Wednesday August 4th 2010 - links page

Presidential Dictatorship: Not Thinking Things Through  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w161.html
Must Read - A quote...."While painting Obama as a singular threat to liberty and Bill Clinton as a degenerate who "lowered the culture" of an electorate that twice elected him, they insist that "George W. Bush stood up for America, albeit sometimes clumsily." -- Translated into Roman terms, the authors would have us believe that Clinton was the corrupt, self-absorbed adolescent Elagabalus, and Obama either the depraved Nero or the despotic Diocletian – but Bush the Younger, heck, he was Claudius, a relatively well-intentioned, albeit physically maladroit and verbally challenged, legitimate heir. -- In fact, Obama is not materially different from his predecessor in any significant way. Mssrs. Christian and Robbins depict Obama as a unique threat to our "Anglo-Saxon" tradition of liberty protected by law. But it was Bush – acting under the influence of his Sith Master, Dick Cheney – who disemboweled the habeas corpus guarantee, the foundation of common law protections of individual rights. Granted, Obama has embraced and enlarged on Bush's actions, but the damage was done before the "alien" occupied the Oval Office."
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Senators' Confidential Worries About Democracy Itself
  ---  http://whowhatwhy.com/2010/07/15/senators%E2%80%99-confidential-worries-about-democracy-itself/
A quote...."Amid the constant fracas of daily political life, it is often hard to see the big picture of power in America (and, for that matter, the world.) In researching my book, Family of Secrets, I came to a fresh appreciation of this big picture, assembling a vast amount of new evidence of the extent to which the visible democratic process has historically been covertly shaped by powerful interests, and how this shaping has gone largely unnoticed and unremarked-upon, right to the present."
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Scott Horton Interviews Karen Kwiatkowski - How the Neocons Lied Us Into Iraq  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/08/04/karen-kwiatkowski-6/
Audio Interview - A quote...."Karen Kwiatkowski, columnist at LewRockwell.com and retired USAF lieutenant colonel, discusses the neocon infiltration of the formerly decent Hudson Institute, her firsthand account  of how the Office of Special Plans lied us into the Iraq War, Col. David Hackworth’s pushback against OSP propaganda and why the Iraq War instigators are now directing their war cries toward Iran."
||  also in MP3 here. (20m:40s)  ||  ---  http://dissentradio.com/radio/10_08_03_kwiatkowski.mp3
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The US isn't leaving Iraq, it's rebranding the occupation
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/aug/04/us-iraq-rebranding-occupation
More about the spin from the world's greatest spin machine - mpg -- A quote...."For most people in Britain and the US, Iraq is already history. Afghanistan has long since taken the lion's share of media attention, as the death toll of Nato troops rises inexorably. Controversy about Iraq is now almost entirely focused on the original decision to invade: what's happening there in 2010 barely registers. -- That will have been reinforced by Barack Obama's declaration this week that US combat troops are to be withdrawn from Iraq at the end of the month "as promised and on schedule". For much of the British and American press, this was the real thing: headlines hailed the "end" of the war and reported "US troops to leave Iraq"."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68577&hd=&size=1&l=e
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You Need to Know What's Really Going On": WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the Fight for the Truth  ---  http://www.alternet.org/story/
147734/%22you_need_to_know_what%27s_really_going_on%22%3A_wikileaks_founder_julian_assange_on_the_fight_for_the_truth/
Quote of the Day...."In order to make any just decision you need to know and understand what abuses or plans for abuses are occurring."  --  *Julian Assange*
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US Corporate Media Downplays Pentagon’s Special Commando Assassination Unit
  ---  http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/wikiwoes-in-us-corporate-media/
A quote...."The New York Times, Washington Post, and most other newspapers in the US are censoring or under-reporting the WikiLeaks documents that show US Task Force 373 (TF 373) is an out-of-control assassination unit responsible for the deaths of many hundreds of civilians in Afghanistan."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26079.htm
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Blair must be arrested  ---  http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/08/pilger-blair-iraq-britain
A quote...."Having helped destroy other nations far away, our former prime minister — “peace envoy” to the Middle East — is now free to profit from the useful contacts he made while working as a “servant of the people”." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68575&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Iran questions Obama's 'change'  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Iran-questions-Obamas-change
Paragraph quoted from CLG...."[Oh. God. *Everyone* does.] 04 Aug 2010 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticized his American counterpart Barack Obama for failing to realize his campaign trail promise of "change." "They (the Americans) announced that they had pulled out part of their forces from Iraq in recent days and claimed that their move was in line with their slogan of 'change,'" Fars News Agency quoted President Ahmadinejad as saying on Wednesday. "You said you would withdraw all your troops from Iraq, why is it that some of them are still in this country? Secondly, where are you relocating your forces from Iraq?" ...At a speech in the western Hamadan Province, Ahmadinejad went on to say, "Real change means that you take your forces... and leave our region."  [*Exactly.* I couldn't agree more. --LRP]"
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Iran Possesses S-300 System: Report Says  ---  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1526.htm
A quote...."  Tehran, August 04, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - Iran’s semiofficial Fars News Agency reported that Iran has four complete units of Russian made S-300 surface-to-air missiles as part of its defense system. -- According to the report Tehran receive two units from Belarus some years ago and two other units from an unspecified country. There has not been an official confirmation of this report by Iranian defense authorities so far. -- The S-300 system, which according to leading military analysts is far more superior to American Patriot system, is an anti-aircraft and anti-missile system capable of shooting down several targets at 150 km distance and could reach altitudes of more than 27 km." - bold by websit editor
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The Road to War is Paved WIth Acts of Cowardice
08-04-10
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US Lawmaker Calls for Sanctions on China, Russia  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20442
Special Note - GOOD!  You want to know why folks?  Because Russia and China had the PERFECT opportunity to stop this whole process a few months ago, and they blew it!  A process first perfected on Iraq, whereby increasing sanctions, by their very design and intention, INEVITABLY lead to war.  This time against Iran.

Both Brazil and Turkey went the extra mile to get Iran to agree to the US-NRE's own demands to have Iran ship its fuel out of the country for enrichment.  After having gotten Iran's agreement the US-NRE, as usual for this country, went back on its statements and its commitments and said the agreement wasn't good enough anymore.

This caused world wide opprobrium and had Russia and China been the least bit courageous, maintained their commitments to the NPT, and vetoed the latest UN resolution which placed additional sanctions on Iran, it would have stopped the US-NRE, a country which has now essentially become Israel's and AIPAC's colony, from proceeding any further.  It would have also stiffened the EU's spine regarding this issue, allowed them to say NO to the Israeli lobby, DESPITE their recent attack against the EU's economic and currency union  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thefirstsalvosofthecurrencywars-mpg-reficultnias-050710  ---  by their pet Banksters in the US-NRE.

