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Editor's note : From now on each weekly blog page will have several items culled from the past called  "9/11 - From The History File" : It's for those who didn't know, and also for those who forgot....or are trying to forget.

Editor's note - War Update, War Alert, War Warning, Red War Warning and War Imminent - refer to articles regarding the upcoming war with Iran.  In the order they appear as shown above, they  represent less serious to more serious possible threats of war. - mpg

As of 08-08-08 a new category of war warning will be included, the above warnings will have the prefix (WWIII) added to them to indicate the possible outbreak of greater hostilities. - mpg
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Wednesday July 28th 2010 - links page


One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other
(a.k.a. The Standard Model)
07-28-10 - revised 07-29-10
mpg

Jannati: The U.S. Paid Opposition Leaders $1 billion  ---  http://www.insideiran.org/media-analysis/jannati-the-u-s-paid-opposition-leaders-1-billion/
Special Note - A quote...."Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the secretary of the Council of Guardians, said July 27 that he had evidence the United States offered $50 billion to leaders of the opposition in Iran, if they manage to topple the Islamic Republic. He claimed that the U.S. already paid $1 billion to opposition leaders."

Fifteen out of the nineteen hijackers on 9/11 were supposedly Saudi Citizens, the Saudi Royals are the ONLY ones to support their own  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabi#Saudi_sponsorship  ---  sick, twisted, demented, version of Islam, called Wahhabism,  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabi  ---  which they have been sponsoring for well over a hundred years without much effect on the world's Muslim community until they recently received huge amounts of revenues from their vast energy reserves.

This is the very religion that every person in the US-NRE has been hearing about for the last ten years, although they wouldn't know it from listening to the mass media.  Every single time this government breathlessly announced another arrest of a "militant jihadist" (usually a Wahhabist) who received his "terrorist" training at some radical mosque (usually a Wahhabist mosque) and who was nabbed "just in the nick of time" to prevent another "dastardly terrorist attack" against the poor, pitiful, peaceful citizens of the West, they were talking about the Saudi Royals' state sponsored religion.

Yet NOBODY wants to name it, describe it or analyze it.  The Saudi Royal's religion has remained deliberately unnamed by this nation's corporate controlled press for over TEN YEARS, not one single mass-media news outlet will call it what it is, Wahhabism, or mention that this religion is sponsored by the Saudi Royals, or investigate the Saudi Royals establishment  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#MADRASSAS  ---  of hundreds of thousands of Madrassas worldwide, or the vast sums they bestow on these Madrassas, or the radical philosophy they teach there, or the US-NRE's acquiescence to all of these policies.

None of the six major media conglomerates in this country,  ---  http://www.georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/12/5-reasons-that-most-corporate-media-is.html  ---  corporate behemoths which control nearly ninety percent of this nation's mass-media, most of which are owned or directly controlled by Israeli/AIPAC members  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409#MEDIA  ---  of this nation's "Jewish Community", have ever discussed these issues or investigated them.

This is a sick joke folks, the US-NRE has supplied tens of billions of dollars  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306  ---  to help fund radical Islam throughout the Middle East for almost thirty years, it is spending trillions of dollars on its military industrial surveillance complex while supplying tens of billions of dollars to Israel all in an effort to "defend" itself and Israel against the supposed "threat" it has itself helped to create, all the while the Saudis have received trillions in US-NRE script for their oil, the proceeds of which go directly to support groups like al-Qaeda, along with the Saudi Royal's bastardized, xenophobic, version, of Islam..

This is the True Axis of Evil in action, where one, vile, venom tipped, taloned hand gets to wash the other, were one member of the axis of evil's acts of mayhem and murder goes to directly support the actions, plans and objectives of the other two members.  Plans and objectives such as....
This Trinity of Evil probably began to see how a mutually beneficial Faustian bargain could be struck as early as the 1970s.  After the US-NRE went off the gold standard and it's currency was about to become worthless, after Israel proved its military powers during the 1973 war, the Saudi Royals realized they would have to make some sort of accommodation.  And so they agreed to recycle their petro-dollars through the US-NRE's and Britain's banks probably for a guarantee that they would not be attacked by Israel.

Concurrently around the same time, all three countries began to rapidly radicalize elements of their populations.  Israel of course begin to foment a philosophy of lebensraum  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum  ---  that would make even the Nazis blush while members of the Jewish Community in the US-NRE began to vigorously promote the US-NRE's strange faux-Christian, Zionist supporting (or even worshiping) “Armageddon” cult while of course the Saudi Royals massively increased their support for radical Islam everywhere, but specifically in what is now called the "arch of instability"

These plans were actually written down more than thirty years ago, they were to be the blueprints of the US-NRE's "long war" their "thirty years war" of  full spectrum dominance across the globe.

They began to bare fruit during the eighties as the Soviets were driven out of Afghanistan and finally culminated in the arranged event called 9/11  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html  ---  An event that would help to launch what had by now been finalized by this "Triumvirate of Evil" as the PNAC Protocols.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409  ---  Plans for a mutually beneficial, self reinforcing, self-aggrandizing model of mayhem and murder the world has never seen before.  The Saudi Royals, with US-NRE assistance, would funnel massive amounts of money to hundreds of different terrorist groups throughout the Middle East allowing the US-NRE to launch wars of profit against almost all of Eurasia.

The Saudi Royals would acquiesce to the complete elimination of the Palestinians as a viable entity and would get to joyfully watch the destruction of their enemies from afar at the hands of others while extending their malevolent "religious" influence across the Middle East.

Israel would be allowed to conquer and permanently occupy all of Palestine while even developing its own sphere of influence, friendly regimes such as Egypt, Jordan and perhaps the soon to be formed "New Kurdistan" which is to be carved out of the carcass of what was once the nation state called Iraq.  With the countries of Lebanon and Syria to follow as soon as possible once Israel launches its next series of wars

And finally the parasitic class in the US-NRE would get to impose their will upon the entire world while establishing the most vicious police state ever seen since the fall of Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union.  Its new Bankster class would even be allowed to make permanent debt slaves out of the Neo-Romans (one could hardly call them "Americans" at this point) now living in this country.

A masterful plan, and of course, after such brilliant successes we should all realize that this Axis of Evil will not stop now, not after they've been so richly rewarded. - mpg

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Webster Tarpley – Media’s Wikileaks”CIA Style Spin”Gives Obama Excuse to Invade Iran & Pakistan!
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/29/video-webster-tarpley-medias-wikileakscia-style-spingives-obama-excuse-to-invade-iran-pakistan/
Must View AJVideo - AJ&WT(1/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0sK4TjcUd4
AJ&WT(2/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdL6Wk9pcDo
AJ&WT(3/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR_p1t8iVf8
AJ&WT(4/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_noXUq4anc
AJ&WT(5/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9zsYmw0ofU  ---  (AJYuTb - 10min - July 28, 2010) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex talks with author, journalist, speaker and radio talk show host Webster Tarpley about the Wikileaks Afghanistan documents and the latest developments on the coming conflict with Iran. Tarpley is the author of Obama: The Postmodern Coup and Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography, both available at Alex’s Infowars store."
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Israel linked to exiled sheikh's bid for 'coup' in Gulf emirate of RAK  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/28/israel-link-sheikh-uae-coup
Must Read - A quote...."Israel is aiding an exiled Arab sheikh who is vying to seize control of a strategically important Gulf emirate only 40 miles from Iran. -- The Israeli ambassador to London, Ron Prosor, has met Sheikh Khalid bin Saqr al-Qasimi, the exiled crown prince of Ras al-Khaimeh (RAK), who asked him to help with his campaign to oust the leadership of the northernmost state in the United Arab Emirates." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/israel-linked-to-exiled-sheikhs-bid-for-coup-in-gulf-emirate/
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Who Voted for War With Iran, Mr. Obama?  ---  http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/07/27/who-voted-for-war-with-iran-mr-obama/
Members of Congress who are TRAITORS to this nation, who are the bought and paid for whores of Israel/AIPAC and who, in an act of utter, despicable, depravity and prosecutable mis-conduct have sworn allegiance [here's the list....Senators - PDF  ---  http://www.aipac.org/Publications/SourceMaterialsCongressionalAction/Signatories_to_Boxer-Isakson_Letter.pdf  ---  or (HTML)  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/signatoriestoaipacslettersofbetrayal-aipac-041410  ---  and Congressmen - PDF  ---  http://www.aipac.org/Publications/SourceMaterialsCongressionalAction/Signatories_to_Hoyer-Cantor_Letter.pdf  ---  or (HTML  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/signatoriestoaipacslettersofbetrayal-aipac-041410  ---  )] to that foul, degenerate, war-mongering, apartheid state. - mpg -- A quote...."House of Representatives resolution 1553, introduced by Congressional Republicans, and currently working its way through the system will endorse an Israeli attack on Iran, which would be going to war by proxy as the US would almost immediately be drawn into the conflict when Tehran retaliates.  The resolution provides explicit US backing for Israel to bomb Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel’s use of “all means necessary…including the use of military force”.  The resolution is non-binding, but it is dazzling in its disregard for the possible negative consequences that would ensue for the hundreds of thousands of US military and diplomatic personnel currently serving in the Near East region." - also posted at ICH  ---  Keep in mind people, the "Jewish/Israeli Community" in this nation is LESS THAN 3% of its total population. - mpg
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US-Israel Plan Two More Wars Within the Next Three Months  ---  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1503.htm
A quote...." July 28, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - The Obama administration plans to wage two additional wars in the Middle East despite the US President’s dwindling popularity amongst his own people. Latest US polls showed that America's disapproval of Barack Obama is rapidly sinking below 34 percent."
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An Anti-War Movement That Won’t Cave to Obama or Israel  A possible answer to all of this pending war
  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/anti-war-movement-won%E2%80%99t-cave-obama-or-israel
Must Read - A quote...." A renewed anti-war movement is under construction, one that breaks decisively from the Cult of Obama, demands an end to all U.S. aid to the Israeli “apartheid regime,” and calls for “immediate, total and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. troops, mercenaries and contractors from Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, and the immediate closing of all U.S. bases in those countries.” -- Nearly 600 delegates – twice the initial expectations – took part in the United National Anti-War Conference, held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Albany, New York, July 23 through 25. The mission: to rescue the anti-war movement from the rubble of its collapse with the ascent of Black Democrat Barack Obama to the presidency." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/an-anti-war-movement-that-won%E2%80%99t-cave-to-obama-or-israel/
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A record of war crimes  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/pers-j27.shtml
More on the WikiLeaks Leak -- A quote...."The tens of thousands of documents posted online by WikiLeaks Sunday have provided a detailed and searing indictment of a criminal colonial war that the Obama administration has made its own. -- In its sheer volume—92,000 documents, 200,000 pages—the so-called Afghan War Diary makes an incontrovertible case that for nearly nine years the US military has conducted a campaign of terror and deadly violence against the Afghan people."
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NYT’s Ignores Documents Showing Large Numbers of Unreported Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan: “We Know All That.”
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68378&hd=&size=1&l=e
More on the WikiLeaks Leak -- A quote...."The New York Times continues to downplay the human rights abuses, amounting in some instances to war crimes, documented in classified reports that were released to them by Wikileaks. In contrast to the Guardian and Der Spiegel, the NYT’s failed to highlight the many accounts of atrocities committed by U.S. and coalition troops in the paper’s recent coverage."
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Update: Another Look at the Wikileaks Releases
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/1999-update-another-look-at-the-wikileaks-releases.html
More on the WikiLeaks Leak -- A quote...."In two recent posts (here  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2010/07/wikileaks-resistance-genuine-heroes-and.html  ---  and here  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2010/07/let-us-all-solemnly-praise-wikileaks.html  ---  ), Arthur Silber provides a different and fruitful perspective on the Wikileaks document dump, one that looks beyond the specific content of the revelations and their presentation by the media and political establishments, which were the concern of my recent post  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/1997-leaky-vessels-wikileaks-qrevelationsq-will-comfort-warmongers-confirm-conventional-wisdom.html  ---  on the matter. In his posts, Silber speaks to the efficacy of the example of active personal opposition to the hideously brutal and destructive structures of power. As he notes in one of the pieces:...."
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'Brit army unwilling to join Iraq war'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136623&sectionid=351020201
A quote...."Former head of the British Army says the country's military had "no desire" to enter the Iraq war in 2003 as its war machine ground to a halt over different engagements."
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Russians say war with Iran is completely unacceptable  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/russians-say-war-with-iran-is-completely-unacceptable.html
PTVVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKfdlC8TUOU  ---  (PTVVideo - 4min 25sec -  July 27, 2010) -- A quote...."A war in Iran is absolutely unacceptable for Russia and Russia will do everything to prevent that possibility. on the other hand Russia is also afraid of Iran getting close to acquiring nuclear weapons.”
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Iran Would Halt 20 Percent Uranium Enrichment for Fuel Swap
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/07/28/iran-would-halt-20-percent-uranium-enrichment-for-fuel-swap/
A quote...."Iran’s third party enrichment deal does not appear to be dead yet, as officials have greeted the reiteration of Iran’s promise to halt 20 percent enrichment of uranium if they were able to complete the proposed fuel swap with surprising optimism."
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'Iran expects EU to be independent'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136596&sectionid=351020101
Special note - A quote...."Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has criticized the European Union for pandering to US foreign policy in its dealings with Iran. -- "Iran — in an equal position — is eager to expand its ties with Europe and welcomes an independent Europe in its foreign policy," Mottaki said during a meeting with Ireland's new ambassador to Iran, Oliver Grogan, in Tehran on Wednesday."  - bold by website editor - Well, there's a hint for you. - mpg
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Lebanon charges 2nd telco worker with Israel spying  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100728/wl_nm/us_lebanon_israel_spy
A quote...."BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Lebanese prosecutor on Wednesday charged a employee at state-owned mobile phone firm Alfa with spying for Israel and referred him to military court, judicial sources said. -- They added that if Tareq Raba'a was convicted, he could face the death penalty."
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Yemen rebels free 200 captured soldiers  ---  http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/07/28/115110.html
A quote...."Yemeni rebels freed on Wednesday 200 soldiers they had captured two days earlier and promised to release other prisoners, both civilian and military, a mediator said."
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Russian Investigators Say Cheonan Sank by a Sea Mine Explosion  ---  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1505.htm
A quote...."July 28, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - Russian investigators have concluded that a sea mine and not a torpedo caused the Cheonan incident, in which a South Korean military vessel sank in the Yellow Sea on May 31." - For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Cheonan
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#CHEONAN
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The Russian Navy  ---  http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20100729/159992089.html
InfoGraphics - A quote...."The Russian Navy comprises the Northern Fleet, the Russian Pacific Fleet, the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Russian Baltic Fleet and the Russian Caspian Flotilla."
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Japan wants US Marines to move to Guam  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100728/wl_asia_afp/japanusmilitaryokinawaguam
A quote...."TOKYO (AFP) – Japan's government said Wednesday it had no plan to delay transferring some 8,000 US marines based on the southern island of Okinawa to the US Pacific territory of Guam by 2014."
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[Israeli] State archives to stay classified for 20 more years, PM instructs [That's a total of seventy years]
  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/state-archives-to-stay-classified-for-20-more-years-pm-instructs-1.304449
Cover-up, cover-up, cover-up....it's all they know how to do. - mpg -- A quote...."Following pressure from intelligence agencies, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has extended the period during which material contained in government archives may remain classified by 20 years. -- The new regulations, approved two weeks ago, mean archived material scheduled to become available to scholars and the public after 50 years will now remain in the vaults until 70 years have passed since they were placed there."
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Villagers Rebuild Razed Bedouin Village -- Hip Hip Hooray!!
  ---  http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/news/2768-villagers-rebuild-razed-bedouin-village-
A quote...."We successfully rebuilt all the structures and tents destroyed, noted Dr. Awad Abu Freih, spokesperson of the el Araqib village and member of the el Araqib Popular Committee and the Arab Education Forum in the Negev. In a conversation with the AIC, Dr. Abu Freih stated that the residents of el Araqib "plan on building more than what was destroyed, in an attempt to prevent future demolitions."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68380&hd=&size=1&l=e
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israel braces itself for a UN fact-finding mission  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6163.shtml
posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
Flotilla News - A quote...."Israel faces another disastrous report as an ‘Independent and impartial’ fact-finding team appointed by the UN Human Rights Council will look into Israel’s ‘violations of international law’ during her commando raid on the Gaza-bound Turkish ship. -- Seemingly the UN Human Rights Council wasn’t overwhelmingly impressed by Israel’s own ‘truth finding’ missions. I guess that this is understandable. The Israelis should accept the UN concerns. It is very uncommon to let the murderer or the rapist investigate himself."
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Israel's Shin Bet encouraged accused killer to assassinate Raed Salah  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11427.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
A quote...."The arrest by Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, of an Israeli Jew accused of killing at least four Palestinians has thrown a rare light on the secret police, including attempts by one of its agents to enlist the accused to assassinate a Palestinian leader."
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Gaza City ceremony honours journalists killed reporting in Gaza  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/07/13307/?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."Journalists killed by Israel while reporting in Gaza were remembered at an award ceremony in Gaza City yesterday; family members and co-workers received a plaque in their honour. -- Abu Walid Az-Ziq of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF), the group organising the event – on their 43rd anniversary – presented awards in memory of ten journalists."
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[Israeli] Settler violence flares in West Bank  ---  http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100729/FOREIGN/707289930/1002
A quote...."RAMALLAH // Settler violence in occupied territory has resurfaced in recent days, even as pressure is growing on Palestinians to start direct negotiations, regardless of any extension to a partial Israeli settlement construction freeze currently in force."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68375&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Bernanke Stopped Short of Telling the Whole Story  ---  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1506.htm
Special Note - A quote...."The enormous magnitude of the U.S. government’s intervention FAR surpasses anything ever witnessed in the history of humankind. --   In his testimony before Congress last week, Ben Bernanke lifted the Fed’s skirt and gave us a glimpse of the disasters now sweeping through the U.S. economy. --  But there are four bombshells he did NOT talk about...."
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The death of the postindustrial dream  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6165.shtml
posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
A quote...."Remember postindustrialism? Not long ago, this catchphrase was supposed to define America’s future: no more grubby hard industries, just a clean bright world of services and high technology. -- Its most succinct formulation is as follows: Manufacturing is old hat and America is moving on to better things. -- This idea played a large role during the 1980s and 1990s in getting Americans to accept deindustrialization. It was promoted by writers as varied as futurist Alvin Toffler, capitalist romantic George Gilder, techno-libertarian Virginia Postrel, futurist John Naisbitt, and globalist Thomas Friedman. Newt Gingrich seized upon it as the supposed economic basis of his Republican Revolution of 1994."
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Jim Rickards Compares The Collapse Of The Roman Empire To The US, Concludes That We Are Far Worse Off
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/jim-rickards-compares-collapse-roman-empire-us-concludes-we-are-far-worse
A quote...."In the latest two-part interview with Jim Rickards by Eric King, the former LTCM General Counsel goes on a lengthy compare and contrast between the Roman Empire (and especially the critical part where it collapses) and the U.S. in it current form. And while we say contrast, there are few actual contrasts to observe: alas, the similarities are just far too many, starting with the debasement of the currencies, whereby Rome's silver dinarius started out pure and eventually barely had a 5% content, and the ever increasing taxation of the population, and especially the most productive segment - the farmers, by the emperors, to the point where the downfall of empire was actually greeted by the bulk of the people as the barbarians were welcomed at the gate with open arms."
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Wall Street Gets Trillions While Workers Get Bupkis  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26040.htm
A quote...."July 28, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- On  Tuesday, the 30-year fixed rate for mortgages plunged to an all-time low of 4.56%. Rates are falling because investors are still  moving into risk-free liquid assets, like Treasuries. It's a sign of panic, and the Fed's lame policy response has done nothing to allay the public's fears. The flight-to-safety continues a full two years after Lehman Bros blew up. "
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Durable Goods Are Latest Economic Disappointment: June -1.0% Reading Is Largest Decline Since August 2009 (And Misses Consensus Of Course)
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/durable-goods-are-latest-economic-disappointment-june-10-reading-largest-decline-august-2009
A quote...."The June US durable goods order is the latest disappointment in a streak of poor macroeconomic data that started well over a month ago, and which will soon enough begin to impact not only GDP but also corporate earnings, as the macro double dip which is now firmly in place, makes it all too clear why companies have been miserly conserving cash. Durable Goods came at -1.0%, a major disappointment to consensus which had been hoping to a nice boost from the previous -1.1% number (now revised to -0.8%), and looking for a +1.0% reading."
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Banks Failing at Fastest Rate Since 1992
  ---  http://www.allgov.com/Where_is_the_Money_Going/ViewNews/Banks_Failing_at_Fastest_Rate_Since_1992_100727
A quote...."Banks continue to fail in large numbers across the country, marking the second consecutive year in which more than 100 financial institutions have shuttered their doors. After 140 banks collapsed in 2009, this year has witnessed 103 failures so far, putting it on pace to surpass last year’s bleak total."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-9873-0-13-13--.html
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Jim Rogers Calls CNBC A Market PR Agency Whose Sole Purpose Is To Make Stocks Go Higher
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/jim-rogers-calls-cnbc-a-market-pr-agency-whose-sole-purpose-is-to-make-stocks-go-higher.html
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmhZbG5suiw  ---  A quote...."A “cheeky” Jim Rogers appeared earlier on CNBC Europe (which incidentally is orders of magnitude better than its US equivalent), and confirmed the depths to which the once relevant and informative TV station has now fallen. In a discussion over the European Stress BS, the topic turned to the role of PR agencies when it comes to shaping popular perceptions, at which point this slipped: “The whole purpose of PR is to make stocks go higher."
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Tuesday July 27th 2010 - links page

