Wednesday May 18th 2011 - links page

More on Osama Bin Back From the Dead™....

'US killed Bin Laden clone in Pakistan'  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/116386 
Special Note - A quote...."The US operation that allegedly killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has actually led to the death of a clone of the al-Qaeda leader, working under CIA operative Raymond Davis, an American editor says. -- "The real bin Laden died years ago after receiving treatment in American hospitals for his various illnesses," said Gordon Duff, senior editor of Ohio-based Veterans Today, in an interview with Press TV's US Desk." 

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Does a CIA “Asset” Own the Bin Laden Compound?
  ---  http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/asia-mainmenu-33/7519-does-a-cia-qassetq-own-the-bin-laden-compound 
A quote...."The account related in that report draws lines connecting Hizbul Mujahedeen (and several other supposed al-Qaeda affiliates) to the CIA. From the report: -- These various "terrorist" organizations were created as a result of CIA support. They are not the product of religion. The project to establish "a pan-Islamic Caliphate" is part of a carefully devised intelligence operation. -- CIA support to Al Qaeda was not in any way curtailed at the end of the Cold War. In fact quite the opposite. The earlier pattern of covert support took on a global thrust and became increasingly sophisticated." 
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Gates Concedes ‘No Evidence’ But Keeps Accusing Pakistani Govt of Hiding bin Laden
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/05/18/gates-concedes-no-evidence-but-keeps-accusing-pakistani-govt-of-hiding-bin-laden/ 
Osama bin Laden died in 2001 -- The US-NRE, in collusion with either the Saudi Royals, Israel, or both, set up some poor actor in that CIA safe house and paid SITE Intel $500,000.00 a year  ---  http://endthelie.com/2011/05/07/big-surprise-cia-created-taliban-and-al-qaeda-confirm-obamas-absurd-lies/  ---  to fob off his pathetic attempts at portraying Osama to the five corporate conglomerates that control 90% of this nation's media outlets. - mpg - A quote...."With US-Pakistani relations already at a near-term low in the wake of yesterday’s cross border attack by US helicopters on a Pakistani military border post, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates addressed a news conference where he made matters even worse." - Topix  
||  Amerika, You Been Busted!! - 05-14-11 - mpg  || --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/amerikayoubeenbusted-mpg-reficultnias-051411 
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Satellite Dish ‘Added’ To Bin Laden Compound After Dubious Videos Released by White House?
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/satellite-dish-%E2%80%98added%E2%80%99-to-bin-laden-compound-after-dubious-videos-released-by-white-house/ 
Must Read - Propganda Exposed - A quote...."Osama Bin Laden’s squalid hideaway in pictures Mail Online  ---  http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-1384573%2FOsama-Bin-Ladens-squalid-hideaway-pictures.html&ei=KETGTYqcIcOxhQeOnbzoAw&usg=AFQjCNEOAcSdn7vyX54z74buOdrAim3o0Q&sig2=q1Hk3jgowiJQ5KEIJgrKAw  ---  Allegedly, this photo shows Osama bin Laden, in Abbottabad in Pakistan, using a remote control to flick between satellite video coverage of himself on a television screen.” -- On the right there is a modern computer. -- YET, The Guardian reported that “the residence had no phone or internet connection.” (Osama bin Pakistan hideout.)  ---  http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDAQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fw
orld%2F2011%2Fmay%2F02%2Fosama-bin-laden-dead-pakistan&ei=ZkXGTb_GCs24hAfQqZSBBA&usg=AFQjCNHelgTxKGn0TNx51Ef70OCzp
5nJKA&sig2=5UCuOOYmnowrO428guBaZw  ---  The Telegraph reported that “there were no telephones in the house, and no internet… -- “As well as lacking phone or internet connections, the house did not even have satellite TV.” -- The satellite dish only appeared at Bin Laden’s alleged compound after the White House released dubious video showing “Osama” flicking through satellite TV channels. Before this time, media reports stated that the compound did not have satellite TV. -- (Osama bin Laden dead.)"  ---  http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CDYQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworldnews%2Fal-qaeda%2F8490859%2FOsama-bin-Laden-dead-the-mysterious-Khan-family-who-were-good-neighbours.html&ei=X0fGTZiDH4i7hAf4gf2BBA&usg=AFQjCNGZ-2WX9ojhYiL1Uoa4Q2zJG_xMGA&sig2=SC-7QaN7QQTd550f_5kNmg
also posted at PrisonPlanet  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/satellite-dish-added-to-bin-laden-compound-after-dubious-videos-released-by-white-house.html
& NewWorldLiberty  ---  http://www.newworldliberty.com/newsarticle/satellite-dish-%E2%80%98added%E2%80%99-bin-laden-compound-after-dubious-videos-released-white-house  ---  For more on this type of activity by the Obama administration see article shown below.... 
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Ron Paul Questions Official Bin Laden Story "I've Heard So Many Stories"  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0V4NSkiWxQ 
Video - (YouTube - 9min20sec - May 18, 2011) - Source:  IntelNewsNetwork  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/IntelNewsNetwork 
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'US plans to occupy Pakistan'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/180632.html 
Related Article - A quote...."A Republican congressman says he fears the US could invade Pakistan, as the controversy over the alleged killing of Osama bin Laden frays ties between the two countries." - Topix ||  The US's New Map of the Middle East  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/newmemap-peters-nwa-cached-092507
||  Divide and rule  ||  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m37133&s1=h1 
||  The Plan -- according to U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.) - (YuTub - 1m37s - March 17, 2007)  ||  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXS3vW47mOE 
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EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11
  ---  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/20/al-qaeda-terror-leader-dined-pentagon-months/ 
From the History File - October 20, 2010 -- A quote...."Anwar Al-Awlaki may be the first American on the CIA's kill or capture list, but he was also a lunch guest of military brass at the Pentagon within months of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Fox News has learned." - For more on this issue see..... 
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New Al Qaeda Leader Claims He Has Nothing To Do With Al Qaeda, Calls 9/11 A “Fabrication”
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-al-qaeda-leader-claims-he-has-nothing-to-do-with-al-qaeda-calls-911-a-%E2%80%9Cfabrication%E2%80%9D.html 
A quote...."Evidence suggests al-Adel figure is another intelligence ghost  --  Amidst reports that Saif al-Adel, otherwise known as Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi, has been appointed the new al Qaeda leader, a man claiming to be the real Makkawi insists that he has nothing to do with al Qaeda and describes 9/11 as a “fabrication”. -- The source for the reports that al-Adel has become the al Qaeda number one,  ---  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/egyptian-named-al-qaeda-leader-report-000301454.html  ---  in the wake of the demise of Osama Bin Laden, is one time Libyan militant Noman Benotman, a former jihadi who renounced the ideology in 2002 and has since often been cited as a reliable source on al Qaeda activity by Western media and governments. -- The case of al-Adel/Makkawi, however, raises significant questions and will only serve to create more mythology and suspicion concerning the real origins and objectives of the terror group." 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

PETER SCHIFF: "You are going to see riots in the streets"  ---  http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15003 
Must View Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1lBGIzeF9Q  ---  (YouTube - 12min19sec - May 17, 2011) - Source:  lonelantern  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/lonelantern  ---  A quote...."Peter Schiff joins Gary Franchi to discuss Geitner's recent remarks to maintain Debt Spending and the 2012 Presidential Elections " - Topix  ||  The Ten Year Cycle, Traitors, Inflection-Points & The Osama Hoax - 05-13-11 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thetenyearcycletraitorsinflectionpoints-mpg-reficultnias-051311 
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Veteran U.S. Diplomat: We Are Becoming the USSR - [Under Stalin!!]
  ---  http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/05/17/veteran-u-s-diplomat-we-are-becoming-the-ussr/?xid=rss-topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%29 
A quote...."The balance of prestige, if not yet the balance of power, between the United States and China has shifted...In some disturbing ways, Sino-American competition is beginning to parallel the contest between us and the Soviet Union in the Cold War. This time, however, the United States is in the fiscally precarious position of the USSR, while China plays the economically robust role we once did." 
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Veteran_U.S._Diplomat%3A_We_Are_Becoming_the_USSR/13961/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
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Warrants Let Agents Enter Homes Without Owner Knowing  ---  http://www.koat.com/r/27922147/detail.html#ixzz1MdoLic15 
A quote...."ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A special type of government search warrant that allows authorities to search homes without informing the owner for months is becoming more common, Target 7 has learned." 
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War's necessary! US defense contractors 'raking in the dough'  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/2/YgIzyXf61UU 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgIzyXf61UU  ---  (RTYuTb - 3min21sec - May 18, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – America may be being dragged down by record debt and unemployment filtering throughout the economy - but there's one industry that's bucking the trend. It's a boom time for arms manufacturers right now, and they're branding themselves as saviours of the job market. RT's Kaelyn Forde reports on how Americans have little choice but to go gunning for work." 
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Unstoppable Freight Train to Collapse – Charlie McGrath  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/17/unstoppable-freight-train-to-collapse-charlie-mcgrath/ 
CMcGVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHGyKR2gvtI  ---  (McGYuTb - 4min19sec - May 16, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/crabbydogtrix 
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Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - May 18 2011  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286163106 
Part 2  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286163036 
MRVideo - (JustInTV - 2hrs - May 18th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero extensively covers the "Osama bin Photo-Shopped" extravaganza, the on-going lies from the White House about the whole issue, along with many other topics. - mpg 
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The Alex Jones Show – May 17th, 2011  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/17/the-alex-jones-show-may-17th-2011/ 
AJVideo - Intro  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=estzALgJrzM 
PakiesAttacked(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1_KnhSHyfk 
PakiesAttacked(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XcCTbyzsNk 
GenHamidGul(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmqdYnKpm6I 
GenHamidGul(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfwkeU7oxGI 
PoliceState(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PEaBFwi4tg 
PoliceState(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Nhyv0cO1s 
Floride  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgnk8-YS95E 
AuthorNomiPrins(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEaG6Er0brQ 
AuthorNomiPrins(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bAKe7uDwdA 
AlfredAdask(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiUTugBVXKM 
AlfredAdask(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1pSvEUAneE 
AlfredAdask(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-n0MSABmOc 
DrPaulConnett(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr7c9xBbof0 
DrPaulConnett(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R64taUjCfzc  ---  (AJYuTb - 15min - May 17, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex welcomes back to the show author, journalist, and former managing director at Goldman Sachs, Nomi Prins. Ms. Prins will talk about the arrest of IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn on rape charges and the latest article by Matt Taibbi on prosecuting Goldman Sachs and Lloyd Blankfein. Alex also talks with constitutionalist Alfred Adask about a 60 Minutes hit piece demonizing patriots as domestic terrorists. Mr. Adask was interviewed by CBS for the piece. On Sunday, Adask wrote Am I About To Be Labeled a “Domestic Terrorist”? Alex also covers the latest breaking news and takes your calls " 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Strauss-Kahn steps down as IMF chief  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/180652.html 
BREAKING:  Thu May 19, 2011 4:41AM - A quote...."France's Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under pressures over his alleged sexual assault charges." 
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Strauss-Kahn Simply Had to be Eliminated  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28122.htm 
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
A quote...."Strauss-Kahn was the first IMF director in my lifetime, if memory serves, who disavowed the traditional IMF policy of imposing on the poor and ordinary people the cost of bailing out Wall Street and the Western banks. Strauss-Kahn said that regulation had to be reimposed on the greed-driven, fraud-prone financial sector, which, unregulated, destroyed the lives of ordinary people.  Strauss-Kahn listened to Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz, one of a handful of economists who has a social conscience. --  Perhaps the most dangerous black mark in Strauss-Kahn’s book is that he was far ahead of America’s French puppet, President Sarkozy, in the upcoming French elections.  Strauss-Kahn simply had to be eliminated." 
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24840 
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Obama extends national emergency order on Iraq - You ObamaTrolls happy yet? 
  ---  http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2167478&Language=en 
A quote...."WASHINGTON, May 18 (KUNA) -- US President Barack Obama late Tuesday offered a one-year extension on the national emergency with respect to the stabilization of Iraq, according to a White House statement." 
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Iraqi Tribes Warn against Extended US Mission  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=9002280602 
Related Article - A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- A ranking member of the Tribal Coordination Committee warned that Iraqi tribes will start an armed struggle against the US forces in case Pentagon extends the mission of its troops in the war-ravaged country beyond 2011." 
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Mahdi Army plans show of strength in Baghdad  ---  http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/mahdi-army-plans-show-of-strength-in-baghdad 
Related Article - A quote...."BAGHDAD // Thousands of Shiite militia loyalists will take to the streets of Baghdad next week in a show of strength aimed at reminding Washington that war will resume if US forces remain beyond the end of the year." - bold by website editor 
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UK's eight-year military presence in Iraq to end on Sunday - The UK is bailing....Hip Hip Hooray!! 
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/18/british-militarys-8-years-in-iraq-ends 
Related Article - A quote...."Britain's eight years of military commitment in Iraq will finally and formally come to an end on Sunday, when the remaining forces in the south of the country will withdraw." 
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Taliban condemns deaths following Afghan protest  ---  http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/05/18/1670000/attack-on-bus-in-eastern-afghanistan.html 
A quote...."The Taliban on Thursday condemned violence that killed 12 people the day before during an Afghan protest against NATO that turned into a riot with the demonstrators attempting to overrun a small German military base nearby." 
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What Pakistan Prime Minister Gilani wants from China  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110517/wl_csm/384411_1 
A quote...."Kabul, Afghanistan – As Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani meets his counterpart in China this week one country will likely be hidden somewhere on the agenda: Afghanistan. - By traveling to China, Pakistan may be trying to underscore China's value as a counterweight to the US. Mr. Gilani has reportedly also tried to bring Afghanistan into China’s camp to form a de facto alliance between the three countries." 
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Iran to Unveil New Home-Made Ballistic Missiles Next Week  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=9002280573 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran announced on Wednesday that it plans to unveil a number of newly-manufactured home-made ballistic missiles on May 24." 
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Ahmadinejad Most Likely to Preside over Next OPEC Meeting  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=9002280692 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has taken the responsibility to oversee the country's oil ministry after its merger with the energy ministry, will most likely represent Iran in the next OPEC meeting scheduled for June 8 in Vienna, his senior aide announced on Wednesday." 
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European MPs Urge Trial of MKO Members for Crimes against Humanity  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=9002281068 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- European lawmakers called for the trial of 50 members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), media reports said on Wednesday. " 
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Russia expels Israel's military attaché  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/180613.html 
A quote...."Russia has expelled Israel's military attaché to Moscow over alleged espionage charges, saying he has passed sensitive information to Tel Aviv." 
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Medvedev warns of Cold War over missile defence  ---  http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/05/medvedev-warns-of-cold-war-over-missile.html  
Special Geo-Political Note - A quote...."SKOLKOVO, Russia — President Dmitry Medvedev Wednesday warned of a new Cold War era if Russia and the West failed to agree on missile defence, in the first major news conference of his presidency." - Source:  AFP@Google
  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g9u7mY_6A7uHvnGuL1n5KKAtjPTw?docId=CNG.721e4536dfb27a26cdf97735f3506862.2d1 
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The Serious Situation in Syria.....  

