Don't Know Much About History -- Welcome to the NRE (New Roman Empire) - mpg
  ---  http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2008/07/dont-know-much-about-history.html
Must Read - A quote...."In an extraordinary passage, the study cites the Roman experience—from over a millennium ago—as a precedent for America's long-term dominance: "The Roman model suggests that it is possible for the United States to maintain its military advantage for centuries [1] if it remains capable of transforming its forces before an opponent can develop counter-capabilities. Transformation coupled with strong strategic institutions is a powerful combination for an adversary to overcome."  --  The report's language is jargon laden and opaque—a lance used by Macedonian horsemen is referred to as a "primary weapon system." That may be due to the methodology of "net assessment," a fancy term for the ONA's approach to analyzing complicated real-world situations that is rooted in systems analysis and game theory. Military author James Dunnigan compares it to engineering. "You take apart historical events, reassemble them as a simulation, and then tinker with the simulation until you can recreate the historical event accurately," [2] he explains. "What that allows you to do is play out 'what if?' situations: What if Napoleon did this? What if Ghengis Khan did that?" - bold by website editor
Also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/05/10825/
& BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-949-0-3-3--.html

For more on item number [1] see....You Have a Choice - Democracy or Empire - 07-24-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/youhaveachoice-democracyorempire-blog-mpg-072408
For more on item number [2] see....The Great Game - In 3D - 06-15-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thegreatgamein3d-blog-mpg-061508
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The Serpent's Egg: Solzhenitsyn and the Origins of America's Gulag - More Tales From the NRE - mpg --- http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1577/135/
A quote...."But at that time, the local right-wing Christians [Chris is willing to call them that, this website editor is not so charitable] were more intent on ruling the private lives of their flock; they had not yet moved on to seeking dominion over the state. The intense politicization of modern American Christianity -- its grotesque metamorphosis into a nationalist, militarist, hateful servant of Mammon [money worshipping idolaters] -- was still slouching toward Washington to be born. When it came to politics, the corporate elitists held sway on campus in those days."
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Gitmo detainees subject to detention even if acquitted: Pentagon
  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080805/pl_afp/usattacksguantanamodetainees_080805183314;_ylt=AkUqAX66zyNgyqRU5jX3LjKs0NUE
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AFP) - Some detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will likely never be released because of the danger they pose, and those tried and acquitted will still be subject to continued detention as enemy combatants, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday."
Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20442.htm
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Dear world, please confront America [the New Roman Empire]  ---  http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=15446
A quote...."Is it possible to fall out of love with your own country? For two years, I, like many Americans, have been focused intently on documenting, exposing, and alerting the nation to the Bush administration’s criminality and its assault on the Constitution and the rule of law — a story often marginalized at home. I was certain that when Americans knew what was being done in their name, they would react with horror and outrage." -- Hah!!  You've got to be kidding, Half the US population enjoys videos from places like Gitmo, Abu Ghraib http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&resnum=0&q=abu+ghraib&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title  ---  and Bagram AFB.   ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagram_torture_and_prisoner_abuse  ---mpg
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How the West (Except for the U.S.) Ended Slavery  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo146.html
A quote...." When Jim Powell wrote an article for the Web site "History News Network" (HNN) regarding his new book, Greatest Emancipations: How the West Ended Slavery, he was immediately denounced by some of the commentators on the site. One Lewis Bernstein said he was sick and tired of "those like Jim Powell" distorting history and taking it "out of context." John Edward Phillips accused Powell, a senior fellow of the CATO Institute, of being a liar...."  --  " What could Powell, author of FDR’s Folly, ---  http://www.amazon.com/FDRs-Folly-Roosevelt-Prolonged-Depression/dp/140005477X/lewrockwell/  ---  Wilson’s War,  ---  http://www.amazon.com/Wilsons-War-Woodrow-Blunder-Hitler/dp/1400082366/lewrockwell/  ---  and Bully Boy  ---  http://www.amazon.com/Bully-Boy-Theodore-Roosevelts-Legacy/dp/B0017HT5C4/lewrockwell/  ---  have written to solicit such a reaction? Greatest Emancipations is an historical account of how all the nations of the Western world – except for the U.S. – ended slavery peacefully by utilizing multiple strategies."
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Obama And The Empire  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20438.htm
Special Note - A quote...." 05/08/08 "ICH" -- - The New Yorker magazine in its July 14 issue ran a cover cartoon that achieved instant fame. It showed Barack Obama wearing Muslim garb in the Oval Office with a portrait of Osama bin Laden on the wall. Obama is delivering a fist bump to his wife, Michelle, who has an Afro hairdo and an assault rifle slung over her shoulder. An American flag lies burning in the fireplace. The magazine says it's all satire, a parody of the crazy right-wing fears, rumors, and scare tactics about Obama's past and ideology. -  The cartoon makes fun of the idea that Barack and Michelle Obama are some kind of mixture of Black Panther, Islamist jihadist, and Marxist revolutionary. But how much more educational for the American public and the world it would be to make fun of the idea that Obama is even some kind of progressive."
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A record July for planes over Afghanistan  ---  http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/08/airforce_july_oef_080508w/
A quote...."Warplanes dropped a record number of bombs over Afghanistan in July, reflecting the intensity of combat in the mountainous nation."
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Suskind: Bush ordered fake letter linking Iraq to 9/11 - More regarding the White House's fake 9/11-Iraq letter.- mpg
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Suskind_Bush_ordered_fake_letter_linking_0805.html
Special Note - A quote....Bush allegedly ordered the CIA to forge a handwritten letter from the head of Iraq's intelligence service to Saddam Hussein that purported to link the Iraqi dictator to the ringleader of the hijackers who toppled the Twin Towers on 9/11, according to news accounts of Suskind's new book, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism.  ---  http://www.amazon.com/Way-World-Story-Truth-Extremism/dp/0061430625/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217528328&sr=8-1  ---  Such use of an intelligence service to influence domestic political debate could be an impeachable offense, Suskind writes."
Also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-945-0-11-11--.html
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The Forged Iraqi Letter: What Just Happened?  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-suskind/the-forged-iraqi-letter-w_b_117056.html
Special Note - Related article - A quote...."What just happened? Evidence. A secret that has been judiciously kept for five years just spilled out. All of what follows is new, never reported in any way: - The Iraq Intelligence Chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush -- a man still carrying with $1 million reward for capture, the Jack of Diamonds in Bush's famous deck of wanted men -- has been America's secret source on Iraq. Starting in January of 2003, with Blair and Bush watching, his secret reports began to flow to officials on both sides of the Atlantic, saying that there were no WMD and that Hussein was acting so odd because of fear that the Iranians would find out he was a toothless tiger. The U.S. deep-sixed the intelligence report in February, "resettled" Habbush to a safe house in Jordan during the invasion and then paid him $5 million in what could only be considered hush money."
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White House 'buried British intelligence on Iraq WMDs'  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4466512.ece
Special Note - Related article - A quote...."MI6 told Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq that a high-placed Iraqi source said that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence was passed to the US but was buried by the White House, according to a new book."
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Bush Suppressed Evidence Iraq Had no WMD  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2008/08/bush-suppressed-evidence-iraq-had-no.html
Related article - A quote...." For critics of Ron Suskind's revelations that Bush and Cheney suppressed evidence that Iraq had no WMD,   ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4466512.ece  ---  check out the below: Tyler Drumheller from a 2006 "60 Minutes" interview.  ---  http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/23/cia.iraq/f=  ---  Or how about the column of Imad Khadduri, an actual, living breathing Iraqi nuclear scientist,  ---  http://www.iraqsnuclearmirage.com/YellowTimes/The_Nuclear_Bomb_Hoax.htm  ---  who before the war condemned Bush administration charges on WMD as a "nuclear mirage"?"  ---  http://www.iraqsnuclearmirage.com/YellowTimes/Iraq_Nuclear_NonCapability.htm
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State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/1225
Book Review - A BuzzFlash book review -- A quote...."“Bryant Welch was born to write this vitally important and highly readable investigation of how a cadre of ethically challenged political operatives and their religious and journalistic allies have gradually distorted and disabled the minds of ordinary Americans—and have all but crippled the once-extraordinary mind of America. It is not too late for us to reclaim our identity, but we will succeed only if we take to heart the lessons so lucidly laid bare by the remarkable work of this insightful psychologist and experienced political activist.”
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U.S. Allegations against Pakistani Intelligence Represent Shift in Policy
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S--Allegations-Against-P-by-Jeremy-R--Hammond-080801-721.html
A quote...."U.S. intelligence agencies have publicly claimed that intercepted communications show that officers of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's intelligence agency, were responsible for the bombing of India's embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 7.  The government of Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of being behind the attack, as well as an earlier assassination attempt against Afghan President Hamid Karzai."
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US and NATO protecting Afghan drug trade  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-958-0-5-5--.html
A quote...."ISLAMABAD: After the fall of Taliban government, Afghanistan has again become a hub of narcotics cultivation and smuggling. Thanks to protection, being provided by the US troops, western forces and the Afghan government which are fully involved in the business in the name of war on terror."
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US accused of backing terrorism in Pakistan
  ---  http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=&id=95c61181-205b-4
  ---  c33-8c29-01d3161e8786&&Headline=US+accused+of+backing+terrorism+in+Pak&strParent=strParentID
A quote...."Pakistan has accused the US of backing militancy within the country, saying this goes against the grain of the Washington-led global war against terror. -- Quoting "impeccable official sources", The News reported on Tuesday that "strong evidence and circumstantial evidence of American acquiescence to terrorism inside Pakistan" was outlined by President Pervez Musharraf, army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt. Gen. Nadeem Taj in separate meetings with two senior US officials in Islamabad."Also posted at BLN http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-952-0-7-7--.html
For more on this issue see....US Support of Terror  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
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POLITICS-US:  For Neocons, Iran War Aim Is Still Regime Change  ---  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39857
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (IPS) - Vice President Dick Cheney and his neoconservative allies in the George W. Bush administration only began agitating for the use of military force against Iran once they had finally given up the illusion that regime change in Iran would happen without it." -- Also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/171213
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Iran to fingerprint Westerners  ---  http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C08%5C05%5Cstory_5-8-2008_pg7_60
Related article - A quote...."TEHRAN: Iran will start fingerprinting visitors from the United States, Britain and France, police said on Monday, listing three Western powers that are pressuring Tehran over its disputed nuclear programme. The move is a tit-for-tat measure for the US and Britain, as Iranians traveling to the two countries face having their fingerprints taken, the official IRNA news agency quoted a senior police official as saying."
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Marines Ordered To Stay Longer In Afghanistan  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/171119
A quote...."WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. military official said roughly 1,250 Marines serving as trainers for the Afghan security forces are being ordered to stay on the warfront about a month longer to continue a mission that military leaders say is a top priority."
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Israeli food company: We won't sell produce grown by Arabs  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1008424.html
A quote...."Israeli produce marketing company Otzar Ha'aretz (treasure of the earth) announced on Monday that it will not market produce grown by Arab farmers, and will from now on only sell only Jewish-grown products." -- Can't sell any food made by those "dirty Arabs"....all we need now is for Israel to make a film portraying the Palestinians as overly prolific rats out-breeding the Aryan race....'scuse me....the Jewish race, and the circle will almost be complete. - mpg
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Truth and consequences under the Israeli occupation  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3587.shtml
A quote...."I am a Palestinian journalist from Gaza. At the age of 17, I armed myself with a camera and a pen, committed to report accurately on events in Gaza. I have filed reports as Israeli fighter jets bombed Gaza City. I have interviewed mothers as they watched their children die in hospitals unequipped to serve them because of Israel’s embargo. I have been recognized for my reporting, even in the United States and United Kingdom, where I have won two international awards. I have also been beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers. -- This summer, at age 24, I was honored to learn that I had become the youngest journalist to receive the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism...."
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Marching Off Into Tyranny  ---  http://counterpunch.com/roberts08052008.html
A quote...."In last weekend’s edition of CounterPunch, Alexander Cockburn updates the ongoing persecution of Sami Al-Arian by federal prosecutors. Al-Arian was a Florida university professor of computer science who was ensnared by the Bush Regime’s need to produce “terrorists” in order to keep Americans fearful and, thereby, amenable to the Bush Regime’s assault on US civil liberties. -- The charges against Al-Arian were rejected by a jury, but the Bush Regime could not accept the obvious defeat. If Al-Arian was not a terrorist, then other of the Bush Regime’s fabricated cases might fall apart, too. -- In open view, the US Department of Justice (sic) proceeded to trash every known ethical rule of prosecution. I don’t need to repeat the facts, as they are covered by Cockburn’s articles and in The Tyranny of Good Intentions."*  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=R-wNAAAACAAJ&dq=The+Tyranny+of+Good+Intentions  --- *link added -- Also posted at GlobRsrch   ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9749
& ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20435.htm
& OLJ  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3586.shtml 
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Get Outraged And Get Active About Internet Censorship  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/get-outraged-and-get-active-about-internet-censorship.html
A quote...."In response to increasing flagrant attempts to censor political websites, including Infowars and Prison Planet, not in Communist China, but in the U.S. and the UK, we are running a special contest with a top prize of $5,000 in order to encourage people to get active and educate others about the growing threats to Internet freedom."
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Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act  http://infowars.net/articles/august2008/050808i911.htm
A quote...."Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater restrictions and control over the web." - Also posted at ICH   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20440.htm  --- For more regarding the two articles shown above see....Attempts to Control the Internet http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/attempttocontroltheinternet-weblist-mpg-053006
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The Anthrax Attacks Attempted Cover-up - Tuesday round-up - 7 articles - [ Day 5 ] ===  ==========

