Thursday August 4th 2011 - links page 

More On The Domestic Situation.... 

The Committee of 13  ---  http://www.infowars.com/the-committee-of-13/ 
Must Read Analysis & Key Concept -- Some quotes...."The so-called debt ceiling crisis has nothing to do with the government running out of money. It is about the creation of a super committee, a council of thirteen, designed to circumvent Congress and ignore the will of the American people." --- "The handpicked “super Congress” – six members from the Senate, six from the House, and the president forming a committee or gang of 13 – will now push through the elite’s agenda behind closed doors in direct violation of the Constitution." - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/08/04/the-committee-of-13/  ---  It should give everyone chills, it's possible, even probable, that the recent Kabuki play in Washington DC had absolutely nothing to do with the debt ceiling, but was solely and wholly designed to allow the creation of this unconstitutional, undemocratic, fascist, politburo. A stealth coup d'etat in plain sight!!   The parasites in control of this nation are perfectly capable of being that diabolical!! - mpg 
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Ron Paul: ‘Super Congress’ a “Monstrous Creature”
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/08/04/ron-paul-%E2%80%98super-congress%E2%80%99-a-%E2%80%9Cmonstrous-creature%E2%80%9D/ 
Contains Related Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD8UdWOdsuo  ---  A quote...."Congressman Ron Paul re-emphasized his opposition to the new Super Congress that has been created by the debt deal during an appearance on Lou Dobbs’ Fox Business show last night, labeling the committee a “monstrous creature” that will be used by the Obama administration to advance its regulatory agenda." 
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Is the new "Super Congress" Constitutional?  ---  http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/8456-is-the-new-qsuper-congressq-constitutional 
A quote...."Napolitano raised another — and unassailable — objection to the legislation. Napolitano noted: "[Which] is this Congress binding itself and all future Congresses to a simple up-or-down vote." In that sense, the new "Super Congress" joint committee is truly revolutionary, and unquestionably unconstitutional." - bold by website editor - also posted at PrisonPlanet  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/is-the-new-super-congress-constitutional.html 
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Super Congress - Dancing on the Edge of Oblivion  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28750.htm 
Contains Related Video - Action Alert - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfsiXc49xLY  ---  (article audio) - A quote...."Currently our 'troops' and mercenaries are committing mass murder and proclaiming that to be necessary 'for the defense of the national security of the United States - which assumes the corollary to be true: that everyone we kill is an enemy of this nation. That's bullshit, and everyone with a brain has to know that."
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Lieberman: Super Congress Needs To Cut Social Security To Fund Illegal Perpetual Wars
  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/08/04/lieberman-super-congress-cut-social-security-pay-perpetual-wars-49251/ 
The AIPAC/Israeli shill and honorary Knesset member Joe Lieberman essentially says we have to now give up our social security to fund more wars for Israel!!  What a stooge! - mpg 
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Gerald Celente – Mike Broomhead – August 2nd, 2011  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/08/03/gerald-celente-mike-broomhead-august-2nd-2011/ 
Must View Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVq1lniUfXc  ---  (Outstanding Celente! - mpg) -- (YuTb - 10min35sec - Aug 3, 2011) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/GeraldCelenteChannel 
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Why I Will Be There  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28752.htm 
Video - Action Alert - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaCufTW9ID4  ---  (YuTb - Aug 3, 2011) - Source:  October2011org  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/October2011org  ---  A quote....""I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning." 
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CIA to UNICEF: Big Aid Has a Very Dirty Secret  ---  http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/02-08-2011/118641-CIA_to_UNICEF_Big_Aid-0/ 
A quote...."Former National Security Advisor in the Clinton White House and failed nominee to head the CIA, Anthony "Tony" Lake, is now Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF." - also posted at BLN
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/CIA_to_UNICEF%3A_Big_Aid_Has_a_Very_Dirty_Secret/15028/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
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Mexican Kingpin Says U.S. Protected Cartel  ---  http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=412972&CategoryId=14091 
A quote...."CHICAGO – A Mexican man charged with smuggling tons of cocaine into the United States told a federal judge in Chicago that U.S. authorities protected his outfit, the powerful Sinaloa cartel, in exchange for information on rival gangs." 
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Documents: Feds allegedly allowed Sinaloa cartel to move cocaine into U.S. for information
  ---  http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_18608410?source=most_viewed 
Related Article - A quote...."The case could prove to be a bombshell on par with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' "Operation Fast and Furious," except that instead of U.S. guns being allowed to walk across the border, the Sinaloa cartel was allowed to bring drugs into the United States. Zambada-Niebla claims he was permitted to smuggle drugs from 2004 until his arrest in 2009." 
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Breaking: Feds Caught Shipping Cocaine into U.S.  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/08/04/breaking-feds-caught-shipping-cocaine-into-u-s/ 
Related Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSdTJnzT7Kw  ---  (YuTb - 9min52sec - Aug 3, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  --- http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Federal agents in the U.S. okay'd tons of cocaine in exchange for info from drug cartel." 
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Whether It Is The Terror Crisis Or The Debt Crisis, The Solution Is Always A Super Dictatorship
  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2011/08/whether-it-is-terror-crisis-or-debt.html 
A quote...."Nothing makes sense in Washington if you assume that the leading political figures in both parties care about the interests, freedoms and security of the American people. The political, media, and financial elite are pursuing an anti-democratic, anti-Constitution, and anti-American agenda." - also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Terror_Crisis_Or_Debt_Crisis%2C_The_Solution_Is_Always_A_Super_Dictatorship_/15035/0/0/0/Y/M.html
& DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/08/04/whether-it-is-the-terror-crisis-or-the-debt-crisis-the-solution-is-always-a-super-dictatorship/ 
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Using “Terrorism” as a reason to stifle dissent: Americans no longer have a right to mass protests
  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/08/04/terrorism-reason-stifle-dissent-americans-longer-mass-protests-49711/ 
A quote...."North Americans no longer have the right to mass protest. Courts rule those arrested and beaten during mass protests have no right to legal recourse against the establishment."  - also posted at IntelHub
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/08/05/there-is-a-north-america-wide-strategy-to-take-away-the-right-to-mass-protest-using-terrorism-to-stifle-dissent/ 
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Police State 08-4-11 - A DProgram Round-Up  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/08/04/police-state-8-4-11/ 
A round-up of todays police state news from DProgram. - mpg 
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The Mysterious Death of Osama bin Laden: Creating Evidence Where There Is None  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25898 
Propaganda & A Presstitute Exposed - (The NewYorker) -- A quote...."The New Yorker  has published a story planted on Nicholas Schmidle by unidentified sources who claim to be familiar with the alleged operation that murdered Osama bin Laden. -- There is no useful information in the story. Its purpose seems simply to explain away or cover up holes in the original story, principally why did the Seals murder an unarmed, unresisting Osama bin Laden whose capture would have resulted in a goldmine of terrorist information and whose show trial would have rescued the government’s crumbling 9/11 story?"
Topix  ||  More on Osama Bin Back From the Dead™....  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/osamabinbackfromthedead-articlelist-mpg-050111.html 
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Meet a Propagandist  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Meet_a_Propagandist_/15032/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
A quote...."Just how badly compromised is the mainstream media? Frequent readers will undoubtedly know it is pretty bad. Entire editing staffs concertedly use weasel words in tandem with other organizations and agencies around the Western world to produce immense lies that are propagated to the four corners of the globe. The selling of the Iraq War is one good example. Syria is another more recent example...." 
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Slouching Toward Guatamala - Reflections on the Impossibility of Government  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28743.htm 
Must Read - Quote of the Day - A quote...."August 04, 2011 "Information Clearing House" ---- God it's wonderful—really diverting in a macabre sort of way, at least if you have a diseased sense of humor and enough Padre Kino red. Which I do. As I write the world's only delusional superflower, perennially in love with itself, navel-gazing as narcissistically as ever, ignorant, self-indulgent, gurbling like an insane relative in the attic and fondling electro-trinkets from Japan, is broke. Yes, we see a beautiful dive from the high board, two somersaults and a half-twist, into the Third World. And so richly deserved.  --  Congress, a collection of whores, con-men, and penny-ante sharpers from East Jesus, Nebraska, ponders the Great Question: Default now, and admit manfully to being the economic lepers everyone else already knows we are? Or raise the debt ceiling, keep spending like a spoiled Swarthmore sophomore with daddy's credit card, and collapse a bit later?  --  It's just lovely. The World’s Greatest Economy holding out the begging bowl to China. “Alms? Alms for the poor?” Maybe I don't have enough Padre Kino after all. Maybe there isn't enough." 
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The bankers’ budget  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/pers-a05.shtml 
A quote...."The United States had its political origin in a revolutionary struggle against an entrenched aristocracy. Today, the working class faces a no less determined foe—a parasitic financial elite whose only response to the crisis it has created is ever more draconian attacks on the social conditions of the vast majority of the population in the US and around the world." 
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The Debt Ceiling Debate that Didn’t Happen  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25890 
A quote...."In Europe, parliamentary checks on government spending were designed to prevent ambitious rulers from waging war. This was Adam Smith’s great argument against public debts, and his urging that wars be financed on a pay-as-you-go basis. He wrote that if people felt the economic impact of war immediately – rather than postponing it by borrowing – they would be less likely to support military adventurism. -- This obviously was not the Tea Party position, or that of the Republicans. What is so remarkable about the August 2 debt ceiling crisis in the United States is its seeming dissociation with war spending." 
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Barack Obama and the Debt Crisis:  A Successful Con Game Explained  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28744.htm 
A quote...."August 04, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- The phony debt ceiling crisis was, from beginning to end, a con. It was an elaborate and successful hoax in which the nation's first black president, the Democratic and Republican parties, Wall Street and corporate media all played indispensable parts. The object of the supposed “crisis” was to short circuit public opinion, existing law, democratic process and traditions of public oversight, in order to deal fatal blows to Medicaid, Medicare, social security, job growth and public expenditures for the common good. It worked. We've been conned." 
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WARNING …Real Crisis Ahead – Charlie McGrath  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/08/03/warning-real-crisis-ahead-charlie-mcgrath/ 
Must View CMcGVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQBSlCTl140  ---  (CMcGYuTb - 4min22sec - Aug 3, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/crabbydogtrix 
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What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – August 4th, 2011
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/08/04/what-really-happened-with-michael-rivero-august-4th-2011/ 
MRVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/291820405  ---  Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto - 7min50sec - into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - August 4th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.  
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More On The International Situation.... 