Uprisings in Syria Appear to Be The Work of Foreign Agitators
  ---  http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/uprisings-in-syria-appear-to-be-the-work-of-foreign-agitators/ 
Special Note - A quote...."On April 29, this writer interviewed Jonathan Azaziah, a prolific journalist and researcher specializing in international Zionism. Azaziah is also a staff writer for Pakistan’s Opinion Maker and editor for Mask of Zion. --  AFP asked Azaziah about the Salafi groups triggering Syria’s unrest. By all credible accounts they appear to be proxies of a more nefarious hidden hand manipulating this so-called peaceful revolution."
Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810 
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Call for general strike falls on deaf ears in Syria  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20110518/164097459.html 
A quote...."The Syrian opposition's calls to hold a general day long strike on Wednesday have been largely ignored, Aljazeera reported. -- The Syrian opposition called for a general strike as the government denied reports that it has been burying anti-government protesters in mass graves." 
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Syrian president says political crisis over  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20110518/164100852.html 
Related Article - A quote...."Syrian President Bashar Assad believes that his country has overcome its two-month-long political crisis, the Al Watan daily said in a special edition on Wednesday." 
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Russia will not back U.N. resolution on Syria: Medvedev  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110518/wl_nm/us_russia_medvedev_libya 
A quote...."SKOLKOVO, Russia (Reuters) – President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that Russia would not support a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria if it were similar to the resolution authorizing military intervention in Libya." 
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The Assault On Libya.... 

Libya: enough is enough  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/18/libya-enough-afghanistan 
Must Read - A quote...."It is clear that we have started something in Libya which will be very difficult to finish. Poor intelligence and wishful thinking embroiled us in wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq. We seem to be repeating this in Libya at an accelerated rate. We have gone from a "no-fly" zone, through regime change, to killing members of the Gaddafi family within a matter of days. -- At the same time it has become painfully obvious that virtually every assumption upon which the French and British-led Nato action is predicated has been false." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77845&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Targeting Infrastructure -- War Crimes and the Bombing of Libya  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/hallinan05172011.html 
A quote...."Gen. Sir David Richards, "Britain's top military commander," is proposing that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)ganization (NATO) target Libyan "infrastructure," including electrical power grids and fuel dumps, in government held areas." 
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/248842 
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Bombing a Peace Conference -- Did NATO Massacre Libyan Religious Leaders?  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/mountain05182011.html 
A quote...."n Saturday morning, May 14, in a press conference broadcast on a Libyan satellite t.v. channel, government spokesperson Moussa Ibrahim presented strong evidence that a massacre of Libyan religious leaders by NATO was carried out in the oil port of Brega. The press conference was attended by Libyan religious leaders, mainly Muslim but including both Orthodox and Catholic representatives." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/natos-war-on-peace/ 
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West Has Taken Sides in Libyan 'Civil War,' Says Annan
  ---  http://allafrica.com/stories/201105180337.html 
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More on the World Wide Revolution.... 

Saudi Arabia Defies Mideast Upheaval as Guardian of Status Quo
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-17/saudi-arabia-defies-mideast-upheaval.html 
Must Read - A quote...."Saudi Arabia is leading a counter- revolution against the sweeping political changes in the Middle East by using money, force and religion. -- As popular movements for democracy toppled leaders in Egypt and Tunisia and began threatening neighboring Bahrain and Yemen, Saudi Arabia’s Al Saud royal family strengthened control over the Arab world’s biggest economy. Once restrictive of the Muslim clerics, King Abdullah offered money and new censorship powers for their loyalty as he doled out 500 billion riyals ($130 billion) nationally in housing grants and other sweeteners." 
Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810 
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Dictator Toppled: Long Live the Dictator!  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/3/FQjRUIR-cNg 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQjRUIR-cNg  ---  (RTYuTb - 3min31sec - May 18, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – For more on post-revolution Egypt, RT joined by Professor Mark Almond, who's an historian and expert on international relations at Oxford University." 
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Spanish youth rally in Madrid echoes Egypt protests  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13437819 
A quote...."About 2,000 young people angry over high unemployment have spent the night camping in a famous square in Madrid as a political protest there grows." 
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Spain protests persist ahead of polls  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/spain-protests-persist-ahead-of-polls/ 
A quote...."Outraged by Spain’s economic crisis and soaring jobless rate, demonstrators defied a ban by authorities and poured onto Madrid’s central Puerta del Sol square and in several cities, including Granada, Seville, Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza and Palma de Majorca, AFP reported on Wednesday."
Source:  PressTV  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/180629.html 
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First Egypt ... Now Spain?
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/first-egypt-now-spain.html 
Yemeni opposition, Saleh near deal
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/180533.html 
Yemen transition deal falls through at last minute
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/18/us-yemen-deal-idUSTRE74H26N20110518 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants....

"Fuel Rods Most Likely Melt[ed] COMPLETELY at Reactors 1, 2 AND 3 in the Early Hours of the Crisis, Raising the Danger of More Catastrophic Releases"
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/fuel-rods-most-likely-melted-completely.html 
A quote...."The situation is not stable at all. So, you’re looking at basically a ticking time bomb. It appears stable, but the slightest disturbance—a secondary earthquake, a pipe break, evacuation of the crew at Fukushima—could set off a full-scale meltdown at three nuclear power stations, far beyond what we saw at Chernobyl." -- *Michio Kaku* 
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Japan: Radioactive Water Dumped Into Pacific Due To “STRONG REQUEST” From The US
  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/18/japan-radioactive-water-dumped-pacific-due-strong-request-22814/ 
A quote...."Japan Says US made a “strong request” to dump millions of gallons of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. -- I recently reported that TEPCO dumped millions of gallons of Radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean." 
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Poor estimates force timetable revision  ---  http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110518005659.htm 
A quote...."Having failed to accurately grasp the extent of actual damage to nuclear reactors and the amount of water contaminated with radioactive substances, Tokyo Electric Power Co. has been forced to revise its timetable for resolving the nuclear crisis at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

A Taste of the Future? -- Israel in a Strategic Dead End  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/cook05182011.html 
Must Read - A quote...."They are extraordinary scenes. Film shot on mobile phones captured the moment on Sunday when at least 1,000 Palestinian refugees marched across no-man's land to one of the most heavily protected borders in the world, the one separating Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. -- Waving Palestinian flags, the marchers braved a minefield, then tore down a series of fences, allowing more than 100 to run into Israeli-controlled territory. As they embraced Druze villagers on the other side, voices could be heard saying: "This is what liberation looks like." 
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Obama’s Thursday Israel Speech a Major Retreat  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/116397  ---  No surprise whatsoever. - mpg 
A quote...."In May of 2009 reports were coming out of President Obama’s support for Palestinian statehood. There were restrictions, to be sure, but the call for a contiguous Palestinian state was seen as a major move, unheard of for a US President. -- Two years later, President Obama is planning to give another speech Thursday night, on the eve of a state visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The new speech is said to be a significant retreat, with the president openly condemning the Palestinian bid for statehood and issuing new demands to the Palestinian Authority." 
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‘NYT’ won’t say Nakba, just ‘anniversary of Israel’s creation’  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2011/05/nyt-wont-say-nakba-just-anniversary-of-israels-creation.html 
The New York Times, just a mouthpiece for the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium. - mpg -- A quote...."Today's Times has an editorial about trying to revive the peace process that begins with an account of the skirmishes on Nakba Day. But they don't say Nakba Day:" - bold by website editor 
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On the anniversary of the Nakba, demands for the right of return grow louder
  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/articles/middle-east/2368-on-the-anniversary-of-the-nakba-demands-for-the-right-of-return-grow-louder 
A quote...."The sixty-third anniversary of the Nakba witnessed a number of important events set up by Palestinian refugees in Arab countries surrounding Palestine, in the Diaspora, and inside the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, including Jerusalem. Even Israel - that part of Palestine occupied in 1948 - witnessed marches to a number of Palestinian towns and villages in the Galilee region which were destroyed and had their population displaced in what has been described as ethnic cleansing." 
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Largest student union in Europe joins boycott of Israel  ---  http://www.bdsmovement.net/2011/largest-ulu-7064  ---  Hip Hip Hooray!! 
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel!  Because it's a clear moral obligation for EVERYONE who cares about justice and the rule of law to do so!!!  Besides, it's so easy!! - mpg -- A quote...."The University of London Union (ULU)  has voted 10-1 to institute and campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) in support of Palestine. The motion called for “thorough research into ULU investments and contracts” with companies guilty of “violating Palestinian human rights” as set out by the Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC). Ashok Kumar, Senate member for LSE, speaking in favour of the motion, argued, “We have precedents for boycotting campaigns at ULU, especially with South Africa and the boycott campaign over  Barclays bank, that supported the Apartheid regime. We are now responding to the Palestinian call for civil action in support of their fight against racism.” - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  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. 
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New book shows how aid to PA ended up in Israel’s pockets  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/content/new-book-shows-how-aid-pa-ended-isra 
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A quote...."About a decade ago, a record was broken in Palestine. Responding to the outbreak of a new intifada, outside governments dramatically increased their financial contributions to the West Bank and Gaza. By 2002, the occupied Palestinian territories had become the largest recipients of development and humanitarian aid on a sustained per capita basis since the Second World War." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/new-book-shows-how-aid-to-pa-ended-up-in-israel%E2%80%99s-pockets/ 
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Israeli Military Abducts 11 Palestinians, including Journalist, On Tuesday  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/61263 
A quote...."The Israeli military carried out incursions into the West Bank Tuesday and arrested 11 as part of the crackdown in the aftermath of Nakba commemorations held throughout Palestine and bordering states on Sunday." 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77847&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

