Wednesday September 23rd 2009 - links page

Change Bernanke's drugs? Secret White House G-20 notes  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15346
Must Read - A quote...."I still get a thrill whenever I get my hands on a confidential memo with "The White House, Washington" appearing on the letterhead. Even when—like the one I'm looking at now—it's about a snoozy topic: This week's G-20 summit. -- But the letter's content shook me awake, and may keep me up the rest of the night." -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23564.htm
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

US Govt May Fail In 5 To 10 Years  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23560.htm
Must View Video - A quote...."Interview with Marc Faber - By Bloomberg News 09/22/09 - Posted Sept 23, 2009"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Paul Volcker Blasts The Goldman Business Model, Moral Hazard, And Calls For A Return Of Glass-Steagall
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/paul-volcker-blasts-goldman-business-model-moral-hazard-and-calls-return-glass-steagall
A quote...."Tomorrow at 9 am, former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker will testify before the House Committee on Financial Services, discussing topics on Systemic Risk and Resolution Issues. Since a former Fed Chairman will effectively be discussing the actions undertaken by the current one, this promises to be a most interesting testimony. We present some key points from Volcker's prepared remarks below: at first blush it would appear that the former Chairman is distancing himself substantially from the activities of the current one, and among other things, is proposing serious curbs on Moral Hazard, on the lack of Fed's accountability, highlights the need for a return to a Glass-Steagall system, and blasts the prop trading/hedge fund business model, whereby in discussing what he believes should be prohibited activities by systemically important firms, he highlights "ownership or sponsorship of hedge funds and private equity funds [as] should in my view a heavy volume of proprietary trading with its inherent risks." If that is not a direct stab at Goldman Sachs, nothing is."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

William K. Black's Proposal for “Systemically Dangerous Institutions” --- http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/william-k-black-banks-posing-systemic.html
A quote...."The Obama administration is continuing the Bush administration policy of refusing to comply with the Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) law. Both administrations twisted a deeply flawed doctrine – “too big to fail” – into a policy enshrining crony capitalism. -- Historically, “too big to fail” was a misnomer – large, insolvent banks and S&Ls were placed in receivership and their “risk capital” (shareholders and subordinated debtholders) received nothing. That treatment is fair, minimizes the costs to the taxpayers, and minimizes “moral hazard.”   ---  “Too big to fail” meant only that they were not placed in liquidating receiverships (akin to a Chapter 7 “liquidating” bankruptcy). In this crisis, however, regulators have twisted the term into immunity. Massive insolvent banks are not placed in receivership, their senior managers are left in place, and the taxpayers secretly subsidize their risk capital. This policy is indefensible. It is also unlawful. It violates the Prompt Corrective Action law. If it is continued it will cause future crises and recurrent scandals." -- *William K. Black*, Associate Professor of Economics and Law University of Missouri – Kansas City -- September 10, 2009
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

U.S. Taxpayers May Owe As Much As $23.7 Trillion for “Stimulus” and Bailouts  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-5677-0-13-13--.html
A quote...."U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program. -- The Treasury’s $700 billion bank-investment program represents a fraction of all federal support to resuscitate the U.S. financial system, including $6.8 trillion in aid offered by the Federal Reserve, Barofsky said in a report released today."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Inflation, Money Supply, GDP, Unemployment and the Dollar - Alternate Data Series  ---  http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data
Multiple Charts - A quote...."Note: The CPI chart on the home page reflects our estimate of inflation for today as if it were calculated the same way it was in 1990. The CPI on the Alternate Data Series tab here, reflects the CPI as if it were calculated using the methodologies in place in 1980. Further background on the Alternate CPI and Ongoing M3 series is available in the Archives in the August 2006 SGS newsletter."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Yield Curves, FX and LIBOR Trends  ---  http://seekingalpha.com/article/163093-yield-curves-fx-and-libor-trends
Charts - A quote...."Emerging talk on whether the US dollar has become the new low-yielding vehicle for carry trades financing equities, commodities and currencies vehicle highlights the difference between the USD and JPY carry trades. The latter was driven by structurally low Japanese rates (sub 1.0% since for past 10 years), which were a reflection of Japan's anti-deflation policy, its current account surplus and the resulting proclivity to save. -- But with the US budget deficit outpacing the level of twice the total of the twin deficits (trade and budget) prevailing in 2004 (now at nearly 10% of GDP), there emerges the risk of renewed steepening in the US yield curve (widening spread between long and short term rates) as short term rates are dragged down by falling US LIBOR rates and long term yields chase escalating gov't debt (which remains on the rise despite slowing private sector and household debt)."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Over $7 Billion In Domestic Equity Mutual Fund Outflows In September. $2 Billion In Outflows Last Week
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/over-7-billion-domestic-equity-mutual-fund-outflows-september-2-billion-outflows-last-week
A quote...."ICI has released its most recent fund flow data, and while overall flows have been positive, this has been exclusively due to a ramp up in taxable and municipal fund inflows. In equities, there has not been one positive inflow since August 12. Last week saw a $2 billion outflow from domestic equity mutual funds, bringing the total for the last month to $7.1 billion. Attached are equity flows superimposed over the performance of the SPY."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Moody's Credit Card Index Hit Record 11.49% Record Charge-Off Rate In August
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/moodys-credit-card-index-hit-record-1149-record-charge-rate-august
A quote...."Ever wonder why iPhone sales are through the roof? It might have to do with this. Consumers are once again using their credit cards, however taking a cue from the Chairman's promotion of moral hazard to a state-sponsored nationwide doctrine, they have decided simply not to pay their bills. Moody's Credit Card Index confirms this, after hitting an a new record Charge-off Rate in August of 11.49%, a 68.5% increase year over year."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Beginning of the End of Meaningful Regulatory Reform  ---  http://seekingalpha.com/article/163081-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-meaningful-regulatory-reform
A quote...."The erosion of the Obama administration’s regulatory-reform plans has now begun in earnest:"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The U.S. - China Skirmish - The First Shots of the Trade War  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/cooke09232009.html
A quote...."With the G-20 summit approaching, cheerful talk of “international cooperation” fills the White House press-room. These comments carry with them the implication that “free trade” is integral to “cooperation,” a fact made explicit in the last meeting of the G-20. There, in the name of “united action,” world leaders agreed not to install any new protectionist measures. Since then, protectionist measures have flourished. Instead of global cooperation we have its opposite: international tensions are on the rise as trade disputes sharpen."
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