Max Keiser: 'Italy's 2400 Tons Of Gold Are The Real Target Of IMF Terrorists'
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/max-keiser-italys-2400-tons-of-gold-are-the-real-target-of-i.html 
MKVideo Teaser - From the History File - Jul 13, 2011 - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1HKr5qDXlA  ---  (MKRTYuTb - 1min40sec - 07/13/11) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Producer:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  A quote..."Watch the full Keiser Report E164  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZldFWb-mYBc  ---  on Thursday. [Jul 14, 2011] This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at how propaganda shapes political and economic outcomes in our economies. They report on Americans collecting government social welfare benefits without knowing it and U.S. Congressman taking financial bets against its government debt. And, finally, Max and Stacy suggest that if British teenagers are being extradited to America on copyright infringement, then George Michael ought to have a case against Rupert Murdoch under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act as well." - This was posted as a "Must View" when it came out on the front and back pages. - mpg 
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Iranian President Urged Europeans to Break Free From US Yoke
  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/1021-iranian-president-urged-europeans-to-break-free-from-us-yoke.html 
A quote...."Hamsayeh.Net - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an interview with Euronews TV on Wednesday urged the European nations to break away from United States’ ominous grip on the old continent’s destiny by adopting their own indigenous policies. He said Iran and European nations could boost mutual ties in all spheres and cooperate in different fields, FNA reported." 
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Russia reaches out to Iran  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/MH04Ag01.html 
A quote...."A recurring feature of the Russian-Iranian relationship is that it mostly languishes on the horizon but can be trusted to move to the center stage whenever there is a criticality in the Middle East situation. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi made a point recently in an interview with the Russian media when he described Iran as the "most significant neighbor" of Russia, which stands in the way of the Western strategy to encircle Russia." 
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Venezuelan President Urged Nations to Use Currencies Other Than The US Dollar
  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/1017-venezuelan-president-urged-nations-to-use-currencies-other-than-the-us-dollar.html 
A quote...."Hamsayeh.Net - President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has once again called for ending the use of the US dollar in international trades due to this particular currency’s inherent weaknesses. Chavez who is staunch opponent of US imperialism urged nations to consider using other currencies like the newly introduced Sucre among Latin American nations Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador with enormous success, La Presna Latina reported." 
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Afghan official dies in blast; 2 NATO troops killed in attacks  ---  http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/08/04/afghanistan.violence/index.html?
eref=rss_world&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_world+%28RSS%3A+World%29 
A quote...."Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A senior Afghan intelligence official was killed Thursday when a bomb exploded in the country's northern Kunduz province, according to a provincial council chief." 
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Tarpley on Syria: Beware of fraud and fabrications!  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/08/04/tarpley-on-syria-beware-of-fraud-and-fabrications/ 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blJ_1jKJbTY  ---  (RTYuTb - 5min07sec - Aug 4, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Despite backing the united statement on Syria, the U.S. is now calling for new, tougher sanctions against Damascus. Assad’s regime is already under a set of American and EU penalties. Investigative journalist Webster Tarpley told RT, the West wants a Syrian regime change to cement its influence in the Arab world." 
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Syrian “Rebels” Dumping Bodies in River  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/syrian-rebels-dumping-bodies-in-river/ 
Contains Video - A quote...."(very graphic and unlike the propaganda videos that are now a dime a dozen, this is very real.) - As best as I can gather, these are some of the so-called “rebels” in Syria dumping bodies in a river from the top of a bridge. The other day President Obama declared that we needed to help the peaceful rebels in Syria to overcome their cruel leader and install yet another “democracy” in the Middle East." 
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The Assault On Libya.... 

'NATO strike buries mother, children'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192392.html 
A quote...."The raid took place in Zliten, 150 kilometers (95 miles) east of Tripoli, on Thursday morning. -- The Libyan government, which took reporters on a tour of the city, said they were killed in a NATO airstrike on a villa in a residential neighborhood. -- The children's father, Mustafa Naji, said that two other family members were seriously injured in the raid. -- "Is this what you call protecting civilians?" AFP quoted a local official as saying. "This is what NATO is there for -- to kill our children."" 
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'Ten explosions rock Libyan capital'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192413.html 
A quote...."Ten explosions have rocked southeastern suburb of the Libyan capital city of Tripoli as NATO continues its airstrikes against the North African country, reports says." 
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Analysis - West in corner as Libya deadlock drags on  ---  http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7732MV20110804 
A quote...."PARIS (Reuters) - Having failed to bomb Muammar Gaddafi out of office, Western powers have no choice but to stick to their military campaign while also hoping that the Libyan leader will end their dilemma by bowing out himself. -- Contrary to initial hopes in Western capitals, Gaddafi has clung to power despite sanctions and more than four months of NATO bombing in support of rebel forces now in further disarray following the assassination of their military chief." 
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France to withdraw Libya carrier by mid-August  ---  http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLDE7730KM20110804 
A quote...."MARSEILLE, France Aug 4 (Reuters) - France will bring home its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier from its Libyan mission next week for maintenance, Defence Minister Gerard Longuet told the regional daily Var-Matin." 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

Norway's Victims  ---  http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=26176&p=165216#p165216 
Must View Photos - (click here)  ---  http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/oslobomben/ofre/  ---  Full quote...."Someone said the youth camp wasn't children. So I got a list. A lot of 17 and 18 year old people in there. Look at there faces. So Sad. This killer, this Zionist killer, shot these people and took their lives away." 