Instead, for whatever lying promises they received from the Obama administration, China and Russia let the resolution pass.  As a direct conquence they let BOTH Turkey and Brazil HANG OUT TO DRY AND TWIST SLOWLY IN THE WIND.  Now however, their collective act of cowardice has come back to bite them hard. It's what always happens when you do "business" with the parasites in the US-NRE.

What is it they say...."the coward dies a thousand deaths but the brave only die once"? - mpg
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Assassination of key U.S. ally adds to Pakistan's crises  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/04/AR2010080401085_pf.html
WHAT!!  Blackwater didn't do this one?  Or was this guy getting to uppity and they did?  It's just so hard to tell these days. - mpg -- A quote...."A Taliban suicide bomber assassinated a top-ranking Pakistani security official and key U.S. ally Wednesday, adding to a string of crises here that have raised alarm in recent days over whether the government can cope."
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Berlusconi survives censure motion  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-08/05/c_13431300.htm
A quote...."ROME, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi passed a test in parliament on Wednesday, defeating an opposition censure motion against a minister implicated in a corruption scandal."
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ACLU Sues U.S. Government Over American Citizen's Hit List Designation
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/ACLU-Sues-US-Government-Over-American-Citizens-Hit-List-Designation
Paragraph quoted from CLG...."In July, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) formally labeled Awlaki a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist." 03 Aug 2010 The ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) are suing Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner over the government's decision to put radical Muslim cleric Anwar Awlaki on a hit list and freeze his U.S. assets. Awlaki, a U.S. citizen now living in Yemen, is on a U.S. hit list, and has already survived at least one cruise missile strike. Last month Awlaki's father Nasser Al-Awlaki asked the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights to challenge the government's placement of his son on a list of US Citizens that can be assassinated by US forces and intelligence services for ties to terrorism."
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"Mongrel”: Historically, and from Obama’s Mouth
  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/mongrel%E2%80%9D-historically-and-obama%E2%80%99s-mouth
A quote...."Barack Obama behaves as if he has no historical or cultural knowledge of “the nation over which he presides.” The president’s labeling of African Americans as “mongrels” reveals an astounding and fundamental disrespect for Black Americans as a distinct people. As an epithet, “mongrel” is an even “more powerfully shaped political charge than the ubiquitous ‘[expletive deleted]!’”
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The Ultimate Betrayal: Police and Military Working Together to Oppress Americans  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=9978
A quote...."The concepts of military service and public police service are worlds apart, for good reason. Today in America, we are currently witnessing the culmination of a decades-long trend that has introduced the language, weapons, and tactics of the overseas battlefield onto the streets of America."
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Pro-Zionist Alex Jones Banishes Mike Rivero  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/213082-Pro-Zionist-Alex-Jones-Banishes-Mike-Rivero
A quote...."Jones and his handlers decide Michael Rivero  must go. Not only from the Jones radio sideshow but from the GCN network as well. AJ waves his 'magic' zionist flag and makes things disappear. "
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Kalifornia and the NRE
08-04-10
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Same-Sex Marriage Ban Overturned in California Trial
  ---  http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-04/same-sex-marriage-ban-overturned-in-california-trial.html
New Roman Empire Alert - Oh goody!!  As this nation descends deeper and deeper into the depths of its own self-inflicted great-recession, while it remains mired in two interminable, illegal, vicious, occupations, with many more on the horizon, and while it also completely dismantles its once vaunted constitution, now reduced to "just a God-damned  ---  http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml  ---  piece of paper",  ---  http://whitehouser.com/politics/bush-constitution-just-a-piece-of-paper/  ---  it had one of its own courts overturn the will of the voters in the state of California that same sex marriage should not be allowed.  Sort of like what happened in the 2000 elections, no?

Isn't that just great? Now if the Catholic church ever decides to allow their priests to marry, they'll be able to get married to some of those children (not to mention each other)  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/7907881/Catholic-priests-filmed-at-gay-clubs-and-having-casual-sex.html  ---  they've been constantly having sex with for the last couple of decades (as long as the kids are now over the age of eighteen of course).

Prisoners in Amerika's vast and ever growing gulag (the highest per capita incarceration rates in the world, at least this nation is number one at something!!) will now be able to request they be housed together as husband and "wife" (and take their demands to court no less).

JUST THINK of what this will do for all those lonely Congressional pages and their sweet hearts in Congress!!  Can you imagine all the Congressmen who'll now divorce their wives to marry their true love? Isn't it all so WONDERFUL!?!?

Picture this in your minds eye folks, two US Marines, in full glorious regalia, chests emblazoned with ribbons and medals, kissing each other at the alter while the church organist loudly sings "Macho, Macho, Man" in the background.  Maybe they can even have Karl Rove show up as best man and cut the cake for them (yech).

Heck, on their wedding night they'll even be able to watch all those lovely videos they brought back from their stints together in places like Abu Ghraib,  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse  ---  Bagram and other scenic sights of homo-sadistic violence.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ustorture&sexualperversion-weblist-mpg-031309  ---  After all, it'll be where they first met, became sweet hearts, got to practice on a few of their involuntary subjects and "discovered" each other. Oh my, how sweet it all is!! - (roll the eyes in disgust)

It's no longer "don't ask, don't tell" it's now "kiss, torture and tell". (wink, wink, snigger, snigger) - mpg

Welcome folks, to the New Un-Holy Roman Empire.

