Wednesday July 21st 2010 - links page

Special Note: If great care is not taken, each successive ten year cycle creates more and more  underlying debt/inflation per capita necessitating bigger and bigger cycles of war (violating the Fifth law) thereby increasing systemic instabilities untill the entire system collapses.  --  *Some Tentative Laws - July 20th, 2008 - mpg*
  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/sometentativelaws-blog-mpg-072008

"Today’s UN Security Council Presidential statement condemns the attack by North Korea on the Cheonan and warns North Korea that the international community will not tolerate such aggressive behavior against the Republic of Korea.  The unanimous statement, reflecting the shared view of the 5 members of the Six-Party Talks, constitutes an endorsement of the findings of the Joint Investigative Group that established North Korea’s responsibility for the attack."

Tuesday July 20th 2010 - links page

We Are Not Special, and There Is No Happy Ending: The Blood-Drenched Darkness of American Exceptionalism
  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2010/07/we-are-not-special-and-there-is-no.html
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."I have sometimes remarked that myths which assume importance in the manner of the exceptionalist myth constitute life itself. It is crucial to appreciate that this is how it operates in psychological terms. In a contest between a belief system which provides identity and self-worth and facts which threaten that identity and self-worth, it is frequently the facts which many people choose to discard. -- Occasionally, when the destructive (and self-destructive) effects of a belief system become sufficiently overwhelming, a person will decide to question and eventually dispense with the belief system. The process can be agonizingly difficult. Many people prefer to avoid it. Most of us are familiar with the tragic story of the individual who refuses to give up the myth that he still believes provides him consolation and meaning -- even when clinging to the myth leads to his own death. Countries can behave in the identical manner; history provides numerous examples of the same tragedy on a national scale."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68120&hd=&size=1&l=e
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War, Women, and the Taliban  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/glass10.1.html
Must Read - A quote...."The time has come to justify anew the war in Afghanistan, and excuses for keeping American and other NATO troops in combat there are coming hot and heavy in Washington and London. Last month’s trillion dollar mineral bonanza was not enough. Nor was the changeover of military command from an apparently insolent general to one who minds his Ps and Qs. Uncertain successes on the battlefield are not doing much to help. So, how can the Obama administration sell this despicable war to an increasingly wary public? The latest rabbit in the magician’s top hat is the creation of “local police units,” home guards to keep the Taliban away from the villages. Announced with great fanfare in Kabul and Washington, a new plan calls for village militias to turn the tide. (If you believe that, please send me a check for $10,000 for the name of the next Kentucky Derby winner.) These militiamen are unlikely to do anything more than denounce their traditional enemies to death squads, making them as unpopular as the Green Berets they are going to serve under."
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Plan to begin Afghan security handover this year dropped  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/20/plans-afghan-security-handover-dropped
A quote...."Plans to begin handing control of provinces in Afghanistan to Afghan security forces by the end of this year have been quietly dropped amid fears among European countries that General David Petraeus, the new US commander in the country, is less committed to a speedy transfer of power."
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White House shifts Afghanistan strategy towards talks with Taliban  - Not really, but it makes a nice sound bite.
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/19/obama-afghanistan-strategy-taliban-negotiate
A quote...."The White House is revising its Afghanistan strategy to embrace the idea of negotiating with senior members of the Taliban through third parties – a policy to which it had previously been lukewarm. -- Negotiating with the Taliban has long been advocated by Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, and the British and Pakistani governments, but resisted by Washington."
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Allawi seeks Iraq support from Sadr  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2010/07/2010719201728184314.html
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Iyad Allawi, the former Iraqi prime minister whose Iraqiya coalition won 91 seats in the country's March parliamentary election, has sought support to form a government from Moqtada al-Sadr, the Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia leader."
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Court tells State Dept. to reconsider terrorist label for Iran opposition group
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071605881.html
A quote...."A federal appeals court Friday ordered the State Department to review its decision to label an Iranian opposition group as a foreign terrorist organization, strongly suggesting the designation should be revoked."
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Iran to West: Stop backing terrorism  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=135504&sectionid=351020101
Related Article - A quote...."Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has called on the US and certain European countries to stop supporting terrorism." - For more on the two articles shown above see....US Support of Terror - MEK-PKK-Others
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#MEK-PKK-OTHERS
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Iran Will Not Back Down an Iota in its Nuclear Standoff With the West  ---  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1477.htm
A quote...."You could knock yourself out with your sanctions. Every piece of machinery or equipment that you don’t sell to us, we will make here at home: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
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In sign of warming ties, Turkey FM reportedly meets Hamas chief
  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/in-sign-of-warming-ties-turkey-fm-reportedly-meets-hamas-chief-1.303016
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Davutoglu and Meshal discuss ways to break Israeli siege on Gaza, Palestinian reconciliation efforts, and Turkey's demands in aftermath of flotilla raid, according to Anatolia news agency."
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China to invest in Iran oil industry  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=135551&sectionid=351020103
A quote...."Chinese companies have offered to finance some of the country's oil refinery development and gasoline production projects, says Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Alireza Zeighami."
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Ilyushin Finance to buy up to 50 MS-21 jets  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100720/159884955.html
A quote...."Russian leasing company Ilyushin Finance and the Irkut aircraft maker on Tuesday signed a memorandum of intent to buy 28 MS-21 passenger airliners with an option for another 22 aircraft."
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Japan: Decision on U.S. Base Not Likely Before November  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/world/asia/21briefs-JAPAN.html?_r=1&ref=world
A quote...."Japan’s defense minister said Tuesday that a decision on relocating an American air base on Okinawa may not be possible until at least November, further delaying resolution of a dispute that has hurt Tokyo’s relations with Washington. The defense minister, Toshimi Kitazawa, said a decision might have to wait until after a local governor’s election, as his government faces stiff local resistance to keeping the base, the United States Marine Air Station Futenma, on the island. Japan’s former prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, had announced that Tokyo would move the base to a less populated part of the island. But Okinawans fiercely oppose the base, which has become a symbol of a heavy American military presence."
