Wednesday August 11th 2010 - links page

Freedom Rider: Public Theft and the End of Empire  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/freedom-rider-public-theft-and-end-empire
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."Americans are a people living on the precipice of economic disaster, both as individuals and as a group. The continued precariousness of their situation is a direct result of government connivance in stripping them of public assets and the distribution of those assets to the corporate sector. Retired public employees are literally having money they earned stolen from them. Children are losing days  in public schools and counties are eliminating public transportation because political leaders are firmly committed to expanding empire abroad, assisting rapacious individuals and corporations at home and keeping workers and people of color in their place."
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Saving Women and Preventing Genocide: The Real Reasons We’re in Afghanistan Now --- http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/shaffer-br7.1.1.html
Must Read - A quote...."So now the cheerleaders for war would have us believe that they are more concerned for the welfare of Afghan civilians than are those who wish to end the US occupation. -- First we have White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sanctimoniously imploring the editors of Wikileaks not to post more information that the administration believes might endanger the lives of local Afghan informants..."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26128.htm
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Timebends: The Further Fruits of Revelation  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/2002-timebends-the-further-fruits-of-revelation.html
Special Note - A quote...."As the media froth surrounding the initial appearance of the documents recedes, the nuggets of hard truth become clearer, with diligent researchers digging through the trove. For example, Bretigne Shaffer finds  some of the underpinning for the media blitz now obviously under way to reverse the growing public discontent with the war in Afghanistan. -- The most glaring emblem of this campaign, of course, is the recent Time Magazine cover of the horrifically mutilated Afghan girl, which was accompanied by the headline: "What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan." (As Shaffer notes, this was posed not as a question, but as a stark statement of fact, with this not-so-subtle-implication: "If you oppose this war, you are objectively pro-mutilation.") Of course, the atrocity committed against this young woman is indeed a wicked, sickening crime. But it has nothing to do with "our" presence in Afghanistan. -- No wait, strike that; it has everything to do with our presence in Afghanistan -- a presence which is greatly exacerbating the societal breakdown and empowering the kind of retrograde extremism that together lead to the perpetuation of such practices."
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What They Do in Our Name  ---  http://www.fff.org/comment/com1008b.asp
A quote...."Thanks to Wikileaks and heroic leakers inside the military, we now know the U.S. government has killed many more innocent Afghan civilians than we were aware of heretofore. We also know that American military and intelligence personnel roam Afghanistan assassinating suspected bad guys. Sometimes they kill people they later acknowledge weren’t bad guys at all. “Bad guys,” like “Taliban,” is implicitly defined as anyone who resists the U.S. occupation force and the corrupt puppet government it keeps in power." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26129.htm
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“The Military is Keeping this Information Secret, to Prosecute the War and to Hide Abuse”
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php/home-mainmenu-289/6577-the-military-is-keeping-this-information-secret-to-prosecute-the-war-and-to-hide-abuse
GVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N18aLQXDXGA  ---  (GYuTb - 4 min 38 sec - July 25, 2010) - Source:  TheVildbasse  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheVildbasse  ---  A quote...."Julian Assange on the Afghanistan war logs: 'They show the true nature of this war'Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, explains why he decided to publish thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan."
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Change That's Not: 'Obama On Bush Route'  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26137.htm
Must View RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UJ87MptxaU  ---  (RTVideo - 12 min 39 sec - August 11, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Recent sanctions against Iran are an attempt by the US to return the country to its sphere of influence, claims veteran journalist John Pilger. "Iran was a pillar of the American empire in the Middle East. That was swept away in 1979 by the Islamic revolution, and it has been American foreign policy to get that back," he said. "It has absolutely nothing to do with so-called nuclear weapons."
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Lebanon rejects US concerns over military help  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100811/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_lebanon_us
A quote...."BEIRUT – Lebanon will reject any American military assistance to the nation's army if it comes with conditions that the weapons not be used against Israel, the defense minister said Wednesday."
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Syria, Iran underline support for Lebanon against Israel  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=40541
A quote...."DAMASCUS - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki underlined on Wednesday their joint support for Lebanon in the face of Israeli "aggression," state news agency SANA said. -- The two met at Lattakia on Syria's northern coast and discussed the situation in Lebanon "following the Israeli aggression against Lebanese sovereignty," it said. -- They affirmed "their support for Lebanon in the face of such aggression," SANA said of an August 3 clash on the Lebanon-Israel border between the two countries' troops."
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*Updated* The Campaign to Turn Iran Into an "Existential Threat"  ---  http://www.raceforiran.com/the-campaign-to-turn-iran-into-an-existential-threat
A quote...."There is an old saying:  “Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me.”  Many of the same writers, thinkers, political actors, and organizations that persuaded the American people and others to support invading Iraq in 2003 are now working to build public support for the United States to initiate a war with the Islamic Republic of Iran.  Will the American people allow themselves, to their shame, to be fooled once again on a foreign policy matter of life-and-death importance?"
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Iranian Carmaker: Sanctions Ineffective  ---  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8905201504
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of a leading Iranian car-manufacturer announced on Wednesday that the sanctions imposed on Iran by the West have left no negative impact on his company."
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Iran downplays US war option  ---  http://www.islamidavet.com/english/2010/08/10/iran-downplays-us-war-option/
A quote...."Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi says the United States is keeping the “war option” open to justify its huge military budget."
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Gas deal with Iran still on, EGL says  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=138344&sectionid=351020103
A quote...."The Swiss energy group EGL [bravely] says its €18 billion gas contract with Iran is still on, [and they are sticking to their word, along with the contract they SIGNED, unlike the world's biggest stupid-power one could mention] despite the [blatantly thuggish] US[-NRE] threats of sanctions over the gas deal with Tehran. -- In 2007, the Elektrizitaetsgesellschaft Laufenburg (EGL) signed a 25-year agreement with the National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC) to import around 5.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year from Iran. -- The €18 billion gas contract was criticized in [by] the US[-NRE] [& the AIPAC-Israeli Consortium's bought and paid for lackeys in] Congress because of possible violations of [illegal] US[-NRE] sanctions [which are a violation of the NPT treaty] against firms active in Iran's gas and oil sectors." - edited by mpg
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/gas-deal-with-iran-still-on-egl-says/
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Four Ghadir [mini]-submarines join Iran fleet  ---  http://www.islamidavet.com/english/2010/08/08/four-ghadir-submarines-join-iran-fleet/
A quote...."Amid efforts to boost security in the Persian Gulf, the Iranian Navy has been equipped with four domestic-made Ghadir class mini submarines. -- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Vahidi hailed the delivery as a sign of progress in Iranian military ingenuity."
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Iraq to facilitate Iranian gas pipeline to Syria - minister  ---  http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=135559
A quote...."BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahrestani announced on Thursday Iraq’s readiness to facilitate extending Iranian gas pipeline to Syria through the Iraqi territories."
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Libya to fund Gaza homes after deal to free Israeli  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6791XI20100810
A quote...."(Reuters) - A rare deal between foes Israel and Libya to free an Israeli photographer will let Libya underwrite the rebuilding of 1,250 Gaza Strip homes destroyed in Israel's offensive there last year, U.N. officials said on Tuesday."
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Turkey sets up its own inquiry into Israeli raid  ---  http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkey-sets-up-its-own-inquiry-into-israeli-raid-2010-08-12
Special Note - A quote...."Turkey has set up a commission to carry out its own investigation into Israel's raid on Gaza-bound aid ships that left eight Turks and one Turkish American dead, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. -- The commission, which will work under the prime minister's office, will "investigate the attack and the treatment the activists faced" before writing a report on its findings, the ministry said in a statement."
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Turkey’s first ever drone plane rolled out  ---  http://www.daily.pk/turkey%E2%80%99s-first-ever-drone-plane-rolled-out-19772/
A quote...."Turkey’s first ever drone airplane rolled out from Air Force hanger on Friday July sixteen. Presently it’s a surveillance craft able to fly for 24-hour. Turkish drone Anka, with a 56-feet wingspan and an ability to fly at a speed of 75 knots (140 mph=225.3 kph) per hour at maximum height of 30,000 feet (9,144 meters)"
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Armenia to upgrade weaponry, develop domestic defense industry
  ---  http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=armenia-to-upgrade-weaponry-develop-domestic-defense-industry-2010-08-12
A quote...."Armenia’s Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian says the government plans to acquire long-range, precision-guided weapons for possible armed conflicts with hostile neighbors, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Armenian Service reported."
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Russia deploys missiles in Abkhazia  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/08/201081113535114236.html
A quote...."Russia has placed an air defence missile system to in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, bringing almost immediate condemnation from the government in Tbilisi."
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Su-25 attack aircraft. Specifications  ---  http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20100812/160169830.html
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Viewpoint of the Chinese Military: The Chinese People Won't Stand for US Naval Provocation
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20577
A quote...."A US Defence Department spokesman confirmed to the Xinhua News Agency on Friday that the US would send the aircraft carrier George Washington to participate in the US-South Korean joint military exercise in the Yellow sea."
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Ecuadorian FM Favors Stronger Links with China  ---  http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=212388&Itemid=1
A quote...."Beijing, Aug 11 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador's minister of foreign affairs, commerce and integration, Ricardo Patiño, expressed his desire for more Chinese young people to visit his country and strengthen bilateral links."
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Venezuela and Colombia agree to renew diplomatic ties  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/11/venezuela-colombia-agree-renew-diplomatic-ties
OH MY GAWD!! - What just happened to the US-NRE's best little lap-dog south of the border?  Could it be the US-NRE didn't cough up enough cash?  Perhaps the parasites here were demanding too much of a cut from Columbia's cocaine trade?  Maybe the shut down  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/26/wachovia-investigated-by_n_98779.html  ---  of Wachovia  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20210  ---  and the other drug trade supporting banksters  ---  http://institute.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010072814/megabanks-are-laundering-drug-money-and-getting-away-it  ---  got some elements in Columbia's government ticked off?  Whatever the case may be, peace might actually break-out in Latin America.  It's the worst news our war mongering parasites have heard for years. - mpg
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El Salvador Welcomes Venezuela-Colombia Ties  ---  http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=212479&Itemid=1
A quote...."San Salvador, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) The Salvadoran government today welcomed the restoration of diplomatic relations between Colombia and Venezuela, and the decision of both countries to promote joint programs in various fields."
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The Hidden Tragedy of the CIA's Experiments on Children  ---  http://www.truth-out.org/the-hidden-tragedy-cias-experiments-children62208
Special Note - A quote..."Bobby is seven years old, but this is not the first time he has been subjected to electroshock. It's his third time. In all, over the next year, Bobby will experience eight electroshock sessions. Placed on the examining table, he is held down by two male attendants while the physician places a solution on his temples. Bobby struggles with the two men holding him down, but his efforts are useless. He cries out and tries to pull away. One of the attendants tries to force a thick wedge of rubber into his mouth. He turns his head sharply away and cries out, "Let me go, please. I don't want to be here. Please, let me go." Bobby's physician looks irritated and she tells him, "Come on now, Bobby, try to act like a big boy and be still and relax." Bobby turns his head away from the woman and opens his mouth for the wedge that will prevent him from biting through his tongue. He begins to cry silently, his small shoulders shaking and he stiffens his body against what he knows is coming." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68742&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Gagged for 6 Years, Nick Merrill Speaks Out on Landmark Court Struggle Against FBI’s National Security Letters
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/11/gagged_for_6_years_nick_merrill
A quote...."For six years, the FBI has barred a New York man from revealing that the agency had ordered him to hand over personal information about clients of his internet start-up. Finally allowed to speak, Nick Merrill joins us in his first broadcast interview to talk about how he challenged the FBI’s use of national security letters. We also speak with Connecticut librarian George Christian. He and three other librarians also sued the US government after receiving a national security letter demanding information about library patrons. [includes rush transcript]"
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Woman shot by G20 police speaks out  ---  http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alex/2010/07/woman-shot-g20-police-speaks-out
A quote...."Over one billion dollars of tax payer's money funded the weekend's tragedy, which was executed by 20,000 police officers and their artillery. Over one thousand demonstrators, media and passersby were indiscriminately incarcerated and subjected to abuses similar and in many cases worse than what I experienced. As demonstrators, we were in the streets to resist the systemic and violent oppression of people here at home and around the world caused by the capitalist, corporate strategies solidified, agreed upon and celebrated by the leaders at the G8 and G20 summits. We got a brief taste this weekend of the very human rights abuses we were there to oppose. Here's my story."
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WHO list reveals flu advisors with financial ties to pharma, vaccine manufacturers
  ---  http://www.naturalnews.com/029441_vaccine_manufacturers_advisors.html
A quote...."(NaturalNews) After months of stalling, the World Health Organization (WHO) has finally revealed the names of key pandemic advisors who influenced its decision to declare a phase six pandemic last year -- a decision that resulted in a financial windfall for vaccine manufacturers. As you'll see here, that list includes at least five expert advisors received money from vaccine companies. -- Here's who received money from Big Pharma and then influenced the WHO decision to declare a pandemic...." -- also posted at LewRockwell  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/adams-m7.1.1.html
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Israel does damage control over Hariri hit  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=138360&sectionid=351020203