For more on this ENTIRE issue see....Let's Bring Back Polygamy - 08-21-04 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/letsbringbackpolygamy-mpg-reficultnias-082104.html
See also....Mommy Pelosi and Daddy Bush Obama
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/mommypelosianddaddybush-blog-mpg-111806.html
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Israeli police raze rebuilt Bedouin village  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=305184
Gotta keep dem dare darkies homeless and hungry....mpg - A quote...."AL-ARAQIB, Israel (Ma'an) -- Hundreds of Israeli police stormed an unrecognized Bedouin village Wednesday, less than one week after it was razed to make way for Jewish National Fund forest, witnesses said."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/israeli-police-raze-rebuilt-bedouin-village/
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/231065
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Hamas denounces IOA’s excavations on historical [Muslim] Jerusalem cemetery
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7VHPm6mem%2bHVnx6UXQ8F
kIFY33f%2bdNAb54hGenUbaTTFAt8ARW6%2fus8pgq0gGH414pUWTz3pEdUjb0CLZh5k%2b%2fOIi%2b%2bkXFNrSLqon%2bhnoZ%2bk%3d
A quote...."DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Hamas denounced on Wednesday the excavations carried out by the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on parts of the historical Ma’manullah cemetery in Jerusalem after plans to build a museum on the site."
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Al-Walaja village resists construction of the Apartheid Wall  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/08/13548/?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
Contains Video - Alt  ---  A quote...."This morning in Al-Walaja local Palestinian residents supported by Israeli and international solidarity activists nonviolently resisted the construction of the Apartheid Wall by blocking the work of a bulldozer."
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Mohammed Khatib of Bil’in’s Popular Committee prevented from going abroad despite an OK from court  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/08/13544
/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."The Shin Bet prevented Mohammed Khatib of the Bil’in Popular Committee to cross the Allenby Bridge on his way to Spain today. Khatib was band despite having a permit to leave the country from the Military court."
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Will the US Repeat Japan's Mistakes? - Looming Changes at the Fed  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney08042010.html
Must Read - A quote...."The Fed is mulling over its options for dealing with an outbreak of deflation. For a long time, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke dismissed the idea that deflation could be a problem because, as he noted, "The Fed has a technology called the printing press which allows the Fed to produce as many dollars as it wished at no cost." That's true, but increasing the money supply has not worked as planned. Bernanke has stuffed the banks with $1.7 trillion in reserves, but lending is still in the tank, consumer credit is shrinking at 5% per annum, and M3 has slipped into negative territory (- 6%). True, there's plenty of money, but it's not circulating fast enough (velocity) through the economy to produce a robust recovery. That's why Bernanke is looking for new ideas."
also posted at Hamsayeh  ---  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1527.htm
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Keiser Report №65: Markets! Finance! Scandal!  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV#p/f/6/Eanx7VK5TpA
Must View RT&MKVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eanx7VK5TpA  ---  (RTYuTb - August 03, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the latest scandals of box office manipulation in China, $9 billion missing in Iraq and contango in commodities. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Internet sensation George Hemminger about his experience with financial collapse in America."
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R E V O L T I N G ! !  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=765gy8AXz-8
Video - (YouTube - 3 min 40 sec - August 03, 2010) - Source:  crabbydogtrix  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/crabbydogtrix  ---  A quote...."How does small buisness feel about the prospects for the future? Never worse."
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Marc Faber - Fed's Printing Press to Create Final Crisis (3-Aug-10)(NWO ECONOMICS series)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCqrio04Yf0
Video - (YouTube - 7 min 03 sec -  August 04, 2010) - Source:  TheYouArchive2010  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheYouArchive2010  ---  A quote...."This series has been uploaded following a request and information received that it was not easily available. If you are aware of a title on any subject which is not generally available, or can't be found on YouTube - Please contact us and we'll see if we can locate and then upload it."
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Commercial real estate maturities will peak in 2012 – $350 billion in loans coming due....
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/commercial-real-estate-maturities-will-peak-in-2012-%E2%80%93
-350-billion-in-loans-coming-due-and-hundreds-of-additional-bank-failures-bank-lending-in-the-cre-market-collapsing.html
A quote...."The commercial real estate disaster is sinking banks on a weekly basis.  Talk of a V-shape recovery is now largely a moot point since we are past the point of a quick and strong recovery.  The question now revolves around what we are going to face for the next few years.  Commercial real estate  really is a harbinger of what went wrong in the last decade.  Banks and builders hungry for massive profits overestimated the demand for Starbucks and Macys locations around the country.  After all, you actually need money to spend and many average Americans  are struggling just to pay their monthly bills.  The only way commercial real estate (CRE) was going to do well is if we had a booming population of young and wealthier professionals with more disposable income.  Yet that did not happen."
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The Great Marginalization -- Buffett, Gates, Rockefeller and the Conscience of the Very, Very Rich  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/ginsburg08042010.html
A quote...."Of all the farcical notions put forth during this time of high farce, casting America as “broke” places way up there on the list, as trillions of dollars are being stockpiled in the face of a national downsizing and its attendant growth in misery.  Here we sit, a captive national audience to the president’s seemingly daily farce, “We are all in this together”."
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IMF: Trapping Countries into Debt - The Case of Hungary  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20460
A quote...."For decades, left critics of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have maintained that the IMF is merely a tool for enforcing the interests of financial elites, especially those in the US. Predictably, this view has been scornfully dismissed by those in power and their media lackeys who posture the institution as the benefactor of needy countries. The persistent history of the IMF’s extortionate funding, linked to austere cuts in social spending, is simply dismissed as pressing fiscal responsibility on countries lacking the spine to address their profligacy. Such are the myths that sustain faith in global capitalism."
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Escaping the Sovereign Debt Trap: The Remarkable Model of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20473
A quote...."The current credit crisis is basically a capital crisis: at a time when banks are already short of the capital needed to back their loans, capital requirements are being raised.   Nearly a century ago, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia demonstrated that banks do not actually need capital to make loans – so long as their credit is backed by the government.  Denison Miller, the Bank’s first Governor, was fond of saying that the Bank did not need capital because “it is backed by the entire wealth and credit of the whole of Australia.”  With nothing but this national credit power, the Commonwealth Bank funded both massive infrastructure projects and the country’s participation in World War I."
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Army operation against Greek truck drivers: A warning to European workers  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/pers-a04.shtml
A quote...."The conscription of striking Greek truck drivers and the deployment of the army as strikebreakers marks a new stage in the attacks on the Greek and European working class."
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China Said to Test Banks for 60% Home-Price Drop
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-04/chinese-regulator-said-to-tell-banks-to-test-for-60-drop-in-home-prices.html
Now that's a SERIOUS stress test, 60%....wow!  Assuming they do it for real of course. - mpg -- A quote.... "China’s banking regulator told lenders last month to conduct a new round of stress tests to gauge the impact of residential property prices falling as much as 60 percent in the hardest-hit markets, a person with knowledge of the matter said."
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Health Care Non-Solutions  ---  http://baselinescenario.com/2010/08/04/health-care-non-solutions/
More on Obama's No-Care Plan - A quote...."Ezra Klein  makes an important point about our nation’s health care problem: it’s not just a government deficit problem. The underlying problem is that health care costs are not only growing faster than prices (inflation), but also faster than GDP (economic growth), and as a result the amount of stuff we as a nation will be able to afford, other than health care, will start to go down at some point in the future. (Picture originally from Joseph Newhouse in Health Affairs.)"
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Prop C passes overwhelmingly  ---  http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_c847dc7c-564c-5c70-8d90-dfd25ae6de56.html
More on Obama's No-Care Plan - A quote...."Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama's administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in March."
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Tuesday August 3rd 2010 - links page

