Saturday July 28th 2007 - links page

I just watched a Bill Moyers special last night regarding al Qaeda and Iraq.

Al Qaeda and Iraq - auto load video - (Quick Time or Windows Media)
  ---  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07272007/watch2.html

The two gentlemen, West Point Instructor, Brian Fishman, and Middle Eastern and International Affairs Professor Fawaz Gerges, discussed several issues regarding Iraq

The sectarian conflicts.

How these conflicts might destabilize Lebanon.

The fact that the US military is supplying arms to some of the Sunni’s in Iraq who are apposed to "al-Qaeda like" groups..

The US’s infliction of civilian casualties, although no figures were discussed. -
(Five hundred   ---  http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/15/1432233
thousand  ---  http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/10/16/EDG6PKDSLU1.DTL  ---  to
one million  ---  http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/International_War_Crimes/Monstrous_WarCrime_Iraq.html  ---  Iraqis killed,
two million internally displaced,  --  http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2640418.ece
two million who have fled  ---  http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12377
the country)

The fact that just a tiny fraction (3%-6%) of the Iraqi insurgency is composed of foreign Jihadists some of whom share al Qaeda's philosophy

The fact that those in Iraq who call themselves “al Qaeda” are not directly related to al Qaeda “central” and have a different command structure.  Essentially they’re an al-Qaeda “franchise”

The US’s “cultural” insensitivity toward the Iraqis

The fact that the US’s continual occupation of Iraq is leading to hatred throughout the Middle East for the US and is contributing to the ever widening and successful recruitment of Jihadists by like minded “al Qaeda” groups

The fact that more than 45% of the foreign Jihadists
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-saudi15jul15,0,3132262.story?coll=la-home-center
(3%-6% of the insurgency) in Iraq come from
Saudi Arabia  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/saud-j17.shtml

The US’s massive prior support (ten billion dollars or more directly, much, much, more indirectly though our friends Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) for Jihadist groups throughout the Middle East during the last twenty years.

The US’s continual  ---  http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/24/050124fa_fact
and ongoing  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021307J.shtml
support  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/floyd/floyd15.html
of government  ---  http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2005/11/18/our_monsters_in_iraq.php
death squads in
Iraq.  ---  http://www.mdgreens.org/montgomery/blog/2005/11/30/369/
The SCIRI, the Interior  ---  http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/10/29/iraq14473.htm
Ministry,  ---  http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article347806.ece
the “El Salvador option” ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/FUL506A.html
“riding with the bad boys”  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11180.htm
and other plans  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd1101.html
of mayhem.   ---  http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DK05Ak02.html

That the US, as recently as three months ago,
was encouraging  ---  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/05/070305fa_fact_hersh
Saudi Arabia to continue  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=16442&sectionid=351020205
it’s support for Anti-western Wahhabist Jihadist including groups who share al-Qaeda’s philosophy

The US’s ongoing support for the
MEK,  ---  http://smintheusblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/us-sponsorship-of-iraqi-terrorists-down.html
PKK  ---  http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2007/01/04/7069.shtml
the Jundullah,  ---  http://www.theamericanmonitor.com/articles/jundullah_uk.html
affiliated Baluchistan separatists, and
other groups  ---  http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DK05Ak02.html  ---  throughout the Middle East.

How all this support by the US throughout the Middle East for these various groups is destabilizing the entire region and ENCOURAGING sectarian conflicts in countries such as Lebanon

How administration officials, including such notables as Condoleezza Rice, publicly lauded and described such efforts to deliberately destabilize the Middle East as
"birth pangs"  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060725_robert_scheer_labor_pains/
(“a.k.a. constructive instability”)  ---  http://mondediplo.com/2005/07/07instability

The DPG,  ---  http://work.colum.edu/%7Eamiller/wolfowitz1992.htm
PNAC  ---  http://www.oldamericancentury.org/pnac.htm
and other prior documents,
public statements  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vulcans
and groups  ---  http://tvnewslies.org/html/pnac_neo-con_artists.html
which describe IN DETAIL the US’s plans to cause all this instability.

How these plans have been in the works for the last twenty years and how they have PREDICTED all of the current ongoing actions by the US government and the terrible strife now occurring in the Middle East

The horrendous crimes committed in these conflicts by US personnel which include the deliberate targeting of civilians on almost every mission, B&E, vandalism, the humiliation and in many cases, rape and murder of Iraqi civilians.

The hundreds of thousands of Iraqis imprisoned and the tens of thousands tortured by US service personnel throughout America’s
Gulag Archipelago   ---  http://www.newstatesman.com/200405170016
including such places as Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Bagram Air Force Base and many, many other locations throughout the world.

