How
the FBI and 9/11 Commission Suppressed Key Evidence about Hani Hanjour,
alleged hijack pilot of AAL 77
--- http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22999.htm
Special Note - A
quote...."July 07, 2009 "ICH" --- The evidence was crucial because it
undermined the official explanation that Hani Hanjour crashed American
Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon at high speed after executing an
extremely difficult top gun maneuver. But to understand how all of this
played out, let us review the case in bite-size pieces..."
also posted at DProgram
---
http://dprogram.net/2009/07/07/how-the-fbi-and-911-commission-suppressed-key-evidence-about-hani-hanjour/
For more on this issue see....9/11
- NORAD ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911norad-weblist-mpg-091308
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London
Bombings - The Facts Speak For Themselves ---
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/124587-London-Bombings-The-Facts-Speak-For-Themselves
Special Note - A
quote...."Four years ago today, on the morning of July 7th, 2005,
someone detonated four carefully placed bombs in London. Three exploded
on London underground trains within 50 seconds of each other at 8.50
am, the first on the sub-surface eastbound Circle Line, the second on
the sub-surface westbound Circle Line, a third on the deep-level
underground southbound Piccadilly Line. A fourth bomb exploded almost
an hour later at 9.47 am on the upper deck of a double decker bus in
Tavistock Square."
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Remember,
Remember 7/7: Media spins the 4th anniversary
---
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/188561-Remember-Remember-7-7-Media-spins-the-4th-anniversary
Special Note - A
quote...."Today almost four years on, the images of that dreadful
morning are etched into our minds: the woman in the haunting white
burns mask being helped to safety; the shell-shocked businessman in a
suit with his hair and shirt matted with blood; the crippled No 30 bus
with its roof blown off; the mangled wreckage of smouldering Tube
trains."
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Kelly's
Book of Secrets ---
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/111971/Kelly-s-book-of-secrets
Special Note - A
quote...."WEAPONS inspector David Kelly was writing a book exposing
highly damaging government secrets before his mysterious death. --
He was intending to reveal that he warned Prime Minister Tony Blair
there were no weapons of mass destruction anywhere in Iraq weeks before
the British and American invasion. -- He had several discussions
with a publisher in Oxford and was seeking advice on how far he could
go without breaking the law on secrets."
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More On The
Iranian Election....
The
Iranian ‘Revolution’ Has Failed So It’s Back To The ‘Iran Has Nuclear
Weapons’ Rhetoric To Bomb Them Into ‘Regime Change'
---
http://lataan.blogspot.com/2009/07/iranian-revolution-has-failed-so-its.html
A quote...."With the failure of the Western powers to foment a
popular uprising after the 12 June elections in Iran that they hoped
would lead to regime change, the West has now had to return to the
‘Iran has nuclear weapons’ meme in order to pave the way for an attack
against Iran in the hope that regime change can be affected that way."
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Much
Ado About Nothing? ---
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22985.htm
Special Note - A
quote...."I've
made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the
Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not at all interfering in Iran's
affairs," said US President Barack Obama with a straight face on June
23. "Some in the Iranian government [have been] accusing the United
States and others outside of Iran of instigating protests over the
elections. These accusations are patently false and absurd." -- "Never
believe anything until it's officially denied," British writer Claud
Cockburn famously said." -
also
posted at ConsortiumNews
--- http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/070609a.html
For more on this issue see....Iran,
Just RELAX!! – Of Course It Was A US-NRE PSYOP! - 06-26-09
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/iranjustrelax-ofcourseitwasausnrepsyop-mpg-reficultnias-062609
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BBC
provoked post-vote unrest: Iran police chief ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99861§ionid=351020101
A quote...."Iranian police chief Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam accuses the BBC
and the British Embassy in Tehran of having a significant role in
provoking post-election violence."
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Tehran
to put British embassy employees on trial ---
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15688&theme=6&size=
A quote...."The announcement made during Friday prayers. They are
accused of having fomented the anti-government protests and have
"confessed" the crime. The Ayatollah accuses London of having organized
a "velvet revolution" against Iran."
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Slip
Sliding Away: Joe Biden Gives Iran Green Light to Attack Israel
---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1792-slip-sliding-away-joe-biden-gives-iran-green-light-to-attack-israel.html
War Alert - A
quote...."Given
the fact that a nuclear-armed nation is openly discussing and planning
an attack on their country, the Iranians could quite logically "make a
determination that they are existentially threatened and their survival
is threatened by another country. -- Thus, by Biden's logic, it would
be quite legitimate for the Iranians to mount an attack to "take out
the nuclear program" in Israel, given the ever-present existential
threat this poses to their survival. And the United States, according
to Biden, would not do anything to stop such an attack, because
Washington "cannot dictate to another sovereign nation" what it can do
when it feels threatened to such a degree."
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Russia
surprised by Biden's remarks on Iran -
"Surprised", are they kidding? - mpg
---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=100085§ionid=351020101
Related article - A quote...."The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman
has said the recent remarks by US Vice President Joe Biden, who said
Israel has the right to attack Iran, have surprised Moscow. -- "We are
very surprised at these remarks by US Vice President Biden. As we see,
they are drastically out of line with the approaches that US President
Barack Obama is declaring regarding the Iranian nuclear program, in
particular, on the US readiness to enter a dialogue with Iran," RIA
Novosti quoted Andrei Nesterenko as saying on Tuesday." --
also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/201243
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ANALYSIS-Wary
of naked force, Israelis eye cyberwar on Iran ---
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LV83872.htm
Related Article - A quote...."The appeal of cyber attacks was boosted,
Israeli sources say, by the limited feasibility of conventional air
strikes on the distant and fortified Iranian atomic facilities, and by
U.S. reluctance to countenance another open war in the Middle East. "We
came to the conclusion that, for our purposes, a key Iranian
vulnerability is in its on-line information," said one recently retired
Israeli security cabinet member, using a generic term for digital
networks. "We have acted accordingly."
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Oil,
Gas Market Speculation May Face Restrictions (Update4) --
a.k.a. getting ready for the attack on
Iran. - mpg
---
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a1.QbgWdF8aY
War Alert - Related
Article - A
quote...."July 7 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. regulators say they may clamp down
on oil and gas price speculators by limiting the holdings of energy
futures traders, including index and exchange-traded funds. -- The
Commodity Futures Trading Commission will hold hearings this month and
next to explore the need for government-imposed restrictions on
speculative trading in oil, gas and other energy markets, Chairman Gary
Gensler said today in a statement." --
also posted at AtheoNews
---
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/07/oil-gas-market-speculation-may-face.html
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More on the
US-NRE's Honduran Coup....