A quote...."At a press conference on Monday, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah presented new evidence of Israeli involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in a massive car bomb attack on February 14, 2005. Twenty-two others also died in the incident. -- The evidence included footage from Israeli spy drones of routes used by Hariri and recorded confessions by Israeli spies substantiating that the assassination of Hariri was carried out on orders from Tel Aviv." -- For more on this issue see article shown below....
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An interview with Luisa Morgantini: From the Jordan Valley, once the breadbasket of Palestine  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/27786
Interview - A quote...."Deprived of water and electricity, surrounded by settlements and imprisoned in a large closed military zone under occupation since 1967, the Jordan Valley’s residents resist. Plagued by home demolitions and land confiscation, they represent one of the most vulnerable communities in the entire C area of the West Bank (area under complete Israeli military and administrative control). Today, the population numbers approximately 56,000; before 1967 it counted over 300,000—a sharp decline provoked by a long process of expulsion and evictions that has taken place far from the public eye and received virtually no media attention."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Netanyahu rejects '67 borders as basis for talks  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=307478  ---  Of course. - mpg
A quote...."JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his request that direct peace talks with Palestinians go ahead without preconditions, during a meeting with US envoy to the peace process George Mitchell on Wednesday."
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Interview with "Salt of This Sea" star before nationwide premiere in NYC  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11458.shtml?utm_source=
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A quote...."Award-winning Palestinian-American poet Suheir Hammad plays Soraya, a woman who comes to Palestine for the first time in her life, curious about her roots and determined to redeem the ghosts that have haunted her family for three generations. Born in Brooklyn to a working-class Palestinian family exiled from Jaffa, Soraya discovers that her grandfather's savings were frozen from his bank account during the Nakba -- the expulsion of the Palestinians -- in 1948, and the money was eventually absorbed by Israeli financial institutions."
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Destruction, Destruction, Destruction  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1507
A quote...."2 Palestinians and 1 Israeli have been arrested during a protest which took place on Monday afternoon against the repeated demolitions of the village of Al Arakib in the Nakab-Negev. During the night Israeli authorities demolished the village of Al-Arakib for the third time in two weeks. Nicky Elliott witnessed the demolition."
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Children remember their loved ones  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/1405-children-remember-their-loved-ones
Photo Gallery - A quote...."As the Muslim world welcomes the holy month of Ramadan, orphans in Gaza remember their parents and loved ones who were killed during Operation Cast Lead." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68750&hd=&size=1&l=e
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BDS court victory in London: ‘Ahava four’ found not guilty of trespass in Israeli store - Victory!!
  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/08/13775/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29&utm_content=FeedBurner+user+view
Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because what the Israelis are doing is commonly called theft and murder.  BDS is the LEAST the world's people can do to stop their crimes. - mpg -- A quote...."Four campaigners against Israeli apartheid were acquitted yesterday (August 10th) of all charges related to two direct action protests against the Israeli cosmetics retailer Ahava in Covent Garden, London. The campaigners locked themselves onto concrete-filled oil drums inside the shop, closing it down for two days in September and December of 2009." - bold by website editor - For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/  ---  of this website. -- For more on this type of issue see article shown below....
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To Know is Not Enough: How Hampshire became the First to Divest  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/08/13727/?utm_source=feedburner&
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Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13802936  ---  (note: size window to fit) - Boycott, Divest and Sanction, because might does NOT make right, and Israel must be taught that lesson. - mpg -- A quote....Hampshire College is often credited with being the first US college to divest for the occupation, and this video attempts to understand the group and the campaign that made it happen. The video is constructed from interviews with over a dozen student activists from Hampshire College’s Students for Justice in Palestine." - For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website.
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Three medical delegations enter Gaza
http://www.paltelegraph.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6749:three-medical-delegations-enter-gaza&catid=58:gaza-strip&Itemid=134
A quote...."Gaza, August 12, (Pal Telegraph) Three medical delegations from Britain, Canada and Scotland Arrived in the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing today."
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On whose behalf is Egypt savaging the people of Gaza ?
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7Thd2MJa7%2bL3
nXNEiJ3QCu8g8ePxFpanDauWzLHLZtwSjPoFTXBc765CsjHl5Nv9ABXo0wET2c0uAvRe54oiocRIapVaEJX9q3bv5od9kL5E%3d
A quote...."An influx  of  hair-raising stories keeps coming from the Egyptian side of the Rafah border terminal. Nearly all these stories underscore the degrading treatment meted out to Gazans, already thoroughly savaged by the manifestly criminal siege imposed by Israel on the coastal enclave in coordination with several regional and international players, including Egypt itself. -- In fact, according to testimonies collected from Gazans who have been in the "Egyptian hell," the Egyptian treatment of some Gazans is far worse than that which is accorded to them by the Israel. -- This is more than disgraceful. It is criminal."
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The Fed's New Round of Quantitative Easing Is Like Trying to Patch Leaking Pipes by Pumping in More Water
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/08/feds-new-round-of-quantitative-easing.html
A quote..."Bernanke announced additional quantitative easing yesterday, primarily in the form of buying treasuries to monetize the U.S. debt. -- Jeff Harding points out that those worried about deflation within the Fed won out over the scared-of-inflation camp...."
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15 Economic Statistics That Just Keep Getting Worse  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/15-economic-statistics-that-just-keep-getting-worse.html
A quote...."A little over a week ago, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner penned an article for the New York Times entitled “Welcome To The Recovery” in which he touted the great strides that the U.S. economy was making.  But with unemployment still dangerously high and with foreclosures and personal bankruptcies continuing to set all-time records, should we really be talking about a “recovery”?  The truth is that the numbers don’t lie, and statistic after statistic shows that the economic fundamentals continue to get progressively worse."
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U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know It: Laurence Kotlikoff
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-11/u-s-is-bankrupt-and-we-don-t-even-know-commentary-by-laurence-kotlikoff.html
A quote...."Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills. -- What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, health-care, retirement and financial systems, each of which is a complete mess. But this is the good news. It means they can each be redesigned to achieve their legitimate purposes at much lower cost and, in the process, revitalize the economy."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26136.htm
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Reagan insider: 'GOP destroyed U.S. economy'  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/reagan-insider-gop-destroyed-us-economy-2010-08-10
Special Note - A quote...."ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- "How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy." Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, "Four Deformations of the Apocalypse." -- Get it? Not "destroying." The GOP has already "destroyed" the U.S. economy, setting up an "American Apocalypse." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26133.htm
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Deutsche Bank's Lavorgna Follows Revision Suit , Takes Q2 GDP Estimate Down To 1.1%
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/deutsche-banks-lavorgna-follows-revision-suit-takes-q2-gdp-estimate-down-11
A quote...."Our expected economic groupthink revision by the sellside "strategists" is accelerating, as now even permabullish CNBC permaguest Joe LaVorgna "takes the knife" to his Q2 GDP estiamte. Yet despite presumably seeing the light, he only cuts Q3 and Q4 estiamtes to 3.0% and 3.3%, still hundreds of bps higher than Goldman, and even worse when compared to reality. David Bianco and his stratospheric GDP will stick out like a speedoless nudist in the middle of the liquidity ocean when the economic tide finally goes out. Luckily, Bianco has no credibility to begin with so the concept of discrediting surely does not apply."
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From 2.4% To 1.1% And Dropping - Q2 GDP Gets Closer To Reality With Each Passing Day
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/24-11-and-dropping-q2-gdp-gets-closer-reality-each-passing-day
A quote...."As we pointed out earlier today, today's latest deterioration in yet another overoptimistic assumption by the BEA, in the form of the balance of trade, means that the next GDP revision will likely be sub 1%, and may ostensibly drop to negative, confirming that the double dip, at least for NBER purposes, started sometime between April and June. Confirming our skepticism is JPM's Michael Feroli who now believes that real  Q2 GDP is trending at a 1.1% rate, less than half the official 2.4%, which, as readers will recall was expected by a battery of Ph.D.-clad optimists to come out to 2.7%. Less than two weeks after the announcement, it becomes clear that the world's "smartest" economists were off by 60%. And we are confident this is not the end of the downward revisions."
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More Foreclosures, More Bank Failures, Big Trouble for the FDIC  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=10070
A quote...."The U.S. housing market continues to send mix signals.  More homes continue to enter foreclosure but the number of homeowners carrying so-called “under water mortgages,” declined in the second quarter, Zillow.com reported Monday. -- 21.5% of homeowners owed more on their mortgage than their home was worth in the second quarter, that’s down from 23.3% in the first quarter and 23% a year ago. -- “There are a lot homes caught up in mortgage modifications,” explains Richard Suttmeier of ValuEngine.com, which he says results in a temporary stability in home prices.  The key word: temporary. -- “There’s waves of more foreclosures coming in the housing market because very few of the HAMP modifications are becoming permanent,” he says."
Source:  YahooFinance
  ---  http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/%22waves-of-more-foreclosures%22--more-bank-failures--big-trouble-for-the-fdic-suttmeier-says-535314.html
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Lack Of Stock Dispersion Hits All Time Record As Most Stocks Now Trade As One
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/lack-stock-dispersion-hits-all-time-record-most-stocks-now-trade-one
Market Tech Note - Chart - A quote...."Fundamental analysis is no longer relevant as Alpha has just done one more revolution in its grave: today 1 Year Implied Correlation hit a new all time record, at 79.84 (out of 100 maximum possible), meaning the inverse of the metric, stock dispersion, or the measurement of the variation in individual stock prices, or broadly speaking alpha, is now completely irrelevant. As we have been saying for a year, "investing" is now all about a levered beta bet, using the maximum possible leverage, and sacrifices to Moloch, that the market does not turn before price targets are hit. At this rate we anticipate the next broad or acute selloff, will take us to 100 in implied correlation, at which point there will be no benefit whatsoever to trading individual stocks: the entire market will be one big ETF." - bold by website editor
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Contrary To CNBC's Persistent Lies, Volume Surges  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/contrary-cnbcs-persistent-lies-volume-surges
Chart - A quote...."Another day, another desperate attempt by GE's propaganda branch to keep its viewers disconnected with reality. Case in point: Bob Pisani, who has now said about 100 times that "volume was very low, no bids were hit, etc, etc." The truth: yes to the latter, and a blatant lie on the former. Exhibit A is below, where you can see that today's ES volume was the highest in 40 days! Maybe CNBC can hire an expert and analyze the chart below and advise us what it uses as the source for its lies, pardon, information."
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U.S. Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Widens to $49.9 Billion in June
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-11/u-s-trade-deficit-unexpectedly-widens-to-49-9-billion-as-exports-decline.html
A quote...."The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly widened in June by a record $7.9 billion as imports rose and shipments abroad declined. -- The $49.9 billion gap was the biggest since October 2008 and followed a $42 billion shortfall in May, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. Exports dropped by the most in more than a year."
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U.S. posts $165 billion July deficit, spending ebbs  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100811/bs_nm/us_usa_budget
A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States racked up a $165.04 billion budget deficit during July, 8.7 percent below the year-ago gap as economic stimulus and bailout spending subsided from peak levels, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday. -- So far in the first 10 months of fiscal 2010, which ends on September 30, the shortfall between the government's income and its spending totaled $1.169 trillion, smaller than last year's record 10-month deficit of $1.267 trillion."
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In Stunning Decision, EU Orders Germany To Start Onboarding "Bad Debt" To Sovereign Balance Sheet: RBS, Fannie, Freddie Next?
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/stunning-decision-eu-begins-onboarding-bad-debt-sovereign-balance-sheet-rbs-fannie-freddie-n
Special Note - A quote...."In what could be the most important news of the day, German Die Zeit reports that, in a stunning move, the EU has ordered Germany to count the holdings of WestLB and Hypo Real Estate (the latter of which failed the stress farce from last month which nobody cares about or remembers anymore) as government debt!  As Bloomberg notes, "That could raise Germany’s debt to 90 percent of gross domestic product, Die Zeit said." Of course the implications of this decision are massive, as it takes out all the guess work of whether insolvent institutions are or are not on the government's balance sheet. The net result, for Germany alone, is that just the addition of Hypo's debt would push German debt/GDP from 79% to 90%, both of which are well above the Maastricht limit of 60% "
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Britain: Health inequalities widest since records began in 1921  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/heal-a12.shtml
DANG!!!  All of this unpayable, onerous, massive amounts of debt, just so one rouge, apartheid, racist, homicidal, genocidal state of only five million members of the "Jewish Community", along with its New Roman Empire colony, can run around the world murdering millions of people with impunity?!?!?  The Brits are pretty stupid when you think about it, it's not even their own empire they're spending all their treasure and commiting murdering for.  Now that's pretty sick. Maybe they're all masochists? - mpg
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China Enters the Gold Market  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/daughty/mogambo62.1.html
A quote...."There was an editorial power struggle at Mogambo News Service over whether it was Big, Big News (BBN) or if it was Big Freaking News (BFN), or even if it was The Biggest Freaking News Of Your Life (TBFNOYL) that China has, officially through the People’s Bank of China, said that they have “seen the light” as concerns gold, and they see how gold is the only true money, and how worthless paper monies and computer blip monies are the Wrong Way To Go (WWTO), as evidenced by the Chinese merely looking at us Americans and what happened! Hahaha!"
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Venezuela''s International Reserves Increase  ---  http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=212486&Itemid=1
A quote...."Caracas, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan foreign exchange reserves rose to 28.376 billion dollars, slightly below the level considered optimal by the government (30 billion dollars), the Central Bank of Venezuela said."
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Tuesday August 10th 2010 - links page