The deliberate  ---  http://www.energygrid.com/society/2004/11gh-iraqhealth.html
and almost complete destruction of Iraq's infrastructure.
Hospital's,  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-lorimer171104.htm
roads, sewage plants, schools, etc.

The diliberate  ---  http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/11/sprj.irq.pentagon/
and almost complete destruction of
Iraq’s cultural artifacts.
---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/4710/chalmers_johnson_on_robbing_the_cradle_of_civilization

The massive unemployment in Iraq,  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iraq
up to sixty percent.
   ---  http://www.upi.com/Energy/Analysis/2007/07/26/analysis_iraq_oil_refineries_go_private/2001/

The privatization of Iraq's entire industrial sector,  i.e. stealing their assets.

The fact that the US turned over  ---  http://www.amnesty.org/resources/flash/torture/renditions/
(rendered) people it had captured to many governments in the Middle East (Syria, Egypt, and others) for torture and death.  Not a practice that would normally inspire the people of the Middle East to support US policies or what the US calls "our" friendly governments.

How these policies of torture and mayhem were
deliberately encouraged  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/1433252
by administration officials, one of whom actually
 watched and directed the tortures over a video link.
http://dissidentnews.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/andrew-cockburn-how-rumsfeld-micromanaged-torture/
(Donald Rumsfeld).

The current ongoing plans  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXS3vW47mOE
(Video-YuTb-1.37m)  to attack Iran, Syria and many other countries

The Israeli occupation of Palestine and the horror it entails for the Palestinian people.

The US’s ongoing  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4834032.stm  ---  expansion of
permanent  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/02/15/tomengelhardt/index_np.html
bases  ---  http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/04/iraqs-usuk-permanent-bases-intentional.html
in Iraq.

The utter betrayal of "democratic principals" by the US when it encouraged the people in Lebanon and Palestine to go out and vote, and when they voted for those theUS didn't like, Hezbollah and Hammas, the US had Isreal launch their
long  ---  http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/21/MIDEAST.TMP
planned  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,2029732,00.html
attacks  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14159.htm
against them - attacks which are ongoing to this day.

And of course,  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052607Z.shtml
most importantly  ---  http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/032907Hussain.shtml
of all…is the oil.  ---  http://www.judicialwatch.org/iraqi-oil-maps.shtml

Friday July 27th 2007 - links page

From Nazism to Neo-cons to Bushism  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ed_marti_070726_from_nazism_to_neo_c.htm
Must Read - A quote...."There is a direct link that runs from George Bush through the Neo-cons to Leo Strauss to Carl Schmitt in the heart of Nazi Germany.  -  To see how George Bush as absorbed Nazi ideology and spouts it at every opportunity without even knowing what it is, we start with Carl Schmitt in the 1930s in Germany.  Schmitt was a shaper of Nazi ideology, a leading Nazi philosopher of law.  He was a member of the Nazi party, wrote that politics is about friends and enemies, that politics always involves life-or-death stakes, that politics demands annihilation, that unity can only be achieved by repressing dissent, even at the risk of violating the rule of law.  George Bush has brought these very same ideas into actuality with his war on Iraq, his disregard for the deaths of innocent Iraqis and US soldiers, and with his latest dictatorial decree that a dissenter's property can be seized without due process of law.  This is precisely how Hitler started the destruction of the Jews and now Bush has started it on us."

Russia’s Gorbachev Says US is Sowing World Disorder  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/27/2812/
A quote...."Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev criticized the United States, and current President George W. Bush in particular, on Friday for sowing disorder across the world by seeking to build an empire."

Iraq withdrawal follies  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG28Ak05.html
A quote...."Here's the odd thing, though: "withdrawal", as an idea, has been undergoing a transformation in full public view. In the world of the Washington consensus and in the mainstream press, it has been edging ever closer to what normally might be thought of as "non-withdrawal" (just as happened in the Vietnam era). In fact, you can search far and wide for reports on "withdrawal" plans that suggest a full-scale US withdrawal from Iraq and, most of the time, find nothing amid the pelting rain of withdrawal words."