2,500 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen Deployed for G-20 Security  ---  http://cryptogon.com/?p=11200
Military State Alert - A quote...."More than 2,500 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen – including several from Lebanon County – are in Pittsburgh for the G-20 summit, set to take place Thursday and Friday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

National Guard Attack Helicopters Being Deployed To G-20
  ---  http://readme.readmedia.com/news/show/Governor-Announces-New-York-National-Guard-Support-for-G20-Meeting/956778
Military State Alert - A quote...."Four UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, and a CH-47D Chinook heavy lift helicopter, are providing transportation support for 2,500 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen and women, as well as police and other security forces as leaders of the worlds 20 largest economies meet Thursday and Friday." -- also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-5675-0-22-22--.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

A Brief Explanation  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1844-a-brief-explanation.html
A quote...."A few years ago, I won an award for a piece I'd written for The Moscow Times  (and CounterPunch.) By hook, crook and the kindness of others, I flew out to San Francisco, then caught the last night ferry to San Rafael, where the ceremony was being held the next day. I was one of several people being noted by Project Censored for their "Top 25 Censored Stories" volume of that year."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

American Network News / The Flashing of Fiction
  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/09/23/american-network-news-the-flashing-of-fi
Great Cartoon - A quote...."It was Gore Vidal who wrote ~ "The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent." Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions..."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The 9/11 Commission Rejects own Report as Based on Government Lies  ---  http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september112009/911_truth_9-11-09.php
Special Note - Book Review - A quote...."(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - In John Farmer’s book: “The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America’s Defense on 9/11″, the author builds the inescapably convincing case that the official version... is almost entirely untrue...  The 9/11 Commission now tells us that the official version of 9/11 was based on false testimony and documents and is almost entirely untrue. The details of this massive cover-up are carefully outlined in a book by John Farmer, who was the Senior Counsel for the 9/11 Commission." -- See also "The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11"   ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=1FhhPgAACAAJ&dq  ---  [GoglBkSrch]
  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=1FhhPgAACAAJ&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Irving Kristol, RIP  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/09/20/irving-kristol-rip/
Special Note - A quote...."Neoconservatism, the successful promotion of which Kristol devoted a good part of his life to, is biography at least as much as ideology. It is the story of the so-called New York intellectuals, who spent their misbegotten youth as Trotskyists, penning furious polemics against U.S. imperialism, but mostly against each other – and some of whom, including the ex-Trotskyist Kristol, wound up in the pay of the CIA, writing for Encounter and its French and Italian equivalents. (For a fascinating account of the neocon-CIA convergence, see Christopher Lasch’s essay on the Congress of Cultural Freedom, a CIA front that nurtured Kristol in the early days of the Cold War.) "
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

