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Editor's note : From now on each daily blog will have several items culled from the past called  "9/11 - From The History File" : It's for those who didn't know, and also for those who forgot....or are trying to forget.

Editor's note - War Update, War Alert, War Warning, Red War Warning and War Imminent - refer to articles regarding the upcoming war with Iran.  In the order they appear as shown above, they  represent less serious to more serious possible threats of war. - mpg
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Two Methods Which Lead to the Same End
08-25-07
mpg

Chavez, Latin cultural unity & the amassing proletariat - posted by PG  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18220.htm
A quote...." 08/20/07 "ICH" -- -- To this day, rhetorical deployments of the Marxist agenda send shivers down the backs of the Western citizen. Somehow, extending the duration of the Cold War ending in 1991, the Red Scare continues to loom over the head of Western ideals. Of course, environmental dissipation, nuclear war, and terrorist activities have diminished the priority status of the Marxist threat. Yet Marxism is still regarded as the ultimate “anti-freedom,” positing it in direct opposition to the capitalist agenda. For many, the end of the Cold War proved that Marxism was both unreliable and illegitimate in the context of the times. However, the “era of globalization” that defines post Cold War society forces us to look at Marxism in a whole new light: one unified global civil society."

Editor’s note - Yes, yes, yes....everything Marx said about "Capitalism" is true; however, almost everything he said about its "solution" was false. -- Capitalism in it's naked form is utterly amoral, predatory, vicious and in the end if "allowed" to go through it's naturally inevitable and increasingly ferocious boom and bust cycle, will leave one tiny all powerful fascist elite owning everything....and everyone.

The truest form of Capitalism, "laissez-faire" Capitalism, always destroys "free markets" wherever and whenever it gets a firm hold on a society.  It destroys unions and smaller competitors and all who stand in its way with whatever legal or illegal means it can bring to bare. It rigs the system, it controls the game, it bribes the referee and cheats to gain as much unfair advantage as it possibly can.

As a self-reinforcing, self-rewarding mechanism it will eventually write its own rules and laws overriding all others for the benefit of the few elites and corporations concentrated at the top of society’s social-economic heap, and the elites so blessed will NEVER give up the power or the wealth they bribed, bought or stole their way into.  For most of the people trapped in the system's web it always becomes the slot machine that never pays off, the company store where you always go deeper into debt.

It strips everyone and everything of any morality, decency, or conscience and brings a society down to its lowest common denominator..."how much is it, or how much are you, worth to me" becomes the sole mantra of existence.  It starts wars...ALWAYS, every single time, without any exception, absolutely guaranteed, and in the case of the United States, it has done so with remarkable regularity
almost every ten years.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407  ---  It reduces people to flesh and bones and nothing else, when all is said and done, everyone, absolutely everyone, becomes a commodity; a worker unit, a killer unit, a sex unit, an organ donation unit. Capitalism recognizes only money as its God and man as being fundamentally evil...and as a system it celebrates both of these beliefs.

Capitalism promotes and glorifies sociopaths and psychopaths.  As Marx observed, capitalism...in a relentless economically unavoidable process caused by the boom and bust cycle of the economy, a cycle always exacerbated by the unchecked greed and corruption practiced by its own elites, will inevitably merge with, and become one with, the Leviathan state in a remarkable synthesis known as fascism.  It will do this while rapidly becoming totally unrestrained by any moral prohibitions, covenants, or the very laws upon which the society had originally been founded upon.  It will become the Beast.

In its last throes, at the very bitterest of bitter ends...it will eat itself and all those it traps within its system ...ALIVE.

"Communism" however is not a viable alternative solution, free markets really do work better than "command economies".(and please.... let no one delude themselves that a) the United States has a "free" market, or b) that Capitalism has anything to do with how a "free" market really operates)

Although national power, transportation (roads, dams, canals and railroads only),  risk systems (health and pension insurance only), and national resources (water, oil, gas....and possibly mining) lend themselves naturally to national control because they benefit all and need to be distributed amongst all, are in some cases not market driven (who wants to get sick?), whose costs and demand projections are long term and can be easily calculated, and in the end are the natural resources and heritage that belong to the people of the country. (it really is the Iraqis oil after all, not ours), it is still essential to realize that free markets in all other cases are a better determinate of supply and demand through price action.