Honduras: The People are Bigger
Than
an Army --- http://quotha.net/node/106
A quote...."Speech given on July 2, 2009 at the House of the United
Nations during a massive demonstration organized by the Frente de
Resistencia Popular contra el golpe militar en Honduras – Front for
Popular Resistence against the military coup in Honduras."
also posted at UpsideDwnWrld
--- http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1973/68/
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Hondurans
Pour into the Streets Demanding Zelaya's Return
---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Hondurans-Pour-into-the-St-by-Medea-Benjamin-090707-944.html
A quote...."The day started out full of joy, as thousands of Hondurans
converged in front of the National Institute of Pedagogy, intent on
marching about three miles to the airport to greet the plane that was
supposed to bring deposed President Zelaya back to Honduras."
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Honduran coup
resistance growing By Sandra Cuffe ---
http://www.creative-i.info/?p=8240
Video - A
quote...."Military resorts to killing protesters as increasing numbers
take to the streets."
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Tragedy
at Toncontin: Army Shoots and Kills Protesters ---
http://mimundo-jamesrodriguez.blogspot.com/2009/07/tragedy-at-toncontin-army-shoots-and.html
Photo Essay -- also posted at UpsideDwnWrld
--- http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1967/1/
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Central
America Plunged Back Into Chaos ---
http://www.countercurrents.org/taylor070709.htm
A quote...."A military coup in a Latin American nation sounds as
routine as afternoon tea in England. It feels a bit different if you’ve
been there."
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Zelaya
Reveals Assassination Plot ---
http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98735&Itemid=1
A quote...."Jul 7 (Prensa Latina) The group that ordered the coup in
Honduras gave specific directions to assassinate President Manuel
Zelaya, according to declarations by the constitutional president,
published on Monday in this capital."
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Efforts
to break siege on Gaza unceasing despite deportation of boat crew and
confiscation of aid
---
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6047
A quote...."Brussels / PNN – The European campaign to lift the siege on
Gaza said in a statement that a second convoy of aid was launched
Sunday afternoon from JFK Airport in New York. -- It is being led by
American activist Ron Kovic, and includes British MP George Galloway
and activist Kevin Aovindn along with the support of more than 46
institutions organization in America."
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NEW
TOON ~~ FREE GAZA ---
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/new-toon-free-gaza/
Cartoon - The "good boy",
vs. the "bad girl"
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IOF
troops prevent French medical team from entering Gaza
--- http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m55760&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."BEIT HANUN, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on
Monday blocked the entry of a French medical team into the Gaza Strip
for the second consecutive day via the Beit Hanun (Erez) crossing in
northern Gaza Strip."
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[Israeli] Army
kidnapped 380 Palestinians in June ---
http://www.imemc.org/article/61070
A quote...."The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported that the
Israeli army kidnapped more than 380 Palestinians in several parts of
the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem during the month of
June."
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UN
Holds 2nd Round of Public Hearings on Gaza
---
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=fd5a81cfdbc35bc5ca474bdded998460&mode=details#fd5a81cfdbc35bc5ca474bdded998460
A quote...."A UN human rights mission investigating possible war crimes
in the Gaza Strip has resumed its public hearings with the victims of
Israel's deadly offensive. -- The two-day session at the UN's human
rights headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, which follows a first set
of hearings in Gaza nearly 10 days ago, aims at giving a chance to
those who were not able to travel to Gaza to present their testimony."
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The
Raids on the Resistances Bookstore -- Zionist Fanatics Practice Serial
Vandalism in Paris ---
http://www.counterpunch.org/johnstone07062009.html
A quote...."Thousands of books drenched in cooking oil – that is the
latest exploit of the Zionist fanatics who regularly attack property
and people in Paris and get away with it. -- In the early afternoon of
Friday, July 3, five men, mostly masked, stormed into the “Resistances”
bookstore located in a quiet residential neighborhood of the 17th
arrondissement in northwest Paris. To the startled women working in the
shop, as well as two customers, they announcing that they were from the
Jewish Defense League and began ripping books off shelves and tables,
dousing them heavily with cooking oil, and then smashing four computers
before leaving rapidly in a waiting vehicle." --
also posted at Creative-i ---
http://www.creative-i.info/?p=8237
& PulseMedia
---
http://pulsemedia.org/2009/07/07/zionist-thugs-vandalize-bookstore-in-paris/
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Please
Step In....And Assume The Position ---
http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/07/please-step-inand-assume-position.html
A quote...."Israel is well p-ssed off at the European Commission for
telling the truth about Settlements and plans to give them a good
spanking for this act of "defiance" and "Evil Truth Telling." The
Commission reported the fact that illegal settlements make it virtually
impossible for peace in the region. Their existence causes devastating
effects on the Palestinian Economy, which in turn effects Palestinian
residents. Best of all it was pointed out that it is the European Union
that foots the bill for this, to the tune of 280 Million, no less!
Israel's reaction to this statement is much the same as their reaction
to the UN's War Crimes Investigations, Amnesty International's
Investigations and all the others who find fault with the evil rogue
state. -- Israels reply was thus: -- "Infamy, Infamy, They've All Got
It In Fa Me"
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Palestinian
Titanic ---
http://www.willtotruth.com/2009/07/07/palestinian-titanic/
A quote...."The dismemberment of the Palestinian national movement is
one of Israel’s biggest successes. Yet, while Israel — and the Bush
administration — provoked the rift, Palestinian leaders are sustaining
it, becoming passive onlookers who appear powerless to shape their
future, as though only Israel and the United States have agency."
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McNamaranism
Alive and Well ---
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski233.html
Must Read - A
quote...."Today’s
wars are in a different place, yet McNamara-style justifications,
obfuscations, and moral hollowness prevail triumphant. -- Instead of
preventing a communist domino effect on the Asian rim,
Bush/Clinton/Bush and Obama are "preventing" independent republics,
Islamic and secular, from freely trading their own resources and
solving their own domestic problems. Americans like to think they
themselves would never tolerate this kind of treatment by a foreign
army and its diplomatic corps. We can only pray, as McNamara must have,
that there is no karma."