The People vs. Goldman Sachs  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28124.htm 
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
Contains Video - A quote...."May 18, 2011 "Rolling Stone" - May 11, 2011  -- They weren't murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most people can rationally conceive of, from their own customers, in a few blinks of an eye. But then they went one step further. They came to Washington, took an oath before Congress, and lied about it." 
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The History Of The World's "Reserve" Currency: From Ancient Greece To Today
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/history-worlds-reserve-currency-ancient-greece-today 
A quote...."Probably the most interesting part of the previously discussed 174-page World Bank report on the future of world currencies, is, ironically, the part that deals with the past. In its discussion of why "Historically, one national currency has played a global role—or at most, a few national currencies", the WB analyzes the history of the "reserve" or dominant currency from ancient times, through today. It is an engrossing narrative which ebbs and flows with the rise and flow of the dominant superpower (no surprise there). The bottom line of course is whether or not the US will retain its superpower status in an increasingly multipolar (and developing-led) world. And whether it will be replaced by China...or nobody. The implications for the next reserve currency of choice are substantial." - also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_History_Of_The_World%27s_%22Reserve%22_Currency%3A_From_Ancient_Greece_To_Today/13952/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
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Author Nomi Prins: The Fed Reserve Holding America Hostage  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/17/author-nomi-prins-the-fed-reserve-holding-america-hostage/
AJVideo - NP&AJ(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEaG6Er0brQ  ---  NP&AJ(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bAKe7uDwdA  ---  (AJYuTb - 15min - May 17, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex welcomes back to the show author, journalist, and former managing director at Goldman Sachs, Nomi Prins. Ms. Prins will talk about the arrest of IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn on rape charges and the latest article by Matt Taibbi on prosecuting Goldman Sachs and Lloyd Blankfein." 
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Tuesday May 17th 2011 - links page 

More on Osama Bin Back From the Dead™.... 

The Death Of Obi-Wan Kenobi  ---  http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2011/05/death-of-obi-wan-kenobi.html 
A quote...."It has now been two weeks since the US President, Barry Soetoro or Barack Obama or whatever his birth certificate says, claimed that US Special Forces had stormed and then killed US CIA agent Tim Osman, better known as Osama Bin Laden in a compound in Pakistan.  It is still amazing how most of the American public is still gullible enough to believe this total and utter BS!" 
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Selective Memri  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/aug/12/worlddispatch.brianwhitaker 
From the History File - Monday 12 August 2002 11.29 BST - A quote...."Memri's purpose, according to its website, is to bridge the language gap between the west - where few speak Arabic - and the Middle East, by "providing timely translations of Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew media". -- Despite these high-minded statements, several things make me uneasy whenever I'm asked to look at a story circulated by Memri. First of all, it's a rather mysterious organisation. Its website does not give the names of any people to contact, not even an office address." 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

US government seizes pension funds, invades Pakistan  ---  http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/us-government-seizes-pension-funds-invades-pakistan 
Special Note - A quote...."There are certain times in life when a man is faced with overwhelming adversity… times when he has no reason to adhere to society’s norms anymore.  It is in these instances that the true quality of his character comes shining through. -- One of these situations is when he’s broke. Dead, flat broke. Some people, even when staring deep into their own financial abyss, still hold to their moral principles, honor their obligations, and keep their word. -- For others, the boundaries of morality are quickly blurred into shades of gray, and things like fraud, thievery, and deception become perfectly legitimate tactics in their minds." 
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Guest Post: Indiana Supreme Court Dispenses With Magna Carta, Constitution
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-indiana-supreme-court-dispenses-magna-carta-constitution 
Special Note - A quote...."On June 10, 1215 AD, after prolonged rebellion and frustrating negotiation, a group of England’s most influential barons entered London to force the disastrous King John Softsword into accepting a revolutionary charter of individual freedoms. -- Five days later in the Runnymede meadow of Surrey County, John affixed his royal seal onto what became known as the Magna Carta. It still exists on the books today in England and Wales." 
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/17/indiana-supreme-court-dispenses-with-magna-carta-constitution/ 
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While You Were Sleeping, They Abolished the Fourth Amendment
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/while-you-were-sleeping-they-abolished-the-fourth-amendment.html 
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ3j7s84znw  ---  A quote...."Two recent Supreme Court cases have served to virtually abolish the Fourth Amendment in the United States of America, with citizens no longer being “secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/17/while-you-were-sleeping-they-abolished-the-fourth-amendment/ 
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Jane Mayer on the Obama war on whistle-blowers  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/05/16/whistleblowers/index.html 
Special Note - A quote...."In a just released, lengthy New Yorker article,  ---  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05  /23/110523fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all  ---  Jane Mayer -- with the diligence and thoroughness she used to expose the Bush torture regime -- examines a topic I've written about many times here:  the Obama administration's unprecedented war on whistleblowers  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/25/whistleblowers  ---  generally, and its persecution of NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake in particular  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/16/prosecutions  ---  (Drake exposed massive waste, excess and perhaps illegality in numerous NSA programs).  Mayer's article is what I'd describe as the must-read magazine article of the month, and I encourage everyone to read it in its entirety, but I just want to highlight a few passages.  First, we have this...." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77789&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  You ObamaTrolls out there happy yet? - mpg 
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And So It Begins: The Globalization of the Internet and the Coming War on the “Malevolent Actors of Cyberspace”
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/and-so-it-begins-the-globalization-of-the-internet-and-the-coming-war-on-malevolent-actors-of-cyberspace/
Web Under Threat - A quote...."On Monday, the Obama White House offered up their new plan for what they call “open and secure” global cyberspace policies.  I don’t think I need to translate that Obama administration doublespeak for most of you. Unfortunately, we’ve all come to understand that language quite well these past few years." - bold by website editor - You ObamaTrolls out there happy yet? - mpg 
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Rise of the Obamabots -- Stifling Liberal Dissent Under Obama  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28113.htm 
 posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
Must Read - A cautionary on what happens to those who resist the Matrix. - mpg -- A quote...."In the late 1990s my cartoons ran in Time, Fortune and Bloomberg Personal magazines and over 100 daily and alternative weekly newspapers. I was a staff writer for two major magazines. -- Then Bush came in. And 9/11 happened. -- The media gorged on an orgy of psychotic right-wing rhetoric. Flags everywhere. Torture suddenly OK. In a nation where mainstream political discourse was redefined between Dick Cheney on the right and libertarian Bill Maher on the not-as-right, there wasn’t any room in the paper for a left-of-center cartoonist. My business was savaged. Income plunged." - You ObamaTrolls out there happy yet? - mpg 
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Congress Proposes Bill to Allow Worldwide War Including INSIDE the US  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/congress-proposes-bill-to-allow.html
A quote...."Americans who have been paying attention are outraged that Bush lied us into Iraq by making up false claims about weapons of mass destruction  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/11/everyone-knew-that-iraq-didnt-have-wmds.html  ---  and pretending that Saddam Hussein had a hand in 9/11.  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/5-hours-after-911-attacks-rumsfeld-said.html  ---  Many are disgusted that Obama got us into a war in Libya without Congressional authorization. -- But as the ACLU noted  ---  http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/house-gets-ready-vote-new-worldwide-war  ---   yesterday, Congress is going even further ... proposing handing permanent, world-wide war-making powers to the president - including the ability to make war within the United States...." 
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Financial Repression Coming to America: El-Erian  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/116224 
A quote...."Memo to anyone in the US government who actually has swallowed the Koolaid that Americans are going to put up with this for very long. -- We didn't put this country in the financial mess it's in; you did, with funding these immoral and illegal, publicly funded wars, ultimately for private profit. We said no to TARP, but you voted for it anyway. -- Government with consent of the governed, at this point in the Republic's history?!? I think not." - *Michael Rivero*, owner of WhatReallyHappened.Com  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/ 
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Philly Police Harass, Threaten to Shoot Man Legally Carrying Gun
  ---  http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/blog/2011/05/16/philly-police-harass-threaten-shoot-man-legally-carrying-gun  
A quote...."A story in today's Philadelphia Daily News shows why it's so important that citizens be allowed to videotape cops - it can be citizens' only way to fight back against police abuse of power. -- This incident happened several weeks ago in Philadelphia to Mark Fiorino, a 25-year-old IT worker who carries a gun on his hip at all times for self defense. He got the gun after several friends were mugged. -- But he didn't count on attacks by police:" 
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9/11 Special on KPFA Radio, Thursday, May 19  ---  http://www.airamericaplace.com/index.php?showtopic=33299 
Program Note - A quote...."KPFA is having a three & half hour 9/11 special this Thursday from Noon to 3:30 PST -- Hosts for the Program are: Dennis Bernstein, Bonnie Faulkner, Mickey Huff, and Peter Phillips -- Guests During the day are: 12:15 David Ray Griffin, 12:45 Frank Morales, 1:00 PM Bob Bowman, 1:30 Paul Rea, 2:00 Mike Gravel, 2:30 Carol Brouillet, 2:45 Richard Gage and Kathy McGrade, and more. Clips from Press for Truth, Zero, Griffins bset DVDs will be played on the air. -- Program will be on-line live from KPFA.org, and archived on line from Noliesradio.org. -- This is a fund raiser for KPFA Radio." 
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TSA backscatter radiation safety tests were rigged – Mike Adams  ---  http://www.naturalnews.com/032425_airport_scanners_radiation.html 
A quote...."(NaturalNews) It can now be revealed by NaturalNews that the TSA faked its safety data on its X-ray airport scanners in order to deceive the public about the safety of such devices." - also posted at LewRockwell  ---  http://lewrockwell.com/adams-m/adams-m17.1.html 
& DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/17/tsa-backscatter-radiation-safety-tests-were-rigged-mike-adams/ 
& PrisonPlanet  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-backscatter-radiation-safety-tests-were-rigged.html 
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"Osama False Flag Like Sadam Hussain & Golf Of Tonkin"  ---  http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=14995 
GCVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OZGI9sVoHA  ---  (YouTube - 14min 17sec - May 17, 2011) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/GeraldCelenteChannel 
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Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - May 17 2011  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286094486 
Part 2  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286094368 
MRVideo - (JustInTV - 2hrs - May 17th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero extensively covers the "Osama bin Photo-Shopped" extravaganza, the on-going lies from the White House about the whole issue, along with many other topics. - mpg 
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More On The International Situation....