The FBI's emerging, leaking case against Ivins  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/05/anthrax/index.html
A quote...."It's certainly possible that once the FBI closes its investigation and then formally unveils its evidence -- which apparently will happen tomorrow -- a very convincing case will be made that Bruce Ivins perpetrated the anthrax attacks and did so alone. But what has been revealed thus far -- through the standard ritual of selected Government leaks which the establishment media, with some exceptions, just mindlessly re-prints no matter how frivolous -- is creating the opposite impression. The FBI's coordinated leaking is making their claim to have solved the anthrax case appear quite dubious, in some instances laughably so." Also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/05/10827/
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ABC's Sources on Anthrax/Iraq...  ---  http://www.atlargely.com/2008/08/abcs-sources-on.html
Special Note - A quote...."Glenn Greenwald over at Salon has made an excellent point about Brian Ross having to come clean and reveal his "four" sources."
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Colonel Anderson Refutes False Allegations Against Dr. Ivins  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/08/colonel-anderson-refutes-false.html
A quote...."Colonel Arthur Anderson is the chief of human use and ethics at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the bioweapons facility where Dr. Ivins worked and where the anthrax strains were apparently obtained by the anthrax killer."
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As The Media's Case Against Bruce Ivins Seems to be Going from Bad to Worse...  ---  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6247
A quote...."We noted, when we first jumped into this horrendous beat last Friday, that AP and many of the other corporate outlets failed to even bother noting the perceived "liberals" who made up the targets of the post-9/11 terrorist attacks. Today, Glenn Greenwald (whose been doing yeoman's work on this beat) notes AP's latest unnamed government source-based buffoonery. -- Offering a fresh new bizarre angle in the anthrax case --- as per their wont, from "Multiple U.S. officials," all unnamed and all who "spoke on condition of anonymity" --- AP purports to explain Ivins' supposed seven-hour round-trip drive from Frederick, MD to Princeton, NJ, to mail his letters, by describing a long-term obsession he supposedly had with the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority."
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The Biowar Story Not Told In The Aftermath Of A Scientist's Suicide  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/august2008/040808Biowar.htm
A quote...."It is Saturday morning, and as the skies darken, and the rains threaten, I am reading about biowar investigator Bruce E. Ivins who is said to have taken his life with a fatal cocktail of codeine and other drugs just as he was about to be arrested and charged with five cases of murder in connection with the still fully unsolved anthrax attacks of 2001."
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9/11 Plotters Bury the Evidence of Anthrax  http://whitewraithe.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/retired-forensic-psychologist-connects-the-dots-on-anthrax-attacks/
A quote...." I see little or no evidence implicating Ivins in the anthrax terrorism; if he has a link at all it will be minor and ancillary. Most likely, he has been chosen as the most vulnerable individual to serve as a patsy, unlike the formidable Steven Hatfill who has defended himself so very well. We should not forget the modus operandi of the FBI on political cases, say Brandon Mayfield and the Madrid train bombings."
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Doubts Remain About Anthrax Story  ---  http://www.alternet.org/rights/94043/doubts_remain_about_anthrax_story/
A quote...."Survivors and relatives of those killed by anthrax attacks aren't buying the FBI's account that government scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible."
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End - The Anthrax Attacks Attempted Cover-up - Tuesday round-up - 7 articles - [ Day 5 ] ===  =======