Nafeez Ahmed's talk "Creating Terror" Putfile stream:
http://media.putfile.com/Nafeez-Ahmed---Creating-Terror---7-13-2007
  ---  http://media.putfile.com/Nafeez-Ahmed---Creating-Terror---7-13-2007

High-quality MP3 D/L from the a-infos Radio Project:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=23955
  ---  http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=23955

  ---  http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/012005_ptech_pt1.shtml

PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR PART II
  ---  http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/012705_ptech_pt2.shtml
Complete 911 Timeline - Military Exercises Up to 9/11
  ---  http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?before_9/11=militaryExercises&timeline=complete_911_timeline
Crossing the Rubicon: Simplifying the case against Dick Cheney
  ---  http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:eGqrrxvfTmUJ:www.activistmagazine
  ---  .com/index2.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26do_pdf%3D1%26id%3D291

911 WTC Attack on US
  ---  http://www.stewwebb.com/9-11WTCBushCheneyTreason.html
Ten Facts We Learned About 9/11 in 2004
  ---  http://saveourwetlands.org/tenfacts.htm
Is MITRE Corp. The Trojan Horse of 9/11?
  ---  http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/911review/2006/jun/29/is_mitre_corp_the_trojan_horse_of_9_11
The PROMIS of 9/11 and beyond
  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1322.shtml
9/11 was an Inside Job and a “Psy-Op”
  ---  http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:pyjHobv864EJ:erickarlstrom.com/Articles/9-11wasaninsidejobanda_.doc
Magical Thinking > Cheney, The OODA Loop, and 9/11
  ---  http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=57&showentry=601

"For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?"

"Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,"

"Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish."

"Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?"

"Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace." --  (Luke 14:28–32)

Thursday July 26th 2007 - links page

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson: Coming Financial Crash Shows Need for Immediate Monetary Reform
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6401
War Alert - A quote...."U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr., has joined the chorus of those in high places who are warning of a major worldwide economic downturn."

Editors note:  Most probably Tuesday's 07-24-07 market action is part of a correction down to the 200 day moving average on all indices with a rebound thereafter, IF however it is not, and this activity really is the start of a premature and early end to the ten year "credit/contraction" cycle  (this editor thought it would end in 2008) you can expect a major "fortuitous" attack on the US within the next 30 to 90 days given the current up-tempo in War Warnings and War Alerts during the last three weeks..

Therefore if Tuesday's activity is any indication that this current "ten year cycle" is coming to an end, it should be considered a Red War Warning - mpg  - posted 07-24-07

For more on this see....Standard Disclaimer  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207

Wednesday July 25th 2007 - links page

The Great Wall of Segregation...
 ---  http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#8633937213645733275#8633937213645733275
Must Read - A quote...."I always hear the Iraqi pro-war crowd interviewed on television from foreign capitals (they can only appear on television from the safety of foreign capitals because I defy anyone to be publicly pro-war in Iraq). They refuse to believe that their religiously inclined, sectarian political parties fueled this whole Sunni/Shia conflict. They refuse to acknowledge that this situation is a direct result of the war and occupation. They go on and on about Iraq's history and how Sunnis and Shia were always in conflict and I hate that. I hate that a handful of expats who haven't been to the country in decades pretend to know more about it than people actually living there."

"I remember Baghdad before the war- one could live anywhere. We didn't know what our neighbors were- we didn't care. No one asked about religion or sect. No one bothered with what was considered a trivial topic: are you Sunni or Shia? You only asked something like that if you were uncouth and backward. Our lives revolve around it now. Our existence depends on hiding it or highlighting it- depending on the group of masked men who stop you or raid your home in the middle of the night."
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Gerson's Crusade Against "Low-Hanging Fruit"  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp07252007.html
Must Read - A quote...."Neocon officials in the Defense Department call them "low-hanging fruit"--- as though countries were produce ripe for picking and eating. The term refers to nations targeted for regime change that might be achieved with minimal strain, at least when compared with the effort needed to topple the regime in Iran. Some neocons are beginning to concede that the effort might not be feasible at this time (not that they would be climbing the tree and plucking the fruit; they'd stand below advising on how it should be done). They're advocating instead that the Bush administration move soon against Syria."

National Intelligence Estimate lacks supporting evidence, possibly politicized, intelligence officials say
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/National_Intelligence_Estimate_sloppy_and_possibly_0725.html
War Alert - A quote...."Current and former intelligence officials say the Bush Administration's National Intelligence Estimate regarding terrorist threats to the United States does not provide evidence to support its assertions and may have inflated the domestic threat posed by the Lebanese political and military group Hezbollah, perhaps because it receives financial support from Iran."  -  bold/italics by website author

Bush delivers rant on Iraq to military audience as poll numbers plummet  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/bush-j25.shtml
A quote...."With poll numbers indicating that support for both his administration and the Iraq war have fallen to record lows, President Bush Tuesday delivered a militarist rant before a uniformed audience in South Carolina, insisting that the fighting must continue in order to defeat Al Qaeda.  -  Speaking for less than half an hour before a dragooned audience of military personnel at the Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina, Bush used the words “Al Qaeda” 93 times and made at least 23 separate references to Osama bin Laden, nearly 40 to “terror” or “terrorists” as well as eight mentions of September 11."