Israel Cannot be Both Jewish and Democratic  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26125.htm
Must Read - A quote....""Information Clearing House" -- Israel continues to lurch and stagger in the darkened bog of tribal chauvinism. The Jewish state's further descent into the bellicose murk is being felt by the country's minorities. Home destructions and deportations are portentous of a bleaker future for non-Jews in Israel. -- Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have lived under an Israeli apartheid regime for decades now. Over the years, Israel has demolished  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1502  ---  homes, kidnapped thousands of political prisoners,  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3130623.stm  ---  transferred 500,000 settler-colonists onto the West Bank, conducted massive military operations in civilian areas, hoarded the vast majority of Palestinian water,  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article14  ---  and committed a host of other crimes under the apartheid banner."
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The Death of Zionism  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2010/08/death-of-zionism.html
Special Note - A quote...."Zionism is a thorn in the world's side. Like all forms of politico-religious collective extremism, it is deceptive, cruel, and arrogantly self-righteous. Zionists have overstayed their welcome in the Middle East by about fifty years, and the longer they remain in power the worse off Israel, the Middle East, and the world will be. And they are not going anywhere, nor will they pursue a new policy, so it naturally falls on the injured party to remove a thorn from its side, and since America has the most powerful arm in the world, it must be the one to pull it out from the world's side, and stop the bleeding."
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Is Time Magazine Part of CIA Strategy to Gain Support for Afghan War?
  ---  http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Is_Time_Magazine_Part_of_CIA_Strategy_to_Gain_Support_for_Afghan_War_100810
Propaganda Alert - A quote...."The August 9 edition of Time  featured a cover photo of an Afghan woman who had her nose chopped off, along with the headline: “What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan.” The implication was that, despite the increasing unpopularity of the war, the U.S. should continue the fight. As independent as Time may be, their position and timing fit in perfectly with the strategy proposed in a March CIA document that was released by WikiLeaks." - also posted at BLN  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=10048
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Obama Versus Obama  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/54421
HFPVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/video/video_2899.html?128145636  ---  (HFPVideo - 4 min 55 sec)  - It's a funny video, because Obama not only lost the debate with himself, he totally trounced himself.  On the other hand it's not so funny after all because we all lost too. - mpg
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The American Media Empire of Managed News  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20568
Audio - Special Note - A quote...."Propaganda model post 9/11 becomes deliberate disinformation; consolidation of media and public relations groups; prison torture across the US; domestic secret detention centers;  Operation FALCON mass arrests; suspension of habeas corpus by the Chief Executive; US and NATO as protectors of global capital; structure of inequality maintained by global capital and military empire worldwide; repression that addresses us all; the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights."
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On Wikileaks (VII): Take Up the Wikileaks Challenge with Pride and Honor
  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-wikileaks-vii-take-up-wikileaks.html
A quote...."Three interconnected criticisms of Wikileaks, and of the recently released Afghanistan material, merit consideration. These particular criticisms can be summarized as follows:

• "These materials don't tell us anything new, or anything we didn't already know."
• "While the materials may contain points of interest, they certainly aren't the Pentagon Papers!" (The exclamation point is always implied at a minimum.)
• "Perhaps Wikileaks is to be commended in certain respects. Sad to say, though, this won't stop the war."

