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Editor's note : From now on each daily blog 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
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Saturday August 4th 2007 - links page
Stock Market Meltdown   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18119.htm
Must Read - War Warning - A quote...." The American people know intuitively that something is fundamentally wrong with the economy. They just don’t know the details or the extent of the damage. Decades of neoliberal policies have inflated the currency, broadened the wealth gap, and destroyed manufacturing. Workers can no longer buy the things they produce because wages have stagnated through a stealth campaign of inflation which originated at the Federal Reserve. When wages shrink, prices eventually fall from overcapacity and the economy slips into a deflationary cycle. This downward spiral ultimately ends in depression. So far, that's been avoided because of the Fed’s massive expansion of cheap credit. But that won’t last."

"Economic policy is not “accidental”. The Fed’s policies were designed to create a crisis, and that crisis was intended to coincide with the activation of a nation-wide police-state. It is foolish to think that Greenspan or his fellows did not grasp the implications of the system they put in place. These are very smart men and very shrewd economists. They knew exactly what they were doing. They all understand the effects of low interest rates and expanded money supply...."  - bold/italics by web site author

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

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

For more on this see....Standard Disclaimer  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207
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9/11 - From The History File...German firm probes final World Trade Center deals
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/german_firm_probes_final_world_trade_center_deals.htm
CIA Exe. Dir. "Buzzy" Krongard managed firm that handled "put" options on UAL
  ---  http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_09_01_krongard.html
Profits of Death Part I-- Insider Trading and 9-11
  ---  http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/12_06_01_death_profits_pt1.html
Profits of Death Part II -- Trading with the Enemy
  ---  http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/12_11_01_death_profits_pt2.html
Profits of Death Part III - All Roads Lead to Deustchebank and Harken Energy
  ---  http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/01_09_02_death_profits_pt3.html
Feds: Ex-Agent Had Key Data
  ---  http://prisonplanet.com/Ex_Agent_Had_Key_Data.htm
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Constant Craven: Democrats Go Belly-Up Again
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Constant_Craven%3A_Democrats_Go_Belly-Up_Again/
Must Read - A quote...."I had it in mind to write an angry piece denouncing the Congressional Democrats for their latest sell-out to the Bush Tyranny, legitimizing a warrantless spy program so blatantly illegal that not even the rubber-stamps of the super-secret FISA court could stomach it. But upon reflection, I don't see any point in yet another thunderous blast at these moral cretins masquerading as political leaders."

Democrats' responsibility for Bush radicalism  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/08/04/democrats/index.html
Must Read - Related article - A quote...."It is staggering, and truly disgusting, that even in August, 2007 -- almost six years removed from the 9/11 attacks and with the Bush presidency cemented as one of the weakest and most despised in American history -- that George W. Bush can "demand" that the Congress jump and re-write legislation at his will, vesting in him still greater surveillance power, by warning them, based solely on his say-so, that if they fail to comply with his demands, the next Terrorist attack will be their fault. And they jump and scamper and comply (Meteor Blades has the list of the 16 Senate Democrats voting in favor; the House will soon follow)."

Dems in Senate Once Again Enable Bush and Cheney to Spy on Us: The GOP Three-Pronged [Attack]  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorials/152
Related article - A quote...."Bush is as low in the polls as a president has historically gone. He and Cheney are one door away from being nailed with multiple counts of illegal activity – and that’s just from what is visible to us at this time. God knows what is still hidden below the tip of the iceberg.  -  Amidst this sordid unraveling of a corrupt administration that is intent on destroying democracy and the Constitution, the Democrats in the Senate give Bush more legal power to spy on us!  -  This is democracy committing suicide."

The United States Of America Is Dead  ---  http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1632
Related article - A quote...."The Constitution and Bill of Rights are dead. Incredibly, just as was the case when Rome's Senate voted to make Caesar the Emperor, the United States' Senate voted to surrender the rights and liberties of every American citizen. By a margin of 60-28, the Democratic-led Senate gave George W. Bush the unconstitutional authority to spy, without warrant, on whomever he chooses. That includes U.S. citizens, but everyone is pretending that isn't the case."

Democrats Revert to Form  ---  http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/080307Lindorff.shtml
Related article - A quote...."Democrats in Congress, still in full cowering mode, are about to hand the most unpopular president in the history of polling even more power to spy, unchecked, on Americans, despite clear evidence that the president has abused that power for the last six years, and despite his refusal to even answer questions about what those abuses have been to date."

The Dems Disheartening Cave to Bush on FISA  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_andrew_b_070804_the_dems_dishearteni.htm
Red War Warning - Related artilce - A quote...." It seems clear that the Democrats are terribly frightened of getting in the way of the administration on anything that can be used by the Rovian propagandists to blame them for any kind of future disaster, however flimsy and unfounded that blame might be.' - bold/italics by website author

The DemoRepubs know, they really truly do know....what's coming.

The item "Restore the FISA Act",  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act  ---  was act number four (#4) on the Thirty Four Acts to Restore Americans' Rights.  --    The craven DemoRepubs have not only failed to condemn Bush for illegally violating FISA....they have now (after the fact) given him their sanction and blessing to continue his criminal activities.

The DemoRepubs violation of the US constitution is now
Act thirty five (#35) on  Thirty Five Acts to Restore Americans' Rights.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/seventeenacts-blog-mpg-111006  ---  mpg

For another interesting interpretation on this entire fiasco read the piece below....
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Blinded by the Story: Liberals and Progressives as Political Creationists  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/08/blinded-by-story-liberals-and.html
Related article - A quote...."The vanishingly small number of Americans who genuinely desire liberty and peace, and who also understand what those great values require in terms of both political theory and political reality, have desperately grasped at any sign, no matter how miniscule, that a sufficient number of their fellow citizens might awake in time to prevent the ultimate catastrophe. There is no reason of any significance to find such signs any longer.  -  Americans now reside in the Land of the Living Dead. For the moment, the dim, blurred forms of a constitutional republic remain, but they are entirely empty and drained of life and vitality. We continue to go through the meaningless rituals of elections, many of us trying to convince ourselves that one party might be even a slight improvement over the other."

The Deepening Criminal Cover-Up of Ohio’s Stolen 2004 Election  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/04/2976/
A quote...."The illegal destruction of federally protected 2004 election materials by 56 of 88 Ohio counties has become a fraudulent “dog ate my homework” farce of absurd justifications and criminal coverups.  -  The mass elimination of the critical evidence that could definitively prove or disprove the presumption that the 2004 election was stolen has all the markings of a Rovian crime perpetrated to hide another one. Indeed, under Ohio law, that’s precisely what must be presumed here."

Truthdigger of the Week:  California Secretary of State Debra Bowen
  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070804_truthdigger_of_the_week_california_secretary_of_state_debra_bowen/
A quote...."Truthdig tips its hat this week to California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who did her constituency proud by heading off potential voting disasters in her state by ruling out the use of Diebold and Sequoia direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems in upcoming elections, with exceptions made for disabled voters."

Bush’s Executive Order on Lebanon Even Worse than the One on Iraq  ---  http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx080307
A quote...."George W. Bush is churning out executive orders and Presidential directives just as fast as Dick Cheney’s lawyers can fill up yellow legal pads.  -  The power that he is asserting—no, grabbing—with these executive orders is astonishing and alarming. Such power imperils our liberties and our democratic system of government."

Um, a brand spanking new Executive Order from the Dictator...  ---  http://www.atlargely.com/2007/08/um-a-brand-span.html#more
The actual order. - mpg
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The Secret Behind the Sanctions - How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0808-07.htm
Must Read - From the history file - posted at ICH - A quote....Over the last two years, I've discovered documents of the Defense Intelligence Agency proving beyond a doubt that, contrary to the Geneva Convention, the U.S. government intentionally used sanctions against Iraq to degrade the country's water supply after the Gulf War. The United States knew the cost that civilian Iraqis, mostly children, would pay, and it went ahead anyway.  -  The primary document, "Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities," is dated January 22, 1991. It spells out how sanctions will prevent Iraq from supplying clean water to its citizens."

In Iraq, a Perilous Alliance With Former Enemies  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080407A.shtml
A quote...."American generals insist they are not creating militias. In contracts with the U.S. military, the sheiks are referred to as "security contractors." Each of their "guards" will receive 70 percent of an Iraqi policeman's salary. U.S. commanders call them "concerned citizens," evoking suburban neighborhood watch groups."

