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Saturday August 22nd 2009 - links page

The US War against Iraq -- The Destruction of a Civilization  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23342.htm
 - posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908.html
Must Read - A quote...."August 21, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- The US seven-year war and occupation of Iraq is driven by several major political forces and informed by a variety of imperial interests. However these interests do not in themselves explain the depth and scope of the sustained, massive and continuing destruction of an entire society and its reduction to a permanent state of war. The range of political forces contributing to the making of the war and the subsequent US occupation include the following (in order of importance):"
also posted at PalestineChron   ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15370
For more on this issue see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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Capitalist Attacks on Tradition and Culture.  ---  http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_56686.shtml
Must Read - A quote...."When most people think of attacks on other countries by the United States, their thoughts turn to missiles, bombs and soldiers. When they think of the victims of those invasions and occupations, their thoughts turn to the injured, the dead and some remember their grieving families. But what receives little press coverage are other kinds of invasion by the U.S., Britain, Israel and their international crime partners. These invasions are executed with the weapons of media. -- Attacks on national economies by means of transnational corporations, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are one form of non-military attack on other countries. Another is the subject of this essay -the invasions of family and community structures, traditional values and culture. These are primarily carried out by the media, educational institutions and propaganda arms of NGOs. Properly understood, all these forms of invasion emanate from the capitalist system." -- In other words "our money is OUR God, and yee shall worship it with us or die in searing agony". -- Neo-Roman saying, from the secret thirteenth table of the Great Book of Lex Duodecim Tabularum.  For more on this issue see the video & quote shown below....
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“Where does the hatred come from?”  ---  http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=285
Article   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23336.htm
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908.html
Related Article - A quote...."This fall, U.S. law enforcement personnel will have their final chance to take advantage of a rare opportunity. Participants will travel to Israel to receive “homeland security training,” but the counterterrorism briefings and martial arts practice sessions are only one part of the package. The program also includes visits to Christian religious sites in the Holy Land — an aspect likely to be especially attractive to Christian Zionists — along with other sites such as the Knesset and the Israeli “security fence”. -- Let's be clear about this, they are not "Christians" any longer.....they are Neo-Romans. - mpg
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Boycott Israel   ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gordon20-2009aug20,0,1126906.story
Article   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23343.htm
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908.html
Must Read - Related Article - A quote....."It is indeed not a simple matter for me as an Israeli citizen to call on foreign governments, regional authorities, international social movements, faith-based organizations, unions and citizens to suspend cooperation with Israel. But today, as I watch my two boys playing in the yard, I am convinced that it is the only way that Israel can be saved from itself. -- I say this because Israel has reached a historic crossroads, and times of crisis call for dramatic measures. I say this as a Jew who has chosen to raise his children in Israel, who has been a member of the Israeli peace camp for almost 30 years and who is deeply anxious about the country's future. -- The most accurate way to describe Israel today is as an apartheid state. For more than 42 years, Israel has controlled the land between the Jordan Valley and the Mediterranean Sea. Within this region about 6 million Jews and close to 5 million Palestinians reside. Out of this population, 3.5 million Palestinians and almost half a million Jews live in the areas Israel occupied in 1967, and yet while these two groups live in the same area, they are subjected to totally different legal systems. The Palestinians are stateless and lack many of the most basic human rights. By sharp contrast, all Jews -- whether they live in the occupied territories or in Israel -- are citizens of the state of Israel. - bold by website editor -- For more on how to boycott Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/  ---  of this website. - mpg
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Coming into Israel's crosshairs  ---  http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/961/op23.htm
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."Until recently, Israel's support for neo-liberalism and US intervention on the subcontinent has been mainly aimed at ingratiating the Zionist regime with the US administration, on whose political and financial backing they depend. This allowed Israel to limit the influence of Latin American liberation movements, who retained a strong attachment to the Palestinian struggle. For Israel, a colonial state built on the expulsion and ongoing repression of the indigenous population, the rise of anti-colonial and emancipatory forces anywhere in the world constitutes a potential threat to the very paradigm it is built on." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m57224&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Arrogance And Torture: A History of Guantánamo  ---  http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/08/21/arrogance-and-torture-a-history-of-guantanamo/
Must Read - A quote...."If you’re looking for an introduction to the extra-legal horrors of Guantánamo, and the casual, almost mundane manner in which randomly-seized prisoners, who were not even screened according to the Geneva Conventions, found themselves the victims of a torture policy designed to make them reveal their mostly non-existent secrets, then you may like this article, which I wrote for the Future of Freedom Foundation,  ---  http://www.fff.org/index.htm  ---  for whom I write a weekly column."  ---  http://www.fff.org/issues/listAxW.asp  ---  also posted at Uruknet
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Following the Paper Trail - Getting Away With Torture  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/tripathi08112009.html
Book Review - A quote...."To those in the halls and corridors of power in Washington, the fact that many of the detainees were condemned to extreme acts of torture and humiliation in friendly dictatorships was of no consequence. Laws had to be broken, justice denied, human dignity violated, individual liberties curtailed at home and abroad to ‘defend freedom’. -- The campaign of abductions and unlawful detention, torture, harassment and surveillance against people around the world, including many in the United States, under the Bush administration dwarfs what was done during the McCarthy era to Americans accused of being communists or communist sympathizers, without proper regard for evidence, in the 1950s. America was haunted by the McCarthyite witch-hunts for years thereafter. Painful self-examination had to follow. Despite pressure for a similar self-examination into what has occurred in the name of the ‘global war on terror’, President Obama wants to ‘look ahead’ for whatever reason, but introspection will come eventually. -- From this dark perspective, Christopher Pyle’s book, "Getting Away with Torture", [GoglBkSrch]  --  http://books.google.com/books?id=Xq4UAQAAIAAJ&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0  ---  is a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on the subject."
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Scott Horton Interviews Eric Margolis  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/08/20/eric-margolis-20/
posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
Audio Interview - Special Note - A quote...."Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses Mike Huckabee’s opinion that there are no Palestinians, the financial-military-industrial complex, the exclusion of occupation opponents from the Afghan elections and how the U.S. is pushing for independent Kurdish and South Sudanese states."
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CIA staged mock execution, wielded power drill in interrogations, secret report says
  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cia-interrogate23-2009aug23,0,5786796.story
A quote...."Reporting from Washington - The CIA staged a mock execution and brandished weapons, including a gun and a power drill, during interrogation sessions with detainees the agency was desperate to persuade to talk, according to a long-secret internal CIA report expected to be released Monday." - bold by website editor -- What some people might call "drilling for oil"  --  What a proud day for Amerika this is! - mpg
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CIA’s Ties With Blackwater Run Deep  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/08/21/cias-ties-with-blackwater-run-deep/
posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
A quote...."When it was revealed earlier this week that the CIA hired the infamous Blackwater USA to take part in its long-secret assassination program, which itself only came to light last month after CIA Director Leon Panetta says he first found out about it, it certainly sent up a few red flags."
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Nadler: Obama Violating Law By Not Investigating Bush  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/21/nadler-obama-violating-la_n_265124.html
A quote...."Even as the issue of torture appears likely to burst back onto the public agenda next week -- thanks to the much anticipated release of an internal CIA report -- one of the most progressive voices in Congress is arguing that the Obama White House has a legal obligation to investigate the Bush torture legacy. -- New York Congressman Jerry Nadler, a senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told the Huffington Post that he believed that President Obama would be breaking the law if he decided to oppose launching investigation into the authorization of torture."
 -- also posted at AftrDwngSt  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/45396
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50 Top U.S. War Criminals  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/warcriminals
List - A quote...."Compiled below, in hopes that it may be of some assistance to Eric Holder, John Conyers, Patrick Leahy, active citizens, foreign courts, the International Criminal Court, law firms preparing civil suits, and local or state prosecutors with decency and nerve is a list of 50 top living U.S. war criminals. These are men and women who helped to launch wars of aggression or who have been complicit in lesser war crimes. These are not the lowest-ranking employees or troops who managed to stray from official criminal policies. These are the makers of those policies."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/08/22/50-top-u-s-war-criminals/
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U.S. Shifts, Giving Names of Detainees to the Red Cross