Government Has Run Amok Since 9/11  ---  http://www.fff.org/comment/com1007j.asp
Special Note - A quote...."Those who understand the exploitative nature of big government suspected that the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks had little to do with the security of the American people and much to do with power and money. Still, the magnitude of the scam, as revealed by the Washington Post last week, is astonishing."
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Why I Fight by Cindy Sheehan  ---  http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-i-fight-by-cindy-sheehan.html
Special Note - A quote...."I really hate to use the language of the violent-patriarchy, but since my precious oldest child was killed in Iraq, I have been in the fight of my life. I consistently feel bruised and banged up by the system, but never defeated and never as mangled, spindled, torn and mutilated as I did when I found out my son, Casey, was killed in Iraq."
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Why Is the Antiwar Movement Stalled?  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/07/27/why-is-the-antiwar-movement-stalled/
Special Note - A quote...."A recent gathering of the remnants of the antiwar movement, sponsored by something calling itself the United National Antiwar Conference, underscores the reasons why there is almost no effective organized opposition to the present administration’s occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. One has only to look at the conference program to see why the antiwar movement remains marginal, at best:"
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Wayne Madsen: Wikileaks Docs Target Pakistan! - Alex Jones Tv 1/2  ---   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYwqhR_KW7Y
WM&AJ(Wiki2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m8mx9mX9EE
AJVideo - AltVodPod(1/2) - AltVodPod(2/2)  ---  http://vodpod.com/watch/4107826-wayne-madsen-wikileaks-docs-target-pakistan-alex-jones-tv-22  ---   (AJ&WMYuTb - 10min - July 26, 2010) -  Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Wikileaks Docs Target Pakistan"
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John Young: Wikileaks War Logs Show Global Intell Facade Of 'War On Terror' AJ Tv 1/2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70pmhZHy6eQ
(JY&AJ(Wkik2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70pmhZHy6eQ
AJVideo - (JY&AJYuTb - 10min - July 26, 2010) -  Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex talks with John Young of Cryptome, a website that acts as a repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, surveillance, and documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide. John and Alex discuss the recent release of 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan by the renegade website WikiLeaks. The documents show how Pakistan's military spy service has for years guided the Afghan insurgency."
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WikiLeaks, 911, and George Soros  ---  http://deadlinelive.info/2010/07/26/wikileaks-911-and-george-soros/
A quote...."Is Wikileaks I[n] the White House (CIA) or just another Soros sock puppet? -- They are a partner with the Open Society Institute. OSI was founded by George Soros, who was the prime mover (kingmaker) who got Obama selected, and no doubt helped pick all [of] his players in the administration."
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Wikileaks Docs Target Pakistan  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/wikileaks-docs-target-pakistan.html
Some quotes...."Not long after Wikileaks dumped tens of thousands of classified Afghanistan “war” documents into the public arena for consumption, the corporate media zoomed in on Pakistan. “WikiLeaks documents released Sunday shine a spotlight on Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, a spy agency that has been accused for years of having links to terrorist groups,” writes the Wall Street Journal."  --  "Demonizing Pakistan and Gul play right into the Pentagon’s script as the puppet Barry Obama expands the “war” in Afghanistan and sends drones armed with Hellfire missiles into Pakistan’s tribal areas to kill a never-ending cast of intelligence created bad guys. - It is also highly suspicious the documents appeared a couple days after the Bilderberg-attending globalist and Rockefeller minion Richard Holbrooke, who is Obama’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said “links between the ISI and the Taliban are a problem.” Holbrooke readily linked the Taliban with the mythical al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Haqqani network."
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New York Times Crawled to Obama for Instructions on Wikileaks Docs
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/new-york-times-crawled-to-obama-for-instructions-on-wikileaks-docs/
The "Grey Whore" on her knees again, her usual customary position. - mpg -- A quote...."It is not news that the corporate media is a lapdog for the government. It disseminates propaganda, half-truths, and spin for the government. This became apparent prior to the “leak” of classified documents by Wikileaks earlier in the week." - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/27/new-york-times-crawled-to-obama-for-instructions-on-wikileaks-docs/
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Leaked files indicate U.S. pays Afghan media to run friendly stories  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100727/wl_ynews/ynews_wl3247
A quote...."Buried among the 92,000 classified documents released Sunday by WikiLeaks is some intriguing evidence that the U.S. military in Afghanistan has adopted a PR strategy that got it into trouble in Iraq: paying local media outlets to run friendly stories."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68337&hd=&size=1&l=e
For more on this issue see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206
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Imperial Overkill and the Death of U.S. Empire  ---  http://www.fpif.org/articles/imperial_overkill_and_the_death_of_us_empire
Must Read - A quote...."The oft-cited reference to Afghanistan as the “graveyard of empires” haunts the increasingly desperate military measures of the United States in that beleaguered country. However, beyond Afghanistan and the hydrocarbon-rich Caspian basin region, the imperial projects of the United States are, more and more, a commitment to Pentagon aggression and profligacy. Imperial overstretch has transmogrified into imperial overkill."
also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/27-7
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Congress Appoves $60 Billion U.S. War Funds Amid Afghan Policy Complaints
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-27/congress-appoves-60-billion-u-s-war-funds-amid-afghan-policy-complaints.html
BREAKING: - Jul 27, 2010 7:09 PM EDT -- A quote...."The U.S. Congress passed a $60 billion war-funding bill amid attacks on President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan policies inflamed by leaked reports suggesting that Pakistan is aiding Taliban forces."
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H.R. 5741 Slave Bill Now in Committee & The Homestead Act
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/27/video-h-r-5741-slave-bill-now-in-committee-the-homestead-act-alex-jones-tv/
A quote...."H.R. 5741 will give the president the authority “To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.”
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DoD’s lost $8.7 Billion: What About The Pentagon’s Missing Trillions?
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/disappearing-act-8-7-billion-of-iraq-development-money-missing.html
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kpWqdPMjmo  ---  A quote...."You may recall then Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld’s  admission on September 10, 2001, that the Pentagon lost $2.3 trillion. This money was supposed to go for our “national defense” against CIA assets like Osama bin Laden and tin horn dictators like Saddam Hussein and the mental case Kim Jong-Il. -- It became a non-story of little interest the next day when cave Muslims violated the laws of physics and supposedly attacked us for our freedom. It now basically resides in the corporate media memory hole."
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'US psywar plan includes 2 hot wars'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136359&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the United States and Israel plan to attack two countries in the Middle East as part of a conspiracy to apply pressure on Iran." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26027.htm
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UK and US 'should have realised Iraq evidence was suspect' - [Hans Blix]
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/uk-and-us-should-have-realised-iraq-evidence-was-suspect-2036647.html
Special Note - A quote...."Britain and the United States should have realised that their intelligence about Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction was suspect, the former head of the United Nations weapons inspectors said today. -- Giving evidence to the Iraq Inquiry, Dr Hans Blix said it should have set alarm bells ringing in London and Washington when the inspectors repeatedly failed to turn up any evidence that Saddam Hussein still had active WMD programmes. -- "When we reported that we did not find any weapons of mass destruction they should have realised, I think, both in London and in Washington, that their sources were poor," he said. -- "They should have been more critical about that." - Yes, but since they PAID FOR these sources, WHY would they be critical of getting EXACTLY what they PAID FOR!! - mpg
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Yemen: Houthi Rebels Captured 200 Soldiers in Fighting  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/07/27/yemen-houthi-rebels-captured-200-soldiers-in-fighting/
A quote...."The ever-tenuous ceasefire in Northern Yemen appears to have collapsed, and the Shi’ite Houthi rebels have taken to the offensive, capturing a major army post in al-Zaala, capturing the soldiers inside."
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The neocon mistranslation game now trains its sights on Putin  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6160.shtml
posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
A quote...."The neocons, who can always be relied upon to lie, cheat, steal, fabricate, have also refined the propaganda art of mistranslating foreign language quotes of various foreign leaders for their own insidious purposes. -- In 2006, the corporate media hyped the supposed statement in Farsi by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad that Israel should be “wiped off the map.” In fact, what Ahmedinejad actually said was”the regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.” Certainly, regime change, something the neocons advocate against governments hostile to their global designs, is not the same as wiping a nation off the map. -- The mistranslations of Ahmedinejad’s speeches were largely courtesy of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Mossad front operation that operates out of a post office box in Washington, DC. -- It now appears that Reuters, taking a page from MEMRI, is conducting the same kind of mistranslation operations against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin."
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South Korea reels as US backpedals  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/LG24Dg01.html
A quote...."The United States failed to organize a vigorous international backlash against North Korea for its apparent sinking of the South Korean frigate Cheonan, and has now exhibited disconcerting second thoughts about its own response. -- In an atmosphere of open Chinese opposition and discrete Russian reservations, the United Nations Security Council failed to condemn the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Instead, the president of the UN Security Council issued a letter that deplored the sinking but did not identify North Korea as the culprit, let alone stipulate any sanctions." - For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Cheonan  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#CHEONAN  ---  Updated
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Massacre, Memory, and the Half-Buried History of America's Total War in Korea
  ---  http://chinamatters.blogspot.com/2010/07/massacre-memory-and-half-buried-history.html
A quote...."I suppose that truth and history are the first victims of a forward-looking diplomatic alliance, but I feel that Lee [ROK President Lee Myung-bak] went too far with by gutting the Truth and Reconcilation Commission investigating ROK and U.S. atrocities during the Korean War. -- On the American side, things did not go well in the Korean War, particularly during the initial rout that drove U.S. troops back to the Pusan perimeter, and some shaken units responded with massacre to their unnerving exposure to "people's war" and enemy combatants out of uniform and mingling with refugees."
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Hungry Like the Wolf: Obama's Legacy of Hope and Change in Honduras
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/1998-hungry-like-the-wolf-obamas-legacy-of-hope-and-change-in-honduras.html
A quote...."In the first year of his presidency, the first year of the "hope and change" he promised to bring to the conduct of American affairs, Barack Obama countenanced -- and abetted -- a coup in Honduras that ousted a mildly reformist, democratically elected president and replaced him with a clique of thuggish elites who now rule, illegitimately, through repression, threat and outright murder."
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Mexico, China to Strengthen Cooperation  ---  http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=208966&Itemid=1
A quote...."Mexico, Jul 28 (Prensa Latina) Mexico and China will hold this week the Fourth Meeting of the Permanent Binational Commission, chaired by foreign ministers of both countries, Patricia Espinosa and Yang Jiechi, reported the Mexican Foreign Ministry."
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Cuba, Venezuela to Carry Out 139 Bilateral Projects  ---  http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=208796&Itemid=1
A quote...."Santa Maria Cay, Cuba, Jul 27 (Prensa Latina) The first Cuba-Venezuela Presidential Summit reviewed the progress of bilateral relations and asserted the mutual willingness to achieve a real Economic Union."
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Beirut arrests German spying for Israel  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136444&sectionid=351020203
A quote...."Lebanese security forces have arrested a German engineer on suspicion of spying for the notorious Israeli intelligence service, Mossad."
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Stone: Jewish control of media prevents open discussion of Holocaust; Jewish lobby has controlled US foreign policy for years
  ---  http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2010/07/stone-jewish-control-of-media.html
A quote...."Jewish control of the media is preventing an open discussion of the Holocaust, controversial Hollywood director Oliver Stone told the Sunday Times in an interview Sunday, adding that the U.S. Jewish lobby has been controlling Washington's foreign policy for years." - For more on this issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US - Media  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409#MEDIA
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Arrested: Jihadi jerk who threatened "South Park" over Mohammed episode  ---  http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/21/arrested-jihadi-jerk.html
Special Note - And guess what, HE'S JEWISH - There seems to be a long, sordid, history of Jewish Americans "joining" the Jihadi cause and whose actions and threats against America are constantly being trumpeted by the mass-media of this country as reasons to go invade Muslim countries throughlut the Middle East, which, naturally enough, threaten Israel....it must all be a coincidence of course.....(haaaaaa, haaaa, haaaaa,  the goyum cattle in this country are even stupider than real cattle, it's too funny for words) - mpg -- A quote...."Christ, what an asshole. Zachary Chesser, an unemployed 20-year-old man in Virginia who this year threatened South Park's creators over an episode featuring the Prophet Muhammad dressed in a bear suit, has been arrested on federal charges "after speaking openly to the FBI about his connection to a terror organization and his plans to travel overseas to fight with the group." - bold by website editor
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The Chesser problem  ---  http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2010/07/chesser-problem.html
Special Note - Related Article -- A quote...."A comment to the above:  "Isn't it slightly odd how many Jewish Al Qaeda terrorists seem to get caught?" -- Adam Gadahn  ---  http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/13/american.qaeda.message/index.html
Adam Pearlman  ---  http://www.nysun.com/foreign/jewish-musicians-son-joins-al-qaedas-ranks/39535/
Yousef Al-Khattab"  ---  http://thebrooklynink.com/2010/04/23/11041-yousef-al-khattab-man-behind-virulent-islamic-website-grew-up-jewish
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Israel destroys a whole Negev Village – 200 Children left Homeless  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68336&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."Early this morning police raided the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib in the Negev, destroyed all 40 of its houses, and evicted more than 300 residents. The residents, mostly children, were left homeless. The unprecedented raid began at about 4:30 in the morning, residents were surprised to wake up surrounded by a huge force of 1,500 police with guns, stun grenades, helmets and shields, including hundreds of Special Riot Police (Yasam) as well as mounted police, helicopters and bulldozers."
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Israel destroys Bedouin village  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/59195
Related Article - A quote...."Israeli security personnel and from the Israel Land Administration arrived at the Bedouin village of al-Arakib, near Rahat, Tuesday morning. The village is unrecognized by the state of Israel." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68320&hd=&size=1&l=e
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Gaza children shelled with flechette bombs  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11423.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
Special Note - A quote...."She came in through the front door and it wasn't clear she was injured. Suddenly a lot of blood came from her nose and she vomited, all of the family saw this -- her little brothers were very scared. She had just been playing in the front of the house." -- That is how Nihed al-Massry describes what happened to her daughter, nine-year-old Samah Eid al-Massry, after the Israeli army reportedly shelled and fired four bombs into and around a residential area in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, on 21 July. Samah is now being hospitalized in serious condition, suffering from extensive blood loss and very low haemoglobin. She was hit by shrapnel and flechettes from a nail bomb that landed 100 meters away, causing internal bleeding to the chest and severe head trauma. Nails are now embedded throughout her body. -- Shells containing flechettes are illegal under international law if fired into densely-populated civilian areas. Three other children were wounded in the attack." - also posted at AltheoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/gaza-children-shelled-by-flechette-bombs/
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Egypt [Mubarak and his henchmen] remains complicit in Gaza siege  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11425.shtml?utm_source=
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A quote...."CAIRO (IPS) - Almost two months since Egypt announced it would reopen its Rafah border terminal with the Gaza Strip, operation of the crossing remains sorely limited."
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British PM compares Gaza to 'a prison camp'  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=302968
A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday likened the experience of Palestinians under Israel's blockade of Gaza to a prison camp, the British daily The Guardian reported."
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David Cameron draws fire over Gaza comments  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/27/david-cameron-israel-gaza-comments
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."Downing Street and the Foreign Office said the prime minister's remarks did not constitute a change of policy. But their tone, timing and location meant they quickly snowballed into controversy. "We understand why things like this are being said in Turkey," said another Israeli official, "but the phrase 'prison camp' doesn't sound good to Jewish ears." - How about....THE WARSAW GHETTO!!! - You know folks, the Jewish population in Britain numbers approximately 275,000.  ---  http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/world-jewish-population.htm  ---  Britain's total population is about  61.414 million.  ---  http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=sp_pop_totl&idim=country:GBR&dl=en&hl=en&q=british+population  ---  (275,000 / 61.414 million) = 0.0044 percent.  It's about time the politicians in Britain start representing their respective constituents instead of pandering to their campaign contributors!! - mpg
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Judge faces anti-Semitism probe after speech attacking Israel helps free arms factory protesters
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1297219/Judge-faces-anti-semitism-probe-speech-attacking-Israel-helps-free-arms-factory-protesters.html
Special Note - A quote...." A senior judge was under investigation yesterday after being accused of making anti-Semitic remarks in court that may have swayed his jury into acquitting a group of protesters. -- Judge George Bathurst-Norman was said by critics to have persuaded a jury to clear a group of campaigners who smashed up a factory making parts for Israeli warplanes." - You know, the "anti-semitism" charge is wearing a little bit thin these days, but that doesn't seem to be stopping some people. - mpg
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[Jewish] Settlers riot in Burin, shooting and setting fire to olive trees  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/07/13270/?utm_source=
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A quote...."At 11:30 yesterday, 26th July 2010, settlers from the Berakha Shomronim settlement began shooting at Palestinians in the village of Burin and setting fire to crops on their land. -- Trouble flared when Israeli authorities ordered the demolition of a structure in an illegal settler outpost because of the freeze on settlement construction. Israeli police failed to contain the settler riot which followed and closed Huwara checkpoint, near Nablus, in response."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68338&hd=&size=1&l=e
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JCSER: “Hundreds of Palestinians Losing Residency Rights In Jerusalem”  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/59189
A quote...."The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economical Rights (JCSER) issued a report detailing the latest numbers of Palestinians who lost their residency rights in occupied East Jerusalem due to Israeli restrictions and measures." - also posted at Uruknet -- http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68328&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Water shortages frustrate Palestinians in West Bank  ---  http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20100725/hebron-water-shortage-100725/
A quote...."In the heat of Israel's typically hot and dry summer season, water is an ever-present source of tension, and this year is no different as residents deal with shortages they say their neighbours do not have. - The shortage is so severe in Hebron right now, the West Bank city is rationing water according to location. - The water rationed to Palestinians is one cubic metre every three weeks. That's approximately what it takes to fill a standard Canadian bathtub one and a half times. " bold by website editor also posted at Uruknet  http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20100725/hebron-water-shortage-100725/
For more on this issue see....Israel's Scorched Earth  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israelsscorchedearth-weblist-mpg-022510
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Jacob Weisberg sees the power of BDS, and is scared  ---  http://usacbi.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/jacob-weisberg-sees-the-power-of-bds-and-is-scared/
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because, by now, it should be obvious to everyone that to a Zionist "money talks, and BS walks" - mpg -- A quote...."Don’t boycott Israel,” says the headline in Newsweek. -- Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief at Slate and author of the piece calls a boycott a “repellent idea” with consequences that are “intrinsically vile.” But pointing out the “sheeplike, liberal opinion” of celebrities like Meg Ryan is unlikely to break up the flock. Indeed, Weisberg must vastly overestimate his own degree of influence in Hollywood if he imagines that his protestations will have more effect than do celebrities influence each other" - bold by website editor -- 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 №63: Markets! Finance! Scandal!  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/0/j9OLMK2TOnc
MKVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9OLMK2TOnc  ---  (MK&RTYuTb - 26 min 41 sec - July 27, 2010 ) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."On this edition of the Keiser Report, Max and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the latest scandals of fetishes for black swans; American youth unconcerned by the coming collapse of their Social Security they bought and paid for; Tony Blair's 2007 photo op with Colonel Gaddafi and the farting camels of Tripoli. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland of Cheviot Asset Management about the silver market."
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Economic Warnings From Two Respected Analysts  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north870.html
Special Note - A quote...."Two widely respected economic commentators, Harvard's Niall Ferguson and Nassim "black swan" Taleb, have offered highly pessimistic assessments of what lies ahead for the American economy."
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Charting The -1.000 Correlation Between Stock Prices And Volume
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/charting-1000-correlation-between-stock-prices-and-volume
Market Tech Note - Chart - A quote...."In our day and age, when implied correlation is approaching 1 with each passing day, and when nuanced relationships are ignored, as every correlation somehow immediately becomes causation only to be invalidated, chewed out and left for dead, there is one certain and virtually guaranteed statistical relationship left, that not only persists day after day but has now become its own self-fulfilling prophecy. We speak of course of the (inverse) correlation between stock prices and volume: i.e., "volume up, stocks down; volume down, stocks up." Rinse, repeat, over and over and over. Rarely has this correlation been as pronounced (although we have been discussing it for well over a year) as over the past 12 weeks."
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Down To The Last Trillion in Red Ink - US Treasury Running on Fumes  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26032.htm
A quote...."July 27, 2010 "Information Clearing House" --The White House is screaming like a stuck pig. WikiLeaks’ release of the Afghan War Documents “puts the lives of our soldiers and our coalition partners at risk.” -- What nonsense. Obama’s war puts the lives of American soldiers at risk, and the craven puppet state behavior of “our partners” in serving as US mercenaries is what puts their troops at risk. -- Keep in mind that it was someone in the US military that leaked the documents to WikiLeaks. This means that there is a spark of rebellion within the Empire itself."
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$38 Billion 2 Year Bond Comes At Lowest Ever 2Y Yield On Record Of 0.665%
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/38-billion-2-year-bond-comes-lowest-ever-2y-yield-record-0665
Deflation Alert - A quote...."Even as stocks continue pricing in QE2 (presumably some time in the next 2 years), bonds keep on laughing. The $38 billion in 2 Year Bonds just auctioned off at a 0.665% high yield, the lowest yield for a 2 Year primary issue. The bid to cover came in at 3.33, compared to 3.45 previously, and 3.15 average. Indirect participation plunged to 32.8%, compared to 41.41% previously. As the directs took down "just" 13.5%, the Primary Dealers ended up taking down a majority of the $38 billion bond auction, or 53.7%. The recycling of cheap Fed money has now fully arrived, and with an Discount Window to 2 year arb of 0.4% (0.66% - 0.25%), it shows just how bad things must be for the PDs."
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30 Year Fixed Mortgage Yield Plumbs Fresh All Time Lows  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/30-year-fixed-mortgage-yield-plumbs-fresh-all-time-lows
Deflation Alert - Chart - A quote...."For the few, the proud, the stuck in the 19th century, with an "originate to hold" business model (such an anachronism when originate to distribute  by hedge funds, pardon, banks is all the rage), the latest data by Freddie Mac, in which the 30 Year Fixed just dropped to a new fresh all time low of 4.56%, down 1 bp from the last two weeks, is about the worst news possible. While the short end is still cheap (and in the case of 2 Year, near record), the ongoing flattening is a death knell for anyone who still relies on funding curves to a some profit."
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Consumer Confidence Drops Again - At 50.4, Below Expectations, And From An Upward Revised 54.3
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/consumer-confidence-drops-again-504-below-expectations-and-upward-revised-543
A quote...."Major plunge in Consumer Confidence, which came at 50.4, below expectations of 51.0, and down almost 10% from an upward revised prior 54.3 reading, previously seen at 52.9: yes lower, but this BS revision was enough to make the jump in new home sales appear amazing post revision. Let's see if a real plunge in consumer confidence is enough to take the market lower by 100 DJIA points. Something tells us the gaps on revised data are only to the upside."
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IMF sees significant downside risks to global recovery  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/business/2010-07/28/c_13418220.htm
A quote...."WASHINGTON, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The global economic recovery is expected to be moderate with significant downside risks, a senior official from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday."
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Axe falls on [Britain's] NHS services  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7908742/Axe-falls-on-NHS-services.html
GOOD!!!The British people keep voting for the same jerks who've made Britain into the US-NRE's Imperial lackey - which is bad - at the behest of the Israeli/AIPAC Consortium which actually runs this country - which is just simply disgusting!!!  When the British people grow up and discover they want to take  their country back from the Israeli lobby, stop wasting its blood and treasure on behalf of their programs of ethnic cleansing, than all they'll have to do is STOP voting for the same identical jerks they've been voting for.  Until that happens things will NOT get any better, in fact they're going to get a lot worse. - mpg -- A quote...."NHS bosses have drawn up secret plans for sweeping cuts to services, with restrictions on the most basic treatments for the sick and injured. " - Empires, even vicarious Empires, can get REALLY expensive after awhile. - mpg
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Monday July 26th 2010 - links page

