." - For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/  ---  of this website. - mpg
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The Freedom Flotilla sails to Gaza in May  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/04/12179?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=
feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
Action Alert - A quote...."On May 24, 2010, the Freedom Flotilla sets sail for Gaza determined to, once again, challenge Israel’s blockade of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in an open-air prison. Under the coordination of the Free Gaza Movement, numerous human rights organizations, including the Turkish Relief Foundation (IHH), the Perdana Global Peace Organization from Malaysia, the European Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza, and the Swedish and Greek Boat to Gaza initiatives will send three cargo ships loaded with reconstruction, medical and educational supplies. At least five passenger boats with over 600 people on board will accompany the cargo ships."
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Palestinian group warns Hamas ‘fear could lead to revolt’ in Gaza
  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C04%5C29%5Cstory_29-4-2010_pg4_7
A quote...."GAZA: Security forces of the Islamist group Hamas detained Palestinian political activists overnight for distributing leaflets urging them to ease up on the people of Gaza or face a possibly explosive revolt. -- An official of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) told Reuters several members were arrested late on Tuesday and set free on Wednesday."
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ISRAEL SAYS NO UNITY ON GERMAN SOIL ALLOWED --- http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/04/israel-says-no-unity-on-german-soil.html
A quote...."With all the love floating around between Abbas, Israel and Obama recently, fresh winds of "peace" are wafting in the air. Israel is putting on it's "warm and fuzzy peace face." Look at us, we want peace with Palestinians. And there's old wrinkled has been Abbas, mouthing platitudes on Israeli tv blowing kisses to Netanyahu with words that send Bibi into ecstasy. Like the Right of Return is negotiable, no more resistance in the West Bank and fer sure, no Palestinian state to be declared unilaterally, only with permission."
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The European Economic Crisis is Not Complicated  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/european-economic-crisis-is-not.html
Must Read - A quote...."You might assume that the global economic crisis is complicated. - Just when it looked like things were getting better, Greece, Portugal and Spain are melting down. It's just too complicated for any layperson to understand, right? - No, not really. - There Wouldn't Be a Crisis Among Nations If Banks' Toxic Gambling Debts Hadn't Been Assumed by the World's Central Banks - There wouldn't be a crisis among nations if banks' toxic gambling debts hadn't been assumed by the world's central banks."
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The second world economic crisis – Webster Tarpley
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/04/28/video-the-second-world-economic-crisis-webster-tarpley/
Must View RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilbQLVFR2QI  ---  (RTYuTb - 5 min 15 sec - April 28, 2010 ) -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – April 28, 2010 – With Greece’s debt mounting by the day and the United States starting to recover from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, will there be a ripple effect from Greece’s troubles? While U.S. cities and towns wrestle with financial problems, investors are finding a new way to profit on their misery: by buying derivatives that essentially bet municipalities will default."
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Wake The President  ---  http://baselinescenario.com/2010/04/28/wake-the-president/
Special Note - A quote...."Most days we can coast along, confident that tomorrow will be much like yesterday.  On a very few days we need to look hard at the news headlines, click through to read the whole story, and then completely change a large chunk of how we thought the world worked.  Today is such a day. -- Everything you knew or thought you believed about the European economy – and the eurozone, which lies at its heart – was just ripped up by financial markets and thrown out of the proverbial window." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25338.htm
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ECB may have to turn to 'nuclear option' to prevent Southern European debt collapse
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7640783/ECB-may-have-to-turn-to-nuclear-option-to-prevent-Southern-European-debt-collapse.html
A quote...."The European Central Bank may soon have to invoke emergency powers to prevent the disintegration of southern European bond markets, with ominous signs of investor flight from Spain and Italy."
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Trillion Dollar Bailout for Greece  ---  http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/04/trillion-dollar-bailout-for-greece.html
A quote...."Almost weekly, we hear new announcements from the the IMF, the EU, the ECB of money they are supposedly providing to Greece. The details are always sketchy (to be filled in later) and the money never seems to be sent, but sometimes it does spike the market upwards for a few hours...." - Editor's Note:  Check out the comments....
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Peter Schiff on Tech Ticker – Economics 101  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/04/28/video-peter-schiff-on-tech-ticker-%E2%80%93-economics-101/
Video - Eco101  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3_7wYeTkwE  ---  & SS&Gold  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uxb3V6SmB0  ---  A quote...."Attention: Federal Government and The Federal Reserve - Keep your hands off the economy!"
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The Coming Plan to Slash Social Security and Medicare - The Flight of the Deficit Hawks  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/baker04282010.html
A quote...."The deficit hawks are going into high gear with their drive to cut Social Security and Medicare. President Obama’s deficit commission is having a big public event on Tuesday in which many of the country’s most prominent deficit hawks will tout the need to reduce the budget deficit. The next day, Wall Street investment banker Peter Peterson will be hosting a “summit on fiscal responsibility,” which will feature more luminaries touting the need to get deficits under control."
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Gerald Celente on Bill Meyer – Wall Street is the biggest Casino in the world
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/04/28/video-gerald-celente-on-bill-meyer-%E2%80%93-wall-street-is-the-biggest-casino-in-the-world/
Video - posted by geraldcelente  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/geraldcelente  ---  A quote...."Gerald Celente on BILL MEYER 26 April 2010"
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Barofsky Says Criminal Charges Possible in Alleged AIG Coverup --- http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aVHMZwNcj2B0&
A quote...." April 28 (Bloomberg) -- Neil Barofsky  ---  http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Neil+Barofsky&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1  ---  was unpacking boxes in December 2008 when the stench of sewage wafted through the hallways at the 168-year-old Main Treasury Building. The space assigned to him as head of the Office of the Special Inspector  ---  http://www.sigtarp.gov/  ---  General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or SIGTARP, was shoehorned into the basement, three floors below U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's  ---  http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Henry+Paulson&
site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1  ---  offices."
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Seize and Liquidate Goldman Sachs  ---  http://tarpley.net/2010/04/27/seize-and-liquidate-goldman-sachs/
A quote...."Today’s Senate hearings, carried on CNBC, Bloomberg, and C-SPAN, represent the first major exposure of the American people to the scandalous frauds of the derivatives casino, including synthetic collateralized debt obligations (synthetic CDOs or CDO²)."
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CHART OF THE DAY: 49 Out Of 50 State Economies Are Still Underwater
  ---  http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-economic-activity-for-us-states-2010-4#ixzz0mTKycEje
Chart - A quote...."49 out of 50 U.S. states are still showing less economic activity than a year ago, based on February 2010 coincident economic indicators from the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia."
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From The Rumor Bag: The Dangerous Politics Behind The Greek IMF Bailout And Why A Government Collapse May Be Imminent
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/rumor-bag-dangerous-politics-behind-greek-imf-bailout-and-why-government-collapse-may-be-imm
Special Note - If the US-NRE in collusion with the Banksters here in this country (there's only about five or six of them) are orchestrating a deliberate attack against the Euro-Community and the Euro, in order that the Fed can sell US-NRE's bonds at low interest rates, things could get so radically unpleasant so fast that major geo-political ruptures would be impossible to prevent. - mpg -- A quote...."Supposedly written by someone in the upper ranks of the Greek government, who will reveal himself when he resigns over this matter in the coming week. --  He alleges G-Pap is rushing to get a deal involving the IMF because the Russians were about to offer a 50 billion euro, no-strings-attached (*ahem*) 4% loan package to Greece. Furthermore, the Chinese were showing interest in purchasing ΟΣΕ, the Greek national railroad, a real bleeder for Greek public finances, as part of a 60 billion euro European shopping-spree package."
