McCain, Obama and Clinton
silent on Iraq exit - US presidents-to-be in denial ---
http://mondediplo.com/2008/05/05iraq
Must Read - A
quote...."As soon as it was clear that the presidential primaries would
be the news story of the year in the US, Iraq was dropped by the media.
The occupation and the campaign for the presidential nominations were
de-linked almost from the start. So we don’t know what the potential
candidates would do in Iraq. But pulling troops out doesn’t seem to be
an option for any of them."
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Playing
the Iraq Oil Card ---
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1738883,00.html
Must Read - Special Note
- Some quotes...."If anyone had any doubt that Iraq was a lot about
oil, they shouldn't after the recent Capitol Hill appearance by our
ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker. In a closed House hearing, Crocker
put the fear of god in Congress. His message: If we leave Iraq, Iraq
will destabilize the Gulf, and a destabilized Gulf equals unstable oil
prices." -- "Today, Saudi Arabia either refuses
or can't increase its production. The peak
oil Cassandras are convinced the Saudis can't. Saudi Arabia's mega
fields like Ghawar are depleted, they say. And we'd better get
used to gasoline at $4 a gallon and up." - bold by website editor --
For more on this issue see....Ghawar
is Dead - Long Live PNAC 03-07-07 - mpg
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/ghawarisdead-blog-mpg-030707
& War
Resource 9/11 ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/priorwarresource911-weblist-mpg-091106
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Phase Two,
Siniora's the US's and Israel's new war in Lebanon - Saturday roundup -
4 articles -
[Day 4]
Hezbollah
seizes Beirut neighborhoods ---
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-050908-lebanon-hezbollah,0,1262735.story
A quote...."9:43 PM CDT, May 9, 2008 -- BEIRUT - In the space of just
14 hours, a Shiite militia
backed by Iran had seized control of the Sunni heart of an Arab
capital. -- In a development with profound implications for the future
of Lebanon and the Mideast as a whole, the Hezbollah movement routed
pro-government Sunni forces in the Muslim western half of Beirut on
Friday
in
intense gun battles that killed a total of 14 people as the
Lebanese army declined to intervene. -- The U.S.-backed Lebanese
government called it a "
bloody coup"
and showed no sign that it was prepared to compromise on Hezbollah's
demands, despite the defeat of the outgunned and outmaneuvered militia
of the Sunni Future Movement, which went into battle for the first time
and lost." - bold/underline by website editor.
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The United States of America
falsely accused the sovereign nation of Iraq of having connections to
al-Qaeda, to 9/11 and of possessing WMD's. It than illegally
invades
that nation without UN sanction unleashing over five years of bloody
mayhem and murder in an attempt
to control Iraq's government so it can take their oil, during which it
has so far caused the deaths of over
one million Iraqis, most of them
civilians, displaced over five million more, has over
fifty thousand
Iraqis under it's control in various prisons throughout the
country,
has destroyed the country's infrastructure and cultural heritage
through a massive non-stop campaign of bombing that continues to this
day,
has committed torture and war crimes and is still doing so while you
read this article.
Hezbollah was attacked by
the Siniora's pro-government militias whereupon it defended itself,
defeated Siniora's militias within three days and now basically
controls much of Beirut. A battle in which, when it's all said and
done,
may have resulted in the deaths of several dozen people.....most of
them fighters.
The US helps kill over a
million Iraqis and utterly destroys a country of over twenty
seven million people for absolutely no other reason than to steal their
oil....and we call it bringing them "freedom and
democracy."
Hezbollah after being attacked
engages and defeats their attackers within three days with the loss of
a few dozen lives....and the US's allies in Lebanon call it a "bloody
coup" and Secretary Rice states "....Hezbollah and its allies are
killing and injuring fellow citizens, undermining the legitimate
authority of the Lebanese government and the institutions of the
Lebanese state".