Leaky Vessels: Wikileaks "Revelations" Will Comfort Warmongers, Confirm Conventional Wisdom
http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/1997-leaky-vessels-wikileaks-qrevelationsq-will-comfort-warmongers-confirm-conventional-wisdom.html
Special Note - A quote...."....these reports are being treated as if they are the "grim truth" behind the shining picture of official propaganda. But what do these stories in the NYT and Guardian actually "reveal"? Let's see...."
"Is there anything in these breathless new recitations that we did not already know?"
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WikiLeaks Founder, “Constantly Annoyed that People Are Distracted by False Conspiracies Such as 9/11″  ---  http://cryptogon.com/?p=16641
A quote...."People often ask me if I think this source or that source is disinfo…  My response is always: TREAT EVERY SOURCE AS DISINFO. -- You’ll avoid disappointment when the thing starts serving up rat poison—which, unfortunately, happens a lot. -- I haven’t shared this before, but in early 2008, someone from WikiLeaks wrote to me. This person wondered why I hadn’t mentioned WikiLeaks on Cryptogon. He wondered if maybe I hadn’t heard of it, or had concerns that it was a front of some sort. -- I simply wrote back that I was aware of WikiLeaks, and that I was hopeful and skeptical at the same time. -- That remains my stance today; on WikiLeaks and every other source."
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The WikiLeaks Afghanistan leak  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/07/25/wikileaks/index.html
Special Note - A quote...."The most consequential news item of the week will obviously be -- or at least should be -- the massive new leak by WikiLeaks of 90,000 pages of classified material chronicling the truth about the war in Afghanistan from 2004 through 2009.  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/afghanistan-the-war-logs  ---  Those documents provide what The New York Times calls  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/asia/26warlogs.html?pagewanted=all  ---  "an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal."  The Guardian describes the documents  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-war-logs-military-leaks  ---  as "a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fueling the insurgency." --In addition to those two newspapers, WikiLeaks also weeks ago provided these materials to  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,708314,00.html  ---  Der Spiegel,  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,708314,00.html  ---  on the condition that all three wait until today to write about them."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=9840
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Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-war-logs-military-leaks
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."A huge cache of secret US military files  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/warlogs  ---  today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan,  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/afghanistan  ---  revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/taliban  ---  attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency. -- The disclosures come from more than 90,000 records of incidents and intelligence reports about the conflict obtained by the whistleblowers' website Wikileaks  ---  http://wikileaks.org/  ---  in one of the biggest leaks in US military  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-military  ---  history. The files, which were made available to the Guardian,  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/warlogs  ---  the New York Times  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/warlogs  ---  and the German weekly Der Spiegel,  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/afghandocuments  ---  give a blow-by-blow account of the fighting over the last six years, which has so far cost the lives of more than 320 British and more than 1,000 US troops."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26016.htm
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Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68271&hd=&size=1&l=e
Database - Related Article - A quote...."25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary (AWD), an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. -- The document collection will shortly be available on a dedicated webpage."  ---  http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/ ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries' role in civilian deaths
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-civilian-deaths-rules-engagement?intcmp=239
A quote...."Shum Khan was a deaf and dumb man who lived in the remote border hamlet of Malekshay, 7,000ft up in the mountains. When a heavily armed squad from the CIA barrelled into his village in March 2007, the war logs record that he "ran at the sight of the approaching coalition forces …   ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/afghanistan/warlogs/0B4F081B-E448-4722-9E52-EA10DE4E0153  ---  out of fear and confusion"."
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Afghanistan war logs: How US marines sanitised record of bloodbath  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/26/afghanistan-war-logs-us-marines
A quote...."Brevity is the hallmark of military reporting, but even by those standards the description of one disastrous event is remarkably short: "The patrol returned to base."
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Nato probes reports raid killed 45 Afghan civilians  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10756940
BREAKING: --  25 July 2010  Last updated at 13:56 ET - Another slaughter exposed, at least it wasn't another wedding party - mpg -- A quote...."International forces in Afghanistan say they are urgently investigating reports as many as 45 civilians died in an air strike in Helmand province on Friday." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68255&hd=&size=1&l=e
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'Scores die' in Afghan village raid  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/2010726143021529494.html
Related Article - A quote...."A Nato rocket attack on a village in Afghanistan last week killed 52 civilians, including women and children, the office of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said in a statement."
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Afghan leader calls for probe into civilian deaths  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100726/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestcivilians
A quote...."KABUL (AFP) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into the deaths of "a number" of civilians in a rocket attack in southern Afghanistan, his spokesman told AFP on Monday."
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[US-NRE] Afghanistan casualty rate highest of war  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/afgh-j26.shtml
A quote...."Eight months after the Obama administration announced a “surge” of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to crush the Taliban-led insurgency, the rate of US and allied casualties has soared to the highest level of the nearly nine-year war and is beginning to match the bloodiest stages of the occupation of Iraq."
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As Futility Reigns in Afghanistan, House Will Vote on More Funding Maybe as Early as Tuesday, Congress Has the Power and Responsibility to End this War
  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/07/27/as-futility-reigns-in-afghanistan-house-
Photo - A quote...."The House of Representatives will be voting this week, possibly as early as Tuesday, on $33 billion in funding to escalate the war in Afghanistan. The vote comes at a time of embarrassment and evident failure in Afghanistan. Record deaths of troops and Afghan civilian, rapidly rising spending and reports indicating it will just get worse."
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Wikileaks documents suggest Taliban has capacity to fire on aircraft
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/26/wikileaks-documents-taliban-missiles-aircraft
Weapons Tech Alert - A quote...."The legendary ability of small, shoulder-born missile launchers to transform the fortunes of otherwise crudely armed insurgents is one of the most alarming threats to emerge from the Wikileaks archive. -- Soviet troops discovered in 1986 when the CIA decided to put heat-seeking Stinger missiles into the hands of the otherwise low-tech Afghan resistance, such weapons can make life impossible for modern armies."

