Wednesday July 7th 2010 - links page

The Case for War: The Iron Mountain Report - It's BUILT into the "system" folks, it always has been.
  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/07/07/the-case-for-war-the-iron-mountain-repor
Must Read - A quote...."In his 1966 book, "How the World Really Works," Alan B. Jones included a chapter on the "Report from Iron Mountain: On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace," later published in 1967 by The Dial Press. It became a bestseller, then disappeared. Now few copies are available, but when circulating in the 1960s, it was reported that concerned Johnson administration officials ordered global US embassies to downplay it, saying it had nothing to do with policy. Later accounts doubted the material's authenticity, suggesting it was a hoax. True or false, its findings are reviewed below because they accurately reflect longstanding US policy." - also posted at Uruknet  ---http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m67708&hd=&size=1&l=e
& Mathaba  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=623833  ---  For more on this issue see....Effective Fed Funds Rate &  Total Nonfarm Payrolls  ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407  ---  See also the related article shown below....
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No, He Won't... End the 'Global War on Terror'  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/07-1
Must Read - A quote...."Barack Obama may not have come into office pledging to get the U.S. out of Afghanistan, but he did pledge one thing: to close the Bush-era prison at Guantánamo within a year.  That couldn't have been clearer.  And as I wrote back then, it was also a reasonable basis on which to judge whether a democratic administration could do anything significant to roll back our Bush-created Homeland Security Nation and alter American policy abroad. - Now, we have our answer -- and it couldn't be clearer either.  No, he can't.  Or won't."
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Police State Canada  ---  http://tv.globalresearch.ca/content/police-state-canada
Must View Video - Alt  ---  http://vimeo.com/13097041  ---  (Vimeo - 18min 08sec - 07/05/10) - (Place cusor over frame for controls) -- A quote...."This film is a pastiche work made up mostly of videos uploaded to the internet in the aftermath of the G20 summit in Toronto. All credit goes to the independent journalists and activist who risked assault by the police to capture these images."