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Failed German Bond Auction: An Evil Portent?  ---  http://online.barrons.com/article/SB127193332870480995.html?mod=BOL_hpp_dc
Related Article - A quote...."That is the ultimate doomsday scenario with the unprecedented fiscal deficits around the world -- that governments' credit lines could run out and they couldn't raise the cash they needed in the bond markets. At that point, after bailing out banks that had faced the same dilemma, who's there to bail out the governments? -- That hasn't happened in Greece, ground zero in the European debt crisis. Earlier this week, Greece found ready and willing buyers for its short-term bills, albeit at yields twice what the government had to pay just a few months ago. -- It was Germany that didn't receive sufficient bids to sell all the bonds it offered. In other words, the auction failed." -- also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-8390-0-13-13--.html
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Tony Blair, Very Close to being Indicted for War Crimes  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18838
A quote...."While on a speaking engagement in Malaysia organized by "Success Resources Company", former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was the object of an articulate protest movement demanding his indictment for war crimes. -- This was no ordinary protest. Tony Blair has been accused of war crimes in a legal initiative led by the country's former Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad."
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Did the Government Entrap the 9/11 Hijackers?  ---  http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2008/03/did-us-and-allied-intelligence-agents.html
From the History File - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 -- A quote...."We've all seen it on television. The defense attorney argues his client was "entrapped". That is, that it wasn't the defendant's idea to commit the crime, but that the police planted the idea and urged him to do it. -- Many of us have heard allegations that post-9/11 arrests of suspected Al Qaeda members were based on very thin information. Did you realize that all or virtually all of these arrests occurred due to entrapment? For example:" -- For more on this sort of issue see....9/11 - The Patsies, Their Passports and Their Visas - Updated
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-thepatsiestheirpassports&theirvisas-weblist-mpg-041710
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Colleague Says Anthrax Numbers Add Up to Unsolved Case  ---  http://www.propublica.org/article/colleague-says-anthrax-numbers-add-up-to-unsolved-case
A quote...."A microbiologist who supervised the work of accused anthrax killer Bruce E. Ivins explained to a National Academy of Sciences panel Thursday why the arithmetic of growing anthrax didn't add up to Ivins' mailing deadly spores in fall 2001."
also posted at RawStory  ---  http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0423/colleague-anthrax-numbers-add-unsolved-case/
& PrisonPlanet  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/colleague-says-anthrax-numbers-add-up-to-unsolved-case.html
& TruthIsContgs  ---  http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/04/24/colleague-says-anthrax-numbers-add-up-to-unsolved-case
For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Bruce Ivins
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#BRUCE_IVINS
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Saboteurs hit Iraq's northern oil pipeline, halting exports
  ---  http://www.ogj.com/index/article-display/9465163926/articles/oil-gas-journal/transportation-2/pipelines/2010/04/saboteurs-hit_iraq.html
A quote...."LOS ANGELES, Apr. 23 -- Iraqi oil exports have been cut due to sabotage along the northern pipeline system, according to officials who say repairs could take up to a week. The 970-km line transports crude oil from the country’s Kirkuk fields to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan."
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Iran ready to send gas to Switzerland  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=124348&sectionid=351020103
A quote...."Iran is to export gas to Switzerland in accordance with a gas deal between the two countries, which the financial crisis had delayed. -- "We have no problem to export natural gas to Switzerland," Iran's Oil Minister Masoud Mirkazemi told reporters on Saturday in Tehran."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/223388
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IRGC stops Italian, French ships in PG  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=124251&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps' naval patrol units have stopped an Italian and a French vessel in the Strait of Hormuz and inspected them. -- The two vessels were inspected by the IRGC forces during a military maneuver on Friday for verification that they complied with environmental regulations. -- The vessels were allowed to continue sailing after confirmation that they had not breached any regulations, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/223332
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Drills in Far East to involve warships of three Russian fleets  ---  http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20100423/158709117.html
A quote...."Warships of three Russian fleets will meet in the Sea of Japan during large-scale military exercises in the Far East, a Pacific Fleet source told RIA Novosti on Friday."
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Bakiyev blames Russia for overthrow  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/04/20104239494248838.html
A quote...."Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the deposed Kyrgyz president, has said that Russian anger at his decision to extend the lease on a US air base was a factor in his overthrow. -- Speaking from the Belarussian capital of Minsk, where he is in exile, Bakiyev said he had annoyed Russia by allowing the air base, which is crucial for supplying the war in Afghanistan, to continue operating."
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Japanese rally against US air base  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/04/201042554723575134.html
A quote...."Demonstrators have gathered at a rally in Okinawa, Japan, to protest against a US military air base on the island. -- Sunday's rally, near Kadena air base, the largest US military facility in the Asia-Pacific region, is expected to include Hirokazu Nakaima, Okinawa's governor, and more than 30 town mayors."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/223386
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Jeremy Grantham: This Is Nothing But The Greenspan Legacy's Latest Bubble, America Is Now "Thorougly Expensive"
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/jeremy-grantham-nothing-greenspan-legacys-latest-bubble-america-now-thorougly-expensive
Video Special Note - Alt  ---  http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid71778049001?bclid=69928231001&bctid=79128759001  ---  (Note: size window for best viewing) -- A quote...."Yesterday we first posted Jeremy Grantham's latest letter  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/jeremy-grantham-
playing-fire-possible-race-old-highs  ---  which incidentally is a must read for everyone who still is stupid enough to think this market reflects anything remotely related to fundamentals, when instead all it is pricing in is the money printing Kommendant's daily predisposition to continuing his dollar decimation via ZIRP and shadow QE."
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Gerald Celente: Financial Reform Is Just a Show  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente31.1.html
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd1rUasd6Jg  ---  (GCRTYuTb - 6 min - April 22, 2010) -- A quote...."Trends forecaster Gerald Celente gives his analysis on Wall Street regulation, including problems with the finance reform bill. -- Celente argues that the people who deregulated the financial industry are the same people advising President Obama in the White House. The trends forecaster points out the large amounts of money President Obama and Senator Chris Dodd have received from financial institutions."
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Goldman Sachs Boasted As The Meltdown Unfolded  ---  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126243597
A quote...." E-mails released Saturday morning show top executives at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boasting about the money the firm was making as the national housing market collapsed in 2007. -- The e-mails suggest Goldman benefited from its bets that securities backed by subprime mortgages would lose value. The messages seem to contradict previous statements by the investment bank that it lost money on the securities."
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Obama reassures Wall Street on bank regulation bill  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/apr2010/pers-a23.shtml
A quote...."President Barack Obama went to lower Manhattan Thursday to deliver a message to Wall Street: Your profits and bonuses will not be disturbed by the regulatory overhaul making its way through Congress." -- One can just picture it in your mind's eye.  Obama's at a strip joint.  One of those well endowed ladies comes sashaying over to him on the catwalk, her garter just stuffed with twenty dollar bills, and while Obama kisses her butt, he starts to pull out and pocket all of her money.  When she objects, he just looks at and says...."but honey, I'm a politician, what more do you want!" - mpg
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UK borrowing hits record £163.4bn  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8636701.stm
A quote...."Government borrowing hit a record high of £163.4bn in the last financial year, official figures have shown."
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Saturday April 24th 2010 - links page