Gen. Hamid Gul: U.S. Generals Provoking War with Pakistan  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/17/gen-hamid-gul-u-s-generals-provoking-war-with-pakistan/ 
AJVideo - HG&AJ(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmqdYnKpm6I  ---  HG&AJ(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfwkeU7oxGI  ---  (AJYuTb - 15min - May 17, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Hamid Gul, former ISI chief, talks about NATO firing on Pakistani troops and the prospect of World War III." 
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Pakistan Protests After Clash With NATO Helicopters
  ---  http://www.voanews.com/english/news/NATO-Helicopters-Fire-on-Pakistani-Troops-121996314.html 
A quote...."Pakistan's military has filed a strong protest after an exchange of fire between its ground forces and NATO helicopters along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. -- Pakistan says troops at a border post opened fire early Tuesday when the helicopters violated Pakistani airspace. It says two soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fire." 
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An Empire of Terror  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24825 
A Global Research article list..... 
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Pakistan turns to China for support  ---  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2015079957_pakistan18.html 
A quote...."BEIJING — The Pakistani prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, arrived in China on Tuesday for a four-day visit, picking up some welcome diplomatic support at a critical moment in Pakistan's relations with the U.S." 
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US troops face increasing dangers in southern Iraq  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110517/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_troop_dangers 
Propaganda Alert - A quote...."Michael Knights, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said the attacks indicate an increased confidence by militias to engage U.S. forces. He noted that the militants have been targeting vulnerable U.S. supply lines. The vast majority of supplies for U.S. forces are shuttled on roads from Kuwait into southern Iraq. -- Knights, who writes extensively about security issues in Iraq, said April saw a major jump in the use of armor-piercing explosives — known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs. -- "The increase in attacks shows that Iranian-backed cells enjoy greater freedom of movement than they have in the past. They have increased confidence in their ability to engage U.S. forces in stand-up firefights in broad daylight," he said." - bold by website editor - What?  They're going to try to blame Iran -- again -- for locally made EFP's.  After they were so completely embarrassed the last time they tried.- This piece of bought and paid for human garbage is lying.  EFP's don't have to be imported, they can be made by YOUR own grandmother!!  They take about five minutes to assemble!! All you need is ANY sort of moldable high explosive, a steel pipe, a concave copper plate, and a way to detonate the device  When, exactly, is the DoD going to give up with this sort of stupid crap? - mpg 
Topix ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda - EFP's & IED's  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IEDS__EFPS 
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Wildcat strikes spread in Iraq as BP lifts first oil cargo
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/8519386/Wildcat-strikes-spread-in-Iraq-as-BP-lifts-first-oil-cargo.html 
A quote...."The threat of wildcat strikes engulfing Iraq's oil industry spread to BP's Rumaila field on Tuesday – on the day that the British energy major got its first payment for boosting production at the site. 
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Iran Starts Up its First Nuclear Power Plant  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/708-iran-starts-up-its-first-nuclear-power-plant.html 
A quote...."Hamsayeh.Net - Iran officially starts up its first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr, confirmed Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi in a report by ISNA." 
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The Assault On Libya....

The truth about ‘civilized transitions’ By William Bowles  ---  http://williambowles.info/2011/05/17/the-truth-about-civilized-transitions-by-william-bowles/ 
A quote...."This is what it comes down to: A TV ‘news’ presenter reveals in all its starkness, how the Empire corrupts totally. Here we have an apparently intelligent and educated person dismissing the leader of a country as if he’s just another expendable piece of the Empire’s junk. ‘Yeah, why you don’t just get rid of him, make him go away’. It’s absolutely outrageous that we accept this kind of rubbish and it’s echoed right across the MSM (see below)." 
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24811 
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The International Criminal Court and Gaddafi  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/pers-m18.shtml 
A quote...."The request by chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo that arrest warrants for war crimes be issued against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and the head of Libya’s intelligence service, Abdullah al-Senussi, only confirms the role of the International Criminal Court as a tool of the imperialist powers." 
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NATO warplanes step up attacks on Libya  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/liby-m18.shtml 
A quote...."NATO has escalated its war against Libya, widening air strikes to hit civilian government buildings and economic infrastructure. -- Early Tuesday, bombs and missiles once again pounded the capital of Tripoli, destroying buildings near the compound of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The repeated attacks on the area have all the earmarks of an attempt to bring about “regime change” by assassinating the Libyan leader." 
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The Middle East Revolution (Part II): The Empire Strikes Back:  Libya Attacked by the US & NATO - http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77810&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."No sooner had the popular revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia overthrown corrupt and repressive U.S.-backed dictatorships than Washington and NATO (led by a Canadian general) attacked Libya on March 19 with jet fighters and hundreds of missiles and bombs. The reason given by this coalition of the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and Canada (among others) for the attack was that they were protecting civilians from Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi. Considering that the U.S. has killed two million civilians in Iraq, 70,000 in Afghanistan, and about 2,000 in Pakistan, it strains credulity to believe that this was the real reason for its intervention in Libya." 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

Is It Safe to Eat Salmon from the West Coast?  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/is-it-safe-to-eat-salmon-from-west.html 
A quote...."I've been asked whether it is safe to eat salmon from Alaska and other West Coast locals. -- I'm copying below my article  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/fda-refuses-to-test-fish-for.html  ---  on this issue from last month. As journalist Harvey Wasserman noted on a radio program today, it is "criminal" that the government is not testing fish. The bottom line - as nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen notes - is that we must demand that our elected representatives require testing." 
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Busby: Fukushima reactors a raging radioactive inferno  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz4I5rb3_BM 
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 4min24sec - May 17, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – There are signs that two further reactors at Japan's troubled Fukushima plant may have gone into meltdown. Similar problems were earlier confirmed at the number one reactor. Its operators are suspected of failing to properly cool them after the earthquake. RT gets some insight on this from Professor Christopher Busby, who's from the European Committee on Radiation Risks." 
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Melted fuel in Reactor No. 3 appears to have burned through pressure vessel  ---  http://enenews.com/melted-fuel-reactor-3-appears-burned-pressure-vessel 
A quote...."And like the No. 1 reactor, the melted fuel appears to have created holes in the pressure vessel of the No. 3 reactor, according to the data of Tokyo Electric Power Co. released May 16. [...] -- At the No. 3 reactor, the melted fuel may have burned through the pressure vessel to the containment vessel, the data showed. [...] -- According to the data, the pressure in the pressure vessel of the No. 2 reactor dropped at 6:43 p.m. on March 15. A similar drop in pressure also took place at the No. 3 reactor at 11:50 p.m. on March 16. -- Those declines were apparently the result of holes made in the pressure vessels. [...] it appears that melted nuclear fuel formed new holes in the pressure vessels." 
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Radiation News 05-17-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (6 articles)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/17/radiation-news-5-17-11/ 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Gilad Atzmon: Israel’s Doomed Fate  ---  http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-israels-doomed-fate.html 
Must Read - A quote...."“There will be no return-- time has come to tell Palestinian refugees they will not be returning to the State of Israel,” writes Nahum Barnea, a prominent Israeli ‘liberal’ columnist. -- It is becoming clear that Israel lacks the means to cope with Palestinian resilience. Despite Israeli barbarism; despite sixty-three years of oppression, racial discrimination and mass murderous tactics-- including the usage of WMD-- the Palestinian people have remained determined to return to their land." - also posted at VeteransToday
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/17/gilad-atzmon-israel%E2%80%99s-doomed-fate/ 
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Emotional Palestinians bury Lebanon Nakba Day victims
  ---  http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/emotional-palestinians-bury-lebanon-nakba-day-victims/ 
Must View Photos - A quote...."SIDON, Lebanon: Grief-stricken Palestinians in Ain el-Helwi refugee camp held funerals for their loved ones Monday, a day after Israeli troops shot dead 11 protesters on the Lebanese border with the Jewish state." 
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50 new boats to be delivered to Gaza fishermen - Hip Hip Hooray!!
  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/2359-50-new-boats-to-be-delivered-to-gaza-fishermen 
A quote...."The Minister of Agriculture in the Gaza Strip, Dr Mohammad Ramadan al-Agha, has announced government plans to supply 50 fishermen with fishing boats free of charge. Forty of these boats will be given to fishermen who have lost their own boats over the last year as a consequence of Israeli attacks, while 10 others will be given to the poorest Palestinians in need. The fishing boat project is being launched within the context of a wider programme to help fishermen funded by the Islamic Bank." 
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Israel to hand over Palestinian tax revenues  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=388003  ---  Hip Hip Hooray!! 
A quote...."TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- The Civil Servants' union said the Palestinian Authority would pay government employees' salaries on Monday, following confirmation that Israel would resume transfers of Palestinian tax revenues." - also posted at Uruknet --- http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77790&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Palestinians test tactic of unarmed mass marches  ---  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43050231/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/ 
A quote...."RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian activists are calling it a preview of new tactics to pressure Israel and win world support for statehood: Masses of marchers, galvanized by the Arab Spring and brought together by Facebook, descending on borders and military posts — and daring Israeli soldiers to shoot. -- It could prove more problematic for Israel than the suicide bombings and other deadly violence of the past — which the current Palestinian Authority leadership feels only tainted their cause." 
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Lebanon files complaint against Israel  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/lebanon-files-complaint-against-israel/ 
A quote...."Lebanon has submitted a complaint to the United Nations Security Council against Israel over the killing of 10 civilians in the Lebanese border town of Maroun al-Ras. -- At least 10 people were killed and over 110 others wounded after Israeli soldiers opened fire on thousands of Palestinian refugees who were holding a symbolic march toward their homeland on the Lebanese side of the border on Sunday." 
Source: PressTV  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/180269.html 
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Israeli soldier shoots photographer  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/israeli-soldier-shoots-photographer/ 
Attempts to Kill The Messenger - A quote...."An Israeli soldier has deliberately shot Palestinian photographer Mohammad Othman as he was covering protests in the Gaza Strip, says Reporters Without Borders. -- The group said on Tuesday that Othman was clearly identifiable as a journalist at the time of the shooting and was deliberately targeted on Sunday." - Source:  PressTV  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/180427.html 
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IOF soldiers storm home of MP  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7wNDAl9t6jL
MdPs%2bY4WDtLv4zRg1JVAnJHPf5OLmXXBJjj6%2fjK1vrOtOTAqUYZ4pNzf%2f8vksa%2bSrQ6%2bcyFCbRqoOMAcRWgO4zhnU4f23lWOM%3d 
A quote...."AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the house of MP Mohammed Abu Juhaisha in Al-Khalil at dawn Tuesday and handed his son Musab a summons to the intelligence office in Etzion." 
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Israelis Troops Arrest 11 Civilians from the West Bank; Tanks Open Fire at Gaza Farmers
  ---  http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10052 
A quote..."Bethlehem/Gaza – PNN – Israeli troops arrested on Tuesday 11 Palestinian civilians during raids targeting West Bank communities. -- ImageSix of those arrested were taken from the village of al-Khader, near Bethlehem in southern West Bank. Israeli troops invaded the village and searched homes, later soldiers arrested Ma’mon Issa, 20, and his brother Ahmad, 19, as well as Nadiem Issa, and Maher, Mazin, and Naser  Subeh." 
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Israeli Demolitions More Than Double Since Last Year  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/61258 
A quote...."The UN Agency for Palestinian refugees has stated that Israel has displaced 149 children, through housing demolitions, in the West Bank so far this year. The figures show a stark increase on numbers displaced and housing units demolished for the same period last year." 
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Stop the suffering in Gaza: UN official  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/180459.html 
A quote...."UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos has censured Israel for causing "unnecessary suffering" in the Gaza Strip and called for an end to blockade." 
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More On The Economic Situation....