  ---  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Chertoff
Profile: Michael Chertoff - history commons timeline
  ---  http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=michael_chertoff
Who Is Michael Chertoff?
  ---  http://visibility911.com/jongold/?p=235
Michael Chertoff - wikipedia
  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff
Chertoff played key role on 9/11
  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-11-chertoff-side_x.htm
 Alt  ---  http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=3179&id2=297
9/11 AND CHERTOFF: COUSIN WROTE 9/11 PROPAGANDA FOR PM
  ---  http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=66176
Chertoff's Cousin Penned Popular Mechanics 9/11 Hit Piece
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2005/070305chertoffscousin.htm
Dual citizen of Israel M Chertoff to adapt Israeli aiport sec stndrds for US Airports
  ---  http://current.com/news-and-politics/88989749_dual-citizen-of-israel-michael-chertoff-to-adapt-israeli-aiport-security-standards-for-us-airports.htm
Michael Chertoff Israeli Citizen - video - (YuTb - 5m 37s - September 19, 2008)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlJgbZJpvTE
Michael Chertoff's Childhood in Israel
  ---  http://www.bollyn.com/michael-chertoffs-childhood-in-israel
The Airport Scanner Scam
  ---  http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/airport-scanner-scam
Chertoff EXPOSED as Aiding a 911 Terrorist!
  ---  http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2717
Michael Chertoff: Defender of Terror
  ---  http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/chertoffterror.html
Financial Ties to Al-Qaeda in US ruling class - article list
  ---  http://www.takeoverworld.info/economics911.html
Serious Questions for Michael Chertoff; Bernie Kerik’s Not Looking So Bad Now
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/duncan_013005_chertoff_questions.htm
9/11:U.S.IRS,SEC,AG Mukasey,HS Michael Chertoff,Israeli ICTS Int Fraud
  ---  http://www.indymedia.org.nz/article/74968/911usirssecag-mukaseyhomeland-security-m
Judge Michael Chertoff Defends Terror Moneyman
  ---  http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=2&contentid=1818&page=2
Michael Chertoff  ~ worst man in the world to be our Homeland Security Director
  ---  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/11/121513/207
In Bed with the Enemy
  ---  http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/In_Bed_With_The_Enemy.htm
PTECH: 911 Software?
  ---  http://shermsays.blogspot.com/2010/06/ptech-911-software.html

For more on this issue see....9/11 & 7/11 - Israeli Connection - Updated!
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911theisraeliconnection-weblist-mpg-051610

Monday August 2nd 2010 - links page

GOP Blank Check for War?  ---  http://buchanan.org/blog/gop-blank-check-for-war-4261
Must Read - A quote...."High among the blunders of history was the “blank cheque” Kaiser Wilhelm gave Vienna, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, to deal with the Serbs as they saw fit. - Five weeks later, Vienna cashed the check and declared war, after Belgrade refused to submit to all 10 demands of an ultimatum. Russia mobilized; Germany and France followed. And war came, the bloodiest in all of European history with 9 million soldiers in their graves. - Since June 1914, a “blank check” given by one nation to another for war has been regarded as strategic folly."
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That Reckless Protection Racket of Military Socialism and Fascism  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lazarowitz10.1.html
Must Read - A quote...."In previous articles, I have referred to military socialism while others have referred to the military industrial complex, and some of these descriptions need to be clarified for a better understanding of the dysfunctional nature of the U.S. government’s national security monopoly, and an alternative must be presented."
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The Trouble With Unconstitutional Wars  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/paul/2010/08/02/the-trouble-with-unconstitutional-wars/
Special Note - A quote...."by Rep. Ron Paul -- Our foreign policy was in the spotlight last week, which is exactly where it should be. Almost two years ago many voters elected someone they thought would lead us to a more peaceful, rational co-existence with other countries. However, while attention has been focused on the administration’s disastrous economic policies, its equally disastrous foreign policies have exacerbated our problems overseas. Especially in times of economic crisis, we cannot afford to ignore costly foreign policy mistakes. That’s why it is important that U.S. foreign policy receive some much needed attention in the media, as it did last week with the leaked documents scandal."
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Siddiqui: Afghanistan: It’s even worse than you thought
  ---  http://www.thestar.com/article/842623--siddiqui-afghanistan-it-s-even-worse-than-you-thought
A quote...."August 01, 2010 "Toronto Star" -- The buckets-full of leaked documents on the war in Afghanistan have elicited three responses, all misguided." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26061.htm

• The first is that the classified papers tell us nothing we did not already know, namely that the NATO mission has long been a mess. This assertion devalues their real value — giving the war an official stamp of failure, which can no longer be dismissed as merely the opinion of naysayers or the weak-kneed.
• The second is that the papers are old, covering a period ending in December 2009. The Obama administration has emphasized this, to imply that things have improved since. In fact, they are much worse, as we shall see.
• The third is to overplay Pakistan’s con game: taking arms and money from the U.S. to take on the Taliban but, in fact, nurturing them as its proxy. This North American narrative has been highlighted by The New York Times. But the British paper The Guardian concluded, rightly, that the documents do not conclusively prove one way or the other what Pakistan is up to. We can be sure that it is up to what everyone else is up to: looking out for its own long-term interests, especially given that it has suffered the spillover of two wars (Soviet: 1980-88 and NATO: 2001 to date).