"So 53 of the victims were teenagers. - So the guy is still a child killing zionist psychopath." 
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Jewish publication says Jews give half of Democratic money and a third of Republican money
  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2011/08/jewish-publication-says-jews-give-half-of-democratic-money-and-a-third-of-republican-money.html 
A quote...."Nathan Guttman at Moment discusses "myths" about the Jewish vote and concedes my points: Jews really don't swing any state except maybe Florida, and the reason politicians pander to Jews is because of the money we bring to the process. Just imagine if evangelical Christians were so important in the process; would we ever hear the end of it in the liberal press? Do evangelicals have political diversity-- I bet they do. And speaking of diversity, where is ours? Guttman also says that Jews don't vote on Israel, but states that it's a "threshhold" issue, and so long as a politician supports aid to Israel and is against an imposed solution on Israel, he's fine. I.e., the issue isn't politicized in our process. Everyone's for that or they can't play. Guttman:" - also posted at AlethoNews - http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/jewish-publication-says-jews-give-half-of-democratic-money-and-a-third-of-republican-money/ 
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How Much Has the ADL and JINSA Corrupted Our Law Enforcement Agencies?
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-much-has-adl-and-jinsa-corrupted.html 
A quote...."It's not Halloween, but this should scare the crap out of any American. It's not enough that a certain 'SLC' on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean has hijacked the State and Treasury Departments, tells POTUS what to do and when, they also are polluting the minds of our law enforcement personnel, to help keep their 'Wars for Wall Street and Israel' going strong for the next several decades while back home, the police are going to be getting even more paranoid, arresting, beating or just killing outright Americans who they think might be 'Muzzie' lovers or vote for Ron Paul." 
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Turkey Not Present For Annual Naval Exercises With Israel And US  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/61798 
A quote...."For the second year in a row, Turkey is not participating in the naval drill, Reliant Mermaid, with Israel and the US. This action taken by Turkey is a result of the killing of nine Turkish activists from the 2010 Gaza Flotilla Raid." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/turkey-not-present-for-annual-naval-exercises-with-israel-and-us/ 
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Lawsuit filed against Israeli embassy in Jordan
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7pZ0VJ3cMA4E
P8XIFM3V%2fpcqKhOin1IpCQRxKkx2P9DBnJ0iPqVM4QC0WLS2R5HEptHWKc9Y39nA3r9KxKFLQAmcX2lhBLRmob7UHMJFX4lI%3d 
A quote...."AMMAN, (PIC)-- The Jordanian public prosecutor has launched an investigation after a Jordanian woman has filed a lawsuit against Israel’s ambassador in Jordan after she was detained and criminally abducted." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/10-jordan-valley-families-given-24-hours-to-leave-homes/ 
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Eyewitness to Judaization (I saw a soldier strike a young boy for walking on a road for Jews)
  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2011/08/eyewitness-to-judaization-i-saw-a-soldier-strike-a-young-boy-for-walking-on-a-road-for-jews.html 
A quote...."Jerusalem effectively consists of two cities, one Jewish, one Arab. Whereas these cities were at one point geographically distinct—Jews living in West Jerusalem, Palestinians in East Jerusalem—the Palestinian half of the city has lately seen its ethnic homogeneity rent by the construction of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, a process ongoing since the city was conquered in 1967." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/eyewitness-to-judaization-i-saw-a-soldier-strike-a-young-boy-for-walking-on-a-road-for-jews/ 
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Israeli "Democracy" Unmasked  ---  http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/israeli-democracy-unmasked/ 
A quote...."It is as if Israel has pushed the Fast-Forward button in the process of digging the grave for its own occupation and apartheid policies." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Palestinian man banished for ‘harassing’ usurping settler
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7xjV4U1Mwv32ClWZHlaz%2f
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A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli authorities have banished a Palestinian native of Beit Safafa for allegedly harassing Jewish settlers who usurped the residence of close relatives." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/palestinian-man-banished-for-%E2%80%98harassing%E2%80%99-usurping-settler/ 
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Gearing Up For the Next Flotilla  ---  http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/photo-essay-gearing-up-for-the-next-flotilla/ 
Photo Essey - A quote...."On August 2nd 100+ people gathered at All Souls Church in N.Y.C. to hear reports from 6 people who went to Greece to participate in Freedom Flotilla 2 – Stay Human to break the siege of Gaza.  It was exactly a year ago that people met at the same location to hear a report from Adam Shapiro and Ann Wright about last year’s flotilla when 9 people were murdered and 50 injured by Israeli commandos on the Mavi Marmara." 
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'IDF troops shot at journalists covering W. Bank protest'  ---  http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=232556 
A quote...."An American-Israeli photojournalist on Thursday lodged a complaint with the IDF Spokesman’s Office, the Government Press Office and the Foreign Press Association, alleging that IDF soldiers intentionally fired anti-riot projectiles at him and a fellow journalist while they were covering a protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Salih last Friday." 
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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (28 July– 03 Aug. 2011)
  ---  http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7635:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-28-july-03-aug-2011&catid=131:new 
Every single week of the year....mpg 

• Two Palestinian civilians were killed and a third one was wounded by IOF in Qalandya refugee camp, south of Ramallah.   
  
• A Palestinian civilian was wounded by IOF in the Gaza Strip.   
  
• Israeli warplanes bombarded a tunnel at the Egyptian border in the southern Gaza Strip and a training site in the north.   
  
• IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.   
  
• 3 Palestinian civilians, including two children, were wounded.   
  
• IOF arrested 3 international human rights defenders.   
  
• IOF conducted 44 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.   
  
• IOF arrested 21 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council.   
  
• Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.   
  
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.   
  

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More on Japan's & Amerika's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

Major Paper : Canada Government Covered Up “Massive Amounts Of Radiation In Air”
  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/08/04/canada-government-covered-massive-amounts-radiation-canadian-air-49771/ 
Radiation Warning & Cover-Up -- A quote...."A major canadian paper reports that the government covered up massive amounts of radioactive material from Fukushima in canadian air” and are continuing to manipulate radiation monitoring data." 
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Lethal Levels of Radiation at Fukushima: What Are the Implications?  ---  http://vimeo.com/27306360 
FWVideo - (ViemoVid - 5min59sec - Aug 4th, 2011) - Source:  Fairewinds Associates  ---  http://vimeo.com/user6415562  ---  A quote...."TEPCO has discovered locations on the Fukushima plant site with lethal levels of external gamma radiation.  Fairewinds takes a close look at how this radiation might have been deposited and how similar radioactive material would have been released offsite." 
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Tepco makes little headway in decontaminating water - Which EVERYBODY predicted. - mpg 
  ---  http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110805a4.html
A quote...."Tokyo Electric Power Co. continues to struggle with cleaning up the more than 120,000 tons of radioactive water flooding the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, as the utility has hardly been able to reduce the overall amount of the water in the past several weeks." 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

Don't Fight Bet On The Fed  ---  http://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug11/dont-bet-on-Fed-8-11.html 
Must Read Mrkt Note - A quote...."The era of quasi-religious belief in "Don't fight the Fed" is drawing to a close; the Fed has been revealed as significantly less omnipotent and powerful than previously imagined. -- Many observers expect the Federal Reserve to bail out the stock market next Tuesday with an announcement of QE3, another round of "monetary easing" to reinstall the trade in risk assets. If they do, it will fail. The basic reason it will fail is that the Fed's credibility has fallen below a critical threshold. Put another way, the quasi-religious trust in the Fed's infallibility and power to single-handedly reverse global markets has been eroded by reality: QE2 was a monumental failure. -- Here's a couple of things to understand about the Fed before you "buy the bounce when they announce QE3."" 
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U.S. eats up most of debt limit in one day -- $239 billion spike uses up 60% of funding OK’d on Tuesday
  ---  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/3/us-eats-most-debt-limit-one-day/ 
A quote...."U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday — the largest one-day bump in history — as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this week’s debt-limit increase deal." 
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All The World Economies In Trouble One Way Or Another  ---  http://theinternationalforecaster.com/index.php 
A quote...."It was 15-months ago that we projected that the second half of 2011 and onward would present many financial and economic problems, and we have not been disappointed. There was federal debt and its renewal, which we are now suffering through, municipal debt problems, the lack of any kind of solid recovery and financial problems emanating from Europe. Making the situation more difficult is the statistical exposure at Princeton University that more than $5 trillion has been spent since 9/11 to create new wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Pakistan, with more in the works." 
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US borrowing tops 100% of GDP: Treasury  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-borrowing-tops-100-of-gdp-treasury.html 
It's more like a 120% but who's counting, certainly not Congress, or Obama. - mpg  
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Wall Street Plummets  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/economy/1019-wall-street-plummets.html 
A quote...."Investors fled stocks on Thursday, putting the S&P 500 into correction territory, on escalating worries about the U.S. economy and Europe." 
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Guest Post: Where Are The Markets Headed Next?  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-where-are-markets-headed-next 
Chart - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/draghi/tp%201_4.png  ---  A quote...."Being honest, no one knows. But, using the current road map it appears we may have a little more selling before a decent move higher. Below is the updated 2007 "analog" as compared to the current market. Few interesting points." 
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And What Will Soon Be The Scariest Chart: Presenting Record Low Mutual Fund Cash Levels
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/and-what-will-soon-be-scariest-chart-presenting-record-low-mutual-fund-cash-levels 
Chart - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/draghi/Mutual%20Funds.jpg  ---  A quote...."Here is a chart of what could well be the biggest concern for the market, and one we have been highlights for a long time: mutual fund cash levels, which as ICI indicates were 3.4% in June, is the lowest ever. A 4% drop in the absolute value of mutual fund investments, effectively wipes out the capital buffer of most. Enter liquidations." 
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Ron Paul: Audit The Gold At Fort Knox! (Monetary Policy Subcommittee: Video)
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/ron-paul-audit-the-gold-at-fort-knox-monetary-policy-subcomm.html 
Contains Videos - RonPaulOpngStmnt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrko9S0kuX0  ---  RepLeutkemeyer?Thorson  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeQJZq4I7GY  ---  RonPaul?Thorson  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9zkx1QzWhE  ---  FullHearing  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo4b8ZPlzrw  ---  A quote...."Are the gold bars in Fort Knox really made of the precious metal?  Or has the government secretly sold off the stockpile and replaced it with tungsten bars that are painted gold? -- Ron Paul wants to find out. -- Giving legitimacy to aconspiracy theory that the gold in Fort Knox is fake, the iconoclast Republican congressman from Texas has asked adminstration officials to audit the purity of the nation's 700,000 gold bars held in Fort Knox, according to an internal Treasury document obtained by CNBC. Paul, a presidential candidate who chairs the House subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy, had previously called for the U.S. gold reserve to be counted and for a return to the gold standard...." - ArtclSrc:  CNBC  ---  http://www.cnbc.com/id/43391588 
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The Daily Bail Round-Up - Aug 5, 2011 at 1:02 AM  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/1400-millionaires-paid-no-us-income-taxes-bank-of-america-si.html 
A round-up of todays business news from the Daily Bail. - mpg 
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Italian, Spanish, Belgian Spreads At Record, Intesa And Dexia Limit Down, Markets Plunge, Cats And Dogs Living Together...
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/italian-spanish-belgian-spreads-record-intesa-and-dexia-limit-down-markets-plunge-cats-and-dogs 
A quote...."The meek and somnolent shall inherit nothing, because Europe just came back online and the apocalypse has resumed. Italian, Spanish and Belgian bonds opened lower, with spreads to Bunds surging the most since before the euro was introduced in 1999 " 
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EURCHF Crashing After Hours On Italian Bank Run Concerns  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/eurchf-crashing-after-hours-italian-bank-run-concerns 
A quote...."Less than an hour ago, Larry Kudlow tweeted the following: "Sources tell me Italy has to restructure bonds.Deposit run on Italian banks.EU will have to mount Tarp rescue.Big stress on interbank loans." Basically, this is the worst possible combination for Europe which means that another bailout is not only imminent but has to happen tomorrow." 
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Viewpoint: Yen is heading for a currency collapse  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14399978 
A quote...."The Japanese yen is now being chosen as a safe haven. But the currency is about as safe as standing under a cliff in the way of a landslide in the pouring rain." 
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Wednesday August 3rd 2011 - links page