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/world/middleeast/23detain.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Finally, the US-NRE is actually complying with a treaty it signed, one wonders how long that will last. How fickle this country has become when it signs treaties and even when it passes its own laws. What a joke we've become as a nation.  "Our word" is now worth absolutely nothing. - mpg -- A quote...."WASHINGTON — In a reversal of Pentagon policy, the military for the first time is notifying the International Committee of the Red Cross of the identities of militants who were being held in secret at a camp in Iraq and another in Afghanistan run by United States Special Operations forces, according to three military officials."
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Iraqi MPs condemn Saudi Arabia for 'funding' insurgents  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104144&sectionid=351020201
A quote...."Iraqi lawmakers of different factions call on Saudi Arabia to cease "funding anti-government terrorists" in Iraq and to establish an embassy in Baghdad." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/203897
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Baghdad bombings possible inside job  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m57225&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."Iraq’s foreign minister said that those who carried out bombings that targeted government buildings in the Iraqi capital received help to pull off the attacks, possibly from Iraqi security forces." -- Tied to the US-NRE's occupation forces perhaps?  Will anyone ever know? - mpg
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Baath Party is back in the picture  ---  http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090823/FOREIGN/708229888/1011/ART
A quote...."DAMASCUS // In a high-rise apartment block in a smart Damascus neighbourhood, there is a room with a portrait of Saddam Hussein on one wall and on another a photograph of the former dictator smiling as he receives a medal from Izzat Ibrahim al Douri, his old right-hand man and the current figurehead of the Iraq insurgency."
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US official tastes Pakistanis' anger at America  ---  http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/533180/cs/1/
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23339.htm
 also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908.html
A quote...."Judith A. McHale, the Obama administration's new under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, learnt how difficult the job is after she tasted the Pakistani anger during her meeting with Ansar Abbasi, a Pakistani journalist known for his harsh criticism of American foreign policy. -- 'She got that, and a little bit more,' a New York Times report said Thursday. -- After McHale gave her initial polite presentation Monday about building bridges between America and the Muslim world, Abbasi thanked her politely for meeting him. But then he told her what he felt for her country. -- ' 'You should know that we hate all Americans',' McHale said Abbasi told her. ''From the bottom of our souls, we hate you',' she recalled Abbasi's statement."
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The Truth About The Afghan Election  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick08212009.html
Must Read - A quote...."In Iraq and Afghanistan American and British forces became participants in civil wars which their own presence has exacerbated and prolonged. The US and UK governments persistently ignore the extent to which foreign military occupation has destabilized both countries. -- The reason for this should be obvious: foreign occupations have seldom been popular throughout history. The occupiers consult their own political, military and economic interests before that of the allied governments which they are supposedly supporting. This de-legitimized the Baghdad and Kabul governments and enabled their opponents to pose as the patriotic opposition. In addition, foreign military armies, whatever their declared intentions, enforce their authority by violence, invariably producing friction with the local population."
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No sign of voters on election day in Afghanistan despite official claims  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6804537.ece
Special Note - A quote...."At 8am, an hour after the Afghanistan’s presidential polls opened, the polling station at the Haji Janat Gul High School, a dusty collection half-finished buildings designated for use by Kuchi nomads, was entirely empty of voters. -- But the apparent lack of voter activity was deceptive, insisted election officials; the ballot boxes were already full almost to the brim. “The people have already come. They came here with lorries at 7 o’clock, now they have gone to the fields with their sheep” said Lawan Geen proudly."
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Karzai, Rival Both Declare Victory  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/08/21/karzai-rival-both-declare-victory/
posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
A quote...."As if the reports of massive voter fraud and the government’s largely unsuccessful attempt at controlling information harmful to the regime with censorship weren’t enough to draw comparisons between yesterday’s Afghan vote and June’s vote in neighboring Iran, we now have another similarity: both sides are claiming victory."
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Abdullah accuses Karzai of 'rigging' Afghan vote  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/08/22/abdullah-accuses-karzai-of-rigging-afghan-vote-5/
posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
A quote...."President Hamid Karzai's leading challenger accused him of using the Afghan state to "rig" this week's election and detailed allegations of cheating by government officials in an interview Saturday with The Associated Press."
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Washington praises Afghan election fiasco to justify war escalation  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/aug2009/pers-a22.shtml
Related Article - A quote...."President Barack Obama spoke to reporters on the White House lawn Friday, declaring that the August 20 presidential election in US-occupied Afghanistan was “an important step forward in the Afghan people’s effort to take control of their future.”
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Lockerbie Doubts  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/082109a.html
posted at ConsortiumNews  ---  https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/consortiumnews/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2043
A quote...."In any kind of major transnational event, there is the historical truth, what actually happened, and the political truth, what must have happened for the nations involved to continue on as before."
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Lockerbie: Will the truth ever come out? - link posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/features/Lockerbie-Will-the-truth-ever-come-out
A quote...."Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi's release on compassionate grounds, although welcomed by many campaigners in Britain, means we are no further forward in terms of establishing the truth regarding the Lockerbie bombing."
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Was Freed Lockerbie Bomber a Patsy?  ---  http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2009/08/20/was-freed-lockerbie-bomber-a-patsy.html
A quote...."An official Scottish review body has declared that a "miscarriage of justice may have occurred" in the conviction of the Libyan intelligence officer, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. The reviewers examined a secret document, provided to the United Kingdom by a foreign government and seen during Megrahi's trial by only the prosecution, that they said cast serious doubts on Megrahi's guilt. A new appeal of Megrahi's conviction is scheduled for this coming spring. The U.N. special observer appointed by Kofi Annan to Megrahi's trial, Hans Koechler, has declared that Megrahi was wrongfully convicted, as have the legal architect of his special trial, Prof. Robert Black, and a spokesperson for the families of the British victims, Jim Swire."
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IAEA Legal Expert Stifles Neocrazies - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/prather/2009/08/21/iaea-legal-expert-stifles-neocrazies/
A quote...."On the eve of the September report by Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate as well as Bonkers Bolton’s principal nemesis – to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it’s worth reprising his June, 2009 report on Iran."
also posted at AtheoNews  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/08/iaea-legal-expert-stifles-neocrazies.html
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Iran considers buying Russian Superjet 100  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104164&sectionid=351020102
A quote...."Iran considers the purchasing of Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircrafts from Russia, amid rising concerns over growing ties between the two neighbors." -- They should make sure it doesn't have any Boeing parts, specifically anything to do with the plane's guidance or automated control systems. – mpg
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Unemployment and poverty beget terrorism in North Caucasus – Medvedev
  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/Politics/2009-08-23/unemployment-poverty-beget-terrorism.html
Contains Video - A quote...."The situation in the Caucasus region remains unstable with attacks on police and explosions taking place almost on a daily basis. -- Many view the violence as a direct challenge to local authorities and an attempt to provoke security forces."
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China Partners with 40 Countries on Energy Cooperation  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/08/china-partners-with-40-countries-on.html
A quote...."Xinhua - 08/21/2009 11:09 -- China has teamed up with 40 countries or regions on energy cooperation and established national-level bilateral energy dialogues with 36 countries, said an official with the National Energy Administration in Beijing on Thursday."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=203910
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Venezuela may stop business deals with Colombia  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104104&sectionid=351020704
A quote...."Amid mounting tensions between Colombia and Venezuela, a top official from Caracas says that his country could stop importing from Bogota. -- Relations between Colombia and Venezuela worsened after the Colombian government finalized a security agreement with Washington that would give the US military access to seven Colombian bases for 10 years."
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ALBA Boosts Grand National Companies  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=111047&Itemid=1
A quote...."La Paz , Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivarian Alliance for the People of our Americas (ALBA) Ministerial Social Council, which was shaped on Saturday in this capital, called to create large national companies to favor education health and other projects."
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Breaking the Silence - The Mexican Army and the 1997 Acteal Massacre  ---  http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB283/index.htm
Special Note - A quote...."Washington, D.C., August 20, 2009 - As Mexicans debate last week’s Supreme Court ruling vacating the conviction of 20 men for the Acteal massacre, newly declassified documents from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency describe the Army’s role in backing paramilitary groups in Chiapas at the time of the killings. The secret cables confirm reporting about military support for indigenous armed groups carrying out attacks on pro-Zapatista communities in the region and add important new details. They also revive a question that has lingered for almost 12 years: when will the Army come clean about its role in Acteal?"
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Bio-Weapons Components
08-22-09
mpg