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May
He Rest in Darkness -- McNamara: From the Tokyo Firestorm to the World
Bank ---
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn07072009.html
Special Note - A
quote...."Robert McNamara, who died yesterday, July 6, served as
Kennedy’s , then as Johnson’s defense secretary. He contributed more
than most to the slaughter of 3.4 million Vietnamese (his own
estimate). He went on to run the World Bank, where he presided over the
impoverishment, eviction from their lands and death of many millions
more round the world."
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Will
What We Don't Know (or Care to Know) Hurt Us? -- Mourning Michael
Jackson, Ignoring the Afghan Dead
---
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175092/are_afghan_lives_worth_anything_
Special Note - A
quote...."It was a blast. I'm talking about my daughter's wedding. You
don't often see a child of yours quite that happy. I'm no party animal,
but I danced my 64-year-old legs off. And I can't claim that, as I
walked my daughter to the ceremony, or ate, or talked with friends, or
simply sat back and watched the young and energetic enjoy themselves, I
thought about those Afghan wedding celebrations where the "blast" isn't
metaphorical, where the bride, the groom, the partygoers in the midst
of revelry die." --
also posted at
CommonDreams
---
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/07-15
& CounterCurrents
--- http://www.countercurrents.org/engelhardt070709.htm
& SmirkingChimp
--- http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/22705
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John
Pilger on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the Corporate Media, Obama’s Wars and
Resisting the American Empire Pilger
---
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/6/filmmaker_journalist_john_pilger_on_honduras
Special Note -
A quote...."Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary
filmmaker, John Pilger, joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on on
Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the media, health care, and Obama’s wars in
Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pilger has has written close to a dozen books
and made over 50 documentaries on a range of subjects including
struggles around the world for a more just and peaceful society and
against Western military and economic intervention. [Includes rush
transcript]
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Straight Talk:
Revealing the Real U.S.-Africa Policy ---
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6236
Special Note - A
quote...."It's time for some straight talk on U.S. foreign policy as it
relates to Africa. While Obama administration officials and the U.S.
African Command (AFRICOM) representatives insist that U.S. foreign
policy towards Africa isn't being militarized, the evidence seems to
suggest otherwise. While Africans condemned U.S. military policy in
Africa under the Bush administration, the Obama administration has not
only mirrored Bush's approach, but has in fact enhanced it." --
also posted at CommonDreams
--- http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/07-6
For more on this issue see....Africa
- the Next Target - 02-28-08 - mpg
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/africathenexttarget-blog-mpg-022808
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Obama
Warns Russia Not to ‘Interfere’ in Neighboring States
---
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/07/obama-warns-russia-not-to-interfere-in-neighboring-states/
Obama's just a complete laugh
riot, the US-NRE is currently invading every country on the planet and
he makes statements like this. This suggests he's either
seriously disconnected from reality, or he's deeply psychotic....or
both. - mpg – A quote...."During a visit to Moscow this week
aimed at improving ties with the Russian government, President Barack
Obama warned the nation not to interfere in neighboring states and to
get past its “old ways of thinking.”
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Historian
says US backed “efficacious terror” in 1965 Indonesian massacre
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14254
A quote...."The United States and British governments, supported by
Australia, were deeply complicit in the murder of more than half a
million alleged communist sympathisers in the wake of the 1965
Indonesian coup, a prominent historian told an international conference
in Singapore last month."
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What
Are They Afraid Of? ---
http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m55757&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."First, they took his name out of Iraqi history books. Then,
they made a criminal charge that constitutes a two-year prison sentence
for displaying a picture of him in public. Now, the Iraqi government
has banned people from visiting Saddam Hussein's grave."
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CHILE:
Alternative Media Have Their Network ---
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47563
A quote...."SANTIAGO, Jul 7 (IPS) - The recently created People's Media
Network of Chile seeks to forge links that will strengthen newspapers,
web sites and radio and TV stations that give a voice to those who are
basically ignored by the mainstream media."
also posted at UpsideDwnWrld
--- http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1975/68/
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MI5
accused over 'torture deal' ---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8137504.stm
A quote...."A British man convicted of being a member of al-Qaeda has
accused MI5 and police of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
-- Rangzieb Ahmed, from Rochdale, said he was offered a shorter jail
term if he would drop claims UK officials were involved in his alleged
torture." --
also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/201168
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Inquiry
agreed into alleged torture of Iraqis by UK soldiers
---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/06/basra-iraq-torture-inquiry
A quote...."An independent inquiry is to be held into allegations that
British soldiers mutilated and murdered civilians in Iraq – and the
government has been forced to admit that key documents had not been
disclosed. -- In a letter read out in court today, the defence
secretary, Bob Ainsworth, said he "profoundly regrets" the failures to
disclose relevant documents. Though he denied the allegations, he said
he was now prepared to set up an inquiry under European human rights
convention articles enshrining the right to life and prohibiting
torture, or inhuman or degrading treatment."
also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m55753&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Ron
Paul:
---
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2009/07/07/ron-paul-if-you-support-the-views-of-the-declaration-of-independence-
today-then-you-will-be-put-on-a-subversive-list/
Video - A quote...."If
you support the views of the Declaration of Independence today, then
you will be put on a subversive list. -- A message from Ron Paul."
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Acquitted
Detainees Could Stay in Prison ---
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/07/not-guilty-no-guarantee-obama-administration-will-release-detainees/
Special Note - The title says it all, the US-NRE has
become one big sick joke of itself. - mpg -- A quote...."Top
Pentagon lawyer Jeh Johnson informed the Senate Armed Services
Committee today that the Obama Administration might decide to continue
imprisoning detainees indefinitely, even if they were charged with a
crime,
tried and acquitted." -
bold by website editor
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New
challenge on “state secrets” ---
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/new-challenge-on-state-secrets/
A quote...."Seeking to go forward with a legal challenge to the Bush
Administration’s secret “rendition” program, lawyers for individuals
claiming to have been tortured during that program urged a federal
appeals court Monday to turn aside an Obama Administration move to shut
down the case altogether."