Once the legitimate residents of the Middle East get their hands on man-portable anti-air and anti-armor rockets, the neo-colonial fantasies currently being entertained by the US-NRE, Israel, and Britain, along with those nation's (through the Saudi Royals) policies of supporting almost every single radical group  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306  ---  throughout the Middle East to serve as a never-ending pretext for their illegal occupations, will come to an abrupt and highly expensive end - mpg - posted 07-22-10
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Fresh accusations of Iraq war cover-up [at Britian's Chilcot inquiry]  ---  http://morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/93237
A quote...."A former diplomat has accused the government of "covering up" key information from the Iraq inquiry to hide mistakes. -- Carne Ross, who quit the Foreign Office in 2004 after criticising Britain's involvement in the war, said he had been denied access to key material before his recent appearance."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68272&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Chilcot inquiry: Iraq expert Carne Ross claims civil servants are withholding vital documents
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/25/chilcot-iraq-carne-ross
Related Article - A quote...."I testified last week to the Chilcot inquiry. My experience demonstrates an emerging and dangerous problem with the process. This is not so much a problem with Sir John Chilcot and his panel, but rather with the government bureaucracy – Britain's own "deep state" – that is covering up its mistakes and denying access to critical documents. -- There is only one solution to this problem, and it requires decisive action."
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Uncovered: Britain's secret rendition programme
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uncovered-britains-secret-rendition-programme-2033450.html
A quote...."Until now, this country has been guilty only by association in the illegal transfer of prisoners. But the covert rendition of a Moroccan man by MI5 agents suggests that the practice was central to Britain's 'war on terror'" - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/britains-secret-rendition-programme/
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Tony Blair : A Bright Shining Lie. (Part Two)  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68283&hd=&size=1&l=e
(Part One)  ---  http://www.uruknet.info/?p=67918
A quote........"If justice and truth take place,
If he is rewarded according to his just desert,
His name will stink to all generations."
(*William Wesley*, 1703-1791.)"
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Six Facts No War Supporter Knows: Largest Source of Revenue for the Taliban has Been U.S. Taxpayers.
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20264
A quote...."This coming week, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on $33 billion for war. A majority of Americans opposes this, but a sizable minority of Americans supports it. No one who supports it can be aware of any of the following six facts."
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USA-WMD: America's Covert Hiroshima in Iraq
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/1996-usa-wmd-americas-covert-hiroshima-in-iraq.html
Special Note - A quote...."Years ago, I wrote about the use of chemical weapons  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/home/274.html?task=view  ---  in the American assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2004. I was attacked at the time for my "wild accusations" by many people, across the political spectrum, even by stalwart dissidents, who felt that such "exaggerations" undermined the "effectiveness" of the anti-war movement, preventing it from being taken "seriously" by the "serious" players in the power structure. Later, of course, American military officials -- and serving soldiers -- admitted using white phosphorus  --- 
http://www.chris-floyd.com/home/294.html?task=view  ---  and other chemical weapons in the assault." - For more on this issue see....Three Strikes and You're Out - 07-22-10 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/threestrikesandyoureout-mpg-reficultnias-072210.html
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Explosion rocks Baghdad's Green Zone  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136264&sectionid=351020201
Blackwater (Xe)? The Saudi Royal & CIA's al Qaeda? US special forces? The Sunni Iraqi resistance? Hard to tell these days...mpg - A quote...."BREAKING: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:11:39 GMT -- A bomb has exploded near the prime minister's office in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone as the Iraqi capital witnesses a rise in deadly violence."
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President Obama Gives WH speech on Iran Invasion
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/07/president-obama-gives-wh-speech-on-iran.html
Must Read - Satire - A quote...."Washington--Today, President Obama, surrounded by his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Senators Charles Schumer and Joe Lieberman addressed a fearful nation on the invasion of Iran. -- Here is part  ---  http://www.icue.com/portal/site/iCue/flatview/?cuecard=201  ---  of that speech:"
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Revealed: Document Exposes US Double-talk On Lockerbie  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26021.htm
A quote...."The document, acquired by a well placed US source, threatens to undermine Obama’s claim last week that all Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to learn of Megrahi’s release. -- Scottish ministers are understood to have viewed the level of US resistance to compassionate release as “half-hearted” and a sign that it would be accepted. -- The United States has tried to keep the letter secret, refusing to give permission to the Scottish authorities to publish it on the grounds that it would prevent future “frank and open communications” with other governments."
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Iran ups ballistic missile capability  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136199&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."A senior commander with Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the country is now capable of 'producing an endless number of ballistic missiles.' -- "Our production lines are running very smoothly," IRGC's Deputy Commander Brigadier General Hossein Salami was quoted by Fars News Agency as saying on Sunday. -- Iran has also made enormous progress in the field of air defense, added the top general."
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Iran to invest $46 bln in refineries‎  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136354&sectionid=351020103
A quote...."Iran will invest $46 billion for the development and optimization of its refineries, Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Alireza Zeighami has announced."
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Mossad chief reportedly visited Saudi Arabia for talks on Iran
  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/mossad-chief-reportedly-visited-saudi-arabia-for-talks-on-iran-1.304032
Special Note - A quote...."Account on WorldNetDaily follows series of recent reports on increasing secret cooperation between Israel and the Saudis, including defense coordination on matters related to possible military action." - For more on this issue see....The Axis of Evil and Their Pseudo-Gangs - 05-22-10 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theaxisofevilandtheirpseudogangs-mpg-reficultnias-052210  ---  & Twenty More Years of "Terror", Tears & Travails - 01-15-10 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/twentymoreyearsofterrortearsandtravails-mpg-reficultnias-011510  ---  & The Kingdom of Leprosy - 10-07-08 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thekingdomofleprosy-blog-mpg-100708
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Fighting erupts after Yemen truce  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/20107251937191958.html
A quote...."Fresh fighting has erupted in northern Yemen between Shia rebels and a government-backed tribe a day after tribal mediators brokered a ceasefire between the two."
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U.S.-backed War in Somalia Comes to Uganda, Threatens to Set Whole Region Aflame
  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/us-backed-war-somalia-comes-uganda-threatens-set-whole-region-aflame
Special Note - A quote...."The U.S. war against Somalia expands outwards and “has now blown back to Uganda,” the U.S. ally that, “along with the minority Tutsi dictatorship in Rwanda, is America's most reliable mercenary force in Black Africa.” Ethiopia and Kenya prepare to join Uganda in an offensive against the Somali resistance, to save America’s puppet mini-state in Mogadishu." - also posted at Creative-i  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/07/26/u-s-backed-war-in-somalia-comes-to-uganda-threatens-to-set-whole-region-aflame-a-black-agenda-radio-commentary-by-glen-ford/  ---  For more on this sort of issue see....Africa - The Next Target - 02-28-08 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/africathenexttarget-blog-mpg-022808
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Honduras Faces Criticism Over Journalist Killings After a Coup  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/world/americas/27honduras.html?_r=1
Ahhhhhh, Hillery must be so proud of herself right about now - For more on that skanky, death squad supporting, hag, see....Hideous Hillary's New Death Squads  ---  A quote...."MEXICO CITY — The Honduran government’s failure to investigate the killings of seven journalists this year has fostered “a climate of lawlessness that is allowing criminals to kill journalists with impunity,” the Committee to Protect Journalists concluded in a report released Tuesday."
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Venezuelan president threatens to cut off U.S. oil in Colombia dispute  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/26/c_13415595.htm
A quote...."CARACAS, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to cut off oil supplies to the United States if his country was attacked by U.S.-backed Colombia in a dispute over allegations that Venezuela provides a haven for Colombian guerrillas."
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Venezuela’s Chavez Says Restoring Relations Is Up to Colombia  ---  http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=361139&CategoryId=10718
A quote...."The Venezuelan President says that to reestablish relations with Colombia it is necessary “to receive clear and unequivocal signs that there is a real political willingness” in the new administration of Juan Manuel Santos."
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Saber Kushour: 'My conviction for "rape by deception" has ruined my life'
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/saber-kushour-rape-deception-charge
A quote...."Saber Kushour apologises as he asks his guests to move the plastic chairs on his breeze-block balcony a little closer to the door to his house. If he were to sit where they are now, he explains, the electronic tag attached to his ankle would set off an alarm."
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UK 'facilitates Israeli projects'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136293&sectionid=351021806
A quote...."The British government has facilitated Israeli businesses' investment in and around the UK in the past decade, a minister has said."
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Judge Rules CIA Can Withhold Info about Illegal Methods  - And the cover-up continues....
  ---  http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Judge_Rules_CIA_Can_Withhold_Info_about_Illegal_Methods_100726
Special Note - A quote...."A federal judge has backed CIA  efforts to conceal information about treatment of detainees, even if the suppressed records contain details about illegal activity on the part of the intelligence agency. --  U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that he was unwilling to “second-guess the CIA Director regarding the appropriateness of any particular intelligence source or method,” while rejecting the American Civil Liberties Union’s request to obtain records related to the treatment of detainees, those who died in U.S. custody and the names of anyone kidnapped and sent to secret prisons." - bold by website editor -- For more on this issue see....9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909
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Osama Bin Lyin?  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/07/osama-bin-lyin.html
Special Note - A quote....""Everyone knows that Osama Bin Laden confessed to 9/11 on videotape. -- Admittedly, German experts say (rough English translation here)  ---  that the Bin Laden confession tape was mistranslated. But what do the Germans know, other than how to make beer? -- Sure, an American computer expert says that a Bin Laden video released in 2007 was spliced together from earlier footage, and that...." - For more on this issue see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda - "al Qaeda" Videos
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#ALQAEDAVIDEOS
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Why Progressives Should Press for Building-7 Exposure
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Progressives-Should-Pr-by-Dwain-Deets-100723-333.html
Special Note - A quote...."Progressives should press for exposure of the problems related to the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. (An abbreviated set of seven of these problems are available at the 7problemswithbuilding7.info website.)  ---  http://7problemswithbuilding7.info/  ---  Thus far, these problems have been mostly hidden from the public. Exposure could provide a rallying point for efforts to bring accountability and justice in America. It can bring clarity to the press for transparency in government, and it can expose corporate Machiavellian manipulations that have clearly gone on relative to Building 7's collapse." - For more on this issue see....9/11-WTC7  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-wtc7-weblist-mpg-082308
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The Actions and Inactions of the Commander in Charge of the U.S. Air Defense Failure on 9/11
  ---  http://911blogger.com/news/2010-06-19/actions-and-inactions-commander-charge-us-air-defense-failure-911
From the History File - 06/19/2010 - 7:59am -- A quote...."General Ralph Eberhart was the commander in chief of NORAD--the military organization responsible for defending U.S. airspace--when the 9/11 attacks occurred. Considering that NORAD failed to intercept any of the four aircraft targeted in the attacks and successfully defend New York and Washington, one would reasonably expect Eberhart to have been somehow held to account. And yet that did not happen. -- In fact, nine years on, we still know very little about what Eberhart did while the 9/11 attacks were taking place. From what we do know, his actions seem far from reassuring." - For more on this issue see....9/11-NORAD
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911norad-weblist-mpg-091308
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Why 'Israelis' Danced on 911  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/212625-Why-Israelis-Danced-on-911
Special Note - A quote...."It was stated recently on Facebook that investigating 911 is a waste of time, that nothing was 'likely to be proven'. That's obvious! It is the purpose of a cover up to make of 'investigations' a 'waste of time'. On this point, whomever perpetrated 911 won when Bush made of the pursuit of justice a 'waste of time'." - For more on this issue see....9/11 & 7/11  Israeli Connection - Dancing Israelis
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911theisraeliconnection-weblist-mpg-051610#DANCINGISRAELIS
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The Sinking of the Cheonan, too Weird to Make Up By Timothy V. Gatto
  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/07/26/the-sinking-of-the-cheonan-too-weird-to-make-up-by-timothy-v-gatto/
Special Note - A quote...."Pro-unification and anti-war activists shout slogans during a rally commemorating the 10th anniversary of the June 15 declaration between the two Koreas, in front of the U.S. embassy in Seoul June 15, 2010. The protesters demanded a reinvestigation of the sunken South Korean naval corvette Cheonan incident and a stop of U.S. and South Korea’s hostility toward North Korea. The U.N. Security Council expressed grave concern on Monday over the deadly sinking of a South Korean naval ship in March that has heightened tension on the Korean peninsula. The placards read, Stop hostile policies against the North (L) and Fulfil the June 15 declaration."
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The sinking of the Cheonan: Another Gulf of Tonkin’ incident By Stephen Gowans
  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/05/30/the-sinking-of-the-cheonan-another-gulf-of-tonkin-incident-by-stephen-gowans/
From the History File - 30 May, 2010 - A quote...."While the South Korean government announced on May 20 that it has overwhelming evidence that one of its warships was sunk by a torpedo fired by a North Korean submarine, there is, in fact, no direct link between North Korea and the sunken ship. And it seems very unlikely that North Korea had anything to do with it." - also posted at Liberal Pro  ---  http://liberalpro.blogspot.com/
Dandelion Salad  ---  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/the-sinking-of-the-cheonan-too-weird-to-make-up-by-timothy-v-gatto/

For more on the two articles shown above see....US-False Flag Ops - Cheonan - Updated
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#CHEONAN
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

'Arab world supports Gaza? This is BS!'  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/4/3FLsnE8QCHU
Must View RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FLsnE8QCHU  ---  (RTYuTb - 11 min 29 sec - July 26, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Israel has yet to respond to an official request to co-operate with the UN Human Rights Council's investigation into the deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May. So far, Israel has shunned any suggestion of an international probe into the incident. For a closer look into this and other sides of the Middle East conflict, RT talks to veteran British journalist Alan Hart, who's spent decades covering the Arab-Israeli conflict."
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Palestine: The Forgotten Childhood  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1493
Photo Gallery - A quote...."In 1991 Israel ratified The Convention of the Rights of a Child. The 54 articles of the Convention focus on the human rights of a child which include civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights. Despite Israel’s ratification of the Convention, Palestinian children are still victims of human rights abuses in all of these categories."
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Gaza: Photographic Evidence of Extensive Israeli War Crimes  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20232
Photo Gallery - (Grim photos!!)
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IDF Report Confirming Goldstone’s Key Findings Is Suppressed Inside Israel
  ---  http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/07/idf-report-confirming-goldstones-key-findings-is-suppressed-inside-israel/
A quote...."A report quietly submitted by IDF Military Advocate General Avichai Mandelblit to the United Nations two weeks ago regarding Israel’s conduct during Operation Cast Lead confirms the key findings of the Goldstone Report. The report (full version here - PDF),  ---  http://my.ynet.co.il/pic/news/GazaUpdateJuly2010.pdf  ---  which documents 150 ongoing investigations, has outraged the Israeli Army. “It looks as though they were frightened by Goldstone,” remarked  ---  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3923421,00.html  ---  an IDF officer."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68281&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Human Rights Watch flotilla stance mirrors that of US, Israel  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11418.shtml
A quote...."Supporters of Israel often accuse Human Rights Watch (HRW), one of the most prominent human rights organizations in the world, of having an anti-Israel bias or even being anti-Semitic. For instance, a recent lengthy article in The New Republic accused the group of paying "disproportionate attention to Israeli misdeeds." Similarly, Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz has said that HRW exhibits a "willful blindness when it comes to Israel, and its enemies have completely undermined the credibility of a once important human rights organization." Indeed, there is no shortage of other similar critiques of the organization by supporters of Israel."
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Gazans Denied Medical Care under Siege  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/index.php?option=
com_content&view=article&id=6797:gazans-denied-medical-care-under-siege&catid=67:editorials&Itemid=138
A quote...."July 26, (Pal Telegraph – By Stephen Lendman) Two recent reports discuss it, a July Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHR-IL) one titled, "A Situation Report on Obstacles Facing Gaza Residents in Need of Medical Treatment," and a June one titled, "Who Gets to Go," jointly prepared by PHR-IL, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. All cite Israeli medical ethics and international law violations by discriminating on the basis of need, denying adequate treatment to seriously ill Gazans by:"
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Liberating Voices: The Agony of the Jordan Valley  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1494
A quote...."At 6 am on the 19th of July the Israeli Army, accompanied by 2 bulldozers arrived in the village of Al Farisiya and ordered the villagers to get out of their homes. Such demolitions are only one example of the destruction the Israeli Army has been inflicting this week across the West Bank. Nicky Elliott visited Al Farisyia and talked to the homeless families."
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Obama signs a bill that lets banks have US over a barrel once more
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/liamhalligan/7908516/Obama-signs-a-bill-that-lets-banks-have-US-over-a-barrel-once-more.html
A quote...."...."despite some marginal regulatory improvements, this is no Rooseveltian legislative milestone. Amid the hype and back-slapping of last week's launch, the sad reality is that Dodd-Frank fails to address the fundamental problems that resulted in the sub-prime fiasco and the related damage to not just America, but the entire global economy. -- The inherent feebleness of this door-stopping bundle of statute and its lack of desperately needed substance, was brilliantly captured by Laurence Kotlikoff, a highly-respected professor of economics at Boston University. "This law is like being invited to dinner and served pictures of food," Kotlikoff remarked."
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Let Them Eat Losses  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente43.1.html
A quote...."This had nothing to do with the so-called “Trickle Down” theory. This was “Gush Up.” In Bush/Obama economics, the richest and biggest that had lost billions through bad investments, or were in danger of going bust, had to be rescued. If the Über-Rich weren’t saved, there would be nothing left to trickle down to the population below. By government decree, those taxpayers who had never felt any trickle to begin with, now had to finance the failed financiers."
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Ellen Brown on Debt Money, Why Money is Collapsing and Why Central Banks Need Adult Supervision
  ---  http://www.thedailybell.com/496/Ellen-Brown-Web-of-Debt.html
Interview - A quote...."The editors of The Daily Bell are pleased to present this exclusive interview conducted by Scott Smith with Web of Debt author Ellen Brown."
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Why "Sovereign Debt" is an Oxymoron  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Sovereign-Debt-is-an-by-Ellen-Brown-100725-763.html
More Ellen Brown....the article is mostly about the Walll Street Banksters recent concerted attack against the Euro,  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thefirstsalvosofthecurrencywars-mpg-reficultnias-050710  ---  however this quote was at the top. - mpg -- A quote...."Last week, a Chinese rating agency downgraded U.S. debt from triple A and number one globally, to "double A with a negative outlook" and only thirteenth worldwide. The downgrade renewed fears that the sovereign debt crisis that began in Greece will soon reach America. That is the concern, but the U.S. is distinguished from Greece in that its debt is denominated in its own currency, over which it has sovereign control. The government can simply print the money it needs, or borrow it from a central bank that prints it. We should not let deficit hawks and short sellers dissuade the government from pursuing that obvious expedient. " -- That's a concept fraught with dangers.  For more on that issue see the two articles shown below....
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We Can't Inflate Our Way Out of the Debt Crisis ... So What CAN We Do?
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/if-we-cant-inflate-our-way-out-of-debt.html
Contains Videos - Chart - Read it and Weep! - DKtlks2AMI  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OjgN-3ZDA
TSofOZtrlr  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cq9yEVcGIU  ---  DrMH  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY0hUBBSXOo  ---  (Outstanding Analysis) - Here's the cold, hard TRUTH folks, the parasitic class is NOT going to stop their endless wars and endless bailouts for themselves.  They can't inflate their way out of the mess they've created, so guess who's gonna pay.  YOU!  Higher taxes, lower wages, lower benefits, a declining standard of living, Social Security and Medicare cuts or even their complete elimination along with the creation of a vicious, militarized, police state.  The people in this nation have a choice, they still do.  Stop voting for DemoRepubs.  - mpg - posted 03-12-10