Up to 11,000 U.S. veterans may have been mistakenly infected with HIV  ---  http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=533696
More Bio-Weapons Components accidentally damaged (Or not, after all who knows, it could have been part of another government run experiment, they have so many)....yawn....sigh....(roll the eyes in exasperation).

Really folks, if hundreds of thousands of people choose to sign their lives away for a few shekels of silver, allow themselves to be psychologically twisted, injected with experimental drugs and vaccines, molded into meat product automatons, turned into psychotic amoral degenerate killing devices, sent overseas to torture and casually murder hundreds of thousands of people they don't even know based on a bunch of obvious lies and in the process forsake their God given souls, all in an effort to provide jollies to this nations elites while making them even more obscenely filthy rich than they already are, than they deserve no sympathy from anyone whatsoever. Stupidity like that shouldn't ever be tolerated or rewarded by anyone.

To those still in military service, if you want to be OCP product, if you want to be a thoughtless brain-dead moronic bio-weapons component with no care for the consequences of your actions or what the government does to you, or your family....you're on your own.  You really, truly, are.

Don't come around whining about your situation to decent, law-abiding folks who are just trying to make an honest living.

But also stop coming around and asking for more money   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/gobuildyournre-mpg-blog-101407  ---  all the time, it's getting really tiresome and expensive for everyone living in this country. – mpg
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Obama's Deafening Silence on Honduras  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23340.htm
Article   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23340.htm
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908.html
A quote...."Seven weeks after the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected president of Honduras, the divide between the United States and Latin America continues to grow. -- The strategy of the coup regime is obviously to run out the clock on President Manuel Zelaya's remaining months in office. A presidential election, in which Zelaya is not eligible to run because of Honduras' one-term limit, is scheduled for 29 November."

Don't forgot Obama's “deafening silence” http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/noleadershipfromobama-ohcontraire-mpg-reficultnias-122808  ---   for the entire month right before his coronation as Emperor of the New Roman Empire. An entire month in which he stood by, mute as a statue, while over 1,400 men, woman and children were needlessly slaughtered in Gaza with US-NRE supplied DIME, Flechette and white phosphorous weapons.  He's nothing but a lickspittle and lackey to this nation's wealthy elites.

Imagine that folks!  You too could one day be President and all you’d have to do is become a soulless, craven, crawling, cowardly, boot-licking, eunuch to the wealthy elites who own and run this plantation.

Thomas More   ---  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/quotes  ---  put it more politely of course.... mpg