Communism as expressed by some of its adherents is a system whose premise (which is wrong) argues that man is a "blank slate", that man can be socialized and molded to "fit" society’s “norms”, that naturally occurring drives, ambitions, the seven deadly sins, what have you, are not "inherent" in man's nature and are simply caused by the actions of an "unjust" society.  As such it will eventually recognize no higher authority than that of the Leviathan state and in the end, exactly as occurs with Capitalism, unrestrained by any moral prohibitions, covenants or laws, but unlike Capitalism, worshiping the state as its God, and racked by a sclerotic, bureaucratic economic command and control system, Communism inevitably disintegrates into a political and economic ruin.

Unchecked, unrestrained, Capitalism-Fascism eventually burns itself out, taking tens of millions of people with it.

Unchecked, unrestrained, Communism-Totalitarianism eventually wears itself out, taking tens of millions of people with it.

Both systems are fundamentally, unalterably, evil. - mpg
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Impending Economic Crisis: The Myth that Markets Get It Right and Operate Efficiently
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6615
Must Read - Related article - A quote...."In them, he [Minsky] constructed a "financial instability hypothesis" building on the work of Keynes' "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money." He provided a framework for distinguishing between stabilizing and destabilizing free market debt structures he summarized as follows:

"Three distinct income-debt relations for economic units....labeled as hedge, speculative and Ponzi finance, can be identified."

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More War on the Horizon  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18249.htm
A quote...." Lies, unprovoked aggression, and delusional expectations--the same ingredients that produced the Iraq catastrophe--all over again. The entire Bush regime and both political parties are complicit, along with the media and US allies"

Allawi Pays $300k for Anti-Maliki US Campaign  ---  http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/4052/subscriptions/subscriptions/splash.html
A quote...."Documents obtained by IraqSlogger show Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's chief Iraqi opponent, Ayad Allawi, is paying Washington lobbyists with close ties to the White House $300,000 to help with Allawi's efforts in the U.S. to promote himself and undermine Maliki.  -  The powerhouse Republican firm retained by Allawi is Barbour, Griffith, & Rogers (BGR), and its BGR International unit is headed by President's Bush's one-time White House point man on Iraq, Robert Blackwill, who will lead the lobbying efforts on Allawi's behalf."

Iraq's would-be champion  ---  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a65d66ea-52a2-11dc-a7ab-0000779fd2ac.html
A quote..."The US has floundered its way through a prodigal list of favourites in its futile attempts to run Iraq, from Ahmad Chalabi, the silky weaver of neo-con dreams, to Nouri al-Maliki, a prime minister immobile in a web of sectarian nightmares. Moqtada al-Sadr, it is fair to say, was definitely not one of them. But is he the spider at the centre of the web as painted, in lurid but broad-brush strokes, by the Anglo-American occupation? Or is he the emerging pan-Iraqi champion, and Arab icon of resistance, painted surreally by his admirers?"

Editor's note : This is Middle Eastern politics we're talking about here, unlike American politics which is so completely and pathetically predictable (extend the American Empire and worship all those with money and power), Middle Eastern politics, especially Iraqi politics are a confusing blend of sectarianism, nationalism, tribalism, religion, family, interfering neighbors, and a plethora of gangs, guerrilla groups, death squads and other factions
almost all of whom are being supported  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/usdeathsquads-weblist-cmplt-111406  ---  by the malevolent, murderous, utterly insane superpower currently occupying that country.

To put it bluntly, although Machiavelli would find himself completely at home in America, he'd be a naive waif who wouldn't last five minutes in the seething caldron that has now become Iraq.  If Moqtada al-Sadr can help stop the bloodshed in Iraq, peaceably bring it's fractious factions together, devise a plan to equitably share that nation's oil wealth, and help America and its murderous carpet baggers leave as expeditiously as possible....all well and good.

But alliances and intentions in that part of the world can change daily, and very few individuals, even if they have them to begin with, can maintain their peaceable goals and good intentions in the violent evil maelstrom currently whirling across that poor nation.

It took the United States and its wealthy elites twenty long arduous years to destroy and tear apart Iraq, it will be a long time before it can be put back together again. – mpg

For more on this see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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Taliban Push Poppy Production to a Record Again  - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/world/asia/26heroin.html?hp
A quote...."LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 — Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led by a staggering 45 percent increase in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand Province, according to a new United Nations survey to be released Monday."