'The Obama Administration Has Completely Failed'  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,650324,00.html
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."Human rights lawyer Tina Foster talks to SPIEGEL about detainee abuses in the US military prison in Bagram, Afghanistan and her disappointment with the Obama administration."
also posted at OhBummer  ---  http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-administration-has-completely.html
& Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58227&hd=&size=1&l=e
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Obama Administration Seeks Renewal of Three Key Parts of PATRIOT Act
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/22/obama_administration_seeks_renewal_of_three
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."The administration has asked lawmakers to extend powers allowing the government to collect a wide range of financial and personal records, as well as monitor suspects with roving wiretaps. The methods were authorized under the USA PATRIOT Act and are set to expire at year’s end. The call for renewing the PATRIOT Act provisions comes as Democratic lawmakers and civil liberties groups want to revisit its broader powers. Democratic Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin has proposed a new bill that would overhaul the PATRIOT Act and other surveillance laws to include more privacy safeguards. [includes rush transcript]"
||  Real Video Stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2009/sept/video/dnB20090922a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=00:48:06
||  Real Audio Stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2009/sept/audio/dn20090922.ra&proto=rtsp&start=00:48:06
||  MP3 Download  ||  ---  http://media.libsyn.com/media/democracynow/dn2009-0922-1.mp3
||  More…  ||  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/22/stream
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Curtain Call: Grim Glimpses of the World's True Workings
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1845-curtain-call-grim-glimpses-of-the-worlds-true-workings.html
A quote...."First we have a new interview with Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI translator  ---  http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/nov/01/00006/  ---  turned whistleblower who has been the target of the most draconian "state secrets" campaign in American history. A few weeks ago, Edmonds was allowed to tell part of her remarkable story in public, under oath, for the first time. - It should have been the mother of all media blockbusters: a scandal encompassing Congressional corruption, executive branch bribery, international espionage, warmongering skullduggery, nuclear proliferation – even bisexual honey traps! The headlines practically write themselves, in one-word tabloid screamers: "Sex! War! Bribes! Spies! Treason!" What journalist could resist such a feast? Alas, there are no more journalists in the editorial offices and corporate boardrooms of America's media conglomerates. And so Edmonds' testimony was buried many fathoms deep."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

9/11 Trial At Guantánamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?
  ---  http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/09/22/911-trial-at-guantanamo-delayed-again-can-we-have-federal-court-trials-now-please/
A quote...."On Monday, following a request from the Obama administration, Army Col. Stephen Henley, the military judge in the proposed trial by Military Commission of five men charged in connection with the 9/11 attacks — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Walid bin Attash (from top to bottom in photo) — agreed to the government’s proposal for a 60-day stay in the proceedings, to give the administration more time to decide what it wants to do next." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58231&hd=&size=1&l=e
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Italians begin closing arguments at CIA trial  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iFK6jJ12W23VZD-Hsw_RZIo67JnwD9ASTT1G0
A quote...."MILAN — Prosecutors began closing arguments Wednesday in the trial of 26 Americans and seven Italians accused of orchestrating a CIA-led kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect. -- The arguments by Prosecutor Armando Spataro signaled the final phase of the first trial in any country involving the CIA's extraordinary renditions program. Spataro's arguments, including his specific demands for each defendant, are expected to continue into next week."  -- For more on this issue see....Fun & Torture - It's a Pleasure.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/funandtorture-blog-mpg-020307.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