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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Behind Hamas' Own War on Terror  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090821/wl_time/08599191780900
Special Note - A quote...."Eyebrows were raised around the world Aug. 14 when Hamas security forces in Rafah swiftly, and brutally, destroyed an al-Qaeda-inspired group that had proclaimed the southern Gaza town an "Islamic emirate." After all, Hamas is listed by the U.S. and the European Union as a terrorist organization, and many in the West don't expect an avowedly Islamist political organization to forcefully suppress jihadist groups. -- Yet, that's exactly what happened when pro-al-Qaeda cleric Abdel Latif Moussa gathered about 100 of his heavily armed supporters in a mosque to denounce Hamas rule and declared himself the "Islamic prince" of the new "emirate." Hamas security men moved in to disarm the group, and 24 people, including Moussa and about 20 of his followers, were killed in the ensuing firefight." -- For more on this issue see....US Sponsored Civil Wars - Palestine
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussponsoredcivilwars-weblist-mpg-101107#PALESTINE
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Top Sweden newspaper says IDF kills Palestinians for their organs  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1108384.html
A quote...."A leading Swedish newspaper reported this week that Israeli soldiers are abducting Palestinians in order to steal their organs, a claim that prompted furious condemnation and accusations of anti-Semitic blood libel from a rival publication."
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PFLP demands investigation into reports of Israeli organ harvesting  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=220847
A quote...."Gaza – Ma’an – International human rights organizations must carry out a serious and immediate investigation on media reports published by a Swedish newspaper alleging Israeli forces harvested organs from Palestinian youth, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine demanded Saturday."
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Israeli trade in Palestinian body parts - The IDF: Israel's Organ Grinder
  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/191665-Israeli-trade-in-Palestinian-body-parts-The-IDF-Israel-s-Organ-Grinder
Grim Photos - A quote...."There is an old Jewish joke that tells the story of a dying Jewish merchant who calls his son to his sickbed just before he perishes. He tells him, "Listen to me Moisha'le, life is not just about money... you can also do gold and diamonds." -- Monitoring Israeli and Jewish news reveals a devastating fact, it is not 'just' about money. It may also be about human organs. A few weeks ago we learned about a ring of American Rabbis who had been arrested in New Jersey upon suspicion of human organs trafficking (amongst many other crimes). Rabbi Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, we read, enticed "vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000 which he would turn around and sell for $160,000." Not too bad, I thought to myself then. We are living in hard times, financial melt down, credit crunch, Wall Street is licking its wounds, the car industry is evaporating. Seemingly, kidney trafficking is still booming.
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Oh No! It's Anti Semitism AGAIN  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/08/oh-no-its-anti-semitism-again.html
Special Note - Well you had to know this was coming. Charges of, you guessed it, "anti-semitism" being hurled again. This time against the country of Sweden for allowing freedom of speech and freedom of the press. So, like when all those rabbis were arrested in New Jersey in America for illegal organ trade and money laundering for Israel, it wasn't their fault, it's the fault of the FBI for arresting them, which makes it "anti semitism" Same Zionist "logic" here, but Sweden is so far, not too interested in having it's free speech curtailed by Zionists. We'll see where this leads, because when Israel gets a bee in it's bonnet, they will call in all their favours from all those government officials worldwide. Which ones will "blink" in Sweden"
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S. Africa [says Israeli] War crime suspects must think twice  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10726.shtml
A quote...."The international condemnation over Israel's winter invasion of Gaza and allegations of war crimes has made it increasingly uncomfortable, if not difficult, for members of the Israeli military to travel abroad. A recent incident in South Africa reveals the power and limitations of attempts to enforce international law and to hold war criminals accountable."
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New US plan to "resolve conflict in Middle East" asks Palestinians to sanction occupation
  ---  http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/08/21/new-us-plan-to-resolve-conflict-in-middle-east-asks-palestinians-to-sanction-occupation/
A quote...."Ramallah / PNN – A new “plan for peace” is coming out of Washington that many consider to be disturbing at best. It includes keeping major Israeli settlement blocs in the West Bank." -- also posted at OhBummer -- http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-us-plan-to-resolve-conflict-in.html
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/203955
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Settlers Attack Palestinian Shepherds With Impunity  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1048
A quote...."The investigation into a brutal and frenzied attack by illegal Jewish settlers on Palestinian shepherds has been closed by the Israeli police because it was “not possible to identify the attackers” due to their masked identities."
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Germany calls for urgent steps on Israeli settlements  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C08%5C22%5Cstory_22-8-2009_pg4_6
A quote...."BERLIN: The German government said ahead of a visit next week by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that urgent action was needed on Israeli settlements in the West Bank in order to move towards peace in the Middle East." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/203920
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Gaza attacks replayed on Edinburgh stage  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10724.shtml
A quote...."In the august surroundings of Rainy Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland with its wood-paneled walls, lofty beams and grey stone architecture, Israel's devastating attack on Gaza is being replayed. "
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More on the Iranian Election.....

Reflecting on Iran’s Presidential Election  ---  http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2009/08/reflecting-on-irans-presidential.html
Must Read - A quote...."Questions that Beg to be Asked -- US and European corporate media, political pundits and “Iran experts” have spent countless hours discussing the June presidential election in Iran. Yet, they have utterly failed to ask a number of central questions that beg to be asked:"
also posted at PulseMedia  ---  http://pulsemedia.org/2009/08/22/reflecting-on-irans-presidential-election/
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Iran's Rafsanjani urges warring factions to follow Khamenei  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m57219&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."TEHRAN — Powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani urged Iran's warring political groups on Saturday to follow the orders of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for ending the present political turmoil."
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FNA Managing Director Thanks Iranians for Defusing Enemies' Plots  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8805311343
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Fars News Agency Managing Director Hamid Reza Moqaddamfar lauded the Iranian people for foiling enemies' plots during the recent post-election events in Iran. "
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Obama Piddles Away the Public's Options  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/obama-piddles-away-publics-options
The Health Care Issue - Contains Audio - Special Note - A quote...."It became crystal clear that the insurance companies had prevailed in President Obama's health care fiasco the moment the White House coined the term “public option.” Plainly, a public alternative to private health insurance was always merely an option – just another bargaining chip in Obama's private and oh-so-friendly negotiations with the rich and ruthless. Now it's all over but the funeral. -- The death of Obama's health care project was both ignominious and foreordained. This is what comes from duplicitous backroom deals and back-stabbing of one's most loyal supporters. What remains of the legislative mish-mash birthed by Obama and his congressional co-conspirators, are corporate bills. That's why the drug barons are spending $150 million to advertise for Obama's fraudulent brand of health care reform."
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GOLDFELLAS (Goodfellas spoof of Goldman Sachs) - http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2009/08/goldfellas-goodfellas-spoof-of-goldman.html
Alt - (YuTb - 3 min 37 sec - August 16, 2009)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONDZr840nkg
Video - Good video. - Contains harsh langauge. - mpg -- A quote...."When you think of that missing 23 TRILLION DOLLARS the Fed has handed out to its buddies like Goldman Sachs and refuses to say who got the loot or what is being done with the haul, then maybe this video isn't so funny?" -- Second  quote...."Comedian Matt Rittberg (www.mattrittberg.com) creates a hilarious spoof of "Goodfellas" based on Goldman Sachs outrageous compensation and Wall Street excess."
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PE Ratio Shows That Today’s Stock Market Is Very Expensive
  ---  http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2009/08/22/pe-ratio-shows-that-today%E2%80%99s-stock-market-is-very-expensive/
More on that PE/Ratio chart.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/chartofthedays&p500peratio-investorsdotcom-cached-060209  ---  Please note the caution. - mpg -- A quote...."Considering the market heights of the recent past, it may not feel like the market is expensive. It might feel downright cheap. After all, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is hovering near 9,300 and the S&P 500 near 1,000, levels just two-thirds of indexes former glories."
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Unemployment Edges Up to Great Depression Level  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-5289-0-13-13--.html
A quote...."Here is a chart released by the government that claims to show the percentage of unemployed people in the United States as of July, 2009. It is a fictional snapshot of the actual number of unemployed and under-employed people."
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California unemployment rate climbs to 11.9 pct.
  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/California_unemployment_rate_climbs_to_11.9_pct./16971/0/8/8/Y/M.html
California's unemployment rate climbed to 11.9 percent in July, the highest number in modern record-keeping. - That's an increase from 11.6 percent in June and considerably higher than the jobless rate of 7.3 percent a year ago. - The U.S. Department of Labor also reported Friday that 87,000 Californians lost jobs last month. - The state continued to see declines in the construction, manufacturing, transportation, trade, finance, education and health and government sectors. The trade, transportation and utilities sectors posted the largest drop, losing 15,900 jobs."
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White House deficit estimate jumps — by $2 trillion  ---  http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/22/white-house-deficit-estimate-jumps-by-2-trillion/
A quote...."US President Barack Obama’s administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit forecast to about nine trillion dollars, up about two trillion from the previous forecast, a US official said Friday." -- also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-5287-0-13-13--.html
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Obama to hike 10-year deficit to $9 trillion  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Obama_to_hike_10-year_deficit_to_%249_trillion/16966/0/8/8/Y/M.html
A quote...."The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to roughly $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion in a report next week, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday. -- "The new forecasts are based on new data that reflect how severe the economic downturn was in the late fall of last year and the winter of this year," said the official, who is familiar with the plans."
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Bank Looting Bonuses Reported--Will the SEC Awake from Its Slumber?  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/22-0
A quote...."A short time ago, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo released a report focusing on the bank bonuses paid out by the biggest banks in 2008, the same year they were bailed out by federal taxpayers. The report notes that in many instances the bank bonuses exceeded bank profits, the implication being that taxpayer dollars were being used to subsidize the salaries of the ace banking executives who created the financial crisis in the first place." -- For more on this issue see....Having Fun With Your Tax Dollars
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html
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Mercury found in all fish at 300 US streams
  ---  http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/foreign/display.var.2526381.0.Mercury_found_in_all_fish_at_300_US_streams.php
A quote...."A study of mercury contamination has found the toxic substance in every fish tested at nearly 300 streams across the US. - The finding underscores how widespread mercury pollution has become. - The government study, released yesterday by the US Geological Survey, tested thousands of fish from 291 streams nationwide from 1998 to 2005. - While all fish had traces of mercury contamination, only about a quarter had levels exceeding what the Environmental Protection Agency says is safe for people eating an average amount of fish." -- For now. - mpg
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Friday August 21st 2009 - links page

