Tuesday September 23rd 2008 - links page

Monday September 22nd 2008 - links page

The Mugging of America  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/quinn8.html
Must Read - A quote...."If our business leaders and government leaders had learned from the LTCM collapse and NASDAQ collapse, we would not be experiencing this current crisis. Instead, Wall Street, Alan Greenspan, George Bush’s administration, and Congress attempted to put off the pain of recession by encouraging more risk taking by companies and citizens. We are now reaping what they have sown."
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Quo Vadis, America?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/latulippe/latulippe90.html
Must Read - A quote...."Contemporary America is rather like an overdosed crack addict sprawled face-down in the gutter. For decades, our economy has been smoking the heady drug of cheap credit, which served to "stimulate demand" and produce pleasurable but artificial booms. Unfortunately, each boom was followed by an inevitable bust as the credit-fueled bubbles burst – first in internet stocks, and now in real estate. -- Like every addict who finally "hits the bottom," America now faces a stark choice: Do we suffer through a violent, shaking withdrawal, or do we turn away from the painful rigors of "going clean" and reach for the bong one last time?"
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E pluribus hokum or When the gamblers bail out the casino  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JI23Dj06.html
Must Read - A quote...."Paulson's dreadful scheme will become law, because Americans love their bankers. The bankers enable their collective gambling habit. Think of America as a town with one casino, in which the only economic activity is gambling. Most people lose, but the casino keeps lending them more money to play. Eventually, of course, the casino must go bankrupt. At this point, the townspeople people vote to tax themselves in order to bail out the casino. Collectively, the gamblers cannot help but lose; individually they nonetheless hope to win their way out of the hole.
Americans are so deep in the hole that they might as well keep putting borrowed quarters into the one-armed bandit. They have hardly saved anything for the past 10 years. Instead, they counted on capital gains to replace the retirement savings they never put aside, first in tech stocks, then in houses. That hasn't worked out."
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House To Hold Hearing on Scheme to Disenfranchise Foreclosed Homeowners
  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/m.s.-bellows/house-judiciary-committee_b_128299.html
A quote...."The controversy over Michigan Republicans' reported plans to identify people whose homes are in foreclosure and publicly challenge their right to vote on Election Day -- a report that Republican Party officials now deny -- is continuing to escalate."

Don't that beat all?  They rig the system to steal trillions of dollars and artificially force housing prices up so they can cash in on the gravy,  ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/1.3quadrillionandcounting-blog-mpg-091808  ---  they force millions of homeowners into these deals telling them essentially either you come in and participate - or - you don't get to own a home.  They lie to them saying prices are always going to go up, real estate is a safe investment, it's unlike stocks (well it used to be 'till they got their greasy, dirty hands on the system).  The  bubble, as all bubbles must, finally pops putting millions of homeowners into foreclosure, on which basis these same bastards proceed to deny them their right to vote, and now they're trying to get the government to pay for the whole fiasco and send these foreclosed, disenfranchised, former homeowners the bill for trillions of dollars.

Ain't life sweet?  Aren't these guys the greatest?  Can they turn lemons into lemonade or what? – mpg
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Europeans on left and right ridicule U.S. money meltdown  ---  http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-euromood20-2008sep20,0,7535469.story
A quote...."They list greed and Greenspan among the culprits, and there are comparisons to . . . Albania. But amid the gloating, there is fear for financial systems in Britain, Spain, Italy and elsewhere."
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Cash for Trash  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/opinion/22krugman.html
A quote...."Some skeptics are calling Henry Paulson’s $700 billion rescue plan for the U.S. financial system “cash for trash.” Others are calling the proposed legislation the Authorization for Use of Financial Force, after the Authorization for Use of Military Force, the infamous bill that gave the Bush administration the green light to invade Iraq."
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Financial Bailout: America's Own Kleptocracy  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10279
A quote...."A kleptocratic class has taken over the economy to replace industrial capitalism. Franklin Roosevelt's term "banksters" says it all in a nutshell. The economy has been captured - by an alien power, but not the usual suspects. Not socialism, workers or "big government," nor by industrial monopolists or even by the great banking families. Certainly not by Freemasons and Illuminati." -- "The pretense, of course, is that all this frenetic trading creates real "capital." It certainly does not do so in the classical 19th-century concept of capital. The term has been decoupled from producing goods and services, hiring wage labor or from financing innovation. It is as much "capital" as the right to conduct a lottery and collect the winnings from the hopes of the losers. But then, casinos from Las Vegas to riverboats have become a major "growth industry," muddying the language of capital, growth and wealth itself."