Poor little Shrubby, all that effort by his "Family" and their cronies to arrange 9/11 - and the political boost they got from the whole thing lasted just a few short measly years, not quite the New American "Century" they were looking for.  Goes to show, that although the American people's legendary short attention spans will usually help our elite's propaganda efforts, they will also occasionally hinder them.

Guess the Neocons and the elites will just have to do a better job the second time around....won't they? – mpg
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Disfavor for Bush Hits Rare Heights  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/bush-j25.shtml
Some quotes...."The latest Washington Post-ABC News survey shows that 65 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush's job performance, matching his all-time low.  -  In polls conducted by The Post or Gallup going back to 1938, only twice has a president exceeded that level of public animosity -- Harry S. Truman, who hit 67 percent during the Korean War, and Richard M. Nixon, who hit 66 percent four days before resigning."  -  "Public disapproval of Bush is not only broad but deep; 52 percent of Americans "strongly" disapprove of his performance and 28 percent describe themselves as "angry."

Italian FM favors ending U.S. military mission in Afghanistan  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20070725/69680004.html
A quote...."ROME, July 25 (RIA Novosti) - Italy's foreign minister said Wednesday the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan should be ended because of the unacceptably high number of civilian casualties."

Is the US Preparing To Attack Pakistan?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis84.html
A quote...."The Bush Administration may be preparing to lash out at old ally Pakistan, which Washington now blames for its humiliating failures to crush al-Qaida, capture its elusive leaders, or defeat Taliban resistance forces in Afghanistan.  -  One is immediately reminded of the Vietnam War when the Pentagon, unable to defeat North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong forces, urged invasion of Cambodia."

U.S. Policy of Force Sure to 'Put Tribes on the Warpath' - posted at Watching America  ---  http://www.watchingamerica.com/index.shtml
  ---  http://www.watchingamerica.com/thenationpk000056.shtml
A quote...."The government mustn't blindly obey American directives. Due to the way it has pursued its strategic aims in the region, Washington bears responsibility unleashing the genie of militancy"

U.S. bending rules on Colombia terror?  ---  http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/latimesB09.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, leftist guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups in Colombia have kidnapped or killed civilians, trade union leaders, police and soldiers by the hundreds and profited by shipping cocaine and heroin to the United States.  -  In that time, several American multinational corporations have been accused of essentially underwriting those criminal activities — in violation of U.S. law — by providing cash, vehicles and other financial assistance as insurance against attacks on their employees and facilities in the South American nation."

The New Politics of Political Aid in Venezuela  ---  http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/4405
A quote...."Five years after U.S.-funded groups were associated with a failed coup against Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, the U.S. government's political aid programs continue to meddle in Venezuelan domestic politics . A new focus of the "democracy builders" in Venezuela and around the world is support for nonviolent resistance by civil society organizations."

Britain is protecting the biggest heroin crop of all time
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=469983&in_page_id=1770
A quote...."Afghanistan was not militarily winnable by the British Empire at the height of its supremacy. It was not winnable by Darius or Alexander, by Shah, Tsar or Great Moghul. It could not be subdued by 240,000 Soviet troops. But what, precisely, are we trying to win?  -  In six years, the occupation has wrought one massive transformation in Afghanistan, a development so huge that it has increased Afghan GDP by 66 per cent and constitutes 40 per cent of the entire economy. That is a startling achievement, by any standards. Yet we are not trumpeting it. Why not?  -  The answer is this. The achievement is the highest harvests of opium the world has ever seen."

Political Prisoner: Loose Change Producer Korey Rowe Arrested  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3855
A quote...."Loose Change producer and Iraq and Afghanistan veteran Korey Rowe has been arrested and handed over to military officials without bail for allegedly "deserting the Army".

Military reviews placing special ops on U.S. soil
  ---  http://www.examiner.com/a-790871%7EMilitary_reviews_placing_special_ops_on_U_S__soil.html
War Update - A quote...."WASHINGTON (Map, News) - The U.S. military command in charge of protecting the homeland asked the Pentagon earlier this year for a contingent of special operations officers to help with domestic anti-terrorism missions.  -  Military sources told The Examiner that U.S. Northern Command, established at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado in 2002, requested its own special operations command similar to ones assigned to overseas war-fighting commands, such as U.S. Central Command."

The US is now about to be occupied by its own military forces in the same fashion that these forces have occupied all the other countries throughout the world.....no doubt they'll soon start bombing US cities.