Exporting Instability  ---  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070910/hartung
A quote...."Under the guise of promoting a "security dialogue" in the Persian Gulf, the Bush Administration has proposed $63 billion in arms transfers to the Middle East over the next ten years. As is so often the case, team Bush seems to prefer to let the weapons do the talking, even when it claims to be engaging in diplomacy."

Montebello SPP Summit: Canada's Sovereignty in Jeopardy: the Militarization of North America - posted by PG
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6572
A quote...."Canadian jurisdiction over its Northern territories was redefined, following an April 2002 military agreement between Ottawa and Washington. This agreement allows for the deployment of US troops anywhere in Canada, as well as the stationing of US warships in Canada's territorial waters. "

The Empire And The Independent Island - posted by PG  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18216.htm
A quote...."  08/20/07 "CNA"- - -The history of Cuba during the last 140 years is one of struggle to preserve national identity and independence, and the history of the evolution of the American empire, its constant craving to appropriate Cuba and of the horrendous methods that it uses today to hold on to world domination."

Recruiting For Iraq War Undercut in Puerto Rico - posted by PG
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/17/AR2007081702175.html
A quote...."SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The political activists, brown envelopes tucked under their arms, staked out the high school gates just after sunrise. When students emerged from the graffiti-scorched streets of the Rio Piedra neighborhood here and began streaming toward their school, the pro-independence advocates ripped open the envelopes and began handing the teens fliers emblazoned with the slogan: "Our youth should not go to war."

Steep Price Paid by Those Who Blew Whistle on Iraq Fraud  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/25/3410/
Must Read - Some quotes...."One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted.  -  Or worse.  -  For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods."  -  "“If you do it, [blow the whistle] you will be destroyed,” said William Weaver, professor of political science at the University of Texas-El Paso and senior advisor to the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition. - “Reconstruction is so rife with corruption. Sometimes people ask me, ‘Should I do this?’ And my answer is no. If they’re married, they’ll lose their family. They will lose their jobs. They will lose everything,” Weaver said."

This is what "your" government does.  No good deed goes unpunished, no bad deed goes unrewarded, by our illustrious elites....and all those who service them. - mpg
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Huge payout for men framed by FBI - posted by PG  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6918186.stm
A quote...."A federal judge in Boston has ordered the US government to pay out more than $100m (£50m) in the case of four wrongly convicted men." - "They and their now deceased friends Louis Greco and Henry Tameleo were accused and convicted of killing Deegan in a small alley during a robbery in Boston. - Mr Limone and Mr Salvati were then exonerated in 2001, after FBI memos dating back to the murder surfaced showing the men had been framed. - bold/italics by website author

This is EXACTLY how "your government" works.  Never ever forget that, never ever forget that this is the SAME FBI that knew about the "terrorists" training  at various flight schools throughout this country prior to 9/11, the same FBI who backed off of the Saudi Royals and bin Laden families (our nation's "friends") when told to do so by unknown higher officials,  flew these very same families out of the country
days after 9/11  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/flights911-weblist-mpg-081906  ---  at the request of bin Laden himself and these higher officials, an incident which only came to light because Judicial Watch diligently took these guys to court, sued them for four years, and finally got the memos detailing their deeds.

Guess they forgot to use a shredder, or perhaps they didn't have something on the judge who presided over the case.

Guess they'll shop around next time.

Just think of how many other innocents are rotting away in this nation's jails because they were easy targets of our "law" enforcement authorities, while the filthy rich with their connections and wealth continue to literally get away with murder.  Think about how one day you might be our authorities next patsy...or the next victim of one of this nation's "friends".

Perhaps we should be proud of our nation though, after all this country truly does have the best judicial system and "law" enforcement that money and connections can buy.  – mpg
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Amerika, 2007  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w31.html
A quote...."Jonas Phillips is the third resident of Asheville, North Carolina to be arrested in recent weeks for displaying a pro-impeachment sign."

U.S. farmers use inmates to harvest fields  ---  http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Business/2007/08/22/us_farmers_use_inmates_to_harvest_fields/4481/
A quote...."PICACHO, Ariz., Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Western U.S. farmers are increasingly using inmates to harvest their fields as states crack down on hiring undocumented workers.  -  Colorado started sending female inmates to harvest onions, corn and melons this summer, and Iowa is considering a similar program, The Christian Science Monitor reported."