Tuesday August 2nd 2011

More On The Domestic Situation....

The War on You
A quote...."Let the word go forth from Washington! The corporate rulers occupying our nation’s capital have declared war on just about every citizen. -- Have no doubt: those in the upper ranges of the top 1% of wealth in this country (aka The Money Party) want to kick you to the curb. -- They want to reduce your social security and make you go broke paying for medical care. -- They want to lower your wages and trash your retirement. -- They ignore the clear facts that we’ve had negative job growth since 2000 and the situation is just getting worse. -- They want to ship jobs, factories, and entire businesses overseas and give companies that do that a big fat tax credit for doing so. -- They’ve been given so much for nothing for so long. Now, they’re ready to take it all. It’s their time!" - also posted at AlethoNews

Socialism for the Rich -- Capitalism for Everyone Else
A quote...."Banks create money by making loans to their customers. This method accounts for around 97 per cent of the money in circulation. Nearly all money is created as debt, repayable at interest. This means that all loans have to be repaid with money also created as debt and loaned at interest. No wonder the economy struggles, when the system of money creation heaps cost upon unnecessary cost. And no wonder the banks generate such enormous profits."

Federal judge: CIA not in contempt for destroying interrogation tapes
And the 9/11 cover-up continues....mpg - A quote...."A federal judge on Monday rejected arguments that the CIA should be held in contempt for destroying videotapes allegedly showing the torture of detainees during interrogations." - Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||

Obama Still Wall Street's Honey ... Raises More (As Both Raw Amount And Percentage) From Wall Street Than In 2008 -- A quote...."A just-released study by the Center for Responsive Politics shows that President Obama is relying more on Wall Street to fund his re-election this year than he did in 2008, according to CNBC, which obtained an advance copy of the report."

Super Congress: the final nail in the coffin of representative democracy and freedom as we know it
A quote...."Cloaked in the fear surrounding the debt ceiling and a possible default is the most dangerous legislation that America has ever faced. If this passes, the Super Congress will make the PATRIOT Act look like a just and fair law. When six Republicans, six Democrats and the President have complete control over the legislature, we need to be concerned." - also posted at DProgram

Opponents Of Debt Hike to be Barred From “Super Congress”
Related Article - A quote...."Senators who voted against the debt ceiling hike will be barred from being on the panel of the unconstitutional “Super Congress,” as the Washington elite ensures all roadblocks to crippling tax increases and other planned assaults on the constitution are removed."

Pentagon lands extra $50 billion out of debt deal
A quote...."Out of a bill that was supposed to cut government spending and waste wherever it is found, lawmakers managed to cobble together an additional $50 billion for the U.S. Defense Department's budget, using an accounting trick to disguise the move." - also posted at BLN

The Debt Ceiling Deal From Hell
A quote...."Is the debt ceiling deal supposed to be some sort of a cruel joke?  Is this what the American people have been waiting months and months for?  The "debt ceiling deal from hell" is a complete and total fraud."

Gerald Celente: 'Economic Martial Law Will Be Declared'
Related Article - A quote...."What will another major terror strike mean? Should an attack hit one of the major NATO nations, the effects, this time, will go global. Bank holidays will be called, the US and other fragile economies will crumble, gold and silver will soar, and already-troubled currencies will crash. Economic martial law will be declared. Introduced as a temporary measure, once in place it will remain in place (like the curfews and draconian security precautions installed by despots and dictators everywhere). Civil rights will be suspended and, particularly in America, Homeland Security, already intolerably intrusive, will achieve an Orwellian omnipresence." -- also posted at ICH

Gerald Celente Russia Today - 2nd August 2011
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min04sec - Aug 2, 2011) - Source:  geraldcelente -- A quote...."RT spoke to Gerald Celente from the Trends Research Institute and publisher of the Trends Journal. He believes, despite the last-minute debt deal, the U.S. is heading towards the next Great Depression."

Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - August 2 2011
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto - 7min50sec - into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - August 2nd, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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More On The International Situation....

BBC fears journalist in Afghanistan may have been killed by Nato
A quote...."The BBC has asked Nato to investigate the death of one of its journalists in Afghanistan after reports suggested international forces could have been involved."

Iraqis want US military presence terminated
A quote...."Over 2.5 million Iraqis have signed a demand that the US military presence in the country should be terminated."

US grows a tree of tension with Iran
A quote...."A full-fledged tree of tension with Iran has been nurtured by Washington, firmly rooted in a comprehensive regime of sanctions, military encirclement, propaganda and psychological warfare, and a low-intensity proxy war through ethnic terrorist groups. It is now spiraling toward yet another confrontation in the Middle East. " - also posted at AlethoNews

Iran to launch 3 new petchem plants
A quote...."Iran's Oil Ministry plans to set up three new petrochemical plants in the near future to increase its gains by producing more propylene, an Iranian official says."

The Truth Behind Syria's Unrest -- "Mostly Unarmed" Means Armed
A quote...."Bangkok, Thailand August 3, 2011 - When the corporate-owned media claims Syrian protesters are "mostly unarmed" they are really saying in Orwellian terms, they are indeed armed."

Imperialists — hands off Syria!
A quote...."U.S. and French imperialism have flagrantly intervened in the Syrian crisis and made it obvious that they will act to overthrow and replace President Bashir Assad. This is an open threat to the people of Syria. It is a clear signal that progressive forces in the U.S. must give priority to combating this imperialist intervention no matter how they evaluate the Assad government."

Greece In Panic: Masses Race To Pull Cash From Banks Causing A Great Depression Style Bank-Run
Financial Alert - A quote...."The Guardian reports that while Western media has been silent on the issue Greece is in an absolute state of panic facing a Great Depression style run on the banks as people race to withdrawal their cash."

Greece in panic as it faces change of Homeric proportions
Financial Alert - Related Article - A quote...."In one of the biggest banks in the centre of Athens a clerk is explaining how his savers have been thronging to pull out their cash."
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The Assault On Libya....

Benghazi Rebel Infighting Explained - Leonor
Must View MVideo - Alt - (MYuTb - Aug 1, 2011) - Source:  108morris108 -- A quote...."After Younis, the Rebel Military Leader was assassinated, the Warfalla tribe rallied around him, and showed support for Gaddafi. They abandoned their frontline positions and went into Benghazi to seek revenge for the Rebel command's seeming order for him to be assassinated."