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Pervasive
Surveillance Continuing Under Obama. New DHS-NSA-AT&T
"Cybersecurity" Partnership
---
http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2009/07/pervasive-surveillance-continuing-under.html
Under the rubric of cybersecurity, the Obama administration is moving
forward with a Bush regime program to screen state computer traffic on
private-sector networks, including those connecting people to the
Internet, The Washington Post revealed July 3. -- That project,
code-named "Einstein," may very well be related to the much-larger,
ongoing and highly illegal National Security Agency (NSA)
communications intercept program known as "Stellar Wind," disclosed in
2005 by The New York Times.
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NSA
To Spend $1.8 Billion on New Data Center ---
http://revolutionradio.org/2009/07/07/nsa-to-spend-18-billion-on-new-data-center/
Related Article - A quote...."The United States’ National Security
Agency (NSA) is planning on spending around $1.8 billion to build
itself a new, million square foot data center in Fort Williams, Utah,
according to a document on military construction for 2009. This
branching out is largely due to the fact that the NSA’s power bill is
too much, so the move is in hopes of doing the same work in a place
where electricity is cheaper. The initial infrastructure is for 65MW of
power distribution, but it seems that the ultimate plan is to build a
5.8 million square foot “campus” at its current data center in Fort
Meade."
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Fiat
Money in Death Throes ---
http://revolutionradio.org/2009/07/06/fiat-money-in-death-throes/
Special Note -
Quote of the Day...."Banking was
conceived in iniquity and born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take
it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and
with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it
back again. However, take away that power, and all the great fortunes
like mine will disappear — as they ought to in order to make this a
happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the
slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let them
continue to create deposits.” -- *
Sir Josiah Stamp* (1880-1941), one
time governor of the Bank of England, in his Commencement Address at
the University of Texas in 1927. Reportedly he was the second
wealthiest individual in Britain.
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Senate
Blocks Bill To Audit The Fed As Government Prepares For Second Round Of
Looting
---
http://www.prisonplanet.com/senate-blocks-bill-to-audit-the-fed-as-government-prepares-for-second-round-of-looting.html
Special Note - Related
Article - A quote...."Senator Jim DeMint slams Fed’s monopoly,
questions where trillions in bailout funds has gone -- A Senate
amendment based on Congressman Ron Paul’s successful House bill to
audit the Federal Reserve was blocked by the Senate yesterday evening
on procedural grounds, as Jim DeMint slammed the Fed for refusing to
disclose where trillions in bailout funds had gone, while a top Obama
administration advisor called for a second “stimulus” package to be
prepared."
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US
lurching towards 'debt explosion' with long-term interest rates on
course to double
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5754447/US-lurching-towards-debt-explosion-with-long-
term-interest-rates-on-course-to-double.html
Special Note - Related
Article - A quote...."The US economy is lurching towards crisis with
long-term interest rates on course to double, crippling the country’s
ability to pay its debts and potentially plunging it into another
recession, according to a study by the US’s own central bank."
also posted at ICH
--- http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22997.htm
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ABA:
Consumers delinquent on loans rises to record level ---
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/consumer-loan-delinquencies-rise-to-record-high
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The number of consumers who
were delinquent on their loans rose to a record level in the first
quarter of 2009, according to the American Bankers Association."
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U.S.
Home Prices to Fall Through 2011’s First Quarter (Update1)
---
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aWJ1aTFKp35E
A quote...."July 7 (Bloomberg) -- Home prices may fall in more than
half of the largest U.S. cities through the first quarter of 2011 as
unemployment and foreclosures rise, mortgage insurer PMI Group Inc.
said. -- Thirty of the 50 biggest metropolitan areas have at least a 75
percent chance of lower prices through March 31, 2011, Walnut Creek,
California-based PMI said in a report today. The decline is likely to
spread to “all regions of the nation” from California, Florida, Nevada
and Arizona, the states most affected by the housing slump, PMI said."
also posted at AtheoNews
---
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/07/us-home-prices-to-fall-through-2011s.html
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Bottom
falls out of economic predictions after relapse in [British]
manufacturing
---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/07/uk-manufacturing-output-recession
A quote...."Hopes that Britain may be emerging from its steepest slump
in output since the Great Depression were dashed when the government
announced that a relapse in the manufacturing sector had reduced
factory production to its
lowest
level in 17 years." -- bold by website editor
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Unemployment
skyrockets throughout Europe ---
http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jul2009/unem-j08.shtml
This website editor has very
little sympathy for the Europeans. For the longest time they kept
allowing their banks to buy US-NRE crap when they knew better and to
this day they still keep on accepting US-NRE paper, including
dollars. For stupidity like that they deserve exactly what
they're gonna get. - mpg -- A quote...."Unemployment has
reached a 10-year high in Europe. -- The official jobless rate in the
16-nation euro currency zone rose to 9.5 percent in May, from April’s
9.3 percent. -- The European Union (EU) statistics office Eurostat
revealed that 273,000 people lost their jobs in May. The Eurostat
figures are based on the EU Labour Force Survey and recorded the
eurozone unemployment total in May at 15.13 million people."
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Worst
of social, political crisis ahead: WTO chief ---
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Worst_of_social_political_crisis_ah_07072009.html
A quote...."The worst social and political effects of the economic
crisis are "still to come," WTO chief Pascal Lamy said Tuesday, warning
these could push countries deeper into trade protectionism."
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S&P,
Fitch Upgrade Brazil . . . Moody's May Follow -
A BRIC does good. - mpg
---
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/s-fitch-upgrade-brazil-moodys-may.html
A quote...."BreakingViews notes: -- Moody’s may bestow its
investment-grade blessing on the country, after similar upgrades by
Fitch and S&P. That would reward Brazil’s monetary and fiscal
policies. It would also cement its status both as an example for other
developing countries and as the best Bric investment. -- Of course,
Brazil has profited handsomely from China's hunger for raw resources.
So it is important to ask whether China's commodity buying spree is
slowing down. And if so, how severely will that effect Brazil's
economy?"
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China's
2Q growth may top 7.5 pct, researcher says -
And so does another BRIC. - mpg
---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090707/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_economy;_ylt=Atv8i20HVhaa6KsH7Z6_qB6yBhIF;_ylu=
X3oDMTJscDY2NWZmBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNzA3L2FzX2NoaW5hX2Vjb25vbXkEcG9zAzEEc2VjA3luX2
FydGljbGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawNjaGluYXMycWdyb3c-
A quote...."BEIJING – China's economy is improving and
growth might top 7.5 percent for the quarter that ended in June, a
central bank researcher said in an official journal."