No posts. - mpg

Thursday August 20th 2009 - links page

Common Sense 2009  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-flynt/common-sense-2009_b_264706.html
Must Read - A quote...."by Larry Flynt -- (yes I know. - mpg) -- The American government -- which we once called our government -- has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "economic royalists," who choose our elected officials -- indeed, our very form of government. Both Democrats and Republicans dance to the tune of their corporate masters. In America, corporations do not control the government. In America, corporations are the government."
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Federal judge limits use of hearsay evidence in Gitmo cases - It's about TIME somebody stood up for the law!
  ---  http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/08/federal-judge-limits-use-of-hearsay.php
Special Note - A quote...."[JURIST] Judge Reggie Walton of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] issued a ruling [opinion, PDF] Wednesday that severely curtails the federal government's ability to use hearsay evidence in trials against Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees. While in normal criminal and civil cases hearsay is not accepted as evidence unless it meets specific criteria, it has frequently been allowed in terrorism cases because there either was no other evidence or presenting alternative evidence would have been too burdensome. The government had argued that hearsay was broadly permitted by the US Supreme Court's 2004 decision in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld [opinion text]. In his opinion, Walton disagreed, holding:" -- For more on this issue see....9/11 - Iraq - Torture Fables  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909
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Fringe leftist losers: wrong even when they're right  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/20/ambinder/index.html
Must Read - A quote...."That little progression of thought explains much about our political and media culture.  Marcy Wheeler dissects and eviscerates Ambinder's remarkable reaction to the Ridge revelation (Ambinder has now retracted some (though not all) of his more irresponsible assertions).  But Ambinder's comments reveal a couple of other points worth highlighting. -- Just as is still commonly said about opponents of the Iraq War (even though they were right, they were still wrong and unSerious because their motives were bad), Ambinder acknowledges that Bush critics were right that the terror alerts were being manipulated for political ends (he has no choice but to acknowledge that now that Ridge admits it), but still says journalists like himself were right to scorn such critics "because these folks based their assumption on gut hatred for President Bush, and not on any evaluation of the raw intelligence."  As always:  even when the dirty leftist hippies are proven right, they're still Shrill, unSerious Losers who every decent person and "journalist" scorns." - also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/20-12  ---  The US-NRE's mass-media presstitutes will never stop, they will continue to help kill millions of people, even people living in this country, on behalf of our wealthy elites. - mpg
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Bush admin pressured ex-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge to raise terror warnings pre-election
  ---  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/08/20/2009-08-20_bush_admin_pressured_former_homeland_security_chief_tom_
ridge_to_raise_terror_wa.html  ---  Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."Top advisers to George W. Bush pressed for a politically-motivated terror alert a few days before the 2004 election, ex-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge charges in a new book." -- Pretty soon we'll find out all those color "warnings",  ---  http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/08/ridge-reveals-pressure-to-raise-alert-level-before-2004-election.html  ---  audio and video tapes produced by the "terrorists", and statements from "unknown but well-placed sources" describing the next dreadful, life-threatening, impending attack, every one of course coincidently released prior to some upcoming vote in Congress to fund our Military Industrial Complex or pass some new piece of unconstitutional legislation converting this nation into a police state, will turn out to be a pack of fabricated lies.  And most "Amerikans" sitting in front of their collective boob-tubes will yawn, drool a little bit, burp, fart, scratch their fat collective butts, and switch their TV channel to something more interesting. Like the newest soap, "reality" or game show. - mpg - bold by website editor -- For more on this issue see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206
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Manufacturing Consent For The "War On Terror" - Terror Plot Emerges as Secret Service Game  ---  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48154
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23318.htm
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908.html
A quote...."August 20, 2009 -- BERLIN, Aug 20 ( IPS) - It was announced as a terror plot busted. German police had captured three young Muslim men in the small village Medebach-Oberschledor, some 450 km southwest of Berlin Sep. 4 in 2007. The police declared they had seized 730 kilograms of hydrogen peroxide, enough to make 550 kg of explosives. -- The three men, and a fourth, who was captured a year later in Turkey, wanted to bomb U.S. military and other facilities in Germany, and to kill "as many U.S. soldiers as possible," one of the accused later confessed."
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Why The U.S. Missed Zapping Bin Laden 11 Years Ago  ---  http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2009/08/why-the-us-missed-zapping-bin.html
Special Note - A quote...."Omar Bin Laden reveals in the new memoir, as reported by the Daily News last month, that his father moved from his compound in Kandahar following the embassy attacks (which Al Qaeda implausibly denied perpetrating), traveling northeast to Khowst (see photo of old Khowst fort at left) on the Pakistan border in late August 1998. -- After a few days at Al Farouk, Osama Bin Laden “received a highly secretive communication” on Aug. 20, Omar writes. The family immediately left Khowst for Kabul - only two hours before the camp was obliterated by 75 cruise missiles. (Clinton was immediately accused of a “Wag the Dog” strike intended to distract the country from his Aug. 17 admission of a sex affair with Monica Lewinsky.)" -- The US-NRE is of course accusing Pakistan's ISI of warning Osama bin Laden.  More likely it was certain elements within the US-NRE and/or Israeli governments that warned Osama in their efforts to promote the DPG, PNAC and Clean Break protocols.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409  --- mpg
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UK 'can't find' $13bn in military hardware
  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/UK_%27can%27t_find%27_%2413bn_in_military_hardware/16948/0/18/18/Y/M.html
A quote...."Auditors have been unable to find 6.6 billion pounds ($13 billion) worth of British military equipment including vehicles, weapons and radios used by troops, a report said Thursday." -- For more on this issue see the quote shown bellow....