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Revolution for the Rich
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/REVOLUTION-FOR-THE-RICH-by-Bruce-K-Gagnon-080922-825.html
The Death of a Myth?
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/22-10
The scam is over, only gangsters are left.
  ---  http://morris108.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/the-scam-is-over-only-gangsters-are-left/
Upholding the Horrendous Business Practices of US Financial Institutions: "Thank You, Ladies and Gentlemen"
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10303
Wall Street bailout plan explained, universally reviled [Update 14 It's unanimous]
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Wall-Street-bailout-plan-e-by-the-web-080922-140.html
The $700 Billion Wall Street Bailout: One More Weapon of Mass Deception
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/22-4
Naomi Klein - The Bomb Has Yet to Detonate
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Naomi-Klein-The-Bomb-Has-by-Rady-Ananda-080922-453.html
||  Video  ||  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCHBLt-w9wE
Naomi Klein - Now is the Time to Resist Wall Street's Shock Doctrine
  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-klein/now-is-the-time-to-resist_b_128433.html
10 Things You Should Know About Bush's Trillion Dollar Fleecing Plan
  ---  http://www.alternet.org/workplace/99876/10_things_you_should_know_about_bush%27s_trillion_dollar_fleecing_plan/
The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty - September 2008
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=69870
Fleecing What’s Left of the Treasury
  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080922_fleecing_whats_left_of_america/
Glenn Greenwald - Growing right-wing opposition to the Paulson plan
  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/22/paulson/index.html
Senator Leahy and New York Times Criticize Paulson's Shock Doctrine
||  Art2  ||  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/09/senator-leahy-and-new-york-times.html
||  Art3  ||  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/09/under-proposed-bailout-feds-could.html
||  Art4  ||  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/09/bailout-is-not-limited-to-700-billion.html
Dirty Secret Of The Bailout: Thirty-Two Words That None Dare Utter
  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/22/dirty-secret-of-the-bailo_n_128294.html
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Robert Scheer & Dean Baker the Proposed $700 Billion Bailout
||  Video  ||  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/22/sen_bernie_sanders_robert_scheer_and
||  Real Audio  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2008/sept/audio/dn20080922.ra&proto=rtsp&start=10:59
||  MP3  ||  ---  http://www.archive.org/download/dn2008-0922/dn2008-0922-1_64kb.mp3
Wall Street Journal Says, "The End of Wall Street As We Know It"
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Wall-Street-Journals-Says-by-Rob-Kall-080921-767.html
The Government Is Not Promoting Stability
  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/murphy/murphy137.html
Socialism US-Style and Ronald Reagan
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/22-9
Ross says Fed actions don't address root
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE48M0N620080923
Conflict Of Interest? Report Says Goldman Sachs ‘Among Biggest Beneficiaries’ Of Paulson’s Bailout
  ---  http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/22/paulson-goldman-bailout/
What Nobody's Saying: The Bailout Will Kill the Dollar
  ---  http://www.democrats.com/node/17713
Flashback - Paulson hedge fund now looks to buy banks
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/paulson-hedge-fund-now-looks-to-buy-banks-875852.html
Flashback - Greenspan Urges Congress To Fuel Growth of Derivatives
  ---  http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CEED7103EF932A25751C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=
Loan Titans Paid McCain Adviser Nearly $2 Million
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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Ashes of Empire  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=13490
A quote...."Reading history books may not be required at the Naval Academy, but Adm. Mullen should consider some historical analogies. Afghanistan has been the graveyard of empires ever since Alexander the Great had trouble crossing the Khyber Pass in 326 B.C. He wisely decided to pretty much leave the tribesmen alone and moved south to India. From the Middle Ages on, waves of invading Mongols, Moghul rulers of India, and Persians have swept through the area, but the Afghan tribes have always proved fractious and hard to rule. "
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Robert Fisk's Week: Horrors of war our leaders never have to confront
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisks-week-horrors-of-war-our-leaders-never-have-to-confront-928810.html
A quote...."I'm not sure of this, but I think – I suspect and feel – that the Great War, the war of 1914-1918, is beginning to dominate our lives even more than the terrible and infinitely more costly conflict of 1939-1945. As the years go by, the visitors to the great cemeteries of the Somme, Passchendaele and Verdun grow greater in number. The Second World War may haunt our lives. The First World War, it seems to me, imprisons us all."
Also posted at TruthDig  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080922_horrors_of_war_our_leaders_never_have_to_confront/
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Calling Gitmo What It Is  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/glantz/?articleid=13493
A quote...."I would like to share with you how one goes about becoming a concentration camp guard without ever having really made many decisions. I was 17 years old when I joined the Army National Guard in Michigan. I was living with friends. I decided to join the military Nov. 20, 2001, because I had no other options. My family was poor, I was poor, and I wanted to go to school. I was promised a significant amount of money for this purpose, which I have yet to receive. I was in the field artillery, Charlie 1st of the 119th Field Artillery, where I served, quite happily, for… no. That's a lie. I was miserable; I hated it, but I served nonetheless."
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Marine Speaks Out on Using Depleted Uranium Munitions in Iraq  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m47430&s1=h1
Contains Video - A quote...."We’re poisoning our soldiers, we are poisoning the people of Iraq, but make no mistake we are poisoning the people of the world. I can test every single person in this room and I can find depleted uranium in your hair."
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IRAQ:  Awash in "Missing" Weapons  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43955
A quote...."SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 22 (IPS) - Clandestine gun suppliers, funded by the U.S. and Iraqi governments, have flooded Iraq with a million weapons since 2003, charges a new Amnesty International investigation." -- For more on this issue see....US Support of Terror - Money & Guns for Everyone
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#GUNS4EVERYONE
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A Modest Proposal  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Modest-Proposal-by-robert-wolff-080922-748.html
A quote...."We live in the time of lies. The Media have taught us that the slide from advertising to propaganda is really just a matter of meaningless words. The Media also demonstrated that a lie, said with conviction and repeated a few times, becomes accepted fact. We, the people, accept that where there is smoke there must be fire. Oh yeah? "
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Court: US govt can't block detainee photos release  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080922/ap_on_re_us/detainee_abuse_photos
A quote...."NEW YORK - The United States cannot conceal pictures of abusive treatment of detainees by its soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan by saying their release might cause enemies to hurt someone, a federal appeals court said Monday in ordering the release of 21 photographs."
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U.S. frees Afghan fixer after 10-month detention he describes as 'hell'
  ---  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080922.wafghanfixer22/BNStory/Afghanistan/home
Special Note -- A quote...."KABUL — In the U.S. military cells where he saw daylight only once a week, where he says they broke his ribs with beatings, his captors gave him a nickname: "the Canadian reporter." -- His formal designation was a detainee number: 3370. Last night, after almost a year in custody, the 22-year-old settled into a king-sized bed at the best hotel in Kabul with a big smile and started to regain his true names: Javed Yazamy, the name on his business card, or Jawed Ahmad, as he's known to friends." -- For more on this issue see....US - Killing the Messenger
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/uskillingthemessenger-weblist-mpg-112907
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French opposition withdraws support for 'war of occupation' in Afghanistan  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4805137.ece
A quote...."The French opposition yesterday withdrew its support for the country's military deployment in Afghanistan and accused President Sarkozy of sending under-equipped troops into an unwinnable "war of occupation"."
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Pakistan Bombing: Video, All suggesting Marriot Hotel Bombing Suspicious! And Not the Taliban
  ---  http://morris108.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/video-blogs-articles-pictures-all-suggesting-marriot-hotel-bombing-suspicious-and-not-the-taliban/
A quote...."One report says: “Why haven’t the Taliban claimed responsibility for the Marriot”. - Another report points out Islamabad is the most closely surveilled place in Pakistan. - How could a Tribal possibly drive a truck all the way to the Marriot, and not be stopped?"
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Was Marriott Hotel Islamabad an attack on US Marines and What Was Stored On Floors 4 And 5 U.S. military equipment?
  ---  http://www.daily.pk/politics/politicalnews/7419-was-marriott-hotel-islamabad-an-attack-on-
  ---  us-marines-and-what-was-stored-on-floors-4-and-5-us-military-equipment-.html
A quote...."Was there a top secret and mysterious operation of the US Marines going on inside the Marriott when it was attacked on Saturday evening? No one will confirm it but circumstantial evidence is in abundance."
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Little-known Islamic group claims Pakistan attack 23 Sep 2008  ---  http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINLM3375020080922
A quote...."A little known Islamic group [CIA] claimed responsibility for Saturday's suicide attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad which killed 53, Al Arabiya television reported on Monday. The group calling itself Fedayeen Islam (Partisans of Islam) demanded the closure of U.S. and NATO military bases in the region and the U.S. embassy in Pakistan, and an end to U.S. attacks against tribal areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan." -- Paragraph quoted from CLG
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JI links Marriott blast to Delhi bombings 22 Sep 2008  ---  http://thepost.com.pk/MainNewsT.aspx?bdtl_id=12738&fb_id=2&catid=14
||  Alt#1  ||  ---  http://www.indiaenews.com/pakistan/20080921/145728.htm
||  Alt#2  ||  ---  http://www.mid-day.com/news/2008/sep/210908attack-at-marriot.htm
||  Alt#3  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/jamaat-e-islami-linksmarriotdelhiblasts-ians-cached-092108
A quote...."Jamaat-e-Islami has linked Saturday's suicide attack at the Marriott Hotel to the terror bombings in New Delhi exactly a week ago, saying there may be "one force" behind the attacks in both countries, reported Mid Day, an Indian newspaper. "There can be one force behind blasts in New Delhi and the blast in Islamabad," Jamaat-e-Islami deputy chief Liaqat Baloch told IANS, adding that a foreign hand cannot be ruled out. The Marriott blast took place in the high-security Red Zone of the federal capital and there must have been a very well organized group [is] behind it [such as the one in Langley, Virginia], he maintained. Lashkar-e-Taiba denies role in India blasts: A Pakistan-based Islamist militant group said Sunday it was not involved in a series of orchestrated bombings across India, angrily denying allegations by investigators. [See: What Was Mysterious Activity In Marriott Hotel Islamabad by U. S. Marines? 21 Sep 2008.]  -- Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Taliban denies role in hotel attack  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/09/200892292555709354.html
A quote...."A senior commander of the Taliban in Pakistan has denied that his group was responsible for a bomb attack at Islamabad's Marriott hotel, in which at least 53 people died and 270 were injured. - Baitullah Mehsud said on Monday that the Taliban had no role in Saturday's attack, Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad, reported. - "Mehsud said that their group does not believe in killing so many locals [Note: this is the Taliban, not al-Qaeda] in the attack," Hyder said."
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Zardari Warns US on Raids as Pressure Mounts Over Bombing
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2008/09/22/zardari-warns-us-on-raids-as-pressure-mounts-over-bombing/
A quote...."Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is expected to pressure President Bush to halt its recent policy of escalating attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas during their upcoming meeting in New York. The recently elected President Zardari is under increasing pressure to find a more coherent strategy for his government’s terror war amid speculation that US raids were among the causes of Saturday’s bombing."
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Pakistan blames US raids for hotel bombing  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistan-blames-us-raids-for-hotel-bombing-938952.html
A quote...."The Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, will plead with President George Bush today to change a policy which is being blamed for one of his country's worst terrorist atrocities."
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Pakistani troops fire on intruding U.S. helicopters  ---  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080922/tpl-uk-pakistan-usa-helicopters-43a8d4f.html
A quote...."ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani troops fired on two U.S. helicopters that intruded into Pakistani territory on Sunday night, forcing them to turn back to Afghanistan, a senior Pakistani security official said on Monday. -- The helicopters violated the border in the area of Lowara Mandi, 80 km west of Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region, at around 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject."
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China eyes closer military exchanges with Pakistan  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/22/content_10093598.htm
A quote...."BEIJING, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese military official Guo Boxiong pledged on Monday to further strengthen military exchanges between China and Pakistan."
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Lebanon reports Syrian troop build-up on border  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/176147
War Alert - A quote...."BEIRUT: The Lebanese army said on Monday that Syria had boosted troop numbers along the border but that Damascus had stressed the move was linked to a crackdown against smugglers. -- Syria thinks Israel is going to do "something" obviously. - mpg
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New York Jews Welcome Ahmadinejad. Rabbis Say Iran Seeks Peace, Respects Judaism - Calls for True Dialogue....
  ---  http://morris108.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/new-york-jews-welcome-ahmadinejad-rabbis-
  ---  say-iran-seeks-peace-respects-judaism-calls-for-true-dialogue-with-ahmadinejad/#more-2063
A quote...."NEW YORK, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, spokesman of Neturei Karta International, issued the following statement on the eve of the arrival of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. -- “It has been our honor and privilege to meet with President Ahmadinejad, as well as other Iranian leaders, several times in the past. In addition we have had the pleasure of visiting Iran on different occasions. At each encounter with the Iranian leadership, we have emphasized to them that, despite media hysteria and the statements of some misinformed Jews, we have found the Iranian people and their leaders to be friendly and respectful.”
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Great Photo  ---  http://willyloman.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/good-for-u.jpg
Photo - Posted at Willyloman  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/thats-the-way-to-do-it/
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U.S. reaps what it sows in Bolivia  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/?p=797
A quote...."The near breakdown of relations between the United States and Bolivia is a perfect example of the baleful consequences of the inherent disrespect the U.S. historically has exhibited toward the region." -- Also posted at Creative-i  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/?p=797
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Cold War Revisionism: Once Again the Major Historical Task  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/spielberg7.html
Special Note - A quote...."As the regime gears up to wage a new Cold War against Russia over its alleged "aggression" against the "democratic" (read: pro-U.S.) state of Georgia, it is time to remind ourselves once again that the first Cold War was a scam of epic proportions perpetrated by both the Democrats and the Republicans, for the sole purpose of providing an excuse for the worldwide expansion of Anglo-American imperialism and mercantilism."
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Russian Navy Squadron heads to Venezuela: Deployment to Western Hemisphere unprecedented since Cold War
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10308
A quote...."Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo said the nuclear-powered Peter the Great cruiser accompanied by three other ships sailed from the Northern Fleet's base of Severomorsk on Monday. The ships will cover about 15,000 nautical miles to conduct joint maneuvers with the Venezuelan navy, he said."
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Kazakhstan seeks to export oil via Russia  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20080922/117029137.html
A quote...."AKTYUBINSK (Kazakhstan), September 22 (RIA Novosti) - Kazakhstan will increase oil production by 12 million metric tons in 2009 and is interested in pumping it via Russia, the Kazakh president said Monday.
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The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 2 articles - Monday - [ Day 46 ] =====  ==========

Russia plans pipeline to South Ossetia  ---  http://www.neurope.eu/articles/89852.php
A quote...."22 September 2008 -- Russia’s Deputy Energy Minister Vyatcheslav Sinyugin said on September 16 that Moscow is to speed up the construction of a new gas pipeline to the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali. “We are targeting June 2009 as the completion date,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying at a meeting with officials responsible for dealing with the aftermath of the recent conflict in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia. Prior to Tbilisi’s invasion, natural gas was delivered to South Ossetia from Georgia via a pipeline, which was partially destroyed during Russia’s operation to protect the breakaway republics."
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Europe mediates Russia-Georgia crisis   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNht4Q5oqek  ---  (YouTube - 1 min 9 sec - Added:  September 22, 2008)
Video - A quote...."A Council of Europe delegation is in Moscow to assess the state of Russian-Georgian relations, following the conflict in South Ossetia. The crisis will be the main focus of the group's parliamentary assembly, known as PACE, which opens in Strasbourg next week."
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End - The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 2 articles - Monday - [ Day 46 ] =====  ==========