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Obama
Takes Bush’s Plutocratic-Socialism to the Next Level ---
http://www.libertariantoday.com/2009/07/obama-takes-bushs-plutocratic-socialism.html
Must Read - A
quote...."It has
been noted by observers of both Left and Right that the Obama
administration has adopted nearly exact duplications of the Bush
administration’s authoritarian policies in a multitude of areas, both
foreign and domestic. And now it appears that Obama and the Democrats
are only going to accelerate the economic plutocratic-socialism which
became a problem during the Clinton administration, increased
exponentially in the Bush years, and is poised to consume the entire
country and its economy under the Obama presidency."
also posted at ICH
--- http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22982.htm
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The
Great American Bubble Machine ---
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28816321/the_great_american_bubble_machine
Must Read - A
quote...."The
first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's
everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great
vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming
its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. -- Any attempt
to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in
influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise,
like trying to make a list of everything. What you need to know is the
big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found
a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the
system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a
society governed passively by free markets and free elections,
organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy."
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Happy
Co-Dependence Day ---
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22984.htm
Must Read - A
quote...."By
Cindy Sheehan -- July 05, 2009 "ICH"-- July 04, 2009 ---- One of
the
reasons, in my opinion, that so many people are ready, willing, able
and yes, eager to succumb to “hope,” is because most of us believe that
true change is not possible. -- In our heart of hearts, do we really
think that Obama is an agent of change for the people? Have we not been
fooled, yet again? So, we lay all of our hopes and dreams for a better
life on one person and allow the inevitable heartache of betrayal to
wash over us and once again drown us in disappointment when that person
turns out to be just another politician. Politicians just act like
politicians because we always let them."
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The Big
Whorehouse On The Potomac ---
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22978.htm
Must Read - A
quote...."July 03, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- -As Americans
celebrate July 4th, they can contemplate that the union of “free and
independent states,” like the former British colonial power, has
evolved into its final manifestation--a complete whore house. While
Members of Parliament in London charge their expense accounts with
every personal expenditure, including the rental of adult xxx-rated
films, an American newspaper put the reporting of public policy out to
bids until politico.com blew the whistle. -- In Washington, everything
is for sale, including journalistic integrity. The Washington Post,
which abandoned investigative reporting eons ago, decided to boost its
sagging revenues by spreading her legs. The Post’s business division
put out a flyer offering lobbyists access at the Post’s CEO’s gracious
home to “those powerful few” in the Obama administration, Congress, and
among the Post’s editors and reporters who decide the nation’s
policies, such as health care. -- The Washington Post’s flyer offered a
Wal-Mart low cost of a mere $25,000 for one “salon” to interact with
decision makers and $250,000 for eleven interactions. "
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Western
Media Persists in Propaganda About Iraq's Purported WMD
---
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/07/western-media-persists-in-propaganda.html
Must Read - Related
Article - A quote...."The mainstream media is reporting that former
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein told his FBI interrogators after his
capture that he lied about having weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
because he feared Iran. But there’s just one problem with this claim:
Saddam Hussein never claimed to have WMD, but , as everybody knows,
repeatedly denied that this was so."
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Declaration
of Indictment ---
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/07/western-media-persists-in-propaganda.html
A quote...."When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for
one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
with a gang of lawless thugs and insist on the appointment of a special
prosecutor to enforce the laws of the land even against those until
recently holding the reins of Power, a decent respect to the opinions
of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
them to the Prosecution." --
also
posted at ConsortiumNews
--- http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/070409b.html
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Conspiracy
fever: As rumours swell that the government staged 7/7, victims'
relatives call for a proper inquiry
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14233
Special Note - A
quote...."Today almost four years on, the images of that dreadful
morning are etched into our minds: the woman in the haunting white
burns mask being helped to safety; the shell-shocked businessman in a
suit with his hair and shirt matted with blood; the crippled No 30 bus
with its roof blown off; the mangled wreckage of smouldering Tube
trains. -- The country's worst-ever terrorist atrocity during London's
morning rush hour on July 7, 2005, shattered for ever the heady
euphoria in which the capital was basking the morning after winning the
bid for the 2012 Olympics. -- That afternoon, Tony Blair - who was
hosting the G8 summit on global poverty in Gleneagles, Scotland -
returned to Downing Street to pronounce that the attack was an act in
the 'name of Islam'. " --
also
posted at PrisonPlanet
---
http://www.prisonplanet.com/daily-mail-rumours-swell-that-the-government-staged-77.html
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Four
Years Ago: THE LONDON 7/7 BOMBINGS ---
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14225
Special Note - Related
Article - From the History File - Article List - A quote...."Global
Research brings to the attention of its readers key articles on the
London July 7, 2005 bombings."
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9/11,
Waterboarding, a Confession and the Iraq War ---
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090630150642394
Special Note -
Video - A quote...."Enver Masud was
one of the speakers at a "Demand Accountability for Torture" rally, on
June 25, 2009, in John Marshall Park, in Washington, D.C. He questioned
how Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was" waterboarded 183 times by the
CIA," and then confessed to being the "mastermind of 9/11," can get a
"fair trial"in this country. Mr. Masud connected the dots between 9/11,
the waterboarding of a detainee, a so-called "confession," and the Iraq
War. Mr. Masud is the founder and CEO of "The Wisdom Fund" and the
author of "The War on Islam." See,
http://twf.org/
"
For more on this issue see....9/11
- Iraq - Torture Fables ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909
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Report:
Saudis to overlook Israeli jets headed to Iran ---
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3741272,00.html
War Alert - Related
Article --
Proof again of Saudi
complicity with the "Great Game". For the last thirty years the
Saudi Royals have been engaged with the PNAC Neocons and Israel (The
True Axis of Evil)
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thetrueaxisofevil-mpg-blog-101008
--- in a massive,
coordinated effort to destabilize the entire Middle East by supporting
every single xenophobic, violent, Wahabbist, Salafist, Jihadist,
terrorist group out there. - mpg
"They
have, in the end, allowed Islam to be deliberately besmirched,
degraded, denigrated and twisted in front of the entire international
community so they could continue to engage in a program, along with the
United States, to "pacify" the unruly peoples of the Middle East in
order to make them conform with the "New World Order", adopt
"Neo-Liberal" economic policies and submit to the will of these elites
while ensuring the Saudi Royals continual comfort and security. --
Their plans are as obvious and as childish as they are corrupt and
utterly evil." -- quoted from *The
Kingdom of Leprosy*
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thekingdomofleprosy-blog-mpg-100708
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Will
Israel help NATO police the Mediterranean? ---
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097783.html
Related Article - A quote...."Israel is to issue a request shortly to
allow it to join a NATO operation in the Mediterranean aimed to prevent
the passage of terrorists and weapons of mass destruction as well as
improve the security of the region's shipping industry."