"All three points were announced within a day of the latest Wikileaks story breaking in the news; sometimes, they were put forth within hours. This was true of both mainstream media and of the overwhelming majority of blog posts."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68732&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Reports: Obama Pressing Allies to Target Assange  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/08/10/reports-obama-pressing-allies-to-target-assange/
Related Article - A quote...."A number of reports are emerging today suggesting that the Obama Administration is looking for a new approach in its attempts to crack down on whistleblower site WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange."
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Gerald Celente On the Alex Jones Show – Double Dip Depression Will Lead Us Into War
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/08/10/video-gerald-celente-on-the-alex-jones-show-double-dip-depression-will-lead-us-into-war/
Video - Special Note - Gerald Celente lets it rip!! - mpg - GC&AJ(1/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHUyQJXsiv8
GC&AJ(1/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_LaG8s_y1c
GC&AJ(1/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih44YoefqWA
GC&AJ(1/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7-jxXGv_yE  ---  (AJYuTb - 10 min -  August 10, 2010) - Source:  DProgramTV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/dprogramtv  ---  Producer:  AJInfoWars  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#grid/uploads  ---  A quote...."The white shoe boys are taking us into the worst depression in history."
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Murder by the Numbers and Why kant i spel?  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/08/murder-by-numbers-and-why-kant-i-spel.html
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnq6cD5jk1Q  ---  (YuTb 1m47s -  January 18, 2008) -- A quote....."In groundbreaking research, Nobel Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard researcher Linda Bilmes, calculated that many other present and future costs were not included in operational costs. The additional costs include...."

• Paying interest on the debt, since all operations have been paid for with borrowed money
• Future medical costs which could soar to the tens of billions as severely wounded vets return from multiple tours of duty
• Added war costs to the Pentagon budget and costs to reset military equipment destroyed in the wars.