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War of Words...  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m67707&hd=&size=1&l=e
Must Read - A quote...."Language, words, baskets of sentences...individual perceptions, experiences, the subjective made objective, black on white...the subjective becomes my objective world, it becomes MY world. It becomes my Word...  What is so difficult to understand about that ? No really, seriously, what is so difficult about this very simple equation ? -- July 2006 - July 2010, 4 years I've been spilling my guts, on paper...not just my guts, but also facts, proofs, historical tidbits, my own personal history meshing into a collective history, another window, a different window...  I've wanted my blog to be a window...and eventually a door...first you look and if you like what you see, you enter...into the world of an Iraqi, into the voice of an Iraqi who refuses your lies...and who is holding onto that house, that home with a window and a door, made of words..."  - Source:  ArabWomanBlues
  ---  http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2010/07/war-of-words.html
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The Charge of the Media Brigade  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25893.htm
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."July 07, 2010 "Information Clearing House" - -- The TV anchorwoman was conducting a split-screen interview with a journalist who had volunteered to be a witness at the execution of a man on death row in Utah for 25 years. “He had a choice,” said the journalist, “lethal injection or firing squad.” “Wow!” said the anchorwoman. Cue a blizzard of commercials for fast food, teeth whitener, stomach stapling, the new Cadillac. This was followed by the war in Afghanistan presented by a correspondent sweating in a flak jacket. “Hey, it’s hot,” he said on the split screen. “Take care,” said the anchorwoman. “Coming up” was a reality show in which the camera watched a man serving solitary confinement in a prison’s “hell hole.”
also posted at TheExcavator  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2010/07/charge-of-media-brigade.html
& LewRockwell  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/pilger/pilger84.1.html
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American Media Analysis: When is Torture Not Torture? (Hint: If the US is Involved….)
  ---  http://enduringamerica.com/2010/07/06/american-media-analysis-when-is-torture-not-torture-hint-if-the-us-is-involved/
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."The conclusion of the study:   The results of this study demonstrate that there was a sudden, significant, shift in major print media’s treatment of waterboarding [of course the US-NRE has done much, much worse.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ustorture&sexualperversion-weblist-mpg-031309  ---  mpg] at the beginning of the 21st century. The media’s modern coverage of waterboarding did not begin in earnest until 2004, when the first stories about abuses at Abu Ghraib were released. After this point, articles most often used words such as “harsh” or “coercive” to describe waterboarding or simply gave the practice no treatment, rather than labeling it torture as they had done for the previous seven decades." - bold by website editor - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m67683&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Infinite Jest: State Terror From Nixon to Obama  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/1987-infinite-jest-the-normalization-of-state-terror.html
Special Note - A quote...."As Arthur Silber pointed out  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-on-scary-russian-spies-and-on-what.html  ---  so ably out the other day, the high and horrendous crimes that the world's governments will openly commit -- and admit to, if not brag about -- in their push for loot and power are by no means the full record of their depredations. This is, as Silber rightly says, "an absolute certainty given the testimony of history." Indeed. For while we look on, shocked and awed, at the public parade of horrors rolling by each day, there are foul deeds afoot which will only come to light -- in dribs and drabs, in shards and splinters --after many decades. (And of course this does not include the countless crimes of elitist power that will never surface, that lie forever buried and rotting with their victims.)"
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'Binjamin' Laden Say You Should Know These Answers  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/07/binjamin-laden-say-you-should-know.html
Special Note - A quote...."This blog, Sheila Stuff  ---  http://sheilastuff.blogspot.com/2008/03/when-donkeys-fly.html  ---  was originally written back in March of 2008, and has been updated to answer some of these questions on 9/11. --  Of course there had to be Arabs on those planes -- how else could the murderers ithe White House justify the genocidal assault and occupation of Iraq? And, if the immediate blaring of Bin Laden as being the mastermind wasn't enough, photos of the 19 perps were blazoned on every media outlet within hours of the attack. Still not convinced? Well, lookie here -- three passports and a bandana floating unsinged from the blazing inferno -- landing at the feet of the FBI... "
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Independence Day Was Buried in the 9/11 Rubble
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/07/independence-day-was-buried-in-911.html
Special Note - A quote...."July 4th, the day we're taught to celebrate as "Independence Day." Except our freedoms, liberty, safety and security were all buried on 9/11, along with any reason to celebrate 'independence.' -- All roads lead to and from 9/11. That false-flag worked well for the Neocon and Zionist vampires that staged that inside job. -- With the WTC rubble in the background, Americans were taught to fear and hate the Muslim world, and go on a planned decades long Crusade against Islam."  ---  http://www.cfr.org/publication/16878/redefining_the_war_on_terror.html
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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...."Five 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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Even One of These Little Ones...  ---  http://sheilastuff.blogspot.com/2010/05/even-one-of-these-little-ones.html
A quote...."Do you ever wonder what Jesus would say about the sadistic cesspool that is swirling throughout the Catholic disfunctional structure at tsunami speed? Unfortunately, since the New York Times drew attention to the issue in March, the answer to that is getting buried deeper each day under fresh accusations of child molestation, counter accusations, denials and sordid attempts at justification."
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Not Attacking Iran - The Reasons  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1KSzT3UvKs
Video - (YouTube - 4 min 35 sec - July 07, 2010) - Source:  108morris108  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108  ---  A quote...."Iran has a growing list of allies, and a growing inventory of ballistic missiles which can hit Israel's Nuclear facilities within minutes, and any shipping in the Gulf."
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Gulf Arab SUpport for Attacking Iran:  The Strange Case of the UAE
  ---  http://www.raceforiran.com/gulf-arab-support-for-attacking-iran-the-strange-case-of-the-uae
A quote...."The Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the United States, Yousef Al-Otaiba, is in the news for comments he made yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival–comments in which he apparently expressed some measure of support for a U.S. military attack on Iranian nuclear targets.  We have known Yousef since before his appointment as the UAE’s ambassador to the United States.  Based on our previous conversations with him, we do not believe that he wants to see a military confrontation between the United States and Iran."
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UAE rejects envy's 'attack Iran' remarks  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133857&sectionid=351020205  ---  So they say.....mpg
A quote...."The UAE says The Washington Times has "taken out of context" remarks made by its envoy to the US Yousef al-Otaiba regarding a military strike on Iran."
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No UK ban on refueling Iran planes  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133598&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."No ban has been imposed on refueling Iranian planes in British airports, an informed source in Iran Air's Britain and Ireland office says." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/228837
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Afghan probe excluded key witnesses  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LG08Df01.html
Must Read - Cover-Up Alert - A quote...."WASHINGTON - Eyewitnesses who saw US troops digging bullets out of the bodies of two Afghan mothers and a teenage girl after a botched Special Operation Forces raid in February were not interviewed in a follow-up investigation ordered by General Stanley McChrystal." also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/228932
& CounterPunch  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/porter07072010.html
& AsiaTimes  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LG08Df01.html
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NATO 'friendly fire' kills Afghan soldiers: police  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m67709&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."GHAZNI, Afghanistan — Police said Wednesday six Afghan soldiers were killed in a NATO air strike in Afghanistan, where the military announced the deaths of another three foreign soldiers fighting the Taliban." - Source:  Google - AFP
  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jkT9zvbiIwW4KFo9p9k2K4R6VHJA
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US-led forces kill two Afghan civilians  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133853&sectionid=351020403
A quote...."US-led soldiers have raided a village in northern Afghanistan, shooting dead two civilians and abducting about 20 others."
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Go Home! British troops withdraw from Afghan province over deaths  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/8/2x1VE2HbasE
Must View RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 4 min 31 sec - July 07, 2010) -- A quote...."In Afghanistan, British troops are to be replaced by U.S. forces in the southern Sangin province. More than a hundred British soldiers have been killed there- a third of all UK war casualties. For more analysis we're joined live by Christopher King from Liberty, a human rights organization in London."
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Taliban 'forced British pullout': militants  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m67711&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."The Taliban, who have been waging an insurgency against foreign forces in Afghanistan, said the British force was pulling out because of pressure from the militants' attacks. - "This is the start of the British forces' defeat in Afghanistan," Yousuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman said, reading what he said was a statement by Mullah Omar, the militant group's fugitive leader. - "We defeated them in Sangin. They'll be defeated in the rest of the country soon," Ahmadi said on the phone, without disclosing his location. - He said the American troops set to take over from the British "will face the same fate. We'll defeat the Americans as well there (Sangin)," he added." - Source: HindustanTimes - AFP  ---  http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/568939.aspx