IRAQ:  New Operation Gets Surprise Support  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43451
A quote...."BAQUBA, Aug 5 (IPS) - A massive military operation in Diyala province has underscored the military and political gains by the Sahwa militia, despite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's earlier attempts to thwart them. Maliki has now apparently come around to involving the Sahwa rather than opposing them."
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Enshrining resistance  ---  http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/908/re5.htm
A quote...."Lebanon's politicians squabbled this week over whether or not to enshrine Hizbullah's resistance to Israel in a ministerial statement to be adopted by the fledgling national unity government. But with the balance of power in favour of the Shia movement laid bare since the May strife, analysts said there was little doubt the alliance they dominate would again prevail."
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LEBANON:  Cracks Widen Under the Patchwork  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43452
A quote...."BEIRUT, Aug 5 (IPS) - The assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri Feb. 14 2005 generated a popular outcry in Lebanon, which led to the massive protest in Martyrs' Square a month later on Mar. 14. The demonstration against Syrian occupation, which was accused in the killing, marked a turning point in Lebanese politics and the birth of the March 14 movement."
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Russia to act if Georgia-Ossetia row worsens  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9748
A quote...."Russia will not stand by and do nothing if the situation in South Ossetia escalates into a full scale conflict. That's the view of the Russian Foreign Ministry, responding to an increase in tension between Georgia and its breakaway republic."
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Georgia alarmed by buildup of Russian volunteers in rebel region  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20080805/115774293.html
A quote...."TBILISI, August 5 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia said Tuesday it was alarmed by reports that volunteers from Russia had started arriving in South Ossetia obviously in preparation for military action."
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Venezuela to Represent Latin America in Non-Aligned Movement  ---  http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3686
A quote...."Mérida, July 31, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- Venezuela's Foreign Minister, Nicolás Maduro, was elected to represent Latin America and the Caribbean at the XV Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in Iran this week, where he advocated “multilateralism” as non-aligned countries forge a “new historical era” in which respect, not imperialism, rule."
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BOLIVIA:  Summit Cancelled Due to Social Unrest  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43454
A quote...."LA PAZ, Aug 5 (IPS) - A meeting between Presidents Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Cristina Fernández of Argentina and Evo Morales of Bolivia was called off because of violent protests by anti-government demonstrators in the southern city of Tarija, while clashes between miners and the police left two dead and 30 injured in the western province of Oruro."
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Growing violence in Bolivia ahead of Sunday’s recall vote  ---  http://www4.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=14177&formato=HTML
A quote...."Clashes between striking Bolivian miners and the police which left at least two people dead and dozens injured forced the cancelling of a regional summit with Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and host Evo Morales."
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Italian government imposes national state of emergency - Ahhh!  The Fascists....so nice to see them back in black.
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/ital-a06.shtml
A quote...."On July 25, the Italian government headed by Silvio Berlusconi proclaimed a national state of emergency due to the continuing inflow of refugees by boat from across the Mediterranean Sea. This means that the state of emergency already imposed on Italy’s three southernmost provinces—Sicily, Apulia and Calabria—will be expanded to encompass the entire country."
See also....Italy deploys troops to fight crime   ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-871-0-8-8--.html  ---  posted 07-29-08
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The Dracula Round  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5441
A quote...."Like the good Count of Transylvania, the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of negotiations has died more than once. It first collapsed during the WTO ministerial meeting held in Cancun in September 2003. After apparently coming back from the dead, many observers thought it passed away a second time during the so-called Group of Four meeting in Potsdam in June 2007 — only to come back yet again from the dead. Now the question is whether the unraveling of the most recent “mini-ministerial” gathering in Geneva was the silver stake that pierced the trade round’s heart, rendering Doha dead forever." -- Also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/05/10807/
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The Food Crisis and Global Institutions  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5442
A quote...."The introduction of the executive summary states that the IAASTD is an “initiative that all governments need to take forward...."

1. The need to redirect agricultural science and technology to support small scale farmers in developing countries and to counter global warming;
   
2. The need to promote innovation, including local knowledge, within farm communities;
   
3. The need for massive investment in agriculture, both in physical infrastructure such as irrigation and roads) and non-physical, so-called “soft” infrastructure, such as access to markets and credit provision; and
   