"This breaks down to $720 million spent each day on Iraq only, or $500,000 per minute. The cost of sending one soldier to Afghanistan is $3 million per year when these additional costs are added."
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30 Yrs Ago Poles Challenged Communist Rulers With “Solidarity Revolution”– Can Americans Learn From the Lesson? --- http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/
2010/08/10/30-yrs-ago-poles-challenged-communist-rulers-with-%E2%80%9Csolidarity-revolution%E2%80%9D-can-americans-learn-from-the-lesson/
A quote...."I happen to be old enough to remember how difficult and dangerous it was to get some scraps of truth in the communist Poland. Even as late as the 70’s and 80’s you had to have good friends involved in underground publishing to get some independent, political material. Short wave radio was a window of sorts to the world; we listened to “Radio Free Europe” and “Voice of America” which gave some semblance of truth despite the fact that both were propaganda fronts for outfits like CIA. We knew it well but still, this was better than the Polish equivalents of “Pravda” newspaper. No Internet then…"
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2010 Bohemian Grove Members List Revealed! And More..  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/08/10/2010-bohemian-grove-members-list-revealed-and-more/
A quote...."(NorCalTruth) – A 2010 Bohemian Grove members list has been given to members of Nor Cal Truth. As in the spirit of 2008 with Truth Action,  the Bohemian Grove actions of 2010  have paid off."
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End of the Internet? Google-Verizon Pact: It Gets Worse  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/10
Web Under Threat - A quote....""So Google and Verizon went public today with their "policy framework" -- better known as the pact to end the Internet as we know it  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/google-verizon-deal-the-e_b_671617.html  ---  News of this deal broke this week, sparking a public outcry that's seen hundreds of thousands  ---  http://www.freepress.net/press-release/2010/8/9/300000-call-google-don%E2%80%99t-sell-out-open-internet  ---  of Internet users calling on Google  ---  https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=470  ---  to live up to its "Don't Be Evil" pledge. -- But cut through the platitudes the two companies (Googizon, anyone?) offered on today's press call, and you'll find this deal is even worse than advertised." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26121.htm
& HuffPost  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-aaron/google-verizon-pact-it-ge_b_676194.html
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Cybersecurity Lie Exposed: Power Plants Are Not Connected To The Internet
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/cybersecurity-lie-exposed-power-plants-are-not-connected-to-the-internet.html
Lieberman is at it again, he wants to strip Americans of their citizenship, destroy the freedom of the internet, and start a war with Iran.  Why doesn't he just move to Israel and leave the rest of us alone? - mpg -- A quote...."Senator Joe Lieberman’s draconian Internet takeover legislation, the 197-page Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, is being promoted as a vital tool to protect vulnerable infrastructure hubs from terrorist attacks, but as a recent Wall Street Journal report makes clear, large industrial power and water plants are not even connected to the public Internet."
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‘John Doe’ Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order After 6 Years  ---  http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/nsl-gag-order-lifted/
A quote...."The owner of an internet service provider who mounted a high-profile court challenge to a secret FBI records demand has finally been partially released from a 6-year-old gag order that forced him to keep his role in the case a secret from even his closest friends and family. He can now identify himself and discuss the case, although he still can’t reveal what information the FBI sought."
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Conspiracy theories like the 9/11 Commission Report will destroy us  ---  http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=
deathshipamerica.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-51975-Santa-Cruz-Liberal-Examiner&sref=http%3
A%2F%2Fdeathshipamerica.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F08%2F10%2Fconspiracy-theories-like-the-911-commission-report-will-destroy-us%2F
A quote...."One of the most bizarre, incredibly wild stories is the officially sanctioned, multi-million dollar 9/11 Commission Report. If you like reading conspiracy theories, try that one! It’s even a little unusual as far as conspiracy theories go, since it includes statements made as fact that are known to be false and have been confessed false by the people that produced it. But that’s just another distraction leading to endless discussion over details that, while including uncontestable contradictions, never gets nailed into the whole piece well enough to satisfy everyone."
also posted at DthShpAmrika  ---  http://deathshipamerica.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/conspiracy-theories-like-the-911-commission-report-will-destroy-us/
For more on this issue see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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Landmark Gitmo trial puts White House in tight spot  ---  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38634007/ns/us_news-security/
A quote...." GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — A top United Nations official on Tuesday denounced the Pentagon's trial of so-called "child soldier" Omar Khadr at Guantanamo Bay, saying the proceeding was a violation of international legal norms and "may endanger the status of child soldiers all over the world." -- "Since World War II, no child has been prosecuted for a war crime," Radhika Coomaraswamy, the U.N.'s special representative for Children and Armed Conflict said in a statement distributed by the U.N. on the eve of Khadr's trial here."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68729&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Two Thirds Of Wall Street Donations Now Go To Republicans As Democrats Get Least Contributions Since May 2008
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/two-thirds-wall-street-donations-now-go-republicans-democrats-get-least-contributions-may-20
Chart - If people keep voting for DemoRepubs, or RepubDemos, nothing is ever gonna change. - mpg -- A quote...."According to the most recent study  ---  http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/08/financial-industry-related-politica.html  ---  by the Center for Responsive Politics, Wall Street has completely given up on Democrats, even as contributions to Republicans have surged to a near multi-year record, or 68% of total.
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U.S. and EU fail to isolate Iran  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-sanctions-20100809,0,6722759.story
A quote...."Reporting from Washington — Efforts by the United States and its European allies to build a united front to halt Iran's nuclear program are facing increasingly bold resistance from China, Russia, India and Turkey, which are rushing to boost their economies by seizing investment opportunities in defiance of sanctions imposed by the West."
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Israel unlikely to attack Iran before U.S.- Castro  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20100811/160153136.html
A quote...."Israel will not be the first state to attack Iran, because such an act would make it an enemy of all nuclear powers, Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro said in his Reflections column on the Cuba Debate website."
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Iran to dump dollar and euro reserves  ---  http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1323407/Iran-to-dump-dollar-and-euro-reserves
War Alert - A quote...."Iran has announced plans to get rid of its US dollar and euro reserves in response to the latest UN sanctions over its contested nuclear program. -- Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi has also called Australians "a bunch of cattlemen" after it joined the 27-member European Union in imposing additional sanctions against Iran. -- The UN Security Council imposed a fourth round of sanctions on Iran in June because of its refusal to halt uranium enrichment. Tougher unilateral US and European Union sanctions followed in July."
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Torpedo launcher boats join IRGC fleet  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=138150&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Introducing 12 Zolfaqhar class speedboats to its naval fleet, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warns against the inspection of Iranian vessels. -- IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi announced on Tuesday that the Corps also plans to mass produce improved models based on the record holding speedboat, Bladerunner 51, by 2011. -- The Iranian speedboat will be capable of launching missiles and torpedoes, and sailing at a speed of 70 knots (82 mph)."
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Israel frees Iran reporter after arrest  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=138151&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Israel has released an Iranian reporter after keeping him in custody for more than three hours near the Israeli-built separation barrier in the West Bank. -- The IRIB reporter was detained in the city of Qalqilya, located in the northwest of the West Bank, on Tuesday morning near the separation barrier."
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US Outraged as Iran Offers to Replace Military Aid to Lebanon
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/08/10/us-outraged-as-iran-offers-to-replace-military-aid-to-lebanon/
A quote...."The US State Department has reacted with outrage today after the Iranian government offered to provide military aid to Lebanon to make up for what was lost when the US pulled all such aid yesterday." -- Haaaaa, Haaaaaaa, Haaaaaaa.....this is Sooooooo funny.  Remember folks when the US-NRE destroyed Saddam, the man who happened to be one of Iran's biggest enemies, remember how the US-NRE than proceded to whine and complain ENDLESSLY about Iran's "undue influence" in Iraq after they had done so.  Now they're practically shoving Lebanon into the much more open and honest arms of Iran.  After all, the Iranians are perfectly willing -- in fact they're positively eager -- to help Lebanon defend itself against the Israelis.  Still it goes to show just how STUPID the US-NRE  must appear to the entire world when in constantly and repeatedly gets on bended knee to kiss the butt of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium.  What a waste of time, tax-payer dollars, and lives this "relationship" has been for this nation, not to mention dignity. - mpg
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The Myth of the US Military Aid to Lebanon  ---  http://www.almanar.com.lb/newsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=149804&language=en
Related Article - A quote...."Since 2006, the US has provided Lebanon some 500 million dollars in military assistance. Last year, the US approved 100 million dollars in assistance to the Lebanese military. The Obama administration has requested the same levels for 2011, with small increases for anti-terror and military training programs. --  However, the border incident of August 3 highlighted the fact that the US Administration does not consider that its military aid should be used to protect Lebanon against its only real enemy: Israel. “We have no indication that US equipment played any role in this incident earlier this week,” Crowley said. “In any US-origin equipment that has been provided to Lebanon, we have very strong end-use monitoring to make sure it is used appropriately.” 
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Afghan militants return to arms  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LH11Df01.html
A quote...."HERAT - Militants in Herat province of eastern Afghanistan who laid down their weapons in response to government offers of aid and amnesty are rejoining the insurgency after officials failed to deliver on their promises."
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Smog leaves Moscow  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100811/160152304.html
A quote...."The air in Moscow on Wednesday morning is clean at last, after overnight rain and winds blew away a thick layer of smog caused by the worst wildfires in Russian history, which had engulfed the capital for over a week."
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Ecuador blames Uribe for damaging Ecuador-Colombia ties  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=624228
A quote...."Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has blamed Alvaro Uribe for wrecking trust between the two nations by ordering a military attack on Ecuador`s soil without asking permission from Ecuador."
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Chavez Rejects Obama's New US Ambassador  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/09-3
A quote...."Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has said he will not allow the newly-nominated US envoy to take up his post in Caracas, following comments over Venezuela's alleged links with Colombian rebels."
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Chavez agrees to meet Santos  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/08/20108823266455303.html
A quote...."Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has said he will meet with his Colombian counterpart on Tuesday to try to end a diplomatic rift between the two countries. -- Juan Manuel Santos was inaugurated as the Colombian president on Saturday and immediately offered to talk with Chavez in hopes of mending Colombian-Venezuelan ties."
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Nasrallah's press conference  ---  http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2010/08/nasrallahs-press-conference_09.html
Special Note - Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2i4r9wISMc  ---  A quote...."In Arab political culture, this press conference will be regarded as a great political show. Nasrallah ended the conference by admitting that he did not present an evidence. Indeed, he has not. He presented circumstantial evidence to lobby the Hariri court to at least investigate the Israeli possibility. But that is not the matter here: personally, as you all know: I don't give a damn about who killed Rafiq Hariri and don't believe that Lebanon should spend a penny to find out. Israel has a history of killing Lebanese and Palestinians in Lebanon and I would rather investigate other Israeli murders in Lebanon. I don't want Hariri to be more valuable than other victims. But Hizbullah did something entirely different in this press conference: it recaptured Arab political opinion. It was great TV: the production was so well-done: with images, and visual effects and background music and graphics. The most important revelation is that Hizbullah was able to intercept the footage of Israeli spy planes. That is an incredible coup for Hizbullah. This will most impress Arab audiences worldwide."
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The "banality of evil" and Israel's destruction of al-Araqib  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11453.shtml
A quote...."In the early hours of 10 August, Israeli forces destroyed -- for the third time -- the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the northern Negev desert. Israel had first destroyed the village on 27 July as EI reported, and each time the villagers have attempted to rebuild. Joseph Dana witnessed the latest destruction."
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Ethnic cleansing continues: Bedouin village Al Araqib demolished for the third time  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/08/13728/
Contains Videos - Related Videos -  3rdTime(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D9oPMGyKZQ
3rdTime(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1LndzmluqY  ---  Source:  ISM-Palestine  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ISMPalestine  ---  A quote...."The Bedouin village of Al Araqib in Southern Israel was destroyed for the third time in two weeks this morning, Tuesday August 10th, by Israeli civil administration forces. -- At approximately 5.45 this morning around 50 Israeli police and 15 border police arrived in jeeps to guard 3 caterpillar bulldozers who razed the Palestinian Bedouin village near Beersheva, Negev to the ground in just over one hour. -- Six or seven makeshift houses which had been rebuilt by the families (following the two previous demolitions on July 27th and August 4th) were bulldozed, leaving the families, including women and children, homeless again on the eve of Ramadan." - bold by website editor - also posted at Uruknet - http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68728&hd=&size=1&l=e
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Libya charity to rebuild Gaza homes devastated by Israel  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=40498
A quote...."TRIPOLI - A charity group run by the Libyan leader's son Seif al-Islam Gathafi said on Monday it signed a 50-million-dollar deal with a UN agency to rebuild 1,250 refugee homes in the Gaza Strip. -- "We have signed an agreement with UNRWA to build 1,250 homes in Gaza for a total cost of 50 million dollars," the executive director of the Gathafi Foundation, Yussef Sawan, told AFP." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/231500
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Homeless Take On Israeli Forces  ---  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52439
A quote...."RAMALLAH, Aug 10, 2010 (IPS) - A bruising battle of will is taking place between Israeli security forces and Palestinians recently made homeless after two Palestinian villages were razed and hundreds left homeless." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68724&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Gaza's emergency services battered  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11454.shtml
A quote...."GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip - Outside the battered Civil Defense station in northern Gaza's Jabaliya region, Mohammed Zidan, a seven-year veteran of fire-fighting and rescue services, stands on crutches in front of battered Civil Defense vehicles."
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Calling Gaza a prison camp is an understatement  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/05/gaza-prison-camp-understatement
A quote...."It's three years since I've been back to Gaza. Much has happened since my last visit. Fatah waged a failed coup and now rules only the West Bank, while Hamas is in charge of Gaza. Israel launched its deadly Cast Lead assault. Fuel shortages. Electricity crises. And so on. -- I needed to regain perspective. So I walked and I talked and I listened. I went to the beach where women – skinny jeans and all – were smoking water pipes, swimming and generally having a good time, irrespective of the purported Hamas ban on women smoking sheesha."
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Keiser Report on Bizarre Robot Traders - [#67]  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/4/3vuZMR--0x4
Must View MKRTVideo - BzrRbtTrdrs  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vuZMR--0x4  ---  (RTMKYuTb - 26min 52 sec - August 10, 2010) - Source: - RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Produced:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  A quote...."In Episode 67 of his show Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals of the summer sequel of bankers returning to the scene of the crime to demand another, bigger ransom in "Deflationary Black Hole: The Sequel." In the second half of the show, Max talks to documentary filmmaker, Bregtje van der Haak about her film "Time for Change", in which ordinary people respond to the crisis of banking and bankers with their own solutions."
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Main Street's Boycott Of Capital Markets Succeeding: Barclays First Casualty, To Fire Hundreds Due To Plunge In Market Activity
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/main-streets-boycott-capital-markets-succeeding-barclays-first-casualty-fire-hundreds-due-pl
A quote...."For the longest time it was consensus thought that only Wall Street could f-ck Main Street. The ride is now turning. After what the FT reports was a 16% decline in fixed income, currencies and commodities trading revenues for Q2, coupled with advisory revenues down 17%, the bank is now "planning to cut up to several hundred employees following a sharp fall in market activity in the second quarter. Sources close to the bank say that the job losses, which could be announced as early as Wednesday, will be spread across BarCap’s sales and trading staff as well as its back office support functions." Too bad the SEC has not, and will not realize that its only function is to restore the faith of the retail investors in the credibility of the capital markets. Yes, the same retail investor who both on margin and in total has always been the primary driver of stocks. Alas that has not happened and tens of thousands of Wall Streets will soon feel the wrath of Main Street as the boycott of stocks by the broader population comes to fruition, allowing the former "strategists" to experience just how real the difference between the U-3 and U-6 rate is first hand."
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NFIB Survey Indicates Small Business Capitulates: "Owners Have No Confidence That Economic Policies Will “Fix” The Economy"
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/nfib-survey-indicates-small-business-capitulates-owners-have-no-confidence-economic-policies
A quote...."The NFIB Small Business Report came in at 88.1, down from 89.0 but just beating the expectation of 88. Yet there was nothing optimistic in the index itself: "The Index of Small Business Optimism lost 0.9 points in July following a sharp decline in June. The persistence of Index readings below 90 is unprecedented in survey history. The performance of the economy is mediocre at best, given the extent of the decline over the past two years."
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Peter Schiff: "We're in the Early Stages of a Depression"
  ---  http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/08/09/peter-schiff-were-in-the-early-stages-of-a-depress.aspx
A quote...."In August 2006, Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital, offered what many considered to be an outlier prognosis for the economy: The exuberance would end, real estate prices would crash back down to earth, and consumers would revert to saving from spending. In short, a deep recession was in the works."
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Another Revision Of The Q2 GDP Number By JPM: Firm Now Estimates That The Real Economic Performance Was 1.3% (From 2.4%)
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/another-revision-q2-gdp-number-jpm-firm-now-estimates-real-economic-performance-was-13-24
A quote...."Last week we noted that JPM's Michael Feroli estimated that due to a major downward revision of inventory build of non-durable goods, which the BEA had overaccounted for, the GDP print of 2.4% released two Fridays ago was actually 1.7%. Today, the stripping of the GDP print from upward biased data continues, and Feroli once again whacks the GDP number, which he now sees at 1.3%, or essentially 50% of the actual released number."
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US Productivity Falls For First Time Since 2008 As Labor Costs Increase Less Than Expected
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-productivity-falls-first-time-2008-labor-costs-increase-less-expected
Chart - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."In another indication that the impact of the existing trillions of stimulus have now expired and the economy is once again following the path of least resistance to massive deleveraging, elsewhere known as deflation, productivity declined by an annual rate of 0.9 percent after rising at a revised 3.9 percent rate in the first quarter, the first time since the fourth quarter of 2008 that output per worker fell. This was far weaker than the consensus seeking a 0.2% increase. Labor costs, which are watched by the Fed to gauge inflation, added a double whammy, increasing at a 0.2 percent annual rate after shrinking at a revised 3.7 percent rate in the first three months this year. This was also weaker than expectations of 0.9%, further confirming the deflationary phase of the current economic cycle, and further boxing the Fed which now needs to do something drastic before a full blown deflationary wave sweep the economy."
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U.K. Housing Gauge Signals First Price Drop in a Year
  ---  http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-10/u-k-housing-gauge-signals-first-price-drop-in-a-year.html
A quote...."Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- A U.K. housing-market gauge signaled the first decline in prices for a year in July as demand for homes fell, a sign the economic recovery may be losing steam."
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Study: Age that girls hit puberty keeps dropping  ---  http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100809/LIFE07/8090337/1062/SPT/
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You are what you eat, including all those artificial hormones. - mpg -- A quote...."Researchers led by Frank Biro, director of adolescent medicine at Cincinnati Children's, found that the number of 7- and 8-year-old girls with breast development was higher than found in studies conducted 10 to 30 years earlier."
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Monday August 9th 2010 - links page