U.S. Senate Recognized Soyuz as Inviolable  ---  http://www.kommersant.com/p1027901/r_527/Soyuz_Shuttle_space_cooperation/
A quote...."The United States is unable to reject Russia’s Soyuz spaceships for making flights to the International Space Station (ISS). The respective statement was made in the U.S. Senate yesterday and it provided a partial answer to the issue of ending the U.S. space cooperation with Russia advocated by presidential candidate Senator John McCain in the wake of the war for South Ossetia. But the Congress has the last word and it will say it Tuesday."
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China's Moon Shot  ---  http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/09/chinas-moon-s-1.html
A quote...."Last week NASA worried aloud that chilling relations with Russia would cut off U.S. astronauts from catching rides on Russian rockets to the International Space Station, once NASA's Space Shuttle fleet has completely retired around 2010. -- Based on news coming out of China today, maybe they can hitchhike on China's new moon-landing, space-station-building rocket fleet, which this week will support Beijing's first spacewalk."
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Quick, stop talking about the economy, Al Qaeda will attack in October...  ---  http://www.atlargely.com/2008/09/quick-stop-talk.html
False Flag Alert - A quote...."Okay, let's run some bets here. Is the single source "intel official" being cited in the below article:
  ---  http://www.nysun.com/foreign/spies-warn-that-al-qaeda-aims-for-october-surprise/86326/

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The Lies and Crimes of 911: A Canadian View of the War on Terror's Origins - (Gogl Vid - 54m 55s - Sep 14, 2008)
  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9084186521228739020&hl=en
Video - A quote...."by Professor Anthony J. Hall Founding Coordinator of Globalization Studies: Lethbridge University. Paper for Delivery at "Edmonton Questions 9/11: Convention and Film" Stanley A. Milner Public Library Theatre 6 September 2008. Excerpt from this paper: The absence of any disinterested third-party investigation and arbitration of the crimes of 911 together with the timidity, laziness, or outright complicity of the commercial news media have opened up a huge field for the intervention of a concerned citizenry who do not buy the officially-sanctioned conspiracy theory. -- For more on this issue see....9/11 & It's Fallout - Videos  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&itsfallout-weblist-mpg-053007
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Fed to supervise Goldman, Morgan  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70194&sectionid=3510203
A quote...."Investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been put under Federal control as part of a package aimed at rescuing the US finance system."
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Precious Metals Soar On Falling Dollar  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=12052
A quote...."LONDON (Reuters) - Gold and the other precious metals soared on Monday as the dollar wilted against the euro and the yen, boosting bullion's appeal as a currency hedge."
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Oil Soars $25 A Barrel  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=12045
A quote...."Oil prices spiked more than $25 a barrel Monday—the biggest one-day price jump ever—as anxiety over the government's $700 billion bailout plan battered the dollar and touched off frenzied buying of safe-haven investments including crude. "
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Dollar Gets Biggest Hit In Seven Years From Treasury Plan  ---  http://www.cnbc.com//id/26841323
A quote...."Concern about the price the U.S. could pay to rescue the financial system is crushing the dollar and raises questions about whether the government could ultimately intervene to prop it up."
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Sunday September 21st 2008 - links page

Mushroom Cloud over Wall Street  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20839.htm
Must Read - A quote...."21/090/08 "ICH " -- - These are dark times. While you were sleeping the cockroaches were busy about their work, rummaging through the US Constitution, and putting the finishing touches on a scheme to assert absolute power over the nation's financial markets and the country's economic future. Industry representative Henry Paulson has submitted legislation to congress that will finally end the pretense that Bush controls anything more than reading the lines from a 4' by 6' teleprompter situated just inches from his lifeless pupils. Paulson is in charge now, and the coronation is set for sometime early next week. He rose to power in a stealthily-executed Bankster's Coup in which he, and his coterie of dodgy friends, declared martial law on the US economy while elevating himself to supreme leader.
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The complete (though ever-changing) elite consensus over the financial collapse
  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/20/bailout/index.html
Must Read - A quote...."First, the fact that Democrats are on board with this scheme means absolutely nothing. When it comes to things the Bush administration wants, Congressional Democrats don't say "no" to anything. They say "yes" to everything. That's what they're for. -- They say "yes" regardless of whether they understand what they're endorsing. They say "yes" regardless of whether they've been told even the most basic facts about what they're being told to endorse. They say "yes" anytime doing so is politically less risky than saying "no," which is essentially always and is certainly the case here. They say "yes" whenever the political establishment -- meaning establishment media outlets and the corporate class that funds them -- wants them to say "yes," which is the case here. And they say "yes" with particular speed and eagerness when told to do so by the Serious Trans-Partisan Republican Experts like Hank Paulson and Ben Bernake (or Mike McConnell and Robert Gates and, before them, Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell)."
Also posted at CommonDreams   ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/21  ---  check out the comments
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Welcome to the final stages of the coup...  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/welcome-to-the-final-stag_b_127990.html
Must Read - A quote....


"In 2000, the long fought for and long admired democracy of the United States of America began a slow and steady decline toward fascism - a Bush family tradition - with the installment of a president - a man the citizens overwhelmingly rejected (although the funny math told a still believed myth) - by a few corrupt judges on the US Supreme Court. That coup is now nearly complete and checkmate is all but unavoidable."
Also posted at CommonDreams   ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/21-0  ---  Check out the comments
& OpEdNews   ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Welcome-to-the-final-stage-by-Larisa-Alexandrovn-080920-541.html  ---  check out the comments
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U.S. orgy of debt - Americans borrowed to hilt, then housing bubble burst
  ---  http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/eric_margolis/2008/09/21/6829246-sun.html
Must Read - A quote...." America has reveled for two decades in an orgy of debt. The U.S. national debt is now twice its net worth. From Wall Street's "masters of the universe" financial powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Lehman, and Morgan Stanley, to the humblest homeowners, America's national motto became "borrow to the hilt and bet." -- The traditional regulated banking system was pushed aside by Wall Street's financial titans who created their own money in the form of complex securities and furiously traded these exotic instruments and borrowed recklessly against them with little government regulation or oversight. -- As Kevin Phillips points out in his prophetic book, "Bad Money", [GoGl list]   ---  http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&num=10&safe=
images&q=book+price+%22Bad+Money%22&cid=4368693944296654573#ps-sellers  ---  America's primary business became non-productive finance. Manufacturing fell to only 12% of GDP. Wall Street titans grew obscenely rich by simply passing around paper. Inflated or semi-worthless securities increased in bogus value at each stage of the trading process." - bold by website editor
Also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/21-4
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The Big Bush 'Bail Out' Blackmail  ---  http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/09/big-bush-bail-out-blackmail.html
A quote...."Stopping just short of blood shed, the Bush crime family have done Machiavelli proud in the exercise of sheer evil to seize brute power to manufacture a crisis. The GOP will not address the crisis of their creation --they will exploit it and discard the last vestiges of our Democracy in the process."
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They are Nothing but Thieves!  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/they-are-nothing-but-thieves/#more-1805
A quote...."Secretary Henry Paulson has been making the rounds today defending his little $700 billion dollar car-jacking proposal to the Sunday talking heads. He is nothing more than a common thief. He’s push right now is that we have to do this “fast and clean” (before the American people can read past the MSM pep-rally for this and they find out what is really going on)."
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A Time Bereft of Heroes  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/09/time-bereft-of-heroes.html
Must Read - A quote...."An unusually revealing spectacle is now playing out before us, and an historically rare opportunity. A presidential election campaign occurs just as a major economic crisis unfolds. This is the moment when women and men of great courage make themselves known, particularly if they propose actions that are contrary to those that already appear to have gained wide acceptance. Whether such heroes appear tells us a great deal about the tenor of an age." -- And....
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Different Methods of Analysis: Public versus Private Agendas and Goals - http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/09/different-methods-of-analysis-public.html
A quote...."I now emphasize this phrase from my earlier entry: "insofar as their publicly proclaimed aims are concerned..." I recently wrote in some detail about two different methods of analysis: see, "Death Match (III): Follow the Money."  --- 
 http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/08/death-match-iii-follow-money-and-follow.html  ---  The critical difference is that between what government officials and other members of the ruling class say publicly (and whether and to what extent they may believe what they say publicly), and what may be profoundly different purposes and concerns that motivate them privately." -- And....
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Only One Winner, and Only One Loser  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/09/only-one-winner-and-only-one-loser.html
A quote...."The economic unraveling continues to make several points indisputably clear. First, in the most significant sense, there is nothing anyone can do to stop the economic collapse. The illusory economic prosperity that had obtained in the United States had been based on non-existent wealth. Before the economy can begin to be rebuilt on a solid foundation, the fantasy wealth has to be wrung from the system." -- And finally....
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Now Don't Go Slashing Your Wrists or Nothing  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/09/now-dont-go-slashing-your-wrists-or.html
A quote...."So's that none of you go offing yourself or smashing your head into the wall for a few days, I say you just gotta laugh at The Sideshow of the Stupidest Idiots in the History of the Universes, otherwise known as "the government." I love this stuff. Honest, I do."
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German Politicians Wary of US Financial Rescue Plans  ---  http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3660839,00.html
A quote...."German politicians are skeptical about a $700 billion US bailout of markets and of calls to take similar measures as Chancellor Merkel criticized Washington for failing to implement stringent market controls."
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Goldman, Morgan to Become Bank Holding Companies -- http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/goldman-morgan-to-become-bank-holding-companies/
BREAKING NEWS -- Some quotes...."September 21, 2008, 9:35 pm -- In one of the most sweeping changes on Wall Street in decades, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the last two independent investment banks, will become bank holding companies, the Federal Reserve said Sunday night." -- "Now, Goldman and Morgan Stanley, which have been the subject of merger speculation in recent weeks, can become direct competitors to larger firms like Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America." --  "Being a bank holding company would also give the two access to the discount window of the Federal Reserve. While they have had access to Fed lending facilities in recent months, regulators had planned to take away discount window access in January." -- bold by website editor
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Traders have ways around short-sale ban: Journal
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/short-sale-ban-could-have-unintended/story.aspx?
  ---  guid=FA20E099-6147-472B-8560-AF0CAC581367&dist=SecMostRead
Technical Financial Note -- A quote...." Volumes in credit-default swaps, other derivatives trades and options are likely to rise in the wake of the short-sale restrictions, the Journal reported on Saturday. -- Derivatives like credit-default swaps aren't publicly traded, and their growth and their lack of transparency have raised concern, the Journal reported. - My oh my, they're now going to add even more to the $1.3 quadrillion derivatives market....the elites and their legislative lackeys just make it worse each time they try to paper over this crisis. - mpg
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Fury at $2.5bn Lehman bonus - Hah, hah, hah, haaaaah!  Ho, ho, ho, hee, hee.....it's SOOOOO FUNNY! - mpg
  ---  http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article4795072.ece
Special Note - A quote...."STAFF at Lehman’s New York office who helped to cause the world’s biggest corporate bankruptcy are to share in a $2.5 billion bonanza."  HEY Germany....you want your money back?? - mpg -- (see article below)
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The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 3 articles - Sunday - [ Day 45 ] =====  ==========