For more on the two articles shown above, see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707

See also....Hersh: Bush Funneling Money to al Qaeda-Related Groups
  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022607A.shtml
See also....The Redirection
  ---  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/05/070305fa_fact_hersh
See also....Fanning the flames of sectarian strife in Iraq
  ---  http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/2007/6/14/columnists/midweek/18021850&sec=Midweek
See also....U.S. Weighed Sunni Offer to 'Clean Up' Militias
  ---  http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=564
See also....Bush administration embarks on reckless new tactic in Iraq
  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jun2007/iraq-j13.shtml
See also....US confirms it is arming Sunni insurgents
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_confirms_it_arming_Sunni_insurgents_0610.html
See also....Saudis Say They Might Back Sunnis if U.S. Leaves Iraq
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/13/world/middleeast/13saudi.html?ei=5088&en=bc82ffad82cc8d53&ex=1323666000&pagewanted=all
See also....The New Turn - Washington's Orwellian foreign policy maneuver
  ---  http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11379
See also....Bush Keeps Israel Close, Saudi Arabia Closer
  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070731_scheer_saudi_arms_deal/
See also....US arms for Arab authoritarians - again
  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH01Ak01.html

And finally....The CONversation - 09-04-06 - MPG
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/theconversation-blog-mpg-090406
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Top Iraq MP: No oil law under occupation  ---  http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/90037.html
A quote...." BAGHDAD, Aug. 3 -- A top member of the Iraqi prime minister's party says a law governing oil reserves should be delayed until occupation forces leave the country.  -  Ali al-Adeeb, a senior member of the Dawa Party and a member of Iraq's Parliament, also said the Iraq National Oil Co. should take the lead in developing and managing Iraq's discovered but undeveloped oil, the Al Sabah newspaper reports." - bold/italics by website author

Translation : To Bush -- "F-ck you and your PNAC'ing, Neocon, cronies....you ain't getting OUR oil under the barral of a gun." - mpg
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British Helicopters Bombard Oil Establishment  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m35088&s1=h1
A quote...."A huge fire broke out Saturday morning in an oil reservoir of the State Company for Oil Products in Muftiya central district of Basra, due to aerial bombardment by British helicopters."

A Win in the Water War  ---  http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3282/a_win_in_the_water_war/
A quote...."Stockton, Calif., residents have stopped one multinational company from taking over their water system, but other localities remain threatened"

Bardawil warns Abbas of any military adventure against Hamas  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m35078&s1=h1
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- MP Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil, the spokesman of Hamas's parliamentary bloc, has warned PA chief Mahmoud Abbas of attempting to use force against Hamas and other opposition factions.  -  Bardawil, in a press release, said that Hamas represents 60% of the Palestinian people and could not be wiped out in any military adventure.  -  The lawmaker, commenting on the 80 million dollars extended by the USA to Abbas to boost his security forces, said that American secretary of state Condoleezza Rice was the one that urged Abbas not to open dialogue with Hamas and to use force against it."

A new scapegoat  ---  http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/dilip_hiro/2007/07/desperate_bush.html
A quote...."Having relentlessly demonised Iran and Syria for the endless chaos and mayhem in Iraq, the Bush administration has now discovered another scapegoat in the region: Saudi Arabia, a close ally of the United States through thick and thin since 1943."

See also....US Support of Terror  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
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Thousands march to denounce Brazil gov't
  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.miamiherald.com%2Fnews%2Fworld%2FAP%2Fstory%2F193067.html
A quote...."SAO PAULO, Brazil --Thousands of Brazilians marched in South America's biggest city on Saturday to denounce President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government as corrupt and indifferent.  -  Police estimated that about 3,000 demonstrators participated in the march down Sao Paulo's skyscraper-lined Avenida Paulista. Smaller demonstrations were staged in the capital of Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba."

Bolivian peasants promised 30 million hectares of land  ---  http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=11041&formato=HTML
A quote...."Bolivian president Evo Morales signed Thursday a decree which further advances his controversial “agrarian revolution” of expropriation of idle land to distribute among the aboriginal population and which is strongly resisted by business sectors."

Chavez again to the rescue of Argentina’s financial woes  ---  http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=11042&formato=HTML
A quote...."“Every time we’ve needed him, he’s been there. Chavez has always collaborated and purchased Argentine sovereign bonds”, said Fernandez. “When the international financial organizations were not behind Argentina, he (Chavez) was always there”, he added.  -  In the last two years Venezuela has purchased 4.2 billion US dollars in Argentine dollar nominated bonds, usually at crucial moments for the President Nestor Kirchner administration, but later re-circulated most of the bonds. - bold/italics by website author

Goes to show whatever the finance minister is in Venezuela, he's not stupid.  Hopefully Argentina isn't spending beyond it's means, after all the US sure is, and if all the South American countries aren't really careful, and quickly form their OWN economic union in a few months and unhook themselves from the dollar, they'll soon be hearing (and experiencing) that giant sucking sound from the North as the US economy goes through a rather large contraction phase of the business cycle.- mpg
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[British] Police may be given power to take DNA samples in the street  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,,2139674,00.html
A quote...."The Home Office is considering giving the police the power to take a DNA sample on the street, without taking the suspect to a police station, as well as taking samples from suspects in relatively minor offences such as littering, speeding or not wearing a seat belt."

Russian flag on Arctic seabed  ---  http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20070803/70310500.html
Photo gallery - you'll need good bandwidth to view them. - mpg

Friday August 3rd 2007 - links page

 Married to the Mob: Only Impeachment Will Get America a Divorce  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorials/151
A quote...."Last week, we were watching the original "Godfather" film on cable television, and – being BuzzFlash – we couldn’t keep our head from popping with political analogies.  -  BuzzFlash was – on an ongoing basis – one of the first websites, back in 2001, to compare the Bush and Cheney administration to an organized crime family. At that time, we were generally dismissed by the mainstream media as kooks.  -  Now, even some mainstream columnists and editorial boards have started to realize that the concept of the Busheviks functioning like the mob is not an analogy pushed to the extreme."
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Hillary's Nuclear 'Tough-Gal-ism'  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/080307.html
A quote...."For years now – arguably for decades – the dominant ideology of Washington has been what could be called “tough-guy-ism,” which usually consists of politicians and pundits competing for the most belligerent pose on any given foreign policy issue."

Less than two days after "bombs away O-Bomb-a"  --  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Bomber_Obama%3A_My_Own_Personal_Terror_War/
came out of the closet and demonstrated he's been a PNAC'ing Neocon clone all this time, so did
"Hideous (the mad rabbit) Hillary".  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/hideoushillary-mpg-080107  ---  A vote for either of these two clowns is not only a wasted vote....it's liable to get allot more people killed. - mpg

For more on this see.....

Pakistani Protests against Obama; Clinton leaves Nukes on the Table;  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2007/08/pakistani-protests-against-obama.html
  --  Tancredo an Inspiration to the Criminally Insane that They, Too, Could run for President  -- 
Some quotes...."I really think the Democrats are misunderstanding the mood of the American people. Is Senator Clinton saying she would entertain the option of nuking Pakistan or Afghanistan? "  -  "Pakistan, by the way, is a) an ally, b) a nuclear power in its own right, c) a major Muslim country of 160 million, the population of which will soon equal that of the United States, and d) an opinion leader among other Muslim states. Most Pakistanis are not fundamentalists but rather Sufis, traditionalists, mild reformists or secularists. Or at least that is the case now. If US presidential candidates push them to the wall, they can after all decide to turn radical."
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Top US general says he's received plan for complete Iraq withdrawal  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/NBC_gets_preview_of_Iraq_withdrawal_0802.html
A quote...."MSNBC's Hardball reported Wednesday that Defense Secretary Robert Gates was recently "in Kuwait, scoping out what will at some point be a critical staging ground for a US exit plan from Iraq."  -  According to correspondent Jim Miklaszewski, "Military officials in Kuwait suggest that they could easily handle the 160,000 troops in a matter of months. But that would be extremely risky, because a hasty retreat would increase the troops' vulnerability to attack. And then there's all that equipment – one million tons – that would have to be driven out of Iraq and shipped out of Kuwait by sea. ... It could take two years for a complete withdrawal."

The calamity of disregard  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2141372,00.html
A quote...."In the run-up to war, senior British security and intelligence officials as well as diplomats made it clear that they were strongly opposed to the invasion of Iraq - though not clear enough. Why now, why Iraq, they asked; it would merely increase the terrorist threat, as the joint intelligence committee warned ministers less than a month before British troops and bombers joined the US attack on the country. Concern in Whitehall was shared by some perspicacious Americans, including General Tony Zinni, the former head of US central command, which is responsible for operations throughout the Middle East. He called it the wrong war, fought in the wrong place, at the wrong time."