No?  You don't believe that?  You think that's going to far?  -  Just wait and see. - mpg
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The Globalization of Military Power: NATO Expansion  ---  http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=395
A quote...."NATO is determined to expand its membership circle and to expand its mandate. Ultimately NATO is slated to become a global military force. Moreover, part of the objectives of NATO as a global military alliance is to ensure the “energy security” of its member states. What this signifies is the militarization of the world’s arteries, strategic pipeline routes, maritime traffic corridors used by oil tankers, and international waters."

Russia to deploy S-400 air defense systems around Moscow Aug. 6  ---  http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=395
Some quotes...."MOSCOW, July 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will deploy the first air defense battalion equipped with new S-400 missile systems around Moscow on August 6, an Air Force spokesman said."  -  "A regular S-400 battalion comprises at least eight launchers and 32 missiles and a mobile command post, according to various sources.  -  S-400 has been designed to intercept and destroy airborne targets at a distance of up to 400 kilometers (250 miles), or twice the range of the U.S. MIM-104 Patriot, and 2.5 times that of the S-300PMU-2."

China shying from shaky US mortgage market  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/IG26Cb02.html
A quote...."HONG KONG - While China is eager to invest a portion of its US$1.33 trillion foreign-exchange reserve overseas, it is unlikely to take a chance on buying additional US mortgage-backed securities (MBS) as they are now considered too risky, Chinese economists said."

One would have to guess the Chinese learned from the awful experience the Japanese had in the US real estate market just how dangerous it can really be.  - mpg
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AP Reveals New Document Demonstrates ‘Clear Case’ Of Gonzales Perjury On Spying Program  ---  http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/25/new-doc-spying/
A quote...."The AP reports that a four-page memo  ---  http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/may_17_tsp.pdf  ---  sent by then-National Intelligence Director John Negroponte in May 2006 confirms that a March 2004 White House intelligence briefing for top congressional leaders was on
 “the Terrorist Surveillance Program.”  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/25/AR2007072502284.html

Mexico, Venezuela oil slumps could hit U.S. supply  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSN1632560520070720
A quote...."CARACAS/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Falling oil production in Venezuela and Mexico, Latin America's biggest suppliers of crude to the United States, could deepen U.S. reliance on shipments from the Middle East and Africa."

Free Fall From Tribune Tower: Profit Down 58% In 2Q
  ---  http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003616583
A quote...."CHICAGO In what is supposed to be one of its last quarterly reports before going private, Tribune Co. said Wednesday its profits plummeted 58% in the second quarter compared to last year's period."

Tuesday July 24th 2007 - links page

I Announce My Candidacy Against Nancy Pelosi in California's 8th  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18066.htm
Some quotes...." At the end of this day, Speaker Pelosi has not supported impeachment and has not upheld her oath of office to "protect and defend" the Constitution. Like Congressman Conyers said almost a year ago, our Constitution is in crisis and we can't wait for more meetings and more stalling from Reps who think the problem will go away in '08. The Middle East is rapidly falling apart under this regime and our country is sliding rapidly into a state of one-branch tyranny while our "heroes," the Democrats, fiddle." -- "....[So] it is"..."with a heavy heart that I announce my candidacy against Nancy Pelosi in California's 8th. If anybody would dare think I am not serious, I would hope they would look back at the last 3 years of my life and everything I have sacrificed to restore our nation to one that obeys the rule of law and can be looked up to with respect once again in the international community and not as the hated laughingstock on the block."

So another alternative choice is being offered, as there is with Dennis Kucinich,  ---  http://kucinich.us/iraqplan  --- 
Bill Richardson,  ---  http://www.richardsonforpresident.com/issues/iraqand  ---  Ron Paul  --- http://www.ronpaul2008.com/  ---   for the presidency along with many other candidates campaigning for congress, the senate or local offices who aren't "part of the establishment" or the "game plan".   To everyone reading this blog, you have the choice of voting for the status quo - more war, more death and more destruction.....or voting the rascals out of office.

It's time to choose. - mpg
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John Conyers Is No Martin Luther King  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/072407a.html
Must Read - Related article - "What do Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and President George W. Bush have in common? They both think they can dis Cindy Sheehan and count on gossip columnists like the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank to trivialize a historic moment."

Congressman John Conyers Betrays the American People  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/24/2719/
Related article - A quote...."The arrest of impeachment activists and their forcible eviction from Conyers’ office today is proof of the bankruptcy of the two-party system. It is shameful that Conyers and Pelosi are putting their perceived interests of their party above the Constitution, which clearly makes impeachment the remedy for dealing with presidential “high crimes and misdemeanors”. With the Democratic leadership refusing to rein in an administration run amok, it is crystal clear that we, the people, must uphold the Constitution. People’s power, like the kind in evidence today in the normally solemn halls of Congress, is our only hope."