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As
Israel gears up for war, US divide appears ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99866§ionid=351020104
War Alert - A
quote...."As Israel continues its efforts to portray Iran as a regime
hell-bent on a nuclear war, top officials in the White House and the US
military express contradictory stances on a potential Israeli attack on
Iran. --
The top US military
commander, Admiral Mike Mullen, warned on Sunday that any military
strike against Iran would have "unintended consequences" - bold
by website editor -
Is Mike Mullen
an
AIPAC member? No....'nuff said. - mpg - also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/201057
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More on the
US-NRE's Honduran Coup....
Gob-smacked
--- http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn07032009.html
Must Read - A
quote...."There’s no continent where the pwogwessive “left” (I
have to set this exhausted noun on the crutches of gloomy quotemarks)
in the United States has entertained higher hopes of Obamian change
from traditional U.S. thuggery than Latin America. This was a big
constituency for Obama to allure last year. Radicals here in their
senior decades have been rooting for Cuba ever since they cheered
Fidel’s triumphant entry into Havana in 1959. Twenty-five years later
in the late 70s and mid-80s the hottest issue for young people on the
left in the US was the brutal and ultimately successful efforts of the
US government in the Carter and Reagan years to crush revolutions in El
Salvador and Nicaragua. To this day the “Hands off Central
America” movement of those years remains by far the most
determined mobilization of the US left in the post Vietnam era." --
The poor Obama believers, betrayed again
and again. It's actually sort of endless and it's only been five
months so far. Just think of what lays ahead, just how many more
betrayals they'll have to endure. On the other hand it appears Obama
may have already betrayed every promise or implied promise he's ever
made, so the good news is that he may very well have used up all his
"betrayals" and we'll all have to settle for brand new policies of
murder and mayhem that people haven't even contemplated yet. – mpg
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Honduran
military regime threatens reprisals as president plans return
---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/05/honduras-president-plans-return
A quote...."The ousted president of Honduras was last night poised to
make an extraordinary return to the country in a bid to retake office,
following last week's military-backed coup, despite fears that his
comeback could spark a bloodbath. -- Manuel Zelaya has been warned by
the interim government that it will arrest him and put him on trial if
he sets foot in the country. He has called on supporters to greet him
at the capital's airport, where he said he planned to arrive today in
the company of a number of other Latin American leaders, reportedly
including the president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner. -- Amid
continuing unrest on the streets of Honduras, more than 10,000 of his
supporters gathered near the heavily guarded presidential palace
yesterday and pledged they would be ready if he returns."
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Honduran
Military Ordered to Turn Back Zelaya's Jet ---
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/05-4
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduras braced for confrontation
Sunday as ousted President Manuel Zelaya insisted on coming home to
reclaim his post, urging his supporters to mass at the airport for a
showdown with the interim government in power since the army sent him
into exile a week ago."
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Thousands
March to Welcome Zelaya ---
http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98141&Itemid=1
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Jul 5l (Prensa Latina) Thousands of Hondurans
march to the international Toncontin air terminal to back
constitutional president, Manuel Zelaya 's return expected in the next
hours after a week since his forced departure by coupists."
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Two
killed in Honduras anti-coup rally
---
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=NLetter&id=64a03b95-67b0-408f-bbf7-159a8f5cef8f&Headline
=Two+killed+in+Honduras+anti-coup+rally
A quote...."At least two people were killed and two others were injured
on Sunday in clashes between soldiers and hundreds of supporters of
ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya at Toncontin airport in
Tegucigalpa."
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One
journalist killed and another wounded by hired assassins in Honduras
--- http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/julio/sab4/journalist.html
A quote...." Confirmed by Andrés Pavón by phone link to
YVKE Mundial • Murdered journalist is Gabriel Ciro
Noriega, from San Juan Pueblo municipality."
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Coup
sends Honduras ministers into hiding - 3 Jul 09 - (YouTube - 2 min
32 sec - July 03, 2009)
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6juG7mAboQ&videos=DQ_ILSJDN2w
Video -
Special Note - A quote...."Since
Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras was forced into exile by the
military and supreme court, many of his former cabinet members have
fled the country. -- But for those who have stayed behind the constant
threat of arrest by the country's new leadership means they are living
in fear."
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Honduran
[Junta] Takes Control of Some Media ---
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124658463338890161.html
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Honduras's provisional government,
while trying to persuade the international community that its overthrow
of its president was democratic, is being criticized for taking control
of a number of media outlets since the coup."
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O.A.S.
Votes to Suspend Honduras Over Coup ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/world/americas/05honduras.html?_r=1&hp
A quote...."WASHINGTON — The Organization of American States voted
Saturday night to suspend Honduras, but after deliberations that lasted
until nearly midnight, it stopped short of calling on member countries
to impose sanctions on the interim government responsible for ousting
President Manuel Zelaya."
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Nicaragua
denies troops headed toward Honduras ---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090705/wl_afp/honduraspoliticsmilitarycoupnicaragua
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AFP) – Nicaragua denied Sunday
moving its troops toward the border with Honduras, as claimed by
interim Honduran leader Robert Micheletti ahead of the expected return
of ousted President Manuel Zelaya."
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More On The
Iranian Election....
Two-third
of Iran unrest arrests 'released' ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99857§ionid=351020101
A quote...."Iran's Police Chief, Brigadier General Esmail
Ahmadi-Moqaddam, says two-third of those arrested in the country's
post-election violence have been released."
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Mousavi
details accusations of fraud in Iran vote -
It's not exactly a smoking gun....to put
it mildly. - mpg
---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99873§ionid=351020101
Special Note - A
quote...."Defeated Iranian presidential contender Mir-Hossein Mousavi
has released a new report detailing what he calls 'irregularities' in
the June 12 election. -- The report, prepared by the Committee for the
Protection of Votes which is run by Mousavi's campaign office, accused
the re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of abusing the national
financial resources for his election campaign."