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UK troops to pull out of Sangin  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/201077115742572738.html
A quote...."The United Kingdom will withdraw its troops from the Sangin district in Afghanistan's Helmand province, where they have suffered heavy casualties in recent months."
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Report: Blackwater OK’d plan to bribe Iraqis  ---  http://www.heyetnet.org/eng/iraq-news/5530-report-blackwater-okd-plan-to-bribe-iraqis.html
A quote...."Former top executives at Blackwater Worldwide say the U.S. security contractor sent about $1 million to its Iraq office with the intention of paying off officials in the country who were angry about the fatal shootings of 17 civilians by Blackwater employees, The New York Times reported Tuesday."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/228900
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US private Bradley Manning charged with leaking Iraq killings video
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/06/bradley-manning-charged-iraq-killings-video
Censorship Alert - A quote...."A US army intelligence analyst was today charged with leaking a highly classified video of American forces killing unarmed civilians in Baghdad and secret diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. - Private Bradley Manning, who had a top-secret security clearance, has been held in military custody in Kuwait since his arrest in Iraq in May over the video, which caused great embarrassment to the US military establishment. It showed an air strike that killed a dozen people, including two Iraqis working for Reuters news agency. The air crew is heard falsely claiming to have encountered a firefight in Baghdad and then laughing at the dead.  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/05/wikileaks-us-army-iraq-attack  ---  WikiLeaks gave the video the title Collateral Murder."  ---  http://collateralmurder.com/
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US-Russian Relations: Wooing the West  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20045
A quote...."The past two years have witnessed a much more pliable Russia, retreating from the fiery rhetoric of Putin concerning NATO, the war in Afghanistan and America ’s targetting of Iran. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has turned Russian foreign policy around, playing to US. He signed the new START treaty, agreed to transit war materiel to Afghanistan, and supports US-sponsored sanctions against Iran. To crown his charm offensive, he made a photo-op visit to the US last month to meet not only his “reset” friend in the White House, but business leaders such as Apple CEO Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley, much like his predecessor Nikita Khrushchev rubbed shoulders with American farmers a half century ago."
also posted at Creative-i  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/07/07/us-russian-relations-wooing-the-west-by-eric-walberg/
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Targetting Russia: Poland and US Amend Missile Defence Agreement  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20016
Related Article - And here's Russia's reward for the last two years of kowtowing to AIPAC/Israel's colony, the US-NRE. - mpg - A quote...."Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will sign an amended agreement on missile defence today in Krakow."
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Putin sets out strategy to foil insurgency in North Caucasus Tuesday
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/putinsetsoutstrategytofoilinsurgencyinnorthcaucasus-reuters-070710
A quote...."KISLOVODSK, Russia: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday unveiled a new strategy aimed at foiling Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus, promising to reduce grinding poverty and stamp out rampant corruption. -- Russia is struggling to contain an upsurge of attacks by rebels in the mainly Muslim provinces along its southern flank who in March took their war to the Russian heartland with deadly bombings in the Moscow metro."
Source: WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/228904
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Kyrgyzstan to restore damaged South with Russian money  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20100708/159732429.html
A quote...."BISHKEK, July 8 (RIA Novosti) - Kyrgyz authorities plan to allocate $100 million from a Russian loan received in 2009 to restore the violent-hit southern regions back to normal, a deputy prime minister from the country's interim government said on Thursday."
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Report: Mubarak has fallen ill  ---  http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=180682
A quote...."Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has fallen ill, Arab-language newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported Tuesday. - The 83-year-old president went a round of medical tests during a surprise visit to Paris, the paper reported. His illness is still unknown." - Eating too much Israeli crap perhaps? - mpg
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US nose in EU banks: Fight with terror or breach of rights?  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/2/pODh58Y3Kqs
Video - (RTYuTb - 2 min 50 sec -  July 07, 2010) -- Well, the US-NRE isn't doing all this "nosing" to track down "terrorist" money, since the US-NRE and Saudi Royals supplied most of it.  So there must be some other reason for this "mass data transfer" - mpg -- A quote...."The European Parliament is to vote on a deal that would allow the U.S. to access information on the bank transfers of European citizens. America says it's a necessary measure to track terror suspects. But critics say the proposal -- that's been discussed between the EU and U.S. for months now -- violates human rights. RT talks to Jan Philipp Albrecht, a Member of the European Parliament."
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Allegations of secret Colombian plan to undermine EU  ---  http://euobserver.com/22/30362  ---  The US-NRE's BEST friends south of the border. - mpg
Special Note - Possible Related Article - A quote...."EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A group of MEPs is calling for action as further details of an alleged covert operation conducted by the Colombian intelligence agency (DAS) continue to emerge, with one of its reported aims being to undermine the authority of the European Parliament. -- Recently released documents that were confiscated from the DAS by the Colombian Attorney General's office highlight the nature of "Operation Europe." -- The alleged action in Europe includes phone tapping and the interception of emails (Photo: Flickr.com) -- Its objective was to "neutralise the influence of the European judicial system, the European Parliament's human rights sub-committee, and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights," reads one text seen by this website."
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Getting By With False Flags and Terrorism  ---  http://factsnotfairies.blogspot.com/2010/07/getting-by-with-false-flags-and.html
Must View DDVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvItZ2GS88A  ---  (DDYuTb - 10min - March 30, 2010) -- A quote...."The fifth anniversary of the 7/7 London train bombings shows that control of the investigative and judicial processes along with media compliance equals getting by with murder. The British public just was not serious enough about the 'war on terror' and had to be taught a lesson. 9/11 wasn't good enough, it had to be close to home. -- The use of terrorism in the 20th century to achieve means to an end reached critical mass in Israel with the Irgun and other groups. Once upon a time even the elite insiders in the media reported on this as a matter of fact calling it a model for 'liberation.'"
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Does the US have a double standard for Israel? RT Interview with Danny Schechter
  ---  http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2010/07/does-us-have-double-standard-for-israel.html
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v_8cOQe45s&playnext_from=TL&videos=JNsm0vBBRko  ---  (RTYuTb - 7min 6sec - July 06, 2010) - Source:  RTAmerica  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RTAmerica  ---  A quote....""RTAmerica | July 06, 2010 - Danny Schechter says that the media doesn't help people understand the dynamics and instead engages in mass deception.." - Note: the new "you might also like...." section at PalestineVideo. - mpg
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Poland hands over Mossad agent involved in Mabhouh assassination
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7t%2bcf5h7we5VwDhg%2bB
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A quote...."WARSAW, (PIC)-- A Polish court decided on Wednesday to hand over a suspected German Mossad agent who was arrested in Warsaw at the request of the German federal prosecutor for involvement in the assassination of Hamas commander, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in Dubai about seven months ago."
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General Petraeus's leaked emails about Israel  ---  http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2010/07/general-petraeus-israel-emails
Special Note - A quote...."I've written the cover story for this week's New Statesman,  ---  http://www.newstatesman.com/north-america/2010/07/iraq-military-war-petraeus  ---  on the rise and rise of David Petraeus and America's "cult of the generals"."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/228923
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Obama endorses Netanyahu as “man of peace”  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/isra-j08.shtml
A quote...."President Barack Obama on Tuesday praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a man who “wants peace” and is “willing to take risks for peace.”
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It’s about money, not peace: Norman Finkelstein on Netanyahu visit to US
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/its-about-money-not-peace-norman-finkelstein-on-netanyahu-visit-to-us.html
Must View RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMVF3R4ceiU  ---  (RTYuTb - 7 min 38 sec - July 06, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, suffering on the global front after a string of setbacks, is meeting with US President Barack Obama in Washington to discuss a range of thorny issues. Norman Finkelstein, author of “A Farewell to Israel: The coming break-up of American Zionism”, shares his view on US-Israeli ‘unbreakable’ bond."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Hamas Lawmaker: Gaza Flotilla Did More Than 10,000 Rockets  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/07-8
Some quotes...."A few months ago, the Israeli government's blockade of Gaza was not a prominent issue on the world's agenda. Now, the Israeli government is being politically compelled to "ease" the blockade. Not end it: still, materials for reconstruction are not yet being let it in; still, exports from Gaza are not yet being allowed out; still, inputs for Gaza's factories are not yet being allowed in. But even the measures to "ease" the blockade which have now been announced, such as replacing the list of allowed items with a list of prohibited items, are demands which prior to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla the Israeli government summarily rejected."  --  "Who now doubts that strategic nonviolent action can transform the politics of the Israel/Palestine conflict? -- Not Hamas parliamentarian Aziz Dweik, the Wall Street Journal reports....