BREAKING NEWS: Libyan Transitional Council Rebels in Total Disarray
A quote...."TRIPOLI, August 1, 2011. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has seen no end to fighting inside Libya. NATO has intensified its bombardment of Tripoli and other major cities. Tens of thousands of fliers have been dropped by NATO from the skies asking the Libyan military to surrender. -- The social momentum in Libya against NATO and its illegitimate Transitional Council has been picking up speed.  Mass opposition to the rebels is building up in rebels’ stronghold Benghazi."

All quiet on the Libyan front?
Special Note - A quote...."How odd. Western news agencies have gone quiet about Libya. Not a peep! You could hear a pin drop. Is something going on? Rather than copy and paste lies and hype and misquotations of the truth let us see what is really going on using real sources from within Libya itself. For those wannabe hacks who have tried to get my sources, find your own!"

NATO too stupid to face reality
Special Note - A quote...."With the controversial death of Abdel Fatah Younis, it has become glaringly apparent that the NTC is a fractured, disorganized mess of incompetence that cannot even keep its own people under control, much less run a country. But try telling that to the foot in the mouth government of the United Kingdom, or that Napoleon wannabe Sarkozy. -- The timing only outlined the stupidity of recognizing a group of ragtag, disorganized terrorists as a government, as news of the death came the day after the UK announced its recognition while expelling Libyan diplomats at the same time." - also posted at ICH

Seven Libyan rebels killed in Gaddafi counter-attack
A quote...."MISRATA, Libya - Forces loyal to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi killed seven rebels and wounded another 65 in a counter-attack in the town of Zlitan on Tuesday, hospital sources in Misrata said."

Norway Withdraws Jets from Libya Ops: Military
End Game for Benghazi Rebels as Libyan Tribes Prepare to Weigh in?
Philippines continues to recognize Libyan government: senior official
Chavez: Venezuela firmly backing Gadhafi
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More on the World Wide Revolution....

Robert Fisk: Egypt's revolutionary youth are being sidelined
A quote...."Revolution betrayed. The Egyptian army now colludes with the hated Muslim Brotherhood to bring you – well, a new Egypt that looks much like the old one, cleansed of Mubarak and most (not all) of his henchmen, but with the Army’s corrupt privileges (housing, complexes, banks, etc) safely maintained in return for allowing the bearded ones a share in power. Cut out of the picture: the young and secular revolutionaries who actually fought Mubarak’s security thugs off the streets in order to rid themselves of the 83-year old dictator."

Attacks by Yemeni government kill many
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

A Forum for the Israeli Lobby, Neocons & the Whirling Obama-Apologists
A Zio-Presstitute Exposed - (DailyKos) -- A quote...."A Parasitic Puppet Forums’ No-No List: From 9/11 to Israel & Obama-Cons -- Any real criticism and exposure of Obama-Cons made it to the top of their ‘no-no’ list. -- 911Same goes for other ‘dangerous’ topics. Even though, initially, this forum started off on the back of rational and legitimate 9/11 critics, despite milking the attention on 9/11 related topics at the time, it very quickly changed course and started banning and censoring any and all topics related to 9/11."

Israel: Rogue State Land of Inequality
A quote...."August 02, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Growing millions worldwide understand Israel's decades-long project to colonize Palestine, dispossess its people, steal their land, and terrorize them into submission. They also know it hasn't worked nor will it." - Source:  SteveLendman

MK Ben-Eliezer: Israel offered political asylum to Mubarak
Well, THAT figures! - mpg - A quote...."03 Aug 2011 MK Benjamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor) told Army Radio on Wednesday that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak political asylum several months ago. Ben-Eliezer's statement came on the same day that Mubarak was transported from Sharm el-Sheikh to Cairo to stand trial for conspiring to kill protesters during demonstrations that led to his ouster earlier this year."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

'Alarming' rise in attacks on Palestinian children
A quote...."RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Authority on Sunday warned that Israel's attacks on Palestinian children were escalating at "an alarming rate" and urged the UN to step in." - also posted at Uruknet

Hamas rebuilds ruined Gaza structures
Contains Video - A quote...."The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says it has managed to reconstruct most of the buildings destroyed during the December 2008-January 2009 Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip."
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More on Japan's & Amerika's Nuclear Power Plants....

Almost Five Months After Accident, Highest Rad Readings Detected, Now In Three Areas
Radiation Alert - A quote...."The readings are literally "off the charts."  This is anomalous in its own right -- what could be producing that much energy but a recriticality? And what could be more fitting than the way the MSM is studiously ignoring the topic, feeding us catchphrases and psuedoscience:"

Fukushima Radiation 1,000 Times H-Bomb Peak
Radiation Alert - A quote...."(San Francisco) – Dr. Chris Busby, world famous physicist, said tests run at the respected Harwell Radiation Laboratory in England demonstrate the airborne radiation in Japan is 1,000 times higher than radioactive “fallout” at the peak in 1963 of H-Bomb detonations by the nuclear powers. The calculations were on radioactive Cesium 137."
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More On The Economic Situation....

The Average Life Expectancy For A Fiat Currency Is 27 Years ... Every 30 To 40 Years The Reigning Monetary System Fails And Has To Be Retooled  -- Quote of the Day...."Monetary scholar Edwin Vieira ... pointed out that every 30 to 40 years the reigning monetary system fails and has to be retooled. The last time around for the U.S. was in 1971, when Nixon cancelled the convertibility of dollars into gold. Remarkably, the world bought into the unbacked dollar as its reserve currency, but only because that was the path of least resistance. But here we are 40 years later, and it is clear to anyone paying attention that the monetary system is irretrievably broken and will fail."

The phony-as-a-$3-bill debt deal
A quote...."Maybe Washington can start paying invoices with $3 bills — because the “dramatic” agreement to “reduce the national debt” is as phony as a three dollar bill. -- Weeks of nearly round-the-clock negotiations among the White House, House and Senate have led to an “historic” debt deal that consists almost entirely of fluff, doublespeak and empty promises."

Five Things You Need to Know About the Economy
A quote...."Of course, in time the U.S. government (along with many others) will default. However, they are highly unlikely to do so by decree or even through the sort of legislative inaction recently on display. Rather, it will come about through the time-honored tradition of screwing debtors via the slow-roasting method of monetary inflation. -- Yet most people still bought into the latest drama put on by the Congressional Players – a troupe of actors whose skills at pretense and artifice might very well qualify them for gilded trophies at awards banquets. Instead, rather than glittering statuettes, these masters of the thespian arts settle for undeserved honorifics and the pole position at the public trough. Followed by lifelong pensions." - also posted at ZeroHedge

"The President Thinks They Have Raised The Debt Ceiling Enough To Get Through The Next Election..."
MOXVideo - Alt1 - Alt2 - (Good Peter Schiff! - mpg) - (MOXYuTb - 3min54sec - Aug 1, 2011) - Source:  MOXNEWSd0tCOM -- A quote...."You know the one bit of irony here is the President thinks that they've raised the debt ceiling enough to get through the next election...I think he's probably wrong.  I think the economy is going to be so weak between now and then that the deficits going to be so much worse then they think it's going to be, that we might run into this new debt ceiling long before the November 2012 election. -- *Peter Schiff*

Good call, this website editor agrees. Even if Bernanke launches QE3 big time (and he will) they won't be able to save this economy, they've done way to much damage already. - mpg

Former Comptroller General: “Sudden And Very Painful” Economic Collapse Is Coming
Contains Video - A quote...."Former head of the Government Accountability Office and Comptroller General of the United States, David Walker has issued a stark warning following the compromise deal to raise the debt ceiling." - also posted at DProgram

Treasury Curve Pancaking As Stocks Approach 1252 Support
A quote...."The worst possible news for financials, which basically never managed to tick higher in all of 2011, is now here as the entire Treasury curve has virtually pancaked today, making sure that the perfect storm for banks is here, with nobody trading (no sales revenue), prop trading dismantled (no trading revenue), and no lending revenue soon either (2s10s heading to 0%). The closed loop will send even more money into the 10 and 30 Year, causing even more pain for banks, and so on ad inf until Bernanke relents. And you can be certain that the CEOs of the TBTFs are on the phone with the New York Fed as we speak. Luckily, the next FOMC meeting is August 9 which means the market will only have to deal with this non QE3 uncertainty for a few days. Naturally when QE3 is announced, gold will promptly leave $2000 in the rearview mirror."