For more on this issue see....Tomgram: Ira Chernus, Democratic Doublespeak on Iraq
  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174823/ira_chernus_democratic_doublespeak_on_iraq  ---  posted 07-23-07

US lawmakers unite to demonize Iran  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG25Ak01.html
War Warning - Related article - A quote...."WASHINGTON - Last Thursday afternoon, in a tightly packed press room of the US Capitol building, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi stood at the podium and smiled heartily as she pointed to two columns of mailboxes stacked behind her."

For more on this issue see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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Besides voting for the alternative candidates one thing everyone can do is boycott the system.

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BBC: Bush's Grandfather Planned Fascist Coup In America  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/240707fascistcoup.htm
A quote...."A BBC Radio 4 investigation sheds new light on a major subject that has received little historical attention, the conspiracy on behalf of a group of influential powerbrokers, led by Prescott Bush, to overthrow FDR and implement a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. based around the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler."

The Dark Heart Of Fascism In The United States  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18074.htm
Must Listen - Audio -  posted 07-25-07

Perhaps one could call it "like grandfather like son"?  Well, it looks as if the last three generations of the "Bush Family" have been trying to take over this country for at least a century, perhaps Shrub Jr. thinks his dad isn't as good as his granddad and he wants to do better.  Well don't worry little Shrubby, with the usual craven collaboration of our security apparatus and our faux-infotainment lickspittle mass-media, no doubt members of your "Family" can "arrange" something soon.  According to Chertoff's recent statements  ---  http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/07/chertoff-predicts-simultaneous-lasan.html  ---  it's going to be something spectacular.

By the way the most amazing thing regarding this whole episode is that it was General Smedly Butler  ---  http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm  ---  himself who stopped the "Bush Family's" takeover of this country and their attempted overthrow of the Roosevelt administration.  No wonder the Neocons hate Roosevelt so much.  The aborted coup was something the "Bush Family" and their like minded fellow travelers could never forgive.  Well at least they got rid of JFK as a consolation prize. (Dear reader you'll have to do your own research on that one) – mpg

PS - to get the cites listed below took just five minutes of browsing.

For more on this see.........How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson: Coming Financial Crash Shows Need for Immediate Monetary Reform
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6401
War Alert - A quote...."U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr., has joined the chorus of those in high places who are warning of a major worldwide economic downturn."

Editors note:  Most probably Tuesday's 07-24-07 market action is part of a correction down to the 200 day moving average on all indices with a rebound thereafter, IF however it is not, and this activity really is the start of a premature and early end to the ten year "credit/contraction" cycle  (this editor thought it would end in 2008) you can expect a major "fortuitous" attack on the US within the next 30 to 90 days given the current up-tempo in War Warnings and War Alerts during the last three weeks..

Therefore if Tuesday's activity is any indication that this current "ten year cycle" is coming to an end, it should be considered a Red War Warning - mpg

For more on this see....Standard Disclaimer  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207
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Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Agency of Rogues  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174824/chalmers_johnson_agency_of_rogues
A quote...."The secret prison was set up on a secure U.S. Naval base outside the U.S. and so beyond the slightest recourse to legal oversight. It was there that the CIA clandestinely brought its "suspects" to be interrogated, abused, and tortured."

"That description might indeed sound like Guantanamo 2002, but think again. According to New York Times reporter Tim Weiner's new history of the Central Intelligence Agency, Legacy of Ashes -- a remarkable treasure trove of grim and startling information you hadn't known before -- this actually happened first in the Panama Canal Zone in the early 1950s. It was there, as well as at two secret prisons located in Germany and Japan, the defeated Axis powers (and not, in those days, in Thailand or Rumania), that the CIA brought questionable double agents for "secret experiments" in harsh interrogation, "using techniques on the edge of torture, drug-induced mind control, and brainwashing." This was but a small part of "Project Artichoke," a 15-year, multi-billion dollar "search by the CIA for ways to control the human mind."
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C-Span Cuts Off Caller Who Discussed Bush Executive Order - (YouTube - 5 min 2 sec -  July 23, 2007)
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3848
A quote...."C-Span takes calls on Ron Paul and the 9/11 truth movement but refuses to air a call concerning Bush's Executive order signed on the 17th July which asserts that anyone who "undermines" efforts in Iraq can have their interests and property seized by the Treasury department."
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Now in Their Own Orbits, Carlyle's Stars Keep Rising  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/july2007/240707_b_Carlyle.htm
To all the service man and woman in the armed forces....Carlyle's "rising stars" thank you for all you've given.