No posts. - mpg

Friday April 23rd 2010 - links page

Those Darn “Conspiracy Theorists”!  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/those-darn-conspiracy-theorists/
Must Read - A quote...."Those darn “conspiracy theorists”! Used to be that everyone knew what to believe… it was those “Radical Muslims“, it was Bruce Ivins, and the crash of the economy was the fault of all those poor people trying to get loans for houses they couldn’t afford. -- Then along come the damn “conspiracy theorists” saying things like Lucky Larry Silverstein (he and his children all just happened to be out of the office that morning… the office located in the Twin Towers)  demoed the World Trade Centers for money, Bruce Ivins was a patsy, and the economic crash was a carefully planned heist by the greediest bankers and hedge fund managers who have ever lived. -- Thank God we have a legitimate press that can weed through the stories to find the real facts… like… these…."
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Bombshell: Silverstein Wanted To Demolish Building 7 On 9/11
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/bombshell-silverstein-wanted-to-demolish-building-7-on-911.html
Must Read - Contains Videos - WTCOwnr  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3E-26oVIIs
PullIt?  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNEoiOP76QQ
WTC7IncrmntgEvdnc  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwjmqkjwnvQ
9/11DanRthr  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvx904dAw0o
 BBC&WTC7  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7SwOT29gbc
A quote...."Preface from Alex Jones: To truly grasp the magnitude of this story, you really have to read the entire article. Immediately after the “pull it” controversy, debunkers claimed there was no plan to conduct a controlled demolition of the building. Now the fact that officials were considering blowing up the building is established, Silverstein’s consistent denial that this took place is a huge smoking gun. How did Silverstein expect to demolish the building safely when such a process takes weeks or even months to properly set up, even without the additional chaos surrounding WTC 7 on 9/11? How could explosives have been correctly placed on such short notice inside a burning building that had already been evacuated – unless the explosives were already in place? This new revelation is astounding and it needs to be investigated immediately."

For more on the two articles shown above see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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The “Radical Muslim” Group The Threatened South Park Creators Was Created and Run by Joseph Cohen, a Former Israeli Radical Who Used to Live in a Settlement in the West Bank  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/the-radical-muslim-group-the-threatened-south-park-creators-
was-run-by-joseph-cohen-a-former-israeli-radical-who-used-to-live-in-a-settlement-in-the-west-bank/
Must Read - Presstitute Alert -- A quote...."Jon Stewart, go [expletive] yourself. You’re no better than Glenn Beck. -- South Park ran an unedited image of Muhammad in 2001 and nothing happened. For 4 seasons they had that image in their opening segment for every single show… and nothing happened. -- Last week a group called “Radical Muslim” threatened violence against Comedy Central if they aired an image of Muhammad. -- “Radical Muslim” was started and ran by a man named Yousef al-Khattab. Yousef al-Khattab was born Joseph Cohen, in Brooklyn New York. After attending a orthodox rabbinical school in Israel, he went to live in a settlement in the West Bank to help steal Palestinian land from Palestinians. His story is that he “converted” to Islam after meeting someone in a chat room. You know what “settlers” are like in the occupied territories don’t you Mr. Stewart? Ever see that video of them beating the old Palestinian woman with a baseball bat? -- Ever see that Mr. Stewart?  If not, take a look here.  --- http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=willyloman.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSp890nXTJ44&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fwillyloman.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F23%2Fthe-radical-muslim-group-the-threatened-south-park-creators-was-run-by-joseph-cohen-a-former-israeli-radical-who-used-to-live-in-a-settlement-in-the-west-bank%2F  ---  This video was released by B’Tselem."
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Support for Israel is not only tragic and immoral, it is also extremely damaging to Americans
  ---  http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april212010/israel-influence-dm.php
Must Read - Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BahjX9nI5k&feature=player_embedded  ---  A quote...."Elements, vital elements, of the US Government have always opposed the concept of a Zionist Israel, ever since State and Defense advised Truman not to sign on... which he did with reservations, qualifications and restricting conditions, which were immediately and have long since been ignored. -- But, none of these vital elements of governance, govern the Zionist Corporate controlled US Press, Entertainment, Academic, and Public (Mis)information Media where the grass roots of American public opinion are planted and from which the contentedly uninformed American masses take their opinions and feelings and the corporate and business advertising budgets which drive them. Nor do they control the free-spending lobbies who buy and sell Legislators and Politicians on Capitol Hill with the same ease with which they trade banks and corporations on the Stock Market. Go figure!"
also posted at AlethoNews -- http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/end-israel-lobbies%E2%80%99-pervasive-and-damaging-influence-in-us-politics/
 & WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/223276
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An Act Of War  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25302.htm
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."April 23, 2010 "United States House of Representatives" -- Mr. Speaker I rise in opposition to this motion to instruct House conferees on HR 2194, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act, and I rise in strong opposition again to the underlying bill and to its Senate version as well. I object to this entire push for war on Iran, however it is disguised. Listening to the debate on the Floor on this motion and the underlying bill it feels as if we are back in 2002 all over again: the same falsehoods and distortions used to push the United States into a disastrous and unnecessary one trillion dollar war on Iraq are being trotted out again to lead us to what will likely be an even more disastrous and costly war on Iran. The parallels are astonishing." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/223267
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An Act Of War  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/04/23/world-war-51/
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJDNbvtZSeE  ---  (YouTube - 5min 30sec - April 22, 2010)
Must View Video - Ron Paul in opposition to sanctions on Iran.  - mpg
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How About a "Justice Party"?
04-23-10
mpg