The mass media and the entire
top tier of US society are just a bunch of unspeakably sick, twisted,
mentally deranged, morally degenerate, criminal sociopaths who do not know the difference between
right and wrong, or good and evil, and have made it abundantly clear to
the entire international community they could care less what the world
thinks about their murderous rampage. -
mpg
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Hezbollah
eases up and Beirut opens its shutters ---
http://peoplesgeography.com/2008/05/10/hezbollah-eases-up-and-beirut-opens-its-shutters/
A quote...."Saturday Afternoon May 10 2008 witnessed a pronounced
easing of tension. -- Is a solution at hand? -- Based on a US
Congressional source, the Siniora government is reportedly able, with
US approval, to offer the following face-saving proposal to Hezbollah
to end the current crisis:"
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Lebanon:
Opposition's Patience Wears Thin ---
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=13786
A quote...."15:00 05/10/2008 -- If we wanted to stage a coup, you would
have woken up this
morning in prison, or in the middle of the sea. We do not want that. It
is a political issue, with a political solution through early
elections." - Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, in comments directed to the
U.S.-backed Lebanese government, Al-Manar TV, 8 May 2008."
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Al-Qaeda
'declares war on Hezbollah' ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=54916§ionid=351020203
A quote...."Fri, 09 May 2008 19:19:35 -- Al-Qaeda has reportedly
called on its operatives to go to
Lebanon and defend what it called the Sunni community of the country."
--
For more regarding this issue
see....Al
Qaeda - Always There for the US Elites - 03-09-08 - mpg
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/alqaedaalwaysthere4theuselites-blog-mpg-030908
Phase Two,
Siniora's the US's and Israel's new war in Lebanon - Saturday roundup - [Day 4]
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Phase One, Cheney's
and Maliki's new war in Iraq - Saturday round-up - 3 articles - [ Day 47
]
Troops
Kill 25 Militants in Iraqi Slum, U.S. Says
---
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/world/middleeast/10iraq.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
A quote...."Published: May 10, 2008 -- BAGHDAD (Reuters) — American
forces have killed 25 militants in the past two days in Sadr City, the
Baghdad district that is a stronghold of the anti-American cleric
Moktada al-Sadr, the United States military said Friday. -- The gunmen
were killed in several clashes on Thursday and Friday, the military
said in a series of statements. According to the statements, airstrikes
and tanks were used to attack militiamen trying to launch rockets from
the slum or shoot at American troops on patrol. -- At hospitals in Sadr
City, officials said they had received four bodies and treated 51
wounded by Friday morning, but provided no further casualty figures
after that. Among the wounded were children, the officials said."
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Cleric
spokesman: Cease-fire in Baghdad‘s Sadr City ---
http://www.onelocalnews.com/pioneertimesjournal/stories1/index.php?action=fullnews&id=1678
A quote...."10 May, 2008 -- BAGHDAD - Shiite militants agreed on a
ceasefire in Baghdad‘s embattled neighborhood of Sadr City, an aide to
a high level cleric said Saturday, holding out hope that weeks of
clashes in the capital could be at an end." -- "He said "the agreement
stipulates that Mahdi Army will stop fighting in Sadr City and will
stop displaying arms in public. In return, the government will stop
random raids against al-Sadr followers and open all closed roads that
lead to Sadr City." - "This document does not call for disbanding
al-Mahdi Army or laying down their arms," al-Obeidi said, rejecting a
previous call by al-Maliki."
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JFO
criticises closing the Sadr’s radio station
---
http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/english/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=78742&NrIssue=2&NrSection=1
A quote...."Baghdad, May 9 2008 (VOI) -- Iraqi media organisation
advocating journalists on Friday criticised closing Pro-Sadrist al-Ahad
radio station without any judicial warrant in Baghdad. - “The
government has no right to take such a decision without judicial
warrant”, Hashem Hassan, the spokesman for Journalistic Freedom
Observatory (JFO), told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq(VOI). - The
spokesman pointed out “the governmment has no authority to take such a
decision against any journalist except through a judicial warrant”,
adding “the judicial authorities is not permitted to take such measures
except through consulting a committee of media experts and presenting
the faulty documents to them to give its report”."