Hezbollah vows not to use arms against Lebanese foes
  ---  http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=070803203621.8jl1dxl6&cat=null
A quote...."Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday his party was ready for a settlement of the political crisis in Lebanon, vowing that his militant group would not use its arms to resolve the issue.  -  "We are ready for a settlement internally," said Nasrallah, the charismatic Shiite leader who has been spearheading the Syrian and Iranian-backed opposition against the pro-Western government.  -  Lebanon has been in deep political crisis since November when six pro-Syrian ministers, including five Shiites, stepped down from the government, demanding the formation of a cabinet with greater representation."

MY GOD !! Those Hezbollah monsters are at it again,  in only five short years after killing upwards of a million Lebanese, internally displacing two million more, driving another two million out of the country, devastating the nations entire infrastructure, it's hospitals, roads, schools, training death squads for the government and getting their "friends" to supply the oppositional fundamentalist Jihadists in a policy that has led to a four year sectarian struggle splitting the country in two and causing  tens if not hundreds of deaths a day….these cretins are now offering over SIXTY THREE BILLION DOLLARS of arms to all comers in the region....and these monsters have the chutzpah to say they'er not going to use arms!!!

Can you believe the hypocrisy, the utter gall, the.....oh so sorry....got the wrong party and country.....it actually turns out it was the United States which has done all these things to Iraq.

Well that's all right than....never mind. – mpg
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Antiwar voices aren’t necessarily pro-peace  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2264.shtml
Must Read - A quote...."In most countries that come to mind, there seems to be a very strong direct correlation between being antiwar and being pro-peace. Not in the United States.  -  In our America, being antiwar has little correlation with being pro-peace. It seems that much of the antiwar sentiment is more an anti “how the war is being conducted” with little or no moral basis or consideration to the universal concept of peace. It was true during the Vietnam War years and it is true today, as America resolutely pursues its imperial destiny.

Japanese government suffers major defeat in upper house elections  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/japa-a04.shtml
A quote...."The defeat of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in upper house elections on July 29 is a serious political blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who took office just 10 months ago. The result revealed widespread hostility toward Abe’s agenda of reviving Japanese militarism, backing the US “war on terror” and implementing regressive economic and social policies."

So Why Hasn’t Iran Started by Wiping Its Own Jews Off the Map?  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/cook08032007.html
A quote...."Iran is the new Nazi Germany and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the new Hitler. Or so Israeli officials have been declaring for months as they and their American allies try to persuade the doubters in Washington that an attack on Tehran is essential. And if the latest media reports are to be trusted, it looks like they may again be winning the battle for hearts and minds: Vice-President Dick Cheney is said to be diverting the White House back on track to launch a military strike."

SCO is primed and ready to fire  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/IH04Ag01.html
A quote...."It may seem improbable that a regional cooperation organization commences its annual summit against the backdrop of military exercises. The European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the African Union, the Organization of Latin American States - none of them has ever done that.  -  Therefore, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is indeed making a very big point by way of holding its large-scale military exercises from August 9-17. The SCO is loudly proclaiming to the international community that there is no "vacuum" in Central Asia's strategic space that needs to be filled by security organizations from outside the region."

Distrusting the Russians (Again)  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4442
A quote...."With elections in Russia fast approaching, relations with the West are deteriorating drastically. Three recent events highlight this downward trend. The most dramatic has been the failure of the United States and Russia to compromise on anti-missile defense (AMD). Reflecting months-long tensions, the latest round of talks in Maine between President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended with U.S. insistence on setting up a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic."

Dems Complicit in Bush Power Grab  ---  http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx080107
A quote...."unbelievably, the Democratic leadership in Congress seems about to cave in to Bush and grant him, of all things, more power to spy on Americans.  -  This, even as Alberto Gonzales continues to dissemble about the spying that has already been going on."

Democrats back down on ending tax windfall for hedge-fund billionaires  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/hedg-a04.shtml
A quote...."In a clear demonstration of their subservience to Wall Street, Senate Democrats have pulled back from proposals to end a huge tax loophole for the wealthiest financial speculators—the billionaires who operate hedge funds and private equity firms."

Expert Suspiciously Reverses Stance On Doctored Al-Qaeda Tapes  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/030807_reverses_stance.htm
A quote...."After unwittingly exposing the fact that IntelCenter, a private intelligence group made up of Pentagon affiliated ex-spooks, was doctoring and releasing so-called Al-Qaeda propaganda tapes, computer expert Neal Krawetz has now suspiciously reversed his position, despite the fact that he appeared on camera and re-affirmed his research when directly asked."

White House again denies DeFazio's information request  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/030807_reverses_stance.htm
War Warning - A quote...."WASHINGTON -- The White House formally declined Rep. Peter DeFazio's request to view the classified portion of a plan to operate the government after a catastrophe."

In mock 'interview,' Jay Leno, Dick Cheney discuss meeting with the [Nameless One]
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/In_mock_interview_Jay_Leno_Dick_0803.html
Must View - A quote...."Jay Leno had some fun with footage from Dick Cheney's recent interview on CNN in a segment on The Tonight Show this week.  -  For a comedy bit, Leno aired humorous questions before Cheney's responses to CNN host Larry King. The Tonight Show gag produced some exchanges that some of Cheney's fiercest critics would perhaps not find all that unbelievable.  -  "Mr. Vice President, is it true you know the [Nameless One], personally," Leno "asks" Cheney.

Ha, ha....it won't be so funny in a few months, trust this website editor on that one. - mpg
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Thursday August 2nd 2007 - links page

Why Is Half Of Iraq In Absolute Poverty ?  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18104.htm
Must Read - A quote...."Why?   -   Yes why?   -   What for?   -   What does it say about you? What does it say about your countries? What does it say about your institutions? What does it say about your governments, your "culture", your "civilization", your history, your "progress", your "values", your concepts...?"

No matter the reasons we went to Iraq  ---  http://muckrakerreport.com/id480.html
Related Article - A quote...."August 2, 2007 – Does it matter why the United States invaded Iraq?  According to Senator Lindsey Graham, it does not.  In his editorial titled U.S. should move ahead in Iraq, which appeared in the July 24, 2007 edition of Charleston, South Carolina’s daily newspaper, the Post & Courier, Graham wrote:...."
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Why Oblivion Looms for Abbas  ---  http://tonykaron.com/2007/07/31/why-oblivion-looms-for-mahmoud-abbas/
Must Read - A quote...."Guest Column: Mark Perry offers 10 reasons why Hamas, rather than Abu Mazen and his U.S. backers will prevail in the struggle for Palestinian hearts and minds. The Islamists today represent the Palestinian mainstream, while Fatah is broken from top to bottom. Even more importantly, Abbas is increasingly isolated within his own organization, most of whose grassroots and mid-level leadership want nothing to do with the U.S. schemes on which Abbas has staked his future."
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Why does Saudi Arabia need military aid?   ---  http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/mark_steel/article2823071.ece
Must Read - Satire - "Here's something they sneaked out this week with hardly anyone noticing - the Americans have announced a "military aid package" of sixty billion dollars for their allies in the Middle East. Or, to be grammatically correct, sixty billion, that's sixty thousand million bastard dollars!!!"

Raw Story: US has been covertly arming Gulf States since 2004, officials say  ---  http://www.atlargely.com/2007/08/raw-story-us-ha.html
Related Article - A quote...."Since 1990, Saudi Arabia has spent over $39.6 billion in arming itself against both the threat of Iran and the growing likelihood of a domestic uprising. The US has also given $300 million more in arms during that period through the State Department, making that nation the single largest client of US defense contractors."

Why is Bush wooing the Arab world?  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2258.shtml
Related Article - War Warning - A quote...."I've no proof as to what it could be but I'll take a leaf out of Michael Chertoff's, the head of US Homeland Security's book, and go with a gut feeling.  -  In a word, this is all about forming a Sunni Arab coalition as a buffer against Iran. Chertoff's gut says there will be a major terrorist attack on the US this summer.  -  If such an attack transpires, my own gut tells me it will result in the postponement of US elections, the imposition of emergency law and another US-led war."
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Analyst: Al-Qaeda Videotapes Digitally Doctored  ---  http://prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/020807tapesdoctored.htm
Must Read - A quote...."An expert computer analyst has presented evidence that so-called "Al-Qaeda" tapes are routinely digitally doctored and has also unwittingly exposed an astounding detail that clearly indicates a Pentagon affiliated organization in the U.S. is directly responsible for releasing the videos"

A new low of mindlessness for our media  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/07/31/ohanlon/index.html
A quote...."It is difficult to remember a media spectacle to match yesterday's grand pageant where Ken Pollack and Michael O'Hanlon were paraded across virtually every network and cable news show and radio program and heralded as "war opponents" and "Bush critics" who nonetheless returned from Iraq and were forced by The Truth to admit that we are Winning. For sheer deceit and propaganda, it is difficult to remember something quite this audacious and transparently false."