AGREED!! The rockets are stupid, illegal, unethical, immoral, and a war crime, not to mention being TOTALLY counter-productive.  Or to put it this way, the rockets have killed 28 Israelis over a nine year period, the Israelis have killed over 1,400 Palestinians in just a single three week military incursion alone. Throwing spit-balls at the fourth largest military power in the world, which is fully supported by the first largest military power in the world, when all you have are AK-47s and some glorified, un-aimed, flying, pipe-bombs is not only stupid, it's suicidal. - mpg
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Exposed: The truth about Israel's land grab in the West Bank
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/exposed-the-truth-about-israels-land-grab-in-the-west-bank-2020110.html
A quote...."Jewish settlers, who claim a divine right to the whole of Israel, now control more than 42 per cent of the occupied West Bank, representing a powerful obstacle to the creation of a Palestinian state, a new report has revealed." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m67710&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israeli soldier 'shot two women as they waved white flag
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7875702/Israeli-soldier-shot-two-women-as-they-waved-white-flag.html
A quote...."The Israeli army has charged one of its own soldiers with the manslaughter of two Palestinian women who were shot dead while waving white flags during the Gaza war."
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IDF Face New War Crimes Allegations: Children As Human Shields  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1473
A quote...."A new report issued today by human rights groups in Israel accuses the army of using human shields during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza last January. The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and Adalah have collected affidavits which reveal systemic, illegal practises."
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IOF bullets wound fisherman, 3 children injured in blast of IOF ordnance
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7kHv17lAbiuWQl8HnBmNsaZ5W9loE
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A quote...."RAFAH, (PIC)-- A Palestinian fisherman was wounded off the Gaza city beach when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) aboard gunboats fired at him while at work on Monday, medical sources told the PIC reporter." - For more on this sort of issue see....Israel's Scorched Earth
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israelsscorchedearth-weblist-mpg-022510
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Israeli troops storm into central Gaza Strip  ---  http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2099376&Language=en
A quote...."RAMALLAH, July 7 (KUNA) -- Israeli occupation troops accompanied by bulldozers stormed into Al Bureij and Maghazi camp in central Gaza strip on Wednesday." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/228902
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European campaign receives 9,000 requests to participate in Freedom Flotilla 2
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7OxX8bbmqHXpxHynV6BpOqlVG
FqKVb5fsH4VON1Qj1GrOIzx7A7OoyFZAYc0raba9RboOMSuuhjHCk7mhBfm0FIVUjPNVAIxm%2foOQlnDfFXw%3d
Flotilla News - Action Alert - A quote...."BRUSSELS, (PIC)-- The Brussels-based European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza said that there has been a large turnout for Freedom Flotilla 2, in terms of activists requesting to participate, and in terms of the number of ships. -- The campaign, which was one of the founders of the Freedom Flotilla coalition, in a press statement on Monday, boasted that the new flotilla has a few surprises in store for Israeli authorities, one of which is that seven of the ships scheduled to participate in the flotilla are from European counties." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/european-campaign-receives-9000-requests-to-participate-in-freedom-flotilla-2/
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/228926
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‘We Are The Accusers, Not The Accused’ : EDO Decomissioners victorious in court  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/07/12862/?utm_source=
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Action Update - Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfa8R2AxUFg  ---  Some quotes...."On 16th January 2009 seven U.K. peace activists broke into the premises of EDO MBM, suppliers of weapons components [to Israel] and in the words of one of them, Elijah Smith ’set out to smash it up to the best of our abilities’."  --  "Once inside the building, they barricaded themselves in and set to work. Equipment used to make weapon components were trashed and computers, filing cabinets and office furnishings were thrown out of the windows. Once they were done they calmly waited for the police to arrest them. Two activists who supported them outside the factory gates were also on trial. All of the defendants have argued that what they did was not only morally necessary but crucially that it was legal. U.K law allows the commission of damage of property to prevent greater crimes." - bold/underline by website editor
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Protesters greet Netanyahu in Washington as Israel expands settlements  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11378.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
Action Update - A quote...."Hundreds of activists in Washington, DC demonstrated outside the White House to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit on Tuesday, 6 July. As protesters held signs calling on the US government to end military aid to Israel, Netanhayu met with US President Barack Obama in a meeting characterized by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as "empty theatrics."
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Meg Ryan and Dustin Hoffman miss Jerusalem film festival after Gaza raid
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jul/07/meg-ryan-dustin-hoffman-jerusalem-film-festival
Action Update - Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because it's one of the EASIEST and most PAINLESS things YOU CAN DO to  end Israel's onslaught against the Palestinian people!  - mpg -- A quote...."Hollywood actors Meg Ryan [Photo]  ---  and Dustin Hoffman cancelled plans to attend the Jerusalem film festival following Israel's raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla that left nine dead earlier this year, an official has told the Jerusalem Post newspaper." - 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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US Social Forum concludes with call for BDS, recognizing Zionism as racism
  ---  http://usacbi.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/new-video-us-social-forum-concludes-with-call-for-bds-recognizing-zionism-as-racism/
Action Alert - Contains Video - Alt  ---  Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because, enough is enough already! - mpg -- A quote...."“We call on all organization and social movements to boycott, divest and sanction the Israeli apartheid state and the institutions the support it.” -- “We affirm that Zionism is a form of racism that denies Palestinians the right to self-determination.” -- *US Social Forum National People’s Movement Assembly*, 2010" -- 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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WE INVENTED IT - So you can't fool us, don't even try it:  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/07/we-invented-it.html
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because....well....it's the Irish thing to do! - mpg -- A quote...."link The term ‘occupation’ conjures up painful memories in a land forced to endure centuries of English conquest. -- The etymological origins of the term "boycott" are being dug back out of the bog of Irish history due to recent events in Gaza. Pro-Palestinian campaigners in Dublin delight in recounting how a certain Capt. Charles Boycott was socially ostracized for serving as estate manager for an absentee landlord during the bitter "Land War" that raged on Ireland's windswept Atlantic coast in the late 19th century. "Today the Irish must send a message to the Israelis - we invented boycotting and we're still bloody good at it," bellowed one rabble-rouser at a recent rally in the Irish capital." -- 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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Human Rights Volunteers Needed in Palestine  ---  http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16114
Action Alert - A quote...."Since 2002, the International Women’s Peace Service in Palestine (IWPS-Palestine) has been documenting and non-violently intervening in human rights abuses carried out by the Israeli military and Israeli settlers in the Occupied West Bank against the Palestinian civilian population.  We are the only all women team of internationals working in the Occupied West Bank and we are currently looking for new volunteers to join us on the ground in Palestine. (See here.)"