US and Israel: Taking the world down with them  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6201.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."If and when the United States and Israel bomb Iran (marking the sixth country so blessed by Barack Obama) and this sad old world has a new daily horror show to look at on their TV sets, and we then discover that Iran was not actually building nuclear weapons after all, the American mainstream media and the benighted American mind will ask: “Why didn’t they tell us that? Did they want us to bomb them?”
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Push for confrontation with Iran (sometimes) bears a Jewish stamp
  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2010/08/push-for-confrontation-with-iran-sometimes-bears-a-jewish-stamp.html
Special Note - A quote...."This is at the Council for the National Interest  blog under the heading, "Full-page ad in New York Times in April demonstrates who is pushing for war against Iran." I wish I could say it's a canard. But I can't. Couldn't they have gotten some non-Jewish groups aboard? Oh and yes the organizers say they're actuated by fears of climate change, but  why the Netanyahu quote and the emphasis on missiles?"
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The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_tears_of_gaza_must_be_our_tears_20100809/
Special Note - A quote...."When I lived in Jerusalem I had a friend who confided in me that as a college student in the United States she attended events like these, wrote up reports and submitted them to the Israel consulate for money. It would be naive to assume this Israeli practice has ended. So, I want first tonight to address that person, or those persons, who may have come to this event for the purpose of reporting on it to the Israeli government."
also posted at ICH   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26115.htm
& AmericanEveryman  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/the-tears-of-gaza-must-be-our-tears/
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Israel implicated in Hariri murder  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/2010891991920480.html
Special Note - A quote...."Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has implicated Israel for the murder of Rafiq al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister. -- In a video address to journalists from an undisclosed location on Monday, Nasrallah said he had evidence to prove Israel's complicity in al-Hariri's assassination in a bomb explosion in the Lebanese capital, Beirut." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68688&hd=&size=1&l=e
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It all boils down to oil -- U.S. won’t leave Iraq’s energy reserves untended after its troops pull out
  ---  http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/eric_margolis/2010/08/06/14947241.html
Special Note - A quote...."Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama restated his vow to pull all U.S. combat troops out of Iraq by the end of this month, and the remaining U.S. garrison by the end of 2011. -- Has America’s long goodbye to Iraq really begun? -- The 50,000 U.S. troops left until 2011 [trust this website editor, they're not leaving in 2011] will supposedly “advise and assist” and perform “anti-terrorism” missions and training. -- These troops will likely be six armour-heavy combat brigades, backed by warplanes from U.S. air bases in the Gulf. -- A U.S. brigade withdrawn from Iraq will go to neighbouring Kuwait. Most of the rest will transfer to Afghanistan. -- No word about the 85,000 U.S.-paid mercenaries (a.k.a. “contractors”) in Iraq." - bold by website editor - also posted at Uruknet   ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68685&hd=&size=1&l=e
& LewRockwell  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis199.html
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How Many Iraqis Did We "Liberate" From Life on Earth?  ---  http://www.truth-out.org/how-many-iraqis-did-we-liberate-from-life-earth62112
A quote...."Is there a man or woman in America today who is willing to stand at noon in the public square and claim that demands to bomb, invade, and occupy other people's countries have anything to do with human liberation? -- If such people can be found, let them answer a few simple questions about the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.

• How many Iraqis did we "liberate" from the companionship of their loved ones?
• How many Iraqis did we "liberate" from dwelling in the houses and towns and the country of their birth?
• How many Iraqis did we "liberate" from life on Earth?

"If any American who claims to believe that indefinite continuation of the war in Afghanistan -- or a US/Israeli military attack on Iran -- is justified by humanitarian concerns cannot give a fact-based and intellectually coherent answer to the question of how many Iraqis have lost their lives as a result of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, do not that person's claims for "humanitarian" war, bombing, and occupation deserve zero credence?"
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26110.htm
For more on the issue of Iraqi Deaths see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda- Iraq Deaths
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IRAQDEATHS
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Pfc. Manning and the Value of Truth  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26108.htm
A quote...."August 09, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- We are living in a liminal time, that is to say we live on the threshold. So much that we have taken for granted is passing. -- In times like this we must be careful to keep our bearings, lest we come to love the chaos that passes for reality. -- This is why we need to honor our brother Bradley Manning. He was not afraid to face the unknown; not afraid to resist the seduction of conformity; not afraid to follow his conscience, AND not afraid to give us the wherewithal to distinguish truth from lies so that we, too, can follow our conscience. -- The principalities and the powers, including the Fawning Corporate Media, have no hold on citizens like Private Manning, who refuse to live in a moral vacuum. -- Bradley Manning dared to mock the falsity parading as reality after our country had a nervous breakdown as a result of 9/11 and the efforts of those who would use 9/11 to stoke our fear. -- THAT false “reality” has lost its power, because it cannot live in the light of truth. -- “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” THAT is the rock-solid truth."
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Hurrah for Hugo Chavez  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26107.htm
Special Note - A quote...."August 09, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- It's  no fun being on Washington's enemies list. Just ask Hugo Chavez. Last week, the Venezuelan president had to cancel a trip to Cuba after he was told that a coup was underway and his life was in danger. The information came from an anonymous source who had delivered a similar warning prior to the failed coup in 2002. The letter said: “The execution phase is accelerating..… There is an agreement between Colombia and the US with two objectives: one is Mauricio and the other is the overthrow of the government.… They will hunt down ‘Mauricio’ (and) try to neutralize part of the Armed Forces.” ("Venezuela Pushes for Peace", Coral Wynter, Green Left News)
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British Petroleum: The Unfinished Crimes and Plunder of Anglo-American Imperialism
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20526
Special Note - A quote...."In  the light  of British Petroleum’s grotesque crime, as yet unfinished,  against  humanity   in the Gulf of Mexico it  is well  to recall briefly BP’s  no less  hideous  crime  perpetrated in its earlier  incarnation as  the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and  its further  name  change  to  the  Anglo Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) in 1936. At the century’s turn, William D’Arcy, financial tycoon and politician, pursuing the advice of his financial associate and empire builder Cecil Rhodes frantically began his quest for oil in the Persian Gulf. -- Little did the masters of British imperialism realize that one of the most dazzling El Dorado’s in the long and tortured history of British imperialism would soon be born?  Geo-politically it would have reverberations well beyond the region of the Persian Gulf. It was one of the most decisive steps in the march of imperial globalization, the speed-up the concentration of capital and the resulting imperialist rivalries."
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We Need to Continue to Seek the Truth About 9/11
  ---  http://visibility911.com/kevinryan/2010/08/guest-column-announcing-sept-4-event-with-laurie-manwell-graeme-macqueen/
Special Note - A quote...."Over the past three years, a group of concerned Bloomington citizens has worked to raise the public consciousness about the need for 9/11 truth. These folks are sometimes called “conspiracy theorists” because they do not believe the official version of events. Once people get by their initial reactions to 9/11 questioning, however, much can be learned in the process. -- To begin with, we all understand the definition of a conspiracy to be a secret plan, among two or more people, to commit a crime. Yet when faced with emotionally charged events like 9/11, many of us pretend that the definition of the word has changed. -- It is certain that unless you believe these crimes were committed by one person acting alone, you believe in a 9/11 conspiracy. But people today have been trained to use the word to mean only a small subset of conspiracies enacted by powerful people, like government officials."
also posted at PrisonPlanet  ---  http://www.infowars.com/we-need-to-continue-to-seek-the-truth-about-911/
For more on this sort of issue see....Acting Guilty - 12-01-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/actingguilty-mpg-reficultnias-120109
See also....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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Leading Republicans call for partial repeal of 14th Amendment  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/amen-a09.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."A constituency within the political establishment has been consolidating in recent months for a repeal of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which provides that every person born in the US is guaranteed citizenship. This reactionary proposal, ostensibly to combat “illegal” immigration, has broad and far-reaching consequences for democratic rights in the US." - bold/underline by website editor- How about we just call this Joe Lieberman's bill in disguise?   ---  http://gothamist.com/2010/05/07/lieberman_bill_would_strip_citizens.php  ---  And we ALL know where he gets his ideas from, after all, being an honorary member of the Israeli Knesset, he's quite familiar with their recent proposals to do the same to their citizens.  ---  http://windowintopalestine.blogspot.com/2010/06/israeli-foreign-minister-wants.html  ---  And everyone knows were the Israeli Knesset got its ideas from -- see the quote  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Citizenship_Law  ---  shown below.....