Keep up the good work. - mpg
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Iraqis blame U.S. depleted uranium for surge in cancer  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20070723/69509899.html
A quote...."CAIRO, July 23 (RIA Novosti) - Iraq's environment minister blamed Monday the use of depleted uranium weapons by U.S. forces during the 2003 Operation Shock and Awe for the current surge in cancer cases across the country.  -  As a result of "at least 350 sites in Iraq being contaminated during bombing" with depleted uranium (DU) weapons, Nermin Othman said, the nation is facing about 140,000 cases of cancer, with 7,000 to 8,000 new ones registered each year."

To all our men and women in the armed forces.....thanks for testing out those DU weapons.  Oh and by the way, none of you really expect the VA to pay for your cancer treatments....do you?  Seriously!!! You're kidding!!!

This editor isn't joking; you don't actually expect our illustrious wealthy elites to pay for your medical costs?  What do you think this country is -  some sort of red-pinko commie country with "socialized" medicine like those "surrender monkeys" in Europe? - mpg
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Musharraf Suggests U.S., Pakistan Near a 'Parting of the Ways' - posted at America's Pub Int Agncy  ---  http://www.watchingamerica.com/index.shtml
  ---  http://www.watchingamerica.com/thenationpk000055.shtml
A quote...."When told of reports quoting U.S. officials as not ruling out attacks on 'actionable targets' within Pakistan, he stated that this would suggest that the two countries were near a parting of the ways."

So it's becoming a case of "The Mouse that Roared". - mpg
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Putin slams Britain over "colonial thinking" in row
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL2478576020070724?src=072407_1534_TOPSTORY_gonzales_under_fire
A quote....""What they propose is an obvious vestige of colonial thinking," Putin was shown saying on Russian state television.  -  "They must have clearly forgotten that Britain is no longer a colonial power, there are no colonies left and, thank God, Russia has never been a British colony," Putin said."

For more on this see....The Litvinenko Assassination & the Flipping of Iraq 11-24-06 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/litvinenkomurder-blog-mpg-112406
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Nationwide Protests Over Neoliberal Policies Rock Peru  ---  http://www.coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1998
A quote...."National protests rock Peru as President Alan Garcia navigates through an increasingly tumultuous labor and teacher uprising. Rejections of a free trade agreement with the US and neoliberal economic policies are at the heart of the national uprising which has left three people dead and several wounded."

Belarus to Sell Arms to Venezuela  ---  http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/07/24/belarus_to_sell_arms_to_venezuela/1218/
A quote...."CARACAS, Venezuela, July 24 (UPI) --  Venezuela will purchase more than $1 billion worth of arms from Belarus, officials in Minsk said Monday.  -  Belorussian officials said the deal would be signed later this month but did not provide details of the agreement, El Universal reported online Monday."
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''China Invests in Somalia Despite Instability''  ---  http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=667&language_id=1
A quote...." The Financial Times reported on July 13 that the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (C.N.O.O.C.) has signed a deal with Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf to explore the northern Puntland region for oil. The initial agreement was signed last May, and it was endorsed at the China-Africa summit held in Beijing last November. [See: "Upcoming Summit Highlights Africa's Importance to China"]

So why won't the Somalis do business with the US's elites, after all we're bombing them constantly, doesn't our continuous bombing demonstrate we intend to "help" them, doesn't it show we're trying to bring them "freedom and democracy"?  What's wrong with those Somalis anyway....don't they know what's "good" for them? – mpg
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Gonzales Memo Widened Cheney's Office Access to DoJ Case Info
  ---  http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003767.php
Gonzales Stonewalls on Bush's Involvement in Hospital Visit
  ---  http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003764.php
Senators Signal Gonzales Perjury Inquiry over Spying Testimony
  ---  http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003765.php
Gonzales: Witness Tampering? No, It Was Witness Consolation.
  ---  http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003763.php
Gonzales: "Not So Clear" That Waterboarding Violates Geneva Common Article 3
  ---  http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003761.php
Gonzales Unsure of How Many USAs He Fired
  ---  http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003760.php
Gonzales: I Only Visited Ashcroft's Hospital Bed Because Congress Wanted It
  ---  http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003759.php
Gonzales: "That's a Good Question"
  ---  http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003758.php
Gonzales: NSL Abuses Weren't Really Abuses
  ---  http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003757.php
Leahy, Specter Lay in to Gonzales
  ---  http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003756.php

This website author once stated that Gonzales' servile, craven attitude and constant insipid smile was most reminiscent of Igor in Frankenstein, although true, Gonzales is a much better match for the Simpson's character  - Waylon (J.) Smithers, Mr. Burns' sycophantic side-kick. -  Oh yeth thir, I wuv you thir, who do you want me to kill for you my moth merthiful mathter, etc.  --  Isn't the New Roman Empire just grand? - mpg
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Chipping at privacy?  - Battle lines drawn as surveillance takes next step: implanting micro devices in humans
  ---  http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/health/478434,CST-NWS-chip22.article

A quote...."CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself -- until a year ago, when two of its employees volunteered to have glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms."