Phase One, Cheney's
and Maliki's new war in Iraq - Saturday round-up - [ Day 47
]
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Five
million orphans in Iraq
---
http://www.therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1478&thisview=item&renewx=2008-05-10+11%3A56%3A36
Video - A quote...."We
show this segment courtesy of www.aliveinbaghdad.org. -- The number of
Iraqi orphans increased in the last few years due to the war. According
to official Iraqi government statistics released in December 2007, the
number of Iraqi orphans had reached at least five million over the last
three years. Many due to the Sunni-Shia conflict. There are several
social organizations caring for a small number of these Iraqi orphans,
such as Child Aid International. There are approximately 26 orphanages
that Alive in Baghdad has been able to locate around Iraq. Eight
orphanages are in Baghdad and another 18 are distributed all over Iraq
and generally they accept kids between the age of 6 and 18 years old."
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Iraqi army launch
Mosul offensive ---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/164080
A quote...."The Iraqi Army has launched a major operation in the
northern city of Mosul against al-Qaeda and its allies. -- Around
10,000 Sunni tribesmen from Mosul who are loyal to the government are
taking part in the operation with an armoured brigade of Iraqi troops.
-- Reinforcements are due to move into the area in the coming days for
what is being called Operation Lion's Roar."
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Pro-Palestinian
rally through London ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxh4HUDaoaU --- (YouTube - 1
min 41 sec - Added: May
10, 2008)
Video - A quote...."Al
Jazeera's Mark Seddon reports on the Palestinian rally held in central
London. - Thousands of people marched through the streets of London, to
show their support for the Palestinian cause. - The demonstrators were
calling for an end to the siege on Gaza, the right of return for
Palestinians, and an end to Israeli occupation."
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Only
Two News Networks Willing To Explain Their Role In Pentagon Propaganda
Program ---
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/08/delauro-cnn-abc/
A quote...."On April 20, the New York Times published a blockbuster
exposé revealing a secret Pentagon program that used retired
military analysts to “generate favorable news coverage of the
administration’s wartime performance.” Though the analysts often had
“ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies” they
assessed on air, their potential conflicts of interest were “hardly
ever disclosed to the viewers.” --
For
more on this issue see....Fake
Intel/Propaganda - NYT Article ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#NYT_ARTICLE
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Mary
Tillman: ‘Pat’s death was a lie to the country’ ---
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/index.php?p=998
video - A quote...."NBC’s
Meredith Vieira talked with Mary Tillman about her new book “Boots on
the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman.” Mary Tillman’s son, Pat
Tillman, was killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire. She believes the
truth of her son’s death was covered up." --
For more
on this issue see....Fake
Intel / Propaganda - Pat Tillman ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#TILLMAN
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US
war dead cremated in same facility as pets: Pentagon
---
http://news.smh.com.au/us-war-dead-cremated-in-same-facility-as-pets-pentagon/20080510-2cuc.html
A quote...."US Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a review of the
handling of the remains of US war dead and apologized after learning
that some were cremated in a commercial facility that also cremates
pets, the Pentagon said." --
Completely apropos and truly
demonstrates the on-going actual relationship between this nation's
wealthy MIOC elites.....and the men and women serving in the armed
forces of the United States. -- That of owner and pet. -
mpg
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What
John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen
---
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/what-john-mccain-told-me_b_100183.html
A quote...."Original Post: At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long
after the 2000 election, I was talking to a man and his wife, both
prominent Republicans. The conversation soon turned to the new
president. "I didn't vote for George Bush" the man confessed. "I didn't
either," his wife added. Their names: John and Cindy McCain (Cindy told
me she had cast a write-in vote for her husband)."