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Arms trade: UK dealers accused of selling Soviet weapons to blacklisted countries  ---  Ditto quote shown above.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/19/british-arms-dealers-blacklisted-countries
A quote...."Britain has launched an urgent investigation into allegations that UK arms dealers have been buying up old Soviet weapons and selling them on to blacklisted countries."
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Crown fights to keep 48 pieces of Lockerbie trial evidence secret
  ---  http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2490198.0.Crown_fights_to_keep_48_pieces_of_Lockerbie_trial_evidence_secret.php
A quote...."Prosecutors are trying to keep secret 48 pieces of evidence relating to the Lockerbie trial, including a secret fax that could discredit a key Crown witness. -- Lawyers for Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 bombing, yesterday began a challenge over material they believe will free their terminally ill client. -- But the Crown Office and the UK Advocate General are fighting against disclosure, claiming that in some cases the evidence does not exist. -- The Herald can today reveal that the first item on the list is a fax which, the Libyan's defence team claims, places a fundamental question mark against the original trial testimony of Tony Gauci, who sold clothes later found in the wreckage of PanAm 103 at Lockerbie."
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Arms expert warns new mind drugs eyed by military - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE57I4VL20090819?sp=true
A quote...."GENEVA (Reuters) - A leading expert on chemical and biological arms control called Wednesday for urgent efforts to stop new mind-altering drugs developed for medical purposes from being adopted by the military for use in warfare."
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Suit filed over mass arrest during DNC  ---  http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_13168203
A quote...."Eight people who were arrested on the second day of the Democratic National Convention during a mass protest filed a lawsuit against the City and County of Denver last night alleging wrongful arrest."
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American Justice is Not Blind, But it is Truly Sick  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff08212009.html
A quote...."U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Federal District Court Judge Fernando Gaitan of the Missouri Western District Court have at least two things in common: they are both appointees of President Ronald Reagan, and they both think it’s just fine for the US to execute innocent people. The same can be said for Judge C. Arlen Beam of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals."
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Scott Horton Interviews Thomas E. Woods - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/08/18/thomas-e-woods-2/
Audio Interview - A quote...."Thomas E. Woods, author of "Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse",  ---  http://www.thomasewoods.com/books/meltdown  ---  discusses the debt some progressive causes owe to states’ rights, vintage 1812 war propaganda that sounds alarmingly like the run-up to the war in Iraq, state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws and the undue respect given to the Supremacy Clause."
||  MP3 here. (36min:05sec)  ||  ---  http://dissentradio.com/radio/09_08_18_woods.mp3
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More Liberal Inanity on Guns  ---  http://mwcnews.net/content/view/32634/26/
Quote of the Day -- Guns at political rallies are dangerous, despite what the author contends.  --  (but the author makes an important, overlooked point) - mpg -- A quote...."A careful reading of the Bill of Rights, for example, reveals that (preexisting) rights are protected from government infringement. That is, the Amendments don’t grant rights, they prohibit government from infringing (preexisting) rights." - bold/underline by website editor
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Khalid Bin Mahfouz dies of heart attack - posted at OnlineJournal  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4869.shtml
  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5041.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."(WMR)  ---  http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/  ---  The Saudi newspaper, Asharq Alawsat, is reporting from Jeddah that Saudi billionaire banker Khalid Bin Mahfouz, the controversial former director of the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia and someone who was often accused of being linked to financial support to groups associated with “Al Qaeda” -- with Mahfouz’s legal team carrying out rapid lawsuit action mainly in London against transgressing journalists -- died this past Saturday from a sudden heart attack at his home in Jeddah." -- Besides suicide, heart attacks seem to be the preferred method to get rid of "embarrassments”. - mpg
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Al-Qaida emerges as main suspect in Iraq bombings
  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Al-Qaida_emerges_as_main_suspect_in_Iraq_bombings/16955/0/15/15/Y/M.html
Special Note - Some quotes...."Al-Qaida in Iraq is the most likely suspect behind massive truck bombings targeting major government institutions in Baghdad. -- But the prime minister and other Shiite politicians also linked Saddam Hussein loyalists to the attacks, an allegation that may indicate a more political tilt to the violence ahead of January's parliamentary elections." -- "No group claimed responsibility for Wednesday's truck bombings at the foreign and finance ministries, but the U.S. military said they bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida, which is known for its high-profile vehicle bombs and simultaneous suicide attacks." - bold by website editor -- It's interesting that "no group claimed responsibility".  Al-Qaida would be boasting minutes after the blast if they did it, the former Bathists and Saddam loyalists would be making demands, privately perhaps, but such negotiations would still leak out.  But so far not a word from either of the “usual suspects” regarding this act of barbarity, most curious…. – mpg
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Mutlaq: Explosions are well organized  ---  http://www.heyetnet.org/eng/iraq-news/4750-mutlaq-explosions-are-well-organized.html
A quote...."Salih Al-Mutlaq [head of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue] said: "The bombings that targeted citizens and the state ministries were not simple, but there are possibilities and facilities of the state, planning, stragety and not irregular." -- Mutlak called the security agencies of government to: "not to shoot at random charges on any of the parties until confirmed, because it increases the tension in the country, rather, to those speaking on behalf of the government to actively investigate on who was behind the explosions." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/203815
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HEYET Strongly Denounced Explosions  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m57145&hd=&size=1&l=e
Related Article - A quote...."The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (HEYET) strongly condemned the criminal bombings in the capital Baghdad which killed and wounded hundreds of innocent Iraqis."
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German Party Calls for Plan for Removal of Troops From Afghanistan  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/world/europe/21iht-germany.html?_r=1
A quote...."BERLIN — After ignoring the issue of Afghanistan for much of the federal election campaign so far, the Free Democrats, an opposition party that hopes to join Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in the next government, have called for a plan to bring home the 4,500 German troops serving in the NATO force there." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/203851
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Afghanistan: 50 Dead on Election Day, with Low turnout in Some Districts  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2009/08/afghanistan-50-dead-on-election-day.html
A Juan Cole round-up on the Afghan elections - mpg -- A quote...."McClatchy reports that the largest election monitoring organization refused to sign off on the polls' legitimacy until more information had come in. Some 95% of polling stations were said to have opened. But the southwestern city of Qandahar took rocket and mortar fire about every half hour through the day, and there was a significant battle in Baghlan to the north. Rivals Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah both claimed victory, but the electoral commission refused to accept either claim on Friday morning." -- Don't worry the US-NRE will declare who the "winner" is, it will be whoever agrees to do the US-NRE's bidding. - mpg
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Afghan Vote’s Reports of Low Turnout May Hurt Karzai’s Chances  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a8UGIjj6coiI
A quote...."Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Voters in Afghanistan’s presidential election may have failed to deliver the increased turnout sought by Afghan and U.S. officials, hindering efforts to win a broader mandate for the government as it battles Taliban militants."
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In Afghanistan, Violence and Cynicism Keep Voter Turnout Low - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/08/20/in-afghanistan-violence-and-cynicism-keep-voter-turnout-low/
A quote...."A day of voting in Afghanistan came and went, marred by assorted reports of voter fraud, scores of bombings and attacks by Taliban forces, and a turnout that was embarrassingly low even considering the massive violence that forced polls to close early in some parts of the country."
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SAS escape as Chinook is shot down 'by enemy fire' in Afghanistan
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1207923/British-Chinook-helicopter-brought-enemy-Afghanistan-election-day.html
A quote...."A secret SAS patrol in Afghanistan came close to disaster when their RAF Chinook helicopter was shot down by a Taliban rocket-propelled grenade. -- The aircraft came under fire as it touched down under cover of darkness in Helmand Province late on Wednesday night."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m57147&hd=&size=1&l=e
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DISARMAMENT:  Egypt Rejects U.S. Nuclear Umbrella  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48156
A quote...."CAIRO, Aug 20 (IPS) - The spectre of a U.S. nuclear umbrella for the Middle East haunted the U.S.- Egyptian summit this week. In the run-up to President Hosni Mubarak's first Washington visit in five years, both the Egyptian leader and his senior aides categorically rejected an undeclared U.S. offer to guarantee defence of the region against atomic weapons as part of a comprehensive Middle East peace plan."
also posted at OhBummer  ---  http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/08/egypt-rejects-obamas-nuclear-umbrella.html
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Iran grants IAEA access to key nuclear sites: Diplomats  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104065&sectionid=351020104
A quote...."After two-year restrictions on IAEA inspections, Iran reportedly grants the UN nuclear watchdog improved access to its key enrichment facilities. -- European diplomats told the Associated Press on Thursday that UN nuclear officials were permitted to visit the nearly finished Arak heavy water reactor last week after Iran unexpectedly decided to lift its restrictions on IAEA inspections."
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Officials: Lithuania Hosted Secret CIA Prison To Get "Our Ear"  ---  http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8373807
A quote...."A third European country has been identified to ABC News as providing the CIA with facilities for a secret prison for high-value al Qaeda suspects: Lithuania, the former Soviet state. -- Former CIA officials directly involved or briefed on the highly classified program tell ABC News that Lithuanian officials provided the CIA with a building on the outskirts of Vilnius, the country's capital, where as many as eight suspects were held for more than a year, until late 2005 when they were moved because of public disclosures about the program. Flight logs viewed by ABC News confirm that CIA planes made repeated flights into Lithuania during that period."
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Abkhazia wants U.N., EU to respond to Georgia's seizure of ship heading for Sukhumi
  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/08/abkhazia-wants-un-eu-to-respond-to.html
A quote...."SUKHUMI. Aug 18 (Interfax) - Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh has urged the U.N. Security Council, the European Union and the president of France to express their opinion of Georgia's actions regarding the seizure of a Turkish vessel heading to Abkhazia."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/203849
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Russia's fifth-generation fighter jets to start trials  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/20/content_11919508.htm
A quote...."MOSCOW, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Russia's fifth-generation fighter planes are set to start trials in November, the Air Force chief said Thursday. -- The second prototype fighter jet is undergoing field trials, the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Air Force chief Alexander Zelin as saying."
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Muddied waters: Russia finds 'piracy' cargo ship but what really happened?
  ---  http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2009/08/muddied-waters-russia-finds-piracy.html
A quote...."The Arctic Sea was discovered 300 miles off the Cape Verde islands three weeks after it went missing, triggering speculation of a pirate attack. Three weeks after it vanished at sea, the cargo ship Arctic Sea was found off the Cape Verde islands today with its Russian crew alive, well and "answering questions".
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China's secretive military launches Web site  - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/08/20/chinas-secretive-military-launches-web-site-3/
A quote...."China's Defense Ministry launched its first official Web site*  ---  http://eng.mod.gov.cn/  ---  Thursday, part of an effort by the normally secretive military to be more transparent." - *link added by website editor
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China, Serbia forge strategic partnership  ---  http://eng.mod.gov.cn/TopNews/2009-08/21/content_4076324.htm
A quote...."BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao and Serbian President Boris Tadic on Thursday agreed to establish a strategic partnership between the two countries. -- 　　During their talks held Thursday afternoon, the two heads of state exchanged views on building and developing a strategic partnership and reached a broad consensus.
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55 killed in Somalia as govt. attempt to regain town fails  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104084&sectionid=351020501
A quote...."Clashes between Somali gunmen and government soldiers has left over 55 people dead and over 60 others injured in the Horn of Africa country. -- The heavy exchange of fire broke out in Mogadishu's northern districts of Hawlwadag, Hodan and Wardhigley on Thursday."
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Venezuela to step up economic cooperation with Brazil: FM  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/21/content_11921981.htm
A quote...."CARACAS, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Venezuela is considering stepping up its economic cooperation and trade with Brazil, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro announced on Thursday."
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More Deaths in [US-NRE Immigration] Detention  ---  http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=2498
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908.html
A quote...."NEW YORK, 19 Aug (IPS) - In response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security revealed Tuesday that the government had failed to disclose 11 more deaths in immigration detention facilities."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