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URGENT: The abducted Iraqi female blogger Hiba Al-Shamaree is in danger of death  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68090&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."Reliable sources from the horrifying Al Kadhimya prison in Baghdad ascertained today that the eye doctor Hiba al-Shamaree [1] who was abducted and imprisoned by the US occupiers' imposed Maliki puppet government, is in danger of death."
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Group Calls for Hearings Into Google’s Ties to CIA and NSA  ---  http://www.infowars.com/group-calls-for-hearings-into-googles-ties-to-cia-and-nsa/
A quote...."In 2006, Robert David Steele, a 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer and a former clandestine services case officer with the CIA, told the Alex Jones Show that the CIA helped bankroll Google at its inception. “I think Google took money from the CIA when it was poor and it was starting up and unfortunately our system right now floods money into spying and other illegal and largely unethical activities, and it doesn’t fund what I call the open source world,” said Steele, citing “trusted individuals” as his sources." - also posted at DProgam
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/20/group-calls-for-hearings-into-google%E2%80%99s-ties-to-cia-and-nsa/
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Troktiko – Controversial Greek blog administrator is assassinated
  ---  http://domaingang.com/domain-news/troktiko-controversial-greek-blog-administrator-is-assassinated/
A quote...."Known for its controversial political articles, stigmatizing the former, right wing government of New Democracy, Troktiko  became the most popular, Greek-owned destination in Greece. With an Alexa ranking of 869 globally, Troktiko.blogspot.com   ---  http://troktiko.blogspot.com/  ---  surpassed many international web sites in traffic. -- The administrator of Troktiko, journalist writer and radio producer Socrates Giolias aged 37, was executed with a barrage of bullets, outside his residence around 5:20am local time today, in Ilioupolis – a suburb of Athens, in Greece." - bold by websit editor - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/20/video-troktiko-%E2%80%93-controversial-greek-blog-administrator-is-assassinated/
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Hosting Company Says al-Qaeda Website Reason for Removing 73,000 Blogs
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/hosting-company-says-al-qaeda-website-reason-for-removing-73000-blogs/
A quote...."It was not copyright violations that prompted the hosting service Burst.net to pull more than 73,000 blogs offline earlier this month. It was al-Qaeda, the phony terror group created by the CIA." - also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/20/hosting-company-says-al-qaeda-website-reason-for-removing-73000-blogs/
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Times loses almost 90% of online readership  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/20/times-paywall-readership
A quote...."The Times has lost almost 90% of its online readership compared to February since making registration mandatory in June, calculations by the Guardian show."
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Gordon Brown says Saddam Hussein was in the way of the New World Order  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s1j0KHTGfY
Video - (YouTube - 1 min 13 sec - July 13, 2010) - Source:  91177info  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/91177info  ---  A quote...."RT HON GORDON BROWN MP: Our position was not that. Our position was to support action so that the will of the international community -- that Saddam Hussein disclose and dispose of weapons -- be reinforced. And at the back of my mind was this sense that, if the international community did not act here, then the international community would find it difficult to gain credibility for acting in other areas, and this new world order that we were trying to create was being put at risk."
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Shahzad’s charade continues  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6136.shtml
also posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."About 8 a.m. a week ago, I’m watching NY1 TV and here comes a video segment on Faisal Shahzad, post full-confession, showing him in previous days with reputed Taliban members. He’s in native dress, a Kalashnikov on his hip, back to camera, as they climb a rocky slope in Pakistan, or was it a back lot at Paramount? Anything’s possible."
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Homeland Security releases funds to nonprofits, mostly Jewish
  ---  http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/07/16/2740087/homeland-security-releases-new-funds-to-non-profits
A quote...."WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released $19 million to secure nonprofits, the vast majority Jewish. -- Of the 271 institutions named in a list released this week by Homeland Security, 254 are Jewish, [Keep in mind folks, the US-NRE's "Jewish Community" numbers less than two percent of this nation's population - mpg] including synagogues, schools, community centers and offices. -- The funds were released as part of a congressionally mandated program in place since 2005 that targets institutions that are vulnerable to attack." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/229820  ---  bold by website editor
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DoD, Guard establish eight Homeland Response Force units  ---  http://www.ng.mil/news/archives/2010/07/071310-DoD.aspx
A quote...."WASHINGTON, (7/12/10) - Eight more homeland response force units will be established in fiscal year 2012, Defense Department and National Guard Bureau officials said here today. -- The units are regional forces that will cross state lines when needed." - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/20/dod-guard-establish-eight-homeland-response-force-units/  ---  We're being occupied by our own army. - mpg
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Israel : Man convicted of rape for consensual sex with woman but told her he was Jewish  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68071&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."A court sentenced a resident of East Jerusalem who lied to a young woman and told her that he was Jewish in order to have sexual relations with her to a year in a half of prison time. "Protect the public from such criminals." - Just think of it this way folks....you're in Germany, during the 1930s, and a Jewish man is convicted of rape because he falsely told a Christian woman he was Christian...get the point folks? - mpg
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Sayanim — Israeli Operatives in the U.S.  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/07/19/sayanim-israeli-operatives-in-the-u-s/
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25976.htm
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Americans know that something fundamental is amiss. They sense—rightly—that they are being misled no matter which political party does the leading. -- A long misinformed public lacks the tools to grasp how they are being deceived. Without those tools, Americans will continue to be frustrated at being played for the fool."