News Corp. Donated $2.5M to Negroponte -- Now on New Editorial Panel
  ---  http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003620661
A quote...."NEW YORK Reuters is reporting that Dow Jones didn't know that one of the people assigned to help monitor the Wall Street Journal's editorial independance runs a charity that received $2.5 million in funding from Rupert Murdoch's global media conglomerate.  -  As part of the deal to sell Dow Jones to Murdoch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Nicholas Negroponte [the younger brother
  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte of John "I love death squads" Negroponte]  ---  http://www.ww4report.com/negropontedeathsquad  ---   was selected to sit on the five-member special committee that will oversee the editorial independence of Dow Jones's news operations.  - bold/italics by website author

Phyllis Bennis and the post-modern anti-war movement  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18112.htm
A quote...."08/02/07 "The Cats Dream" -- -- It’s official. Phyllis Bennis, the spokesperson of the US peace movement, stated,  “the U.S. peace movement doesn't embrace the Iraqi resistance. Right.”

Linked to this article was a real interesting chart, see....
Foundations Fund Phony 'Left' Media - chart  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/phonyfunds4left-leftgate-chart-080207  ---   mpg
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Sunni bloc quits Iraq govt, bombs kill over 70  ---  http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01397316.htm
A quote...."Arab political bloc quit the Iraqi cabinet on Wednesday, plunging the government into crisis on a day when suicide bombers killed more than 70 people with massive strikes in the capital."

Good news from Baghdad at last: the oil law has stalled  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2140691,00.html
A quote...."....the administration - particularly the vice-president, Dick Cheney - and the oil lobby are enraged that the oil law is stalled. The main reason is not that the Iraqi government and parliament are a lazy bunch of Islamist incompetents or narrow-minded sectarians, as is often implied. MPs are studying the law more carefully, and have begun to see it as a major threat to Iraq's national interest regardless of people's religion or sect.  -  This is the second bit of good news from Iraq. Civil society, trade unions, professional oil experts and the media are stirring on the oil issue and putting their points across to parliament in the way democracy is meant to work. The oil unions have held strikes even at the risk of having leaders and members arrested."

It simply means Cheney, the Bushists and the MIOC elites will unleash more terror and death squads throughout Iraq.

They should get a grip on reality, get a grip on themselves, find what little conscience and what few shreds (if any) of dignity they still possess, come to the conclusion that it's the Iraqis' land and it's the Iraqis' oil, that it belongs to them, and simply GET OUT !!! - mpg

See also....The Second Treatise of Civil Government 1690 : -- *John Locke* - 1632-1704 - a quote
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/johnlocke-quote-080207
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Iraq: Saudi princes support MKO  ---  http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/august2007/010807MKO.htm
A quote...."Iraq's National Security Counselor has disclosed that Saudi Arabian princes provide financial support to an anti-Iran terrorist group in Iraq.  -  In interview with Al-Alam TV channel on Tuesday, Fazel al-Shavili said that the Iraqi government has found concrete documents implying that Saudi princes pay a monthly $30 million to the armed terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO)."

Poll: Support for Musharraf Plummets  ---  http://www.usadaily.com/article.cfm?articleID=39835
A quote...."President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, already battling surging violence and a political crisis of his own making, got more bad news Wednesday from a rare public opinion poll in Pakistan.  -  Support for Musharraf, a key U.S. ally in the fight against terrorism, has plummeted this year and almost two-thirds of respondents said he should quit, according to the poll by the International Republican Institute, a Washington-based group that has Republican lawmakers and officials among its directors and senior staff. - bold/italics by website author

Do the Republicans want Musharraf out because he's not doing enough against al-Qaeda, or do they want him out because he's not doing enough against the Pushton tribes and the Taliban? - mpg
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Paraguay: A Laboratory for Latin America’s New Militarism  ---  http://www.coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=2021
A quote...."Two soldiers in Paraguay stand in front of a camera. One of them holds an automatic weapon. John Lennon’s "Imagine" plays in the background. This Orwellian juxtaposition of war and peace is from a new video posted online by US soldiers stationed in Paraguay. The video footage and other military activity in this heart of the continent represent a new style of militarism in Latin America."

See also....Dark Armies, Secret Bases, and Rummy, Oh My!
  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/2939
See also....We Hate To Bring Up the Nazis, But They Fled To South America, Too
  ---  http://wonkette.com/politics/george-w%27-bush/we-hate-to-bring-up-the-nazis-but-they-fled-to-south-america-too-208549.php
See also....U.S. military presence in Paraguay - Source Watch
  ---  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._military_presence_in_Paraguay
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[Hillary] Clinton Takes Over $20,000 In Fox News Donations  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3917
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) - John Edwards criticized Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday for taking more than $20,000 in donations from News Corp. officials, arguing that the company's Fox News Channel has a right-wing bias and Democrats should avoid the company."

Bush Abolishes Fourth Amendment  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3918
A quote...."George W. Bush has continued his efforts to destroy the United States Constitution and transform the office of the President into a dictatorship."

Democrats Scrambling to Expand Eavesdropping
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/washington/01nsa.html?ei=5090&en=f84a7e561028490e&
  ---  ex=1343620800&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1186103132-Nl3jZoeaCu0qqjQ2qd7a4w
A quote...."WASHINGTON, July 31 — Under pressure from President Bush, Democratic leaders in Congress are scrambling to pass legislation this week to expand the government’s electronic wiretapping powers."

So much for the "Thirty Four Acts to Restore Americans' Rights" - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/seventeenacts-blog-mpg-111006
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Bush's Secret Spying on Americans  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/080207.html
A quote...."The dispute over whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales committed perjury when he parsed words about George W. Bush’s warrantless surveillance program misses a larger point: the extraordinary secrecy surrounding these spying operations is not aimed at al-Qaeda, but at the American people."

DC Pays $1 Million to Demonstrators   ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080207T.shtml
A quote...."Washington - The District of Columbia has agreed to pay $1 million to about 120 protesters who were improperly rounded up by police during demonstrations against the invasion of Iraq, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund."

DU Health Hazards Downplayed - posted at American Free Press  ---  http://www.americanfreepress.net/
  ---  http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/du_health.html
A quote...."DU clean-up expert Dr. Doug Rokke, a Vietnam and Gulf War veteran who did not attend the Dallas program but has attended other committee meetings, responded to Haley’s claims by saying that the immediate DU-exposure testing needed within 24 hours of contact with DU residue “was deliberately delayed and denied” during wartime. So 15 to 16 years later, the direct evidence of DU exposure in Gulf War I is gone, but the long-term health effects from DU, including cancers and myriad other problems, are still affecting many veterans.  -  “Respiratory problems and rashes appear right away [with DU exposure],” Rokke said. Later comes lung cancer and other illnesses."

Antiwar Radio: Charles Goyette Interviews Karen Kwiatkowski  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/08/01/karen-kwiatkowski-2/
Interview - A quote...."Ret. Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski Ph.D discusses the “good news” about people waking up to the corruption of the American Empire and its threat to our liberty, the mysterious death of Pat Tillman, her time observing the necons lie us into war in Iraq from her desk at Near East South Asia at the Pentagon in the run up to war and her take on the surge."

Singapore courts the sheikhs  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IH03Ae01.html
A quote...."SINGAPORE - Singapore is bidding to position itself at the center of growing diplomatic and business ties between the Middle East and East Asia, a state-led strategy aimed at enhancing the city-state's standing as a regional finance and energy hub."

The Arab states are starting to invest all those petro-dollars elsewhere, you know, in countries that want to conduct respectful trade with each other; countries that obey the international norms and laws that have been established to promote such trade and peaceful relations.  Countries that don't routinely practice the mass slaughter, war, devastation and denigration of other nations and their peoples

You know...other countries - not the US - mpg
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After company confessed to paying terrorists, Chertoff took no action
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/After_company_confessed_to_paying_terrorists_0802.html
A quote...."At an April 24, 2003 meeting with then-assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff, a board member of banana giant Chiquita International gave a startling confession: his company was paying hundreds of thousands to a Colombian paramilitary group on the U.S. government's list of terrorist organizations."