4. The need for immediate attention to the growing involvement of women in agriculture in many developing countries.

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The Looming Federal Default: Sooner or Later?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north645.html
A quote...."The overwhelming majority of Americans are relying exclusively on Social Security and Medicare to provide a comfortable retirement in their old age. - When interviewed, they say they think the systems are going to go bust, but they do not change their behavior and save more. They save less. Today, household saving as a percentage of household discretionary income is negative. Americans are borrowing to maintain their lifestyles." -- For more on this issue see....Go Build Your Neo-Roman Empire - Just Leave Us Out Of It - 10-14-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/gobuildyournre-mpg-blog-101407
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‘Da Nile:’ Many Tuning Out the Economic Squeeze - Why Are So Many Progressives in Denial About the Crisis?
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/04/10784/
A quote...."New York, August 4: We have all heard the line, ‘DA NILE is not just a river in Egypt.’ Denial can be a pervasive social and political phenomenon. Some of us just don’t want to know the truth or face its consequences. Maybe that’s why we envelop ourselves in national myths to survive. We want them to be true. Remember the slogan, “What, me worry?”
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A Slow-Mo Meltdown  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/opinion/04krugman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
A quote...."A year ago, as the outlines of the current financial crisis were just becoming clear, I suggested that this crisis, unlike a superficially similar crisis in 1998, wouldn’t end quickly. -- It hasn’t." -- Also posted at TruthOut  ---  http://www.truthout.org/article/a-slow-mo-meltdown
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The collapse of consumer spending  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JH06Dj01.html
Some quotes...."The gross domestic product and employment figures released last Thursday and Friday appeared at first sight to show a US economy that had returned to a measure of stability. However, when examined more closely, they painted a much darker picture, of an economy in which a sharp decline in retail spending is likely to cause substantial overall economic contraction over the next several quarters." -- "The reality is that the current expansion in GDP is caused almost entirely by the inexorable expansion of government and a modest rebound of exports, led by the weak dollar, from their previous abysmally low levels. Real federal government consumption rose 6.7% during the quarter and real exports rose 9.2%. Meanwhile, personal consumption rose only 1.5% in real terms, even though real personal income rose over 4%, all of which was accounted for by the US$150 billion tax rebates, the great bulk of which arrived during the quarter."
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False signs of the end  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JH05Dj08.html
A quote...."Globally, banks have written off somewhere between $450 billion and $500 billion in bad assets over the past year or so. The ultimate problem could be twice that size, if not more. Moreover, bank capital will need to be replenished over and over again. Which investors repeatedly will step up to do this? Singapore's Temasek replenished Merrill Lynch in January only to see their investment halve in value. They stumped up again for the banks this month on the provision that Merrill made good on the first loss. There is unlikely to be unlimited goodwill from global investors to re-capitalize global banking without more transparency of asset quality."
For more on this issue see....The Green Light 01-16-08 - mpg   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thegreenlight-blog-mpg-011608 
& Debt Doesn't Matter When the Rubes Pay - 02-29-08 - mpg --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/debtdoesntmatter-blog-mpg-022908
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Fannie Mae raises fees again to mitigate losses
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSN0534795120080805?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fannie Mae is raising some fees on mortgage loans its purchases, marking the fourth increase in nearly a year, to reflect higher credit risk and offset losses from continuing market deterioration."
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Greenspan warns more banks may be bailed out  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/aug/05/creditcrunch.banking
A quote...."Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve chairman, has warned that more banks and financial institutions could end up being bailed out by governments before the credit crunch is over." -- Also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-960-0-13-13--.html
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Hundreds of banks will fail, Roubini tells Barron's  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0344130720080803?sp=true
A quote...."NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) - The United States is in the second inning of a recession that will last for at least 18 months and help kill off hundreds of banks, influential economist and New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini told Barron's in Sunday's edition."
Also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-943-0-13-13--.html
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Royal Bank of Scotland poised for biggest loss in UK banking history
  ---  http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article4449834.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=1185799
A quote...."THE Royal Bank of Scotland is poised to unveil the biggest loss in UK banking history after taking a hit of almost £6 billion from the credit crisis."

The Anthrax Attacks Attempted Cover-up - Monday round-up - 14 articles - [ Day 4 ] ===  ==========
 
Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/03/journalism/index.html
Special Note - A quote....
"The Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum argued yesterday   ---  http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_08/014218.php  ---   that despite the need for journalists to use confidential sources, "the profession -- and the rest of us -- [are] better off if sources know that they run the risk of being unmasked if their mendacity is egregious enough to become newsworthy in its own right." Drum added: "I'd say that part of [Ross'] re-reporting ought to include a full explanation of exactly who was peddling the bentonite lie in the first place, and why they were doing it." Nonetheless, Drum said: "In practice, most journalists refuse to identify their sources under any circumstances at all, even when it's clear that those sources deliberately lied to them."
Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20420.htm
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Was the US public misled about the anthrax attacks?  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/04/terrorism.usa
Special Note - A quote...."ABC News' behaviour surrounding one of its biggest "scoops" is already an object lesson of what's wrong with American journalism. The news organisation has proved unwilling - so far, at any rate - to come clean about how it was manipulated in the 2001 (and later) investigation into the anthrax attacks in the US following September 11. - The network's hyperventilating broadcasts of leaked, false allegations purportedly tying the anthrax to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime (see Glenn Greenwald's meticulous examination of the coverage) was bad enough. What the organisation is doing now is journalistically unforgivable."
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Three Questions For ABC News About Its Anthrax Reporting  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-rosen/three-key-questions-for-a_b_116671.html
A quote...."No need for a big preamble. Dan Gillmor and I are posting these questions simultaneously. (Here's his case for them.) We think ABC News should answer them. They arise from two columns by Salon's Glenn Greenwald, who has been tracking this story for some time."
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ABC News Is Selling the Governments Anthrax Story Once Again
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/abc-news-is-selling-the-governments-anthrax-story-once-again/
A quote...."ABC News is at it again, folks. Someone email Glenn Greenwald, he’ll love this. -- On the front page of ABC News’ website, you will find a storyabout Dr. Bruce Ivins but don’t expect it to be an example of journalistic integrity. At all. -- All it is, is ABC News’ attempt to help the feds put this anthrax story   ---  to bed before the end of the Bush/Cheney regime. Kinda like they did back in 2001 when they helped   ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/11/abc_response/  ---  sell the Bush/Cheney plan   ---  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml  ---   for war with Iraq by reporting the false claim that the anthrax used in the Sept. 2001 attacks contained an additive that proved Saddam was behind it; all based on “4 high ranking sources” that turned out not only to be wrong, but to have completely invented that story altogether. "  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/09/abc_anthrax/index.html
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Twists and Turns in the Anthrax Case  ---  http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/twists-and-turns-in-anthrax-case-by.html
A quote...."There is a very coordinated push to leak details about the late Bruce Ivins to certify that he is the "lone nut" anthrax killer, details which don't entirely hold up upon scrutiny. There's definitely a desire on the part of the government to make this an open and shut case seven years after the fact, but it doesn't completely hold together. In fact, the media reports are almost all contradictory."
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The Anthrax Attack Was a Classic False Flag Operation Targeting Arabs
  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/08/government-framed-arabs-for-anthrax.html
A quote...."Whether or not Bruce Ivins had a role in the anthrax attacks, trying to now blame him alone for the attacks is ignoring the elephant in the room: the anthrax attack was a classic false flag attack blamed on Arabs."
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Ivins is the Third Scientist the FBI has Tried to Pin the Anthrax Attacks On
  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/08/ivins-is-third-scientist-fbi-has-tried.html
A quote...."Ivins is the third scientist who the government has accused of being the Anthrax killer. - First the Egyptian scientist, Dr. Ayaad Assaad,  ---  http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/01/26/assaad/index.html  ---  was framed. - When that frame-up fell apart, they tried to frame Stephen Hatfill. - Now, a couple of weeks after the frame-up against Hatfill unraveled,  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-anthrax28-2008jun28,0,5742061.story  ---  they are claiming that Ivins is the guy."
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Questions about the Anthrax Suspect and His Interactions with Mental Health Professionals
  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/08/questions-about-anthrax-suspect-and-his.html
A quote...."Why was a newly certified group addiction counselor who herself has a history of battery, drugs, DUIs and bankruptcies fully briefed on one of the most sensitive criminal investigations in history?"
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Anthrax And The Iraq War - [and Colin Powell]  ---  http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/002472.html
A quote...."If you haven't already, be sure to read Glenn Greenwald's posts about ABC and the anthrax-by-mail case
here,  ---  http://feeds.salon.com/%7Er/salon/greenwald/%7E3/352564891/index.html
here   ---  http://feeds.salon.com/%7Er/salon/greenwald/%7E3/354450212/index.html
and here.  ---  http://feeds.salon.com/%7Er/salon/greenwald/%7E3/355283672/index.html  ---  As Greenwald details, the behavior in this of ABC and the government has been even more horrifying than normal, which is saying a lot. -- Greenwald argues the anthrax case had a large impact on the willingness of Americans to invade Iraq. I think he's correct, but there's some important evidence he doesn't cite. In particular, we should remember that Colin Powell used the anthrax case in his UN presentation,  ---  http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030205-1.html  ---  carefully giving the impression that Iraq may have been responsible without explicitly saying so:"
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Anthrax Mystery: Questions Raised over Whether Government Is Framing Dead Army Scientist for 2001 Attacks
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/4/anthrax
Audio/Video  Interview - A quote...."The FBI’s prime suspect in the October 2001 anthrax letters case died last week in an apparent suicide. Bruce Ivins was an elite government scientist at the biodefense research lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland. He was among the nation’s top experts on the military use of anthrax. But many of his colleagues have expressed deep skepticism over the FBI’s claims. We speak to anthrax expert Dr. Meryl Nass and blogger Glenn Greenwald. [includes rush transcript]" - bold by website editor.
Real Video Stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2008/aug/video/dnB20080804a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=11:44
Real Audio Stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2008/aug/audio/dn20080804.ra&proto=rtsp&start=11:44
MP3 Download  ||  ---  http://ia311242.us.archive.org/2/items/dn2008-0804/dn2008-0804_64kb.mp3
More…  ||  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/4/stream
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Anthrax Evidence Called Mostly Circumstantial  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/us/04anthrax.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
A quote...."The evidence amassed by F.B.I. investigators against Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, the Army scientist who killed himself last week after learning that he was likely to be charged in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, was largely circumstantial, and a grand jury in Washington was planning to hear several more weeks of testimony before issuing an indictment, a person who has been briefed on the investigation said on Sunday."
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Remember Collin Powell telling the UN about Anthrax in Feb 2003?
  ---  http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3727731
A quote...."Now "they" knew that the Anthrax that was used in America in 2001 was from Ft. Detrick, MD and yet Powell stood up and talked about Saddam's mobile bio-weapons factories in 2003 to the U.N.?"
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McCain, Anthrax & the Afghan Blunder  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/080208.html
- Posted at ConsortiumNews  ---  https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/consortiumnews/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2043
A quote...."The scene of John McCain – during the anthrax attacks in October 2001 – opining to David Letterman that Iraq might be responsible underscores McCain’s central role in what may go down as one of the biggest strategic blunders in U.S. military history, the premature pivot from Afghanistan to Iraq."
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Pressure Grows for F.B.I. to Show Anthrax Evidence
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/washington/05anthrax.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&
  ---  partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1217912639-4Bv2ghZABZU5aPSt9A1P+g
A quote...."WASHINGTON — After four years of painstaking scientific research, the F.B.I. by 2005 had traced the anthrax in the poisoned letters of 2001 to a single flask of the bacteria at the Army biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., according to government scientists and bureau officials."
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End - The Anthrax Attacks Attempted Cover-up - Monday round-up - 14 articles - [ Day 4 ] ==========