The Hobson's Choice of Hamas  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15369
Must Read - A quote...."In late 2005, the Bush administration, along with the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon, promoted parliamentary elections in Palestine. The goal, obvious if unstated, was to provide a popular credential for the government that would be run by the expected to be victorious candidates, members of the Fatah party of Mahmoud Abbas. Since Abbas had won with a decisive 62% of the votes in a January 2005 election to succeed the late Yasser Arafat, the parliamentary election of January 2006 looked like a slam dunk. Hamas, participating for the first time in a national election, along with five or six small parties stood against Fatah. The results, however, surprised most observers by giving the parliamentary majority to Hamas. Fatah won only 45 seats in the new parliament, while Hamas won an absolute majority of 74 in the 132 seat assembly." -- bold by website editor
For more on this issue see....US Sponsored Civil Wars - Palestine
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussponsoredcivilwars-weblist-mpg-101107#PALESTINE
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Academic Report: Israel an Apartheid State  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1047
A quote...."A comprehensive report published by the Human Sciences Research Council in May 2009 has concluded that Israel’s policies towards Palestinians in the Occupied Territories are colonial in nature and mirror those of apartheid South Africa."
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Bilin's unwavering spirit of resistance  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10723.shtml
A quote...."The Ofer military base is not an easy place to get into. But after most of my friends and the father of the family I was living with, Mohammed Khatib (also a leading member of the Bilin Popular Committee) were arrested in a brutal night raid on the occupied West Bank village of Bilin, I was determined to go to their court hearing." 
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Israeli troops brutally attack cameraman filming raid  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104074&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Israeli soldiers brutally attack a number of peace activists, who were documenting an overnight raid on a Palestinian house in the West Bank town of Bil'in. -- The incident happened in the early hours of Thursday as 25 Israeli soldiers, with their faces painted black, were raiding the house of Mohammad Abu Rahma -- a member of the village's Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements."
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Amnesty: Honduran Forces Using Arrests, Beatings to Punish Zelaya Supporters
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/20/amnesty_honduran_forces_using_arrests_beatings
Special Note - A quote...."Amnesty-web -- Amnesty International is accusing Honduran forces of beating and arresting supporters of the ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Amnesty says the “mass arbitrary arrests and ill treatment of protesters” remains a “serious and growing concern.” We speak with Amnesty’s Esther Major and Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, who’s urging President Obama to take further measures against the coup. [includes rush transcript]
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The liberal majority and small businesspeople are against the coup regime  ---  http://alainet.org/active/32449&lang=es
Statement -- A quote...."A conversation with Carlos Eduardo Reina, General Director of the Coordinating Committee of Liberals Against the Coup"
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Honduras Extends Anti-Coup Resistance  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=110510&Itemid=1
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Aug 20 (Prensa Latina) Honduras people's forces have extended Thursday their peaceful resistance to the military coup with new actions in the streets, after 54 consecutive days defending democracy."
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More on the Iranian Election.....