That's Michael Chertoff the Secretary of Homeland Security....surprised?  You shouldn't be gentle reader, for more on Mr. Chertoff's predilection for "terrorists" see....Vote for Us or there WILL be another Attack - 06-07-06 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/voteforusortherewillbeanotherattack-essay-mpg-060706
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Wednesday August 1st 2007 - links page

 The New Turn - Washington's Orwellian foreign policy maneuver
  ---  http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11379
Must Read - A quote...."To understand what is going on with the $60 billion  ---  http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2819571.ece  --- 
arms deal with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and a number of small Gulf potentates – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the UAE – we have to go back to Seymour Hersh's last piece in the New Yorker, "The Redirection,"  ---  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/05/070305fa_fact_hersh?printable=true  ---   which revealed, among other things, that the U.S. is funding Sunni radical groups possibly linked to al-Qaeda
 in Lebanon  ---  http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jtsm/jtsm070330_1_n.shtml  ---   and in
 the Eastern reaches of Iran.  ---  http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/abc_news_exclus.html  ---  It's all part of a new turn in American foreign policy in the Middle East, toward the Sunni "mainstream" and away from our former Shi'ite
allies-of-convenience  ---  http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_shia_fellas  ---  in Iraq. Having
smashed   ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16407-2003Dec19?language=printer  ---  the Ba'athist regime and
handed  ---  http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4654  ---  Mesopotamia over to the Iranians, the Americans are taking a U-turn and aligning with their former enemies in readiness for the next war  ---  http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/10962352/iran_the_next_war of
"liberation"  ---  http://members.aol.com/lupinaccim/dead-iraqi-child.jpg  ---  on the neocon agenda: the battle for Iran."

Merkel Party Warns US Arms for Gulf Could Set off "Powder Keg"   ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073107N.shtml
Related article - A quote...."    Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats are worried that reported US plans to send a major arms package to Gulf states could inflame a volatile region, a party leader was quoted as saying Monday.  -   The chairman of the German parliament's foreign affairs committee, Ruprecht Polenz, told the daily Frankfurter Rundschau that the Middle East was already a "powder keg" and that an influx of weapons could set it off.  -  "If you add more explosives to a powder keg, you increase the risk and do not make the region more secure," he said."
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Bomber Obama: My Own Personal Terror War
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Bomber_Obama%3A_My_Own_Personal_Terror_War/
Must Read - "What would be the best way to pull America -- and the world -- out of the dizzying spiral of the "War on Terror," which has spread death, destruction and extremism across the globe?  -  Why, invading Pakistan, of course! Yes, sending American tanks, troops and warplanes into the only Islamic nation with a nuclear arsenal -- and a large, angry, powerful and growing fundamentalist movement to boot -- would obviously be an act of wise and prudent statecraft."

"bombs away O-bomb-a" has come out of the closet, he's been a PNAC'ing Neocon clone all this time.  Now all we need is for
 "Hideous (the mad rabbit) Hillary"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/hideoushillary-mpg-080107  ---  to come out of the closet too. - mpg

Barak Obama - Judas Goat  ---  http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/137493-Barak+Obama+-+Judas+Goat
Related article - A quote...."Cute, cuddly, harmless-looking, liberal Barack Obama. Now there's a guy to get the U.S. back on track! If he can just 'win' the primary (s)election process, and then the (s)election process after that, what's it called...oh yeah, the Presidential (s)elections, he'll bring an end to the mindless massacring of innocent civilians for profit that has come to define the "war on terror", and the American people need never again be stirred out of their mind-numbing complacency by stories of small brown children being decapitated by a brave American teenager with a .50 caliber machine gun. I mean, Viet-nam and My Lai was containable, it was successfully pitched as an "American tragedy", but this Iraq business is getting out of hand! After all, the harsh realities of war 'over there' are meant to stay 'over there', not ooze out of the carefully manipulated American daily broadsheets and into the fragile mind of the average American."
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A Very Private War  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/01/2896/
Must Read - Some quotes...."Blackwater is far from being the biggest mercenary firm operating in Iraq, nor is it the most profitable. But it has the closest proximity to the throne in Washington and to radical rightwing causes, leading some critics to label it a “Republican guard”.

And...."At present, Blackwater has forces deployed in nine countries and boasts a database of 21,000 additional troops at the ready, a fleet of more than 20 aircraft, including helicopter gun-ships, and the world’s largest private military facility - a 7,000-acre compound in North Carolina. It recently opened a new facility in Illinois (Blackwater North) and is fighting local opposition to a third planned domestic facility near San Diego (Blackwater West) by the Mexican border. It is also manufacturing an armoured vehicle (nicknamed the Grizzly) and surveillance blimps"

And...."Company executives recently announced the creation of a new private intelligence company, Total Intelligence, to be headed by Black and Richer. Blackwater executives boast that some of their work for the government is so sensitive that the company cannot tell one federal agency what it is doing for another."

READ the article above, it's scary as hell! - mpg

Outsourcing Intelligence  ---  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/hillhouse
Related article - A quote...."The unprecedented involvement of private corporations in the Iraq War has been well documented. Private soldiers working for Blackwater USA, Triple Canopy and others provide security services against military-level threats, and they regularly engage in combat. But what is not generally known is that the secret side of the Iraq War and the larger "war on terror" is also conducted by private corporations, fielding private spies. The reach of these corporations has extended into the Oval Office. Corporations are heavily involved in creating the analytical products that underlie the nation's most important and most sensitive national security document, the President's Daily Brief (PDB)."
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9/11: Rare Evidence of Controlled Demolition  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/august2007/010807Demolition.htm
A quote...." This video shows you not squibs but actual blasting charges possibly going off and
rare shots of the making of the WTC "SPIRE".

"All the video has been stabilized by me for clarity. The sound has been enhanced and syncronized."

"A must see."

See also....9/11 & It's Fallout - Videos  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&itsfallout-weblist-mpg-053007
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A Push to Rewrite Wiretap Law
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/31/AR2007073101879_pf.html
A quote...."The Bush administration is pressing Congress this week for the authority to intercept, without a court order, any international phone call or e-mail between a surveillance target outside the United States and any person in the United States."

NSA Spying Part of Broader Effort  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3907
A quote...."The Bush administration's chief intelligence official said yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001. The disclosure makes clear that a controversial National Security Agency program was part of a much broader operation than the president previously described."

No Justice, No Peace  ---  http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/14941/Iraq_Marines_Can_Get_Away_With_Killing_Civilians
A quote...."A military tribunal at Camp Pendleton, released Cpl. Trent Thomas this week without ordering him to prison, despite his conviction in the murder of an Iraqi civilian last year in Hamdaniya, Iraq.  -  Thomas is typical of most American soldiers charged with murdering Iraqi civilians.  -  In Thomas’ case, the civilian was kidnapped and murdered in cold blood."

All Fall Down  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4429
A quote...."Leave-it-to-the-market enthusiasts tell us not to worry and confidently point out that there’s been no major crisis since the Argentine bankruptcy in 2002.  -  But those who know better, like Wall Street insider and former treasury secretary Robert Rubin, are very worried even as they resist regulation. “Future financial crises are almost surely inevitable and could be even more severe. The markets are getting bigger, information is moving faster, flows are larger, and trade and capital markets have continued to integrate,” Rubin writes  ---  http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/18/cz_rl_1118bookreview.html  ---  in his book In an Uncertain World. ”It’s also important to point out that no one can predict in what area—real estate, emerging markets, or whatever else—the next crisis will occur.” A recent study  ---  http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/financialcrises.htm  ---  by the Brookings Institution confirms Rubin’s fears: there have been over 100 financial crises over the last 30 years."

Disaster looms in land built for peace and harmony  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2139715,00.html
A quote...."Politicians fear civil war as Musharraf's regime is battered by suicide attacks, civilian revolt and American threats  - Decorum was abandoned as accusations ricocheted between the wood-panelled walls of Pakistan's national assembly on Monday night. "Murderers! Murderers of innocent people!" screamed an MP from a religious party, his yellow turban shaking as he wagged a finger towards the government benches."