Book says White House ordered forgery  ---  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12308.html
Special Note - A quote...."A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. - Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery – adamantly denied by the White House – was designed to portray a false link between Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war. - The author also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official “that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.”
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Hersh: Cheney Office Considered Manufacturing Provocation to Start War with Iran --- http://www.juancole.com/2008/08/hersh-cheney-office-considered.html
A quote...."One thing Hersh, Think Progress and others have not mentioned is that the original incident was itself almost certainly a GOP provocation, since unarmed speedboats do not actually pose a danger to US destroyers, and funny business went on with artificial matching of videotape to an audio transmission in English of undetermined origin. When I gave the Iranian video and audio at my site at the time, wingnuts attacked me for allowing the other side to get a hearing. One of the techniques of the Right is to make sure only one voice can be heard, their own, and all other voices are condemned and marginalized as traitorous. It is so much easier to march people to war when there is only one public narrative available about its rights and wrongs."
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Was it recently revealed that the U.S. found uranium in Iraq after the invasion in 2003?  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=65686
A quote...."....I wonder if the claim "the U.S. found massive amounts of yellowcake" can be substantiated and, maybe as a followup, if true, I wonder why the major media seems to have ignored this. -- No. Uranium recently shipped from Iraq to Canada was left over from Saddam Hussein's defunct nuclear weapons program and had been in sealed containers, under guard, since the end of the first Gulf War in 1991. Claims that this material is "vindication" for President Bush's WMD claims in 2003 are completely false."
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Obama Joins the [Big] Club  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9738
A quote...."....Obama has promised some degree of withdrawal from Iraq and a level of communication with Iran. But even these promises are ambiguous and can be easily modified to fit political interests and lobby pressures at any time. Any military redeployment in Iraq would, now we are told, be matched with greater military build up in Afghanistan, a sign that the militant mentality that motivated the war hawks in the Bush administration is yet to change; the valuable lesson that bombs don't bring peace, yet to be heeded." Also posted at PC  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14033  ---  For more on this issue see....You Have No Choice - You Have Owners   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktIECyzf4YM  ---  (YouTube - 3 min 17 sec - Added:  October 23, 2007)  ---  George Carlin, contains harsh langauge.
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Follow This Dime - Why Misgovernment Was No Accident in George W. Bush's Washington
  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174963/thomas_frank_washington_s_lords_of_creation
A quote...."Washington is the city where the scandals happen. Every American knows this, but we also believe, if only vaguely, that the really monumental scandals are a thing of the past, that the golden age of misgovernment-for-profit ended with the cavalry charge and the robber barons, at about the same time presidents stopped wearing beards. -- I moved to Washington in 2003, just in time for the comeback, for the hundred-year flood. At first it was only a trickle in the basement, a little stream released accidentally by the president's friends at Enron. Before long, though, the levees were failing all over town, and the city was inundated with a muddy torrent of graft." -- Also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/05/10808/
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Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion  ---  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080721/lookout
A quote...."It's been ten months since the publication of my book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, in which I argue that today's preferred method of reshaping the world in the interest of multinational corporations is to systematically exploit the state of fear and disorientation that accompanies moments of great shock and crisis. With the globe being rocked by multiple shocks, this seems like a good time to see how and where the strategy is being applied."

Regarding the two articles shown above, see this quote....