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Neocons
and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end ---
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/08/ledeen/index.html
Must Read - A
quote...."In a July, 2006
article
in Rolling Stone ---
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/10962352/iran_the_next_war--
entitled "Iran: The Next War" -- the superb
journalist James Bamford detailed the shady activities of numerous
neoconservatives inside and out of the U.S. Government to plan an
attack on Iran. Bamford focused on the role played by Michael Ledeen of
the American Enterprise Institute and National Review, who created and
began implementing an attack scheme in coordination with the Pentagon's
then number-three official, Doug Feith, and Feith's deputy, Larry
Franklin (subsequently
convicted
of felonies --- for passing classified information to
AIPAC)."
Also posted at CommonDreams
---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/08/8807/
& ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19886.htm
---
Check out the comments
- mpg
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Big
Oil Wants to Attack Iran ---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_chris_ri_080508_big_oil_wants_to_att.htm
Must Read - A quote...."I
believe that the real goal of the United States war against Iraq is to
return to the "good old days" when the U.S. and some European countries
totally plundered the resources of the Middle East. Five of the twelve
largest corporations in the United States are oil monopolies. Before
the rise of Arab nationalism and the anti-feudal revolutions that swept
out colonialist regimes in Iraq and other Middle Eastem countries in
the 1950s and 1960s, U.S., British, and Dutch oil companies owned Arab
and Iranian oil fields outright. Between 1948 and 1960 U.S. oil
companies received $13 billion in profit from their Persian Gulf
holdings. That was half the return on all overseas investment by all
U.S. companies in those years."
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Is
the United States of America Addicted to War? ---
http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/Reviews/addiction.html
A quote...."Mikhail Gorbachev is not a frivolous man. He was the Soviet
leader who introduced the conceptual breakthrough of "mutual security"
to Soviet-American relations, as well as the man who did more than any
other individual to bring the Cold War to a peaceful conclusion. (See
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011231/uhler/single ) In my opinion, he
ranks as the greatest statesman of the twentieth century (something I
was able to tell him personally, when we talked in St. Petersburg,
Russia in May 2006)."
Also posted
at OpEdNews
---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_walter_u_080508_is_the_united_states.htm
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An
'Interview' With Smedley Butler ---
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/bacon2.html
A quote...."General Butler is no longer with us in body but his spirit
and his popularity live on. He left us a legacy in deeds and words
which we have used to construct this imaginary interview that includes
his verbatim words and paraphrased quotations. Much of what follows
comes from General Butler's book
War
Is a Racket." ---
http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
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Beware
the Psychopath, My Son.... ---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_clinton__080508_beware_the_psychopat.htm
A quote...."I make the effort to share this information because it
gives me, at last, a plausible answer to a long-unanswered question:
Why, no matter how much intelligent goodwill exists in the world, is
there so much war, suffering and injustice? It doesn't seem to matter
what creative plan, ideology, religion, or philosophy great minds come
up with, nothing seems to improve our lot. Since the dawn of
civilization, this pattern repeats itself over and over again. -- The
answer is that civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of
psychopaths.
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The
Republican Dictatorship ---
http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenwald/greenwald13.html
A quote...."Ever since Ronald Reagan famously declared in his 1980
inaugural address that "government is not the solution to our problems;
government is the problem," Republicans have masqueraded as the party
of limited government. Its leaders reflexively pledge to keep
government off the backs of regular, hardworking Americans. Homage is
paid to the wisdom and insight of the American people, which,
Republicans endlessly insist, is far superior to the judgment of
government officials."
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America's
Occupation Trumps the "Surge" and Petraeus' Counterinsurgency Manual
--- http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/Reviews/cross.html
A quote...."As three months of news reports of escalating violence in
Iraq undercut widespread American propaganda about the "surge's"
success, increasing numbers of Americans, once again, are reaching the
conclusion that the Bush administration's illegal, immoral and
incompetent invasion and occupation of Iraq is a war that never should
have been fought. According to the results of CNN/Opinion Research Poll
reported on 1 May 2008, 68 percent of Americans now oppose George W.