Georgia is agressor UN Assembly chief   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huDUkmqkCzg  ---  YuTb - 5 min 27 sec - Added:  September 19, 2008)
Must View Video - A quote...."The President of the 63rd session of UN General Assembly, Miguel dEscoto Brockmann, says Russias actions against Georgia after an attack on South Ossetia were a justified response."
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US may assault Iran via Georgia   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws39iJS6rgA  ---  (YouTube - 1 min 21 sec - Added:  September 18, 2008)
Special Note - War Alert - A quote...."The U.S. military could have plans to use Georgian air bases to launch air strikes against Iran, according to Russias envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin. He pointed out that Georgia would be the perfect base for a potential U.S. operation in Iran.
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Yanukovich: Georgia's action against South Ossetia is criminal  ---  http://www.regnum.ru/english/1051188.html
A quote...."“To us, it is absolutely obvious that Russia was not inotiator of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict,” head of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich stated Sep 5 at a press conference in Kiev, REGNUM correspondent reported."
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End - The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 3 articles - Sunday - [ Day 45 ] =====  ==========

What Was Mysterious Activity Going on in the Marriott Hotel Islamabad by United States Marines
  ---  http://www.daily.pk/politics/politicalnews/7422-what-was-mysterious-activity-going-on-in-the-marriott-hotel-islamabad-by-united-states-marines.html
Special Note - A quote...." 21 Sep 2008 After the Marriott Hotel blast, mysteriously fire was started at the fourth and fifth floors. It was said that this fire was the result of gas pipeline burst running through the hotel. The million dollar question is that was the gas pipeline not running through the other floors? Why the fire broke out from the fourth and fifth flours? That is the question which perhaps holds the key to the mystery as why the hotel was targeted yesterday, in which more than 60 people died including many foreigners.   --  Though it would never get confirmed, the fire on the fifth and fourth floor of the hotel broke out because those flours were housing mysterious steel boxes under the heavy guard of United States marines and no one including the Pakistani security forces and the security men of the hotel were allowed to go near with the them. These boxes were shifted inside the hotel when the Admiral Mike Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad.   --  It is said that one member of parliament, Mumtaz Alam who belongs to the PPP, the ruling party, eyewitnessed the whole scene when the white truck of US embassy came to the gate of Marriot Hotel and US marines themselves unloaded the steel boxes from the trucks and shifted them to the fourth and fifth floors without passing through them the scanners at the entrance of the hotels. When the truck was there, all the entrance and the exit passage way to the hotels were closed. This blast occurred at the Marriott, while that mysterious activity was going on." -- Paragraph quoted from CLG -- http://www.legitgov.org/
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Official: warning on terrorist attack in Islamabad received 3 days ago  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/21/content_10088209.htm
Special Note - A quote...."Interior Advisor: Preliminary investigations showed that RDX and TNT of high intensity were used for the attack, which is used by the army -- 600 kg of explosives used for attack 21 Sep 2008 Pakistan's interior ministry said on Sunday that the authorities had information three days ago that terrorists would carry out a attack in the capital Islamabad. "We had information that terrorist can strike near the parliament or any other place in Islamabad," Interior Advisor to the prime minister Rehman Malik told reporters at a news conference." - Paragraph quoted from CLG - http://www.legitgov.org/
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With secret and silent support from India, Pakistan warns NATO and US  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/175971
A quote...."India and Pakistan finally understand that they must keep the western powers out of the Indian subcontinent. The same western block of countries that instigated for the last fifty years to subdue India now face a new challenge. India and Pakistan will stand together to fight any foreign force trying to violate the nuclear South Asian sovereignty."
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US drones continue flights over Pak tribal areas despite warning  ---  http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20080920/874/twl-us-drones-continue-flights-over-pak.html
A quote...."Lahore, Sep 20 (ANI): American drones are continuing their flights over various areas of North and South Waziristan, spreading panic and fear among locals despite a warning from Pakistan not to do so. -- According to Express News, the spy planes were seen flying over Ghulam Khan, Hamzoni, Ditta Khel and Mir Ali areas of North Waziristan and Angoor Adda and Mateen areas of South Waziristan."
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New Pakistan PM to abolish dictatorial powers  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/New_Pakistan_PM_to_abolish_dictatorial_0920.html
Now wouldn't it be really terrific if whoever's "selected" as our new "president" would do the same? - mpg -- A quote...."ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan's new President Asif Ali Zardari Saturday told parliament to abolish his wide-ranging powers and warned "we will not tolerate" sovereignty violations after a series of cross-border strikes." -- For more on this issue see....Thirty Five Acts to Restore Americans' Rights 11-10-06 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/seventeenacts-blog-mpg-111006
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Bloodbath and the U.S. Presidential Campaign  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m47402&s1=h1
Must Read - A quote...."Growing elements of the US people see this war as an evil thing because this war grew out of an unscrupulous and imperialist greed for oil, camouflaged by a bunch of filthy lies from the US regime about Iraq's WMDs and Iraqi's complicity in 9/11 and these elements of the US people see this war as evil because the US regime prosecutes this war with genocide." -- For more on this issue see....Fake Intel / Propaganda - Iraq Deaths
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IRAQDEATHS
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How to Stay in Iraq for 1,000 Years  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m47406&s1=h1
A quote...."Is there a way for U.S. negotiators to finagle permanent bases without permission from Congress? Yep. It's called a SOFA."
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Iraq: No country willing to take MKO  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70177&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Iraq's ambassador to Iran says so far no country in the world has agreed to shelter the dissident members of the US-backed MKO terrorist group."
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Iranian president vows to outline nuclear activities in UN meeting  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/21/content_10088511.htm
A quote...."TEHRAN, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that he would outline Iran's nuclear activities in the UN General Assembly meeting during his visit to New York, the official IRNA news agency reported. -- Ahmadinejad made the remark prior to his departure for New York on Sunday."
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Crisis Deepens in Horn of Africa  ---  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0809/S00447.htm
A quote...."The Horn of Africa is facing a humanitarian crisis, with as many as 17 million people, including 3 million children, in urgent need of food and other critical assistance over the coming month, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes told the press in New York."
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Water shortage cripples Palestinian farming  ---  http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=115803
A quote...."Israel and the occupied West Bank have both been hit hard by drought, but Palestinian farmers say Israeli restrictions on their water supplies have made conditions far worse for them than for farmers in nearby Jewish settlements. ‘People and land are thirsty and we can do little about it,’ Palestinian Water Authority Chief says."
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Colombian trade unions fight on  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/09/2008919201016521775.html
A quote...."For Luis Mayusa Prada, death was unceremonious. - While walking to his clothes shop at 8 am on August 8 this year in the heavily militarised Colombian town of Saravena, two men shot him 17 times. - As the men fled on a motorcycle, they left behind a widow and five fatherless children. - Prada became the third member of his family to be assassinated. - Yet the murder of this 43-year-old was not an act of retribution over a business disagreement or over a family dispute. Prada was killed – by men believed to be a right-wing paramilitary – for being a trade union leader."
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Venezuela to buy Chinese combat planes  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70179&sectionid=351020704
A quote...."Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says Caracas is planning to buy combat and training aircrafts from Beijing while boosting the energy ties."
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Labour conference: Gordon Brown given nine months to save his job by Cabinet loyalists
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3042972/Labour-conference-
  ---  Gordon-Brown-given-nine-months-to-save-his-job-by-Cabinet-loyalists.html
A quote...."Gordon Brown has been given until next June by senior Cabinet ministers to prove himself capable of saving Labour from a general election meltdown or face being unseated."
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Slovenia's opposition wins elections  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70174&sectionid=351020606
A quote...."Slovenia's opposition has defeated the ruling center-right conservative party of Prime Minister Janez Jansa in the parliamentary elections."
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European Social Forum: It's All About NATO  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/36158
A quote...."The mood is very serious here. Sweden, Denmark and Norway are all facing cutbacks in social programs though they are still far ahead of where the U.S. is today. But conservative governments are slicing away at the social fabric bit by bit and moving more in the direction of militarization like so many other countries around the world. -- I'd say the biggest theme I heard coming out of the social forum in Malmo was NATO. Activists throughout Europe are very worried and angry about NATO expansion and are saying that NATO is militarizing international relations and is subordinating European interests to those of the U.S."
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Chinese astronauts for Shenzhou-7 mission arrive at launch center  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/22/content_10088601.htm
A quote...."JIUQUAN, Gansu, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- A panel of six Chinese astronauts arrived at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province on Sunday, making the last-minute preparations for the country's third manned space mission."