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A Parliamentary Mob - Inside the Israeli Knesset  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery07202010.html
A quote...."WHEN I was first elected to the Knesset, I was appalled at what I found. I discovered that, with rare exceptions, the intellectual level of the debates was close to zero. They consisted mainly of strings of clichés of the most commonplace variety. During most of the debates, the plenum was almost empty. Most participants spoke vulgar Hebrew. When voting, many members had no idea what they were voting for or against, they just followed the party whip. -- That was 1967, when the Knesset included members like Levy Eshkol and Pinchas Sapir, David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan, Menachem Begin and Yohanan Bader,  Meir Yaari and Yaakov Chazan, for whom today's streets, highroads and neighborhoods are named. -- In comparison to the present Knesset, that Knesset now looks like Plato’s Academy."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

"To Shoot an Elephant"  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25972.htm
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Video - Alt  ---  http://dotsub.com/view/656346df-69a8-487a-98e2-51fb60d2a499   ---  (DotSubVideo  ---  http://dotsub.com/  ---  1 hr 53 min 29 sec -  Jan 14, 2010) - Source:  toshootanelephant  ---  http://dotsub.com/view/user/toshootanelephant  ---  A quote.... "Gaza Strip has been under siege since June 2007, when Israel declared it an "enemy entity". A group of international activists organized a siege-breaking movement, the Free Gaza movement. Thanks to their efforts, and despite the Israeli ban on foreign correspondents and humanitarian aid workers to cover and witness operation "Cast Lead" on the ground, a group of international volunteers: self organised members of the International Solidarity Movement were present in Gaza when the bombing started on December, 27th 2009. Together with two international correspondents from Al Jazeera International (Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros), they were the only foreigners who managed to write, film and report for several radio stations what was happening inside the besieged Palestinian strip."
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It is Time We Shift Gears  ---  http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=22356&CategoryId=3
Special Note - A quote...."The Palestinians, in general, have been extremely patient so far with their leadership. In good faith, we have tried our best to give them the benefit of the doubt when it comes to knowing what is best for our people and cause. When late President Yasser Arafat declared a Palestinian state in 1988, the Palestinians, both inside Palestine and in the Diaspora, hesitated for a moment (given the concession of agreeing to accept only 22 percent of the historical homeland) before rallying around the leadership and jumping on board of a two-state solution."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/it-is-time-we-shift-gears/
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Obama's Costly Appeasement of Israelis  ---  http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16149
The title above should have been written "That greasy, crawling, butt-kissing, obsequious, craven, worm once known as Obama, is going to cost this nation dearly in blood and treasure" -- It would have been more accurate. - mpg -- A quote...."It was a session replete with superlatives when the assistant secretary of state for political and military affairs, Andrew J. Shapiro, spelled out in unprecedented detail the Obama administration’s approach to U.S.-Israel security cooperation, reassuring the Israelis of “preserving (their country’s) qualitative military edge.”
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IDF destroys West Bank village after declaring it military zone
  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-destroys-west-bank-village-after-declaring-it-military-zone-1.303098
A quote...."Since 1967, Israel has prevented the growth of Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley by cutting off their water supply or declaring large areas as live fire zones." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68118&hd=&size=1&l=e
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MoH urges Israel to hand over oxygen machines  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=301280
A quote...."Ramallah – Ma'an – The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health appealed Wednesday to Israel to deliver seven oxygen machines donated by a Norwegian development agency that were seized by Israeli officials en route to hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza."
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Israel's Judaisation of Jerusalem  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/resources/fact-sheets/1333-israels-judaisation-of-jerusalem
A quote...."In the framework of Israel's policy of Judaising Jerusalem and making the Holy City its eternal capital, Israel has pursued a number of measures following its occupation and illegal annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967:" - also posted at Uruknet - http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68104&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Food co-op in Rachel Corrie’s hometown boycotts Israeli goods  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/07/13104/?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because it works!! - mpg -- A quote...."We met last Thursday for the board members meeting and a pretty large group – about 40 people – presented the boycott project and answered our questions,” Rob Richards, a board member, told Haaretz. “A couple of board members were concerned about what will be the financial effect on the organization, but it’s minimal. For me personally there is a moral imperative that goes beyond any financial concern. So we decided to adopt the boycott which went into effect the next day." -- 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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Johnny Rotten: “Rise” against racism, boycott Israel  ---  http://usacbi.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/johnny-rotten-rise-against-racism-boycott-israel/
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because -- let's be honest folks -- it's the very LEAST we could  do for the Palestinians. - mpg -- A quote...."The following letter to British musician John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, who is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv next month, was issued on 18 July 2010 by the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI) and the University Teachers’ Association in Palestine (UTAP):" -- 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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Keiser Report №61: Markets! Finance! Scandal!  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/0/pdAaKa6FuH4
Must View MKVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdAaKa6FuH4  ---  (MKRTYuTb - 26 min 41 sec - July 20, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  &  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  A quote...."This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the latest scandals of deficit fraud, Hank Paulson's love of financial reform and the RIAA's very low return bullying. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Ben Davies of Hinde Capital about the BIS gold swaps and more."
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Stage Two of Europe's Credit Crisis: An Internal Bank and Sovereign Debt Crisis Combined
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20183
Must Read - Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25969.htm  ---  also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908  ---  A quote...."The crisis affecting Europe is nothing new. It goes back three years and the beginning of the credit crisis, 60% of the subprime CDOs, collateralized debt obligations, had been sold to European institutions. These were the mortgage bonds, which contained a variety of toxic waste, which the rating agencies, S&P, Moody’s and Fitch, in collusion with banks and brokerage houses, had sold as AAA bonds, when in fact their ratings should have been considerably lower. The holders of these bonds in many instances became insolvent and had to be bailed out by capital injections from central banks, most of the funds were lent by the Federal Reserve. --  These debt problems, as in the US, have never been resolved. Those companies and institutions have over the past three years been allowed to keep two sets of books."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-9768-0-13-13--.html
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Wise Words from Financier Jim Rogers  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j108.html
Words to Live By - A quote...."What’s the best advice Rogers has ever received?"

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Bonds and the Fading Recovery  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north868.html
Special Note - A quote...."Some commentators on the U.S. economy and the European economy are predicting that there will be "quantitative easing" soon. This is a euphemism for central bank inflation. -- I have been reporting for months that the present policy of the Federal Reserve System is to deflate the money supply. The chart of the adjusted monetary base since early March indicates this. Similarly, consumer prices have remained flat or close to it this year."
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A Lot Worse: UK Mired In £5 Trillion Of Debt  ---  http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/
ONS-Total-UK-Balance-Sheet-Lays-Bare-Countrys-5-Trillion-Debt-Finances-Far-Worse-Than-Feared/Article/201007215665355?f=rss
A quote...."Britain has sunk into a pit of debt which is five times deeper than previously feared, with the country now owing the equivalent of £200,000 per household."