Bush's war in Iraq."
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Choosing
Sides (II): Killing Truth and Hope -- The Fatal Illusion of Opposition
---
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/05/choosing-sides-ii-killing-truth-and.html
Must Read - A
quote...."You desperately need to understand this: the next President
of the United States, no matter who it is, will enter office knowing
that he or she can systematically and regularly authorize torture,
order mass murder, direct the United States military to engage in one
campaign of criminal conquest and genocide after another, oversee
uncountable acts of inhumanity and barbarity -- and he or she will
never be challenged or called to account in any manner whatsoever. It
may have taken the Bush administration two terms to bring us to the
point where such evils are committed and even boasted about in broad
daylight, while almost no one even notices -- but this will be where
the next President starts."
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And You
Thought It Was a War on "Terror" - A Brief Exposé of a
Fraudulent War ---
http://www.counterpunch.org/behan05082008.html
A quote...."The "War on Terror" is a fraud and a façade, a mere
label concocted and trumpeted by an Administration known for its
signature dishonesty. The label conceals the Bush
Administration's international crimes of unprovoked military
aggression-the armed invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, two sovereign
nations the Administration meant to attack from its first days in
office.[1]"
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Neocons
Admit that "War On Terror" Is a Hoax ---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=6507
A quote...."Key war on terror architect Douglas Feith has now confirmed
Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Wesley Clark in admitting that the
so-called War on Terror is a hoax. -- In fact, starting right after
9/11 -- at the latest -- the goal has always been to create "regime
change" and instability in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and
Lebanon so as to protect Israel. And the goal was never really to
destroy Al Qaeda." --
Of course not,
they need Al Qaeda. - mpg -- For more on this issue see....The
Plan --
according to U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXS3vW47mOE --- (YouTube - 1
min 37
sec - Added: March 17, 2007)
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Our
New Foreign Policy: Blame Iran ---
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lionel-beehner/our-new-foreign-policy-bl_b_100574.html
A quote...."I don't believe a word this administration says about Iran.
We hear the Iranians are just moments away from flipping the switch on
a nuclear weapons program. Then a national intelligence estimate
discredits that theory. We hear they are funneling arms to the Iraqi
insurgency and "special groups" (by the way, can we please go back to
calling them militias? "Special groups" sounds like Pentagon-speak).
Yet, as Time magazine recently reported, "the U.S. allegations appear
to be based on speculation, spurred by the appearance about a year ago
of a new breed of roadside bomb in Iraq." We hear they are arming the
Taliban, their longtime nemesis, in Afghanistan, with the interest of
destabilizing that country. Again, on this latest charge, be very
skeptical."
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IRAQ:
The elusive Iranian weapons ---
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/05/iraq-the-elusiv.html
Special Note -
The Pentagon gets it
wrong (i.e. they lied), again! -- What a surprise. - mpg -- A
quote...."There was
something interesting missing from Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner's
introductory remarks to journalists at his regular news briefing in
Baghdad on Wednesday: the word "Iran," or any form of it. It was
especially striking as Bergner, the U.S. military spokesman here,
announced the extraordinary list of weapons and munitions that have
been uncovered in recent weeks since fighting erupted between Iraqi and
U.S. security forces and Shiite militiamen."
For more on the two articles
shown above see....Fake
Intel/Propaganda - IED's & EFP's
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IEDS__EFPS
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Phase Two,
Siniora's the US's and Israel's new war in Lebanon - Thursday roundup -
6 articles - [Day 2]
Hezbollah says
Beirut government declares war ---
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=160133
War Warning - A quote...."May 08, 2008 09:43 EST
-- BEIRUT, May 8 (Reuters) - The Iranian-backed Lebanese group
Hezbollah said on Thursday the U.S.-supported Beirut government had
declared war by targeting its communications network. -- Hezbollah
launched a new street campaign on Wednesday, piling pressure on the
government after it declared the network illegal and removed the head
of airport security, a figure close to the group, from his post."