Max Keiser: AAA to junk – just what Wall St. wants!
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min01sec - Aug 2, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – While the compromise agreed in Washington comes just in time to prevent an immediate catastrophe, financial analyst Max Keiser believes it won’t be enough to persuade ratings agencies to let America keep its precious ‘triple A’ credit score."

[US] Food Stamp Use Surges By Most In Years As Alabama Foodstamp Recipients Double In May
A quote...."It appears that GDP data revisions are not the only thing that the administration enjoys fudging with in order to make the Chinese ministry of Truth seem like a real ministry of truth. After last month the data for April food stamp recipients indicated the we may, just may, be reaching an inflection point in the foodstamp participation following a mere 60 thousand jump in those receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), today's just released data confirmed that the BLS and BEA may have had a hand or two when determining this latest data series. Because the just announced jump in foodstamp usage of over 1.1 million is entirely out of the blue, and as the chart below shows, is the highest single monthly jump in Foodstamp participation since mid 2009...."

Sharp fall in consumer spending, manufacturing in US
A quote...."Economic data released this week provides further evidence that economic growth in the US has virtually come to a halt. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that consumer spending fell by 0.2 percent in June, the first monthly decline since September of 2009. Personal income increased a negligible 0.1 percent, the smallest gain since last November, according to the department. Wages and salaries remained unchanged."

China Boldly Goes (Again) Where Moody's Has Never Gone Before, Downgrades US From A+ To A, Outlook Negative -- A quote...."As was predicted last week, China's rating agency Dagong, unlike its worthless western counterparts, has come through on its threat to downgrade the US in the event a subpar debt ceiling deal was hammered out. As Xinhua reports, 'Dagong Global Credit Rating Co. said Wednesday it has cut the credit rating of the United States from A+ to A with a negative outlook after the U.S. federal government announced that the country's debt limit would be increased."

The Daily Bail Round-Up - Aug 3, 2011 at 1:07 AM
A round-up of todays business news from the Daily Bail. - mpg

Italy, Spain feel heat as debt crisis is reignited
A quote...."A combination of growth worries and risk aversion sent Italian and Spanish bond yields soaring to euro-era highs on Tuesday, freshly reigniting fears the euro-zone’s debt crisis could engulf two of the major economies in Europe."

Monday August 1st 2011

More on the "Debt Deal"....

Fatal Vision: Last Bad Deal Gone Down
Must Read - A quote...."So the deed is done. The "debt ceiling" crisis has been "resolved" by a further maniacal destruction of the commonweal, in a bipartisan pact that completely ignores the murderous imperial wars as the primary drain on the nation's treasury. As we noted here yesterday, the deal also sets up an unaccountable politburo (the special "Super Congress" committee) that will remove further coddling of the rich from the democratic process altogther. -- However, I do feel I must defend our president from the charges of "weakness" and "cowardice" and "capitulation" that are pouring in on his noble head from all sides. Many learned Thebans are advancing the idea that Barack Obama has somehow "capitulated" to "extremists" who "forced" him into this "terrible deal." -- The truth of course is that the Republican "extremists" served the same function for Obama as the "fatal vision" of the daggers did for Macbeth: "Thou marshal'st me the way that I was going." Obama came into office declaring his intent to strike a "grand bargain" on the deficit, eagerly putting Medicare, Social Security and other programs on the table for "reforms." He made clear from the start that his first and foremost allegiance was to the elite institutions of the financial markets (and the militarist oligarchy they feed)...."

Debt Ceiling Deal All Cuts No Taxes
A quote...."The cuts are still focused on Social Programs. But We The People already paid into those programs. The government borrowed that money (Social Security is the largest single holder of US Government debt obligations) and now the government is unable to pay back that money. So, in a very real way, the US Government is already deep in default ... to the American people. -- Yet as the new "plan" shows, the US Government, serene in its faith that the American people are the one creditor who will never foreclose, plans to borrow and spend on wars, borrow and spend on Wall Street, borrow and spend on Israel, and when the bills have to be paid, embezzle the American people's already-paid-for social programs to make the payments! I don't have a problem with the "no taxes all cuts" approach except that the cuts are all to the American people who paid for it all and a token few to the military and Wall Street (and none at all to Israel)." -- *Michael Rivero*

Obama Promises No Cuts Until After Next Election!
A quote...."So, "Massa" Obama is going to borrow another $2 trillion to which your children will be enslaved, there are no tax increases, no spending cuts, no balanced budget... The debt increases, and all Obama and the Congress agreed to do is make it someone else's problem! -- It is time to foreclose on this deadbeat government!" -- *Michael Rivero*

The Looting Of America: The Federal Reserve Made $16 Trillion In Secret Loans To Their Bankster Friends And The Media Is Ignoring The Eye-Popping Corruption That Has Been Uncovered -- A quote...."A one-time limited GAO audit of the Federal Reserve that was mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has uncovered some eye-popping corruption at the Fed and the mainstream media is barely even covering it.  It turns out that the Federal Reserve made $16.1 trillion in secret loans to their bankster friends during the financial crisis.  You can read a copy of the GAO investigation for yourself right here.  These loans only went to the "too big to fail" banks and to foreign financial institutions. "

13 Reasons Why The U.S. Is Now OFFICIALLY BANKRUPT
A quote...."Attention idiots in the mainstream media - Stop The Budget Lies - There are NO cuts - House passes bill to INCREASE spending by $7 Trillion Over the next 10 years -- Lies, damn lies and government budgets --
I am so pissed off by the misreporting I could spit razors...."
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More On The Domestic Situation....

The US Dictatorship and its White House Servant ‘President’
Special Note - A quote...."....Obama is but a figurehead of an unelected government in the US. This unelected power of corporate elites – commercial, financial, military – governs with the same core policies regardless of who is sitting in the White House. Whether these policies are on social, economic or foreign matters, the elected president must obey the direction ordained by the unelected elite. That kind of untrammeled power structure conforms more closely in practice to dictatorship, not democracy. -- As Michael Hudson and Ellen Brown reveal in their analyses of the US budget debacle, Obama is pathetically doing the bidding of Wall Street – much like an errand boy [1] [2]." - bold by website editor - also posted at Hamsayeh & TheIntelHub

Psychopaths: the perfect academic word for US political, economic “leadership”
A quote...."Psychopaths are viciously destructive in action. They obfuscate with lies and charm. They persist only when their actions are unrecognized; 95% of the population reject such criminal destruction (here and here). -- US political and economic “leadership” are psychopaths because their central policies are viciously destructive, as the following links explain, document, and prove. “Leadership” obfuscate with lies, charm, and US corporate media complicity."

Mainstream Media Is A Cheerleader for Fear
Illustration - (click to enlarge) - Full quote...."Painting by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com -- For facts documenting the unfortunate truth behind this image, see this and this."

Who Can Take This Country Seriously?
A quote...."As we enter the final 24 hours of the manufactured debt ceiling "crisis", I'm sure that many of you are having trouble taking the United States seriously. That's understandable because America is not a serious enterprise. A tiny minority of America's citizens stopped taking this country seriously a long time ago. And then there are The Great Unwashed, aka. "consumers", who constitute the vast majority of the citizenry."

Tragic Justice – TSA Reports Agents Developing Cancer from Naked Body Scanners
A quote...."Well, I hate to say 'I told you so' ... no, actually, I am really enjoying this! -- But yeah, we did try to warn you TSA bozos that these scanners were no more safe to use than the shoe store fluoroscopes the government said were cool to use back in the 1930s and 1940s ... right up until the shoe store sales people started to die from an epidemic of cancer! -- And now it turns out that the TSA has known all along there is a problem with cancer clusters appearing among the staff gropers at many airports, not just the earlier publicized one at Logan...." -- *Michael Rivero*

Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - August 1 2011
Must Listen MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto - 7min50sec - into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - August 1st, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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John F. Kennedy - April 27, 1961 Speech
Must Listen Video - (YuTb - 5min24sec - Nov 14, 2010) -- Instead of thinking Communism when you listen to this speech.....think Zionism.  Think Israel.  Think the Banksters.  Think of what they've done to this country.  Think of 9/11, think of the PNAC Protocols.  Think of the presstituting, in-bed-with, corporate-media.  Than take action. - mpg
 
11 Reasons Why The 9/11 Fable is So Popular
Must Read - A quote...."1. The bigness of the lie. Adolf Hitler said: "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." William Hazlitt said, "the greater the lie, the more enthusiastically it is believed and greedily swallowed." And Hannah Arendt said...."


The Missing Security Tapes From The World Trade Center
A quote...."Late on the night of August 23, 2001, at about 3 a.m. security cameras in the parking garage of the World Trade Center captured the arrival of two or three truck vans."
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More On The International Situation....