Keiser Report: Snow Globe of Denial (E147)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/7/SSQoiYKmbko 
MKVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSQoiYKmbko  ---  (MKRTYuTb - (MKRTYuTb - 25min55sec - May 17th, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Producer:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) -- A quote...."This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on coffee speculators and crude plunges. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Reggie Middleton of BoomBustBlog.com about banking industry as the new tobacco industry and about the price of the bailout as the economic future of the United States. KR on FB: www.facebook.com/KeiserReport." 
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Richard Koo Explains Why An Unwind Of QE2, With Nothing To Replace It, Could Lead To The Biggest Depression Yet
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/richard-koo-explains-why-unwind-qe2-nothing-replace-it-could-lead-greatest-depression 
Quote of the Day...."....I cannot help but feel that the portfolio rebalancing argument [as implemented by Bernanke with his program of QE2] was putting the cart before the horse, in the sense that it is ordinarily a stronger real economy that leads to higher asset prices, and not the other way around." - bold/underline by website editor  
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Matt Taibbi Vs. Wall Street Apologist Megan McArdle On Goldman Sachs Criminal Behavior
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/video-matt-taibbi-vs-wall-street-apologist-megan-mcardle-on.html 
Video - A quote...."Corrupt enterprise nirvana.  You're guilty, everyone knows it, and no prosecution. Geithner took care of that with Cuomo, secretly, in 2008, in the name of system stability.  Bill Black is writhing in the throes of a wretched death spiral. -- What about Anton Valukas - you remember the Chicago lawyer handling the $600 billion Lehman bankruptcy - 2 years within the bowels of Dick Fuld's Repo 105 nut sack ought to qualify him for special financial prosecutor.  Eric Holder is a dipsh-t, have we mentioned that lately. -- Obankster, listen up.  Wanna get reelected... Then tell Holder to name a Special Wall Street Prosecutor.  Now." - ||  Transcript  ||  ---  http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/matt-taibbi-and-megan-mcardle-square-over-off 
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It's Official: DTS Discloses Total Debt Hit Ceiling Yesterday; Government Draws On $14.3 Billion From Retirement Funds
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/its-official-dts-discloses-total-debt-hit-ceiling-yesterday-government-draws-143-billion-ret 
A quote...."Tim Geithner reported a total of $14,293,975 MM, $25 million away from the ceiling. What was the plug? Why "Intragovernment Holdings" of course, which declined by $14.3 billion." 
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Meredith Doubles Down: Move Over Munis, Here Comes The "Hidden State Financial Crisis"
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/meredith-doubles-down-move-over-munis-here-comes-hidden-state-financial-crisis 
A quote...."Defaults in a variety of forms by states and municipalities are already happening and more are inevitable. Taxpayers have borne the initial brunt of these defaults by paying higher taxes in exchange for lower social services. And state and local government employees are having to renegotiate labor contracts that they once believed were sacrosanct."  -- *Meredith Whitney* 
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1 Kilo Gold Futures Start Trading On Hong Kong Merc  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/1-kilo-gold-futures-start-trading-hong-kong-merc 
Gold Bug Alert - A quote...."As of 8 pm Eastern, the Comex' monopoly to the precious metals futures is over." - As we reported previously, today, at 8 am local time, is when the Hong Kong Mercantile exchange would start trading the inaugural Asian precious metal futures contract: the 32 ounce /1 kilo/ gold futures." - bold by website editor - Hip Hip Hooray!! - Hip Hip Hooray!! 
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European financial leaders postpone a new bailout for Greece  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/euro-m18.shtml 
A quote...."The two-day summit of European finance ministers in Brussels failed to arrive at a consensus yesterday on how to deal with the main issue they faced: the crisis of the Greek economy, which is increasingly spiralling out of control." 
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Mystery Science: More Details on the Strange Organism That Could Destroy Monsanto
  ---  http://www.bnet.com/blog/food-industry/mystery-science-more-details-on-the-strange-organism-that-could-destroy-monsanto/3052 
A quote...."Back in January, a noted plant scientist who spent much of his career at Purdue University sent a letter  ---  http://es-la.facebook.com/notes/wood-prairie-farm/the-complete-text-of-dr-don-m-hubers-letter-to-usda-secretary-vilsak/197340006962367  ---  to the USDA informing the agency that he’d discovered a mysterious new disease-causing organism  ---  http://www.bnet.com/blog/food-industry/the-smoking-gun-that-will-take-down-monsanto-or-not/2836  ---  in Monsanto’s (MON) genetically engineered Roundup Ready corn and soybeans. Now, that scientist — Don Huber — has written a follow-up letter to the USDA and appears in a videotaped interview  ---  http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/dr_hubers_warning/#who  ---  where he presents an even scarier picture of the damage he claims Monsanto’s herbicide chemical glyphosate (the main ingredient in Roundup) is doing to both plants and the animals who eat them." 
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Processed Meats Declared Too Dangerous for Human Consumption
  ---  http://www.truthistreason.net/processed-meats-declared-too-dangerous-for-human-consumption 
A quote...."The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has just completed a detailed review of more than 7,000 clinical studies covering links between diet and cancer. Its conclusion is rocking the health world with startling bluntness: Processed meats are too dangerous for human consumption. Consumers should stop buying and eating all processed meat products for the rest of their lives." - bold by website editor 
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Monday May 16th 2011 - links page 

More on Osama Bin Back From the Dead™.... 

The Ongoing bin Laden Saga: Can Americans Be Unplugged?  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24796 
Special Note  - A quote...."The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."  -- *Morpheus*, a charecter from the movie "The Matrix" 
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Translation Of Pakistani Video - This Is The Truth - Osama Died In 2001  ---  http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/translation-of-pakistani-video 
Contains Video - A quote...."This is a translation of the video linked at the bottom and was translated by my friend Khan Taashk. THANK YOU my dear friend. I wish there were a way for ALL Americans to read this translation.... 

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Pakistan to return remains of U.S. stealth helicopter  ---  http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20110517/164068209.html 
A quote...."Pakistan is to return to the United States on Tuesday the remains of a stealth helicopter used in a special forces raid to kill al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, Pakistani television said, quoting army sources." 
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Gallup: Obama approval not helped by No-Sama-gate  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/116170  
A quote...."Obama bet the big bad boogie man on his re-election, raised on a busted blush, and lost. It's Gambler's Ruin; Obama has run out of propaganda chips to play with." 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - Part Three  ---  http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=15246 
Must Read - A quote...."The economic peril that we find ourselves confronted with, has been ninety-eight years in the making. The confluence of debt, demographics, delusion, and denial has left the country at the precipice of annihilation. There are two kinds of people in the world, those who control the money and those that are controlled by those who control the money. The last century has been marked by a methodical looting of the good (working middle class) by the bad (Federal Reserve & bankers) and supported by the ugly (Washington D.C. politicians). When historians pinpoint the year in which the Great American Empire began its downward spiral they will conclude that year to be 1913. In this dark year for the Republic, slimy politicians, at the behest of the biggest bankers in the country, created a private central bank that has since controlled the currency of the United States. This same Congress staked their claim as the most damaging group of politicians in US history by passing the personal income tax in the same year. These two acts unleashed the two headed monster of inflation and taxation on the American people." - also posted at Hamsayeh  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/economy/705-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.html 
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10 Indications The United States Is A Dictatorship  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/05/10-indications-united-states-is.html 
A quote...."For a people to be free, they must first be honest with themselves, their government, and the world at large.  History is filled with stories of free nations that fell under the spell cast by their governments who exploited the threat of terror. -- In fact, numerous presidents in American history already have used various specific threats to sidestep their Constitutional restraints.  Today we are entering a nebulous world where our "enemy" cannot be defined, has no particular allegiance to one country, and is able to adopt new leaders at will.  Rather than encourage a sense of resilience and independence in its citizens, America has chosen to amplify the terror threat in order to concentrate power in the hands of the State.  The very first signpost on this historically familiar road to tyranny is an atmosphere of hate, suspicion, and vindictiveness.  It first begins as an outwardly directed aggression and then rather abruptly turns inward upon itself." 
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US Government Spying on Americans, Lawsuits Against Telecom Partners  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24774 
A quote...."With Obama's Justice Department threatening to classify previously unclassified material during the upcoming trial of accused NSA whistleblower Thomas A. Drake, Secrecy News reports that prosecutors claim they can do so because "NSA possesses a statutory privilege that protects against the disclosure of information relating to its activities." 
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US studies legality of American-led private army - http://www.blacklistednews.com/US_studies_legality_of_American-led_private_army/13928/0/38/38/Y/M.html
A quote...."The US state department said on Sunday that it was examining the legality of an American-led private army that is being established in the United Arab Emirates. -- Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater private security company, is establishing a counter-terrorism force of up to 800 foreign mercenaries in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, The New York Times reported on Sunday." 
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What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – May 16th, 2011  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/16/what-really-happened-with-michael-rivero-may-16th-2011/ 
Part2  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286028689 
MRVideo - Part1  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286028554  ---  Part2  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286028689  ---  (JustInTV - 2hrs - May 16th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero extensively covers the "Osama bin Photo-Shopped" extravaganza, the on-going lies from the White House about the whole issue, along with many other topics. - mpg 
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The Alex Jones Show – May 16th, 2011  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/16/the-alex-jones-show-may-16th-2011/ 
AJVideo - Intro  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poBVm6V1zwQ 
Globalists(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QTl81LHL88 
Globalists(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1ZlOkpAEM 
Globalists(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKYD5h8uPg 
BrthhdOfEvil(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Hp01X_ZR8 
BrthhdOfEvil(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoFmuyusp0g 
JoelSkousen(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMi8IuKnIhs 
JoelSkousen(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsVsciHRoRw 
JoelSkousen(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSFBOVtR5jg 
CBS60Min  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAsHE6-0JVo 
GlobScrtWeapon  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45A9W4MN-_c 
(YuTb - 10/15min - May 16, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."A quote...."Alex welcomes back to the show Joel Skousen, author, retreat consultant, and founder and editor of World Affairs Brief, a weekly news-analysis service dedicated to providing an understanding of the hidden agendas behind the actions of world leaders and other powerful individuals who influence government from behind the scenes. Mr. Skousen talks with Alex about the Osama bin Laden death farce and other important news events. He is the author of Strategic Relocation: North American Guide To Safe Places, available at the Infowars Store. Alex also covers the latest breaking news and takes your calls." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Why Mainstream Media Refuses to Report the West's Shocking New Colonialism  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28107.htm 
A quote...."May 16, 2011 "The Daily Bell" --  To ask the question is to answer it. The Western mainstream media seems entirely controlled and beholden to globalist interests emanating in part from the City of London. Reports and exposes of neo-colonialism are not likely to find a place on the front pages of the great dailies and weeklies of the old-line press – nor even on websites controlled by it." 
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Gerald Celente: Raping – Part of IMF Business  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/16/gerald-celente-raping-%E2%80%93-part-of-imf-business/ 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLFV2Z-X08s  ---  (RTYuTb - 4min13sec - May 16, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – The head of the International Monetary Fund has been charged with sexual attack, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment. New York police pulled Dominique Strauss-Kahn from a plane minutes before he was due to fly to Paris, and questioned him on suspicion of assaulting a hotel maid. RT talks to Gerald Celente, the director of the Trends Research Institute in New York." 
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The Dirty Old Man and the IMF  ---  http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan163.html 
A quote...."by Patrick J. Buchanan:  Saturday was a bad day for the New World Order.  --  New York police boarded the first-class cabin of an Air France jet bound for Paris to collar Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, a Grand Master of the Universe and the Socialist Party's hope to defeat President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012." 
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The Taliban Is Not Al Qaeda  ---  http://www.thenation.com/blog/160681/taliban-not-al-qaeda 
A quote...."For the past several years, Felix Kuehn has lived in Kandahar, Afghanistan, one of the few non-Afghans living as civilians in that war-plagued city, the country’s second largest and the city in which the Taliban was founded. Only about a hundred foreigners live in Kandahar, including a handful of diplomats from the Iranian and Pakistani consulates and a small number of workers with NGOs. But last week, Kuehn came to Washington to talk about the complicated relationship between Al Qaeda and the Taliban." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77771&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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White phosphorus used in Afghan war: Report  ---  http://uruknet.com/?p=m77747&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Special Note - A quote...."Leaked documents have revealed that US-led forces in Afghanistan have made extensive use of white phosphorus bombs in densely-populated areas. -- A review of the Afghan military documents revealed more than 1,100 instances of US-led forces -- including Danish troops -- having used white phosphorus (WP) grenades, rockets and bombs, the Danish daily Information reported. -- According to one document, US-led forces fired 20 to 50 WP rockets at a single target. Many of the WP [a.k.a. Willie-Pete] munitions have often been used in residential areas, the Press TV quoted the report as saying." 
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New Zealand SAS troops implicated in Afghan war crimes  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/nsas-m16.shtml 
A quote...."New evidence has emerged that New Zealand’s Special Air Service (SAS) troops detained prisoners during operations in Afghanistan and then handed them over to US and Afghan forces who tortured them. An investigation published in the May issue of Metro magazine provided damning evidence that the elite force is complicit in human rights abuses, with successive New Zealand governments covering them up." - also posted at Uruknet
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77777&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Four U.S. troops killed in blast in Afghanistan  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77770&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan - Four American soldiers serving with NATO forces in Afghanistan died Monday in an explosion in the country's south, NATO and a defense department official said, bringing home the human cost of the U.S.-led push into Taliban strongholds." 
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'Iraq to expand military ties with Iran'  ---  http://presstv.com/detail/180218.html 
A quote...."Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says the Baghdad government plans to expand its military ties with Tehran, stressing that such relations will ensure regional stability." 
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Afghanistan will join SCO - eventually  ---  http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20110516/164058413.html 
A quote...."The documents approved at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's foreign ministers' meeting in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Saturday all highlight Afghanistan. The regional organization believes its development will heavily depend on that country, where a drawdown of U.S. and NATO troops is in the offing. -- Their leaving will change the region, but it will not necessarily become safer or more understandable." - also posted at BLN
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Afghanistan_will_join_SCO_-_eventually/13923/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
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Response Time: Russia tires of US Missile Defense flip-flop  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/5/es8jPiyguyw 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es8jPiyguyw  ---  (RTYuTb - 5min56sec - May 16, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Russia's has reaffirmed it'll take measures if the U.S. and NATO continues with their European missile defence plan, without taking Moscow's view on board. The foreign ministry says it'll be forced into 'an appropriate response'. Moscow's been concerned over the alliance's failure to guarantee the project will not threaten Russia's security. Washington has been leading efforts for the missile shield in Europe, saying it'll help protect the continent from countries like Iran and North Korea. Russia wants an equal part in the project - but there's been little progress so far in reaching a compromise. RT talks to Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin." 
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Israel panics and cranks up ridiculous propaganda  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/116167 
A quote...."Since the 1979 Iranian revolution and the downfall of the US Puppet Ruler the Shah, Iran has been an Islamic state. In that interval of time, 1979 to the present, Iran has not invaded anyone. Not once. People of all religions live in peace in Iran, even Jews, who find life so comfortable in Iran they refused an offer by the government of Israel to emigrate! " 
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The Assault On Libya.... 