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Sectarian
street clashes in Beirut boil up into gunbattles ---
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=160798
A quote...."Running gunbattles raged in parts of Beirut on Thursday
after the leader of Hezbollah accused Lebanon's Western-backed
government of declaring war on his Shiite militant group. At least four
people were killed and eight wounded in the capital."
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Lebanon
on brink of civil war ---
http://wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/leb-m09.shtml
A quote...."Lebanon stands on the brink of all-out civil war. A general
strike by the leading trade union to protest rising prices and demand
an increase in the minimum wage has led to armed conflict between the
pro-Western Sunni and Druze-based government of Prime Minister Fouad
Siniora and the Shia-based Hezbollah and its ally, Amal."
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Robert
Fisk: Lebanon descends into chaos as rival leaders order general strike
---
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-lebanon-descends-into-chaos-as-rival-leaders-order-general-strike-822840.html
A quote...."Thursday, 8 May 2008 -- Burning tyres on the airport road,
flights suspended, demands from the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt that
Hizbollah moves secret cameras from runway 1-7 and end the militia's
equally secret underground communications equipment. Across Corniche
Mazraa, crowds of shrieking Sunni and Shia Muslims hurl abuse and
stones at each other. A soldier comes up to my car at the crossroads.
"Turn round," he shouts. "They're shooting." --
Also posted at CommonDreams
--- http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/08/8811/
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Hezbollah
piles pressure on Lebanese government
---
http://bun.worldonline.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2008/05/08/world/
---
hezbollah-piles-pressure-on-lebanese-government.html&template=/news/feeds/story-template-reuters.html
A quote...."08/05/2008 15:02 -- BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iranian-backed
Hezbollah tightened its grip on Beirut airport on Thursday, piling
pressure on Lebanon’s U.S.-supported government on the second day of a
protest campaign that has triggered gun battles."
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Hezbollah
seizes large parts of Beirut ---
http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKL0878696120080509
A quote...."Fri May 9, 2008 7:02am BST -- BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah
gunmen took control of large areas of Beirut on Friday in a third day
of fighting between the pro-Iranian group and fighters loyal to the
U.S.-backed governing coalition."
Special Note
- Phase one was Cheney's go ahead to Maliki to launch their attack
against Sadr's political party, phase two as detailed in the articles
shown above is Fouad Siniora's attack, which he would only launch with
approval from the US and Israel, against Hezbollah in Lebanon, phase
three
will be the long awaited attack against Iran....as such this new
outbreak of violence in Lebanon is considered a War Warning. -
mpg
Phase Two,
Siniora's the US's and Israel's new war in Lebanon - Thursday roundup -
[Day 2]
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Phase One, Cheney's
and Maliki's new war in Iraq - Thursday round-up - 4 articles - [ Day 45
]
Residents
says Iraqi soldiers warn them to leave Sadr City --
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2008-05-08_D90HD4KO0&show_article=1&cat=breaking
A quote...."BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi soldiers for the first time warned
residents in the embattled Sadr City district to leave their houses
Thursday, signaling a new push by the U.S.-backed forces against Shiite
extremist who have been waging street battles for seven weeks."
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Sadr
City Residents Warned to Leave; ---
http://www.juancole.com/2008/05/sadr-city-residents-warned-to-leave.html
A Juan Cole round-up - A quote...."Friday, May 09, 2008 -- The
Iraqi military has warned civilians to leave the vast slum of Sadr
City, apparently in preparation for a massive government assault on the
Mahdi Army militia based there. Since slum dwellers notoriously lack
the means to leave their slums, this call seems more likely to be for
the sake of appearances than a realistic expectation. When thousands
are massacred in the course of a military attack on a densely packed
civilian area, the authorities will be able to say that they gave fair
warning. Although the US demonizes the Mahdi Army, Many Sadr City
residents view it as in part a charitable organization, and they also
are often grateful for the security it provides. It is not as if the
federal government is providing security."