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Did The Credit Agencies Just Go Extinct?  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/did-credit-agencies-just-go-extinct
One of those Whoops moments, or to paraphrase what the credit rating agencies are thinking right now...."Gawd darn it! What the heck were we paying all those K-Street lobbyists for anyway!!" Don't worry, they won't enforce it, these days laws are just suggestions. - mpg -- A quote...."The recently passed Donk (Dodd-Frank) Finreg abomination, which nobody has yet read is finally starting to disclose some of the interesting side effects of its harried passage. Such as that the rating agencies may have suddenly become extinct. As the WSJ's Anusha Shrivastava discloses: "The nation's three dominant credit-ratings providers have made an urgent new request of their clients: Please don't use our credit ratings." The Moodies of the world suddenly have good reason to not want their name appearing next to those three A letters (at least in Goldman CDO and bankrupt sovereign cases) out there: "The new law will make ratings firms liable for the quality of their ratings decisions, effective immediately." - bold by website editor
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U.S. housing starts drop 5% to 8-month low - Number of homes under construction falls to record low in June
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-housing-starts-fall-5-to-8-month-low-2010-07-20
A quote...."After a 15% drop in May, housing starts fell another 5% in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 549,000, the lowest level in eight months, the Commerce Department estimated."
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Michigan Says Enough To Fed: Takes Matters Into Own Hands As It Starts Using Own Currency...And Gold
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/michigan-says-enough-fed-takes-matters-own-hands-it-starts-using-own-currencyand-gold
A quote...."Either in anticipation of QE2 which will cut the value of the dollar by another 50% once another $2 trillion in toxic crap becomes the "assets" backing the viability of the dollar, or just because they are sick of Fed policies, mid-Michigan has taken monetary matters into their own hands, and in one simple act, completely bypassed the destabilizing influence of the domestic currency printers. As ConnectMidMichigan reports, "New types of money are popping up across Mid-Michigan and supporters say, it's not counterfeit, but rather a competing currency." -- See also....Competing currency being accepted across Mid-Michigan  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBXHg0rALsU  ---  Video - (YouTube - 2 min 03 sec - July 20, 2010) - Source:  DrRonPaul2012   ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/DrRonPaul2012
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Monday July 19th 2010 - links page

Invisible Holocaust: Iraqi Sanction Criminals Seek Reprise in Iran
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/1993-invisible-holocaust-iraqi-sanction-criminals-seek-reprise-in-iran.html
Must Read - A quote...."In the last decade of the 20th century, a nation often hailed (not least by itself) as the "world's greatest democracy" directed a program of savage economic warfare against a broken, defenseless country. This blockade, carried out with an exacting bureaucratic coldness, killed, by very conservative estimate, at least one million innocent people. More than half of these victims were young children. -- Dead children. Thousands of dead children. Tens of thousands of dead children, Hundreds of thousands of dead children. Mountains of dead children. Vast pestiferous slagheaps of dead children. This is what the world's greatest democracy created, deliberately, coldly, as a matter of carefully considered national policy."
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Petraeus promotes civil war in Afghanistan  ---  http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=9703&news_iv_ctrl=1621
A quote...."Badly losing the war in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus has decided to promote a violent civil war in Afghan villages. -- That is the true intent of the new so-called Local Defense Initiatives that Petraeus forced down the throat of Afghanistan’s puppet president Hamid Karzai. The new plan is a variant of the Community Defense Initiative that Gen. Stanley McChrystal tried to impose on Afghanistan after Obama selected him to lead the expanded war effort in 2009." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://uruknet.com/?p=m68025&hd=&size=1&l=e
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US & British Intel Agencies Are Working On A Fake Video To Lead To War With Iran  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpCd6TJBbGs
PTVVideo - (RTYuTb - 45 sec - July 13, 2010) - Looks like Rita Katz  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409#RITAKATZ  --  has been busy.  (That's just a joke, maybe) - mpg
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Sources: Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Program  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/porter/2010/07/19/amiri-told-cia-iran-has-no/
US-NRE Presstitutes Busted Again! - A quote...."Contrary to a news media narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri has provided intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, CIA sources familiar with the Amiri case say he told his CIA handlers that there is no such Iranian nuclear weapons program, according to a former CIA officer."
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U.S. bears responsibility for disorder in Iraq: Shiite cleric  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/19/c_13405189.htm
A quote...."DAMASCUS, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al- Sadr said Monday the United States is responsible for the disorder in Iraq. -- Al-Sadr made the remarks at a press conference held in Damascus, where he stressed his support for the formation of an Iraqi unified national government representing all Iraqi people."
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Allawi pulls out of talks with al Sadr  ---  http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100719/FOREIGN/707189824/1002
A quote...."DAMASCUS // Ayad Allawi, the narrow winner of the Iraqi elections, pulled out of a weekend trip to Syria during which he had been expected to hold talks with the influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr."
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'Yemen preparing to attack Houthis'  ---  http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=135298&sectionid=351020206
A quote...."Yemen is reportedly preparing for another round of armed offensives against the Shia Houthi fighters, despite the ongoing truce. -- The Army is digging trenches, stretched from the capital of Sana'a to the Houthi stronghold of Sa'ada, the fighters said on their website on Saturday."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/229726
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Russia Deploys Powerful Iskander Missiles Along Its North-Western Frontier -- http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1469.htm
A quote...."Iskander has achieved accuracy, range and reliability (ability to penetrate defenses) that constitutes an alternative approach to precision bombing for air forces that cannot expect to launch bombing or cruise missile fire missions reliably in face of superior enemy fighters and air defenses."
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Russia earmarks 800 million dollars for new spaceport: Putin --- http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b3b18fac1279470f409a3a2fc6b63d5c.c31&
A quote...."Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday Russia would earmark 800 million dollars to kick off the construction of a new cosmodrome to ease its dependence on a Soviet-era launch site in Kazakhstan."