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Scott Horton Interviews Larry Velvel  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/08/02/larry-velvel/
Audio Interview - A quote...."Larry Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law and sponsor of the upcoming Justice Robert Jackson Conference On The Planning For Prosecution Of High Level American War Criminals, featuring Francis Boyle, Vincent Bugliosi, Philippe Sands and others, discusses the many crimes of the Bush administration, the history of unaccountability of our leaders, the legal gymnastics perpetrated by the Bush regime lawyers, the immunity clauses of the Military Commission Act and how they might effect potential foreign prosecutions of American war criminals."
||  MP3 here. (34:20)  ||  ---  http://dissentradio.com/radio/08_07_31_velvel.mp3
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Scott Horton Interviews Warren Richey  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/08/02/warren-richey-5/
Audio Interview - A quote...."Warren Richey, crime reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, discusses the first Guantanamo military commission “trial” of Bin Laden’s driver Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the extremely low bar the government is trying to set as precedent by trying such a low level bin Laden associate first, Hamdan’s doom to stay detained as an enemy combatant for the rest of his life whether convicted or aquitted of war crimes, the possibility that the Boumedine case could be used as precedent for those “convicted” at Guantanamo to appeal to civilian federal courts, the ability of the federal courts to handle terrorism cases as they did in the 1990s and some remaining open questions." -- ||  MP3 here. (38:22)  ||  ---  http://dissentradio.com/radio/08_08_01_richey.mp3
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FBI concedes Aafia Siddiqui in US custody: lawyer  ---  http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/04/top7.htm
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Aug 3: Five years after her mysterious disappearance in Karachi, the FBI has finally conceded that an MIT-trained Pakistani neuroscientist is alive and is in US custody in Afghanistan. -- Aafia Siddiqui, 36, disappeared with her three children while visiting her parents’ home in Karachi in March 2003, around the same time the FBI announced that it wanted to question her over her alleged links to Al Qaeda."
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Why Is Habeas Corpus Such A Threat To Those In Power?  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/osseiran040808.htm
A quote...."Why is the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold habeas corpus rights for the Guantanamo detainees so scary that Senator Lindsey Graham, with the support of McCain, will “explore the possibility, if necessary, of a constitutional amendment to blunt the effect of this decision”? -- What is so fundamentally wrong with the Supreme Court’s decision, whose members are conservative or Bush appointees, to warrant amending our constitution? Have Senators Graham and McCain lost their minds?" -- Neo-Romans at play with our constitutional rights. - mpg
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Seoul Probes Civilian `Massacres’ by US  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/04/10779/
A quote...."SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean investigators, matching once-secret documents to eyewitness accounts, are concluding that the U.S. military indiscriminately killed large groups of refugees and other civilians early in the Korean War." - The more things change....the more they stay the same.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IRAQDEATHS  ---  mpg
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In Korea's `crying' cave, 100s died in US attack  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=279669
Related Article - A quote...."Truth commission finds US attack killed hundreds of refugees in Korea's `crying' cave  The war refugees, frigid, laden with baggage, trudged down a mountain road on a winter's day in 1951, toward the safety of U.S. Army lines. But they were turned back at gunpoint, to return home to a fiery doom."
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Preparing for War Through Negotiations?  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/orig/rahimi.php?articleid=13254
A quote...."August 5, 2008 -- The latest series of test missiles launched by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the northern part of the Persian Gulf and the eastern Hormuz Strait has fueled new concerns over a military conflict in the region. Despite apparent diplomatic progress between Tehran and six world powers in recent weeks, the report of missile tests has added a renewed sense of uneasiness over the fate of negotiations about Iran's controversial nuclear program. A specter of conflict now haunts the region, with the Iranian, Israeli, and American militaries making serious preparations for a possible military conflict."
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Iran tests 'new weapon' for use at sea
  ---  http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2008/08/04/iran_new_weapon_for_use_at_sea_tested/?s_campaign=8315
A quote...."TEHRAN, Iran—Iran announced Monday that it has tested a new weapon capable of sinking ships nearly 200 miles away, and reiterated threats to close a strategic waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf if attacked."
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Lebanese Cabinet allows Hizbullah to keep its weapons  ---  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3577832,00.html
Full quote...."The Lebanese Cabinet approved on Monday a bill approving Hizbullah's right to use any means necessary in order to regain territories conquered by Israel. --  Three days ago Lebanese political factions reached a compromise on Hizbullah's empowerment by releasing a vaguely worded draft statement that implies the militant group can keep its weapons. (AP)"
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Chavez warns U.S. after getting Russian warplanes  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20080804/115619889.html
A quote...."MOSCOW, August 4 (RIA Novosti) - President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela had taken delivery of 24 Russian Sukhoi fighter jets, and warned the U.S. Fourth Fleet that his country is ready to defend itself." -- Also posted at InfoWars  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/august2008/040808Chavez.htm

Regarding the four articles shown above see....The Iran Game - All Over Again - 05-27-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theirangamealloveragain-mpg-blog-052708
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Robert Fisk: Syrian leader gets top billing in Middle East by doing nothing
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-syrian-leader-gets-top-billing-in-middle-east-by-doing-nothing-884246.html
A quote...."President Bashar al-Assad is once more one of the "triple pillars" of the Middle East. We may not like that. George Bush may curse the day his invasion of Iraq helped to shore up the power of the Caliph of Damascus. But Mr Assad's latest trip to Tehran – just three weeks after he helped to toast the overthrow of the King of France beside President Nicolas Sarkozy – seals his place in history. Without a shot being fired, Mr Assad has ensured anyone who wants anything in the Middle East has got to talk to Syria. He's done nothing – and he's won."
Also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/04/10794/
& ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20424.htm
& TruthDig  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080804_syria_succeeds_by_doing_nothing/
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Pakistani spy unit sustains militants  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20422.htm
A quote...."“There is a cold war between India and Pakistan. They say hands off Kashmir, we say hands off Afghanistan,” said Shujaat Ali Khan, a retired general who headed the internal wing of the ISI. - The ISI, Pakistan’s largest and most powerful intelligence agency, is a branch of the army and its main aims are to “contain” India and to ensure that Afghanistan does not fall into the hands of a hostile power."
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WTO talks: A tsunami averted - Posted at OnLineJournal  ---  https://www.applyweb.com/public/contribute?oj
  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3582.shtml
A quote...."The tyrants of international food trade will surely launch a renewed assault to arm-twist, coerce and lure developing countries into submission. US President George Bush will certainly have an uphill task before he quits. Three phone calls to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a matter of three days failed to get India to sign on the dotted line. He must be disillusioned. Perhaps he is angry. How can the two emerging economies -- India and China -- refuse to accept the trade terms of US hegemony? Is the developing world waking up to a new dawn of economic and political independence? -- I am not sure whether the developing countries have emerged from the shadows of the colonial past. But what is clearly evident is that at least some countries are picking up the courage and standing up to the two bullies -- the United States and European Union."
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Hollow Time Olmert's Exit  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery08042008.html
A quote...."HE IS a total politician, and nothing else. Not a statesman. Not a leader. Not a man with a vision. Only a political technician. Intelligent. A very smooth speaker. I friend among friends. A politician for whom power is the aim, not a means to achieve an aim. "
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RPT-UPDATE 1-Pentagon closes controversial intelligence unit  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=281150
A quote...."The Defense Department said it had "disestablished" the Counterintelligence Field Activity office, or CIFA, created in February 2002 by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to manage defense and armed service efforts against intelligence threats from foreign powers and groups such as al Qaeda." -- They just changed it's name. - mpg
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Murdoch to invest $100 million in India TV  ---  http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D92BCO3O1.htm
A quote...."Rupert Murdoch's Star Group Ltd. will invest $100 million to launch six new regional television channels in India, Murdoch announced Monday. -- Speaking at a press conference in India's financial capital, Mumbai, Murdoch said the group would roll out the expansion over the next year."
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General Motors and the Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Wall Street  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/decoster/decoster133.html
A quote...."As punctuated by General Motors’ second quarter (6/30/08) loss of $15.5 billion, General Motors is a company in financial distress. In its attempt to survive the current economic milieu, management has been looking to throw excess weight overboard to keep the company afloat. GM is trying to ditch its declining Hummer brand, and it has been rumored that Pontiac and Buick may be fire-sale material.  [1]  The company has been offering massive rebates on its trucks, along with 72-month, 0% financing in an attempt to unload its weighty inventory. In spite of this, along with sagging car sales,  [2]  a tightening credit market, junk-rated bonds, a doomed balance sheet, massive production cuts,  [3]  substantial layoffs, zooming gas prices, and eroding cash flow, Merrill Lynch analyst John Murphy had maintained a “buy” on GM with a target of $28 per share."
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The Hyperinflation Threat  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2008-08-04_012_hyperinflation.mp3
Audio Interview - A quote...."Lew Rockwell interviews Jörg Guido Hülsmann"
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Inflationary horror movie  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JH02Dj01.html
A quote...."Martin Hutchinson reminds us that "It was established pretty convincingly by Milton Friedman and proved beyond all doubt in the inflationary episodes of the 1970s and 1980s that if you want to bring inflation under control you must set interest rates at a margin above the current inflation level." (See  Volcker's best apprentice, Asia Times Online, July 30, 2008.) "
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Higher inflation trumps tax rebates  ---  ../../Real%20spending%20falls%20in%20June%20despite%20rebates
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Real consumer spending fell in June for the first time since February as the windfall of cash from Washington was eaten up by the worst inflation in 27 years, the Commerce Department reported Monday." -- Check out the comments. - mpg
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Inflation Takes Steam Out of Rise in Spending  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/business/05econ.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
A quote...."Consumers spent more in June, but only because the things they bought cost more. -- Driven primarily by energy and food prices, inflation grew 0.8 percent over May, the biggest monthly increase since September 2005, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported on Monday. Spending, by comparison, grew just 0.6 percent in June."
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Budget gaps triple for '09  ---  http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=328252
A quote...."The drumbeat of bad fiscal news from statehouses is intensifying. States collectively faced deficits of $40.3 billion in writing their current budgets — triple the $13 billion shortfall states weathered the previous year, a new report released July 23 shows." -- It's just the start. - mpg
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A second, far larger wave of U.S. mortgage defaults is building  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20426.htm
A quote04/08/08  -- - NEW YORK: The first wave of Americans to default on their home mortgages appears to be cresting, but a second, far larger one is building with alarming speed." -- Also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-936-0-13-13--.html
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Is the U.S. Banking System Safe?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/quinn5.html
A quote...."There are many stories of people who are still living in houses, twelve months after making their last mortgage payment. Their banks have not started foreclosure proceedings. Is this due to incompetence by the banks, or is this a way to avoid writing off the loss? The FASB has joined the cover-up gang by delaying the implementation of new rules that would have made banks stop hiding toxic waste off-balance sheet. The new rule would have made banks put these questionable assets on their balance sheet and would have required a bigger capital cushion. What a surprise that bank regulators, the Treasury and Federal Reserve urged a delay in implementation. How very Enron like."
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US junk-bond defaults may quadruple  ---  http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article4454248.ece
A quote...."Defaults on American corporate junk bonds could more than quadruple in the next year as the declining economy in the United States severely restricts companies' ability to repay their debts, the Standard & Poor's ratings agency has said. -- The rate of default on America's risky junk, or high-yield, corporate bonds jumped from a 25-year low of 0.97 per cent in December to 1.92 per cent at the end of June. -- However, S&P said that it expected the figure to rise to 4.9 per cent by mid- 2009 and conceded that defaults could rise as high as 8.5 per cent. -- By contrast, there have been no defaults on European corporate bonds in the past year, according to S&P's new report."  -- bold by website editor. -- Goes to show, Neo-Roman Empires can be sooooooooooo expensive. - mpg
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WCI files for bankruptcy and names interim CEO
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/florida-housing-bust-forces-another/story.aspx?
  ---  guid=%7B5631E743%2D5CDD%2D4470%2D89E7%2D5DA34977FBEF%7D&dist=TNMostRead
A quote...."BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Troubled residential builder WCI Communities Inc. on Monday filed for bankruptcy, becoming the latest casualty of Florida's brutal condo and housing pullback. The company (WCI: Communities, Last: 0.02-1.24-98.41% 4:07pm 08/04/2008 WCI 0.02, -1.24, -98.4%) said it and about 130 subsidiaries have filed for Chapter 11 to restructure debt and capital. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, the company's chairman, said WCI had tried to avoid a bankruptcy filing, but it became necessary "because of the recent failed effort to obtain financing and the recognition that the company's entire $1.8 billion of debt may soon be in default."
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Sunday August 3rd 2008 - links page