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UN
officials urge swift passage of aid to Sadr City ---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/09/iraq.unitednations
A quote...."UN aid officials in Iraq yesterday expressed growing
concern for the plight of civilians caught up in fighting between Shia
militiamen and US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad's Sadr City area, saying
they needed swift access to food, water and medicines."
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Maliki
closes Sadr radio station ---
http://www.metimes.com/Security/2008/05/08/maliki_closes_sadr_radio_station/56f1/
A quote...."BAGHDAD, May 8 (UPI) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki ordered a halt Thursday to broadcasts from the al-Ahad radio
station of Moqtada Sadr as residents flee escalating violence."
Phase
One, Cheney's
and Maliki's new war in Iraq - Thursday round-up - [ Day 45
]
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Pentagon
Releases Propaganda Documents -- Will the Media Pay Attention?
--- http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/84693
A quote...."Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon's
illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst
program, are now online for the world to see, although in a format that
makes it impossible to easily search them and therefore difficult to
read and dissect. This trove includes the documents pried out of the
Pentagon by David Barstow and used as the basis for his stunning
investigation that appeared in the New York Times on April 20, 2008."
--
For more on this issue see....Fake
Intel/Propaganda - NYT Article
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#NYT_ARTICLE
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US
judge orders CIA to turn over 'torture' memo-ACLU ---
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN08420997
A quote...."NEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ordered the
Central Intelligence Agency on Thursday to submit to the court a 2002
memo said to specify harsh interrogation methods used on suspected
terrorists held abroad."
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Arizona
Senator Karen Johnson: 'We deserve the full truth about 9/11'
--- http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20080508114213217
A quote...."After three government investigations and more than six
years, we still don't have answers on 9/11. -- Why, for example, did
Building 7 collapse? It wasn't hit by a plane, as the towers were. The
9/11 Commission Report completely ignores Building 7. The Federal
Emergency Management Agency report discounts fire as a cause and
concludes that the reasons for the collapse of Building 7 are unknown
and require further research. But when FEMA issued this report, it
already cleared the site and disposed of the dust and steel (evidence
from a crime scene), thus possibly committing a felony and complicating
any "further research."
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9/11 - From The History File...Photographic
Analysis of Damage to WTC7 and Critical Errors in NIST's Estimations
---
http://www.studyof911.com/articles/winstonwtc701/
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To
Understand Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Recall Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
--- http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/Reviews/thunderbolts.html
A quote...."Today, Senator Barack Obama felt compelled to disassociate
himself from his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Not only from the
snippets of Rev. Wright's sermons - largely taken out of context by
vile humans like Sean Hannity at FOX News, in order to smear Senator
Obama - but also from his speech at the National Press Club yesterday,
as well as from anything Rev. Wright might say in the future. It
appears to be an irreparable breach."
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Gaza improvises
under siege ---
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m43872&s1=h1
A quote...."JERUSALEM/GAZA, 6 May (IRIN) - Intense political divisions
in the Gaza Strip have split people on most issues, except one: the
situation has never been worse, nearly everyone agrees."
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Russian
parliament confirms Putin as prime minister ---
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=160095
A quote...."Vladimir Putin was named prime minister of Russia Thursday
after a fervent speech full of ambitious plans that overshadowed his
low-key successor and suggested that he will keep a strong hand in
ruling the country."
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Medvedev
takes over Russian presidency, nominates Putin as PM
---
http://video.yahoo.com/network/100000014?v=2630040&l=3470795
Related Video - A
quote..."Medvedev takes over Russian presidency, nominates Putin as PM"
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The
winds of Fascism blowing across Europe ---
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3268.shtml
A quote...."ROME -- I feel sick. -- She says I’m sick in the head. --
Actually I’m sick in the heart, sick in my viscera. My head reels, I
feel chronic vertigo. -- She says it’s only paranoia. -- I tell her the
old Polish joke popular during the military regime. He constantly felt
spied on, tailed everywhere, his phone tapped, his mail read. His
friends said he was nuts. His wife sent him to an analyst. As it turned
out, his friends, his wife, his analyst were right: it was
only the secret police."