Saturday September 20th 2008 - links page

Two ghastly possibilities: Obama/Biden are being drugged or bought off by pug elites.Their passivity is now treasonous.
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Two-ghastly-possibilities-by-W-Christopher-Epl-080920-700.html
A quote...."Really, my fellow Americans, what do we do?  Nobody likes to kick someone else's a__, but Obama, more than anyone else alive, is MURDERING AMERICA. --  His passivity is so (what?) "neurological", that we now know with absolute certainty he WILL NEVER STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR AMERICA. --  Hell, he wouldn't stand up and fight about being overcharged for pair of socks, much less the criminal lies Alzheimer's-McCain and airhead-Palin are continuously puking into his face. -- For more on this issue see....You Have a Choice - Democracy or Empire - 07-24-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/youhaveachoice-democracyorempire-blog-mpg-072408
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Thousands in France, Germany, protest Afghan deployment  ---  http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/377376/1/.html
A quote...."BERLIN - Thousands of people in France and Germany took to the streets on Saturday calling for soldiers deployed in Afghanistan to be brought home, police and march organisers said."
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Thousands join anti-war protest  ---  http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23557968-details/Thousands+join+anti-war+protest/article.do
A quote...."Thousands of anti-war demonstrators staged a noisy protest outside the Labour Party conference on Saturday calling on Gordon Brown to end the "catastrophic" conflict in Iraq and withdraw British troops."
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A Modernized Taliban Thrives in Afghanistan  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903980.html?hpid=topnews
A quote...."KABUL, Sept. 19 -- Just one year ago, the Taliban insurgency was a furtive, loosely organized guerrilla force that carried out hit-and-run ambushes, burned empty schools, left warning letters at night and concentrated attacks in the southern rural regions of its ethnic and religious heartland."
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Robert Fisk's World: Why does the US think it can win in Afghanistan?
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisks-world-why-does-the-us-think-it-can-win-in-afghanistan-936185.html
Must Read - A quote...."Poor old Algerians. They are being served the same old pap from their cruel government. In 1997, the Pouvoir announced a "final victory" over their vicious Islamist enemies. On at least three occasions, I reported – not, of course, without appropriate cynicism – that the Algerian authorities believed their enemies were finally beaten because the "terrorists" were so desperate that they were beheading every man, woman and child in the villages they captured in the mountains around Algiers and Oran." -- Also posted at CommonDreams   ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/20-6
& ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20818.htm
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Millions of Afghans face food shortage Friday, September 19, 2008 11:07 AM  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10278
A quote...."A poor harvest, the harshest winter in memory and widespread drought could mean a severe winter food shortage for millions of Afghans, aid officials say. - The grim forecasts generally cover small farmers in central and northern Afghanistan, affecting 9 million people, more than a quarter of the population, The New York Times reported Friday."
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Pakistani president tells foreign troops to keep out  ---  http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/20/pakistan.sovereignty/index.html
A quote...." ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan will not allow foreign powers to violate the country's sovereignty to pursue terrorists, the country's new president, Asif Ali Zardari, said Saturday. Demonstrators burn an effigy representing President Bush in Multan, Pakistan, on Friday. -- "We will not tolerate the violation of our sovereignty and territorial integrity by any power in the name of combating terrorism," he said in his first speech to Parliament since taking the presidential oath this month."
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Suicide bomb guts Pakistan Marriott hotel; 42 dead  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080921/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_explosion
Special Note - A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A suicide bomber detonated a dump truck packed with a ton of explosives outside the Marriott in Pakistan's capital Saturday, setting off a fiery blast that shattered the luxury hotel, killed at least 42 people and wounded hundreds, officials and witnesses said."
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40 Killed in Massive Bombing of Marriott in Islamabad  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2008/09/40-killed-in-massive-bombing-of.html
A quote...."Guerrillas in Pakistan set off an enormous bomb blast at the Marriott in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad Saturday morning EDT. It left a 30 foot crater and set off a conflagration that was still burning brightly hours after the bombing."
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FACTBOX-Questions about blast at Pakistan's Marriott hotel  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=364725
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Sept 20 (Reuters) - A suicide truck bomb exploded outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday, killing at least 40 people in the deadliest attack to hit the Pakistani capital since Pakistan joined the U.S.-led war on terrorism in 2001."
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Vice President Dick Cheney's Incredible and Deadly Lie:  ---  http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20080919.html
A quote...."Last year, Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman and Jo Baker, now of the New York Times, did an extensive series for the Post on Cheney. Now, Gellman has done some more digging, and published the result in a book he released this week: "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency". [GoGl-srch] The book reveals a lie told to a high-ranking fellow Republican, and the difference that lie made. In this column, I'll explain how Cheney defied the separation of powers, and go back to the founding history to show why actions like his matter so profoundly."
Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20814.htm
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Scott Horton Interviews Dahr Jamail  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/09/17/dahr-jamail-8/
Must Listen - Audio Interview - A quote...."Dahr Jamail, reporter for IPS News, discusses the Winter Soldier testimonies, the critical dehumanization process in waging war, the intentional tactics the military uses to foment these views, the complete black-out of the Winter Soldier testimonies by the U.S. corporate media, “drop-weapons” used by soldiers to frame dead civilians as enemies in Iraq, lies told by recruiters to brainwash young soldiers, the lie of the success of the “surge” in a much more fragmented political situation in Iraq and the horrific situations soldiers deal with everyday in Iraq."
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Powers Can’t Agree on New Sanctions Against Iran  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2008/09/19/powers-cant-agree-on-new-sanctions-against-iran/
A quote...."Though the State Department said of today’s Washington DC meeting between six of the world’s major powers that they were all committed to “exploring possible further measures” to punish Iran in the wake of this week’s IAEA report, they have been, as expected, unable to agree on the content or timing of a future UN Security Council resolution."
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Russia rejects new measures against Iran  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080920/wl_afp/irannuclearpoliticsrussiaun
A quote...."MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia said Saturday it had rejected US proposals for new UN Security Council measures against Iran over its suspect nuclear programme amid deteriorating ties between Moscow and Washington."
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[Ron] Paul: ‘I could never support somebody who thinks that it’s funny to say bomb bomb bomb Iran.’
  ---  http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/18/paul-mccain-bomb-iran/
Video - A quote...."On MSNBC today, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) explained to host Norah O’Donnell that he refused former Sen. Phil Gramm’s entreaties for him to endorse Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) because he disagrees with him “on all the major issues,” especially foreign policy. “I mean I could never support somebody who thinks that it’s funny to say ‘bomb bomb bomb Iran,’” said Paul. “That, to me, is not somebody that I could endorse ever.” Watch it:" -- For more on this issue see....You Have a Choice - Democracy or Empire - 07-24-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/youhaveachoice-democracyorempire-blog-mpg-072408
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Bush Admin's North Korea Nuclear Weapons Deal Falling Apart  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/20/bush-admins-north-korea-n_n_127920.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON — Distracted by an economic crisis at home and a series of diplomatic setbacks abroad, President Bush and his top aides are watching the collapse of a painstakingly negotiated process that just months ago seemed on track to produce a major international success and perhaps bring a final end to the Korean War before they leave office."
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Israeli premier Olmert resigns  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70108&sectionid=351020202
BREAKING NEWS - A quote...."Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:59:10 GMT  -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced his resignation at a cabinet meeting after Tzipi Livni won Kadima election last week."
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Threat to democracy in Latin America  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/20/bolivia
Special Note - A quote...."On September 10 President Evo Morales of Bolivia declared the US ambassador persona non grata. On September 11 (the 35th anniversary of the military overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile) the president of Venezuela asked the US ambassador there to leave the country. President Hugo Chávez believed he was facing the possibility of an imminent coup d'etat in which he said the US administration were involved. President Morales believed that his government was facing serious destabilisation which was also being fomented by the US. A third country, Paraguay, announced 10 days previously that it had detected a conspiracy involving military officers and opposition politicians." - Also posted at ICH - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20820.htm
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The Destabilization of Bolivia and the "Kosovo Option"  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10284
Must Read - A quote...."The secession of Bolivia's Eastern provinces is part of a US sponsored covert operation, coordinated out of the US State Department, in liaison with US intelligence. -- The death squads armed with automatic weapons responsible for killing supporters of Evo Morales in El Porvenir are supported covertly by the US. According to one report, "USAID has an "Office of Transition Initiatives" operating in Bolivia, funneling millions of dollars of training and support to right-wing opposition regional governments and movements."(The Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2008). The US also provides support through to various opposition groups through the National Endowment for Democracy."
Also posted at Urknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m47392&s1=h1
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Britain's Labour Party convenes amid pressure on Brown to quit  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/21/content_10085385.htm
A quote...."With the inflation rate standing at 4.4 percent, which has long overshot the 2.0-percent target set by the government, and thousands of jobs to be lost from the City of London financial district in the wake of the global credit crunch, the British economy is running into a recession "that could be the worst in 60years," according to Alistair Darling, chancellor of Exchequer. -- What is more, housing prices have witnessed the sharpest drop since records started in 1983, falling by 12 percent in the last 12 months. The pound sterling, which had been firm in the past years, is also beginning to falter against the U.S. dollar. -- Brown's lack of clarity in his policies has led to a steady decline in voter support -- Labour now lags behind the main opposition Conservatives by about 20 percentage points in opinion polls."
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[The EU] - Empire of Nothing  ---  http://www.takimag.com/site/article/empire_of_nothing/
Must Read - A quote...."The European elite pushing for a consolidated European Union hit a huge speed bump in June, when Irish voters rejected the Lisbon Treaty, which created a more unified continental government. In August the vision of an effective, united Europe ran into another barrier, the Russian defeat of Georgia. At no time in recent history has the dream of Europe as EUROPE looked so distant." -- Personally this website editor thinks the EU, minus some large amounts of bureaucratic-autocratic-undemocratic tendencies, has done a good job for Europe.  Besides their current stupidity in Afghanistan, and their past stupidity in Kosovo, they've managed to stay out of most of the US’s [N.R.E.’s] inspired wars of conquest while providing a large, value enhancing and efficient common market for its citizens.  God forbid they should EVER become an Empire. - mpg
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EU losing ground to Russia, China at UN: report
  ---  http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2008/September/international_September1913.xml&section=international
A quote...."BRUSSELS - The European Union is losing ground on human rights issues at the United Nations to China and Russia, which oppose any interference in countries' internal affairs, a study says. -- The report, published ahead of this week's U.N. General Assembly session of world leaders, urges the 27-nation EU to use its trade and aid agreements with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations to rebuild influence. -- "The European Union is suffering a slow-motion crisis at the United Nations," write Richard Gowan and Franziska Brantner of the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank." -- This is what happens when you lecture people about "human rights" while at the same time you ally yourself with the New Roman Empire as it runs rampant across the globe invading countries and slaughtering millions of people all in an effort to seize their natural resources.  It makes you look REALLY bad.  It’s what some “reality based” people would call hypocritical behavior. - mpg
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Fillon: EU, Russia to resume talks on partnership treaty in October  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/21/content_10085384.htm
A quote...."MOSCOW, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Saturday that talks on a new partnership agreement between the European Union and Russia will resume in October, Russian news agencies reported."
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The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 4 articles - Saturday - [ Day 44 ] =====  ==========