The Anthrax Attempted Attacks Cover-up - Sunday round-up - 8 articles - [ Day 3 ] === ==========

FBI was told to blame Anthrax scare on Al Qaeda by White House officials
  ---  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/08/02/2008-08-02_fbi_was_told_to_blame_anthrax_scare_on_a.html
Special Note - A quote...."WASHINGTON - In the immediate aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks, White House officials repeatedly pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller to prove it was a second-wave assault by Al Qaeda, but investigators ruled that out, the Daily News has learned." -- Also posted at ICH
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Daschle criticizes FBI's handling of anthrax probe  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=279632
Special Note - A quote...."Daschle criticizes anthrax investigation, saying FBI should provide more information Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whose office was a target of the anthrax attacks in 2001, said Sunday the suicide of the government's main suspect does not mean the case is over. -- Daschle said the FBI has not given him any new updates. He also raised questions about the quality of the investigation, noting that the government recently paid out almost $6 million to a former Army scientist, Steven Hatfill, who accused authorities of unfairly targeting him in the anthrax case." -- bold/underline by website editor
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Scientists Question FBI Probe On Anthrax  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/02/AR2008080201632.html?hpid=topnews
Some quotes...."For nearly seven years, scientist Bruce E. Ivins and a small circle of fellow anthrax specialists at Fort Detrick's Army medical lab lived in a curious limbo: They served as occasional consultants for the FBI in the investigation of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, yet they were all potential suspects." -- "....colleagues and friends of the vaccine specialist remained convinced that Ivins was innocent: They contended that he had neither the motive nor the means to create the fine, lethal powder that was sent by mail to news outlets and congressional offices in the late summer and fall of 2001. Mindful of previous FBI mistakes in fingering others in the case, many are deeply skeptical that the bureau has gotten it right this time."
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911 Plotters Bury the Evidence  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/911-Plotters-Bury-the-Evid-by-Michael-Green-080803-611.html
A quote...."Bruce E. Ivins, a bioweapons researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease, died Tuesday, July 29 2008, reportedly by suicidal drug overdose just as the Department of Justice was about to charge him with the 2001 anthrax attacks. The FBI had spent nearly seven years trying to railroad Steven Hatfill for the deeds, but failed miserably, and the Department of Justice recently settled a legal action with Hatfill by compensating him with over $5,000,000 so that it could turn its attention to easier prey."
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Investigators: Anthrax Indictment Was Not Imminent  ---  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93241941
A quote...."Government investigators tell NPR that they were still several major legal steps away from indicting army researcher Dr. Bruce Ivins for the 2001 anthrax attacks when he killed himself this past week. -- While they had written up the case and told officials at the Department of Justice they were prepared to go forward, the department had not yet approved the case. What is more, the evidence against Ivins had not yet been presented in its entirety to a grand jury and jurors had not yet been asked to vote on an indictment. That process could have taken weeks. -- There had been some media reports saying that Ivins killed himself on Tuesday because he had been told that he was going to be indicted imminently. People close to the case told NPR that the FBI had a discussion with Ivins' lawyer and had presented him with some of the evidence in the case."
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After suicide, feds consider closing anthrax case  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=279056
A quote...."The chief suspect in the anthrax attacks now dead, [so conveniently, and] the Justice Department is expected to decide within days whether to close what had been one of its most high-profile unsolved cases." -- It seems if you're the chief suspect in some sort of wrongdoing that involves this Nation's muckity-mucks, and the FBI is about to make you tell them what you know (whatever it may be)....you suddenly become an extremely poor insurance risk. - mpg
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SLAM DUNK!? - [Who are they kidding.]  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=65603
A quote...."An incredible stream of anonymous government sources have been cited, with the accompanying reasons why they have requested anonymity. Of course Associated Press never mentions the unstated reason, and the most obvious one--that these sources may be trying to portray events as they would like them to be seen by the public. - Headlines such as "Answers in anthrax case may have died with suicide" by Adam Geller can only bring joy to a government anxious to put any questions about the case, which had defied solution for almost seven years, behind it. But a scrutinizing public can be only so keenly aware that the government has sorely misinformed the electorate before, and may be doing so now, with the complicity of the media.
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Anthrax killer 'is US defence insider'  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2196008.stm
From the history file - A quote...."Sunday, 18 August, 2002, 02:37 GMT 03:37 UK --  An FBI forensic linguistics expert believes the US anthrax attacks were carried out by a senior scientist from within America's biological-defence community. - Professor Don Foster - who helped convict Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and unveiled Joe Klein as the author of the novel Primary Colors - says the evidence points to someone with high-ranking military and intelligence connections."