Some quotes...."The United States cannot “inflate its way out of debt,” because this would collapse the dollar and end its dreams of global empire by forcing foreign countries to go their own way. There is too little manufacturing to make the economy more “competitive,” given its high housing costs, transportation, debt and tax overhead. The economy has hit a debt wall and is falling into Negative Equity, where it may remain for as far as the eye can see until there is a debt write-down..." -- *Michael Hudson*

"The problem with the idea of governments inflating their way out of a debt burden is that it does not work. Absent episodes of hyper-inflation, it is a strategy that has never worked." -- *Paul Donovan*

"The bad news for central bankers is that creating currency isn't like, say, diluting shareholders in a company. You're always rolling your debt, and the market's response to an inflationary strategy is (not surprisingly) higher interest rates. It's a treadmill, and it's extremely hard to get ahead." -- *Joe Weisenthal*
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Inflating War - Central banking and militarism are intimately linked  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo189.html
A quote...."One can say without exaggeration that inflation is an indispensable means of militarism,” Ludwig von Mises wrote. “Without it, the repercussions of war on welfare become obvious much more quickly and penetratingly; war weariness would set in much earlier.” - posted 07-15-10

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A Decade of Declining House Prices  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26023.htm
Special Note - A quote...."July 26, 2010 "Information Clearing House" --  The housing depression will last for a decade or more. This is by design. The Fed has been working with the banks to withhold inventory so prices do not fall too fast or too far. That way the banks can manage their write-downs without slipping into insolvency. But what's good for the banks is bad for the country. Capital impairment at the banks, means no credit expansion in the near-term. It means the economy will continue to contract, unemployment will remain high, and deflation will push down wages and prices. Everyone will pay for the mortgage-backed securities scam that was engineered by the banks. -- Typically, personal consumption expenditures (PCE) and real estate lead the way out of recession. But not this time. Both PCE and RE will stay depressed and act as a drag on employment and growth. Last week, in testimony before the congress, Fed chair Ben Bernanke made it clear that the Central Bank has no intention of providing extra monetary stimulus to make up for rapidly-dissipating fiscal stimulus or the winding down of government subsidies for auto, home, and appliance purchases. The economy must muddle through on its own. But without additional pump-priming, disinflation will turn to outright deflation and the economy will sink into negative territory. Bernanke knows this, but he's absolved himself of any further responsibility. It's just a matter of time before the next slump."
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New-home sales rebound in June from record low  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/june-new-home-sales-bounce-off-record-lows-2010-07-26
Good news, but....A quote...."Upturn in sales pace still second lowest on record;"  -- "WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. sales of new homes scored a better-than-expected rebound in June after having plumbed record lows a month earlier, government data showed Monday." - bold/underline by website editor
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Atrocious New Homes Sales Data Sufficient To Force Another Algo Mediated Short Covering Frenzy
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/atrocious-new-homes-sales-data-sufficient-force-another-algo-mediated-short-covering-frenzy
Special Note - Related Article - ZeroHedge's analysis of the New Homes Sales data -- Full quote...."So June new home sales come in at 330,000 on expectations of 310,000: a decent beat by 20k or so, and a "record" increase from the May revised 267k. However, this "beat", and massive 23.6% MoM surge only occurred due to prior downward (of course) revision which took away 57k from the past two months! The May number was revised down from 300k, or by 33k, to the lowest sales number on record of 267k. And April, not to be undone, two months after the initial release, has received its second downward adjustment, this time down by 24k from 446k to 422k. So let's get this straight: this was the worst June on record, following the worst month on record in new home sales ever, the beat was completely drowned out by 57k worth of prior revisions, the average new home price slid another 1.4% to $213,400, yet just because the new home supply is down to "just" 7.6 month from 9.6 in May it is enough to push stocks to the moon (of course this completely ignores that existing homes sales are back to 9 months, and shadow inventory is more than double that. Who cares - machine language does not add, it only multiples). Another day, another insane day in stocks, which are now programmed to ignore reality, and just focus on the propaganda headline spin. " - bold by website editor
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Report rubber-stamps bonuses - On Wall Street, crime pays very well  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/pers-j26.shtml
A quote...."In a report issued Friday, a federal “special master” found that 17 big financial firms awarded nearly $2 billion in bonuses and retention payments to top executives during the period when they were receiving bailout funds from the US Treasury under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68290&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  For more on this issue see....Having Fun With Your Tax Dollars
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html
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Cops Charge Irish Government With Treason  ---  We need the GRA over here in this country!!! - mpg
   ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Cops-Charge-Irish-Governme-by-Gabriel-Donohoe-100722-896.html
Special Note
- A quote...."When a national police association accuses its government of what amounts to treason it is time to sit up and pay attention. -- Michael O'Boyce, President of the Garda Representative Association (GRA), said at its annual conference in Limerick, at the end of April, 2010, that the Irish Government had been 'corrupted' and had been 'bought' by developers and bankers. (A garda is an Irish policeman, gardaí in the plural.) -- Mr. O'Boyce, speaking on behalf of the country's 11,000 gardaí, charged government ministers with sacrificing the country to protect 'wealthy cronies' who had bankrolled the leading government party, Fianna Fáil. Such criticism of a serving government by its police force is unprecedented in Irish history and extremely rare in any western democracy."
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Saturday July 24th 2010 - links page

No posts. - mpg

Saturday July 24th 2010 - links page

The Thugs Come Home To Roost
(or, you get what's you paid for)
07-24-10
mpg

Iraq Withdrawal? Obama and Clinton Expanding US Paramilitary Force in Iraq
  ---  http://www.thenation.com/blog/37877/iraq-withdrawal-obama-and-clinton-expanding-us-paramilitary-force-iraq
A quote...."In Iraq today, three private security contractors were killed in a rocket attack on Baghdad's Green Zone. All of them were employees of Triple Canopy, the security company hired by the Obama administration to take over much of Blackwater's work in Iraq. Another fifteen people were wounded in the attack. The dead included two Ugandans and a Peruvian. The attack highlights the inevitable consequences of  an emerging Obama administration policy wherein more contractors are going to be deployed to Iraq and many of them will be so-called third country nationals like those killed in today's attack."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68206&hd=&size=1&l=e

Mercenaries, THAT'S what they're called.  Killers for hire, THAT'S what they do.  There are hundreds of thousands now, many are foreigners, but many others are so-called Americans.  After spending years, killing, brutalizing, and torturing millions of civilians throughout the Middle East, after dealing with, and in many cases, helping to support every single terrorist organization ever sponsored by the Saudi Royals, after having participated in innumerable false-flag and agent provocateur events, after having formed long term "business" relationships with dozens of war lords and thousands of local officials in Afghanistan, a country currently awash in a sea of US-NRE inspired drugs and drug money, they'll be coming home....here....to be amongst all the fine, up-standing, citizens of this shiny New Roman Empire.

Just think about that for awhile folks, think about what's going to happen as many of these amoral mercenary thugs join up with the eight hundred thousand strong surveillance / in-security complex currently infesting this country. A complex recently exposed in a fascinating article by the Washington Post.  Think about what's going to happen here in a few years, especially if this economy tanks rather badly, which it probably will.

The people living here who voted for these policies will have nobody to blame but themselves. - mpg

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On the Coming Fall of the American Empire  ---  http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1028
A quote...."Bruce Fein's American Empire: Before the Fall",  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=Fei6SgAACAAJ&dq=American+Empire:+Before+the+Fall&hl=en&ei=dcdLTJ20MJPSsAPflMDsCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA   ---  [GoglBkSrch]*  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=Fei6SgAACAAJ&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_r  ---  is not for the faint of heart. "You, your family, your friends, your professional colleagues, and your elected and appointed officials in the nation's highest circles will fiercely resist the truths this book expounds," the author warns. He's not kidding. Only the most well informed constitutionalist will fail to be surprised by this book -- and even that reader will come away from American Empire with a clearer understanding of the dangers facing our republic. In a little over 200 pages, Fein documents America's slide from the rule of law into arbitrary power and the reduction of her citizens to comfortable serfs. [Soon to be un-comfortable slaves - mpg] The force that has brought about these changes is ceaseless war, which demands the sacrifice of real liberty for a spurious security." - *links added
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The US Government is Dying  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/USgovernmentdying.html?q=USgovernmentdying.html
A quote...."The US Government is dying. Its ultimate fate was sealed the moment the Federal Reserve Fiat money system was put into place. Like a recreational drug user enjoying that first chemical rush, those who created the federal Reserve luxuriated in the seemingly endless flow of money pouring forth from the Federal Reserve, money used to prolong and consolidate power, money spent without worry in the full knowledge that it was going to be someone else's problem to pay it all back. -- But now the US Government is paying the price for that glorious free-spending time of so long ago. Like a recreational drug user now turned hopeless addict, the government has taxed profitable businesses into seeking friendlier homes in other lands, and has turned to looting trust funds and playing bookkeeping games trying to hold off the final collapse..."
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Reports That Pentagon Funding of Taliban is "Unintentional" Are Wrong  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20246
A quote...."The report is "Warlord Inc," summary here.  ---   http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/53988  ---  Although it may be understandable if the Pentagon insists on the use of this word "unintentional," which lessens the impact, especially among military families, of finding out that many of the weapons and explosives used against their loved ones were paid for by funds from the U.S. Treasury, the Pentagon has known for years that this has been going on. It may be "reluctantly," but it is not "unintentionally." Unintentional implies a lack of deliberation and knowledge of consequences." - bold by website editor
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The CIA:  Beyond Redemption and Should Be Terminated.
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/07/24/the-cia-beyond-redemption-and-should-be-terminated-2/
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has  been just that for so long it is beyond redemption. It represents 60 years of failure and fascism utterly at odds with the spirit of a democracy and needs to be closed, permanently." - also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/24/the-cia-beyond-redemption-and-should-be-terminated-sherwood-ross/
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False-flag-arama  ---  http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2010/07/false-flag-arama.html
Special Note - Full quote...."False-flag-arama (my emphasis in red [bold/underline]):  "A retired U.S. Air Force colonel charged in the 1980s in an Iran-contra related weapons smuggling case has been indicted  ---  http://www.deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=23517#post23517  ---  in a U.S. federal court in Miami with conspiring with an Israeli aeronautics engineer to illegally export 2,000 AK-47s to Somalia." - The Israeli, Chanoch Miller, was the buyer, and the weapons were to be shipped from Bosnia. Haaretz thinks the whole thing is a story about the kidnapping  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/inside-intel-a-man-a-plan-a-near-kidnapping-panama-1.302050  ---  of an Israeli national ('kidnapping' being the proper term to use when a Jew is arrested for committing a crime). Of course, were Americans to attack Somalia, these guns would be discovered, and no doubt would be traced back to an Islamic terrorist group in Bosnia (which could then be attacked for harboring an Islamic terrorist group), thus justifying the American invasion as part of the 'war on terror'."  ---  "Meanwhile, another American Jew is in trouble for pretending  ---  http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/student-online-terrorist-flunkie-arrested-in-virginia/#more-28174#ixzz0uVCVbSUk  ---  to be an Islamist terrorist. Shades of Adam Gadahn. These people aren't usually arrested, so you have to wonder if the Americans are finally showing some displeasure at all the false flags."
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US-led strike kills dozens of civilians  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136066&sectionid=351020403
A quote...."A US-led air strike has reputedly left dozens of civilians dead in Afghanistan, raising concerns about the growing number of civilian casualties in the country."
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Taliban retake Barg-i-Matal district  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136149&sectionid=351020403
A quote...."Taliban militants have taken over the Barg-i-Matal district in Nuristan province in eastern Afghanistan on the border with Pakistan. -- According to Press TV correspondent in Afghanistan, the Taliban militants seized the Barg-i-Matal district -- the largest town in Nuristan province -- on Saturday night. No more details were reported."
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Two U.S. soldiers 'captured by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan'
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1297338/Two-U-S-soldiers-captured-Taliban-insurgents-Afghanistan.html
A quote...."Two U.S. soldiers have been captured by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. -- A Taliban official said the U.S. nationals were seized after an exchange of fire with militants yesterday and were being held in southern Logar province. -- A NATO official confirmed two soldiers were missing in the province."
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Iran, Turkey, Brazil to talk declaration  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136106&sectionid=351020104
A quote...."Foreign ministers of Iran, Brazil and Turkey are set to hold talks in the city of Istanbul to review the Tehran nuclear declaration regarding a possible fuel swap deal."
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Russia plans to upgrade 3 nuclear-powered cruisers by 2020 (Update 1)  ---  http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20100725/159939020.html
A quote...."Russia will upgrade and put on active duty three mothballed Soviet-era nuclear-powered missile cruisers by 2020, a high-ranking Navy official told RIA Novosti on Saturday. -- Russia built four Kirov class nuclear-powered cruisers in 1974-1998. One of them, the Pyotr Veliky, is in active service as the flagship of the Northern Fleet."
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Peru purchases Russian helicopters to counter terrorism, drug trafficking  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/24/c_13412888.htm
A quote...."LIMA, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Peruvian Defense Minister Rafael Rey said his country had purchased eight Russian-made Mi series helicopters for the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking, a local newspaper reported on Friday."
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Bolivia wants emergency Venezuela-Colombia summit  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66M3GF20100724
War Alert - (Venezula is Iran's ally, this "crisis" could be a pretext for attacks against both countries and possibly even others. - mpg) -- A quote...."(Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales called on Saturday for an emergency meeting of South American presidents to resolve a stand-off between Colombia and neighboring Venezuela that has raised tensions in the Andes." - also posted at YahooNews
  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100724/wl_nm/us_colombia_venezuela
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Catholic priests 'filmed at gay clubs and having casual sex'
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/7907881/Catholic-priests-filmed-at-gay-clubs-and-having-casual-sex.html
The Catholic Church is going to have to be purged - or - it's going to splinter into fragments.  Hey, this website editor isn't Catholic and the church belongs to it's parishioners, so it's their call....but they're running out of time and something HAS to be done to stop this. - mpg-- A quote...."The Catholic Church in Italy was embroiled in a fresh scandal on Friday when photographs apparently showing homosexual priests attending gay nightclubs and engaging in casual sex were published in a magazine."
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Press TV-On the edge with Max Keiser-07-22-2010 (Part1)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/0/5h0XGIAWMbU
(Part 2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/1/fdPhPZgvJMI
(Part 3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/2/qXh9dV29XQI
Must View PTV&MKVideo - MK&AJ(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h0XGIAWMbU
MK&AJ(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdPhPZgvJMI
MK&AJ(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXh9dV29XQI  ---  (PTV&MKYuTb - 5/10 mins - July 24, 2010) -- 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." -- For more on Osama bin Laden's tapes see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda - "al-Qaeda" Videos
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206.html#ALQAEDAVIDEOS
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Jesse Ventura Talks with Alex Jones About Government Harassment of His TV Show
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/24/video-exclusive-jesse-ventura-talks-with-alex-jones-about-government-harassment-of-his-tv-show-2/
Censorship Alert - Video - JV&AJ(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVhrwSQlZo  ---  JV&AJ(2/2)   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQXok5QDSjA  ---  (AJYuTb - 10m - July 24, 2010) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Exclusive: Jesse Ventura Talks with Alex Jones About Government Harassment of His TV Show"
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Once Again, Corporate Media Turns On Bloggers  ---  http://www.infowars.com/once-again-corporate-media-turns-on-bloggers/
WebCensorship Alert - A quote...."In the video clip below, CNN talking heads Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discuss internet journalism and the Sherrod case. “Imagine what would have happened,” says Roberts, “if we hadn’t taken a look at what happened to Shirley Sherrod and plumbed the depths further and found what had been posted on the internet was not in fact reflective of what she said.”
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Study: Journalists Starting To Accept The Fact That Their Print Publications Will Eventually Fold
  ---  http://www.businessinsider.com/study-journalists-starting-to-accept-the-fact-that-their-print-publications-will-eventually-fold-2010-7
Related Article - A quote...."Half of journalists think the print publications (or TV/radio stations) they work for will eventually fold."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-9827-0-13-13--.html
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The 1961 Speech That Got JFK Killed?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/1961-speech-that-got-jfk-killed.html
Special Note - A quote...."On the anniversary of JFK’s birthday, an edited video of the April 27, 1961 speech “that got John F. Kennedy Killed” was making its way around the Internet "
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California Enshrines the Duopoly  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/24-4
Special Note - Californians, in what can only be described as a fit of self-loathing, pain-loving, masochism, have just institutionalized "paper or plastic".  No, we're not talking about what they intend to package their groceries in, instead we're talking about the ability to choose something else besides the "lesser of two evils" during an election, in other words the ability to vote for a third party candidate, something which now appears to have just become much more difficult to do in the "Golden State", at least according to Ralph Nader.  That is of course unless EVERYONE, when they go to the polls this November, choose to vote for ANYONE ELSE but a DemoRepub, assuming after this bout of absolute stupidity there's anyone else on the ballot.  It's your choice folks, either more of the same or actual, real, change....you decide. - mpg
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Anger Rises Over U.S. Tax Dollars for Settlements  ---  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52259
Special Note - A quote...."RAMALLAH, Jul 24, 2010 (IPS) - Anger has arisen in Palestinian areas over reports that millions of tax-exempt dollars from the U.S. are being funneled towards Israel's illegal settlement building in the Palestinian West Bank -- in flagrant violation of international law."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68233&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israel’s friends at Westminster legislate to protect vilest criminals  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68235&hd=&size=1&l=e
This is just so completely DISGRACEFUL!! - mpg -- A quote...."Israelis wanted for war crimes can sleep easier thanks to their friends and admirers in the British Establishment. -- Yes, our brand-new coalition government intends providing a safe haven for the vilest of criminals." -- For more on this issue see quote shown below....