By the way, members of Congress who vote for this legislation, will by doing so become TRAITORS to this nation and all of its people.  Everyone should know however, that many of these scum, in what can only be described as a fit of utterly loathsome, despicable, demented, sycophantic depravity and prosecutable mis-conduct, have already betrayed their oath of office to the people of this nation and sworn allegiance and loyalty [here's the list....[Senators - PDF  ---  http://www.aipac.org/Publications/SourceMaterialsCongressionalAction/Signatories_to_Boxer-Isakson_Letter.pdf  ---  or (HTML)  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/signatoriestoaipacslettersofbetrayal-aipac-041410  ---  and Congressmen - PDF  ---  http://www.aipac.org/Publications/SourceMaterialsCongressionalAction/Signatories_to_Hoyer-Cantor_Letter.pdf  ---  or (HTML)]  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/signatoriestoaipacslettersofbetrayal-aipac-041410  ---  to another.  That foul, degenerate, war-mongering, apartheid, racist state called the Israel/AIPAC Consortium . - mpg
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First Gitmo conviction under Obama shrouded in secrecy: Judge seals sentence - And the cover-up continues. mpg
  ---  http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0809/gitmo-conviction-obama-shrouded-secrecy-judge-seals-sentence/
A quote...."The sealing of the sentence is a first for the military commissions system, which the Obama administration has pledged to make more transparent. [Well wadda'ya know, another Obama "pledge" bites the dust....again.] -- A spokesman for prosecutors, Navy Capt. David Iglesias, said he could not comment on the reasons for the secrecy. But he said it was consistent with federal courts' handling of matters involving national security and claimed it was also in al-Qosi's best interest." -- Did he say al-Qaeda?  SOunded like al-Qaeda to this website editor. - bold by website editor -- For more on this 9/11 cover-up see....9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909
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Khadr 'torture' confessions allowed  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/08/201089205529630903.html
Related Article - A quote...."The confessions [also known as self-incrimination] of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen charged with terrorism, can be used as evidence in his trial, even though they may have been obtained through torture, [under torture] a US military judge has ruled. -- Lawyers for Khadr claimed statements to military interrogators were illegally obtained through torture and asked a US war crimes court to throw them out. -- That request was denied on Monday by a military judge at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. -- US forces captured Khadr in Afghanistan in July 2002, when he was just 15 years old." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68705&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  What the founding fathers had always feared and exactly why they designed and wrote the consittution the way they did, has finally arrived.  Self-incrimination under torture.  Welcome folks, to the New Roman Empire. - mpg
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Political Prisoners in America  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/08/political-prisoners-in-america.html
A quote...."Noted journalist HL Menchen described "The most dangerous man to any government (as someone) who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable," yet resisting, he faces recrimination - political imprisonment for his beliefs and activism, officials tolerating no opposition to their authority, no matter how extreme or lawless." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68701&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Seeds of Deconstruction  ---  http://veehd.com/video/4509871_7-7-Seeds-of-Deconstruction
Must View Video - (outstanding) -- A quote...."A two and half hour investigative documentary on 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction, which examines some of the questions and conspiracy theories about 7/7, the July 7th 2005 London Bombings."
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Bin Laden Studios, HDQ in Tel Aviv, Wants YOU... to be Stupid
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/08/bin-laden-studios-hdq-in-tel-aviv-wants.html
A quote...."Arabs with box cutters had nothing to do with 9/11. This is a cover story. It was all made up. There is no proof of their involvement and, quite to the contrary, six of the supposed dead terrorists are alive and well and screaming for press interviews. 9/11 had nothing to do with terrorism, nothing to do with Arabs and everything to do with money. Follow the money."
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Detective who found David Kelly's body raises questions over his death
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Detective-who-found-David-Kellys-body-raises-questions-over-his-death
Paragraph quoted from CLG...."'There wasn't much blood about': Detective who found weapons expert David Kelly's body raises questions over his death  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301210/There-wasnt-blood--Detective-weapons-expert-David-Kellys-body-gives-interview.html  ---  08 Aug 2010 The mystery surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly deepened yesterday after the detective who found his body claimed he didn't see 'much blood'. The revelation by Detective Constable Graham Coe casts further doubt on the Hutton Report's verdict that the Ministry of Defence scientist died of blood loss after slitting his wrist. In his first interview, Mr Coe, now retired, also said that police searched Dr Kelly's home the day after his death for papers 'of a sensitive nature' about Iraq. Dr Kelly, an expert on biological and chemical weapons, was found dead in woodland near his Oxfordshire home in July 2003. A week earlier he had been exposed by the Labour government as the source of a BBC report claiming No 10 'sexed up' reports of Iraq's ability to deploy weapons of mass destruction."
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The US tank crew wanted for murder  ---  http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/93861
A quote...."The Spanish government wants a three-man US army tank crew to stand trial for the death of cameraman Jose Couso in Baghdad in 2003. -- High Court judge Santiago Pedraz has issued three international arrest warrants for the soldiers after they fired at the Telecinco employee, fatally wounding him." - For more on this issue see....US-Killing the Messenger  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/uskillingthemessenger-weblist-mpg-112907
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Pentagon to shut military command, cut jobs  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67855620100809?utm_source=feedburner&
utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
A quote...."(Reuters) - Mon Aug 9, 2010 7:05pm EDT -- The Pentagon, trying to free up cash in the face of a yawning U.S. deficit, unveiled a series of cost-cutting measures on Wednesday that will shed thousands of jobs and shut down an entire military command."
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Galloway slams West for ‘double standards’  ---  http://gulftoday.ae/portal/043212b2-75c7-4119-bb71-a05558b83fd3.aspx
A quote...."TEHRAN: British Member of Parliament and anti-war activists George Galloway has upheld Iran’s rights for peaceful nuclear energy as a signatory to the Nucler Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). -- “It is our duty to support Iran’s rights for civilian nuclear energy,” Gallow told a conference of Iranian expatriates in Tehran.  “The West’s behaviour towards Iran is strange since countries should not be treated based on double standards,” he told the meeting. -- Galloway said Iran has been loyal to international regulations, while Israel is not a NPT signatory, having hundreds of missiles. He said despite its many violations of international law,  Israel  is not subject to sanctions. He called the UN Security Council’s sanctions against Iran “unjust and illogical.”"
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Who Says Iran is Becoming Isolated in the Middle East?  ---  http://www.raceforiran.com/who-says-iran-is-becoming-isolated-in-the-middle-east
A quote...."The results from this year’s Arab Public Opinion Poll can hardly be comforting for those who want to believe that the Islamic Republic is becoming estranged from its regional neighbors and that Arabs are ready to stand side-by-side with Israelis to support military action (by Israel and/or the United States) against Iranian nuclear targets."
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US, [and a few] EU states fail to isolate Iran  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=137995&sectionid=351020101
Related Article - A quote...."As the US and its European allies are trying to increase unilateral sanctions against Iran, other major states show bold resistance to the punitive measures. -- "China, Russia, India and Turkey move into the lucrative void left by US and EU sanctions that aim to halt Iran's nuclear program," Los Angeles Times wrote on Sunday." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/231403
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Iraq backs Iranian gas pipeline  ---  http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/08/09/Iraq-backs-Iranian-gas-pipeline/UPI-28841281355526/
A quote...."TEHRAN, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Baghdad approved a measure to develop a pipeline to deliver natural gas from Iran across its country to Syria, an Iranian gas executive announced. -- Javad Oji, a managing director at the National Iranian Gas Co., led a delegation to Iraq last week to sign preliminary arrangements for natural gas exports through Iraq."
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US to sell F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia  ---  http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/us-to-sell-f-15-fighter-jets-to-saudi-arabia-1.665896
A quote...."Washington: A $30 billion (Dh110 billion) 10-year arms deal by the US to sell advanced F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia looks set to go ahead, but following concerns by Israel the jets will not be equipped with long-range weapons systems and other arms, diplomats and officials were quoted as saying in the Wall Street Journal. -- The US newspaper reports that the deal, which would be one of the biggest single agreements of its kind, has been a source of behind-the-scenes tension during months of negotiations." - bold by website editor
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Report: U.S. downgrades Saudi arms deal over Israeli concerns
  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-u-s-downgrades-saudi-arms-deal-over-israeli-concerns-1.306886#send-friend-popup
Related Article - A quote...."Wall Street Journal says U.S. to sell Saudis 84 F-15 fighter jets in $30 billion deal, but without long-range weapons systems." - bold by website editor

Regarding the articles shown above many of you out there, who aren't goy-cattle, will ask, "why did Obama do this deal, isn't he the best little AIPAC/Israeli butt-kisser and sycophantic lackey ever selected as president?"  Indeed he is, the absolute best in fact.  After all, prior to his coronation as Emperor  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/israelpausespolitelyfortheemperorscoronation-mpg-reficultnias-011609  ---   he stood around while  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/noleadershipfromobama-ohcontraire-mpg-reficultnias-122808  ---  1,400 Palestinian men, women and children were needlessly slaughtered by the Israelis so they could prove what "menshes" they are after Hezbollah handed them a humiliating defeat during their second attempted invasion of Lebanon.

How bombing 1.5 million refugees penned up in what is effectively a large open-air prison and who are armed only with AK-47s, with US-NRE supplied DIME, Flechete, High Explosive, and White Phosphorous bombs, would prove Israeli competence at anything but brutal, cowardly, murder is a total mystery to this website editor.

That said, Obama has a few, rather LARGE budgetary problems to contend with.  During the last several months somebody has been trying to help him with his spending problems and has been buying hundreds of billions worth of long term bonds  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/chinese-treasury-dump-brings-its-total-holdings-one-year-low-uk-continues-exponential-accumu  ---  from the US-NRE through the London market.  Rumor has it, it's the Saudi Royals.  Obviously they would have done so in an effort to ease this deal through Congress and Obama's administration.