This country is beggining to look more like the Roman Empire every day. - mpg
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He Got Out While the Getting Was Good - posted by PG  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/19/3267/
A quote...."Back in those heady days of late summer 2002, Andrew Card, then the president’s chief of staff, told The New York Times why the much-anticipated push for war in Iraq hadn’t yet arrived.”You don’t introduce new products in August,” he said, sounding like the mouthpiece for the Big Three automakers he once was. Sure enough, with an efficiency Detroit can only envy, the manufactured aluminum tubes and mushroom clouds rolled off the White House assembly line after Labor Day like clockwork."

Gobbel's Principles of Propaganda - posted by PG  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/goebbelspropaganda-pg-082507
Some timely tips from the man Karl Rove admired so much and modeled himself after. - mpg
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Posted to - Sage Observations - PG's quotes  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/sageobservations-pg-blog-072407

"They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles."
 -- *Eugene Victor Debs*

"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own"
  -- *Aldous Huxley* - English novelist and critic, 1894-1963
 
"Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that The State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied."
 -- *Arthur Miller* playwright

"In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
 -- *Thomas Jefferson* - (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free."
 -- *Edward Gibbon* - (1737-1794) Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1909

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no Constitution, no court, can even do much to help it."
 -- *Judge Learned Hand* (1872-1961), Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals

For the most recent quotes 08-25-07, goto....
Sage Observations - PG's quotes - 08-25-07  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/sageobservations-pg-blog-072407#082507
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Brace yourself for the insolvency crunch  ---  http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/business/ambrosevanspritchard/august07/marketmayhem.htm
A quote...."Be very careful. Interest rates in Europe and Asia are that much higher now, with delayed effects starting to bite hard. Japan’s economy has stalled to 0.1pc growth in Q2; the euro-zone has slowed to 0.3pc; and China’s refusal to import (by currency manipulation) makes it a drain on world demand. Above all, the credit bubble that perpetuated the rally of the last eighteen months beyond its natural life has definitively burst."

What Credit Crunch? - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR2007082302101.html
A quote...."On AOL.com this week, the Internet-based loan company LendingTree offered "Bad credit options" and a $425,000 loan for only $1,376 a month. And Countrywide Financial, the nation's largest mortgage lender, declared, "Bad Credit? Call Today. Refinance or Tap into Your Home's Equity" in an online ad from its Full Spectrum Lending Division."

What Unites Iraqis: Blocking Western Petroleum Companies From Seizing Control of Their Oil
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6596
A quote...."If passed, the Bush administration's long-sought "hydrocarbons framework" law would give Big Oil access to Iraq's vast energy reserves on the most advantageous terms and with virtually no regulation. Meanwhile, a parallel law carving up the country's oil revenues threatens to set off a fresh wave of conflict in the shell- shocked country."

Tehran gets ready for potential US strikes  ---  http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=Nzc1MjQ5Mjcx
War Update - A quote...."KUWAIT: Despite US foreign policy's focus on the situation in Iraq and in anticipation of September's Congress hearing, high-ranking sources stated that the Iranian leadership is taking US threats to strike its nuclear sites very seriously."

Tehran seeks Azerbaijan ties to counter US  ---  http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=84691
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, keen to counter growing US influence on his doorstep, urged closer ties with neighboring Azerbaijan during his first official visit here Tuesday. "We have very good relations on all levels and in all spheres. However, there is big potential we must use," Ahmadinejad said after meeting his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev. "There should be no obstacles to the development of our relations."
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[#1] Amid calls from Clinton and Levin, US moves to oust Iraqi prime minister  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/mali-a23.shtml
A quote...."Open calls by Democratic Party leaders this week for the removal of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, combined with ongoing expressions of frustration by Bush administration officials, indicate that the Iraqi government’s days are numbered. Moves are underway in Washington and Baghdad to remove Maliki when the Iraqi parliament returns from a summer break on September 4"

[#2] At Iraq's front line, U.S. puts ex-foes on payroll  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082201247.html
A quote...."JURF AS-SAKHR, Iraq (Reuters) - Under a tree by a battlefield road in Iraq's "Triangle of Death," Lieutenant- Colonel Robert Balcavage meets his new recruits. - The men are Iraqi Sunni Arabs who are about to join the U.S. military's payroll as a local militia. They want guns."