Newt Gingrich: Tea Party Will Become “Militant” Faction of Republican Party
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/newt-gingrich-tea-party-will-become-militant-faction-of-republican-party/
Special Note - Contains Video - Newt's right, (purely by accident) although if the Tea party puts forward its own candidates it'll take votes away from the Repub faction of the DemoRepub party, which is why Newt said what he said and also why it isn't going to happen. - mpg -- A quote...."Neocons hate the Tea Party almost as much as Democrats and liberals. And that is why the neocon and potential Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich called the Tea Party militant the other day." - also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/04/23/video-newt-gingrich-tea-party-will-become-%E2%80%9Cmilitant%E2%80%9D-faction-of-republican-party/
For more on this issue see....The Tea Party - Another False Front
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/theteapartyanotherfalsefront-weblist-mpg-042310

Kurt Nimmo, who wrote the article above, truly believes that the "Tea Party" is an alternative to the two-faced Janus duopoly called the DemoRepubs.  For those who believe the same a word of advice....  Just picture in your mind's eye the event that recently occurred little more than a year ago, as over one and a half million enthralled, entranced, enthused and enraptured Obamamites patiently waited for hours to witness the coronation of their new emperor on a bitterly cold winter day.  Not of course as bitter as their disappointment later turned out to be in the one to whom they had so misplaced their blind faith.

Please people....do not be deceived again, do not be fooled again.  The Tea Party is just a corporate manufactured mirage designed to entice the disappointed voters in this country to once again participate in another lie.  As of yet, the Tea Party has refused to put forward a platform besides their supposed "opposition" to "big government"...whatever that may mean, just how vague can they be?

How about forming a "Justice Party" folks, now that has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

How about this for its platform....

• A complete thorough, honest, impartial, and independent investigation of elements within the US-NRE that facilitated 9/11  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
• A complete thorough, honest, impartial, and independent investigation of elements within the US-NRE that facilitated support for terrorist groups world wide  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
• A complete thorough, honest, impartial, and independent investigation of elements within the US-NRE that facilitated torture/murder  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ustorture&sexualperversion-weblist-mpg-031309.html  ---  and assassinations
• A complete thorough, honest, impartial, and independent investigation of elements within the US-NRE that facilitated the creation of false intelligence  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206  ---  to launch a war of aggression (itself a war crime)
• Prosecute and punish all those found guilty in the investigations shown above
• A restoration of the Constitution of the United States and of Hebeas Corpus.  --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus
• Restore American's Rights  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/seventeenacts-blog-mpg-111006  ---  No more signing statements, offshore prisons, torture centers, gulags, wiretappings, kidnappings, renditions, assassinations, etc.
• Charge, try and punish all those found to have facilitated the acts shown above
• No more wars.  Close down the over 700 military bases overseas, cut the defense budget by 80%, shut down the Empire, shut down the Military Industry Complex
• Close down the insecurity state....all of it
• End the Department of Homeland Insecurity, False Flags and Terrorism
• End support for Israel....totally.  Force Israel back within it's 1967 borders, end any military support.
• Force AIPAC to register  ---  http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002021.php  ---  under the Foreign Agent Registration Act  --- http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fara/
• Force all the Senators - PDF  ---  http://www.aipac.org/Publications/SourceMaterialsCongressionalAction/Signatories_to_Boxer-Isakson_Letter.pdf  ---   (HTML)  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/signatoriestoaipacslettersofbetrayal-aipac-041410  ---  and Congressmen - PDF  ---  http://www.aipac.org/Publications/SourceMaterialsCongressionalAction/Signatories_to_Hoyer-Cantor_Letter.pdf  ---  (HTML)  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/signatoriestoaipacslettersofbetrayal-aipac-041410  ---  who swore loyalty to Israel in a recent letter they signed, to recant their allegiance to Israel or be tried for treason.
• End support for the Saudi Royals, their terror networks and their madrases, investigate what they've been doing in this area in conjunction with the US-NRE for the last ten years, prosecute all those involved accordingly.
• End the US-NRE's support for terrorism world wide
• End the US-NRE's support for false flag operations  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006
  
• Break up the five media conglomerates
• Restore Glass-Steagall,  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act  ---  claw back the Bankster pay-outs along with their bonuses,  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html  ---  break up the TBTF banks, fire the Banksters
• End "mark to fantasy", restore good accounting rules
• Enforce anti-trust laws
• Cancel ObamaCareNot
• Reign in the Banksters
• Reign in AIPAC and Israel
• Reign in the government
• Reign in the CIA
• Reign in the NSA
• Stop using Social Security Trust funds to fund the Government.
• Abolish the Federal Reserve, force them to open their books, prosecute any illegality that may be found