Mind you the US government is responsible for much of this, it's support for the Saudi Royals who have financed the madrassas in Pakistan and many Jihadists including bin Laden's followers, it's connivance with Pakistan's ISI in supporting the Taliban, it's own contributions of billions of dollars to these movements over the last twenty years not mention it's encouragement to these two governments to also contribute substantially to these groups has contributed to the potential breakdown of Pakistan’s government.

Exactly what the US elites have been planning for all along - mpg
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Iran, Nicaragua deepen links despite U.S. concerns  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN0139469120070802
A quote...."MANAGUA (Reuters) - Iranian government officials met leftist President Daniel Ortega on Wednesday for the third time this year as Nicaragua seeks help for its energy crisis in a deepening of ties with Tehran that worries the United States."

My goodness it's a frightening world out there.  The whole situation is totally perplexing, the US keeps threatening countries up to and including their nuclear annihilation while bombing invading and occupying the heck out of others, yet these people seem to resent the US.  Why?  Don't they understand we're trying to "help them"?

You think if our elites kill even more of them they'll like us better....yeah that must be it, let's invade some more countries….how about Turkey and Pakistan? - mpg
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FOX News's Rupert Murdoch and His Love of War  ---  http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1629
A quote...."It must be a wonderfully easy and pleasing existence for Murdoch. Much like the extremist Republican politicians he loves to support, Bush and Cheney most especially, Murdoch doesn't have any skin in the Iraq War disaster. Instead, he gets to sit upon the comfortable and safe throne of his multi-billion dollar media-corporation and egg on eggheads and their eggheaded policies of mass death and destruction. Indeed, what does FOX News's Murdoch care? He has the best seat in the house from which to watch the bombs fall and he never has to worry about blood being spattered on his fancy European-tailored suits."

Teens at Work  ---  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20056614/site/newsweek/
A quote...."Thousands of adolescents work as unpaid baggers in Wal-Mart’s Mexican stores. The retail giant isn’t breaking any laws—but that doesn’t mean the government is happy with the practice."

Army's 'Debt Of Service' Leaves Vets Perplexed  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=39560
A quote...."Former Army Specialist Rodriguez started getting bills for $700 for lost or damaged government property this summer. Although he was discharged some four years ago, bills recently arrived demanding payment, but giving no details on what or why -- nor do they offer a way to dispute the charges.  -  "For doing my job you're going to bill me?" Rodriguez said."

Well....he fought for the wealthy elites in this country, no doubt they feel he, and many others like him, should pay for the privilege. (although this website author never thought the elites would go THAT far) – mpg
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34 Congress Members for Impeachment
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_070801_34_congress_members_.htm
And growing every day. - mpg

Time for an Independent Counsel
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_marjorie_070801_time_for_an_independ.htm
A quote...."Congressional leaders are calling for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate possible perjury charges against Alberto Gonzales. As we saw during the Watergate scandal, the executive branch cannot be counted on to investigate itself."

Rove refuses to testify on role in prosecutor firings  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Rove_refuses_to_testify_on_role_0801.html
A quote...."White House senior adviser Karl Rove has rebuked a Senate Judiciary Committee subpoena and will not appear Thursday to testify about his role in the firing of nine US Attorneys, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said late Wednesday."
Tuesday July 31st 2007 - links page

 The Liberator  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18102.htm
Must Read - A quote...."....the U.S. printed more dollars for which there was no gold backing. But the world was content to accept those dollars for more than 25 years with little question--until the French and others in the late 1960s demanded it fulfill its promise to pay one ounce of gold for each $35 they delivered to the U.S. Treasury. This resulted in a huge gold drain that brought an end to a very poorly devised pseudo-gold standard.  On August 15, 1971, Nixon closed the gold window and refused to pay out any of the remaining 280 million ounces of gold; but not without devising a new system for the dollar hegemony to spread."

"An agreement was struck with OPEC to price oil in U.S. dollars exclusively for all worldwide transactions. This gave the dollar a special place among world currencies and in essence "backed" the dollar with oil.  In return, the U.S. promised to protect the various  oil-rich kingdoms in the Persian Gulf against threat of  invasion or domestic coup."
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Pelosi Says "No" to a New 9/11 Investigation  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3902
A quote...."Newport, Rhode Island - Reporters affiliated with WeAreChange.org and Infowars.com confronted Speaker Nancy Pelosi about a new 9/11 investigation just after the passage of the 9/11 Bill, which only increases already strict security measures, particularly in airports.  -  Pelosi rattled off a quick, "No, no, no" to the idea of a new 9/11 investigation before changing the subject...."

Wow....Prissy "take impeachment off the table" Pelosi says NO to an honest, thorough and unbiased investigation of 9/11....as well as saying NO to impeachment.

What a surprise.  one would guess it isn't just the Bushists that work with the Saudi Royals and this nation's MIOC elites. - mpg
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Bush Keeps Israel Close, Saudi Arabia Closer  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070731_scheer_saudi_arms_deal/
Must Read - A quote...."Go figure:  From the White House comes the news that self-styled anti-terrorism crusader George Bush wants to sell $20 billion in high-tech military equipment to Saudi Arabia, the source of most of the financing, and 15 of the 19 hijackers, for the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks on the United States.  The justification can’t be that this is yet another boondoggle for the military-industrial complex—the big winner in the war on terror—so we are told instead that the Sunni-dominated Saudi kingdom needs this weaponry to withstand a future challenge from those dastardly Shiite fellows in Iran."

US arms for Arab authoritarians - again  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH01Ak01.html
Related article - A quote...."WASHINGTON - Just 25 months after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denounced 60 years of US support for authoritarian governments in Arab world, she and Pentagon chief Robert Gates are on their way to the Middle East bearing arms and an uncannily familiar strategic vision to the same regimes."

War’s Not A Drumbeat Exclusive To Republican Party  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/31/2892/
A quote...."The assumption is a perfect fit for the reactionary-conservative narrative of the last half century: Republicans know national security and foreign policy. Democrats don’t. It’s also an outlandish myth. Democrats dating back to Woodrow Wilson have been the true party of warmongers and jingoes. Republicans only watched, and lately learned, and learned badly, as the experiences of the Reagan-Bush-Bush years amply show.

Pentagon announces 20K troops will rotate into Iraq  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Pentagon_to_announce_massive_continuation_of_0731.html
A quote...."The Pentagon announced Tuesday that it will rotate 20,000 into Iraq at the end of this year but denied the troops would extend President Bush's troop "surge" through next spring, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.  -  CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr reported Tuesday that a "worst case scenario" would stretch military ranks as troops leave for their 15-month rotations.  -  "They may have to reach down into the National Guard or Army reserve" to maintain the troop levels, Starr said."

Will Bush Cancel The 2008 Election?  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/31/2874/
A quote...."It is time to think about the “unthinkable.”  -  The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 election.  -  The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we don’t know.  -  But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention.  -  The real question is not how or when they might do it. It’s how, realistically, we can stop them."

An Empire Can Be Terribly Expensive  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/31/2886/
A quote...."The high-tech “shock and awe” invasion of Iraq has been a trillion dollar mistake producing little more than flag-draped coffins, 500,000 dead Iraqis, soaring national debt and global resentment. A largely unreported “benchmark” for the green zone “government” would grant various oil giants like ExxonMobil 80 percent of Iraq’s reserves with 20 percent for Iraqis. This robber-baron exploitation will require a permanent occupation as Iraq continues to resist as they did under historic British rule."

Abbas and West Bank government drop right of resistance from platform  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6431
A quote...."The prime minister of the unconstitutional PA government appointed by PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and headed by Salam Fayyad has dropped the right of the Palestinian people to resist the Israeli occupation out of its political platform."

Heh, it works!!  If you can play the various factions off against each other, and do it for long enough, you really can grind those little darkies down until they surrender.  Maybe Bush's plan for Iraq has a chance after all? - mpg

See also....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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Iraqi Oil Ministry: [i.e. The US Oil Ministry] No dealing with unions
  ---  http://www.upi.com/Energy/Briefing/2007/07/31/iraqi_oil_ministry_no_dealing_with_unions/2783
A quote...."WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) --  Iraq's Oil Ministry has directed all its agencies and departments not to deal with the country's oil unions.  -  The unions and Iraq's government, especially the prime minister and oil minister, have been at odds for months now over working conditions and the draft oil law."

How much you'wana bet some of these union leaders will soon have unfortunate "accidents" or get shot dead at security check points? - mpg
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M.I.A.: 190,000 Guns Given to Iraqi Forces
  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.wired.com%2Fdefense%2F2007%2F07%2Fmia-190000-weap.html
A quote...."Not only did Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) fail to "maintain a centralized record of all equipment distributed to Iraqi forces before December 2005."   But there's "a discrepancy of at least 190,000 weapons between data reported by the former MNSTC-I commander and the property books," too."