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Iran
official urges media crackdown ---
http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m55716&hd=&size=1&l=e
Oh, the Iranian hardliners are
being ridiculous, they're to blame for much of what happened during the
last election because they keep thinking defensively, they should just
get their rich supporters to create a broadcast network, dig up as much
dirt on the "Great Game" including the "True Axis of Evil's", Mossad's,
MI6's (SIS's), and the
CIA's malevolent involvement throughout the Middle East, and broadcast
it 24/7. They should get their own intelligence services to help. Be PROACTIVE!! Not SUPPRESSIVE!! The reason many of the
wealthy youth in Iran were willing to support Britain’s little power
play is because all the stuff coming from the hardliners is just a
bunch of empty propagandistic slogans. You can't just call the
US-NRE the "Great Satan" all the time.....you have to show WHY the US-NRE is the "Great Satan"
all the time. They should do themselves and the world a favor and
get out there, dig up the juicy stuff, and PLASTER IT EVERYWHERE! – mpg
-- A quote...."The head of Iran's judiciary has called for
a crackdown on television channels and websites deemed to have been
criticial of the government. -- "The daily growth of anti-regime
satellite channels and ... websites needs serious measures to confront
this phenomenon," state television quoted Ayatollah Mahmoud
Hashemi-Shahroudi as saying on Sunday. -- "Those who co-operate with
such websites and television channels will face prosecution," he said
in a circular addressed to branches of the judiciary."
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IRGC
sees no middle ground in Iran's polity ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99877§ionid=351020101
A quote...."Political head of the Islamic Revolution's Guards Corps
says that no one can remain impartial following the disputed
presidential election."
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Ahmadinejad
challenges Obama to live debate ---
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/07/ahmadinejad-challenges-obama-to-live.html
A quote...."After his reelection as Iran's president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad extends an invitation to his American counterpart Barack
Obama for a debate before the eyes of the world. -- Addressing Iranian
heads of medical universities on Saturday, President Ahmadinejad
offered to debate President Obama at the United Nations headquarters in
New York before the eyes of all nations of the world. -- President
Ahmadinejad had previously urged a debate with former US president
George W. Bush."
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Netanyahu
reaffirms commitment to racism and expansionism – thanks to US tax
dollars
---
http://jnoubiyeh.blogspot.com/2009/07/netanyahu-reaffirms-commitment-to.html
A quote...."To judge by the next day’s headlines, Benjamin Netanyahu’s
policy speech last month was a great success. “Israeli premier backs
state for Palestinians,” declared the New York Times. “Israel endorses
two-state goal,” said the Washington Post. “Netanyahu backs Palestinian
state,” announced the Guardian. -- He did no such thing, of course,
unless by “state” one understands an amorphous entity lacking a
definite territory, not allowed to control its own borders or airspace,
shorn of any vestige of sovereignty (other than a flag and perhaps a
national anthem), not allowed to enter into treaties with other states
– and permanently disarmed and hence at the mercy of Israel. It would
make about as much sense to call an apple an orange or a piano a
speedboat as to call such a construct a state, and yet those are the
conditions that Netanyahu imposed on the creation of such an entity for
the Palestinians (if they get that far in the first place)."
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Israel
razes Palestinian mall in Um Al-Fahim ---
http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2009/07/israel-razes-palestinian-mall-in-um-al.html
Contains Video - A
quote....""Israel has destroyed a Palestinian mall in the Arab town of
Um al-Fahim. Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes has drawn
international criticism, with rights groups calling on the
international community to stop Tel Aviv from continuing its
destruction of houses. PressTV's Shireen Yassin has more."
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A Life
in Ruins ---
http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m55712&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."In the immediate aftermath of Israel's bloody three-week
war with Hamas in January, Peter Beaumont travelled to Gaza and met the
Palestinians devasted by the death of their families and the
destruction of their neighbourhoods. Six months later he returns to
find they are still waiting - to rebuild both their homes and their
lives."
For more on this issue
see....Gaza
Invasion of 12/27/08 ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/thegazainvasion-mpg-weblist-122708
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Why
Obama should fire General Dayton ---
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10639.shtml
A quote...."The US-sponsored "security coordination" program headed by
Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, which was launched by the Bush Administration in
2005 to allegedly help the Palestinians reform their security services,
has done more harm than good. US President Barack Obama would do well
to fire Dayton and put an end to US intrusion into internal Palestinian
affairs." --
Everyone has to
understand, the US-NRE is just trying to "help" "'dem poor liddle Aaaa-rabs". For
more on the "kind of help" the US-NRE likes to give see....US
Sponsored Civil Wars - Palestine
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussponsoredcivilwars-weblist-mpg-101107#PALESTINE
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US
McKanny, 13 activists still in Israel jail, Bahrainis freed
--- http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=44394
A quote...."Five Bahraini activists was deported on Friday but 14 Free
Gaza activists are still under Israeli jail."
also posted at CounterCurrents
--- http://www.countercurrents.org/wb050709.htm
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Cynthia
McKinney Refuses Israel's Offer of Release from Custody --
http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=132132&catid=3&provider=email
A qoute...."ATLANTA, Ga. -- Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia
McKinney, who was taken into custody by the Israeli Navy on Tuesday
with 20 others while trying to sail through a navy blockade to deliver
humanitarian supplies to Gaza, has refused Israel's initial offer to
release her from custody. According to her supporters in Atlanta,
McKinney refused the offer because she
would have been required to sign an admission of guilt that she
violated Israel's blockade." - bold by website editor --
My goodness, a woman of principals, as apposed to
that craven, obsequious, butt-kissing, AIPAC genuflecting, marionette,
we currently have occupying the White House. Gentle readers, many of
you shamefully made the wrong
choice
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/youhaveachoice-democracyorempire-blog-mpg-072408
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this last November. – mpg
also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/201009
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Letter From
An Israeli Jail, By Cynthia McKinney ---
http://www.countercurrents.org/fg050709.htm
Contains Audio - A
quote....