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Israeli courts criminalize protest: Adeeb Abu Rahma sentenced to two years  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/07/12843/?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."Israeli repression of Palestinian non-violent resistance against the Wall and the Occupation takes a distubring turn: Adeeb Abu Rahma, from Bil’in Village, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. -- On 30 June 2010, grassroots activist Adeeb Abu Rahma, member of the Bil’in Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, was sentenced by Israeli military court to two years’ imprisonment, after being arrested on 10 July 2009 during a weekly demonstration in Bil’in, and after spending 11 months of detention in the Ofer military complex in the Occupied Territories."
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The ‘Times’ finally covers settler funding in the US, but there is still much to tell
  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/the-times-finally-covers-settler-funding-in-the-us-but-there-is-still-much-to-tell.html
A quote...."The New York Times has finally covered a story that has been sitting under its nose for years [probably by accident - mpg] – the tax-exempt fund raising Israeli settlers are doing in the U.S. In an expansive article in today’s paper, three reporters combine to tell a familiar story of how nonprofit organizations are raising money in the US to help build settlements and in some cases arm settlers themselves."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m67699&hd=&size=1&l=e
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A trip from Gaza to Eilat and back – by Omar Ghraieb  ---  http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/07/06/a-trip-from-gaza-to-eilat-and-back/
A quote...."Under the hardships of living that camp in the small space of his modest bungalow, and hindered from providing a somewhat decent living to his seven little kids who depend on him like all children do on their fathers, M.K. -who is at in his mid thirties- decided to take off on the adventure of his life through an arduous journey in the desert of northern Sinai, hoping to cross the Egyptian-Israeli border and reach the city of "Eilat", which is the main destination of his dangerous unguaranteed trip." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m67698&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Make Or Break Moment For Arab Unity Over Lebanon’s ’10th Class Citizens’  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1472
A quote...."A debate is raging in the Lebanese government over new legislation that would grant civil rights to Palestinian refugees for the first time in 62 years. Key features of the historic bill, proposed by the Progressive Socialist Party, include the right to housing, employment, social security and hospital treatment."
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Keiser Report №57: Markets! Finance! Drunk Brokers!  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/1/cw5P67igWcY
Must View Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGS4IXxlZZE  ---  (RTMKYuTb - 26 min 45 sec - July 7, 2010) -- A quote...."Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the latest scandals of American newspapers that rebrand torture as 'waterboarding'; Timmy Geithner's unwitting junk bond buyers; and, bailed out American banks financing Mexican drug lords. In the second half of the show, Max talks to lawyer, Luc Saucier, about building a case of obscenity against the banks."
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Liquidate, liquidate, liquidate - Commentary: Some inconvenient facts about fiscal austerity
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/some-inconvenient-facts-about-fiscal-austerity-2010-07-07
Must Read - A quote...."GREENWICH, Conn. (MarketWatch) -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said that policy advocates are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. -- A possible corollary in the context of the present rip-roaring debate about the macroeconomic impact of our dawning age of fiscal consolidation and austerity is that Nobel Laureates, especially, aren't allowed to make up their own history."
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Debt Deflation: A Long Economic Winter Ahead  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20040
A quote...."Let us keep in mind that in May of 1930, President Herbert Hoover was also proclaiming that “the danger ... is safely behind us.” This was ten years too early for such a declaration. Just as in the 1930s, the U.S. economy and many part of the world economy suffer from a debt overhang that usually takes at least ten years to correct. When overall debt is four times larger than the economy, as it is the case today and as it was close to being the case in the 1930s, a debt deflation becomes unavoidable."
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Auto sales put on the brakes  ---  http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-auto-sales-20100707,0,674773.story?track=rss&utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29%20target=_
A quote...."Wall Street is starting to talk about a worse year for car sales than analysts had anticipated, but automakers and suppliers may be better prepared to handle falling expectations than they were last year."
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Expect lots of government layoffs at state, local level  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2010-07-06-jobs06_ST_N.htm
A quote...."Up to 400,000 workers could lose jobs in the next year as states, counties and cities grapple with lower revenue and less federal funding, says Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Economy.com."
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Long White Candlesticks On Ever Declining Volume, Or Melt-Ups On Ten Shares Or Less Coming To A Busted Stock Market Near You
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/long-white-candlesticks-ever-declining-volume-or-melt-ups-ten-shares-or-less-coming
Market Tech Alert -Chart - (In other words, how today's "market" action, if you can call it that, may be a head-fake.  Please note how the DOW bounced off of the low made by the previous shoulder, during which -- not a coincidence one might add -- all sorts of "positive" statements regarding our bright, debt laden, future were issued by the powers that be both here and in Europe. - mpg) -- A quote...."As the chart below indicates, the past two months have seen some dramatic moves in the market, beginning obviously with May 6, and continuing through today. As the highlighted long white candlesticks demonstrate, which are basically the 4 huge meltup days in the last 45 days, the volume associated with said melt ups has been occurring on increasingly lower volume."
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ICI Reports Ninth Sequential Equity Fund Outflow In A Row  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/ici-reports-ninth-sequential-equity-fund-outflow-row
Market Tech Note - Now many analysts would consider this to be a contrarian indicator, since the retail investor is "always wrong".  But what if the "little guy" isn't taking his money out of the market because he "thinks" it's going down, but because he's actually, finally, running out of money, (i.e. credit)? - mpg -- A quote...."ICI reports that topping off the underperforming H1 market action was yet another equity market outflow, this one to the tune of ($227) million. This represented the ninth sequential domestic equity mutual fund outflow in a row, and accounts for fund flows of over ($30) billion YTD.
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The Good Doctor: A Cautionary Tale  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/the-good-doctor/
More on this nation's system of no-health non-care. - A quote...."I recently met with my doctor, Dr. Vasco Marques, a cardiologist here in Tampa, Fl. where I currently live. Now I am going to tell you the story about that meeting, devoid of my usual overly emotional hyperbole or intentionally leading contextualism… and I am going to do that for a reason. The reason is simple; because this isn’t about me."
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Central Banks Dumping Gold At A Torrid Pace  ---  http://www.businessinsider.com/central-banks-dumping-gold-at-a-torrid-pace-2010-7
Gold Bug Alert - A quote...."This might explain, in part, the lack of a floor underneath gold prices right now. - Central banks, which had been building up their positions, are now dumping it."
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Europe puts limits on banker bonuses  ---  http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2010/0707/Europe-puts-limits-on-banker-bonuses
A quote...."The European Parliament passed a bill today that would cap and defer financial traders' and bankers' bonuses, giving Europe the toughest regimes in the world. The caps are a backlash against the global financial meltdown, and the bonuses that followed."
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6 Things From History Everyone Pictures Incorrectly  ---  http://www.cracked.com/article_18627_6-things-from-history-everyone-pictures-incorrectly.html
Now on the lighter side.... A quote...."It's a running theme here at Cracked that a lot of what we think we know about history has been filtered through many centuries of utter [BS]. Our image of the past is largely made up of Hollywood inventions, propaganda and uneducated guesses. -- So you will probably be surprised to find that..."
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Tuesday July 6th 2010 - links page