Of course, besides the three proposals shown in the list above -- "reign in the government", "abolish the federal reserve" (maybe) and "cancel ObamCareNot" -- (which won't happen even if the Tea Party remains un-co-opted on these issues and gets a few independents elected) --  none of the other proposals will ever appear on their plank.  In other words, it'll be business as usual for the New Roman Empire. - mpg
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Dear Mr. Bin Laden...  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/04/dear-mr-bin-laden.html
A quote...."We seem to be in a bit of trouble keeping people's minds focused on our 70 year long planned Crusade against the Muslim world and need your assistance. -- If you could issue some of your very timely warnings against a couple of countries that are having second thoughts about waging our 'Wars for Wall Street and Israel' for decades, it would be most appreciated."
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Iraq closes secret prison, arrests 3 officers  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042302203.html
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities have closed down a secret prison where over 400 mainly Sunni prisoners were held without trial, and arrested three officers of the military unit that ran it, an official said on Friday. -- The unit that operated the detention center reported directly to the office of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite Muslim, but officials denied any connection to or knowledge of the facility in Maliki's inner circle."
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Iraqi government formation still months away  ---  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/04/23/92779/iraqi-government-formation-still.html
A quote...."BAGHDAD — After a historic election in early March, Iraq is still months from forming a new government as political leaders jockey for position in a race that appears to have little to do with voters."
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'German Soldiers Don't Believe In a Happy Outcome'  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,690826,00.html
A quote...."The deaths of seven German soldiers this month, coupled with disquiet about the Kunduz bombing last September have served to further disenchant the German public with its army's mission in Afghanistan."
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AN ATOL EXCLUSIVE -- Confessions of a Pakistani spy  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LD24Df04.html
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Special Note - A quote...."ISLAMABAD - Retired squadron leader Khalid Khawaja, a former Inter-Services Intelligence official and a close friend of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during the resistance in Afghanistan against the Soviets in the 1980s, has explained in videos sent to Asia Times Online how he was on a mission to broker a deal between militants and the army when he was captured by militants, and how he played a double game by deceiving a radical cleric into being arrested."
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State Dept Ducks Question of Syrian Scuds, Accuses Them of Giving ‘Missiles’ to Hezbollah
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/04/23/state-dept-ducks-question-of-syrian-scuds-accuses-them-of-giving-missiles-to-hezbollah/
A quote...."The US seems to have abandoned its damage control over condemning Syria earlier this week of providing Hezbollah with Scud missiles, a claim they later admitted probably wasn’t actually true. Now, they’re back in attack mode."
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The Imminent Crash Of The Oil Supply -- What Is Going To Happen And Why Weren't We Forewarned?
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25306.htm
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Chart - Keep in mind folks, the "peak" can be extended outward and upward by paying higher prices. But also keep in mind there is a "peak" where paying higher prices becomes unsustainably prohibitive, and a final "peak" of total extractable supply. - mpg - See also this Peak Oil Chart  --- 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/peakoilchart-reficultnias-121008.html  ---  ("peaked" oil countries only) -- A quote...."April 23, 2010 "Information Clearing House" --  Look at this graph and be afraid.  It does not come from Earth First.  It does not come from the Sierra Club.  It was not drawn by Socialists or Nazis or Osama Bin Laden or anyone from Goldman-Sachs. If you are a Republican Tea-Partier, rest assured it does not come from a progressive Democrat.  And vice versa. It was drawn by the United States Department of Energy, and the United States military's Joint Forces Command concurs with the overall picture."
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Putin heads to Austria for signing of South Stream deal  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100423/158719041.html
A quote...."Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit Austria on April 24-25, a Russian government source said on Friday. -- He is due to meet with Chancellor Werner Faymann and President Heinz Fischer and oversee the signing of an agreement on Austria's entry into the South Stream project.-- The gas pipeline project is designed to carry 31 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas a year across the Black Sea to Bulgaria and further on to Italy and Austria." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/223280
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Venezuela and Cuba Create Joint Venture for Oil Exploration  ---  http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=355819&CategoryId=10717
A quote...."CARACAS – Venezuela and Cuba signed a contract for a joint venture that will explore for crude oil and natural gas in two states in northeastern Venezuela, state-owned oil giant Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, said."
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Correa Warns on Attempts to Turn LatAm into a Middle East
  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=182067&Itemid=1
A quote...."Quito, Apr. 23 (Prensa Latina) Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa publicly announced the decision of avoiding that "insane groups, probably supported by foreign bases, want to turn the Latin American region in a new Middle East."
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Bolivian President Evo Morales on President Obama: “I Can’t Believe a Black President Can Hold So Much Vengeance Against an Indian President”
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/23/bolivian_president_evo_morales_to_president
A quote...."As the World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba closes, we speak to Bolivian President Evo Morales about the US decision to cut off climate aid to Bolivia; narcotrafficking; the tenth anniversary of the Water Wars in Cochabamba; the protest at the San Cristóbal silver mine; and the contradiction between promoting the environment and extractive industries—oil/natural gas exploration, mining."
||  Real Video Stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2010/april/video/dnB20100423a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=00:15:18
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||  More…  ||  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/23/stream
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18 veterans kill themselves every day: report  ---  http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0423/18-veterans-suicide-day/
A quote...."The suicide rate among war veterans is extraordinary, new data reveals. -- Thirty try to commit suicide each day, on average, reports the Army Times. Eighteen succeed, roughly five of whom receive medical care from Veterans Affairs, rated one of the best health programs in the country."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-8385-0-3-3--.html  ---  For more on this type of issue see....
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Five Israelis charged with organ trafficking  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/22/israel-organ-trafficking-charges