ASEAN favors US pullout from Iraq  ---  http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=79568
A quote...."MANILA, Philippines -- Southeast Asian nations on Monday called on the United States and other nations to pull their forces out of Iraq, saying the move would help bring the war-torn country back to normal.  -  Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) issued the call in a final statement after a day of talks at their annual meeting ahead of a regional security summit that includes the United States."

ARENA's New Crackdown on Dissent in El Salvador - Return to the Republic of Death?
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/deraymond07312007.html
Some quotes...."On July 2, the Salvadoran organization CRIPDES (Association of Rural Communities for the Development of El Salvador) planned a demonstration in Suchitoto, El Salvador, to protest a proposed privatization of the national water system. As some of the group’s leaders were approaching the town before the start of the demo, they were pulled over by a truck full of police, put to the ground and arrested. Soon, the protesters who had gathered with their signs, banners and hopes were assaulted by police in riot gear - rubber bullets and tear gas were fired into the crowd, and the streets of Suchitoto became toxic, chaotic, militarized with jeeps and the sound of helicopters." - "The Salvadoran government used the Special Law Against Acts of Terrorism, passed in September 2006, to prosecute the protesters."

Yes those dirty, crazed, fanatic terrorists are at it again....how DARE they protest for access to their water supplies, who do they think they are?  These people are disgusting and dangerous, they have to be thoroughly repressed.  If not, they might actually start to believe the streams, rivers and springs belong to them. - mpg
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In Violation of Federal Law, Ohio's 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing  ---  http://www.alternet.org/story/58328/
A quote...."In 56 of Ohio's 88 counties, ballots and election records from 2004 have been "accidentally" destroyed, despite a federal order to preserve them -- it was crucial evidence which would have revealed whether the election was stolen."

Hold On to Your Seat: America and Its Debt Based Economy
  ---  http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/hold-on-to-your-seat-america-and-its-debt-based-economy/
A quote...."Most money being made today is from the financial transactions—the interests, the fees, and the creation of new kinds of exotic financial products that parse debt and resell it. Dealing in debt is quite lucrative. None of this actually produces wealth; it merely redistributes it more and more to the people at the top who have the money to lend.  -  The seventies stagflation were produced when the government stopped printing money to pay for the Viet Nam War and will happen again when this war ends. But it may happen sooner because as the economy becomes less secure and deflation becomes an eminent threat, China, Japan and Middle Eastern oil countries that are buying that debt may decide the Euro may be a better bet. When that happens as the old saying goes, “It will be Katie bar the door” to stop the rush to the exits."

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

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

For more on this see....Standard Disclaimer
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207
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The Prospects for Fascism in America
  ---  http://socialistperspectives.blogspot.com/2006/10/prospects-for-fascism-in-america.html
Must Read - A quote...."Fascism requires a radical departure from the societal status quo, thus becoming a complicated maneuver for the elites to pull off. The Social fabric of a nation ridden with class-conflict is always delicate, especially in the turbulent economic times that fascist-orientated groups come into prominence. The difficulty increases when one considers that fascism is the expressed interests of the corporations and banks— pushing their agenda requires the rest of society take a back seat or be herded to the war front; this creates tension and revulsion, a tougher balancing act is hard to imagine. The forms these conflicts have taken in history have been numerous, mixing different doses of propaganda and repression, always yearning for that most effective of combinations. Thus far, the politicians of the US have been uninspiring chemists.  -  Undoubtedly, 9/11 proved to be a suspiciously convenient pretext for unleashing the countless fascist policies long-planned and demanded by the upper echelons ( for the sake of time, lets just say that that day was full of ‘inconsistencies’) The extremely useful propaganda that resulted from 9/11 scared enough Americans into accepting 2 ½ wars (counting Lebanon); but we have been told that more war is on the way, and the elites are clear out of maneuvers, there’re incredibly off-balance to say the least."
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Monday July 30th 2007 - links page

 Israel OK with U.S. arms sale to Saudis
  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-izarms30jul30,1,5469681.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=5&cset=true
War Warning  - A quote...."JERUSALEM — In a break from traditional Israeli opposition to U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that his country understood Washington's plan to supply state-of-the-art weapons to Riyadh as a counterweight to Iranian influence."

For more on this see.....a quote from The Litvinenko Assassination & the Flipping of Iraq
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/litvinenkomurder-blog-mpg-112406

"Considering Cheney's activity in Saudi Arabia,
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/22/AR2006112201784_pf.html
the Democrats hard line  ---  http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/11/15/falling_in_line_on_israel.php
and unwavering  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3423  ---  support for Israel, the
US's negotiations  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/us-retreat-from-iraq-t_b_34675.html  ---  with the Sunni separatists,
Al-Qaeda up[ing] anti-Iranian rhetoric  ---  http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=166946
, the US turning Afghanistan over to NATO so it can concentrate on Iran, the
pending  ---  http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/10/06/coup_in_iraq.php
Maliki  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/oct2006/iraq-o31.shtml
coup  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/23/1425227  ---  in Iraq,
Olmert's recent meeting with Bush  ---  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3327819,00.html  ---  and what is contained in the article
Killing for a civil war  ---  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/474700p-399311c.html
a quote...."Sunnis see Shiite government, not U.S., as main foe", there is a distinct possibility the US is about to finally make it's move and 'flip Iraq.'"

"What is meant by 'flipping Iraq' is that the US will finally get to align Iraq with the rest of the Middle East's geopolitical map, broadly speaking the US, Saudi Arabia, al-Qaeda  and its conservative Sunni/Wahhabist Arab allies against Iran, Hezbollah and its Shia allies."
mpg - posted 11-24-06
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[Iranian] MP Blasts Britain, US for Practicing Double Standards  ---  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8605020347
A quote...."He noted the threats posed to Iran by the al-Qaeda terrorist group and the Taliban, and said, "While Iran continues its fight against terrorist and drug trafficking groups in the region, the US and British governments have entered into talks with these terrorist groups."

Reports: Iran to buy jets from Russia  ---  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1185379034835&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
War Update - A quote...."Israel is looking into reports that Russia plans to sell 250 advanced long-range Sukhoi-30 fighter jets to Iran in an unprecedented billion-dollar deal.  -  According to reports, in addition to the fighter jets, Teheran also plans to purchase a number of aerial fuel tankers that are compatible with the Sukhoi and capable of extending its range by thousands of kilometers. Defense officials said the Sukhoi sale would grant Iran long-range offensive capabilities.

Novak: Bush considering secret military action in Turkey  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Novak_Bush_considering_secret_military_action_0730.html
A quote....A former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney is briefing lawmakers on Pentagon plans for secret military intervention in Turkey, Robert Novak reported Monday.  -  The Bush administration is considering covert military activity by U.S. Special Forces to help Turkish troops quash Kurdish guerilla fighters, who are believed to be using northern Iraq as safe-haven, according to the syndicated columnist.

OK Folks, let's list out the countries shall we.  In just the last six years the Bush administration has, bombed, invaded, conducted military operations against, or is having Israel conduct such operations against, the following countries; Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Lebanon (Israel) and the Palestinians (Israel).

Per plans drawn up long ago by our nation’s elites the Bushists are currently getting ready to conduct additional operations against Iran (Israel & the US), Syria (Israel & the US), Lebanon – round two - (Israel), Pakistan, and even possibly Turkey.

The Bush administration has stated it isn't going to intervene in Turkey against that country's wishes.  No of course not; because they’re going to "help" Turkey just like this administration has “helped” so many other countries throughout the Middle East….who knows, they may even decide they’ll have to give Turkey some of that famous “freedom and democracy” they've bestowed upon so many others in that part of the world.  Now there’s a thought.

Poor Turkey, it used to be a country once upon a time.

One should just think of the whole fiasco this way....the Bush regime still has eighteen more months to go.

Scary isn't it? – mpg
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The death of this crackpot creed is nothing to mourn  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2138064,00.html
A quote...."Anarchy of this kind is a hideous condition in which to live, but its destructive impact reaches beyond the millions of Iraqis whose lives are already ruined. The surrounding states are being irresistibly drawn into the country's conflicts. Both Iran and Turkey have an interest in Iraq's oil wealth - Iran by virtue of having expanded its power and influence over the Shia majority, Turkey from fear that control of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk will pass into the hands of the Kurds. Such states can hardly avoid intervening and will not be deterred from acting to safeguard what they see as their vital national interests by threats from the Bush administration. " 

Third of Iraqis 'need urgent aid'  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6921617.stm
A quote...."Nearly a third of the population of Iraq is in need of immediate emergency aid, according to a new report from Oxfam and a coalition of Iraqi NGOs.  -  The report said the government was failing to provide basics such as food and shelter for eight million people."