No posts. - mpg

Monday July 5th 2010 - links page

Rethink 9/11: A Letter To Peace Activists  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2010/07/rethink-911-letter-to-peace-activists.html
Must Read - A quote...."Dear Every Peace Activist, -- The world dramatically changed on 9/11, though, not for the reasons that were given by the Bush administration less than twenty four hours after the attacks, but for reasons that are deeply disturbing, and revealing; reasons that are either unknown, or have been repressed by activists in the peace movement. -- As we enter the ninth anniversary of the War on Terror, the war in Afghanistan is intensifying, tensions in Iraq are resurfacing, and the possibility of a U.S. led attack on Iran is growing daily. Reflection upon the central premises and objectives in America's vast military enterprise in the Middle East has never been more urgent. The stakes have been raised. Questioning the official story of 9/11 is now a matter of human survival. We can not ignore the calling of history any longer. We live in a state of perpetual emergency; every moment is vital, every second counts, every day that passes is a missed opportunity to right a horrible wrong." - For more on this issue see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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On July 4th, from What Did America Declare Its Independence?
  ---  http://criminalstate.com/2010/07/on-july-4th-from-what-did-america-declare-its-independence/
Must Read - A quote...."We declared ourselves free from those who would govern us based on what we could be deceived to believe. A generation weaned on the Age of Enlightenment insisted on government under the rule of law. And governance based on facts, not beliefs. -- How’s that working out? -- Remember Iraqi WMD? Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda? Iraq’s yellowcake uranium from Niger? Iraqi meetings in Prague? Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories? -- All those facts are now known to be false. Yet Americans were deceived to do what? Believe. Ground Zero of the True Believers was Washington, DC where those sworn to protect us instead took us to war in Iraq—relying on false beliefs. -- If waging war on false beliefs is not proof certain of a Dark Age, what is?"
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The "Dollar Glut" is What Finances America's Global Military Build-up  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12944
Must Read - From the History File - March 29, 2009 -- A quote...."The U.S. media are silent about the most important topic policy makers are discussing here (and I suspect in Asia too): how to protect their countries from three inter-related dynamics: (1) the surplus dollars pouring into the rest of the world for yet further financial speculation and corporate takeovers; (2) the fact that central banks are obliged to recycle these dollar inflows to buy U.S. Treasury bonds to finance the federal U.S. budget deficit; and most important (but most suppressed in the U.S. media, (3) the military character of the U.S. payments deficit and the domestic federal budget deficit." - also posted at ProjCensored  ---  http://www.projectcensored.org/articles/story/24-dollar-glut-finances-us-military-expansion/
For more on this issue see....Some Tentative Laws  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/sometentativelaws-blog-mpg-072008
See also The First Salvos of the Currency Wars - 05-07-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thefirstsalvosofthecurrencywars-mpg-reficultnias-050710
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Military Spying and Torture Continues Under Obama: CIFA's Nine (Corrupt) Lives  ---  http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/
Special Note - A quote...."Despite promises to the contrary, the Obama administration has consolidated, even expanded privacy- and civil liberties killing programs launched by the Bush government. - From warrantless spying and driftnet surveillance to the indefinite detention and torture of foreign suspects held in U.S. gulags, and from the murderous drone wars in Pakistan to threats to assassinate American citizens merely on the suspicion they might be terrorists, 18 months into Obama's new "change" order, facts on the ground paint a grim picture indeed."
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20029
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Middle East War: U.S. Doctors Approved Torture and Denied Medical Care to Captives  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20031
Special Note - A quote...."American doctors in the Middle East routinely approved the torture of captured suspects and denied them critical medications such as insulin, sometimes with lethal consequences, according to a documented report published in the “Utne Reader.”
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US to blame Iran for Afghanistan failure  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133517&sectionid=351020403
Propaganda Alert - A quote...."US and British intelligence services are working on a fake video clip aimed at diverting blame for failures in Afghanistan to Iran, an informed US military source says."
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Managed News: Inside The US/NATO Military Industrial Media Empire  ---  http://dailycensored.com/2010/07/03/managed-news-inside-the-usnato
-military-industrial-media-empire/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Dailycensored+%28Daily+Censored%29
A quote...."We face what appears to be a military industrial media empire so powerful and complex that truth is mostly absent or reported in disconnected segments with little historical context. A case in point: The London Times reported on June 5, 2010, that American troops are now operating in 75 countries. Has President Obama secretly sanctioned a huge increase in the number of US Special Forces carrying out search-and-destroy missions against al-Qaeda around the world? If so, this increase is far in excess of special-forces operations under the Bush administration and reflects how aggressively Obama is pursuing al-Qaeda behind his public rhetoric of global engagement and diplomacy. Somehow this information didn’t make it into the US media."
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20018
& Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m67612&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  For more on this sort of issue and the two articles shown above see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206
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U.S. Largely Ruling Out North Korea As Source Of 2009 Cyberattacks
  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/U.S._Largely_Ruling_Out_North_Korea_As_Source_Of_2009_Cyberattacks/21915/0/18/18/Y/M.html
More US-NRE mass-media BS bites the dust.  Looks like there's a few honest federal employees left...at least till they're all fired. - mpg -- A quote...."U.S. officials have largely ruled out North Korea as the origin of a computer attack last July that took down U.S. and South Korean government websites, according to cybersecurity experts. - But authorities are not much closer than they were a year ago to knowing exactly who did it — and why." - Source: AP  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100703/ap_on_bi_ge/us_cyberattack_whodunit
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Photographer Detained For Taking Pics Of BP Refinery As Up To 100% Of Pensacola Area Reservations Canceled
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/photographer-detained-taking-pics-bp-refinery-100-pensacola-area-reservations-cancelled
A quote...."Courtesy of BP, and everyone cutting corners wherever possible, it is becoming increasingly clear that the economic impact to the gulf economy will be devastating, particularly in the tourism industry, with “some condos and hotels reporting 100 percent cancellations.” And we have still to find someone who will willingly eat shrimp without a gun at their heads... and it is not just the surging price for the crustacean as the supply plummets. Imagine just how ugly it would get if Americans were allowed to have an idea of just how bad it truly is: it appears that the recently instituted "Beyond" First Amendment, where freedom of the press now carries a $40,000 fine and/or incarceration, has seen its first casualty: "A photographer taking pictures of a BP refinery in Texas was detained by a BP security official, local police and a man who said he was from the Department of Homeland Security." Who would have thought change you can believe in referred to the amendments to the constitution...."
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As US fights, China spends to gain Afghan foothold - http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g8SC2Cv9tmF8F3ikTseBTnL_apEAD9GO0EO01
Special Note - A quote...."Though the two countries have always been friendly, the relationship has blossomed in recent years. In March, President Hamid Karzai made his fourth trip to Beijing, bringing back agreements on economic cooperation, technical training and lower tariffs for Afghan goods. -- The emerging alliance is giving Kabul an alternative to its sometimes strained ties with the West. The two neighbors share a narrow, mountainous border, the Wakhan Corridor, and links that date back centuries to the caravans of tea, spices and other riches that traveled the Silk Road. -- Afghanistan is "well aware that the U.S. is likely to only be a temporary ally so it's looking for a longer-term partner in the region. China would be an obvious choice," said security analyst Christian Le Miere, editor of Jane's Intelligence Review." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/228716
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No 'Sorry' from US as Iran plane tragedy marked  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001OHT8ONPo  ---  (YouTube - 3 min 34 sec - July 03, 2010)
Video - A quote...."Iran is remembering the victims of a tragic plane disaster that took place 22 years ago. An Iranian airliner with 290 people on board was shot down by a U.S. navy ship, apparently by mistake. Washington has yet to apologise for the incident..."
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Iran drones to safeguard border bases  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133405&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."A top Iranian Air Force commander says the Army plans to equip all border bases with domestic unmanned areal vehicles (UAVs) within the next few months."
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'Saudi Arabia training Iraq terrorists'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133365&sectionid=351020205
A quote...."Saudi Arabia has set up a military base near its border with Jordan for training militants to conduct terrorist activities in war-weary Iraq, informed sources say." - For more on this sort of issue see....The Axis of Evil and Their Pseudo-Gangs - 05-22-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theaxisofevilandtheirpseudogangs-mpg-reficultnias-052210