"Well, there they go, Britain's finally giving up on their treaty obligations along with that "quaint" old "rule of law" thing, just as the US-NRE did almost a decade ago....and for the very same reasons. Both countries did so at the behest of five million Jews living in the state of Israel, in order that these Jews can continue murdering Palestinians and stealing their lands with impunity.  What a proud day for the Brits, using their own Magna Carta (originally issued in the year of our Lord 1215)  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta  ---  for toilet paper.  They say sometimes Empires end with a whimper instead of a bang.....but with the sound of a toilet flushing? To watch a once proud people casually throw aside centuries of sacred judicial and civil traditions and obsequiously prostrate themselves before a bunch of murderous, racist, thugs from a foreign country is simply to painful to witness. It's degrading and it's disgusting.  -- *mpg* - posted 03-03-10
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Israeli team faces protests in Ankara  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136129&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Angry protesters in Turkey have staged a demonstration against the presence of an Israeli team at a volleyball tournament in their country."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israeli soldiers detain former European Parliament Vice President in Bil’in  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/07/13174/
A quote...."Israeli soldiers detained the former Vice President of the European Parliament, Luisa Morgantini, in Bil’in this afternoon, injured one Israeli activist., and arrested another." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68215&hd=&size=1&l=e
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IOF closes villages in Nablus, attacks citizens  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/index.php?option=
com_content&view=article&id=6777:iof-closes-villages-in-nablus-attacks-citizens&catid=59:west-bank&Itemid=135
A qutoe...."Nablus, July 24, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli occupation forces closed the main entrance to the village of Iraq Burin, in Nablus, in the West Bank and arrested two youths at the entrance."
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IOF attacks weekly peaceful march in Hebron  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/index.php?option=
com_content&view=article&id=6776:iof-attacks-weekly-peaceful-march-in-hebron&catid=59:west-bank&Itemid=135
A quote..."Hebron, July 24, (Pal Telegraph) Khader Sabarneh (65 years) was seriously injured  and is now in a critical medical condition after the Israeli occupation forces fired gas bombs inside his house in the town of Beit Ameer, located at the northern governorate of Hebron in the West Bank, while a number of citizens and participants marched in the weekly march of Beit Amer which was suppressed by the Israeli occupation forces."
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RSA Animate – Crises of Capitalism By David Harvey  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/07/24/rsa-animate-crises-of-capitalism-by-david-harvey/
Must View RSAVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0  ---  (RSAYuTb - 11m 10s - June 28, 2010) - Source:  theRSAorg  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/theRSAorg  ---  A quote...."In this RSA Animate, renowned academic David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?" -- "This is based on a lecture at the RSA (www.theRSA.org)."  ---  http://www.thersa.org/
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Anglo-American Political Philosophy 101: The Poor Must Die
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/1995-anglo-american-political-philosophy-101-the-poor-must-die-.html
Special Note - A quote...."News from Blighty: the disparity in death rates between the well-off and the poor in the UK  is now greater than at any time since 1921. The London Review of Books points to a new study by  the British Medical Journal that shows that by 2997, "for every 100 people under the age of 65 dying in the best-off areas, 199 were dying in the poorest tenth of areas."
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Bankruptcy filings surge  ---  http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2010/07/19/daily41.html?surround=lfn
A quote...."Bay State bankruptcy filings spiked 25 during the first half of the year compared to the same period last year, according to a new report from The Warren Group."
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Where and Why are Businesses Closing? http://wallstcheatsheet.com/breaking-news/economy/where-and-why-are-businesses-closing-infographic/?p=14425/
Multiple InfoGraphics - A quote...."This recession was particularly ravaging to many businesses. ~1.5 million businesses have already closed their doors. Here is a more in depth look at where businesses are closing and why:"
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Mass Layoffs Up in June
  ---  http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/07/mass-layoffs-up-in-june/60302/
A quote...."More firms engaged in mass layoffs in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The results are disappointing. The number of workers laid off through mass actions of fifty or more increased by 7.2% compared to May. But more alarming is the number of firms that participated in these activities, which increased by 16.6%. That's the biggest jump since August of 2009."
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India unveils prototype of 35 U.S. dollar laptop  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-07/24/c_13413076.htm
Special Note - Does ANYONE seriously believe, even for a second, that what remains of the US-NRE's manufacturing base can compete with lap-tops priced at $35, or ANY other manufactured item that's equivalently priced? - All this nation has accomplished during the last two years is load itself up with an enormous mountain of debt, pump up the stock market, spend trillions on war, trillions more on a massive and illegal surveillance / in-security complex and hand out 300 to 400 BILLION dollars worth of compensation to the Wall Street Bankster crowd....all in order to land itself EXACTLY where it was in 2007.  The entire world still has enormous amounts of industrial OVER-CAPACITY, enormous amounts of debt and prices that are in most parts of the world, still falling. - mpg
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Friday July 23rd 2010 - links page

Israel's Fingerprints Surface - The Hariri Assassination  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/amiri07232010.html
Must Read - A quote...."In the Middle East, the link between political machinations, espionage and assassination is either clear as day, or clear as mud. -- As for the yet unsolved case of the February 2005 murder of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, mud might be giving way to daylight. -- A crackdown on Israeli spy rings operating in Lebanon has resulted in more than 70 arrests over the past 18 months. Included among them are four high-ranking Lebanese Army and General Security officers—one having spied for the Mossad since 1984."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/the-hariri-assassination-israels-fingerprints-surface/
 & SouthLebanon  ---  http://www.jnoubiyeh.com/2010/07/hariri-assassination-israels.html
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US Restores Ties With Indonesia’s Brutal Special Forces  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/07/22/us-restores-ties-with-indonesias-brutal-special-forces/
Ah-hah! The good'ol US-NRE's relationship with the world's death squads is back in true form.  Ain't love grand? - mpg -- A quote...."12 years after the ban was put in place, the Obama Administration has announced that it is ending the prohibition on ties wih Indonesia’s notorious special forces,known as the Kopassus." - bold by website editor - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/230079  ---  Hey all you ObamaTrolls out there....have you given up on the "pope of hope" yet? - mpg
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Vietnam's forgotten war victims  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/2010/07/201072302826665260.html
Contains AJVid - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNNiFB1oTi0  ---  A quote...."When Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, visited Vietnam on Thursday she extolled the country's "unlimited potential" and strong trade relations with the US. But the words must have rung hollow for Ngyuen Ngoc Phuong, who has seen his potential destroyed by American chemical poisoning. "
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68205&hd=&size=1&l=e
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The American Empire According to TomDispatch  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/23-5
Book Review - A quote...."The mainstream media have always been easily distracted and beguiled -- but never more than now, when the next diversion is always just one click away. - This makes us particularly fortunate to have a few relentless souls like Tom Engelhardt around, using the Internet not to chase the latest chatter but to tenaciously chronicle, explore and illuminate the unspoken realities that shape our political discourse." - "The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's"  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/books/175245/the_american_way_of_war:_how_bush%27s_wars_became_obama%27s/  ---  Source:  Huffington Post  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/22/the-essential-undistracta_n_656067.html
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American History Through the Ages  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/07/american-history-through-ages.html
A comprehensive Amerikan history lesson in twenty seconds or less.  All you really need to know....mpg
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Kucinich, Ron Paul: Get US troops out of Pakistan  - Tilting at windmills, but somebody's got to try. - mpg
  ---  http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0723/kucinich-paul-troops-pakistan/
A quote...."Two US lawmakers -- a Republican and a Democrat -- proposed a bill this week demanding the withdrawal of all US troops in Pakistan, where they are conducting covert operations against militants."
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[US-NRE's] Senate Approves $60B for Afghanistan Surge  ---  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/22/politics/main6704719.shtml
Just keep on voting for those DemoRepubs folks, you just go right ahead. - mpg -- A quote...."In a take-it-or-leave-it gesture, the Senate voted Thursday night to reject more than $20 billion in domestic spending the House had tacked on to its $60 billion bill to fund President Barack Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan."
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"What Was My Father's Crime?" - Afghan Man Tells Story of His 92-year-old Father's Killing by U.S. Special Forces
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25989.htm
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908  ---  Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUvAFx31zCE  ---  (RTAYuTb - 3 min 14 sec - July 21, 2010) - Source:  rethinkafghanistan  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/rethinkafghanistan  ---  A quote...."On March 21, 2010, a joint U.S. and Afghan force, likely including U.S. special forces, killed a 92-year-old civilian, Abdul Ghani Khan, in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. In this exclusive interview obtained by Brave New Foundation's Rethink Afghanistan campaign, the slain man's son, Zaitullah Ghiasi Wardak, relates the family's account of the night his father died."
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British deputy prime minister admits Iraq war was illegal  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/pers-j24.shtml
A quote...."The statement by British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg that the Iraq war was “illegal” leads to only one conclusion—that former Prime Minister Tony Blair and many others must immediately be arraigned on war crimes charges."
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An Iraqi student in nuclear physics murdered in Baghdad  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68189&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."Informed sources confirmed today that an Iraqi student at the university of Baghdad has been murdered. -- The same sources ascertained that unknown gunmen shot a Baghdadi young student known for his advanced researches in the field of nuclear physics, murdering him on the spot."
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Iraqis’ patience wearing thin, warns Shiite cleric  ---  http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2010-07-23%5Ckurd.htm
A quote...."Iraqis are losing patience with politicians who cannot form a new government four months after the general elections, said a senior Shiite cleric and politician. -- Moqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadr Movement and its armed wing the Mahdi Army, made it clear that the incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki should go."
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Kurds have no right to export own oil, says minister  ---  http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2010-07-21%5Ckurd.htm
A quote...."Oil produced in the Kurdish region will have to be shipped abroad through SOMO, Iraq’s oil export arm, said Oil Minister Husain al-Shahristani. --  Shahristani said he has asked for a delegation from the Kurdish regional government to visit Baghdad in yet another attempt to solve outstanding issues."
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Iran signs $1.3 billion Turkey pipeline deal  ---  http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=282966
A quote...." TEHRAN: Iran's Oil Ministry said the country had signed a one billion euro ($1.3bn) pipeline deal to take gas to Turkey and Turkish firm Som Petrol said it was the partner in the project. -- "The one-billion-euro deal to build 660km gas pipeline was signed yesterday during the Iranian oil minister's trip to Turkey," the Iranian ministry said yesterday."
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UN Agency Admits Iran's Ability in Attracting Investors  ---  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8905010682
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran was able to attract more than $3 bln of foreing direct investment in 2009, showed the new data released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)."
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[Iranian] Cleric Lauds Parliament's Decision on 20% Uranium Enrichment  ---  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8905010713
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran's Provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati praised the parliament for its recent decision requiring the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) to supply nuclear fuel to the country's research and training reactors through enriching uranium to the purity level of 20%."
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Russia aims to topple the 'last dictator in Europe'
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-aims-to-topple-the-last-dictator-in-europe-2033396.html
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Must Read - Geo-Political Analysis - A quote...."Alexander Lukashenko, the moustachioed former collective farm manager often described as "the last dictator in Europe", could be about to see his iron grip on power in Belarus turned to jelly by an intervention from his domineering neighbour and erstwhile ally, Russia."
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Another ‘Viable’ Candidate Bites the Dust …
  ---  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/07/18/another-%E2%80%98viable%E2%80%99-candidate-bites-the-dust-%E2%80%A6/
Must Read - Related Article - A quote...."Kyrgyzstan’s Wanted Fugitive: Maksim Bakiyev. The story is more or less the same – the one that has been repeating itself for many decades.  The one based on a script written by the very same conductors who wrote the ones before, and who will probably be writing the ones to come (yes, they’re blessed with longevity; a curse for the rest of us). The location – always a resource rich country or one strategically crucial to resource rich countries. A viable candidate (sometimes candidates) chosen based on the exact same set of criteria – such as degree of corruptibility, and degree of atrocity or criminal tendencies. The grooming and training locations also are the same: the United States of America or the proxy brother, The United Kingdom. The supporting actors are a combination of old timers, think World Bank or IMF, and newer ones with even fancier names, such as XYZ Democratization and Development Fund, posing as well-intentioned NGOs. Okay, enough with the details, since we are very familiar with this repeating script and its consistent execution – collectively known and referred to as United States Foreign Policy."
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Colombian Lawmakers Must Approve U.S. Bases Pact, Judge Says  ---  http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=361056&CategoryId=12393
OH NOoooooooooo!  That "democracy thing" getting in the way of the New Roman Empire?  Say it ain't so Pentagon, (sniffle, sniffle). Say it ain't so.  Well....anyway....that's what Columbia's renowned death squads are for (wink, wink). - mpg-- A quote...."BOGOTA – An accord giving the U.S. Armed Forces access to seven military bases in Colombia requires congressional ratification, a Constitutional Court judge said in a draft opinion released Friday. - The court is due to rule Aug. 17 on a motion brought by a lawyers group challenging the constitutionality of the December 2009 pact." - bold by website editor
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EU lawmakers urge probe of Colombian intelligence operations  ---  http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5795337,00.html
A quote...."EU parliamentarians have called on the Commission to look into Colombian intelligence operations in Europe designed to ‘neutralize the influence' of critics of the Colombian government in parliament, the UNHCR and NGOs."
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Latin America and Caribbean: CELAC Steams Ahead  ---  http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/main180710.html
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl2wb6k8T9A  ---  (in spanish) A quote...."A high-level meeting in Venezuela earlier this month, in which senior Latin American and Caribbean diplomats from 32 countries discussed the creation of a new forum for regional concertation, slipped under the radar of the entire U.S. media.  Indeed, the only English-language report on the event that appeared in the mainstream media was filed by the French press agency AFP which dutifully informed  ---  its meager US readership that the meeting participants had decided that Venezuela and Chile would be heading "a new regional bloc that will include all countries in the Americas except Canada and the United States." - bold by website editor
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Pentagon expands U.S. role in Africa  ---  http://www.workers.org/2010/us/pentagon_in_africa_0729/
A quote...."Several African states have been targeted by successive U.S. administrations for regime change and political domination. Those facing threats from the U.S. include, but are not limited to, Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is essential that the anti-war movement in the U.S. firmly oppose U.S. imperialist intervention in Africa."
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Plane's flameout may end space weapon plan  ---  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/22/test-vehicles-flameout-may-end-space-weapon-plan/
Weapons Tech Note - Another boondoggle bites the dust. Now if only the DoD would be truly honest about how effective all those so-called "anti-missile" missile tests really were. - mpg - A quote...."In the language of Beltway defense wonkery, the results of this year's test launch of the hypersonic unmanned U.S. aircraft designated Falcon HTV-2 might be called sub-optimal.  [Website editor's hint:  Whenever the DoD actually comes forth, on their OWN, to  say a potential trillion dollar weapons program experienced flaws during a test, it means it was a complete and total catastrophic failure. - mpg]  In plain English, it appears certain that the experimental space plane - a key element of U.S. efforts to develop a conventional weapon that can strike anywhere in the world in less than an hour - disintegrated and burned up in the upper atmosphere in a failure that casts a question mark over the program's future." bold by website editor
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The secret private-sector government  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/07/20/mukasey
A quote...."Private contractors working for the CIA have recruited spies in Iraq, paid bribes for information in Afghanistan and protected CIA directors visiting world capitals. Contractors have helped snatch a suspected extremist off the streets of Italy, interrogated detainees once held at secret prisons abroad and watched over defectors holed up in the Washington suburbs. . . . Contractors kill enemy fighters.   They spy on foreign governments and eavesdrop on terrorist networks. They help craft war plans. They gather information on local factions in war zones. . . ."
Also posted at BLN  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=9809
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Terror's Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/072310a.html
posted at ConsortiumNews  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/070710b.html
Related Article - A quote...."A recent exposé in the Washington Post shows that if you have a security clearance and are comfortable being part of a lucrative “self-licking ice cream cone” – a process that offers few if any benefits while perpetuating its own existence – then the “war on terror” is definitely for you!"
also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/23-12
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White House Emails Show More Extensive Improper Contact With Google  ---  http://nlpc.org/cached/white-house-emails-sho
w-more-extensive-improper-contact-google.html?q=stories/2010/07/22/white-house-emails-show-more-extensive-improper-contact-google
Related Article - A quote...."Recent email communication between White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin (in photo), who is Google’s former head of Global Public Policy, and multiple outside individuals raise new questions about the official’s alleged circumvention of federal ethics and recordkeeping rules." - also posted at PrisonPlanet
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/white-house-emails-show-more-extensive-improper-contact-with-google.html
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Tea Partyers, Fox News, "Negativity" Against the President? Are These Really Black America's Most Pressing Problems?
  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/tea-partyers-fox-news-negativity-against-president-are-these-really-black-americas-most-pres
posted at BAR  ---  Mutt & Jeff, Good Cop/Bad Cop, Liberal vs Conservative, Demo or Repub....paper or plastic.  That's how weighty eighty percent of this nation treats their decision - a decision that affects their very lives and livelihoods and that of their children - on who to vote for at the polls....paper or plastic.  It's time for the people in this nation to grow up, to discard the false left/right paradigm, follow the @#$%&! damn money, and vote those who keep giving it away to the Banksters, Israel and the Military Industrial Complex out of office! - mpg  --  Some quotes...."As far as most of the black leadership class --- most of our pastors, politicians, professors and such tell it, those are our marching orders. On the president's birthday, we're all supposed to break out those old Obama stickers, shirts and hats, and like the citizens of Oz in The Wiz, we'll flaunt red, white and blue on the president's birthday."  ---  "Am I the only one who thinks this is just plain dumb? Are the number one problems of black America really the insults and negativity directed at the president by a bunch of crazy people who are not even in power? Are these the times of Shakespeare's Richard III, when the only political yardstick that mattered was whether and how much you did or didn't love the king?" -- Emperor!!....He's the Emperor Gawd Dang It!  How dare this author call our beloved Emperor a measly, little, "king" - mpg
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Three of Every Four Oil & Gas Lobbyists Worked for Federal Government  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/23/three_of_every_four_oil_gas
(a.k.a. the large, and ever growing, federal revolving door. - mpg ) -- A quote...."Three out of every four lobbyists who represent oil and gas companies previously worked in the federal government, according to a new analysis by the Washington Post. That’s a rate that is more than double revolving-door standards on Capitol Hill. We talk to Steve Kretzmann, the founder and director of Oil Change International. [includes rush transcript]" - bold by ebsite editor
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Holocaustabation  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7AmMnUcLoLXZQv
Vg3lzDhuW7AfqjyYwQzSFiIsDYYnnAo3fdv4QWvwY9LhOWFh7oGIcjUUGtR3HYaFfVILIgw7XRIWAHU3XdiZ%2b9YKfN7%2b10%3d
Must Read - A quote...."Once again, Israel is resorting to psychological blackmail tactics by invoking  "anti-Semitism and the holocaust" to enhance its ugly image in the eyes of the peoples of the world. -- This week, the Israeli press reported that dozens of countries, mainly those  orbiting  the United States , which itself revolves in the Israeli orbit, agreed to cooperate in fighting "anti-Semitism" an "Holocaust denial." The effort is apparently part of the Israeli Foreign Ministry's effort to improve Israel 's image, badly tarnished following Israel 's Nazi-like onslaught on the Gaza Strip more than a year and a half ago."
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Media Dictionary: Arab-Israeli Conflict  ---  http://alethonewsa.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/media-dictionary-arab-israeli-conflict/
Cartoon - A quote...."A handy dictionary/rules book for anyone writing on the Middle East issues in the mainstream media. To get published as a news journalist, it seems you have to follow these rules."
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Spanish activists sue Israeli PM  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=135959&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Two Spanish activists have filed a court case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of war crimes and crimes against humanity."
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Germany and Israel fail to agree on submarine sale
  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/germany-and-israel-fail-to-agree-on-submarine-sale-1.303705#send-friend-popup
A quote...."Germany and Israel have failed to agree on a sale's deal of a German submarine to Israel, a Berlin source said on Friday. -- "There is no financial commitment," government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said. "There are no concrete negotiations with Israel over a sixth submarine. As for whether there are informal talks -- because of the nature of the matter, I can make no statement on this."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Stop The Wall - People vs Oppression  ---  http://www.rense.com/general91/stopw.htm
A quote...."This article follows an earlier UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Special Report titled, "The Impact of the Barrier on Health," accessed through the following link:" - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68210&hd=&size=1&l=e
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UNHRC to probe Israel flotilla attack  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=135984&sectionid=351020202
Flotilla News - A quote...."The United Nations has appointed a three-member fact-finding mission to investigate Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza-bound humanitarian convoy."
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Jewish Settlers Theft of Palestinian Land... and Sheep  ---  http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2010/07/jewish-settlers-theft-of-palestinian.html
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZvsGAQdj-I  ---  (YouTube - 2 min 52 sec - July 23, 2010) - Source:  AtTuwaniProject  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/AtTuwaniProject  --- A quote...."At-Tuwani -- South Hebron Hills - July 22nd , 2010 -- Yesterday, on Wednesday, 21st of July 2010, three settlers, one of them armed, stole a sheep from a young Palestinian shepherd, a resident of the village of Tuba, while he was watering the flocks at a well situated in Umm Zeitouna valley, which is located between the Israeli settlements of Ma'on and Karmel."
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Jewish settlers burn and uproot trees belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7NbxLchzYZOG4VUHHSJugjQ
Qzb6P0ZAwenwCmuT3SvyhC8zoKgDZG7GAdlVBsKck0liWX2io%2bMY0Pk0CV2dWiQI2SyFWM1qR7hQdHHRhdz44%3d
A quote...."NABLUS, RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- A number of Jewish settlers on Thursday uprooted more than 50 olive trees near the village of Burin to the south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus." -- For more on this issue see....Israel's Scorched Earth
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israelsscorchedearth-weblist-mpg-022510
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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (15-21 July 2010)
  ---  http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6849:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-
occupied-palestinian-territory-15-21-july-2010-&catid=84:weekly-2009&Itemid=183
Every week of the year....including holidays. - mpg - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68199&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Shadow Banking Makes A Comeback  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25999.htm
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Must Read - A quote...."July 22, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Credit  conditions are improving for speculators and bubblemakers, but they continue to worsen for households, consumers and small businesses. An article in the Wall Street Journal confirms that the Fed's efforts to revive the so-called shadow banking system is showing signs of progress. Financial intermediaries have been taking advantage of low rates and easy terms to fund corporate bonds, stocks and mortgage-backed securities. Thus, the reflating of high-risk financial assets has resumed, thanks to the Fed's crisis-engendering monetary policy and extraordinary rescue operations. Here's an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal...."
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US Finance Bill Lacks Power to Curb Wall St
http://www.therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=5400&updaterx=2010-07-18+15%3A43%3A08
RNVideo - Related Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxbdL3HBiHA  ---  (RNYuTb - 11 min 36 sec - July 18, 2010) - Source:  RealNewsNetwork  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealNews  ---  A quote...."PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington. And in Washington, the SEC has made a deal with Goldman Sachs: no criminal charges, a fine, but perhaps more importantly, an indication of where things might go under the new regime of the new financial reform bill. Now joining us to discuss both the deal and the new bill is Gerry Epstein. He's codirector of the PERI institute. He joins us from the PERI institute in Amherst, Massachusetts. Thanks for joining us, Gerry."
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The shrinking number of U.S. banks but growing assets
  ---  http://financemymoney.com/bank-number-shrink-commerical-banks-from-12000-to-7000-us-banking-system/
Related Article  - A quote...."Some people have a hard time believing that prior to the Great Depression, there was a point in U.S. history where we had over 20,000 various and diverse banks in the country.  These banks would boom and bust and with no FDIC insurance, placing your money in a bank was a risky proposition.  The Federal Reserve initially was designed to serve as lender of last resort but as time has progressed, it has now been used as a tool to consolidate banking power in the hands of a few."
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Seven More U.S. Banks Shut by Regulators, Pushing Year's Failures Past 100
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-24/seven-more-u-s-banks-shut-by-regulators-pushing-year-s-failures-past-100.html
Related Article - A quote...."Seven banks were seized in seven U.S. states, marking the second year in a row in which at least 100 lenders have collapsed. -- Banks with total deposits of about $2 billion were shut down yesterday, according to statements on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. website. The failures cost the FDIC’s deposit- insurance fund $431 million. The U.S. bank-failure count this year rose to 103." - bold by website editor
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China Calls Our Bluff: "The US is Insolvent and Faces Bankruptcy as a Pure Debtor Nation but [U.S.] Rating Agencies Still Give it High Rankings"
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/07/china-calls-our-bluff-us-is-insolvent.html
Related Article - A quote...."America's biggest creditor - China - has called our bluff. -- As the Financial Times notes, the head of China's biggest credit rating agency has said America is insolvent and that U.S. credit ratings are a joke...."
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White House predicts record $1.47 trillion deficit
  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/White_House_predicts_record_%241.47_trillion_deficit/22158/0/8/8/Y/M.html
Related Article - A quote...."While there's a slight improvement in the deficit for the current year, next year's predicted $1.42 trillion worth of red ink — that's 37 cents of borrowing for every dollar spent — is looking worse. It's about $150 billion more than previously predicted, because of still-slumping tax revenues." - Source:  AP  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100723/ap_on_bi_ge/us_budget_deficit_2
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ECRI Leading Indicator Breaches Critical -10 Threshold, Hits -10.5
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/ecri-leading-indicator-breaches-critical-10-threshold-hits-105
Econo-Warning - Chart - A quote...."If in addition to 85% of the economic data releases in the past month coming below expectations was not enough, the ECRI leading indicator has just came below the critical threshold of -10%, which according to Rosenberg has virtually assured recessions based on data from the past 50 or so years, hitting an annualized rate of -10.5%. And since even the index creators (and Ivy League tenured professors) are openly refuting the adverse implications of their own index (when they, and everyone were praising it when it topped out at 27.80 a year ago), one can be sure this is a rather dramatic data point."
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Goldman Sachs sets aside $3.5bn for staff bonuses, pay as quarterly profits tumble  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/
banksandfinance/7900602/Goldman-Sachs-sets-aside-3.5bn-for-staff-bonuses-pay-as-quarterly-profits-tumble.html
A quote...."Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank, set aside another $3.8bn (£2.5 billion) for its annual staff pay and bonus pool as second-quarter profits dropped 82pc, hit by the UK bonus tax, a record US fine and volatile markets." - For more on this issue see....Having Fun With Your Tax Dollars
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html
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[Britain's] Life expectancy gap 'widest since Great Depression'
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7904294/Life-expectancy-gap-widest-since-Great-Depression.html
A quote...."The poorest people in Britain are twice as likely to die before the age of 65 than the richest - the highest inequality in mortality since the economic depression of the 1930s."
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Thursday July 22nd 2010 - links page