"This is Cynthia McKinney and I'm
speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the
Free Gaza 21, human rights activists currently imprisoned for trying to
take medical supplies to Gaza, building supplies - and even crayons for
children, I had a suitcase full of crayons for children. While we were
on our way to Gaza the Israelis threatened to fire on our boat, but we
did not turn around. The Israelis high-jacked and arrested us because
we wanted to give crayons to the children in Gaza. We have been
detained, and we want the people of the world to see how we have been
treated just because we wanted to deliver humanitarian assistance to
the people of Gaza." -- *Cynthia McKinney*
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Bill
banning forced identity-chip implants clears House
---
A quote...."HARRISBURG - Invasion of privacy is an issue that really
gets under State Rep. Babette Josephs’ skin. -- That’s why the
Philadelphia Democrat introduced a bill, passed unanimously last week
by the House, that would ban the forced implantation of computer chips
in humans. -- Conjuring Orwellian images, Josephs worries the
identification devices - the size of a grain of rice - could lead to a
real-life Big Brother nightmare."
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Martial
Law & Food Control In One Insane Bill - HR 2749
---
http://revolutionradio.org/2009/07/05/martial-law-food-control-in-one-insane-bill-hr-2749/
Special Note - A
quote...."HR 2749 is a strange bill in many ways. While the other “food
safety” bills have been around since winter, allowing for much public
discussion on the internet, HR 2749 has only suddenly appeared. It is a
mutant conglomeration of the worst of the other bills, with the
addition of one very original part – martial law."
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A
Covenant With Death ---
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2009/07/covenant-with-death.html
---
Or worse,
much, much worse. - mpg
Special Note - A
quote...."We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at
agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall
not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood
have we hid ourselves. -- *
Isaiah*
28:15 (KJV)
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“Any
American president is a hostage of his own political system”
---
http://www.russiatoday.com/Politics/2009-07-03/_Any_American_president_is_a_hostage_of_his_own_political_system_.html
A quote...."The views of the restricted group that Barack Obama
represents will be outlined in the American foreign policy, and Moscow
is yet to see the extent to which those views coincide with Russian
views." --
If Russia believes a
single word Obama says, it'll prove they haven't been paying very much
attention for the last five months and they'll deserve everything
they'll get. Which is to say at a minimum nothing at all, or
possibly even worse than that. -- mpg
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Clashes
at protest vs US base expansion in Italy ---
http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/07/04/clashes-at-protest-vs-us-base-expansion-in-italy/
A quote...."Protesters clash with police at demonstration against
expansion of US base in northern Italy."
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Nigerian
rebels threaten new gas pipeline project ---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090704/wl_afp/nigeriaoilunrestnigeralgeriagaspipeline
A quote...."LAGOS (AFP) – Nigeria's best known rebel group on Saturday
threatened to thwart a 10-billion-dollar trans-Saharan gas pipeline
linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe, but the army vowed to
protect the project."
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Central
African Republic rebels sign peace deal: mediator
---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090704/wl_africa_afp/centrafricapeacerebelsafricanunionlibyasummit
A quote...."LIBREVILLE (AFP) – The head of a rebel group which refused
to endorse a 2008 peace deal for the Central African Republic has
performed a U-turn, mediators said Saturday."
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PM
Erdogan sees Turkey's economy sixth largest in Europe
--- http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=44434
A quote...."The Turkish prime minister put on Sunday Turkey's economy
in the sixth place in the continent of Europe."
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Secret
agents force Spanish spy chief to quit ---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/03/spain-spy-chief-resigns
A quote...."Spain's spy chief, Alberto Saiz, has been forced to resign
after his own agents turned on him, employing the tricks of the trade
to overthrow their boss at the country's National Intelligence Centre
(CNI). -- In a constant flow of black propaganda over several months,
disgruntled agents leaked photographs of Saiz's exotic fishing and
hunting outings during business trips abroad and claimed that he even
used the agency's divers to clean his swimming pool."
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Lula
to call for solidarity with poor nations at G8 ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99717§ionid=3510213
A qoute...."Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula will call on wealthy
nations to moderate their demands from poor countries during a G8
summit in Italy."
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A
New Life for the IMF: Capitalizing on Crisis ---
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1612/1/
Special Note - A
quote...."April's G-20 meeting - involving the heads of state of 20 of
the world's most economically powerful countries - failed to yield an
agreement on increased European stimulus spending or on new global
financial regulatory rules. But it did feature one overriding tangible
agreement: A commitment to expand massively the International Monetary
Fund (IMF), in order to channel funds to developing countries rocked by
the financial crisis." --
Also known
as extortion, first you bust the financial system up, than you loan
money to the "poor liddle darkies" to "help"
(that dreaded word again) them out, than at the back end you grind them
into the dust all over again with usurious interest rates. And
the best part of the deal is even if leaders in a given country don't
won’t to "participate" or "play ball", there are usually many others
that can be bribed who will, and....how can one put this delicately,
they will be perfectly happy to "arrange" for the removal of those who
won't. – mpg
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India
Joins Russia, China in Questioning U.S. Dollar Dominance
---
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aR7yfqUwTb4M
A quote...." July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Suresh Tendulkar, an economic
adviser to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said he is urging the
government to diversify its $264.6 billion foreign-exchange reserves
and hold fewer dollars. -- “The major part of Indian reserves is in
dollars -- that is something that’s a problem for us,” Tendulkar,
chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, said in an
interview yesterday in Aix-en-Provence, France, where he was attending
an economic conference." --
also
posted at BLN
--- http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-4732-0-13-13--.html
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Calls
grow to supplant dollar as global currency
---
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/calls-grow-to-supplant-dollar-as-global-currency/article1207242/
A quote...."The call to find an alternative to the U.S dollar as the
global reserve currency is gaining momentum as France joined calls by
China, India and Russia for a review of the world's currency
practices."
also posted at RogueGov
---
http://www.roguegovernment.com/Calls_grow_to_supplant_dollar_as_global_currency/16330/0/8/8/Y/M.html
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"Nowadays you have to carefully
pick your way through a veritable obstacle-course of pro-Zionists,
Chosen Ones and Israeli stooges that inhabit every nook and cranny in
the corridors of power and dominate Britain’s key defence bodies. These
Israeli flag-wavers seem only too happy for the Israelis to piss on us
– and on the rest of the world – while rewarding them with more and
more trade and scientific co-operation."
"The only chance we have as a
country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major
weapon in the United States." -- *Michael
Scheur*
"If your enemy is secure at all
points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him.
If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be
weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no
rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject
are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is
unprepared, appear where you are not expected." -- *Sun Tzu*, the Art of War