Karroubi to have his own satellite channel?  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104029&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi has taken the first steps toward setting up a satellite TV network, called Saba, a report says." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/203807
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Paul Krugman and the "socialist hellhole"  ---  http://lefti.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
The Health Care Issue - A quote...."Paul Krugman defends Administration health insurance reform proposals (he calls them "health reform plans") by assuring his readers that no "socialist hellhole" will result. I wonder what "hellhole" he is referring to. Socialist Cuba, a poor island nation, spends one-thirtieth the amount on health care that we do, yet provides its citizens with a life expectancy (77 years) and infant mortality rates (6/1,000) identical to that of the United States, and vastly superior to the comparable figures in many U.S. cities (72 and 12 in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C., for example)."
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Obama's Corporate Health Care Scam  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto190809.htm
The Health Care Issue - A quote...."The health care debacle has gone exactly the way I pictured it would. It seems that every day that passes brings with it a new concession to the insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry and the health providers. It probably would have been a less painful experience if the government just would have asked these interests to build a health care plan with no governmental interference. There is no doubt in my mind that we would have gotten essentially the same plan."
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Fidel Castro: The Empire and the Robots  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=110468&Itemid=1
The Health Care Issue - A quote...."Havana, Aug 20 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro stated that lobbyists in the US Congress make their profits working against a simple law, intended to provide medical care to tens of millions of poor people, mostly blacks and Latinos who lack health assistance. --  "Even a blockaded country like Cuba has been able to do it and is even cooperating with dozens of countries in the Third World," Fidel Castro asserted in an article posted Thursday in the Cubadebate website, entitled "The Empire and the Robots."
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Searching for the Depression—And Finding It!  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23324.htm
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908.html
A quote...."August 20, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- Last week I was telling a visiting filmmaker from overseas about the financial crisis and how it was getting worse. He looked at me askance. The market had just gone up, he said, and the White House was talking about an emerging recovery. -- “I have been in New York before, he said, and it looks the same.” -- A lot of the pain is hidden, I told him, hidden behind the deceptive spin in our media or buried in the denial and delusions of many people on the streets who have not taken the trouble to try to understand the nature of the calamity they are living through." -- also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/20-4
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"Iceland Recovering From Neoliberal Disaster"  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23316.htm
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908.html
Must Listen Audio Interview - A quote...."Dr. Michael Hudson on Iceland's banking crisis and foreign debt; it's decision to push back against IMF and World Bank austerity; Gordon Brown's role in the Icesave scandal; the capacity to pay principle; similarities with Germany's foreign debt reparations from the 1920s; European Union disarray; media omissions."
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MORE Banking Fraud (Foreclosure Stats)  ---  http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1355-MORE-Banking-Fraud-Foreclosure-Stats.html
A quote...."The non-seasonally adjusted delinquency rate increased 64 basis points from 8.22 percent in the first quarter of 2009 to 8.86 percent this quarter. -- and -- The delinquency rate includes loans that are at least one payment past due but does not include loans somewhere in the process of foreclosure.  The percentage of loans in the foreclosure process at the end of the second quarter was 4.30 percent, an increase of 45 basis points from the first quarter of 2009 and 155 basis points from one year ago. The combined percentage of loans in foreclosure and at least one payment past due was 13.16 percent on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, the highest ever recorded in the MBA delinquency survey.
also posted at AftrDwngSt  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/45364
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AIG CEO Gives Uncle Sam (and Us) the Finger (Financial Services Industry Arrogance Watch)
  ---  http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/08/aig-gives-uncle-sam-and-us-finger.html
A quote...."Tim Duy pointed out this priceless remark from AIG's new CEO, Robert Benmosch -- Benmosche told employees that he “had the luxury to say to the government, I’m not going to rush to do this. I’m appalled at how much pressure has been put on all of you to just sell it no matter what, because the Fed wants out, or the Treasury wants out. If they want out in a hurry, they shouldn’t have come in in the first place.” -- For more on this issue see.....Having Fun With Your Tax Dollars  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html
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2008 US Census shows sharp increase in poverty  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/aug2009/cens-a21.shtml
A quote...."The number living below the official poverty threshold increased in 2008 by 1.5 million people to 38.8 million, a number equivalent to 12.7 percent of the population, the census is expected to show."
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Unemployment claims worsen, rise 15,000  ---  http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/08/unemployment-claims-unexpectedly-worsen-rise-15000/
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908.html
A quote...."The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly for the second straight week, an indication that jobs remain scarce."
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US Railroad Carload Traffic Down 19%  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-railroad-carload-traffic-down-19
A quote...."The Association of American Railroads released its latest traffic data, and both the weekly and cumulative traffic originations are down significantly, however this is likely another data point that would be cheered by the wildly optimistic Philadelphia Fed as yet another piece of information that can only go up from here. Total carloads originated was down -17.1% for the week ending August 15, while the cumulative decline was -18.9%."
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Global Trade Collapsing, China Now Japan's Top Trade Partner
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/global-trade-collapsing-china-now-japans-top-trade-partner
Global Trade is not collapsing, it's regrouping, consolidating and shifting to any country that can trade things of value and therefore has a hard currency.  In other words, any other country besides the US-NRE and Little Britain. - mpg -- A quote...."The Japan External Trade Organization has released its latest trade figures, which paint a grim picture for foreign trade by the world's second largest economy. Year to date imports have dropped by 31.9% to $252.9 billion, while exports have plunged 36.8% to $252.2 billion. Most stunning is the disclosure on trade flows with the United States: exports to the US have dropped by 43.5% to $40.5 billion, resulting in Japan's largest positive trade balance. Another development is that China has now replaced the US as Japan's primary trade destination. However that is not saying much: trade with China has declined for the 8th consecutive month. The last fact is among the primary reasons why the Chinese Central Bank has blown a credit bubble of epic proportions in order to mitigate the unprecedented collapse in Chinese trade with its traditional trade partners."
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In Hot Water: World Sets Ocean Temperature Record  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/20-13
A quote...."WASHINGTON — Steve Kramer spent an hour and a half swimming in the ocean Sunday — in Maine. The water temperature was 72 degrees — more like Ocean City, Md., this time of year. And Ocean City's water temp hit 88 degrees this week, toasty even by Miami Beach standards."
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Methane Seeps From Arctic Sea-Bed  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/burns190809.htm
A quote...."Researchers say this could be evidence of a predicted positive feedback effect of climate change. -- As temperatures rise, the sea-bed grows warmer and frozen water crystals in the sediment break down, allowing methane trapped inside them to escape."
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