‘Depleted uranium in Libya will kill, not protect’  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/16/%E2%80%98depleted-uranium-in-libya-will-kill-not-protect%E2%80%99/ 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6jtGA3DlHI  ---  (RTYuTb - 12min07sec - May 15, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – NATO is now deeply entrenched in Libya in what looks like a civil war and there is no visible end to the illegal intervention, insists British anti-nuclear activist Kate Hudson from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament." 
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NATO's Secret Ground War in Libya  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24746 
A quote...."From the outset, the conflict in North Africa was intended to lead into an all out NATO war. The Pentagon and NATO are not only arming the Transitional Council in violation of international law, they also had forces on the ground from the start." 
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NATO Bombs Libyan Oil Center, Rejects Truce Offer  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77768&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote..."Tripoli, May 16, 2011 - NATO plans to extend its bombings of Libya on Monday, after attacking an oil facility in Ras Lanuf and other areas of the capital, as it rejected a truce offer from the Muammar Gaddafi government." 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

Cesium-137 rising in samples of strawberries, kale, and grass from Northern California
  ---  http://enenews.com/cesium-137-rising-samples-strawberries-kale-grass-northern-california
Radiation Alert - A quote.."Grass: Cs-137 @ 45.4 pCi/kg 
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Japan nuclear: Tepco halts Fukushima cooling plan  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13404548 
A quote...."Japanese engineers have abandoned their latest attempt to stabilise a stricken reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant. The plant's operator, Tepco, had intended to cool reactor 1 by filling the containment chamber with water. - But Tepco said melting fuel rods had created a hole in the chamber, allowing 3,000 tonnes of contaminated water to leak into the basement of the reactor building." 
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Fukushima Effect: Japan nuclear zone expands  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/2/J7Kxh1jsa0s 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Kxh1jsa0s  ---  (RTYuTb - 28sec - May 16, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Residents from two towns near Japan's crippled nuclear plant have left their homes, after the exclusion zone was extended. About 5-thousand people were moved into housing and hotels in nearby cities. The latest evacuations began after melting fuel rods created a hole in a reactor chamber. Japanese engineers are now trying to come up with new ways to stabilize the stricken reactor, as radioactive material continues to leak." 
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Tepco: Meltdown at Reactor 1 HOURS After Earthquake ... Reactors 2 and 3 Have Likely Melted Down As Well
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/tepco-meltdown-at-reactor-1-occurred.html 
A quote...."Tepco - the operator of the stricken Japanese nuclear complex - is finally admitting what independent experts have been saying for months. - Initially, Tepco now admits that reactor number 1 melted down hours after the earthquake. As NHK notes...." 
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Radiation News 05-16-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (12 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/16/radiation-news-5-16-11/ 
Moody’s cuts TEPCO credit rating after today’s news about Reactors No. 2 and 3, saying damage at plant “appears worse than previously indicated”
  ---  http://enenews.com/moodys-cuts-tepcos-credit-rating-after-todays-news-damage-plant-appears-worse-previously-indicated 
Plutonium Discovered Over 50 km From the Crippled Fukushima Plant
  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/702-plutonium-discovered-over-50-km-from-the-crippled-fukushima-plant.html 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

BREAKING NEWS: Israel's Attack on Humanitarian Ship to Gaza  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24789 
A quote...."The Spirit of Rachel Corrie (officially known as FINCH) carrying a humanitarian cargo to Gaza was attacked by an Israeli naval patrol within the so-called Palestinian Security Zone on May 15, at 10.54pm EDT. -- In the course of the last few hours, Global Research has communicated several times with the Rachel Corrie vessel en route to Gaza. What is provided below is a detailed update. An earlier article was posted at 12.30am EDT "  ---  http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24783  ---  bold by website editor 
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Reports: 20 ‘Nakba’ Protesters Killed as Israeli Troops Attack
  ---  http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/reports-20-%E2%80%98nakba%E2%80%99-protesters-killed-as-israeli-troops-attack/ 
A quote...."Israeli soldiers shot and killed at least 20 Palestinian protesters today, and wounded several hundred others, during Nakba rallies around the region. Nakba commemorates the expulsion of Palestinians from Israeli territory during the founding of the Israeli state, and is officially illegal to commemorate inside Israel." 
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From ‘Right of Return’ to ‘Return in Practice’  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/
2011/05/15/gilad-atzmon-from-%E2%80%98right-of-return%E2%80%99-to-%E2%80%98return-in-practice%E2%80%99/ 
A quote...."The Jewish state is under seige. The IDF forces reportedly fired at Syrian, Lebanese and Gazan  ‘Nakba Day’ protesters who breached border fences." 
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'Naqba Day' clashes: Israeli troops fire at Palestinians  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoCHwCpawjo 
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 2min16sec - May 15, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Over a dozen people have been injured after clashes erupted in East Jerusalem neighbourhoods during so-called 'Naqba Day' demonstrations. Israeli troops fired two tank shells and several machine gun rounds as Palestinian youths approached the border with the Jewish state. Demonstrators hurled stones at border policemen who responded with tear gas. Sunday's march commemorates the uprooting of Palestinians during the war over Israel's creation in 1948. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were driven out during the fighting more than six decades ago." 
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Border Disorder: IDF shoots at 16 'non-violent' protesters  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/3/7NQd3ZnsT20 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NQd3ZnsT20  ---  (RTYuTb - 4min47sec - May 16, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Israeli troops have killed at least 16 people, after opening fire on protesters marking the day Palestinians were displaced by the creation of the Jewish state. Thousands of demonstrators tried to get into the country from Syria, Lebanon and Gaza. RT talks to Jafar Farah from the Mossawa Centre for Arabs in Israel." 
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Israel’s border massacre and human rights hypocrisy  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/pers-m17.shtml 
A quote...."The Obama administration’s reaction to Israel’s massacre Sunday of unarmed Palestinian protesters on its borders underscores the hypocrisy of those ascribing “humanitarian” motives to Washington’s predatory policy in the region." 
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SOUTH HEBRON HILLS: Israeli settlers [homeless Jewish vagrants] invade Palestinian village of Tuba
  ---  http://cpt.org/cptnet/2011/05/16/south-hebron-hills-israeli-settlers-invade-palestinian-village-tuba 
A quote...."Israeli settlers [homeless Jewish vagrants] invaded the village of Tuba in the South Hebron Hills late Sunday night, 15 May.  They damaged property and killed and stole livestock belonging to the Ali Awad family. Palestinians of Tuba reported that they counted seven masked [were they wearing white sheets?] settlers, [homeless Jewish vagrants] who entered and left the village on foot, and saw two cars at the outskirts of Tuba, near the chicken barns of Ma'on settlement." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/south-hebron-hills-israeli-settlers-invade-palestinian-village-of-tuba/ 
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Jewish settlers [homeless vagrants] throw firebombs into Palestinian home
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s73I0jiaBvMuPSyPhcaVsU
8q6KNmRjkwCFz0KOhpoPw6zXKMxoH%2bTh%2bUSSzfKc7ORbDHVvMctOBxyFGOQjqX8oX47msa%2b%2fJ8ERmrtJ46W5xi0%3d 
A quote...."AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Armed Jewish settlers [homeless vagrants] tossed a number of Molotov cocktails into the house of a Palestinian citizen in the Old City of Al-Khalil on Sunday night after encircling it." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/jewish-settlers-throw-firebombs-into-palestinian-home/  ---  Were they also wearing white sheets? - mpg 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