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Afghanistan shows signs of cracking  ---  http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100731/OPINION01/707319979
Special Note - A quote...."In fighting to “win” in Helmand or Kandahar provinces, we are fighting against the Pashtun people. This, in Galbraith’s view, is hopeless, and he is probably right. The same goes for regions bordering Pakistan, such as Paktia and Nangahar. -- The north and Kabul comprise a variety of ethnic groups, including Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks. These groups formed the Northern Alliance, which toppled the Taliban, and they are friendlier toward the United States and fiercely opposed to the Taliban’s repressive rule. Galbraith suggested the United States could defend these peoples and their region against the Pashtuns of the south. He was in effect calling for partition of Afghanistan." -- For more on this issue see....MAP OF THE NEW MIDDLE EAST  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/newmemap-peters-nwa-cached-092507  ---  (Its always been their plan)
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WikiLeaks and British lies in Ireland  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/02/wikileaks-british-lies-afghanistan-ireland
A quote...."In June I stood in the Guildhall Square in Derry and watched as the relatives of the 14 innocent victims of the British Parachute Regiment expressed their delight at the Saville report's conclusion that the 14 were innocent victims. After Bloody Sunday, the British system and, to its shame, much of the British media, accused those who had been shot of being "gunmen" and "bombers". Lies were told and a cover-up concocted and the British establishment closed ranks to defend the actions of its army. That lie persisted for decades." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68519&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Blood on whose hands in Afghanistan?  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/pers-a02.shtml
A quote...."Accusations from Obama administration officials and the media that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his sources have “blood on their hands” for revealing information on US military operations and informants in Afghanistan are contemptible slanders. Responsibility for blood spilled in Afghanistan lies with the US government, which launched the war."
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WikiGate  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis198.html
A quote...."The reports reveal the ugly underbelly of a war merchandised to the public as a noble mission to liberate oppressed women and clean up a nest of terrorists. They have embarrassed and outraged the hell out of Washington and its NATO allies. Comparisons to the famed Pentagon Papers of the Vietnam War era that undermined public support for that misbegotten conflict are inevitable."
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Obama Redefines Troops to ‘End’ Iraq Combat Mission  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/08/02/combat-troops-redefined-to-end-combat-mission-in-iraq/
A quote...."To great fanfare,  President Barack Obama has pledged to put an end to America’s “combat mission” in Iraq by the beginning of September “as promised and on schedule.” There may be no small measure of incredulity for those who remember his campaign promise to have all the troops out by May, but it seems the 50,000 figure, announced shortly after he took office, will be met, give or take a few thousand. -- This will mark the formal end to America’s combat mission  in Iraq, but the combat won’t actually end, nor will the troops stop engaging in it. Rather, the administration has decided to redefine the 50,000 combat troops that will still be in Iraq, still engaging in combat, as a “transitional” force." - bold by website editor - Will sombody PLEASE turn off the spin machine!!! - mpg
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From Freedom Fighter to Terrorist  ---  http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-07-29.asp
A quote...."The Washington Post yesterday profiled  a Pakistani man named Hamid Gul, who served as head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from 1987 to 1989. The article pointed out that Gul is viewed by U.S. officials as a terrorist, one who has been helping the Taliban oust U.S. forces from Afghanistan. - What makes the story interesting, however, is that it wasn’t always that way. Gul used to be a freedom fighter and a close friend and ally of the U.S. government. - What happened?" - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26056.htm  ---  The usual, he either wouldn't sell his country down the river, toe the latest New Roman Empire Imperial line, or both. - mpg
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A Police State You'd Better Believe In  ---  http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/959-jack-kenny/4167-a-police-state-youd-better-believe-in
A quote...."When our nation is waging "war on" so many things (drugs, crime, poverty, terrorism), it's hard to know where to enlist and when to defect. Or put another way, when should a patriot oppose his government? One answer, which we may hope is obvious, is when his government is waging war on liberty. The trick, of course, is to recognize it as such, since the government will always claim to be defending liberty when waging war against it."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26059.htm
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Iran gas exports to Bahrain still on  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=137198&sectionid=351020103
A quote...."Iran's gas exports to Bahrain will not be affected by the recent UN sanctions against Tehran, says the Iranian ambassador to Bahrain. -- "The booming trade between Iran and Bahrain is not affected by the UN sanctions," Mehr news Agency quoted Hossein Amir Abdollahian as saying on Monday."
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Ahmadinejad Wants Face-to-Face Debate with Obama - He ain't gonna get it. - mpg
  ---  http://www.jnoubiyeh.com/2010/08/ahmadinejad-wants-face-to-face-debate.html
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday he was ready for face-to-face talks with his US counterpart Barack Obama on "global issues." -- "We are hopefully coming for the UN assembly," Ahmadinejad said in an address to expatriate Iranians which was broadcast live on state television. "We are ready to sit down with Mr Obama face-to-face and put the global issues on the table, man-to-man, freely, and in front of the media and see whose solutions are better. We think this is a better approach."
Source:  al-Manar  ---  http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=148708&language=en
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IAEA Chief: Iran Fuel Swap Talks Could Start Soon - West Expressing Openness to Iran Talks
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/08/02/iaea-chief-iran-fuel-swap-talks-could-start-soon/
A quote...."According to IAEA chief Amano Yukiya, additional talks regarding a potential third party enrichment deal with Iran could begin soon. He cited a recently willingness among Western nations to proceed with the talks."
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USA funded Osama Bin Laden in 1989 to destabalise Pakistan  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=9958
Video - (German sub-titles) - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGcXOodyrcs  ---  (YuTb -  1min 31sec - July 31, 2010 ) - Source:  91177info  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/91177info  ---  A quote...."What a find this is! Pakistan’s President clearly says George Bush funded CIA Operative Osama Bin Laden to destabilise Pakistan. Originally uploaded in January 2010." - Note: President Zardari said that his wife "rang up senior Bush and asked of him "are you destabilizing my government" because he [Bush] gave the then opposition ten million dollars to overthrow....uhh...ummm....the first...uhhh...women elected in an Islamic country...so, we knew that he was your operator" - mpg
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Honduran Junta Murdering Journalists  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/08/honduran-junta-murdering-journalists.html
A quote...."This article follows an earlier one titled Death Squad Terror in Honduras:  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/06/death-squad-terror-in-honduras.html  ---  Orchestrated by Washington, it discussed the June 28, 2009 coup, Honduran soldiers arresting President Manuel Zelaya at gunpoint, exiling him to Costa Rica, obstructing his return, committing widespread killings and human rights abuses, conducting a sham November 2009 election under martial law, installing Porfirio (Pepe) Lobo Sosa president on January 27, 2010, the Obama administration's man in Honduras, succeeding interim leader, Roberto Micheletti, using death squad terror to solidify coup d'etat rule, what most Hondurans oppose and want ended."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68511&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Syria says no compromise with Israel on occupied lands -- http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C08%5C02%5Cstory_2-8-2010_pg4_2
A quote...."DAMASCUS: Syria will not negotiate with Israel over letting the Jewish state keep occupied territory, President Bashar al-Assad said, days after Israel’s prime minister expressed interest in resuming talks with Damascus. In a statement on Syrian army day published in official media on Sunday, Assad repeated his assessment that the possibility of another Middle East war was rising in the absence of what he called Israel’s willingness to make peace. “If anyone thinks that Syria might negotiate over its occupied land then they are mistaken,” Assad said. “The liberation of the Golan is a deeply ingrained right."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/230850
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The Mortal Peril of ["]Christian["] Zionism in America - Psssssst, they're NOT Christians! - mpg
  ---  http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/the-mortal-peril-of-christian-zionism-in-america/
A quote...."Zionism, and even worse yet, “Christian Zionism” [a.k.a. that faux-Christian, Zionist supporting (or even worshiping) “Armageddon” cult], are inseparable from the horrific fate of America, and by extension from the world in general. As has been said, “There is no light between (them)”. -- And it is the blood and treasure of Israel’s Golem, the US and a few allied countries, which will be sacrificed in an utterly insane global Holy War on behalf of Jewish nationalism." - For more on this issue see....One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810
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US boosts Israeli missile funding  ---  http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=183229
A quote...."WASHINGTON – US House appropriators have pushed funding for Israeli missile defense programs to its highest level ever, with $422.7 million now slated for 2011."
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Kill an Arab, any Arab, is longstanding and unquestioned policy
  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2010/08/kill-an-arab-any-arab-is-longstanding-and-unquestioned-policy.html
A quote...."A barely-noticed incident gives occasion for reflection into the grossly skewed nature of the I/P conflict. -- A rocket launched from Gaza reached the city of Ashkelon, causing some property damage but no injuries. Israel responded by launching airstrikes at various targets in Gaza, killing one Hamas official named Issa al-Batran. Hamas was not suspected of launching the Ashkelon rocket, but the IDF explained its retaliation against Batran: "The IDF holds the Hamas terror organization solely responsible for the occurrences in the Strip and for maintaining calm there." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/kill-an-arab-any-arab-is-longstanding-and-unquestioned-policy/
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Israeli rabbi preaches slaughter of non-Jews  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11438.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
Well....given the article shown above, shall we call Israelis equal opportunity murderers? - mpg -- A quote...."A rabbi from one of the most violent settlements in the West Bank was questioned on suspicion of incitement last week as Israeli police stepped up their investigation into a book in which he sanctions the killing of non-Jews, including children and babies." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/israeli-rabbi-preaches-slaughter-of-gentile-babies/
& CounterPunch  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/cook08022010.html
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