A quote...."Israel has charged five of its citizens, including a retired army general, with operating a nationwide organ trafficking ring that ensnared dozens of potential victims. The charges include human trafficking for the purpose of organ harvesting and money laundering." -- For more on this issue see....Israeli Organ Thefts  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israeliorgnthefts-weblist-mpg-092409
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Bil’in Ends Its Fifth Conference, Soldiers Attack The Weekly Protest Injuring A Dozen Civilians  ---  http://ow.ly/1Ck3h
A quote...."At least a dozen Palestinian and international civilians were injured during the weekly nonviolent protest at the central West Bank village of Bil’in. - This Friday protest marked the end of the Fifth Bil’in International Conference for Palestinian Popular Resistance, which began on Wednesday, April 21 with a full line-up of speakers including politicians, leaders of Popular Committees, Israeli activists, and international solidarity activists."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65337&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Gaza: scouring for grazing grounds  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m65336&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."(IPS) – Nine-year-old Ismail spends every afternoon herding his family’s flock of sheep and goats, a scraggly group of roughly 20 animals. They live in a shanty house district near Tel el Howa in Gaza City, where growth is sparse to non-existent."
From IPS  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51167
also posted at ElectronicIntafada  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11227.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
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Spirit of resistance strong in Iraq Burin  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/04/12075?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&
utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."Local and international activists broadcast a message of protest against settler and military violence in Iraq Burin last Saturday 17 April, marching to the threatened farmlands that lie between the village and the illegal settlement of Bracha. The demonstration showcased the village’s spirit of resistance, refusing to waver in the face of severe military repression."
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Hamas: US Unfit as Peace Mediator
  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=7af00343cbe2abea57bb85ab36016d57&mode=details#7af00343cbe2abea57bb85ab36016d57
A quote...."A spokesman for the Hamas movement says the administration of US President Barack Obama lacks credibility as a mediator in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. -- Speaking on Tuesday, senior Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri criticized President Obama's statement on the occasion of Nakba Day, saying the US leader's remarks only reaffirmed his administration's favoritism toward Israel."
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Austrian delegation visits Gaza to observe humanitarian situation
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7SCXJ73SnA9lhwqKnoIkjnlyp
SqUq7HyYMNFtsJbq6GBe7HNtC6d4pebvqPQlRk6fzudez6TL00bmU0cLNuMUywWuqI%2fkRYHZ7c%2bzHBEHLd8%3d
Action Update - A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Representative of Austria to Palestine Oscar Westneger and commercial attaché Christian Lassnig promised during a visit on Friday to the besieged Gaza Strip to convey the image of the humanitarian situation there to the international community."
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Mortgage Madness - Let The Fleecing Begin  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25305.htm
Must Read - A quote...."April 23, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Housing has been going sideways for seven months now, mainly due to lax lending standards (at FHA), the Firsttime Homebuyers Credit, and the Fed's mortgage-backed securities (MBS) buyback program. But once the props are removed, the market will fall sharply. -- So where's the real, organic demand for housing? -- Here's a hint: There isn't any."
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Bill Moyers interviews Johnson and Kwak Pt1  ---  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04162010/watch.html
and Pt2  ---  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04162010/watch2.html
Must View Video - A quote....April 16, 2010 -- How did Big Finance grow so powerful that its hijinks nearly brought down the global economy – and what hope is there for real reform with Washington politicians on Wall Street's payroll? Bill Moyers talks with authors Simon Johnson and James Kwak, two of the nation's most respected economic experts and authors of the new book "13 Bankers:  The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown.",  ---  http://books.
google.com/books?id=hlia-r2_FsEC&dq=13+Bankers:++The+Wall+Street+Takeover+and+the+Next+Financial+Meltdown&source=gbs_navlinks_s    [GoglBkSrch]*"  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=hlia-r2_FsEC&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0  ---  *links added
||  Transcript  ||  ---  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04162010/transcript1.html
||  PodCast - Mp3  ||  ---  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/rss/media/BMJ-1351.mp3
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The Story of the Financial Debacle: Goldman Plays, We Pay  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18810
Special Note - A quote...."The story of the financial debacle will end the way it began, with the super-hustlers from Goldman Sachs at the center of the action and profiting wildly. Never in U.S. history has one company wielded such destructive power over our political economy, irrespective of whether a Republican or a Democrat happened to be president. --  At least the robber barons of old built railroads and steel mills, whereas Goldman Sachs makes its money placing bets on people losing their homes."
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Jeremy Grantham: Playing with Fire (A Possible Race to the Old Highs)
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/jeremy-grantham-playing-fire-possible-race-old-highs
Special Note - (to read click "full screen" at the top) -- A quote...."It’s spring, and this spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of speculation. The Fed’s promises look good and, as long as you’re not a small business, you can borrow to invest or speculate at no cost. The market has had a near record rally, sprinting far past our estimated fair value of 875 for the S&P 500. Bernanke is, in fact, begging us to speculate, and is being mean only to conservative investors like pensioners who cannot make a penny on their cash. Collectively, we forego hundreds of billions of potential interest, but at least we can feel noble because we are helping to restore the financial health of the banks and bankers, who under these conditions could not fail to make a fortune even if brain dead."
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Is America`s Economic Recovery On The Whole Based On A Rotten Sham?  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=623320
A quote...."Why be furious? A few reasons. -- First of all, because these happy-go-lucky knuckleheads spending strategic default “mad money” like water have the attitudes of fiscal dope fiends. They are likely going to go broke again en masse, or otherwise need bailing out, and someone else will have to pay. AGAIN. -- Second of all, because it’s just damn disgusting that those people who scrimped and saved to own their homes and pay their debts - i.e. the “suckers” who lived by a moral code of personal obligation and free market ethics - have to see such blatant debauchery not just flaunted, but rewarded by the system. It’s a breakdown of ethics and common sense that threatens the future of the country as a whole. -- And third, because even though the banks are the ones eating strategic default losses, they aren’t the ones getting screwed in this deal. TAXPAYERS and SAVERS are the ones getting shafted - people like you and me. (Oh, and your kids too. They’re going to pay out the nose for all this. Big time.)"