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Sukhoi, Indonesian airline sign $951 mln deal on 30 SSJ100s  ---  http://en.rian.ru/business/20100719/159869944.html
A quote...."Russia's Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and Indonesia's regional carrier Kartika Airlines on Monday inked a $951 [million] contract for the delivery of 30 Sukhoi Superjet 100s."
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New Chinese anti-ship missile may complicate relations with U.S.
  ---  http://www.stripes.com/news/new-chinese-anti-ship-missile-may-complicate-relations-with-u-s-1.111552
Weapons Tech Alert - A quote...."The advanced weapon, a medium-range anti-ship ballistic missile known as the Dong Feng 21D, is “nearing operational capability,” according to a report last year by the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence. And if its targeting system proves accurate, the Dong Feng would rank as the world’s first mobile, land-based missile capable of hitting a moving aircraft carrier from nearly 2,000 miles away, depending on its payload and other factors."
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Wikileaks Reopens for Leakers  ---  http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/wikileaks_repair
Action Alert - A quote...."Wikileaks is back in business for leakers, with two revamped ways to submit secret documents, the group announced Saturday. -- The security certificate for uploading by HTTPS has been replaced, after expiring in early June. When the old certificate expired, it disabled Wikileaks’ upload system for over a month without any notice on the site."
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The Ministry of Truth  ---  http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1020
Article  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/19/obama%E2%80%99s-war-on-the-internet/
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/12/this-site-is-about-freedom-please-promote-it-support-
dprogram-%E2%80%93-donate-25-for-250-business-cards-or-15-for-125-%E2%80%93-bumper-sticker-included/
A quote...."The Ministry of Truth was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel 1984. A recent trip to Europe has convinced me that the governments of the world have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain control of it so that they will have a virtual monopoly on information that the public is able to access. In Italy, Germany, and Britain the anonymous internet that most Americans are still familiar with is slowly being modified. If one goes into an internet café it is now legally required in most countries in the European Union to present a government issued form of identification."
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Journalist Sokratis Giolias gunned down in Greece  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10684185
Press Attacked! - A quote...."A Greek investigative journalist has been shot dead outside his home in Athens in an attack linked by police to leftist militants." - Sure, just as he was about to release a report on the massive amounts of corruption in Greece, much of which led to Greece's current economic difficulties.  Who knew the BBC had such a sense of humor? - mpg
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Party Scooper  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/wilson-brian/wilson-brian19.1.html
A quote...."Responding to Tea Party audiences who say "We love Libertarian principles but we have to vote for Republicans because we can’t let the Democrats win," Ken Matesz, Ohio’s first Libertarian gubernatorial candidate since pterodactyls flew, wrote recently:  --  "This makes me wonder about the value of the tea party groups. If their only goal is to prevent Democrats from being elected, then why all the education? Why bother with learning the Constitution? Why bother circulating petitions for health-care amendments? Why bother calling and writing to congressmen and senators? Why bother learning more about free-market economics? Why study the founders and our founding principles? If the solution lies in electing Republicans, then there is no more you need to know. Just show up and vote Republican and all will be well."  --  I read Ken’s comments on the air. The phone lines should be repaired by next Tuesday."
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Congressman Demands New Probe over Al Qaida Terrorist
  ---  http://911blogger.com/news/2010-07-16/congressman-demands-new-probe-over-al-qaida-terrorist
Special Note - A quote...."Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., has called on the White House to re-impanel the Sept. 11 Commission to investigate the FBI's post–Sept. 11 probe of Anwar Awlaki, an American-born imam who met privately with some of the Sept. 11 hijackers before fleeing the country and inspiring other terrorists, including the Fort Hood attacker. -- Wolf points to recent revelations that the Justice Department issued a felony arrest warrant for Awlaki (aka Aulaqi) in June 2002, when he was living in Northern Virginia and preaching at a local mosque – only to withdraw the warrant the day before Awlaki returned to the U.S. from a trip to Saudi Arabia."
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Recent Video Compilation of Controlled Demolition Evidence
  ---  http://911blogger.com/news/2010-07-14/recent-video-compilation-controlled-demolition-evidence
Contains Video Links - A quote...."The following is a 40 minute edit of recently released videos from the AE911Truth San Fransisco press conference, the recent Fire Fighters for 911 Truth presentation with Mr. Lawyer and Mr. Gage, and the lecture recently given by David Ray Griffin at a Harvard church. "
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The Real U.S. Government  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/07/19/secrecy/index.html
A quote...."The Washington Post's Dana Priest demonstrates once again why she's easily one of the best investigative journalists in the nation -- if not the best -- with the publication of Part I  ---  http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/  ---  of her series, co-written with William Arkin, detailing the sprawling, unaccountable, inexorably growing secret U.S. Government:  what the article calls "Top Secret America."  To the extent the series receives much substantive attention (and I doubt it will), the focus will likely be on the bureaucratic problems it documents:  the massive redundancies, overlap, waste, and inefficiencies which plague this "hidden world, growing beyond control" -- as though everything would better if Top Secret America just functioned a bit more effectively.   But the far more significant fact so compellingly illustrated by this first installment is the one I described last week  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/07/14/whistleblowers/index.html  ---  when writing about the Obama administration's escalating war on whistle blowers:"
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/the-real-u-s-government/
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TOP SECRET AMERICA  ---  http://911blogger.com/news/2010-07-19/top-secret-america
Contains Video - A quote...."Top Secret America" is a project nearly two years in the making that describes the huge national security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. -- When it comes to national security, all too often no expense is spared and few questions are asked - with the result an enterprise so massive that nobody in government has a full understanding of it. It is, as Dana Priest and William M. Arkin have found, ubiquitous, often inefficient and mostly invisible to the people it is meant to protect and who fund it."