South Africa's lessons for Gaza  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11437.shtml?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
A quote...."The Palestinian national movement has overlooked this question: does the Gaza Strip resemble the racist Bantustans of apartheid South Africa? During the apartheid era, South Africa's black population was kept in isolation and without political and civil rights. Is Gaza similar? The answer is yes and no."  - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68513&hd=&size=1&l=e
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UN to Set Up an Independent Panel to Investigate the Flotilla Attack  ---  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1522.htm
Flotilla News - A quote...."What the General Secretary forgot to mention was that the Israeli attack on six-ship flotilla isn’t just about Turkey and Israel relationship, but rather between Israel and the international community."
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ILA uproots hundreds of olive trees
  ---  http://62.149.0.119/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7vSzKlwYDWaTzpP8w55dK8CLDsH
mYFmXAuP4pVVEVJej%2f0dbxRlDDrCbwXou8XbdBRkBYUcdrupBhXOGKSaGxS4lZ6bXZKknaisQETpdScsY%3d
A quote...."NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Hundreds of olive trees belonging to Palestinians in the Zulfa and Mosheirefa regions in 1948-occupied Rouha area were uprooted by staff from the so-called “Israeli land administration” (ILA), accompanied by police and military forces."
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Israeli settlers escalate attacks on civilians' property
  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/1374-israeli-settlers-escalate-attacks-on-civilians-property
A quote...."On Friday, 30 July, a group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian fields in the town of Burin in the West Bank. They set the fields on fire and assaulted a number of citizens who attempted to defend their land. Hundreds of dunums (one dunum equals 1,000 square meters) of land near the Hawara military checkpoint were also set ablaze, destroying hundreds of olive trees."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68506&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  For more on the two articles shown above see....Israel's Scorched Earth  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israelsscorchedearth-weblist-mpg-022510
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IDF official says Hamas did not fire rocket that "justified" Israeli air strikes across Gaza
  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/212944-IDF-official-says-Hamas-did-not-fire-rocket-that-justified-Israeli-air-strikes-across-Gaza
A quote...."A military official told Ynet he did not believe Hamas had fired the Grad rocket that exploded in Ashkelon Friday morning, though it remains unclear who was responsible. -- "Hamas still wants to maintain the status quo in the Strip," he said. "It continues to grow stronger, but is deterred by the IDF and doesn't want to face a conflict.""
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Charting The Unprecedented Decline In U.S. Manufacturing, And Other Economic Tidbits From Morgan Stanley
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/charting-unprecedented-decline-us-manufacturing-and-other-economic-tidbits-morgan-stanley
Contains Chart & Video - A quote...."The attached slide deck from Morgan Stanley provides a convenient 5 minute summary of the current state of the global financial and economic picture."
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Anyone want to trade? Hello? Anyone?  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-rally-without-a-cause-2010-08-03
A quote...."Though trading historically does slow during the month, the lack of activity is striking in an earnings month, according to a report issued Monday by analyst Richard Repetto at Sandler O'Neill & Partners. -- "Summer seasonality would suggest things get worse before they get better," Repetto concluded. -- The listless trading volume underscores what we've been hearing from the big Wall Street brokerages. Goldman Sachs Group Inc.and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. reported flat to lower trading revenue, disappointing analysts and confirming that investors were staying on the sidelines. -- Those left behind were evacuating. Since the start of May, investors have pulled $40.7 billion from domestic equity funds. That's 12 consecutive weeks of outflows, according to Investment Company Institute."
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Factory sector slows again in July  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-ism-factory-sector-slows-again-in-july-2010-08-02
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Activity among the nation's manufacturing firms in July slowed to the worst level since December, according to a closely followed survey of top executives released Monday."
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Foreclosure Inventory May Pull Down Prices To Bottom In 2011
  ---  http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/articles/foreclosure-inventory-may-pull-down-prices-to-bottom-in-2011-55765.aspx?source=patrick.net
A quote...."Due to a massive inventory overhang, the US housing market should hit bottom in 2011, with prices lower than the 2009 trough and recovery times varying by locality. Experts estimate it will take several years for the market to absorb this shadow inventory, of up to seven million homes, and representing nearly a half trillion dollars in loans. See the following article from HousingWire for more on this."
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Housing: Still Flooded  ---  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Housing-Still-zacks-60496097.html?x=0&.v=1&source=patrick.net
A quote...."One of the central reasons for the recession -- and for the anemic recovery from it so far -- has been the issue of the popping housing bubble. Housing is, for most homeowners, a highly leveraged investment. Even the old conservative rule of a 20% down payment is a far more leveraged position than is allowed when buying stocks, where at least 50% down is required. During the housing bubble, almost no one was putting 20% down anymore, and down payments of under 5% were common."
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Sunday August 1st 2010 - links page