German journalists chronicle South Ossetian war  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/ossetianwar/news/30721
Must Read - A quote...."September 20, 2008, 15:15 -- The respected German news weekly, Spiegel, has released the results of its own investigation into the war in South Ossetia. It asked the question: who’s to blame? And then asked its journalists in both Georgia and Russia to find the answer. The results may surprise some people." -- Hey look, here's something the New York Times could try to emulate, a "mass-media" publication actually doing its job.  Of course it's not an American publication - naturally - but this website editor still has some faint hope that the Times could someday achieve these same heights of honest, journalistic integrity, even if their efforts would directly conflict with the wishes of our illustrious wealthy elites.....or even possibly AIPAC.  Well, perhaps that latter bit is to much to hope for. - mpg
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Abkhazia, S.Ossetia to decide on Russian troops presence -Putin  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080920/116991075.html
A quote...."17:49 | 20/ 09/ 2008SOCHI, September 20 (RIA Novosti) - Abkhazia and South Ossetia will decide on Russian troops' further deployment on their territories, Russia's prime minister said on Saturday."
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Baltic Fleet conducts sea and landing exercise in the Kaliningrad Region  ---  http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20080919/116949192.html
Image Gallery -- A quote...."19/09/08 -- At the Khmelevka training ground outside Kaliningrad, the Baltic Fleet is conducting a large-scale exercise involving as many as 20 combat ships with support aircraft and helicopters."
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A present for Saakashvili – tie collection campaign held in Latvia  ---  http://en.rian.ru/video/20080918/116931462.html
Video - A quote...."16:27 18/09/2008 -- The idea for the campaign came after the video of Mikheil Saakashvili chewing his tie appeared on the Internet during the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. (40 sec./1.53Mb, shows: 758)"
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End - The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 4 articles - Saturday - [ Day 44 ] ===  ==========

Army Alters Photographs, Issues Them To AP  ---  http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/army_alters_photographs_issues.php
A quote...."The Associated Press retracted two government-issued photographs last night after a photographer in Texas alerted the agency that the photos in question appeared to be doctored."
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Democracy or Police State? New Lawsuit Targets Bush, Cheney, NSA over Illegal Spying  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10280
A quote...."On September 16, Antifascist Calling reported on moves by the Department of Justice to seek blanket immunity for AT&T under provisions of the disgraceful FISA Amendments Act (FAA). -- If approved by Judge Vaughn Walker, the presiding magistrate hearing the landmark Hepting v. AT&T lawsuit in federal district court in San Francisco, the giant telecommunications corporation and Bush crime family partner would walk away scott free."
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Judge orders Cheney to preserve records  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/175939
You hear that faint buzzing sound folks?  That's the sound of shredders running around the clock. - mpg -- A quote...."A federal judge on Saturday ordered Dick Cheney to preserve a wide range of the records from his time as vice president. -- The decision by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is a setback for the Bush administration in its effort to promote a narrow definition of materials that must be safeguarded under by the Presidential Records Act."
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Grasping at Straws  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20828.htm
Must Read - Financial Warning - A quote...."21/09/08 "ICH" -- - On Friday morning, Senator Christopher Dodd, the head of the Senate Banking Committee, was interviewed on ABC's “Good Morning America.” Dodd revealed that just hours earlier at an emergency meeting convened by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, lawmakers were told that  "We’re literally maybe days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system.” Dodd added somberly, that in his three decades of serving in public office, he had "never heard language like this.”
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Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle  ---  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/greider
Must Read - A quote...."If Wall Street gets away with this, it will represent an historic swindle of the American public--all sugar for the villains, lasting pain and damage for the victims. My advice to Washington politicians: Stop, take a deep breath and examine what you are being told to do by so-called "responsible opinion." If this deal succeeds, I predict it will become a transforming event in American politics--exposing the deep deformities in our democracy and launching a tidal wave of righteous anger and popular rebellion. As I have been saying for several months, this crisis has the potential to bring down one or both political parties, take your choice." -- Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20823.htm
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The Wall Street Model: Unintelligent Design  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/martens09202008.html
Must Read - A quote...."The industry has been irreconcilably incentivized to corruption just as brokers have been socialized to silence.  The reason we are seeing a stampede this week into U.S. Treasury securities is that much of this money belonged there in the first place, not in esoteric mortgage backed securities, junk bonds, commodity funds or annuities backed by AIG.  Brokers put their clients “safe money” in these unsuitable investments because their Wall Street employer dangled a seductive financial inducement.  A broker receives less than $1,000 in gross commissions (“gross” meaning before their firm takes their 50 to 70 per cent cut) on $100,000 of longer dated Treasuries.  Putting that same $100,000 in a junk bond or mortgage-backed security or annuity could generate $3,000 or more.  In other words, the financial incentive has created an artificial demand.  And, as must inevitably happen, the true state of that demand is just now catching up with the true glut of supply." -- Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20826.htm
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Financial Bailout: America's Own Kleptocracy  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HUD20080920&articleId=10279
Must Read - A quote...."Nobody expected industrial capitalism to end up like this. Nobody even saw it evolving in this direction. I'm afraid this failing is not unusual among futurists: The natural tendency is to think about how economies can best grow and evolve, not how it can be untracked. But an unforeseen road always seems to appear, and there goes society goes off on a tangent." -- Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20822.htm
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Financial crisis: Default by the US government is no longer unthinkable  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/09/21/ccliam121.xml
Special Note - Financial Warning - A quote...." So, here we are - the start of a new world order. After the tumultuous events of the last fortnight, the global economic landscape will never look the same again.Power has tangibly shifted - away from the United States and the Western world generally, and towards the fast-growing giants of the East. That's been happening for some years now. "
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China holding the (US dollar) bag  - (YouTube - 6 min 42 sec - September 19, 2008)
---  http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2338
Video For a complet list of Minqi Li's videos click here - http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=188
 -- A quote...."Minqi Li: "If China wants to transform into an economic growth model sustained by domestic demand, then it needs to first of all undertake some major redistribution of income and wealth, and I'm not sure the Chinese capitalist class is wise enough or could think through enough to undertake that path."
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Heads Roll in German Lending Bank Scandal   ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,579229,00.html
& 'Certain Mistakes Just Can't Be Allowed to Happen'  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,578924,00.html
Special Note - WHAT is WRONG with the Europeans!?!?!?!  - mpg -- A quote...."German ministers have announced three suspensions in the wake of a scandal at KfW, the government bank that inexplicably sent hundreds of millions of euros to Lehman Brothers as it went bankrupt on Monday. -- Two managers and one division head of the German state lending bank KfW were suspended Thursday after an emergency meeting of the administrative board in Berlin, amid uproar over a suspicious €300 million ($426 million) transfer made by the bank to Lehman Brothers on Monday -- just as the New York financial institution collapsed. -- Are the Germans stupid or WHAT ?!?!  Even the Koreans, who are brand new to how the US truly "plays the game" weren't that stupid (see below)....almost half a billion dollars simply GONE ?!?!  Man oh man what a bunch of rubes. - mpg
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See also....Debt Doesn't Matter When the Rubes Pay 02-29-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/debtdoesntmatter-blog-mpg-022908
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The Devil’s in the Details  ---  http://watchingamerica.com/News/6609/the-devil%E2%80%99s-in-the-details/
A quote...."This crisis is far more complex than the S&L problem. It’s global, the financial institutions involved aren’t insolvent, and the instruments are multi-layered. Many loan defaults are expected, but haven’t yet materialized – keyword: forced auctions in the real estate sector which continue to increase. And this time there are no empirical values as there were back then. Last but not least, 2008 is an election year – something that may enormously delay the decision-making process."
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We Have DAYS To Stop the $700 Billion Stick-Up (and Fascist Power Grab)
  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/09/we-have-days-to-stop-700-billion.html
A quote...."Congress hopes to pass the $700 Billion bailout bill by Friday, according to an article in Bloomberg. - In case you haven't heard, the bill would not only stick up American taxpayers for an additional $700 billion, but would literally give Paulson and the government fascist powers. -- Don't believe me? -- Well, as the Bloomberg article notes: "The bill would bar courts from reviewing actions taken under its authority."
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Greenspan's Sins Return To Haunt Us  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=12028
A quote...."Back in 2002, when his reputation as “The Man Who Saved the World” was at its peak, Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, came to Britain to pick up his knighthood. His biggest fan, Gordon Brown, now the UK prime minister, had ensured that the citation said it was being awarded for promoting “economic stability”."
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Ron Paul Blasts “Secret Government” Running Economy  ---  http://www.infowars.com/?p=4619
A quote...."Congressman Ron Paul has issued a stinging address concerning the financial crisis in which he outlines how the current economic problems, created via malinvestment and shift to a debt based economy, are now being mismanaged by private interests in secret."
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Silicon Valley unemployment reaches 4-year high  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/21/content_10085657.htm
A quote...."LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- In another sign of a slowing economy, the unemployment rate in Silicon Valley inched upward for a fourth consecutive month in August to reach a four-year high, newly released data showed."
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Russia's GDP grows 7.7% in January-August  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080921/116999977.html
A quote...."SOCHI, September 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's gross domestic product grew 7.7% year on year in January-August 2008, the economics minister said."
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America Needs a Shadow Government - posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20793.htm