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Orwell's nightmare--big brother is here - http://www.examiner.com/x-37620-Conservative-Examiner%7Ey2010m7d17-Orwells-nightmarebig-brother-is-here
A quote...."In George Orwell's chilling novel, 1984, the author depicts a future society in which citizens are controlled by an all-seeing, all-knowing big government, referred to as 'big brother.'  Orwell's nightmare is here, now. -- A sampling of the major news stories today merely prove we are now living under the very tyranny about which Orwell warned and about which stalwart defenders of liberty such as Ayn Rand, Barry Goldwater, M. Stanton Evans, and Whitaker Chambers kept an ever-watchful eye." - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/19/orwells-nightmare-big-brother-is-here/
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Censorship Alert: Obama Deception Illegally Removed from You Tube
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/censorship-alert-obama-deception-illegally-removed-from-you-tube/
Contains Videos - ODIlgyHckd  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKzEjjdRl6s  ---  ODHckd  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgUpFzJ5P6A  ---  A quote...."Made to look like a hack, Thought Police Block Mega-Viral Anti-Establishment Documentary After More than a Year of Dominating Viewcounts, Ranking #1 in Search Engines and Waking Up Millions to the False Left-Right Paradigm Perpetuated by Obama."
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Inmates say they witnessed man's death when jailers restrained, shocked him repeatedly  ---  http://www.denverpost.com/ci_15542359
A quote...."Marvin Booker just wanted to get his shoes. -- But deputies at the new Denver jail told him to stop. When Booker, who was being processed on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia, didn't obey, he was held down, hit with electric shocks and then placed facedown in a holding cell, according to two inmates who watched it unfold. -- Booker never got up. He was pronounced dead later that morning."
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Bibi Unmasked  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/07/18/bibi-unmasked/
Special Note - A quote...."In 2001, Bibi Netanyahu paid a condolence call  ---  http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100718/FOREIGN/707179891/1135  ---  on a group of Israeli settlers in the village of Ofra, widows whose husbands had been killed in the Intifada: the videotaped conversation has just been leaked, and broadcast by Israel’s Channel 10,  ---  http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=731034  ---  and it is a blockbuster.  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaIQHWfj5f4  ---  At one point, Bibi is telling the widows that the Palestinians “think they will break us,” but don’t worry, ladies, Bibi has a plan:"  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/the-world-wont-say-a-thing-netanyahu-on-ongoing-israeli-expansion.html#more-22503
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‘The world won’t say a thing’– Netanyahu on ongoing Israeli expansion
  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/the-world-wont-say-a-thing-netanyahu-on-ongoing-israeli-expansion.html
Video & Transcript - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6KLFrye9Xk  ---  A quote...."Below is a transcript of the Second-Intifadah era conversation, supplied by Dena Shunra, a Hebrew<>English translator living and working in the United States. Note that Netanyahu quotes his extremist father counseling him to give up 2 percent of Hebron (during the Wye negotiations) so as to maintain the Jewish settlements there and get people off Israel's back. And note that Netanyahu's defiance about American opinion extends to the whole world. When his interlocutor asks about world opinion re continued conquest/settlement, he says, "The world won’t say a thing. The world will say we’re defending."
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Demands for release of nuclear whistleblower as Israel holds Vanunu in solitary confinement
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/demands-for-release-of-nuclear-whistleblower-as-israel-holds-vanunu-in-solitary-confinement-1.1041966
A quote...."There were demands last night for the release from prison of the man known as the Israeli nuclear whistleblower after it emerged he was being held in solitary confinement in the same section of prison as some of Israel’s most notorious criminals."
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Syrian ambassador challenges U.S. official on Israel nukes
  ---  http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkpoint-washington/2010/07/syrian_ambassador_challenges_u.html
link also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/12/this-site-is-about-freedom-please-promote-it-support-dprogram-%
E2%80%93-donate-25-for-250-business-cards-or-15-for-125-%E2%80%93-bumper-sticker-included/
Some quotes...."Andrew J. Shapiro, the assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, gave a speech Friday morning at the Brookings Institution highlighting the growing security and military ties between the United States and Israel. During the question-and-answer period, the Syrian ambassador to the United States, Imad Moustapha, asked Shapiro how he could discuss U.S.-Israeli military ties and never once mention Israel's not-so-secret nuclear arsenal." -- Note: this quote...."Shapiro's speech, meanwhile, contained one startling statistic. He noted that Israel is on track to receive $3 billion in military financing from the U.S. government in 2011. The total budget for such is $5 billion, which means that Israel by itself gets 60 percent; the other 70 countries who receive military aid share the other $2 billion." - bold by website editor
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Israeli 'loyalty oath' approved  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/20107199346452716.html
An "oath" soon to be administered in this country.  Think that's a joke folks?  Take a look around. - mpg -- A quote...."The Israeli cabinet has approved a provision that would require all prospective citizens living in Israel illegally to swear allegiance to a "Jewish democratic state".
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

9,000 activists and 35 media organizations to participate in Freedom Flotilla 2
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7f8VQxRvG6YFsF928wQBkybr6isrkK
1Pxm72PIkEht7Vj09p5kw9e%2bLC%2baYQOxvf0V%2brywfnlp3RZ2RgDN3uhkgu563S1wWir0tiD6vDwn58%3d
Action/Alert - Update -- A quote...."BRUSSELS, (PIC)-- The European campaign to end the Siege on Gaza announced Monday that Freedom Flotilla 2 will be delayed until late September or early October due to expansion in participation from European countries."
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Breaking the Siege against Gaza: We must End the Apartheid and Establish an Independent Palestine State
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20148
A quote...."We are gathered here today not only to honour the Turkish martyrs who were brutally slaughtered by Israeli commandos on the Mavi Marmara, but also to counter the lies and propaganda by Israel and the Zionist controlled international mass media, that the passengers, specifically the martyrs, were terrorists and therefore the killings were justified."
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EU calls for opening Gaza borders  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/201071855216516477.html
A quote...."Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, has said Gaza's borders must open to enable the territory's battered economy to recover. - "The position of the EU is very clear. We want to see the opportunity for people to be able to move around freely, to see goods not only coming in to Gaza but exports coming out of Gaza," Ashton said on Sunday during a visit to Palestinian territory."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68059&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Syria president, Turkey FM issue joint call for end to Gaza siege
  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/syria-president-turkey-fm-issue-joint-call-for-end-to-gaza-siege-1.302884
A quote...."Syrian President Bashar Assad and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday issued a joint called for further action to bring an end to the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip, Army Radio reported."