Obama Is Preparing to Bomb Iran  ---  http://tarpley.net/2010/07/22/obama-preparing-to-bomb-iran/
Must Read - Major Geo-Political Analysis - War Alert - A quote...."After about two and a half years during which the danger of war between the United States and Iran was at a relatively low level, this threat is now rapidly increasing. A pattern of political and diplomatic events, military deployments, and media chatter now indicates that Anglo-American ruling circles, acting through the troubled Obama administration, are currently gearing up for a campaign of bombing against Iran, combined with special forces incursions designed to stir up rebellions among the non-Persian nationalities of the Islamic Republic. Naturally, the probability of a new fake Gulf of Tonkin incident or false flag terror attack staged by the Anglo-American war party and attributed to Iran or its proxies is also growing rapidly."
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Myth-Debunking Snopes Obscures Israel's Role in 9/11  ---  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1484.htm
Must Read - A quote...."One of the lucky few (not mentioned by Snopes) was Larry Silverstein, who signed a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center six weeks before 9/11, insuring it for $3.5 billion." - also posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6146.shtml
& Maidhc Ó Cathail  ---  http://maidhcocathail.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/myth-debunking-snopes-obscures-israel%E2%80%99s-role-in-911/
For more on this sort of issue see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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9/11 - From The History File...Five Dancing Israelis - WRH/wiki
  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.wikia.com/wiki/Five_Dancing_Israelis
Was Israel Tracking the Hijackers Before the 9/11 Attacks?
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2007/2/8/cheering_movers_and_art_student_spies
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A CounterPunch Special Investigation - High-Fivers and Art Student Spies
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/ketcham03072007.html
The Five Dancing Israelis - Arrested On 9-11
  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html
Alt  ---  http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=112&contentid=2248
Alt  ---  http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/the-five-dancing-israelis-arrested-on-9-11/blog-144969/
Alt  ---  http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2006/12/6287.shtml
Alt  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/193061-The-Five-Dancing-Israelis-Arrested-On-9-11
The High-Fivers
  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2007/02/16/the-high-fivers/
How 9/11 was done -dancing Israelis
  ---  http://lupocattivoblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/how-911-was-done-dancing-israelis/
5 Israelis detained for `puzzling behavior' after WTC tragedy
  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/5-israelis-detained-for-puzzling-behavior-after-wtc-tragedy-1.70005
Alt  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/5israelisdetainedforpuzzlingbehaviorafterwtctragedy-ymelman-haaretz-cached-072310
Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9/11 - video
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfhUezbKLw
Alt/VdPd - (YT 2m51s 010507)  ---  http://vodpod.com/watch/11634-five-dancing-israelis-arrested-on-911
Five Dancing Israelis "Our Purpose Was To Document The Event" PDF
  ---  http://blog.lege.net/content/Christopher_Bollyn__Five_Dancing_Israelis__Our_purpose_was_to_document.pdf
AltPDF  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/pdffiles
/Christopher_Bollyn__Five_Dancing_Israelis__Our_purpose_was_to_document.pdf
Dancing Israelis on 9/11 - video - (YouTube - 3 mn 49 sec - Sept. 03, 2007)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X63CQ-dXkwU
The Dancing Israelis on 9/11
  ---  http://killtown.blogspot.com/2005/11/dancing-israelis-on-911.html
9/11 Attacks: Remembering The Dancing Israelis
  ---  http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/911-attacks-remembering-the-dancing-israelis/
The Smoking Gun Of 9-11: The 5 Dancing Mossad Age
  ---  http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2009/09/smoking-gun-of-9-11-5-dancing-mossad.html

See also....9/11 & 7/11  Israeli Connection - Dancing Israelis - Updated!!
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911theisraeliconnection-weblist-mpg-051610#DANCINGISRAELIS
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Protofascism Comes to America: The Rise of the Tea Party  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25994.htm
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Special Note - A quote...."Typical Tea Party rants fit the classic fascist mold in several respects. America, Tea Partiers complain, is falling behind. Like Hitler, they blame leftists and liberals for a "stab in the back," treason on the homefront. The trappings of hypernationalism--flags, bunting, etc.--are notably pervasive at Tea Party rallies, even by American standards. We see "collaboration with traditional elites"--Rush Limbaugh, Congressmen, Republican Party bigwigs (including the most recent vice presidential nominee)--to an extent that is unprecedented in recent history. -- Tea Partiers haven't called for extralegal solutions to the problems they cite--but neither did the National Socialists prior to 1933. Then again, they're not in power yet. Wait. -- One major component is missing: aggressive militarism. Certainly most Tea Partiers support America's wars and the troops who fight them. But Tea Partiers focus on domestic issues. Similarly, the Nazis didn't make much of their aggressive intent until after they seized power." -- Unless the Tea Party comes out IMMEDIATELY and denounces the Empire, the US-NRE's eight hundred military bases, it's support for "terror" everywhere, the Federal Reserve, the Banksters, Israel, calls for a roll back of ALL the constitutional infringments that have taken place during the last ten years and also calls for a full, impartial, independent, investigation of 9/11....THEY CAN NOT BE TRUSTED! - mpg-- For more on this issue see....How About a "Justice Party"? - 04-23-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/howaboutajusticeparty-mpg-reficultnias-042310
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The Big Lie, Selling You War With North Korea  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/warwithkorea.php
Special Note - A quote....""What can I say; here we go again! -- I hardly need to go down the list of lies used to start US wars.  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/lieofthecentury.html  ---  We have been though that over and over again. -- Nor do I need to elucidate on the many reasons why the US Government is in desperate need for yet another war with which to scare the American people into acceptance of more takes and fewer rights and freedoms. -- Anyone with half a brain realizes that the US Government, unable to gain support for an invasion of Iran, has changed gears and decided that North Korea will be the next step towards World War III. -- Here is the big lie..." -- For more on thsi issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Cheonan  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#CHEONAN
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US sanctions against North Korea provoke Chinese anger
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/7902684/US-sanctions-against-North-Korea-provoke-Chinese-anger.html
Related Article - A quote...."Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, said the measures would discourage North Korean aggression but China responded angrily accusing America of "aggravating regional tensions".
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Google Saga Demonstrates That You Have Power  ---  http://www.infowars.com/google-saga-demonstrates-that-you-have-power/
A quote...."Following our article yesterday detailing the threat of a false flag cyber attack as a pretext to restrict the free Internet, the term ‘false flag cyber attack’ was sent to the top of the Google Trends charts:"
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/22/google-saga-demonstrates-that-you-have-power/
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ACLU Torture Report  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68161&hd=&size=1&l=e
Video - Alt  ---  (YuTb - 3 min 17 sec - July 12, 2010) - Source:  acluvideos  ---  A quote...."The Torture Report, an initiative of the ACLU's National Security Project, aims to give a full account of the Bush administration's torture program, from its improvised origins to the systematized, lawyer-rationalized maltreatment of hundreds of prisoners in U.S. custody around the world. In this video, Glenn Greenwald, one of the Report's expert contributors, and principal author Larry Siems reflect on the Report and the ongoing struggle for accountability."
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French police use live ammunition against riots over police killings  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/riot-j20.shtml
You know, there's something very circular about the process described in the title shown above....mpg -- A quote...."Over the last week, two young men were shot and killed while attempting to flee police, in the suburbs of Grenoble and the village of Saint-Aignan in central France. Police have responded to riots provoked by the killings with massive police deployments, firing live ammunition."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/22/french-police-use-live-ammunition-against-riots-over-police-killings/
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Vatican defrocks US priest accused of abusing boy in 1970s  ---  http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0722/vatican-defrocks-priest-accused-abusing-boy-1970s/
FINALLY!! Now he's only got about 10,000 more to defrock and the then Pope will be done. That might be a slight exaggeration of course, but only a slight one. - mpg -- A quote...."WASHINGTON — Pope Benedict XVI has defrocked a US priest accused of sexually molesting a teenage boy more than 30 years ago, the disgraced cleric's Ohio diocese said Thursday."
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Blood on Our Hands: The Most Brutal Crime committed during the past Decade has been the Invasion of Iraq
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20225
Special Note - A quote...."The most massive and brutal crime committed on this planet during the past decade has been the invasion and occupation of Iraq. And we're seeking to wash the blood off our hands without so much as an "Out, damn spot!" Nowadays "looking forward, not backward" is supposed to take care of everything, even as the crimes continue. What that takes care of is the leading perpetrators who begin to sense that the coast is clear and creep out of their holes to declare, as did Karl Rove this week, that their biggest mistake was not more aggressively attacking those who pointed out their crimes."
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Obama's Afghan War in Perspective  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp07222010.html
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25998.htm
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Practically everyone now understands that the war in Afghanistan is going very badly. This is not because the Taliban and other “insurgent” forces are strong and their foreign foes weak. It is because of the Afghans’ indomitable spirit of independence that is only intensified by each civilian death due to house raids or bombs."
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Ill-wind blows for a 'neutral' Afghanistan  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LG24Df01.html
Special Note - A quote...."Maybe there is an air about the brooding Hindu Kush mountains that lends inscrutability to politics and history. It touched Tuesday's Kabul international conference on Afghanistan, where the subtext was of far greater interest than the open agenda. In fact, when it comes to the Afghan problem, it is almost inevitably the case that the surreal takes precedence over the real. -- Thus it was surreal that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is still not quite done, after failing to win in Afghanistan, with its first "real" war in its six decades of history as a military alliance, and it is certainly not contemplating a return to its natural habitat. NATO seems to have fallen for the adrenalin rush of the primeval tumult that people of the Hindu Kush live with and seems to loathe the dull prospect of returning to the predictability of a settled life in Europe."
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2 Americans Killed in Afghanistan Copter Crash  ---  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/22/world/main6702291.shtml
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."A helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing two U.S. service members, NATO forces said. The Taliban claimed it shot down the craft, but NATO said it was still investigating." - Once the legitimate residents of the Middle East get their hands on man-portable anti-air and anti-armor rockets, the neo-colonial fantasies currently being entertained by the US-NRE, Israel, and Britain, along with those nation's (through the Saudi Royals) policies of supporting almost every single radical group  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306  ---  throughout the Middle East to serve as a never-ending pretext for their illegal occupations, will come to an abrupt and highly expensive end - mpg
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Three contractors killed in Green Zone rocket attack  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100722/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrest
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."BAGHDAD (AFP) – Three security contractors working for the US government were killed in a rocket attack on Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone on Thursday, the American embassy said." - Resistance to the occupation appears to be on-going. Wasn't the so-called "Green Zone" supposed to be "safe" by now? - mpg
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At least 69 dead in north Yemen clashes  ---  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100722/twl-at-least-69-dead-in-north-yemen-clas-3cd7efd.html
A quote...."Fighting overnight between Shiite rebels and army-backed tribes in Yemen's restive north killed 20 people on both sides, a tribal official said on Thursday, raising the death toll in five days of fighting to over 69."
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Three Strikes and You're Out
07-22-10
mpg

Iraqi city has higher cancer rates than Hiroshima  ---  http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1307887/Iraqi-city-has-higher-cancer-rates-than-Hiroshima-
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Video - Alt  ---  http://player.sbs.com.au/naca#/naca/wna/Latest/playlist/Report-highlights-Fallujah-deformities/  ---  (SBSVid- 2min 35sec - Thur 22nd July 9:30am) -- A quote...."A report has been published indicating cancers and other diseases in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are significantly higher than those of the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs of 1945."