Must Read - Action Alert - A quote...."17/09/08 "ICH" -- - I think I can speak for many Americans when I say that our government has been less than responsive as far as ending militarism and holding our civil liberties sacrosanct. In fact, less than responsive is being generous, as we have seen this nation totally scrap the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, station troops in bases world-wide in over 130 different nations, and wage aggressive war on three nations, become complicit with another nation to wage war (Georgia) and institute trade sanctions (another Act of War by International law) on Iran."
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Life And Death  - posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20794.htm
Must Read - A quote...."17/09/08 "ICH " - -- When it becomes obvious to the rest of the country that we are truly locked into a life or death struggle the people will rise-up from their easy chairs and demand answers. If we cannot make them aware of the obvious fateful track we are now on before then, then it will be too late for us all."
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U.S. Senate passes $612 bln defensee [endless war] spending bill  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=357284
A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a $612.5 billion defense spending bill for fiscal 2009, including $70 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan."
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Creative Destruction: The Solid Core Behind the Financial Crisis  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1606/135/
Must Read - A quote....."Fed’s $85 Billion Loan Rescues Insurer  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/business/17insure.html?ei=5070  ---  (NY Times)

"Do you get it now? The rich and powerful spend years making foolish deals in a market they rigged with the connivance of utterly corrupted politicians on both sides the aisle; their fraudulent scheme finally collapses, exposing them to some of the most horrific financial losses in history....and YOU will have to pay for it. For generations. Not only directly, with the tax money straight from your pocket, but even more so in the further degradation of national life: infrastructure, services, programs, amenities that will be starved or abandoned as even more of the government's money is poured out to shield the wastrel elite from suffering the consequences of their own rapacious folly."
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A Discussion About the Crisis on Wall Street   ---  http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/09/15/1/a-discussion-about-the-crisis-on-wall-street
Alt   ---  http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/09/15/1/a-discussion-about-the-crisis-on-wall-street  ---  (Google Vid - 56 min 1 sec - Sep 16, 2008)
Must View Video - Special Note - A discussion about the crisis on Wall Street with Lawrence Summers, Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times Charles Gasparino of CNBC, Josh Rosner of Graham Fisher & Co. and Nouriel Roubini. Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest US investment bank, has filed for bankruptcy protection, stock markets and the US dollar have tumbled in reaction to Lehman's collapse."
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The Financial Elite Can't Bailout Everyone  ---  http://www.funnymoneyreport.com/news.php?id=11981
A quote...."It is difficult to know where to begin when analyzing the unraveling global financial system as so much has happened over the past couple of weeks and months. The one thing that is for sure is that neither the Federal Reserve nor the U.S. government can bailout everyone. We are seeing a mass consolidation of wealth on a wide scale and this is all being done by design. What is happening now is the result of fiscal policies put into place by the Federal Reserve that encouraged reckless lending and borrowing on all levels."
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Fibber McCain and Mommy, “economic reformers?”  ---  http://desertbeacon.blogspot.com/2008/09/fibber-mccain-and-mommy-their-lobbyist.html
A quote...."Think Progress  ---  http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/15/barney-frank-mccain-reform/  ---  makes quick work of this whopper. And, speaking of names in the news – whose lobbyists are working for the McCain Campaign?"
From "McCain Source"  ---  http://mccainsource.com/mccain_fact_check?id=0007
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McCain Attacks Wall Street Greed—While 83 Wall Street Lobbyists Work for His Campaign  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/17-7
And for a much more extensive list -- A quote...."Of those 177 lobbyists, according to a Mother Jones review of Senate and House records, at least 83 have in recent years lobbied for the financial industry McCain now attacks. These are high-paid influence-peddlers who have been working the corridors of the nation's capital to win favors and special treatment for investment banks, securities firms, hedge funds, accounting outfits, and insurance companies. " -- Your government is bought and paid for folks, so just exactly WHY are you voting for these guys? - mpg
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Lehman Layoffs: Will They Include George Herbert Walker IV?  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/lehman-layoffs-will-they_n_127106.html
A quote...."Will George Herbert Walker IV be laid off? The President's second cousin is the global head of investment management for now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers, at the managing director level." -- Proves the old adage that "the family that steals together, stays together". - mpg
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What is Jeb Bush's role in the Lehman Brothers meltdown?  ---  http://www.atlargely.com/2008/09/what-is-jeb-bus.html
A quote...."Lehman Brothers was founded in 1850. The firm managed to get through the Civil War, WWI, and WWII, the Great Depression, and the attacks of September 11, 2001. Yet after hiring Jeb Bush in late August of 2007, the firm suddenly goes belly up in a year. It also should be noted that in 2006, George H. Walker IV was also hired by Lehman Brothers."
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Why the Poker Game is Ending  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/09/end-of-poker-game.html
A quote...."In his book "Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country", leading journalist William Greider said that the economy is like a poker game. He said that it is human nature to want to get all of the chips, but noted that - if one person does get all of the chips - the game ends. -- In other words, the game of capitalism only continues as long as everyone has some money to play with. If the government and corporations take everyone's money, the game ends."
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AIG Bankruptcy Would Be “Extinction” Event  ---  http://dissentmag.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/aig-bankruptcy-would-be-extinction-event/
Special Note - Financial Warning - A quote...."We’e survived the collapse of Lehman Brothers (LEH) and the sale of Merrill Lynch (MER), but money manager Michael Lewitt argues that AIG (AIG) is a different story. - In an op-ed for the Times, Lewitt argues that a liquidity crisis at AIG will hammer everyone on Wall Street by interrupting the $60 trillion market for credit default swaps, in which AIG is a central player."
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Three-month Libor marks biggest jump in nine years - TED spread widens to level not seen since Black Monday 1987
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/libor-jump-ted-spread-show/story.aspx?guid=%7B3632A7B4-4B54-4AF5-86C2-78EFA350E927%7D
Special Note - Financial Warning - A quote...."SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A closely watched measure of global borrowing costs made its biggest jump in nine years Wednesday and another lending risk gauge rose to a level not seen since Black Monday in October of 1987, as banks grew increasingly wary to lend to each other and sell-shocked investors sought refuge in safe-haven short-term Treasury bills." -- bold by ebsite editor.
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Rush to cancel AIG policies  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7621137.stm
Video - Special Note - A quote...."The Singapore office of insurance giant AIG has been besieged by people desperate to cancel their policies. - The rush follows an announcement by the US Federal Reserve that it is launching an $85bn (£48bn) rescue package to save AIG from bankruptcy."
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WaMu next to fall?  ---  http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Money/Story/STIStory_279791.html
Special Note - A quote...."NEW YORK - US OFFICIALS are fiercely putting out a series of economic fires with all eyes now focused on the fate of Washington Mutual after AIG became the latest company to be thrown a lifeline."
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August housing starts at 17-1/2-year low  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSN1225498420080917
Special Note - A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Construction starts on new U.S. homes plunged to a 17-1/2-year low during August as builders scaled back sharply to try to cope with the worst slump in U.S. housing since the Great Depression."
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US account deficit rises in the second quarter  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080917/ts_alt_afp/useconomytrade_080917194527
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US current account deficit widened to 183.1 billion dollars in the second quarter of 2008, from a downwardly revised 175.6 billion dollars in the first quarter, the Commerce Department said Wednesday."
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Gold prices post biggest 1-day gain ever  ---  http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h5JRwPgiiw1s1OQ2nMg0svKpPEZwD938MA280
A quote...."NEW YORK (AP) — Gold prices exploded Wednesday — posting the biggest one-day gain ever in dollar terms — as fears of more credit market turmoil unnerved investors and triggered a flood of safe-haven buying."
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Safe-haven buying drives U.S. gold higher  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=11972
A quote...."U.S. gold futures soared 7 percent on Wednesday as investors sought a safe haven in the gold market amid financial turmoil, triggering a sudden technical breakout, traders said. -- The most-active gold contract for December delivery was up $52.0, or 6.7 percent, at $832.50 an ounce at 10:49 a.m. EDT on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. The session high was $835.30 an ounce, which marked the loftiest level since Sept 2."

This is very unusual,  the world is headed into what looks like a planet wide depression (so much for de-coupling the other economies from America's [the N.R.E.'s] war time profligacy - if only those international bankers hadn't bought all that junk from the N.R.E.!) yet gold is going UP.  This is not a good sign and indicates a profound distrust in currencies and bonds, specifically the N.R.E.'s dollars and bonds. - mpg
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Banking crisis: Is Britain heading for the worst recession since the 1930s?
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/09/15/bcnrecession115.xml
A quote...."Just two weeks ago, the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, was being roundly condemned for exaggerating the size of Britain's economic crisis by saying it was the worst for 60 years. -- But with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, his doom-laden predictions are beginning to look optimistic, with many respected City figures openly comparing events with the Wall Street Crash of 1929."
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Markets plunge as global financial crisis hits Russia  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/business/news/30591
A quote...."Russia's stock exchanges suspended trading for the second day on Wednesday as a heavy sell-off sent the value of shares plummeting. The Finance Ministry has taken urgent steps to support the markets by offering liquidity to state-owned banks."
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Facing the Financial Fallout  ---  http://www.truthout.org/article/facing-financial-fallout
A quote...."

by: Bill Moyers Journal, t r u t h o u t | Programming Note
Airtime: Friday, September 19, 2008, at 9:00 PM (EDT) on PBS (check local listings here).