For more on this issue see....False Flag Ops - Anthrax  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#ANTHRAX
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9/11 - From The History File...How the FBI Let 9/11 Happen
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It's Not The Crime That Gets You, It's The Cover-Up - (YouTube - 10 min 1 sec - Added:  July 31, 2008)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAsKWT0NuE8
Must View - Video - A quote...."In case you couldn't tell, I picked this song for two reasons. It's really long. Both books are "thick as a brick," and about as useful as one. Ha Ha. Thank you to Michael Wolsey and Justin Martell for helping me to make this video. You may have to pause on occasion. With regards to the cover-up of 9/11, there is so much information. I had to reluctantly remove a lot of clips. Almost enough to make another movie. Thanks to www.historycommons.org. Please spread this video far and wide, and vote it up at youtube. Thank you." - *Gold9472*
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Mike Gravel: We must have a new 9/11 Investigation Part 1 - (YouTube - 9 min 59 sec - Added:  June 17, 2008)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGHGixdN6h4&feature=related
Mike Gravel: We must have a new 9/11 Investigation Part 2 - (YouTube - 8 min 59 sec - Added:  June 17, 2008)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQp69v5mbIg&feature=related
A quote...."Former Alaska senator and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Gravel is holding a news conference in New York City today to call for a new independent investigation into 9/11."
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David Ray Griffin - New 9/11 Evidence - Part 1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJStSNaVHHI  ---  (YouTube - 9min 32sec - Added:  June 17, 2008)
David Ray Griffin - New 9/11 Evidence - Part 2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FB8d_mOxdU ---  (YouTube - 9min 17sec - Added: June 17, 2008)
David Ray Griffin - New 9/11 Evidence - Part 3  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH5i7ZK0f-o&feature=related  ---  (YuTb - 5m 26s - June 17, 2008)
A quote...."David Ray Griffin talks about the new 9/11 evidence. Recorded 6/4/2008."

For more on these issues see....9/11 & It's Fallout - Videos  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&itsfallout-weblist-mpg-053007
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Saturday August 2nd 2008 - links page

1. The first set of letters were sent from Trenton, New Jersey
2. At least 1 letter was dated 9/11/2001
3. The envelopes, the first batch, were post-marked 9/18/2001

No autopsy in death of Fort Detrick scientist : "Prosecutors, without an indictment of Ivins, says they planned to seek death penalty. -- Perhaps the Bush administration merely carried out an execution without a trial." -- *Wayne Madsen*, of  WMR  ---  http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

"Did he leave a note? -- No one has said anything about that yet...." -- *katocat*

"Consider the actual mailing date of these letters and the fact that numerous media and government
personnel were warned "in advance" to take Cipro. also how this mailing date related to the events
of 9/11." -- *OgreDaddy*

"I don't know how many people here are aware of a very similar case several years ago here in the UK, when a highly respected UK government weapons inspector, Dr. David Kelly, who had criticised the Blair government's "sexing up" of highly corrupted and manipulated pseudo intelligence on Iraq's nuclear and biological weapons status (The now infamous Downing Street Dossier) was found dead in a field one day, supposedly having cut his wrist with a 2" pen-knife and swallowing some co-proxamol painkillers." -- *NurseRiches*

"Just read the Greenwald piece. - So why doesn't ABC News and Brian Ross tell us who those 3 or 4 sources who linked the anthrax to Iraq were? - Why maintain their cover after all these years? - Why maintain the cover of government officials who lied to them? Wouldn't they be willing to uncover the liars? How is keeping their identities secret good for the news business, ABC or the public? - Government officials can lie to the media in secret and the media will keep that secret? - Doesn't sound like a good business model to me. What is to keep them from continually lying? - Why are there no consequences?" -- *Durango*

Friday August 1st 2008 - links page

Spy agency disruption reaches Fort Meade  ---  http://onlinejournal.org/Special_Reports/041205Madsen/041205madsen.html
Some quotes...."Hayden's reign at NSA has been marked by the emaciation of the career civilian corps through forced retirements and resignations, outsourcing of government positions to contractors, intimidation, forced psychiatric and psychological examinations for "problem" employees...." -- "Morale at NSA has plummeted from repeated cover-ups of serious breaches of security by senior officials. While rank-and-file employees are subjected to abusive psychological and psychiatric evaluations for disagreeing with summary intelligence reports provided to outside users or "consumers" and even for more mundane matters...."  --- 
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NeoCons Using Shrinks To Purge National Security Agency  ---  http://www.rense.com/general67/neo.htm
A quote...."In the spirit of the Soviet "psikhushka" psychiatric hospitals where anti-regime dissidents were sent, NSA is using psychologists to eliminate independent-minded intelligence analysts and other career employees. Adverse psychiatric evaluations of experienced NSA professionals are being used by the neocons controlling the agency to gut America's signals intelligence and information security capabilities."
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CIA at 50, Lost in the 'Politicization' Swamp  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story43.html
A quote...."With the Gates regime in place, career analysts in sensitive positions soon found themselves the victims of bare-knuckle bureaucratic pummelings. Some were verbally berated into changing their analyses; some faced job threats and allegations of psychiatric unfitness; others experienced confrontations with supervisors who literally threw papers in the analysts' faces."

For more on this sort of issue see....Fake Intel / Propaganda - Intell Process
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#INTELL_PROCESS
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Thursday July 31st 2008 - links page

      And now a note from Iraq's war sponsors.

     To the men and woman in the US and British armed forces, we at Big Oil, Big Military and even the Saudi Royals would like to thank you for a job well done.  We couldn't have done it without your generous, unceasing, support.  So for all the sleepless nights those of you with a conscience will suffer as you toss and turn in guilty agony recalling the woman and children you burned alive with white phosphorous in Fallujah,  ---  http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&resnum=0&q=Fallujah&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title  ---   or the people you beat, sexually abused or even killed in prisons like Abu Ghraib,   ---  http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Abu+Ghraib&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title  ---  or the million Iraqis murdered   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IRAQDEATHS  ---  during your reign of terror across the length and breadth of Iraq....take heart, you did it for the most noblest of reasons, our corporation's bottom lines.

     Therefore as you slowly die from your inhalation of depleted uranium, as you waste away from all the chemicals you’ve been exposed too, as you hobble about with your torn limbs, shattered bodies and broken minds you should understand quite clearly that we truly appreciate what you've done for us....in fact, we're so appreciative we plan to do it all over again every ten years or so.  ---   http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407  ---   And there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop us.

     See you, or your children, or both of you very soon.  Keep up the good work.  Thanks again.

Sincerely
Big Oil, Big Military and the Saudi Royals

Wednesday July 30th 2008 - links page