Our Peculiar State of Suspended Animation  ---  http://www.oftwominds.com/blogmay11/suspended-animation5-11.html 
Special Note - A quote...."The U.S. is in a peculiar state of suspended animation: nothing is actually moving, we're all frozen in an extended moment of disbelief, denial and crisis, waiting for something to finally break loose. -- We know the present isn't sustainable, but we go through the motions of phony "reforms" and "trimming the deficit" as if another 1,000 pages of "reforms" will fix what's broken in the economy or that trimming $50 billion from $1.7 trillion annual deficits will actually matter." 
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Treasury Confirms Debt Ceiling To Be Breached Today; Will Tap Pension Funds
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/treasury-confirms-debt-ceiling-be-breached-today-will-tap-pension-funds 
A quote...."It's official: the US credit card has officially been maxed out, just as we predicted on Wednesday, and througout Q1 and Q2. The United States is expected to reach the legal limit on its debt later on Monday and will start dipping into federal retirement funds to give the country more room to borrow, a Treasury official said." 
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Savers may flee U.S. banks  ---  http://www.theprovince.com/business/Savers+flee+banks/4786414/story.html#ixzz1MRxmYeWf 
A quote...."Eric Sprott, the Canadian money manager who in 2008 predicted banking stocks would collapse, says U.S. savers will eventually pull their money out of banks that are carrying too much leverage on their balance sheets. -- Banks are leveraged 20 to one and their portfolios are mainly composed of government bonds and mortgages, the founder of Sprott Asset Management Inc., said Friday at the SALT, or SkyBridge Alternatives, conference here." 
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Zimbabwe Says Days Of The US Dollar Are Numbered, Pushes For Gold-Backed Local Currency
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/zimbabwe-says-days-us-dollar-are-numbered-pushes-gold-backed-local-currency 
Editor's Caution, If Bernanke really intends not to launch QE3, there could by a vicious unwind of the dollar carry trade and a bizarre resurgence in the USD and US bonds as the ENTIRE US economy collapses, yes it's weird, it's whacko, but that's the way things work in this up is down, black is white, debt is good, mark to fantasy, economy.  On the other hand when even Zimbabwe doesn't want to use the USD, that's not a good sign. - mpg 
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Double Digit Inflation has Arrived  ---  http://usawatchdog.com/double-digit-inflation-has-arrived/ 
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A quote...."New inflation figures were released by the government last week, and the news was not good.  The headline inflation number was 3.2% in the 12 months that ended in April.  That is more than a percent above the Federal Reserve’s “target” rate of 2% and the first time it has been more than 3% in over 2 ½ years.  Of course, the accounting gimmicks used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) understate true inflation, so things look better than reality. Nonetheless, in the latest report from economist John Williams of Shadowstats.com, even the government’s own “official” numbers will likely show double digit inflation in the next three months or so." 
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Sunday May 15th 2011 - links page 

Saturday May 14th 2011 - links page 

More on Osama Bin Back From the Dead™.... 

Amerika, You Been Busted!!
(a.k.a. an Osama-Hoax Smack-Down - or - How Amerika Went Full-Retard)
05-14-11
mpg

Well Amerika you must be really smug right about now, heh?  You got'em is that correct?  You're thrilled that you killed and Osama got drilled, does that about sum it up?  You're all soooooooooo smart, a bunch of gawd-dang, freaking, geniuses ain't that right?  Sure there are those conspiracy nuts out there who are demanding Obama show us the photos of the "dead" Osama, but all you true Amerikans believe our glorious president when he says, tearfully, with a choked voice, that he can't release the photos of the "dead" Osama because "it would offend Muslim sensibilities". After dumping his body into the sea of course.

Why Obama's just so sensitive, isn't he.....(wag your little pinkie in the air).

Remember it's all about the photos of the "dead" Osama, you know the guy that was so vain he liked to watch videos of himself on TV.  But we can't show any photos of the "dead" Osama, because they're bad photos, they're gross photos, they're nasty photos. 

Remember that, just keep saying that to yourselves, keep saying it's a contest between those who want to see the photos of the "dead" Osama, versus, those reasonable, kind-hearted people who just want to protect "Muslim sensibilities" and not release any photos of the "dead" Osama.  Just keep repeating that "fact", that "frame" of reference over, and over and over and over to yourselves, like some sort of sick mantra, just as the mass media has been doing EVERY SINGLE DAY for the last TWO WEEKS!!

Don't you want to support your fearless leader during this controversy, don't you want to say it doesn't matter HIS decision not to release any photos of the "dead" Osama is causing all kinds of doubts about the official narrative, about HIS veracity, about HIS leadership, about HIS word. After all, if HE'S willing to incur all this controversy, if HE - your divine Emperor - is willing to stand up for what HE believes to be right and protect us all from those ghastly, ugly, grisly, photos of the "dead" Osama, if HE, The Anointed One, The Pope of Hope, The Chanter of Change, The Man From Planet Krypton, and HIS nation, and HIS minions, and HIS people, are willing to endure all the doubts, all the naysayers, all the slanders, all the questions, all the speculations HIS "principled stand" raises....than you should support him, ain't that right?

Sure, they say they captured over a MILLION documents,  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/bin-ladens-one-million-page-cache-will-be-used-to-legitimize-official-911-fable.html  ---  that they have thousands of CDs, photos, videos, (even porno videos), and sure, no doubt Osama, who was supposedly so vain he liked to watch himself on TV, had hundreds of photos, perhaps thousands of photos, of himself in that compound, with his "son", and his "wives", running around.....alive. 

And lets not forget the 25 SEAL cameras video taping him  ---  http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/seal_helmet_cams_show_osama_running_cCGWwuzhp2c3ZKPR04ak1M  ---  ....running around the compound....alive....before he wasn't.

Ain't that right?

Oh, oh.....you know what's coming don't you?  You're beginning to get that sinking feeling in the pit of you stomach ain't that right Amerika?

If not, think about it for awhile....

Do you need some more time?

Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock......

Well time's up and you know what Amerika.....you're stupid, not just the regular "Aw shucks I left my keys in the car for the fifth time" stupid, or the " I don't know who this country declared independence from", really stupid, or the abysmal "I can't remember if Obama broke every single promise, so I'll vote for him again anyway." stupendously stupid.  Nope, not for you Amerika, no, what you are is the totally thick as a brick, cross eyed, drooling, ape-like, moronic, lip smacking, depends wearing, pork rind munching, butt scratching "I banged my head against the wall fifty times and I still don't know why it's hurting." stupid, or the even worse "My community just handed thirty trillion dollars to a bunch of filthy rich Banksters and we don't know why we're suddenly so incredibly poor." stupid.....Yeah Amerika --- you're that kind of stupid!

Not one photo.....NOT ONE!!!!  Released of him alive in the compound.  After fourteen days of unnecessary controversy -- not ONE photo released of him alive in that compound!!  A compound he supposedly lived in for YEARS!!

Ahhhh-ahhhhhh!!!   TOO LATE TO DO SO NOW!!!  DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT TRYING IT!!!

Uh-uh, no way folks, you and your little greasy Emperor don't get to just go run down to the photo lab and cook up a batch of  photos after the fact!! 

It's way too late for that and it don't matter if you release a million photos now, you had your chance.....and you, and your Emperor, BLEW IT! -- You and your Emperor just spent two whole weeks jerking the ENTIRE world around with that lame-brain, flimsy excuse of "Muslim sensibilities" and all that spin about "dead" Osama photos, and YOU ain't getting away with it anymore!

What a pathetically lousy psyop this was, only the CIA could've been stupid enough to think this little scheme up.  What was the idea, release a few badly doctored images to get everyone looking for the "dead" Osama photos when they should have been looking for the last ENTIRE DECADE'S worth of "live" Osama photos, of which their are none to be found!!! How childish, how infantile and how typically arrogant.

The plan of course was when the expertly done photos of the "dead" Osama were finally released, everyone would've breathed a sigh of relief and forgotten all about the last entire decade's worth of "live" Osama photos that went missing, ain't that right?  Out of sight, out of mind, was that the idea?

Or was it your Emperor's favorite phrase of "lets put it all behind us" that made you think you could get away with this stupid little scam?

And please Amerika, if you think that less than a dozen, cheesy, tacky, poorly made, obviously fake, SITE Intel video and audio tapes which comprise basically the ENTIRE "bin Laden collection™" constitutes anything more than your collective sick and twisted fantasies, you're not only grossly stupid, you're also dangerously deluded.

Amerika is like some sort of skanky, diseased, degenerate, low-life, crack-whore.  She'll swallow anything, all the time, anywhere, no matter how disgusting it is, no matter how vile it is, on behalf of the uber-parasites.  Than she'll look up at them, out of her disheveled, aged lined face, from underneath her matted greasy hair, smiling her toothless drooling grin, wearing her tattered thread-bare clothing....with gratitude for the swill she just swallowed. 

What a disgusting sight it is to see.


The best you Amerikans can do now is hang your heads in collective shame, and say with that typically dumb-ass, goofy, grin you always wear plastered on your collective faces, that the videos the SEALS took of this guy, while he was still alive, got eaten by the White House dog, and somehow, in all those millions of files, and thousands of CDs, and hundreds of videos, and pictures, and photos scattered throughout the entire house (which you and your Emperor ordered demolished)  ---  http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5151413  ---  ....there wasn't one single photo of Osama bin Laden alive in that compound. Or alive anywhere else for that matter.

Of course everybody throughout the entire world will know you're a bunch of stupid-ass liars.  But that's just too fucking bad for all of you.

You been BUSTED!!

So get it straight folks, Osama bin Laden died in 2001 and as a community, a country, and a people, you been made to look like the world's biggest bunch of crack-whores for believing this silly hoax. - mpg
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Creating the Bin Laden "Reality"  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24759 
Must Read - A quote...."I have heard one dozen times today (May 13) from media that the US killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. I heard it three times from National Public Radio, twice from the BBC, and from every TV and radio station I encountered, even those stations that play the rock and roll music of the 1950s and 1960s. The killing of bin Laden has now entered the legends of our time and, no doubt, the history books. -- The US government that told us that Saddam Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction” and “al Qaeda connections” and that Iran has nuclear missiles that require the US to ring Russia with anti-ballistic missile systems, finally told us the truth for once. Obama found Osama and had him murdered, apparently unarmed in his underwear, defended not by al Qaeda, “the best trained, most dangerous vicious killers on the planet,” but by two unarmed women. -- As I offered previously, if you believe this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I can let you have for a cheap price. -- The government has created another reality for us proles. We won again. Us white hats got the black hat, just like in the western movie. Fantasy is better than fact, and us good guys are on a roll. It makes everybody happy, even those who have lost their jobs, their houses, their pensions." 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