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The American War Moves to Pakistan  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174977/tariq_ali_has_the_u_s_invasion_of_pakistan_begun_
A quote...."The decision to make public a presidential order of last July authorizing American strikes inside Pakistan without seeking the approval of the Pakistani government ends a long debate within, and on the periphery of, the Bush administration. Senator Barack Obama, aware of this ongoing debate during his own long battle with Hillary Clinton, tried to outflank her by supporting a policy of U.S. strikes into Pakistan. Senator John McCain and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin have now echoed this view and so it has become, by consensus, official U.S. policy."
Also posted at ICH   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20784.htm
& CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/17-3
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Washington Is Risking War with Pakistan - posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20786.htm
A quote...."17/09/08 "Time" - -- - As Wall Street collapsed with a bang, almost no one noticed that we're on the brink of war with Pakistan. And, unfortunately, that's not too much of an exaggeration. On Tuesday, the Pakistan's military ordered its forces along the Afghan border to repulse all future American military incursions into Pakistan. The story has been subsequently downplayed, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Mike Mullen, flew to Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, to try to ease tensions. But the fact remains that American forces have and are violating Pakistani sovereignty"
Article from Time  ---  http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1841649,00.html?xid=rss-world
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US confronts Pakistan once again  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=69750&sectionid=351020401
A quote...."The US has taken its confrontation with Pakistan to a new level, reportedly firing missiles into the country despite warnings from Islamabad."
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US did not warn of missile strike :Pakistan
  ---  http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2008/September/international_September1636.xml&section=international
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -Pakistan said Thursday it was not warned about a suspected U.S. missile strike in its northwest that came amid American assurances that it respects the sovereignty of its anti-terror ally. - The suspected strike reportedly killed six people Wednesday in the South Waziristan region, a militant stronghold bordering Afghanistan."
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Former Official Calls for Iran-Pakistan Military Alliance  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8706271493
Special Note - A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- A former Pakistani official said Tehran and Islamabad are required to form a military alliance in a bid to thwart the plots hatched by the US against the two Muslim nations."
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Bush Agrees to War on Iran  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Bush-Agrees-to-War-on-Iran-by-Lord-Stirling-080916-220.html
War Alert - A quote...."The United States has agreed to sell to Israel 1,000 of the very advanced bunker buster GBU-39 bombs. This is a major development as the Bush Administration had denied previous recent Israeli requests for large numbers of this weapon system. The GBU-39 has a stand off range of 110 km and uses pop-out wings with extremely accurate fire and forget technology. It is capable of penetrating 90 cm of steel reinforced concrete."
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Maliki: US hesitant to respond to Iraq  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=69783&sectionid=351020201
A quote...."Iraqi Premier Nouri al-Maliki says Washington is hesitating about responding to Baghdad's demands over a controversial US security deal.
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Scottish Activist Films Israeli Navy Shooting at Gaza Fishermen  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/?p=688
Must View Video - A really nice bunch of guys, aren't they?  Imagine if you were treated this way every single day, it would be really hard to make a living, not to mention getting you really ticked off. - mpg
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Exit polls: Livni clear winner in Israeli primary  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_politics_18
A quote...."JERUSALEM - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni won a clear victory in the Kadima Party's primary election Wednesday, TV exit polls showed, placing her in a good position to become Israel's first female leader in 34 years and sending a message that peace talks with the Palestinians will proceed."
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Ukraine PM refuses to resign amid political crisis  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Ukraine_PM_refuses_to_resign_amid_p_09172008.html
Full quote...."Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday said she would not resign as required following the collapse of the country's ruling pro-Western coalition. -- Asked at a press conference whether she would resign as specified in a coalition pact, Tymoshenko said: "The coalition has not collapsed... We are not a flock of sheep who jump into the abyss just because one sheep has done so."
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The Paramilitary Massacre in Bolivia Reactionary Rampage  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/hylton09172008.html
A quote...."Bolivian President Evo Morales’ expulsion of US Ambassador Phillip Goldberg on September 10 for alleged coup plotting sparked the latest diplomatic crisis in the Americas. But the diplomatic fallout has overshadowed the internal dynamics that led to the massacre of some 30 campesinos with perhaps as many as 40 more disappeared in El Porvenir, Pando, near Bolivia’s northeastern border with Brazil. The massacre coincided with the 35th anniversary of the violent overthrow of socialist president Salvador Allende in Chile."
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The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 3 articles - Wednesday - [ Day 41 ] =====  ==========

Crimea Calls for Recognition of South Ossetia, Abkhazia as Enclaves Sign Russia Defense Deal
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2008/09/17/crimea-calls-for-recognition-of-south-ossetia-abkhazia-as-enclaves-sign-russia-defense-deal/
A quote...."Posted September 17, 2008 -- The Crimean Parliament voted today 79-8 to press the Ukrainian government to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. It seems highly unlikely that the Ukrainian government will act on the call given the collapse of its coalition government and the strongly anti-Russian sentiment of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko."
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Georgia violated UN charter – UN Assembly chief  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/30536
A quote...."September 17, 2008, 14:14 -- Georgia commited an act of aggression and violated the UN charter by invading South Ossetia, the incoming President of the UN General Assembly said at the opening of its 63rd session."
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Moscow vows to bring security to the Caucasus  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/30566
A quote...."September 17, 2008, 23:18 -- Russia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia have sealed a friendship agreement at a historic signing ceremony in the Kremlin. It follows Russia's recent decision to recognise the independence of the two Caucasus countries. President Medvedev told the leaders of the two states that Russia will not allow anymore aggression from neighbouring Georgia."

End - The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 3 articles - Wednesday - [ Day 41 ] == ==========

911Infowarrior Calls Alex Jones About Youtube Censorship S1959 & HR1955 - (YuTb - 6m55s - 09/16/08)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd4yWhby40M
Must View - Action Alert - Censorship Alert - A quote...."I called the Alex Jones show today after learning about S1959 and that even though it has not passed into law, youtube is banning patriot accounts saying they are terrorists. Learn more about this issue by watching Nufffrespect's video which you can find here."
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Germany: Stern.de exposes CIA link to 'Islamic' terror plot
  ---  http://www.rebelnews.org/politics/europe/germany:-stern.de-exposes-cia-link-to-%27islamic%27-terror-plot-20080916401/
Must Read - (for the outrage) -- MANNHEIM, Sep. 15 (911video.de)  ---  http://www.911video.de/news/140908/  ---  According to information from sources within the German authorities, a German contact person for the CIA was involved in the planning of what would have been the largest Islamic terror attacks on German soil. He supposedly helped transport 20 detonators." -- For more on this issue see....US Support of Terror
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
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Media Blackout as Ike Death Toll Rises  ---  http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/09/17/media-blackout-as-ike-death-toll-rises/
Special Note - A quote...."The official death toll for Hurricane Ike creeps upward, while photos reveal the catastrophic damage inflicted by the storm. So far 51 people are known to have died in the storm. Authorities have banned the press from many of the hardest hit areas, but they can't stop the steady stream of images appearing online showing the true extent of the damage."
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As ACLU Challenges FISA Law in Federal Court, Justice Department Moves to Immunize Spying Telecoms
  ---  http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2008/09/as-aclu-challenges-fisa-law-in-federal.html
A quote...."Last Friday the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) in Federal District Court in New York. But on the same day, Wired reported that Justice Department special counsel Anthony Coppolino informed U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco that the government would seek blanket immunity under FAA for spying telecoms."
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Statement of The Honorable Russ Feingold  ---  http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=3550&wit_id=4083
A quote...."

"Tomorrow, September 17, is the 221st anniversary of the day in 1787 when 39 members of the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in Philadelphia. It is a sad fact as we approach that anniversary that for the past seven and a half years, and especially since 9/11, the Bush Administration has treated the Constitution and the rule of law with a disrespect never before seen in the history of this country. By now, the public can be excused for being almost numb to new revelations of government wrongdoing and overreaching. The catalogue is breathtaking, even when immensely complicated and far reaching programs and events are reduced to simple catch phrases: torture, Guantanamo, ignoring the Geneva Conventions, warrantless wiretapping, data mining, destruction of emails, U.S. Attorney firings, stonewalling of congressional oversight, abuse of the state secrets doctrine and executive privilege, secret abrogation of executive orders, signing statements. This is a shameful legacy that will haunt our country for years to come." -- *Russ Feingold*, US Senator - Dem. representing the state of Wisconsin since 1993

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Key senators dispute FBI's anthrax case against Bruce Ivins  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/17/senate_judiciary/index.html
Must Read - A quote...."I'll have more to write about it when it is over, but the Senate Judiciary Committee today -- following the House Judiciary Committee yesterday -- is conducting an "oversight" hearing of the FBI at which FBI Director Robert Mueller is testifying. That hearing can be viewed here. -- Already, after 30 minutes or so, the two ranking members of the Committee have both told Mueller that, in essence, they do not accept or believe the FBI's accusations against Bruce Ivins. The Democratic Chairman of the Committee, Pat Leahy (who was a target of the anthrax attacks) told Mueller categorically that he simply does not believe that Ivins was the prime culprit if he was a participant at all, and said he is absolutely convinced that there were others involved in the preparation and mailing of the anthrax."
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The 911 movement is alive, well and kicking in New York and beyond!  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3759.shtml
A quote...."On Thursday, 9/11/08, WeAreChange.org and the ncy911 Ballot Initiative group joined forces at Ground Zero. Read all about them at the above links. I joined them about 11:30 a.m. for the march and speeches that would begin around noon. The young WeAreChange leader Luke Rudkowski (a force unto himself) and the indefatigable Ballot Initiative leader Les Jamieson were there to kick off events."
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The 9/11 Interview with Michael Hess: Evidence that NIST Lied about When He and Barry Jennings Were Rescued
  ---  http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20080918031403456
A quote...."Shortly after the first strike on the World Trade Center, which occurred at 8:46 AM on 9/11, Michael Hess, New York City's corporation counsel, and Barry Jennings, the deputy director of the Emergency Services Department of the New York City Housing Authority, headed to the Office of Emergency Management's Emergency Operating Center, which was on the 23rd floor of WTC 7, where they assumed that Mayor Rudy Giuliani would be. But when Hess and Jennings arrived, the place was empty."
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Former top DOJ officials emerge in Abramoff case  ---  http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i-qkrK9za4BZ6guqk2RQa6PAUYkgD938KU3O0
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former top Justice Department officials emerged Wednesday as figures in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal as prosecutors disclosed plans to turn over some of their correspondence to defense attorneys preparing for trial in the case."
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Psychologists Leave the Coalition of the Willing -- FINALLY! - mpg  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/36068
A quote...."Today, the membership of the American Psychological Association (APA) passed a referendum banning participation of APA member psychologists in U.S. detention facilities, such as Guantanamo or the CIA's secret "black sites" operating outside of or in violation of international law or the Constitution."