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IDF Raids Across the West Bank  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1485
A quote...."Thursday morning saw simultaneous raids take place in homes throughout the West Bank: the Northern village of Beit Furiq was one of the targeted areas with 8 residents taken, including 2 women."
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Palestinian Women Political Prisoners  ---  http://www.jnoubiyeh.com/2010/07/palestinian-women-political-prisoners.html
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8TKMIVhIVA  ---  A quote...."Since 1967, approximately 700,000 Palestinians have been arrested and detained under Israeli military orders. This number accounts for close to 20 percent of the population in the occupied Palestinian territories."
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Israeli female soldier confesses to her involvement in killing Palestinian child
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7TFwJHXLhMGWiDceRUH
Bgaf96MiZYjzUyr2%2bmxScuERLKwc2ct%2bz7p1w7SFEPohd5Tl90Icq6w0KaFdOFzRZyIgk0Yyuj6Y2wVdo5u%2bbQSiY%3d
Special Note - (For the horror of it all) -- Israel is a sick country....period. - mpg -- A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- An Israeli female soldier admitted in a TV show entitled "soldiers behind the scenes" that she helped once her comrades to kill a Palestinian child in cold blood, but she did not disclose when and where the crime took place. -- "I was monitoring through the camera at the command center the movements of Palestinian children throwing stones at the army and directing soldiers to move towards the kids, and under my guidance through the walkie-talkie, they killed a Palestinian kid," the soldier said."
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Gaza imports held at port for 4 years  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=300339
A quote...."Gaza – Ma'an – Israeli authorities have yet to release Gaza-bound goods sequestered at Israeli seaports for over four years despite reportedly easing the terms of its blockade, independent lawmaker Jamal Al-Khoudary said Sunday. "
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/gaza-imports-held-at-port-for-4-years/
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Twilight Zone / Gestures to the Palestinians  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/magazine/week-s-end/twilight-zone-gestures-to-the-palestinians-1.302315
A quote...."Which is crueler? Expelling an urban family from its home in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, or bulldozing a meager tent encampment of shepherds living on private Jordan Valley land they leased, destroying their water tanks, their tents and their sheep pens, and expelling families with many children from the land on which they live? It's hard to say. But while the Sheikh Jarrah expulsions are attracting interest in Israel and elsewhere, hardly anyone notices or protests what's going on in the Jordan Valley." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/twilight-zone-israel-is-expelling-hundreds-of-shepherds-from-the-jordan-valley/  ---  For more on this issue see....Israel's Scorched Earth
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israelsscorchedearth-weblist-mpg-022510
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On the edge with Max Keiser-Max Keiser talking to Paul Craig Roberts- MK(1/3)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/2/rVUVQMUtsM0
MK(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/1/eiYZHpKFTVc
MK(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/0/GeeePaoMPQI
Must View MK-PTV-Videos - MKYuTb(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVUVQMUtsM0
MKYuTb(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiYZHpKFTVc
MKYuTb(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeeePaoMPQI  ---  Source: MaxKaiserTV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---    & PressTVGlobalNews  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/PressTVGlobalNews  ---  A quote...."Max Keiser is on the edge of the financial news where future financial scandals, market crashes and monetary crisis begin, be there before it happens."
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Obama-Dodd-Frank FinReg Monstrosity Delays Derivatives Curbs until 2022!
  ---  http://tarpley.net/2010/07/15/obama-dodd-frank-finreg-monstrosity-delays-derivatives-curbs-until-2022/
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZObHXWbWlk  ---  (video was previously posted) -- A quote...."The Obama-Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, a miserable excuse for real Wall Street reform, is now about to gain final approval in the Senate. This wretched bill is now supported by the New England liberal (meaning Wall Street) Republican clique including Olympia Snow, Susan Collins, and Scott Brown, who are joined by the notoriously corrupt reactionary Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska. This bill will create a multitude of new regulations and a number of large new bureaucracies, but it is utterly devoid of any bright-line prohibitions against the causes of the financial panic which struck the United States in 2008, and which continues to the present day in the form of a world economic depression."
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The "War" On Wall Street Maybe Over:  Guess Who Is Winning?  ---  Guess who won? - mpg
   ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/07/19/the-%E2%80%9Cwar%E2%80%9D-on-wall-street-maybe-over-guess-who-is-winning-by-danny-schechter/
A quote...."An unusual word crept into the lexicon of the New York Times op-ed page, the arbiter of approved thought in the age of economic collapse. The new conservative columnist Ross Douthat dusted off a key phrase associated with Marxism, “class war.”
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10 Ways You're Being Fleeced by Banks  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2010/07/10-ways-youre-being-fleeced-by-banks.html
link also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/12/this-site-is-about-freedom-please-promote-it-support-dprogram-%
E2%80%93-donate-25-for-250-business-cards-or-15-for-125-%E2%80%93-bumper-sticker-included/
A quote...."Taxpayers are rightfully angrier than ever before about the state of the U.S. economy and the government's handling of the financial crisis; perhaps even more so than the Colonists at the original Tea Party.  After all, it appears that the only group benefiting during this painful slide into recession are the very people who caused the crisis -- The Banks."
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The Role of Consumer Spending in Phony Economic Growth  ---  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1474.htm
A quote...."In round numbers, the US economy currently has debt equal to 350% of GDP. It averaged about half that much in the ’50-’80 period. If it were to go back to that level, it would have to eliminate about $25 trillion in debt."
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Commentary: Leading money manager now believes deflation is coming
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/deflation-camp-gets-powerful-new-ally-2010-07-20
A quote...."He is Jeremy Grantham, chief investment strategist at Boston-based GMO, a money management firm. His quarterly letters to clients are "must reads" on Wall Street, in much the same way that Warren Buffet's annual letters to shareholders are endlessly dissected and analyzed."