Do Disclosures of Atrocities Change Anything?  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn07302010.html
Nope!!  Not with the dumbed-down, cud-chewing, goy-cattle that live in this country. - mpg -- A quote...."The hope of the brave soldier who sent 92,000 secret U.S.  documents to Wikileaks was that their disclosure  would prompt public revulsion and increasing political pressure on Obama to seek with all speed a diplomatic conclusion to this war.  The documents he sent Wikileaks included  overwhelming documentary evidence."
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WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange talks to RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/6/bD5dxkPwibU
RTVideo - Related Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD5dxkPwibU  ---  (RTYuTb - 12 min 28 sec - August 01, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."RT spoke in London to Julian Assange, the founder and editor-in-chief of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.org, responsible for the leakage of the documents on Afghan war, the biggest in US military history."
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Key WikiLeaks Figure Detained, Phones Seized by US Customs
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/08/01/key-wikileaks-figure-detained-phones-seized-by-us-customs/
Related Article - A quote...."A top volunteer with WikiLeaks, Jacob Appelbaum, was detained by US customs officials in New York today, following his return to the nation from a trip to the Netherlands. During the three hour detention, officials rummaged through his belongings, photocopied all of his receipts, searched his laptop computer, and seized his cellular telephones."
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US Military Lies About July Iraq Death Toll  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/08/01/us-military-lies-about-july-iraq-death-toll/
A quote...."After spending most of last week paging over evidence of the US military lying about the scope of the civilian death toll if Afghanistan, it seems that it is Iraq’s turn, with the US military publicly lying, claiming that only 161 civilians were killed in Iraq in July."
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270 Afghan civilians killed in July  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-08/01/c_13424977.htm
A quote...."Two hundred seventy civilians were killed in different security incidents in July across the country but unfortunately it shows 29 percent increase in comparison with the previous month," Bashari told a weekly press briefing here."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68491&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Afghans protest alleged NATO civilian deaths  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68492&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."KABUL — Afghans held a rally in the capital Kabul on Sunday to protest the alleged NATO killing of 52 civilians in the volatile south, but the coalition said it had still found no evidence of the deaths." - Source:  AFP-Goggle
  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gCSSO_vEXe0HyA_vXMwOgpohvXow
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Holland Withdraws Troops from Afghanistan  ---  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1517.htm
A quote...."The Dutch Withdraw troops by next Sunday despite repeated American and NATO requests to prolong their stay for another year in Afghanistan."
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Iraq Shi'ite bloc rejects incumbent Maliki as PM  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67019820100801
A quote...."(Reuters) - One of Iraq's main Shi'ite political blocs has rejected Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's claim to a second term and halted coalition talks until his party nominates a new candidate, politicians said. -- Maliki's party said it was standing by the premier. -- The decision by the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) to break off negotiations was a major setback in forming a new government as U.S. troops are planning to cut back military operations in Iraq more than seven years after ousting Saddam Hussein."
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Cameron: Road to Hague  ---  http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=44440
A quote...."In his anti-Pakistan offensive from Delhi, Cameron has publicly endorsed UK (and US’) anti-Pakistan foreign policy. He said that we (UK and US) cannot tolerate Pakistan look both ways and is able to promote and export terror whether to India, Afghanistan or anywhere else in the world. Cameron said Pakistan could no longer look both ways by tolerating terrorism while demanding respect as democracy (Cameron remarks, The Guardian July 28). In Today program, Cameron said that he chooses his words carefully and thereby rejected Downing Street’s statement that PM was not accusing Pakistan of sponsoring terrorism. He also ignored Pakistan’s foreign office rebuttal." - also posted at AlethoNews
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Shock wave and bubble: the untruth about the Cheonan  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20408
Special Note - From the History File - July 18th 2010 - More mass-faux-infotainment-media crap bites the dust....again. - mpg -- A quote...."Only a small coterie in the USA and South Korea know for sure what really happened to the South Korean warship. But, unreported in the Western media, the 'proof' that the Cheonan was sunk by North Korea has been thoroughly discredited."
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20408  ---  For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - The Cheonan  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#CHEONAN
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Obama Wants To Spy On Internet Users  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkowM8-ynvQ
Must View YTVideo - (YTYuTb -  4 min 56 sec - July 30, 2010) - Source:  TheYougTurks  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks  ---  More regarding Obama's "wire-tap anybody policy". - mpg
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The “Summer Camp Of Destruction:” Israeli High Schoolers Assist The Razing Of A Bedouin Town
  ---  http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/07/the-summer-camp-of-destruction-israeli-high-schoolers-join-in-the-destruction-of-a-bedouin-town/
A quote...."AL-ARAKIB, ISRAEL — On July 26, Israeli police demolished 45 buildings in the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib, razing the entire village to the ground  to make way for a Jewish National Fund forest. The destruction was part of a larger project to force the Bedouin community of the Negev away from their ancestral lands and into seven Indian reservation-style communities the Israeli government has constructed for them. The land will then be open for Jewish settlers, including young couples in the army and those who may someday be evacuated from the West Bank after a peace treaty is signed."
also posted at MyCatBirdSeat  ---  http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/08/israeli-high-schoolers-assist-razing-of-bedouin-town/
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Latest Testimonies By Activists On Board Rachel Corrie MV  ---  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1518.htm
Flotilla News - A quote...."I was then put into a small cell measuring maybe five feet by seven feet with a small basin and a open toilet. All these were squeezed into that small space: Renowned International Lawyer and Scholar, Mathias Chang."
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Stolen Land, Stolen Trees, Stolen Livelihoods  ---  http://www.truth-out.org/human-rights-are-everyones-law61369
A quote...."Imagine your livelihood is farming. You grow a variety of products that have sustained you and your family for generations. Then, imagine that the Army decides to erect a long fence that blocks you from accessing your farm. They say you will be able to get a permit to enter your own land, but when you apply, you are denied. The only person they will give the permit to is your elderly father, who cannot possible tend the land as needed and support the family. Already poor, your future is grim." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68489&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  For more on this issue see....Israel's Scorched Earth  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israelsscorchedearth-weblist-mpg-022510
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Israeli strike injures 39 in Gaza  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=137088&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."An Israeli strike on the impoverished Gaza Strip has injured 39 people, all of them civilians, witnesses say. -- Israeli warplane attacked the Deir-al-Balah refugee camp, located in the center of the Gaza City, which is heavily populated, a Press TV correspondent reported."
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Occupied Palestine: Home Demolitions, Dispossessions and Residency Rights Revoked
  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6828:occupied-palestine-home-demolitions-dispossessions-
and-residency-rights-revoked&catid=91:pal-telegraph-featured-articles&Itemid=149
A quote...."July 31, (Pal Telegraph – By Stephen Lendman) Daily, Israeli oppression continues - demolishing homes, dispossessing occupants, and revoking residency rights, three of its many crimes under international law, Israel spurning it with impunity."
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Thousands of Irish Shoppers Demand that Dunnes Stores Stop Stocking Israeli Products
  ---  http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2010/07/thousands-of-irish-shoppers-demand-that.html
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because it's YOUR money being used to commit murder and theft. - mpg -- Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2f8wKupT5g  ---  A quote...."Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by over 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international law. Present at the handing-in were Brendan Archbold, the trade union official at the centre of the 1980s Dunnes strike when workers refused to handle South African goods, Freda Hughes IPSC National Chairperson, Aengus O'Snodaigh TD of Sinn Fein along with supporters of the campaign and members of both the Palestinian and South African communities in Ireland." -- For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/  ---  of this website.
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Australian churches urge boycott of Israeli goods  ---  http://usacbi.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/australian-churches-urge-boycott-of-israeli-goods/
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because it's what Jesus Christ would want. - mpg -- A quote...."AUSTRALIA (ICEJ News) – The National Council of Churches Australia (NCCA), the nation’s largest ecumenical body, met last week for its 7th Triennial Forum, which resulted in a statement asking Australians to consider boycotting goods produced by Israeli settlements in the West Bank in solidarity with Palestinian Christians." -- For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/  ---  of this website.
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Aqraba plants olive trees to ward off settlers  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/08/13396/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=
feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."Residents of the village of Aqraba, near Nablus, planted forty young olive trees on their land on Thursday (29 July 2010) to send a message to settlers who have been plowing the area in an attempted land-grab."
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Hamas rejects negotiations with Israel  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=137099&sectionid=351020202
Hamas is being stupid, talking implies nothing.  Look at the US-NRE, every word out of every single politicians mouth during the last ten years turned out to be an utter fabrication.  No treaty was ever adhered to by the US-NRE if the parasites running this government thought it was to their advantage not to do so.  Think of the ABM, think of the NPT, the Geneva Conventions, it's OWN constitution for Gawd's sake, think of what they did to the Native Americans.  They've NEVER HONORED ANYTHING!  The Israelis are no different, just as they've broken every promise they've ever made, just as they've violated every agreement they've ever signed, so they will do so in the future.  SO WHAT!  Not talking makes Hamas look stupid, intransigent and down right childish. - mpg
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Debt is devouring Sovereign Nations. In the US, the Deficit is being Funded and Monetized by the Fed
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20390
A quote...."While we wait, watch and listen, the Fed decides when the banks will be given the word to start lending to get the domestic economy back to neutral. Action is needed quickly because the world economy is quickly deteriorating, and the recovery is simply not happening, as the administration admits to a fiscal deficit of $1.4 trillion. That would be down from a deficit of $1.9 trillion in 2009. Our long-term estimate has been $1.6 to $2 trillion. Over the past 18 months and after joint expenditures by government and the Fed of $2.3 trillion, all the administration has to show for their efforts are five quarters of stimulus growth of about 3-1/2%, which is now ending."
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U.S. bank failures total 108 after 5 shut on Friday  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66U0DC20100731
A quote...."(Reuters) - U.S. bank failures reached 108 so far in 2010 on Friday as regulators seized five small banks in the Pacific Northwest and the Southeast, none publicly traded."
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Record Commercial Real Estate Deterioration In June As CMBS Investors Pray For 50% Recoveries
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/record-commercial-real-estate-deterioration-june-cmbs-investors-hope-50-recoveries
Economic-Alert - A quote...."In continuing with the trivial approach of actually caring bout fundamentals instead of merely generous (and endless) Fed liquidity, we peruse the most recent RealPoint June 2010 CMBS Delinquency report. The result: total delinquent unpaid balance for CMBS increased by $3.1 billion to $60.5 billion, 111% higher than the $28.6 billion from a year ago, after deteriorations in 30, 90+ Day, Foreclosure and REO inventory. This represents a record 7.7% of total outstanding CMBS exposure. Even worse, total Special Servicing exposure by unpaid balance has taken another major leg for the worse, jumping to $88.6 billion, or 11.3%, up 0.7% from the month before. And even as cumulative losses show no sign of abating, average loss severity on CMBS continues being sky high:"
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With Just Five Months To Go, Stocks Are 90% Short Of Meeting Goldman's Full Year Equity Inflow Target
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/just-five-months-go-stocks-are-90-short-meeting-goldmans-full-year-equity-inflow-target
Market Tech Note - A quote...."In his earlier presentation, David Kostin (way back on page 28), candidly admits that anyone who follows rule #1 in finance, which is "Always Follow the Money" can easily skip through the first 27 pages of his presentation and realize that there is simply no way that the market can meet the permabullish strategist's expectation for equity inflows for the full year 2010. While way back in December, Kostin speculated that stocks are so undervalued they would see $600 billion in net equity inflows, with seven months down, there have been only $57 billion on inflows Year To Date, of which retail flows are actually negative $16 billion." - bold/underline by website editor
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Greek military mobilised to break truck drivers strike  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/gree-a02.shtml
A quote...."The decision by the social democratic PASOK government to use the military to break a nationwide strike by truck drivers is a stark indication of the polarisation of class relations in Greece and throughout Europe." - For more on this issue see the two articles....Greek truck drivers defy government - posted 07-30-10  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/gree-j31.shtml  ---  & Greek Gov Resorts To Wartime Emrgcy Act: Threatens Eco-Paralyzing Strikers With Prison... - posted 07-29-10  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/greek-government-resorts-wartime-emergency-act-threatens-economy-paralyzing-strikers-prison-
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Saturday July 31st 2010 - links page