& US Support of Terror  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
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Mortars hit Green Zone during Biden visit  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/228746
A quote...."Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — The district was a frequent target of rocket and mortar attacks during the worst of the war that followed the U.S. invasion in 2003. A similar attack struck during a Biden visit in September." - Source: CNN  ---  http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/04/iraq.green.zone/index.html?hpt=C2&fbid=hPIC2KfxT15  ---  Oh look, some Iraqi nationalists gave Biden a three mortar, welcome to Iraq salute, and on the 4th of July no less!!  After all, both Iraqis and Afghanis have always been known throughout history to be kind and considerate hosts for guests that come to their countries, but for one reason or another, chose to overstay their welcome. -  mpg
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Blackwater behind Darbar incident: JI
  ---  http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Karachi/05-Jul-2010/Blackwater-behind-Darbar-incident-JI
A quote...."KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hassan on Sunday claimed that Blackwater and US marines were involved in the Data Darbar blast saying that any Muslim cannot imagine the act of terrorism at Data Darbar."
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'Surge'' smoke follows Petraeus to Afpak  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LG03Df05.html
A quote...."As General David Petraeus, the mainstream US media's new armored Messiah, takes command in Afghanistan, the myth of his "successful surge" in Iraq could not but linger. Anyone who buys the Pentagon's spin and believes the same conquest will happen in the Pashtun south and southeast of Afghanistan must have smoked Hindu Kush's finest."
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PKK bombs Iraq-Turkey pipeline  ---  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100704/tpl-uk-iraq-oil-pipeline-9562ed3.html
Oh Oh!  Looks like Israel is turning up the heat on Turkey.  This of course will NOT endear the Israelis to the current Iraqi government, but Israel could care less of course. - mpg -- A quote...."The bombing by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) added a new dimension to the threats against the pipeline, which carries around a quarter of Iraq's oil exports, after the rebel group called off a 14-month cease-fire in June."
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Turkey to cut ties with defiant Israel  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133461&sectionid=351020204
A quote...."Turkey says it will sever diplomatic ties with Israel unless it apologizes over the attack on a Gaza aid convoy and the death of nine Turks in the deadly onslaught."
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Turkey Pulls Out of US-Israeli Navy Exercise  ---  http://www.almanar.com.lb/newsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=144968&language=en
A quote...."In another sign of the deteriorating ties between Israel and Turkey, the Turkish Defense Ministry informed the Israeli occupation army over the weekend that it has decided not to participate in a naval search-and-rescue exercise planned for next month."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/turkey-pulls-out-of-us-israeli-navy-exercise/
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/228765
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Turkish FM. Confirms Airspace Closure To Israeli Military  ---  http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=511043
A quote...."ANKARA, July 5 (Bernama) -- Turkish airspace has been fully closed to Israeli military flights in response to Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in late May, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted as saying by local daily, reported China' Xinhua news agency."
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Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan sign agreement to make Customs Union fully operational  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100705/159691443.html
A quote...."Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan signed on Monday a declaration putting the Customs Code into force and making the Customs Union fully operational, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said."
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Israel: A Failing Colonial Project  ---  http://pulsemedia.org/2010/07/03/israel-a-failing-colonial-project/
Special Note - A quote...."Increasingly, despite its early military and political successes, Israel cannot for long endure as a colonial project. It must choose between wars – and destruction – or transition to a state for all its peoples." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/228770
& AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/israel-a-failing-colonial-project/
& Creative-i  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/07/05/israel-a-failing-colonial-project-by-m-shahid-alam-ph-d/
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Bibi Back at the White House — The Consistency of Israeli Duplicity Comes Ever More Clearly into Focus
  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6079.shtml
A quote...."For me, confirmation of Israel’s strategic duplicity came in a meeting with Harry McPherson who served as counsel and speechwriter for Lyndon B. Johnson. LBJ entered the Senate in 1948 with Louisiana Senator Russell Long for whom I served as counsel and speechwriter." - also posted at CriminalState
  ---  http://criminalstate.com/2010/07/bibi-back-at-the-white-house-the-consistency-of-israeli-duplicity-comes-ever-more-clearly-in-focus/
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Israeli occupation forces surround mosque, open fire on it, use human shields, order elderly inhabitants to leave
  ---  http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2010/07/israeli-occupation-forces-surround.html
A quote...."Ma’an – Israeli forces surrounded a mosque in the occupied West Bank late Sunday, opening fire and ordering it evacuated. - It was not immediately clear what provoked the standoff at the Ar-Rihiya Mosque south of Hebron, where two Palestinians were detained. - Local residents told Ma'an that Israeli forces ordered elderly residents to evacuate the facility, but they refused. Soldiers used several Palestinians as human shields while surrounding the mosque, onlookers said, during confrontations between local youth and soldiers who opened fire with tear-gas canisters, rubber-coated bullets, and live ammunition."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Enough With the Empty Words  ---  http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=22296&CategoryId=13
A quote...."Nothing irks me more than politicians who blow off serious situations with hollow phrases on the outrageous assumption that people will actually believe them. Living in Palestine with a career revolved around words, you can imagine how many times I am irked in a day. Today is no different."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m67633&hd=&size=1&l=e
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The Swedish Dockworkers’ Union blockade of goods to and from Israel has ended. Altogether more than 500 tons of import and export goods were blocked
  ---  http://usacbi.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/swedish-dockworkers-block-more-than-500-tons-of-goods-to-and-from-israel/
Action Update - Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because Israel's crimes against humanity are crimes against us all. - mpg -- A quote...."The Swedish Dockworkers’ Union blockade of goods to and from Israel has ended. Altogether more than 500 tons of import and export goods were blocked." - 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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Attacking the Israeli banks  ---  http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2010/07/attacking-israeli-banks.html
Action Update - Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because money talks much louder than morals in Israel. - mpg -- A quote...."To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks" - "If international civil society is serious about urgently ending Israel's violations of Palestinian rights, including ending the occupation, then suspension of SWIFT transactions to and from Israeli banks offers an instrument to help bring about a peaceful resolution of an intractable conflict. With computerization, international banking technology has advanced dramatically in the subsequent 20 years since the South African anti-apartheid campaign." - 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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Intifada – Exclusive Interview with Iara Lee – Outrageous Brutality by Israeli Commandos  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/07/05/intifada-%E2%80%93-exclusive-interview-with-iara-lee-outrageous-brutality-by-israeli-commandos-by-elias-harb-in-mexico/
Quote of the Day...."The Flotilla was on a humanitarian mission. These were war commandos, they came to kill. We were unprepared for this attack. We knew that the Israelis would deter us, but never expected the Israeli commandos to open fire on civilian passengers. And what we witnessed was outrageous brutal force. Few of the Israeli Commandos were subdued and one of our doctors treated the Commandos. We showed restraint and gave medical aid to Israeli soldiers. Autopsy reports indicated that the activists killed were shot in the back of the head at close range. This was a criminal act by the Israel Defense forces." -- *Iara Lee* - also posted at Creative-i  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/07/05/intifada-%E2%80%93-exclusive-interview-with-iara-lee-outrageous-brutality-by-israeli-commandos-by-elias-harb-in-mexico/
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5 EU states call for end to Gaza siege - Are they going to DO anything about it though? - mpg
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=133567&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Five European countries have called for the implementation of the United Nations Security Council resolution which calls for the blockade of the Gaza Strip to be lifted."
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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory ( 24-30 June 2010)
  ---  http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6794:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in
-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-24-30-june-2010-&catid=131:new
Every single week of the year, for more than sixty years.  Think of what you'd do, or how you'd feel if it was your community. - mpg