It's called genocide.  See...The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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Britain will take troops out of Iraq regardless of US, says PM  ---  http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2819582.ece
A quote...."Gordon Brown has paved the way for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq by telling George Bush he would not delay their exit in order to show unity with the United States."

For the markets, global chill  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/IG31Dj03.html
War Alert - A quote...."The 1970s British Broadcasting Corp comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus once did a skit about a new way that council flats - public housing - were being built near the town of Peterborough in England. Instead of building these 25-story towers through the conventional employment of construction workers, concrete and steel, this council was employing the services of El Mystico (Terry Jones), a magician in cape and top hat, along with his curvaceous assistant, in her sequined leotard, the Amazing Janet."

Real Estate and the Anticipated - End of the American Colossus … - posted at Watching America  ---  http://www.watchingamerica.com
  ---  http://www.watchingamerica.com/oglobo000038.shtml
War Alert - A quote...."So is this the beginning of a spectacular and disastrous fall for the colossus? I don't have the answer. If the same situation that exists today in the American economy had occurred thirty years ago, it would have produced (by way of double-digit inflation) a devastating crisis - whereas today, economists are constantly astonished by factors (by China's appetite for American Treasury bonds, for example) that explain why, that which had been forecast has never occurred."

Why is this a War Alert?  See....Standard Disclaimer  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207
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Midsummer Market Meltdown: Is the End Near?  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073007H.shtml
A quote....When you see people making vast fortunes in this economy, it is usually a good start to ask what the government did to allow for their success. In the case of the fund managers, a substantial chunk of their business comes from pension funds. Some of these pensions involve government money in the form of public employee pension funds. Others carry a government guarantee; so, if the fund managers blow the wad, the government picks up the tab. In both cases, it would be a good first step if regulators let the pension fund trustees, who hand billions of dollars to fund managers, know that they will lose their jobs if these investments don't pay off as promised. Ripping-off the public to make the richest people in the country even richer is not funny, and pension fund trustees must understand this."

Blackstone share slump costs China $540 million
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/blackstone-share-slump-costs-china/story.aspx?
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Nothing is more indicative of a possible market top than to have a country like China actually invest in US securities (besides US bonds of course), they are going to be taken for a ride just like the Japanese were during the eighties.

Will they ever learn? - mpg
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China to raise reserve requirement ratio by 0.5 percentage points  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=39478
A quote...."China will raise the reserve requirement ratio by half a percentage point to 12 percent for commercial banks from Aug. 15, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) announced on Monday.  -  "The move does not come as a surprise seeing as almost every economic index is overheating," said Song Guoqing, an economist with Beijing University."

The NYT's New Pro-War Propaganda  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/073007.html
Must Read - A quote...."No need to wait until September. It’s already obvious how George W. Bush and his still-influential supporters in Washington will sell an open-ended U.S. military occupation of Iraq – just the way they always have: the war finally has turned the corner and withdrawal now would betray the troops by snatching defeat from the jaws of victory."

Liberals Going After Fox Advertisers  ---  http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8QL52780&show_article=1
A quote...."NEW YORK (AP) - Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network.  -  MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos."

Neocons Salivate Over Hillary  ---  http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=940
A quote...."It should come as no surprise prominent neocons are gushing over Hillary Clinton, as noted by the Seattle Times. Fred Barnes of the neocon house organ, the Weekly Standard, couldn’t contain his admiration for the Bilderberger Queen. Ditto for Rich Lowry of National Review, David Brooks, and the Joseph Goebbels of the neocon movement, Charles Krauthammer."

Americans Stuck In Political Stupor  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/joel300707.htm
A quote...."The latest bipartisan George Washington University Battleground Poll rightfully received media attention because of its depressing data. There is historic political pessimism and cynicism. But something is more troubling than the data on the dire views of Americans about their elected representatives and government. It is that 72 percent of voters still believe that “voting gives people like me some say about how the government runs things.” Unbelievable! Such confidence in a system that has failed them."
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Bush’s Critics Say Threat of Martial Law in The United States is ‘Real’  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/29/2845/
A quote...."As constitutional scholar and former Reagan-era associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein observes, that one claim, that the US itself is a battlefield, is enough to allow Bush or some future president to declare martial law, “since you can always declare martial law on a battlefield. All he would need would be a pretext, like another terrorist attack inside the US.”

Nightmare on Main Street: More on Bush's Anti-Dissent Order
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Nightmare_on_Main_Street%3A_More_on_Bush%27s_Anti-Dissent_Order/
Must Read - A quote...."Essentially, in this Executive Order the President is assuming unbelievably vast powers to simply sidestep normal criminal or civil procedure, and to operate quite explicitly on the basis of guilt by anticipation, guilt by pre-emption, guilt by association and guilt for any reason in the mind of the decider. There is literally no limitation on authority, except that the person's actual physical being is unaffected."
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Incarceration Nation: The Rise of a Prison-Industrial Complex  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/july2007/300707_b_Incarceration.htm
A quote....

"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator" - Mother Jones

Consider this disturbing fact: the United States now has the world's highest incarceration rate outside of North Korea. Out of 1,000 people, more Americans are behind bars than anywhere in the world except in Kim Jong-Il's Neo-Stalinist state. The US has a higher incarceration rate than China , Russia, Iran, Zimbabwe and Burma - countries American politicians often berate for their human rights violations.
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Something Happened on 9-11  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_sheila_s_070728_something_happened_o.htm
A quote...."Strange how something happens and you're unaware that it "registers" with you. Later, perhaps, something will trigger that buried memory and things begin to fall into place."
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9/11 - From The History File..."The president ought to be ashamed"
  ---  http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/11/21/cleland/index.html
9-11 Commission Funding Woes
  ---  http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,437267,00.html
Bush's 9/11 Coverup?
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3830.htm
Cover-up and propaganda: The 9/11 commission finishes its dirty work
  ---  http://www.onlinejournal.org/Special_Reports/062904Chin/062904chin.html
9/11 Probe: Aiming High
  ---  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030203-411368,00.html
(#4) Bush Admin Hampered FBI Investigation into Bin Laden Family Before 9/11
  ---  http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2003/4.html
The Counter-Terrorist
  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.03A.oneill.nyer.htm
John O'Neill: Was He a Casualty of the Bush Administration?
  ---  http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=7479
PROPOSITION 911
  ---  http://proposition911.org/prop911.asp
Chairman Kean's Link To bin Laden's Brother-in-law
  ---  http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/april2004/010404chairmankean.htm
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Global warming blamed as China endures freak weather  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Global_warming_blamed_as_China_endu_07302007.html
A quote...."Global warming was under a fierce spotlight in China on Monday as forecasters said Shanghai was set for its hottest summer on record, while flood and drought wreaked havoc in other parts of the country."

Tomgram: Chip Ward, How Efficiency Maximizes Catastrophe
  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174826/chip_ward_how_efficiency_maximizes_catastrophe
A quote...."....this has been "the wettest May to July period for England and Wales since records began in 1766." The recent "Great Flood of July" in southern England followed a somewhat similar June event in the north. As parts of the country are still submerged in the wake of torrential, tropical-style deluges (a month's worth of rain fell in a few hours), while record extremes of heat "roast" central and southern Europe, the subject of climate change is certainly on European minds -- and a group of scientists are evidently going to release a study in the journal Nature this week that claims "more intense rainstorms across parts of the northern hemisphere are being generated by man-made global warming."

Bush's Missile Defense vs. My Erector Set  ---  http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/Reviews/erector.html
A quote...."Judging by how the overwhelming majority of Americans simply dismiss President Bush whenever he seizes the podium to spout more nonsense and lies about his illegal, immoral invasion and incompetent occupation of Iraq - arguably the worst foreign policy crime and blunder in U. S. history - virtually every image of our swaggering punk president must now be entering American brains accompanied by the caption: "Warning: This pigheaded, lying screw up doesn't have a clue!"
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Sunday July 29th 2007
No posts except for this previously posted quote...posted 07-23-07

The Second Treatise of Civil Government 1690 :

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

 -- *John Locke* - 1632-1704 -

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