Bin Laden & The 911 Illusion: Secret Societies & Masterminds  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24764 
Excerpt - A quote...."The Eight Families banking cartel and their Four Horsemen progeny find Islamic fundamentalism quite compatible with the global monopoly capitalism from which they derive their immense wealth.  Both ideologies advocate centralized control, intolerance of opposition, rule by decree and a return to feudalistic rule by monarchy.  They share common enemies in nationalism and socialism, which seek to redistribute ill-gotten wealth and power. --  Throughout history the "Illuminati bankers" have created Islamist provocateurs to terrorize popular nationalist movements that aimed to wrest control over their nations from the bankers’ IMF/World Bank program of global domination.  The most recent examples of this are playing out in both Libya and Syria.  But this is an ancient alliance." 
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Former Blackwater officials form corporate spying group  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/13/former-blackwater-officials-form-corporate-spying-group/
Private Spooks Alert - A quote...."The people that operated Blackwater and the military's pre-9/11 data mining operation Able Danger have a new project: corporate spying services for Fortune 500 companies. -- Their new company is called Jellyfish Intelligence." 
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Former_Blackwater_officials_form_corporate_spying_group/13889/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
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Update: DSK Now In Police Custody; IMF Head Dragged Off A Plane, Arrested Following Hotel Maid Allegations Of Forced Head
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/imf-head-strauss-khan-dragged-plane-arrested-following-hotel-maid-sodomy-charges 
Tales From Bankster World -- A quote...."If there was any threat that the IMF would launch an SDR alternative to the USD, it is all over now. According to the NYPost, IMF head Dominique Strauss-Khan (no Bob Pisani, it is not a she) was just arrested on board the first class cabin (thank you taxpayers) of a New York-Paris flight as it was about to take off." 
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Worse Than China? U.S. Government Wants To Censor Search Engines And Browsers  ---  http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs/?rd=1 
Web Under Threat Alert - A quote...."We knew that members of Congress and their business allies were gearing up to pass a revised Internet Blacklist Bill -- which more than 325,000 Demand Progress members helped block last winter -- but we never expected it to be this atrocious.  Last year's bill has been renamed the "PROTECT IP" Act and it is far worse than its predecessor.  A summary of it is posted below."
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Indiana: Full Frontal Fascism  ---  http://revolutionarypolitics.com/?p=5613 
A quote...."Something huge–huge and not good–just happened in Indiana, which will be little more than a blip in the propaganda that passes for national news. The Supreme Court of Indiana just ruled that in Indiana, if a police officer decides to illegally come into your house, you’re not allowed to do anything to stop him. According to “Justice” Steven David, resisting an admittedly “unlawful police entry into a home” is against “public policy.” Got that? If you live in Indiana, and a cop decides to invade your home without a shred of legal justification, it is considered a crime for you to do anything to stop him." 
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The Alex Jones Show – May 13th, 2011  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/13/the-alex-jones-show-may-13th-2011/ 
AJVideo - Intro  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YilriM8E9rU 
PowerGrab(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H-Z_5Y2QP0 
PowerGrab(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3ZPvKCO5E4 
GovtClaims(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcTucsUgaW8 
GovtClaims(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVmGKH8KvyU 
TSAGoons  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4BGBUlMUwg 
AJTakesCalls  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M23wzYnchfQ 
BobChapman(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12chaBeQJ8g 
BobChapman(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSKsljwh3RY 
JimMarrs(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ9clQ-QA4k 
JimMarrs(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFpPwg32das 
(YuTb - 10/15min - May 13, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex welcomes to the show Texas Republican Rep. David Simpson, who is the sponsor of a bill passed in the Texas House that will make it a criminal offense for the TSA to inappropriately touch travelers during airport intrusive pat-downs. Simpson says the legislation will prevent TSA officials from treating travelers like criminals. Former newspaper journalist and New York Times best-selling author Jim Marrs also makes an appearance. Alex also talks with regular Friday guest Bob Chapman of the International Forecaster about the economy and other subjects. Alex covers the latest news and takes your calls." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Four Afghans killed in anti-US protests  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/179908.html 
A quote...."Security forces in troubled eastern Afghanistan open fire on anti-US protesters, killing at least four people and wounding several others. -- The deaths come after hundreds of angry Afghans staged a protest against the killing of innocent civilians at the hands of foreign forces, a Press TV correspondent reported. -- The protest took place in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province on Saturday." 
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Mystery of the helicopter that landed at scene of Dr Kelly's death after his body was found
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386967/Mystery-helicopter-landed-scene-Dr-Kellys-death-body-found.html 
Another cover-up comes apart -- A quote...."A helicopter mysteriously landed at the scene of Dr David Kelly’s death shortly after the body was found. -- The aircraft only remained on the ground for five minutes before leaving, suggesting it either deposited or collected somebody or something. -- Details from its flight log, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show that the helicopter – hired by Thames Valley police – landed at Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire at 10.55am on July 18, 2003, 90 minutes after the body was discovered by volunteer search teams. -- Significantly, the flight log has been heavily redacted, making it impossible to know who was on board or what its exact purpose was." 
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Globalists’ Pakistan War Plan  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/globalists-pakistan-war-plan.html 
A quote...."In a 2007 article from the London Guardian titled, “Bush handed blueprint to seize Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal,” it is stated that fears of destabilization inside Pakistan might prompt the United States to occupy Islamabad and the provinces of Punjab, Sindh, and Baluchistan in an attempt to secure Pakistan’s nuclear warheads. Behind this report is Fredrick Kagan, brother of the equally sloven Robert Kagan of the Foreign Policy Initiative, yet another contrived, corporate fueled warmongering think-tank." 
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Twelve PKK militants killed in Turkey  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/179949.html 
A quote...."Turkish troops have killed 12 members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) after the militants attempted to infiltrate into the country." 
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The Assault On Libya.... 

In the Theater of the Absurd: US-NATO Support "Al Qaeda in Libya"  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24763 
Special Note - A quote...."In the Theatre of the Absurd, anything is possible. However, this latest scenario in Libya has taken absurdity to a whole new dimension. A rag-tag bunch of armed, al-Qaeda affiliated tribesmen, being referred to as a ‘pro-democracy movement’ by British State TV (BBC) and other mainstream media outlets, are now being openly armed and trained by the French, British and American governments. This same Coalition of Crusaders, with the support of the Arab League, is fighting alongside the rebels, launching continual bombing raids on targets in Tripoli and beyond, including Muammar Qadhafi’s compound, in a brazen attempt to assassinate the man and re-colonise Libya." 
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More on the World Wide Revolution.... 

Robert Fisk: Why no outcry over these torturing tyrants?
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-no-outcry-over-these-torturing-tyrants-2283907.html 
Special Note - A quote...."Christopher Hill, a former US secretary of state for east Asia who was ambassador to Iraq – and usually a very obedient and un-eloquent American diplomat – wrote the other day that "the notion that a dictator can claim the sovereign right to abuse his people has become unacceptable". -- Unless, of course – and Mr Hill did not mention this – you happen to live in Bahrain. On this tiny island, a Sunni monarchy, the al-Khalifas, rule a majority Shia population and have responded to democratic protests with death sentences, mass arrests, the imprisonment of doctors for [not] letting patients die after protests and an "invitation" to Saudi forces to enter the country. They have also destroyed dozens of Shia mosques with all the thoroughness of a 9/11 pilot. But then, let's remember that most of the 9/11 killers were indeed Saudis." - also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/14-4 
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Saudi bid to save monarchies  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/179951.html 
A quote...."Saudi King Abdullah's sudden and hasty decision to invite Jordan and Morocco to join the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC) signals his extreme concern about the potential collapse of the Arab world's backward monarchical or semi-monarchical regimes." 
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Saudi tanks roll into Sitra  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/179936.html 
A quote...."Saudi armored vehicles have entered the Bahraini city of Sitra, shortly after new videos surfaced of atrocities committed by Saudi-backed Bahraini forces in the Persian Gulf island nation." 
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35 Yemeni protesters injured in Taizz  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/179861.html 
A quote..."Forces loyal to Yemen's unpopular President Ali Abdullah Saleh have reportedly wounded at least 35 anti-government protesters in the southwestern city of in Taizz." 

'Nothing can stop Bahraini protesters'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/179801.html 
A quote...."The president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights says Bahrainis are still protesting and say that nothing, even guns, attack helicopters and tanks, can stop them." 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

California Plutonium 43 Times, Hawaii 11 Times Highest Levels In 20 Years In Wake Of Fukushima Nuc Disaster
  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/27/plutonium-levels-california-43-times-hawaii-11-times-highest-levels-20-years-20549/ 
Radiation Alert - A quote...."An absolutely viral post is circulating Japanese websites right now expanding on my post about plutonium and strontium being detected in the US from the Fukushima nuclear reactor. -- The author says new EPA radiation data shows the levels of plutonium detected in California are 43 times higher in California and 11 Times higher in Hawaii that the highest levels detected in over 20 years." 
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Fukushima Reactor 1 Radiation Levels Max Out Instruments, Hit Over 1,000,000 uSv per hour
  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/14/fukushima-reactor-1-radiation-levels-max-instruments-hit-1000000-usv-hour-22742/ 
A quote...."Radiation levels detected at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan rise to the highest levels yet hitting 1.2 sieverts per hour as TEPCO announced that it may not be able to follow through with the 9 month plan to stop the radiation leaking from the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan.  A nuclear engineering professor from Kyoto adds that depending on the source of the high levels the plan to entomb the reactor to permanently end the radiation leak may not work at all. That statement echoes similar sentiments from nuclear expert Arnie Gunderson." - bold by website editor 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Defying Israeli Restrictions; Thousands Mark The Nakba Day in Jaffa  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/61243 
A quote...."Despite Israeli “laws” criminalizing the commemoration of the “Nabka Day”, that marks the creation of Israel on Palestinian lands and the displacement of millions of Palestinians, thousands of residents, including Jewish peace activists, marched on Saturday evening in Jaffa, and held an art festival affirming the Palestinian historic rights and their legitimate struggle against oppression and occupation." 
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The On-Going Nakba of Palestine ... 63 Years Later  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77711&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvwZTFFPzpE  ---  (YuTb - 4min53sec -May 13, 2011) - Source:  aVoiceFromPalestine  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/aVoiceFromPalestine 
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PLO: 23 Palestinian were killed by Israeli attacks during April  ---  http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10035&Itemid=63 
A quote...."Ramallah – PNN –The Palestine Liberation Organization’s Department of International Relations released on Saturday its monthly report documenting Israeli violations against Palestinians during April." 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

Capital Accumulation and Opting Out of the Consumerist Machine  ---  http://www.oftwominds.com/blogmay11/opt-out-consumer5-11.html 
A quote...."In broad brush, frugality is mocked and scorned in American culture because it is extremely subversive to the dominant consumerist machine. Frugality and the work ethic have deep roots in the Northern-European-Protestant (key root:"protest") ethos: a penny saved is a penny earned, the Lord helps those who help themselves, etc. Many other cultures from around the world share these same values." 
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Tim Geithner Responds To Druckenmiller With More Fearmongering And "Assured Destruction"
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/tim-geithner-responds-druckenmiller-more-fearmongering-and-assured-destruction 
A quote...."Not even 24 hours after Stanley Druckenmiller said to ignore all threats by the kleptocratic kartel [sic] of a world collapse should the debt ceiling not be hiked, as if on cue the tax-troubled treasury secretary has released another letter, this time to Michael Bennet, D-Colo, in which he rehashes all the usual threats that Hank Paulson pulled out of his sleeve when he presented his 3 page term sheet demanding congress give him unlimited powers to do anything Goldman, er, he saw fit to preserve the banker status quo. Nothing new in the letter, just more of the same...." 
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Friday May 13th 2011 - links page 

"running out of maneuvering room at the end of this abbreviated ten year cycle of military Keynesianism, with the resultant increased strains on the US's financial system.  As such, a sudden "shift" or "adjustment" could occur at any time as this shortened "ten year cycle" winds down to its inevitable close." - From "Standard Disclaimer"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207.html  ---  posted 04-28-07

"This of course may very well be just a scheme by Bernanke to get his rich Bankster friends out of their positions in derivatives and other markets.  It seems they may have been caught a little short (or in their case, a little long) by the "premature" collapse of what was supposed to be a ten year cycle but instead turned out  to be an eight year cycle." - From "Why Invest in the "Real Economy"?"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/whyinvestintherealeconomy-mpg-reficultnias-091609  ---  posted 09-16-09

Thursday May 12th 2011 - links page 

"A top military intelligence official has said the discredited dossier on Iraq's weapons programme was drawn up "to make the case for war", flatly contradicting persistent claims to the contrary by the Blair government, and in particular by Alastair Campbell, the former prime minister's chief spin doctor. In hitherto secret evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Major General Michael Laurie said: "We knew at the time that the purpose of the dossier was precisely to make a case for war, rather than setting out the available intelligence, and that to make the best out of sparse and inconclusive intelligence the wording was developed with care." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77650&hd=&size=1&l=e 
& DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/13/yes-they-lied-yes-a-million-died-and-yes-they-want-it-to-go-on/  

"Parents are not only unable to protect their children from Israeli aggression but also incapable of providing even the bare essentials without the aid. Children become both witness and victim of this reality. Many begin to lose respect for their parents, and that in turn causes parents to suffer from diminishing self-respect and depression."