See also.......All Airport Employees To Have Microchip Implants?  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/may2007/190507Microchipping.htm

Monday July 23rd 2007 - links page

  ---  http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/911security.html

Marvin Bush was in New York on 9/11
  ---  http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/bush_newyork_9-11.html
Bush-Linked Company Handled Security for the WTC, Dulles and United
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/print/Sept11/bush_security_link.htm
Marvin Bu$h--director of WTC, Dulles airport and United Airlines security firm
  ---  http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/02/43867.shtml
9/11 Security  Courtesy of Marvin Bush
  ---  http://www.iwilltryit.com/marvin1.htm

Another Ignored 9/11 Clue: Bomb Sniffing Dogs Removed Days Before Attack
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2004/062804ignoredclue.htm
Suspicious Security Lapses in the Twin Towers Preceding the Attacks
  ---  http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/attack/preparation.html
Heightened Security Alert Had Just Been Lifted
  ---  http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-nyaler122362178sep12,0,1255660.story

Pre-9/11 World Trade Center Power-Down
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/THO404A.html
9/11 Truth: Scott Forbes describes power-downs in WTC
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/190906power-downs.htm
Call for FOI requests as NY Port Authority deny pre-9/11 'power down'
  ---  http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/20/18436524.php

WTC surveillance tapes feared missing
  ---  http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/wtc/evidence/fortwayne_wtctapes.htm

Tower Blueprints
  ---  http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/blueprints.html
WTC Steel Removal
  ---  http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/groundzero/cleanup.html
The 9/11 WTC Collapses: An Audio-Video Analysis
  ---  http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/9-11_wtc_videos.html

The Second Treatise of Civil Government 1690 :

"That the aggressor, who puts himself into the state of war with  another, and unjustly invades another man's right, can, by such an unjust war, never come to have a right over the conquered, will be easily agreed by all men, who will not think that robbers and pirates have a right of empire over whomsoever they have force enough to master, or that men are bound by promises which unlawful force extorts from them."
 
"Should a robber break into my house, and, with a dagger at my throat, make me seal deeds to convey my estate to him, would this give him any title? Just such a title by his sword has an unjust conqueror who forces me into submission. The injury and the crime is equal, whether committed by the wearer of a crown or some petty villain."
 
"The title of the offender and the number of his followers make no difference in the offense, unless it be to aggravate it. The only difference is, great robbers punish little ones to keep them in their obedience; but the great ones are rewarded with laurels and triumphs, because they are too big for the weak hands of justice in this world, and have the power in their own possession which should punish offenders."
 -- *John Locke* - 1632-1704 -

Sunday July 22nd 2007 - links page

Neocons Set Stage for Pakistan Attack  ---  http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=934
Must Read - A quote...."Like a Frankenstein monster that escapes the castle and preys on innocent villagers, “militants” of the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan, itself a creation of the doctor Frankenstein relationship between Pakistan’s ISI and the CIA, are out of control, thus prompting the U.S. to threaten invasion."

A quote from the.....End of the Game 08-11-06 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/endofthegame-essay-mpg-081106
Poor Masharraf, it's all too little, too late. He's going to wind up like all the "others" who have chosen to "contract" with Mr. Reficul's minions.  He thought he could play the "Great Game".  When are people in the rest of the world going to learn?  If you have dinner with
Mr. Reficul  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/mrreficulconvtwo-essay-mpg-082905  ---  you'd better sup with a very, very, long spoon, better yet, don't have dinner with him at all. - mpg

For more on this see...US Imperialism - (YouTube - 2 min 28 sec - February 05, 2007) - posted 07-18-07 - mpg
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ynQH63IF0U&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Einformationclearinghouse%2Einfo%2Farticle18033%2Ehtm

P.S. -- To the Saudi Royal family....you're next, and by the way why don't you guys go read....
The Black Bull died today  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16019.htm

  ---  http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=3432

Just get as much money as you can [from the system] and never bank with, buy from, or invest in ANY American corporation.  Buy only (or as much as you can) from local manufacturers, local farmers or foreign goods.  VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS take your money out of any U.S. bank, and put it into foreign bonds, stocks or savings accounts of any country whose government does a better job than ours -  i.e. one that doesn't go around murdering hundreds of thousands of people to get some "booty and bling."

And never EVER watch, listen to, or buy any of the "products" produced by our "mass media" again. - posted 07-05-07 - mpg

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