So money still talks in the Empire's capital, even in the AIPAC/Israeli controlled corridors of power in Washington DC. - mpg -- For more on this issue see....One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other -- (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810
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'NATO armed Georgia for war, still denies the attack'  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6XhprZxGiM
Must View RTVideo Interview- (RTYuTb - 9 min 53 sec - August 08, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---    interviews South Ossitian Presidient EdwardKokoity -- A quote...."On the second anniversary of the war in South Ossetia, RT spoke exclusively to the country's President. Eduard Kokoity shared his experience of the conflict - and told us how he sees things now." - For more on this isseu see....American Selective Attention Deficit Disorder (ASADD) - 08-16-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/americanselectiveattention-blog-mpg-081608
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Latin Leaders to Visit South Ossetia on its Independence Day  ---  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news1543.htm
A quote...."The two progressive Latin leaders Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega will attend the 20th anniversary celebrations of South Ossetia’s deceleration of independence on September 20th."
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New Poll Finds Merkel Government at Rock Bottom  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,710529,00.html
A quote...."Germany's economy may be on the mend, but Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is less popular than ever. Fully 83 percent of Germans aren't happy with her coalition -- and the future of the opposition Social Democrats may be looking bright."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/231408
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US -- Venezuela: The Empire Strikes Back (and Loses)  ---  http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1817&c=1
A quote...."US policy toward Venezuela has taken many tactical turns, but the objective has been the same: to oust President Chavez, reverse the nationalization of big businesses, abolish the mass community and worker based councils and revert the country into a client-state."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/us-venezuela-the-empire-strikes-back-and-loses/
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Israel Prohibiting the Right to Demonstrate  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/08/israel-prohibiting-right-to-demonstrate.html
Special Note - A quote...."The 1907 Hague Convention's Article 43 and Fourth Geneva's Article 64 require that occupied territory penal laws stay in force, applicable to both occupier and occupied. However, since 1967, Israel issued over 2,500 Military Orders, controlling daily life solely for Palestinians, not settlers, the military commander having final authority over institutionalized discrimination, suppressing democratic freedoms, including free expression and right to gather peacefully to protest. -- Under Israel's 1967 Military Order No. 101 ("Order Regarding Prohibition of Incitement and Hostile Propaganda Actions" as amended), gatherings of more than 10 Palestinians are prohibited without advance IDF notice, including names of participants, those in violation subject to 10 years imprisonment, a heavy fine, or both. The order implies that Palestinians have no legal right to demonstrate, express views freely, or engage in nonviolent peaceful protests."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Inside Gaza  ---  http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/08/09/sameh-habeeb-inside-gaza/
A quote...."Life in Gaza is unique. Misery is mixed with joy, pain, happiness and suffering. Siege still suffocates people via different manners and tactics. Israel which indirectly pushed Hamas and Fateh towards the split is announcing day and night that siege has been lifted. But facts on the ground are obviously different. Siege is still on there with the same manner but with a different shape." - also posted at Uruknet
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68700&hd=&size=1&l=e
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West Bank home demolitions continue  ---  http://palestinenote.com/cs/blogs/news/archive/2010/08/09/west-bank-home-demolitions-continue.aspx
A quote...."The US as arbiter for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has called on both parties not to take part in an inflammatory behavior, but Israel has demolished several West Bank structures as well as Arab homes within Israel with frequency over the past several months."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68695&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israelis hold protests in 15 cities against demolition of Palestinian homes  ---  http://imemc.org/article/59251
A quote...."More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered in cities across Israel on Friday (6 August) for a day of solidarity marking the one-year anniversary of the eviction and settler take over of the Ghawi and Hanoun family homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah."
also posted at IP-MsngHdlns  ---  http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2010/08/israelis-hold-protests-in-15-israeli.html
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Foundation says hundreds more tombstones disinterred  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=306844
A quote...."JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli bulldozers entered the Mamilla (Ma'man Allah) cemetery in West Jerusalem on Monday night, and began taking down headstones from Muslim graves, a statement from the Jerusalem-based Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage said."
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Staying Human  ---  http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/08/staying-human/
A quote...."Vittorio Arrigoni has written an on-the-spot account of what occurred in Gaza during Israel’s Cast Lead operation. Arrigoni — who lived in Gaza working as an authentic journalist and volunteer with International Solidarity Movement — exemplifies what it is to be a humanist. This comes through in his Gaza: Stay Human  — an eyewitness chronicling of destruction, misery, courage, inhumanity, and humanity in Gaza during the massacre that was Cast Lead." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m68691&hd=&size=1&l=e
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[Palestinian] Farmers reclaim land from [Israeli] settlement  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=306662  ---  Hip Hip Hooray!
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Aided by the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee, farmers from a southern West Bank village have reclaimed lands inside an illegal Israeli settlement. -- Imad Ash-Shaer, 42, from Husan village, said he gave up hope 10 years ago that he would be able to farm his land, annexed by an Israeli military base at the entrance to Betar Illit settlement." - also posted at IP-MsngHdlns
  ---  http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2010/08/palestinian-farmers-reclaim-land-from.html
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Malaysian medical team arrives in Gaza
http://www.paltelegraph.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6730:malaysian-medical-team-arrives-in-gaza&catid=58:gaza-strip&Itemid=134
Action Update - A quote...."The team which includes 67 volunteers of doctors, directors and ten journalists will spend 13 days in the Gaza Strip. The team arrived in Gaza to make surgeries for patients in the Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian service to them."
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Conservative vs. liberal = straw man  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6207.shtml
A quote...."This is a Class War going on today. It’s the rich vs. the middle and lower classes. The rich are getting away with this because corporations have mastered the technique of the “Straw Man argument.” -- Basically, a “Straw Man argument” is a cheap tactic, to get the focus of the debate OFF the subject you don’t want to argue, and instead ON to a different version of that argument where you can win. It’s a fallacy, and isn’t really arguing at all."
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As the Obama Economic Team Bails, the System Fails to Generate Jobs. Are the Causes, Um, 'Structural'?
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/09-5
A quote...."In Washington, the Obama economic team has sprung a leak. First, Budget Director Peter Orszag, the calculating numbers savant, bailed. And now, "distinguished" economist Christina Romer, the only woman in that inner circle boys club has quit too. (Would you want to be around Larry Summers all day long?) -- Why this crew of losers wasn't fired eludes me despite their claims of having prevented a worse collapse. No doubt, they know more than they are saying, and, perhaps, now that they are no longer selling, they may be willing to do some telling on just how bad it is and what went wrong. -- Who's next?  Could Ben Bernanke be leaving the Fed for Fed-Ex?"
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Gold and Systemic Crisis  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/gold-and-systemic-crisis
From the History File - 09/05/2009 -- A quote...."To all; are you ready? Never in the history of financial markets have there been so many landmines in place, each one wired directly to a nuclear bomb that sits atop the ENTIRE global financial system. The 'masters of the financial universe' have postponed the coming day of reckoning for so long and in so many different ways that they have backed themselves into a corner where almost any movement at all will trip one of these numerous landmines."
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Market Volume Tumbles To 50% Below Average As Dislocations Abound
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/market-volume-tumbles-50-below-average-dislocations-abound
Market Tech Note - Chart - A quote...."A quick look at market volume: in a word - deplorable. It confirms what Gillian Tett said last week, piggybacking on our ongoing fund outflow observations, that there is "a loss of confidence – not merely in the idea that the future will be a brighter place, but also, most crucially, about whether anybody is able to predict that future at all." She concludes: "it is bad for investors to feel confused about the outlook for government regulation or deflation; but it seems that nobody really understands how the basic mechanics of the equity market work any more, it is hard to trust that the stock markets are a good destination for your money. Little wonder, then, that those US equity mutual fund outflows have accelerated." Presenting exhibit A of precisely this phenomenon: today's ES volume is about the worst it has been in, well, ever, at 50% below average!"
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The Horrific Derivatives Bubble That Could One Day Destroy The Entire World Financial System
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-horrific-derivatives-bubble-that-could-one-day-destroy-the-entire-world-financial-system.html
Pssssst!  It already has, all they've done is just paper it over with more deirvatives. - mpg -- A quote...."Today there is a horrific derivatives bubble that threatens to destroy not only the U.S. economy but the entire world financial system as well, but unfortunately the vast majority of people do not understand it.  When you say the word “derivatives” to most Americans, they have no idea what you are talking about.  In fact, even most members of the U.S. Congress don’t really seem to understand them.  But you don’t have to get into all the technicalities to understand the bigger picture.  Basically, derivatives are financial instruments whose value depends upon or is derived from the price of something else.  A derivative has no underlying value of its own.  It is essentially a side bet.  Originally, derivatives were mostly used to hedge risk and to offset the possibility of taking losses.  But today it has gone way, way beyond that.  Today the world financial system has become a gigantic casino where insanely large bets are made on anything and everything that you can possibly imagine."
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Economists Herald New Great Depression  ---  http://www.infowars.com/economists-herald-new-great-depression/
A quote...."The world is currently experiencing the modern day equivalent of the Great Depression, according to a prominent economist who has added his voice to scores of others now forecasting ongoing economic doom on a scale not seen since the 1930s."
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Growth in China's exports, imports slows down in July - They probably meant this headline as a joke....
  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/business/2010-08/10/c_13437965.htm
A quote...."BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- China's exports rose 38.1 percent year on year to 145.52 billion U.S. dollars in July, but the growth rate was down from a 43.9-percent surge in June, the General Administration of Customs (GAC) said Tuesday." - bold by website editor -- Gee....how awful, guess that means China will own the entire world's economy in about ten years instead of 9.8 years. - mpg
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"Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now, the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history, and you are part of it. Six hundred years ago, when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Plague, Kasmierz the Great, so called, told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled; they took hold; they prospered in business, science, education, the arts. They came here with nothing. Nothing. And they flourished. For six centuries, there has been a Jewish Krakow. Think about that. By this evening, those six centuries are a rumor. They never happened. Today is history." -- *Amon Geoth*, SS Captain of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w-P%C5%82asz%C3%B3w_concentration_camp  ---  as portrayed in the movie Schindler's List
  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_List

"The Płaszów camp, originally intended as a forced labour camp, was constructed on the grounds of two former Jewish cemeteries in the summer of 1942 during [the] Nazi German occupation of Poland.[3]"  --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w-P%C5%82asz%C3%B3w_concentration_camp#cite_note-fgj-2