Actually the moral degenerates ripping off the country are, as any economist would tell you, acting completely "rational".  They're just doing EXACTLY what Ben Bernanke and his merry band of Bankster Pranksters have told them to do.  In fact, Bernanke, Summers, Paulson and Geithner have arranged it so that anyone NOT acting like a drunken sailor spending his final wages in his last port of call would be considered crazy.  Other than holding a gun to people's heads and screaming SPECULATE and SPEND NOW,  there's really not much else Ben could have done to force them into this sort of behavior.  Or, to put it another way, the fish rots from the head down. - mpg
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"Mafianomics": From “Trickle-down Economics” to outright Financial Fraud  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-8387-0-5-5--.html
A quote...."Today’s version of "Reaganomics” is a much more cancerous form of grotesque greed. Let’s call this disease “Mafianomics”, or an economic policy designed to enrich the richest of the rich, while impoverishing the middle class and the rest of us not so “well connected” to the centers of power. Mafianomics reigns supreme over the planet. Just take a drive in the suburbs of a poor country’s city, like Istanbul, Mexico city, Cape Town, or even in rich ones like perhaps, a major North American one, and you will see tangible signs of it. Huge mansions on sprawling grounds, which are built like medieval castles with turrets (and surveillance cameras on top) surrounded with iron gates and fences and private security detail. These are the garish displays of money made under “Mafianomics”."
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Skimming the Skimmers  ---  http://blog.atimes.net/?p=1444
Some quotes...."April 21 (Bloomberg) — The International Monetary Fund is recommending the Group of 20 nations tax financial institutions’ non-deposit liabilities and the sum of profit and compensation to help pay for future bailouts of the industry."  ---  "Now, let me see–do I have enough fingers and toes to work this one out?–the governments are issuing gigantic amounts of debt to bail out the banks. The banks are making money levering up this debt, so it looks like there’s no more problem in the financial system. So to reduce the debt of governments, we should tax the banks’ balance sheet, which have ballooned as the banks bought government debt with zero-interest financing from the government, and made lots of profits…  Seems a cumbersome way to proceed. Why pay all these people to sit on a trading floor? It would be simpler to have the Treasury and Fed buy government securities back and forth from each other at higher prices each time, booking a profit on the trade at each turn. In a few months, they would have so much profits that they could pay back the whole federal debt!" -- Ohhhhh, why didn't Bernanke think of that!! - mpg
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Mega-Banks Which Received Bailouts Slashed Lending More, Gave Higher Bonuses, and Reduced Costs Less Than Banks Which Didn't Get Bailed Out
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/mega-banks-which-received-bailouts.html
USA Today points out:

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Computerized Front Running and Financial Fraud  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18809
A quote...."While the SEC is busy investigating Goldman Sachs, it might want to look into another Goldman-dominated fraud: computerized front running using high-frequency trading programs. --  Market commentators are fond of talking about “free market capitalism,” but according to Wall Street commentator Max Keiser,*  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  it is no more.  It has morphed into what his TV co-host Stacy Herbert calls “rigged market capitalism”: all markets today are subject to manipulation for private gain." - *link added
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The Value-Added Tax Is Not the Answer  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard223.html
A good point on the VAT tax - mpg -- A quote...."The VAT is essentially a national sales tax, levied in proportion to the goods and services produced and sold. But its delightful concealment comes from the fact that the VAT is levied at each step of the way in the production process: on farmer, manufacturer, jobber and wholesaler, and only slightly on the retailer. -- The difference is that when a consumer pays a 7 percent sales tax on every purchase, his indignation rises and he points the finger of resentment at the politicians in charge of government; but if the 7 percent tax is hidden and paid by every firm rather than just at retail, the inevitably higher prices will be charged, not to the government where it belongs, but to grasping businessmen and avaricious trade unions."
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Thursday April 22nd 2010 - links page

"The securitization process worked by "packag(ing), sell(ing), repack(aging) and resell(ing) mortages making what was a small housing bubble, a gigantic (one) and making what became an American financial problem very much a global" one by selling mortgage bundles worldwide "without full disclosure of the lack of underlying assets or risks." -- Buyers accepted them on good faith, failed in their due diligence, and rating agencies were negligent, even criminal, in overvaluing and endorsing junk assets that they knew were high-risk or toxic. "The whole process was corrupt at its core."