War Warning - Regarding the two articles shown - above it appears the Neo-Roman Neocons, with the full cooperation of the Neo-Liberals (Ms. Clinton et. al.) are about to FINALLY "flip" Iraq in preparation for their attack on Iran.  For more on this see....
The Litvinenko Assassination & the Flipping of Iraq - 11-24-06 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/litvinenkomurder-blog-mpg-112406
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Suicide Bombings - A Favourite US Counter-Insurgency Tactic
  ---  http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/138504-Suicide+Bombings+-+A+Favourite+US+Counter-Insurgency+Tactic
A quote...."Since 9-11 reports of "suicide bombings" have increased exponentially in the news. We are led to believe by the experts that it is one of the favorite weapons of the insurgency against the occupation forces, since it is a cheap and simple way to create chaos. Hardly a day goes by without at least one bombing in Iraq or Afghanistan being immediately seized upon by the media as the work of Iraqi insurgents."

Since al Qaeda has been sponsored by the US, Pakistan and the Saudi Royals for over twenty years and are cheap and deniable false flag operatives par excellence, in the opinion of this author, actual US or British forces would only be used for selective assassinations, or "high value" high payoff targets like the al-Askari Mosque bombing.    ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#AL-ASKARI_MOSQUE

In other words US and British forces would only be used for attacks against targets which would generate the most amount of "cost effective" sectarian violence. – mpg
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SPP Agent Provocateur Cops Caught Red Handed Attempting To Incite Violence  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/august2007/220807Provocateurs_SPP.htm
A quote...."Peaceful protestors at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello have captured sensational video of hired agent provocateurs attempting to incite rioting and turn the protest violent, only to encounter brave resistance from real protest leaders."  --  video link below

Stop SPP Protest - Union Leader stops provocateurs - (YouTube - 5 min 23 sec - Added:  August 20, 2007)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Finfowars%
  ---  2Enet%2Farticles%2Faugust2007%2F220807Provocateurs%5FSPP%2Ehtm
A quote...."Peaceful protesters stop police provocateurs from starting a riot at the Stop the SPP protests in Montebello Quebec. CEP President Dave Coles confronts men with rocks and sticks."
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Petraeus' Credibility  -  Operation Kabuki?  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/lind08222007.html
A quote..."September approaches, and with it the supposed watershed in the Iraq war that General David Petraeus' report to Congress will represent. In reality, the report will make little difference in what the Democratically-controlled Congress does, because it has already decided what it will do, namely pretend to try to end the war while actually ensuring its continuation through the 2008 elections. That strategy seems to offer the best promise of electing more Democrats."

You, Too, Can and Should Be an "Intelligence Analyst"  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/
A quote...."It is always irrelevant to major policy decisions, and such decisions are reached for different reasons altogether. This is true whether the intelligence is correct or not, and it is almost always wrong. On those very rare occasions when intelligence is accurate, it is likely to be disregarded in any case. It will certainly be disregarded if it runs counter to a course to which policymakers are already committed.  -  The intelligence does not matter. It is primarily used as propaganda, to provide alleged justification to a public that still remains disturbingly gullible and pliable -- and it is used after the fact, to justify decisions that have already been made."

In other words, US intelligence "failures" aren't failures at all, they have been, and will always be....part of the plan. - mpg
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In Wake of Bush Speech: Who Was Last U.S. Soldier to Die in Vietnam?
  ---  http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003629118
A quote...."NEW YORK In the wake of President Bush's speech today, renewing the debate over the lessons of Vietnam for the U.S. in Iraq today -- did we exit too soon or not quickly enough? -- it is useful to ask: Who was the last American soldier to die in Vietnam and when did it happen?  -  According to Arlington National Cemetery, and numerous other sources, he was Army Col. William B. Nolde, a 43-year-old father of five. He was killed Jan. 27, 1973, near An Loc – just 11 hours before the U.S. signed the Paris Peace Accords -- when an artillery shell exploded nearby."

Petitioners: Gov't seized Arab land and gave to Jews
  ---  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1187502437476&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
A quote...."A Palestinian hotel company has petitioned the High Court of Justice, charging that the state illegally confiscated 40 dunams of land it allegedly owned in east Jerusalem and gave it to a private Jewish businessman to build a hotel."