Friday July 30th 2010 - links page

Once the legitimate residents of the Middle East get their hands on man-portable anti-air and anti-armor rockets, the neo-colonial fantasies currently being entertained by the US-NRE, Israel, and Britain, along with [after all, supporting some pseudo-gang members armed only with AK-47s who kill a few of your inexpensive cannon-fodder is one thing.  Having them shoot down a couple of your hundred million dollar aircraft every day is something else all together] those nation's (through the Saudi Royals) policies of supporting almost every single radical group  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306  ---  throughout the Middle East to serve as a never-ending pretext for their illegal occupations, will come to an abrupt and highly expensive end - mpg - posted 07-22-10

"The rockets are stupid, illegal, unethical, immoral, and a war crime, not to mention being TOTALLY counter-productive.  Or to put it this way, the rockets have killed 28 Israelis over a nine year period, the Israelis have killed over 1,400 Palestinians [almost all of them civilians] in just a single three week military incursion alone. Throwing spit-balls at the fourth largest military power in the world, which is fully supported by the first largest military power in the world, when all you have are AK-47s and some glorified, un-aimed, flying, pipe-bombs is not only stupid, it's suicidal."  -- *mpg* - posted 07-07-10

"It's too late ... We are well into the vortex of a deflationary spiral, the signs have been around for two years. Huge job losses in the blink of an eye, tumbling real estate prices, stock market crashes have crippled the economy to the point where there will be more huge job losses, further real estate tumbles which will in due time cause another stock market crisis. -- We are in a depression, not a recession. The only reason we haven't felt the full brunt of this depression is that the Federal Government has thrown $20 trillion dollars in guarantees, zero interest loans and gifts at the banksters, financial institutions, Fannie and Freddie and to a lesser extent the car makers. The Federal Government is tapped out. Governments around the world are tapped out, but especially here, in Japan, the UK and in the EU, 60% of the worlds GDP."  --  *mmckinl* [Moderator]   14 hours ago - bold by website editor

Thursday July 29th 2010 - links page