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The Retirement Nightmare: Half of Americans Have Less Than $2,000 Banked for Their Golden Years
  ---  http://www.alternet.org/economy/147570/the_retirement_nightmare:_half_of_americans_have_less_than_$2,000_banked_for_their_golden_years/
More like their soon to be black years. - mpg -- A quote...."The days of quietly retiring with a nest egg built up from years of savings from a long career on the verge of disappearing. For tens of millions of Americans, facing rising costs, shrinking incomes and growing debts they already have disappeared."
also posted at ActivistPost  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2010/07/retirement-nightmare-half-of-americans.html
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The Jobless Effect: Is the Real Unemployment Rate 16.5%, 22%, or. . .?
  ---  http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/careers/what-is-the-real-unemployment-rate/19556146/
A quote...."Raghavan Mayur, president at TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, follows unemployment data closely. So, when his survey for May revealed that 28% of the 1,000-odd households surveyed reported that at least one member was looking for a full-time job, he was flummoxed."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-9733-0-13-13--.html
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NAHB Builder Confidence Drops Again, Misses Expectations, Back To April 2009 Levels
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/nahb-builder-confidence-drops-again-misses-expectations-back-april-2009-levels
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Today's National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index update for July was yet another confirmation of the deterioration in the economic sentiment, and the US consumer's unwillingness to spend on homes absent tax rebates and other forms of stimulus, regardless of mortgage rates. The index came at 14, below expectations of a 16 reading, and a drop from downward revised 16 in June (prior 17). Ben Shalom is looking at all these deteriorating data points and getting closer to QE2 by the hour."
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Peter Schiff: Dollar Rout, CNBC, Fin Reg  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff101.html
A quote...."With the Dollar cratering this week,  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/7893238/Feds-volte-face-sends-the-dollar-tumbling.html  ---  the last shoe in Peter Schiff’s Austrian-based prediction set from 2007 may finally be dropping.  --  In his latest video blog  ---  http://www.europac.net/media/video_blog/dollar_rout_cnbc_fin_reg  ---  (July 15th), Peter Schiff comments upon the 9% drop in the Dollar Index  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Dollar_Index  ---  this month, with the Dollar showing particular weakness against the Euro, the Yen, and the New Zealand Dollar.   --  Schiff thinks this Dollar Index drop may be the direct result of the recent G20 meeting, where a clear split opened up between the American stimulus-and-spend position and the European austerity-and-save position – dare we say the Krugman versus Schiff divide? – which has subsequently weakened the Dollar outlook versus the Euro outlook, despite the earlier problems with Greece et al. "
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Why Would China’s Rating Agency Rate The United States AA When It Is No Better Than Junk?
  ---  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1468.htm
A quote...."Sooner or later, China has to make the decision of the 21st century – to dump the dollar and allow global economies to suffer severe pain in the short term, five to ten years, or commit mass suicide together with the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and Japan."
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IMF Seeking Boost In Lending Cap By $250 Billion To $1 Trillion  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/imf-seeking-boost-lending-cap-250-billion-1-trillion
A quote...."In the latest sign yet that things in the world are roughly 25% worse than expected (give or take), the FT reports that the IMF will seek an imminent rise in its lending cap from $750 billion to $1 trillion to build safety nets that could prevent financial crises."
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Markets braced for turmoil after IMF and EU withdraw £17bn Hungary financing deal  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/
newsbysector/banksandfinance/7897459/Markets-braced-for-turmoil-after-IMF-and-EU-withdraw-17bn-Hungary-financing-deal.html
A quote...."European equity and credit markets are braced for a volatile day of trading after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union dramatically withdrew a €20bn (£17bn) financing deal for Hungary over the weekend."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-9766-0-13-13--.html
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Sunday July 18th 2010 - links page

Saturday July 17th 2010 - links page

Friday July 16th 2010 - links page

A word to the wise for all those in the US military participating in these "interrogations" and "trials", if ANY of the evidence being withheld or altered indicates US government complicity with 9/11, or would support or imply in any way such a suspicion....all personnel who have cooperated in withholding or altering such evidence would automatically become an accessory after the fact in the murder of three thousand Americans.

More importantly, tainting such evidence, creating any evidence, suborning perjury or extracting false confessions from prisoners even if it DOES NOT DIRECTLY INVOLVE U.S. government or administration official’s complicity regarding 9/11...IN AND OF ITSELF could be legally construed as obstruction of justice and possibly make someone an accessory after the fact regarding 9/11 if it prevents the identification of the true perpetrators or the facts involved. --*The Convenient Silence of Guantanamo Bay - 05-31-08 - mpg*  ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theconvenientsilenceofgitmo-blog-mpg-053108

Thursday July 15th 2010 - links page

U.S. Casualties in Afghan War Soar Toward 15,000 Dead and Injured
  ---  http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/03/u-s-casualties-in-afghan-war-soar-toward-15-000-dead-and-injure/
Well, it appears some more / Bio-Weapons-Components / Cannon-Fodder / Killer-Unit-Flesh-Packets / are being degraded or permanently disabled.  Guess the government will have to go ahead and purchase some more of them...yawn.  What's the big deal anyway, they're highly inexpensive to maintain, cheap to acquire and incredibly easy to manufacture (although they do take up to eighteen years to assemble).  Besides....all of these BWCs were actually un-educated enough to let the government inject them with all kinds of unknown, untested and highly dangerous vaccines, drugs and other chemicals for years.  Or let themselves be exposed to deadly depleted uranium.  So what the heck, since they don't appear to have any built-in self-preservation instincts whatsoever and since as a result they're probably going to wear-out or cease functioning anyway, instead of letting them be a burden to society while they continue to uselessly use their VA benefits, or try to rehabilitate themselves while they all slowly and inevitably deteriorate, why not just use them up in the US-NRE's various occupations?  After all, it would be the "capitalist" thing to do. - mpg - posted 03-03-10 - For more on this issue see....The Bidding War - 10-14-09 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thebiddingwar-mpg-reficultnias-101409
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And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?"  --  *Rudyard Kipling*, (Epitaphs of War, 1865-1936.)