Eminent domain (or in the case of Israel, their version of Lebensraum),  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum  ---  imposed in order to confiscate land for private purposes is act number seventeen  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/eminentdomain-price-wt-cached-082207  ---  in the
Thirty Five Acts to Restore Americans' Rights 11-10-06 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/seventeenacts-blog-mpg-111006
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2005 Incomes, on Average, Still Below 2000 Peak  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/business/21tax.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
A quote...."Americans earned a smaller average income in 2005 than in 2000, the fifth consecutive year that they had to make ends meet with less money than at the peak of the last economic expansion, new government data shows."

When Courts Bow Down to Secrecy  -  A Subservient Federal Judiciary and the National Security State
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/velvel08222007.html
A quote...."In case after case we see what little regard the federal judiciary has for truth, for honesty. Rather than invoke the "old fashioned" concept of the need for truth and honesty, the courts find reason after reason, in one field after another, for overriding these ancient human necessities. It makes no difference whether judges were, and were appointed by, Republicans or Democrats; the judges are all alike. Whether the field is national security, business crookedness, hide-the-truth privileges or anything else is no matter. Truth and honesty come in last. Indeed, often -- even usually -- they are not even mentioned. That is shocking, but is so."

Cheney Removes Himself -- Again -- From Executive Branch  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4076
A quote...."Less than two months after Dick Cheney reversed course on the claim under a congressional threat and
 much ridicule,  ---  http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/07/31/for-cheney-his-own-branch-of-government/ ---   the vice president is once again severing himself from the executive branch of government -- this time to defy a subpoena.

This is act number thirty two (#32) in the....
Thirty Five Acts to Restore Americans' Rights 11-10-06 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/seventeenacts-blog-mpg-111006
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Seedlings of evil growing in Myanmar  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IH23Ae01.html
A quote...."CHIANG MAI, Thailand - A military-driven Chinese hybrid rice-for-opium crop-substitution program in the northern part of Myanmar's Shan state has resulted in four consecutive years of poor harvests and driven many ethnic-minority farmers into heavy debt or out of rice farming altogether."

One can only speculate that the Chinese have learned from the best....what are they going to do next,
foist  ---  http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/suicide-seeds
suicide  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0322-04.htm
seeds  ---  http://www.biotech-info.net/fast_track.html  ---  on poor farmers in the rest of the world, or perhaps they’ll market
soybeans  ---  http://www.mindfully.org/GE/2004/Argentina-GM-Soya17apr04.htm
which have been genetically  ---  http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/frankensoya041604.cfm
modified  ---  http://www.mindfully.org/GE/2004/Feeding-Our-Playboy1jun04.htm
to withstand being drenched by herbicides  ---  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto
on unsuspecting third world countries, just like the US Agro-Business has done?

Pretty soon Chinese merchants will be known as "the ugly Chinese", and that's a reputation they really don't want to have. - mpg
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  ---  http://muckrakerreport.com/id243.html

WTC-7: The Improbable Collapse
  ---  http://baltimorechronicle.com/sep03_WTC-7.shtml
The Bitter Debate Over September 11th
  ---  http://www.911truthhumboldt.org/docs/Research/bitterdebate.htm
World Trade Center Building 7 demands tenacious public scrutiny
  ---  http://muckrakerreport.com/id226.html
Alex Jones - Fires in WTC 7 - (YouTube - 3 min 49 sec - September 28, 2006)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U__XfBQ5haw
New NEWS - BBC Video - WTC 7 - (YouTube - 3 min 59 sec - 03-01-07)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNK1V6S2cbo&mode=related&search=
BBC WTC 7 - (YouTube - 3 min 58 sec - March 01, 2007)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWoS2N7G5G4
WTC-7 Any Questions - (YouTube - 1 min 6 sec - December 04, 20060
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEPjOi2dQSM&mode=related&search=
Huge Amounts Of Smoke Came From WTC 5 & 6 NOT WTC 7
  ---  http://www.infowars.net/articles/march2007/200307building7.htm
WTC 7 - Pull It By Larry Silverstein - (YouTube - 24 sec - August 28, 2006)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WYdAJQV100
Another Smoking Gun? Now CNN Jumps the Gun
  ---  http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=20521

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