NO ONE should delude themselves....this was a DELIBERATE act.
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707

Oh by the way, many US-NRE occupation forces serving in Iraq and Afghanistan who wantonly used depleted uranium and teratogenic and mutagenic chemicals against civilian populations throughout those two countries will, as the years go by, suffer greatly, as will their children in some cases. One would hope they won't whine and ask for more money since this is the THIRD time they, along with the nation they murdered for, has carried out these sorts of acts.

Remember "Agent Orange"?  Remember the "Gulf War Syndrome"?  What will we call this next set of horrible diseases about to descend upon returning Vets, "Gulf War II Syndrome", "The Fallujah Cancers"....what, what will they call it this time around?  Just EXACTLY how stupid do you have to be to join the US-NRE's military?

Three times this country has carried out these sorts of abominations....three times the dumb, amoral, drooling, morons in this nation cheerfully signed up to carry them out. As far as this website editor is concerned it's three strikes and you're out.  No sympathy from this quarter, don't ask for any....that well is as bone dry as the radioactive and chemically laden dust of Fallujah. - mpg

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UK admits [to also] using DU ammunition in Iraq  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=135896&sectionid=351020201
A quote...."UK defense secretary says American and British forces used depleted uranium (DU) ammunitions during the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003."
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We Can Handle the Truth – Stop Trying to Hide the Truth from Us   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25993.htm
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."July 22, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- The  peace movement needs to stand with Bradley Manning and Wikileaks in their efforts to let Americans see the truth about what the military is doing in our name. We can handle the truth! Indeed, we need to hear the truth, not propaganda about how great the U.S. military is performing, in order to be responsible citizens."
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NATO Chief Disavows 2014 Drawdown Date, Insists War to Continue Indefinitely
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/07/21/nato-chief-disavows-2014-drawdown-date-insists-war-to-continue-indefinitely/
A quote...."The replacement of the July 2011 drawdown date with a more speculative 2014 date is scarcely completed, and already that date too is being disavowed by NATO Secretary General and Afghan War enthusiast Anders Fogh Rasmussen." - bold by website editor
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68180&hd=&size=1&l=e
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America's Undeclared War on Pakistan - Clinton's Paradoxistan: Too Good to Be True  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20218
A quote...."From Islamabad Clinton triumphantly landed in Kabul for what she hailed as a “turning point” in Afghanistan: a six hour international conference that pledged $20 billion in aid and declared Afghan security forces would assume command of all provinces by 2014. The choreography went off as planned, which of course is the point when the show is too good to be true. -- Like a bridge, errors in one part of the span expose other flaws and threaten to bring the entire structure down with it."
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Iran Accuses Washington, London and Tel Aviv of Terrorism  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20224
A quote...."Teheran -- Iran''s Islamic Revolution Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused on Wednesday the intelligence services of the United States, Great Britain and Israel of encouraging "blind terrorism" against this nation. --  Khamenei again accused the US, British and Israeli governments of being the "principal supporters" of those who carried out an attack on Thursday in Zahedan, capital of the Sistan-Baluchestan, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan."
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Iran Wants to Avoid Euro, Dollar for Oil Payments, Vice President Says
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-15/iran-may-switch-to-u-a-e-dirhams-from-euro-for-oil-sales-oil-daily-says.html
A quote...."Iran, the second-largest oil producer in OPEC, wants to “move away” from taking payment in dollars and euros for its crude exports, the country’s vice president said today as the pressure of international sanctions increase on the Persian Gulf state."
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Iranian Oil Minister Arrives in Turkey  ---  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8904310618
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Oil Minister Masoud Mir-Kazzemi arrived in Ankara to confer with Turkish officials on ways to expand bilateral relations and mutual cooperation between the two neighboring countries."
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India Looks Toward Iran  ---  http://www.raceforiran.com/india-looks-toward-iran
A quote...."Increasingly pressed by Washington’s dysfunctional Afghanistan policy and America’s high profile relationship with China, India may be moving closer to the Islamic Republic."
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Vietnam Proposes South Asian Nuclear Cooperation  ---  http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=207649&Itemid=1
A quote...."Hanoi, Jul 22 (Prensa Latina) Vietnam proposed greater electronuclear power generation among its South Asian partners on Thursday, to meet the growing energy demands of regional economic development."
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Venezuela cuts ties with Colombia  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/07/2010722153742742163.html
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Venezuela has broken off diplomatic relations with Colombia after Bogota charged that leftist guerrillas it is fighting are holed up in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has said."
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Colombia recalls envoy from Caracas  ---  http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=135801&sectionid=351020703
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Colombia has recalled its envoy to Caracas in a fresh escalation of a diplomatic row over claims that anti-Colombia leftist rebels operate in Venezuela."
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Colombian Indians Protest Military Accord with U.S.  ---  http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=360881&CategoryId=12393
A quote...."BOGOTA – Some 5,000 people, most of them Indians, marched Wednesday in downtown Bogota to protest a pact that gives U.S. soldiers greater access to Colombian military bases."
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Costa Ricans protest military pact with U.S  ---  http://peoplesworld.org/costa-ricans-protest-military-pact-with-u-s/
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."The political opposition in the Central American country of Costa Rica is raising questions about an announced agreement that would allow 7,000 U.S. troops to operate on Costa Rican soil, coordinated with 46 U.S. ships in territorial waters."
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What does Obama have planned next for Latin America?  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6145.shtml
 posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
Nothing good of course. - mpg -- A quote...."(WMR)  ---  http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/  ---  President Obama’s Latin American policy resembles more Richard Nixon’s Operation Condor and its assassinations and covert operations than President Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress and its advancement of economic progress and democracy. Obama’s reactionary Latin American policies appear to be aimed more at currying favor with south Florida’s emigré right-wing exiles from Cuba, Venezuela, and Central America than in advancing democracy in the region."
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Incurable Subservience  ---  http://ikhras.com/?p=84
A quote...."While the Zionist lobby grants approval and disapproval of US politicians based on their respective stances towards “Israel,” the yardstick for ADC’s assessment of US politicians is anything but US policy towards Arabs suffering under imperialism."
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He impersonated a human  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/he-impersonated-a-human-1.303359
A quote...."Sabbar Kashur wanted to be a person, a person like everybody else. But as luck would have it, he was born Palestinian. It happens. His chances of being accepted as a human being in Israel are nil. Married and a father of two, he wanted to work in Jerusalem, his city, and maybe also have an affair or a quickie on the side. That happens too. -- He knew that he had no chance with the Jews, so he adopted another name for himself, Dudu. He didn't have curly hair, but he went by Dudu just the same. That's how everyone knew him. That's how you know a few other Arabs too: the car-wash guy you call Rafi, the stairwell cleaner who goes by Yossi, the supermarket deliveryman you know as Moshe."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/he-impersonated-a-human/
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Sex with Jewish girl costs Arab man 18 months in Israeli jail
  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/07/22/sex-with-jewish-girl-costs-arab-man-18-months-in-israeli-jail/
RTVideo - Alt  ---  (RTYuTb - 3 min 37 sec - July 22, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."In Israel, an Arab man has been sentenced to 18 months for ‘rape by deception’. Sabbar Kashur tricked a woman into having sex with him, by claiming to be Jewish. He plans to appeal the decision. And as RT’s Paula Slier reports, even couples who choose to have interfaith relationships face hostility."
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“This Time we went too far” by Norman Finkelstein  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/26811
Book Review - A quote...."Quite simply, this is a cracker of a book and very timely. -- In explaining how Israel’s war on Gaza in 2008/9 was not the defensive action it is always painted, Norman Finkelstein recalls the 1947 UN partition of historic Palestine and remembers how, in 1957, US President Eisenhower forced Israel to withdraw from Gaza by threatening sanctions and in the 1967 war Israel re-occupied it. -- The book then takes us through the warm-up for the 2008/9 war and the subsequent whitewash." -- "This Time we went too far",  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=7of6SAAACAAJ&dq=This+Time+we+went+too+far&hl=en&ei=aFpJTNPjGojksQOKsKhJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA  ---    [GoglBkSrch]  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=7of6SAAACAAJ&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_r  ---  It appears the book is only available  ---  http://www.orbooks.com/our-books/thistime/  ---  at OrBooks  ---  http://www.orbooks.com/  ---  mpg
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Israeli paintball that KILLS  ---  http://latuff2.deviantart.com/#/d2rqbmv
Cartoon - Click to enlarge. - mpg
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Redundant but Dangerous Language   ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6142.shtml
 posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."Each time Israel fails to keep its 'side of the bargain', the Palestinian Authority responds with the same redundant language. The cycle has become so utterly predictable that one wonders why the Palestinian Authority officials even bothers protesting Israeli action. They must be well aware that their cries, genuine or otherwise, will only fall on deaf ears. They know that their complaints could not possible contribute to a paradigm shift in Israel’s behavior, or the US position on it." - also posted at Uruknet   ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68181&hd=&size=1&l=e
& PalestineChron  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16155
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Haneen Zoabi: The largest threat to democracy is Zionism  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11413.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."On 13 July, the Israeli Knesset voted by a large margin to strip the parliamentary privileges of Haneen Zoabi, a member of the Palestinian Israeli party Balad. The measure was a punishment for Zoabi's participation in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla."
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The Slow Death of Palestinian Democracy  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1492
Special Note - A quote...."Palestinian municipal elections were supposed to be held last week. Instead, they were canceled. A statement released by the Palestinian Authority claimed the cancellation was "in order to pave the way for a successful end to the siege on Gaza and for continued efforts at unity" between Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, and the government in the West Bank."
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Israel Gets Brutal With Media  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52248  ---  The Israelis are just a bunch of cowardly thugs. - mpg
Press Censorship Alert - A quote...."NABI SALAH, Occupied West Bank, Jul 23, 2010 (IPS) - Palestinian activists are being jailed, Israeli activists are under surveillance, and the Israeli military is increasingly targeting journalists who cover West Bank protests."
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Gaza's strawberries spoil under siege  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11414.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifadaPalestine+%28Electronic+Intifada+%3A+Palestine+News%29
A quote...."The northern Gaza Strip area of Beit Lahiya is famous for its agriculture. The climate, the sandy clay soil and the fresh water supply create an ideal environment for growing fruit here, and the practice has become a deeply-engrained way of life for Beit Lahiya farmers like Abdulfattah al-Khateeb, who has been growing strawberries here for more than 25 years. Although the Gaza Strip is amongst the most densely-populated places on earth, here luscious green fields spread out in vast tracts. Yet it is clear that as Abdulfattah gazes out onto his land his minds is troubled: Abdulfattah's concern is unique in that it is not with growing his crops, but rather whether his crops will be able to reach the market once they are grown."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gazas-strawberries-spoil-under-siege/
For more on this issue see.... Israel's Scorched Earth  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israelsscorchedearth-weblist-mpg-022510
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Two dead and four children injured in Israeli nail bomb attack in Beit Hanoun, Gaza  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/07/13159/?utm_source=feedburner&
utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
Special Note - A quote...."“She came in through and it wasn’t clear she was injured. Suddenly a lot of blood came from her nose and she vomited. All of the family saw this – her little brothers were very scared. She had just been playing in the front of the house.”"
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Palestinian Children Under Occupation  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/index.php?option=
com_content&view=article&id=6767:palestinian-children-under-occupation&catid=67:editorials&Itemid=138
A quote...."July 22, (Pal Telegraph – By Stephen Lendman) The Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations is a Beirut, Lebanon-based organization engaged in "strategic and futuristic studies on the Arab and Muslim worlds, (emphasizing) the Palestinian issue." In July 2010, it published the latest in its "Am I Not a Human?" series titled, "The Suffering of the Palestinian Child under the Israeli Occupation," saying:"
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Israel intensifies West Bank Palestinian home demolitions
  ---  http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/israel-intensifies-west-bank-palestinian-home-demolitions-2010-07-21
A quote...."Amnesty International has today called on the Israeli authorities to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and other buildings in the West Bank, after a further 74 were destroyed in the Jordan Valley earlier this week."
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Israel Destroyed Gaza - Google Piks  ---  http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=
1G1GGLQ_ENUS285&q=israel%20destroyed%20gaza&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1260&bih=498
Photo Search List. - They say a picture is worth a thousand words, how about a thousand pictures.  You do the math. - mpg
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Keiser Report №62: Markets! Finance! Scandal!  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/0/tPOGc5DhUD4
Must View Video - RTMKVideo  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPOGc5DhUD4  ---  (RTMKYuTb - 26 min 17 sec - July 22, 2010) - Source:  MKTV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  & RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote.... "This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert look at the latest scandals with stolen credits and the debt in Europe. In the second half of the show, Max talks to his guest Gregor MacDonald about the role of energy in US economy."
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Europe freezes out Goldman Sachs  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jul/18/goldman-sachs-europe-sovereign-bond-sales
Must Read - Related Article - A quote...."European governments are turning their backs on Goldman Sachs, the all-conquering investment bank that has suffered a series of blows to its reputation, capped by the biggest ever fine imposed on a Wall Street firm."
For more on the two articles shown above see....The First Salvos of the Currency Wars - 05-07-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thefirstsalvosofthecurrencywars-mpg-reficultnias-050710
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Gerald Celente: Wall Street Boys run the show, only Ron Paul has firm grasp
  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/07/22/gerald-celente-wall-street-boys-run-the-show-only-ron-paul-has-firm-grasp/
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw8KrHkpr_8  ---  (RtYuTb - 3 min 29 sec - July 22, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."U.S. President Barack Obama has signed into law the biggest financial overhaul since the Great Depression. The main goal is to prevent another economic crisis. Meanwhile, Gerald Celente, the director of the Trends Research Institute, argued that the banks and Wall Street approve of this bill because it is a white wash. “It does nothing to prevent the coming crash of 2010. The bigs only got bigger,” he told RT."
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Why Not Another World War?  ---  http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1025
A little light humor, from Peter Schiff, and he has an economic point to make too. - mpg  -- A quote...."Once new armies have been drafted and properly outfitted with harmless weaponry, our two countries could stage exciting war games. Perhaps the US could mount an amphibious invasion of Kamchatka (just like in Risk!). As far as the destruction goes, let's just bring in Pixar and James Cameron. With limitless funds from Washington, these Hollywood magicians could surely produce simulated mayhem more spectacular than Pearl Harbor or D-Day. The spectacle could be televised — with advertising revenue going straight to the government. -- The competition could be extended so that the winner of the pseudo-conflict could challenge another country to an all-out fake war. I'm sure France or Italy wouldn't mind putting a few notches in the 'win' column. The stimulus could be never-ending."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/07/22/why-not-another-world-war-peter-schiff/
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U.S. Rescue May Reach $23.7 Trillion, Barofsky Says (Update3)
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aY0tX8UysIaM
From the History File - July 20, 2009 15:01 - (Just a reminder.) - A quote...."July 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program." - By now it's most assuredly at least thirty trillion in back-stops, guarantees and actual pay-outs. - mpg
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Jobless Claims in U.S. Increase More Than Economists Forecast to 464,000
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-22/unemployment-claims-in-u-s-increase-more-than-forecast-to-464-000.html
A quote...."Initial jobless claims jumped by 37,000 to 464,000 in the week ended July 17, exceeding the highest estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The survey median projected claims would climb to 445,000. The number of people receiving unemployment insurance and those getting extended payments dropped." - bold by website editor
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US jobless claims, housing data point to worsening economy  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/econ-j23.shtml
A quote...."Reports issued Thursday on initial claims for unemployment benefits and sales of previously owned homes confirm that the US economy is slowing dramatically."
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