• Two Palestinian civilians and a resistance activist were killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.
• One civilian was wounded in the southern Gaza Strip.
• Israeli forces continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
• Two civilians, including a child, were injured West Bank.
• Dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation in the West.
• Israeli forces arrested three human rights defenders.
• Israeli forces continued to fire at Palestinian farmers and workers in border areas of the Gaza Strip.
• Israeli forces conducted thirteen incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and four limited incursions into the Gaza Strip.
• Israeli forces arrested nineteen Palestinian civilians, including a child and a girl and her father in the West Bank.
• Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• Israeli troops stationed at military checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested five Palestinian civilians.
• Israel has continued to take measures aimed at creating a Jewish demographic majority in Jerusalem.
• The construction of 1,400 hotel rooms near Habal al-Mukabber area in Jerusalem was approved.
• A Palestinian child was wounded in the eye and a number of children and women suffered from tear gas inhalation fired by Israeli forces in Silwan village.
• Israeli forces have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• Israeli forces ordered the demolition of ten houses and two farms in Hebron.
  

Sunday July 4th 2010 - links page

Saturday July 3rd 2010 - links page

Top Republican: Raise Social Security's retirement age to 70
  ---  http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/106135-boehner-raise-social-securitys-retirement-age-to-70
That's right folks, JUST GO AHEAD and vote for the Repubs, they stole your money, now YOU might just have to work till you drop....dead.  If YOU vote for these clowns you'll have only YOURSELVES to blame for what happens to you!! - mpg -- A quote...."A Republican-held Congress might look to raise the retirement age to 70, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) suggested Monday." - posted 06-29-10
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"It's much more likely that the incident was caused by a version of the well known "Republican Tourettes Syndrome" (RTS).  This is a very rare and feared disorder among Republicans where under intense pressure one of them may accidentally blurt out the truth.  Such an incident recently happened during one of Bush's press conferences, where an obviously inexperienced an undisciplined reporter asked Bush "What did Iraq have to do with...""the attack on the World Trade Center", Bush's reply was "nothing...".  --- http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/21/bush-on-911/  ---  An appallingly truthful statement, but that was Bush. -- For any normal healthy Republican to actually, voluntarily, let the truth pass their lips is an unheard of event." -- *Republican Tourettes Syndrome  (RTS)*,  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rts-blog-mpg-08262006  ---  08-26-06 - mpg
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Friday July 2nd 2010

No posts. - mpg

Thursday July 1st 2010

"Better than: Andrew Johnson

James Buchanan
Warren Harding
Franklin Pierce"

"The highest tech thing Harding had was a frigging telephone. For the rest of them it was a four wheeler coach and gas light. All of them may have been stupid and lazy and do nothing but to rate them worse than the shrub? You are insulting four very mediocre men." -- *ya_right*