Violence in Iraq Increasing; June Deadliest Month for U.S. Soldiers in 2 Years
A quote...."Five months before the last U.S. troops are scheduled to leave Iraq, a U.S. government watchdog said Saturday the country is more dangerous now that it was a year ago, and suggested that the U.S. military has been underplaying the violence."

BBC reporter among 21 killed in Afghan attacks
A quote...."Taliban bomb and gun attacks on an official's compound and a militia base in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan killed 21 people on Thursday, including a local BBC reporter. -- Five hours of fighting were triggered after insurgents detonated a car bomb outside the deputy provincial governor's compound close to the main hospital in Trinkot, Uruzgan's capital, a provincial government spokesman said."

Afghan governor: NATO airstrike kills 4
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan – The governor of a province in northeastern Afghanistan said Monday a NATO airstrike killed four police officers at a checkpoint in the remote, mountainous region."

10 NATO oil tankers torched in S. Pakistan, 4 injured
A quote...."01 Aug 2011 At least ten NATO oil tankers were torched in southern Pakistani Sindh province early Monday morning while on their way from Karachi to Peshawar, reported local Urdu TV channel Geo. According to the report, the incident took place at about 2:00 a.m. local time Monday morning when unknown gunmen opened fire at a NATO supply convoy moving from the southern port city of Karachi to Peshawar, a major city in northwest Pakistan."

[Lebanon's] Army exchanges fire with Israeli patrol at Blue Line
A quote...."WAZZANI, Lebanon: Hezbollah condemned the exchange of fire between the Lebanese and Israeli armies along the Blue Line Monday morning as “an aggression against Lebanon,” while Israeli officials downplayed the incident, calling it a “misunderstanding."

Hezbollah: Israel targeted all of Lebanon
A quote...."The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says the recent Israeli attack on the Lebanese Army is tantamount to an offensive against the entire country. "

Jordan receives 1 billion dollar grant from Saudi Arabia
A quote...."Amman - Jordan has received a new grant of 1 billion dollars from Saudi Arabia to help the kingdom cope with its growing financial burdens, government officials said in Amman on Tuesday. "

Putin says U.S. is "parasite" on global economy
Quote of the Day...."LAKE SELIGER, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets. -- "They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy," Putin told the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi while touring its lakeside summer camp some five hours drive north of Moscow. -- "They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar," Putin said at the open-air meeting with admiring young Russians in what looked like early campaigning before parliamentary and presidential polls."

Russia Reiterates Rejection of Foreign Interference in Syria
A quote...."MOSCOW- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov renewed Russia’s rejection of foreign interference in Syria. -- He saw in a TV address that national dialogue is the best way to solve the internal problems in Syria through reforms in all domains and rebuilding the administrative system. -- Mikhail Bogdanov said his country supports all efforts to continue national dialogue in Syria in a constructive atmosphere which serves the interests of people, hoping that this dialogue will yield positive outcomes, especially that the Syrian leadership had proposed a set of reform programs and plans."

UK Police Tells Public To Report Anti-Government Beliefs As Terrorism
No doubt a policy that will soon be adopted here  in Amerika. - mpg -- A quote...."The London Metropolitan Police is encouraging businesses and the general public to immediately report anyone who holds anti-government political beliefs to the authorities as terrorists, calling on people to become volunteer informants as the state prepares for widespread social unrest."
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The Assault On Libya....

Libya - What America's Media Won't Report
A quote...."America's media staunchly back all US imperial wars, regurgitating officials lies as truths. Moreover, they never explain their illegality or daily crimes of war and against humanity against civilians, as well as non-military related infrastructure and other sites."

Patrick Cockburn: Why the West is committed to the murderous rebels in Libya
A quote...."In keeping with the British Government's well-established record of comical ineptitude in dealing with Libya, William Hague chose to recognise the rebel leaders in Benghazi as the legitimate government of the country at the very moment some of them may have been shooting or torturing to death their chief military commander." - also posted at ICH

Dr. Moussa Ibrahim 3 Libya Press Conference [29-July-11]
Must View Video - (YuTb - 11min30sec - Jul 30, 2011) - Source:  KnewWorldNoing -- A quote...."Press Conference Libyan Government Spokesperson Dr. Moussa Ibrahim on Friday 29-07-2011"

Libya: NATO Continues to Bomb Civilian Targets
A quote...."TRIPOLI, July 30, 2011. While NATO is attempting to find an exit strategy, the daily bombings continue to target civilians. On some nights, NATO warplanes have been flying with their lights on."

Kadhafi forces retake western village
A quote...."JOSH, Libya (AFP) – Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi were again in control on Monday of the village of Josh at the foot of the strategic western Nafusa mountains, AFP journalists at the scene said."

Libyan Children Against NATO's "Humanitarian War": Drawings and Artists' Paintings
A quote...."TRIPOLI, August 1, 2011  Many of the victims of NATO's humanitarian bombing campaign have been children. -- Libyans have opposed the NATO war of aggression against their country in various ways. -- One of the forms that this resistance has taken has been in the form of artistic representations. -- Here are selected photographs from children's drawings and artists' paintings at an exibit in Tripoli against the NATO war on Libya."

Gadhafi speech with English subtitles al khoms 26.7.11 - video - (YuTb 10m18s 072911) Src:  123VivaDjazair
Libya’s Gadhafi thanks Chavez for support; Venezuelan leader says ‘we’re with you’
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More on the World Wide Revolution....

Guardian: U.K. Being Swept By Movement To Remove The Elite Bankers And Media Barrons From Power
Hip Hip Hooray!! - A quote...."The U.K. is being swept by a movement to strip power from a small group of elite bankers and media barons whose “private interests have bankrupted and corrupted the public realm” -- While such thinking here in America is labeled conspiracy theory due to the brain washing of the masses by the corporate media Great Britain has been woken up to the truth."

Greek taxi drivers step up strike, block traffic
A quote...."ATHENS (Reuters) - Taxi drivers blocked major roads across Greece Monday, stepping up protests against EU/IMF-inspired reforms to their trade and disrupting tourism at the height of the summer season."

[Egypt's] Central Tahrir Square was forcibly cleared Monday of the remnants of a three-week-old sit-in
A quote...."CAIRO — Central Tahrir Square was forcibly cleared Monday of the remnants of a three-week-old sit-in protesting the slow pace of change since the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak, with hundreds of Egyptian troops and security police officers shredding tents, arresting dozens of protesters and sending about 200 others fleeing into nearby streets as the Ramadan holiday was about to begin." - Source: NYT

Saudi-backed forces attack Bahrainis
A quote...."Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have fired tear gas at peaceful anti-regime protesters in the village of Nuwaidrat as the brutal crackdown continues."

Yemen air force bombs its allies in error
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Israel behind Iran academic hit: Spiegel
A quote...."The German weekly Der Spiegel has reported that Israel was behind the assassination of Iranian academic Dariush Rezaeinejad."

The Laws of Israel....

1. Any economic or geo-political competitor to the state of Israel is to be taken down in any way possible.
2. Nation states that compete with Israel, especially in the Middle East, must be disrupted, disorganized and destroyed. They must be reduced to the "tribal" level.
3. Nations that "cooperate" i.e. those whose economic, political, educational, and mass-media structures have been co-opted or "parasitized" should be sucked dry and "played" against other nation states who compete against Israel.
4. The deaths and impoverishment to the non-Jews in "parasitized" nation states are irrelevant. If necessary tens of millions can be murdered if it would further the first three laws.

These laws model Israel's behavior for the last sixty years.  You can accurately predict what Israel is going to do next, or how Israel is going to behave regarding any situation, using these four laws. - mpg

For more on this sort of issue see the section posted 01-17-11 shown below....
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'G77 to pursue Iran scientists killings'
Iranian nuclear scientist 'killed by Mossad or the CIA'
Malaysian professor slams silence on Iranian scientists’ murders
Iran's scientist killed in blast
44 Iranian Scientists and Engineers were on board Kyrgyz 737
Iran says it [will] sue Israel for scientist’s murder
Plane crash leaves 77 dead in Iran

Reiter:  "The entire foundation has to be torn down and repoured. If not, there will be at least a subsidence at the southern end of the barracks. Subsidence, and then collapse."

Goeth:  "And you are an engineer?"

Reiter:  "Yes. My name is Diana Reiter. I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan."

Goeth:  "Ah, an educated Jew … like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharfuehrer!"

Hujar:  "Jawohl?"

Goeth:  "Shoot her."

Reiter:  "Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job!"

Goeth:  "Ja, I'm doing mine."