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Autonomy
Proposed in State Legislature of Venezuelan Oil State Zulia
--- http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3423
A quote...."Mérida, May 8, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- On
Tuesday, state legislators from the opposition political party A New
Time (Un Nuevo Tiempo) in the oil-rich state of Zulia, Venezuela,
proposed a feasibility study for potential autonomy from the federal
government, which they compared to the autonomy efforts in Bolivia’s
wealthiest province, Santa Cruz, last Sunday."
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Leaders
Warn of Autonomy Attempts in Venezuela, Ecuador ---
http://ipsnews.net/wap/news.asp?idnews=42261
A quote...." CARACAS, May 6 (IPS) - Presidents Hugo Chávez of
Venezuela and Rafael Correa of Ecuador warned of possible "contagion"
in their countries by the autonomy movement in the eastern Bolivian
province of Santa Cruz. -- "The central plan by the CIA (U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency) and its lackeys in Venezuela is to take control of
regional governments to carry out illegal referendums like the one held
(Sunday in favour of autonomy) in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. But we will
defeat that plan!" said Chávez.
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Uribe Would
Be Involved in the “Final Offensive” Against Venezuela
--- http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3424
A quote...."First published April 25, 2008 -- The so-called “final
offensive” against Venezuela (the purpose of which is to take President
Chávez out of power) is being planned presumably from Colombia,
and would be executed by that country’s army, according to agreements
between Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and “the known agent of
the intelligence services of the United States,” William Brownfield.
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Venezuela's
oil reserves swell to 130 bln barrels ---
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Venezuela_s_oil_reserves_swell_to_1_05082008.html
A quote...."Venezuela's proven crude oil reserves had swelled to 130
billion barrels as of late April, marking a rise of 30 billion from its
prior estimate, energy and oil minister Rafael Ramirez said Thursday."
Regarding the four articles
shown above....Hence the US's re-establishment
of the "Fourth
Fleet" - mpg
--- http://wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/navy-m07.shtml
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Aping
--- http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/002264.html
A quote...."On good days, politics is 95% primate screeching and
hooting. On bad days it's 100%. This is why I hate and fear politics so
deeply. - In any case, the New York Times Freakonomics blogg has an
interesting interview with Frans "Bonobo" de Waal that touches on
primate politics:"
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Euro
zone and Bank of England leave rates unchanged ---
http://mercopress.handsoft.com.uy/vernoticia.do?id=13368&formato=HTML
A quote...."The European Central Bank kept on Thursday interest rates
for the 15-nation Euro bloc steady at 4% amid increasing signs that
economic growth is winding down. ECB signaled that it was not in a rush
to cut rates, as it forecast inflation would stay "high for a
protracted period of time"."
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Euro
Falls to Eight-Week Low Against Dollar Before ECB Meeting
--- http://infowars.net/articles/may2008/080508Euro.htm
A quote...."The euro fell to an eight-week low against the dollar and
had its biggest decline in almost two months versus the yen on
speculation the European Central Bank will signal concern today that
economic growth is slowing."
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Survey
shows US honey bee deaths increased over last year ---
http://infowars.net/articles/may2008/070508bee.htm
A quote...."A survey of bee health released Tuesday revealed a grim
picture, with 36.1 percent of the nation's commercially managed hives
lost since last year."
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Agrobacterium
& Morgellons Disease, A GM Connection? ---
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=58101
A quote...."Preliminary findings suggest a link between Morgellons
Disease and Agrobacterium, a soil bacterium extensively manipulated and
used in making GM crops; has genetic engineering created a new
epidemic? "
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