Hujar:  "Sir, she's foreman of construction."

Goeth:  "I'm not going to have arguments with these people."

[Hujar starts to drag Reiter away; Goeth stops him]

Goeth:  "No. Shoot her here, on my authority."

Reiter:  "It will take more than that …"

Goeth:  "I'm sure you're right."

[Reiter is shot]

Goeth:  "Take it down, repour it, rebuild it, like she said."

Quote from the movie "Schindler's List" - Amon Leopold Goth was "a Hauptsturmführer (Captain) of the SS, he was the commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Płaszów, General Government (a German-occupied area of Poland)."

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More On The Palestinian Situation....

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): Mekerot Water Company disrupts flow of water to Palestinian crops again
A quote...."The Mekerot Water Company continues to disrupt the flow of water to Palestinian farms in the Beqa’a Valley.  CPTers received a call on 20 July to document further damage to crops when the water company ripped out plastic irrigation pipes, saying that the Palestinians were stealing water.  Seleh Jaber, a sixty-seven-year-old farmer, told CPTers that Mekerot also cut strings that support beans and cut pipes in violation of the Geneva conventions.  (1)" - also posted at AlethoNews
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More On The Economic Situation....

That Which Is Too Fearful To Speak: The Demise of the Consumer Economy
Must Read - A quote...."The consumer-debt-based economy is toast, but everyone's too terrified by its demise to acknowledge this reality, never mind consider a new model. The entire creaking economy is based on a few ideas which no longer work...."

1. Create "aggregate demand" (i.e. consumer demand, which then creates business demand) and the economy "grows," people are hired and get paid, and that's good.
2. When consumer demand slumps because people are over-indebted and can't afford to buy more of anything, then "stimulate" demand with massive Central State spending to replace the vanished private demand.
3. Demand is endless. You can never have enough stuff, food, vacations, education, healthcare and toys. Give people free money, or the ability to borrow nearly-free money, and they will spend, spend, spend. This creates "growth" which is always good.

"A funny thing happened on the way to the infinite demand/consumption model--or actually, two things...." - also posted at ZeroHedge & 12160

The Debt Crisis and Hamburgers
A quote...."Let us imagine for a moment that you go to a restaurant, and you place an order for a hamburger. The proprietor of the restaurant tells you the cost is $10 for the hamburger, and you pay $10 for the hamburger. You get your food. It is well worth the money you paid for it, and you have no complaints."

The Truth About the Debt Deal -- It's Pretty Much Meaningless
A quote...."The "historic, bipartisan compromise" reached to raise the debt limit does not end the struggle to reign in the federal deficit — in fact, it pushes the most difficult decisions off into the future. -- More surprising, the debt deal actually cuts almost nothing now--it just promises future cuts that may or may not materialize."

US debt deal agreed but may not save AAA credit rating
A quote...."Reducing the deficit does not reduce the debt. Indeed this "deal", in plain English, says, "We're going to borrow more money right now and in exchange, slow down the rate we borrow more money over the next ten years!" Nobody is going to see this as a solution, certainly not when a future President and future Congress can change the deal on a whim. This "deal" is pure politics. Obama gets his new credit card, there are no tax increases to pay for it all, and the spending cuts are held off until after next year's elections, since the cuts will hit the Social Services the American taxpayers have already paid for. In other word, the end result of this "deal" is that the US Government will screw the American taxpayer by defaulting on its loans from the Social Security Trust Fund!" -- *Michael Rivero*

"Many Americans Believe That The 2008-2009 Downturn Never Ended". They're Right
A quote...."The U.S. has entered a second recession. [Note: That this would happen has been obvious to anyone paying attention. See this and this.] It may not be as bad as the first. Economists say that the Great Recession began in December 2007 and lasted until July 2009. That may be the way that the economy was seen through the eyes of experts, but many Americans do not believe that the 2008-2009 downturn ever ended. A Gallup poll released in April found that 29 percent of those queried thought the economy was in a “depression” and 26 percent said that the original recession had persisted into 2011."

Manufacturing growth hits lowest level in 2 years
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) — Manufacturers had their weakest growth in two years in July, a sign that the economy could weaken this summer."

Lansdowne Partners sells entire $850m stake in Goldman Sachs
Photo - (click here) -  A quote...."Lansdowne Partners, Europe's biggest hedge fund, has sold its entire $850m (£517m) position in Goldman Sachs in a move that underlines growing concerns about the prospects for the global banking sector." -- comment...."They must have figured out that Lloyd Blankfein really isn't doing God's work!" -- *Michael Rivero*

The Revolving Door: 29 People Who Went From Wall Street To Washington To Wall Street
A quote...."The list of Wall Streeters who have ended up with government jobs, and vice versa, is long. -- Some would argue that the incestuous nature of the relationship and the revolving door between Washington and downtown Manhattan is dangerous."

Court Overturns 5 Gen Re and A.I.G. Fraud Convictions
Related Article - Banksters don't do time in the US-NRE, it's that simple. - mpg -- A quote...."A federal appeals court has thrown out the criminal convictions of five former insurance executives, delivering a blow to the Justice Department in one of the prominent cases brought during last decade’s corporate accounting scandals."

The Daily Bail Round-Up - Aug 1, 2011 at 4:34 PM
A round-up of todays business news from the Daily Bail. - mpg

Monsanto-spawned superweeds growing three inches daily, destroying farm equipment
Attack of the Killer Weeds - Or...."it's not nice to fool (around with) Mother Nature" - mpg -- A quote...."The proliferation of superweeds — weeds that have mutated to develop resistance to popular herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup formula — continues to rise. But the individual plants’ overall size and strength is also increasing. According to a series of new studies published in the journal Weed Science, farmers are having more trouble than ever dealing with out-of-control superweeds in their fields, some of which grow up to three inches a day in size, and are so strong and thick that they are destroying farm equipment." - also posted at PrisonPlanet

Sunday July 31st 2011 - links page

Saturday July 30th 2011 - links page 

Editor's 2nd Note & Warning -- (for the first warning, click here)  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/mpgrapsheet-blogpg-mpg-012707#1STYUTBWRNG  ---  It's come to this website editor's attention that YouTube [also]  slapped a warning on this video despite the fact there are no shocking photos or really shocking viewpoints contained within it.  YouTube should be careful about putting warnings on videos, although they're a very popular video service, they should keep in mind the technology to post videos is freely available to everyone and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of other video services on the web.  YouTube's business model is EASILY copied and depends on the NUMBER of viewers and users and not on how wealthy or how influential they are.  They should also keep in mind there are five million members of the Jewish community in Israel along another six million in the US, but there are approximately 9 BILLION other people worldwide.   It would be a terrible shame if YouTube developed a reputation for POLITICAL censorship on behalf of a tiny minority of the world's population and as a result be forced to radically diminish in size because the rest of the world did not trust their service any longer. - mpg - posted 07-28-11 

"Why  should the Palestinian people be forced to languish yet another year —  or even one more day — under foreign occupation? They should not and  they must not. This is the time to end the Israeli occupation. This is  the time for Palestine’s independence. This is the time for Palestine  and Israel to live side by side in peace and security, and this is the  time for a new Middle East. We believe that the international community  is ready for that, and we trust that the appropriate actions will be  undertaken soon to make this a reality." 

Friday July 29th 2011 - links page 

"Americans need desperately to ask themselves why they put into political office such utterly irresponsible and incompetent people capable of creating such a totally unnecessary crisis loaded with such disastrous potential outcomes." 

"Defense officials estimate there are 31,000 foreign nationals serving in all the service branches, many of whom are now fighting in the Gulf. And while polls say 80% of Mexicans do not support this war, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City has been swamped with hundreds of requests to enlist in the U.S. military. Even as American casualties are coming home, there are plenty of would-be Americans who'd be more than happy to join the fight for our national security if it means they'd have a chance at living better lives afterward." - bold by website editor -- *Immigrant Soldiers*  --- http://www.joegrossberg.com/archives/000534.html  

“Not only that: it has become a weapon of war, a virulent censorship (and deception) that goes unrecognised in the United States, Britain and other democracies; censorship by omission, whose power is such that, in war, it can mean the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries….” - Source:  SteveLendman  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/07/daily-nato-war-crimes-in-libya.html 

Sorties conducted 27 JULY: 133 
Strike sorties conducted 27 JULY: 54  

"Meanwhile, the US Government prepares to drop the losses from the Wall Street bailouts onto ordinary Americans. [again] - No government can serve two masters, and a government that serves Israel cannot serve the American people. - A friend to Israel is no friend of America. - America needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third." -- *Michael Rivero*