New details on Obama’s CIA front employer  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5161.shtml
A quote...."(WMR)  ---  http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/  ---  WMR has obtained additional details on Business International Corporation (BIC), the CIA front company where President Obama spent a year working after graduating from Columbia University in 1983. --
BIC used journalists as non-official cover (NOC) agents around the world. The firm published weekly and fortnightly newsletters for business executives, including Business International, Business Europe, Business Latin America, and Business Asia."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Pilot arrested over Argentina 'death flights'  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/23/death-flights-pilot-arrest-argentina
A quote...."Adolfo Scilingo, an Argentinian navy captain who took part in the death flights, has stated that prisoners were given a second drug to knock them out completely and then stripped. - The planes were flown out to the Atlantic Ocean where the doors were opened. "When the commander of the aircraft gave the order, those of us in the back threw them out through the door," Scilingo said several years ago. - Up to 1,000 prisoners who passed through the infamous detention centre at the naval mechanical school are thought to have been murdered this way. It is almost certain that the pilots knew what was happening." - bold by website editor -- For more on this sort of issue see...."Come Fly the Un-Friendly Boeing Skys  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-052207-053107#BOEING  ---  And you gentle reader, probably thought this website editor was just kidding. - mpg
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Baha Mousa 'killed after father saw soldiers stealing'  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58230&hd=&size=1&l=e
Special Note - A quote...."LONDON — British soldiers laughed as they beat an Iraqi hotel receptionist to death, the man's father alleged Wednesday as he gave evidence to an inquiry into the slaying. -- Baha Mousa, 26, died in the custody of British troops after they went through a hotel in southern Iraqi city of Basra in September 2003 in a hunt for Saddam Hussein loyalists. -- His father Daoud Mousa, 63, told the London hearing that detainees held with his son had described to him in detail "how violently, how cruelly," they had been treated by British soldiers. He said they described the soldiers laughing as they beat his son. -- "My son was tortured to death in front of his colleagues," Mousa, a former senior police officer, told the inquiry in a written statement."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Eight Years Later - The United States in Afghanistan  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/kolko09232009.html
Special Note - A quote...."The United States scarcely knew what a complex disaster it was confronting when it went to war in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. It will eventually - perhaps years from now - suffer the same fate as Alexander the Great, the British, and the now-defunct Soviet Union: defeat. -- What is called “Afghanistan” is really a collection of tribes and ethnic groups - Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, and more - there are seven major ethnic groups, each with their own language. There are 30 minor languages. Pashtuns are 42 per cent of the population and the Taliban comes from them. Its borders are contested and highly porous, and al-Qaeda is most powerful in the Pashtun regions of northern Pakistan as well as Afghanistan."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Assassinations on rise in Afghanistan  ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/22/MNUV19QQIH.DTL
Military Tactics Alert - A quote...."During his two years as a provincial governor in Afghanistan, Arsalah Jamal survived four suicide attacks. -- Once, a Taliban bomber dressed as a doctor struck as Jamal dedicated a hospital wing. Twice, car bombs slammed into his convoy. Another time, an attacker blew himself up at a funeral Jamal was attending for a fellow governor killed in another blast. -- Jamal, 45, escaped harm each time, but he resigned late last year as governor of the eastern province of Khost and moved his family to Canada - a victory for the Taliban and its campaign to intimidate and assassinate Afghan officials."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Egypt wants 'nuclear' Israel under UNSC supervision  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106915&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Egypt calls for international supervision of Israel's nuclear program as the pressure mounts on Tel Aviv to account for its controversial activities. -- Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, in a letter to all 15 members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), asked the council to enforce the observation, Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Tehran dumps dollar for euro  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/tehrandumpsdollarforeuro-mmorris-arabianbus-cached-092309
orig link  ---  http://www.arabianbusiness.com/568241-tehran-dumps-dollar-for-euro
War Warning - A quote...."Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered the replacement of the US dollar by the euro in calculating the value of the country's Oil Stabilisation Fund (OSF). -- The edict, issued on Sept 12, follows a recommendation by the trustees of the country's foreign reserves, Iran's English-language daily The Tehran Times said on Monday, citing Iran's semi-official Mehr News Agency. -- The move was taken because the government wishes to protect itself from the fragility of the US economy and the weak dollar."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Russia completes automated control system for Bushehr NPP  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090923/156224630.html
A quote...."MOSCOW, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is completing work on an automated control system for Iran's first nuclear power plant, the Russian civil nuclear power corporation Atomenergoprom said on Wednesday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

'Iran begins fuel imports from China'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106890&sectionid=351020103
A quote...."As the US and its allies are threatening Iran with fuel sanctions over its nuclear activities, China has reportedly moved to thwart the threats. -- Traders in the market told the Financial Times that Iran has begun importing gasoline from state-run Chinese companies via third parties."
also posted at AtheoNews  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/09/iran-begins-fuel-imports-from-china.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

AP interview: Iranian backs off Holocaust denial  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/09/22/ap-interview-iranian-backs-off-holocaust-denial/
Good, because with the NAZI's national penchant for really good record keeping, it's sort'a hard to deny. - mpg -- A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd) is muting his remarks on the Holocaust, an event he has frequently questioned as a matter of historical fact."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Iranian President Ahmadinejad to Speak at UN Amid Row over Iranian Nuclear Program
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/22/iranian_president_ahmadinejad_to_speak_at
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is headed to the United States for a speech tomorrow to the United Nations General Assembly. His visit comes against a backdrop of widely diverging accounts around Iran’s nuclear activities. Last month, a controversy erupted when the Associated Press reported the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, had concluded Iran possesses the capability for a nuclear bomb and had worked on a missile system to carry an atomic warhead. The IAEA has denied the report and says it has no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program. [includes rush transcript]" ||  Real Video Stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2009/sept/video/dnB20090922a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=00:29:45
||  Real Audio Stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2009/sept/audio/dn20090922.ra&proto=rtsp&start=00:29:45
||  MP3 Download  ||  ---  http://media.libsyn.com/media/democracynow/dn2009-0922-1.mp3
||  More…  ||  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/22/stream
edited transcript posted at CASMII  ---  http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/8640
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Ahmadinejad speech at UN – Russia Today  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/09/24/video-ahmadinejad-speech-at-un/
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EBgqgIWuoc  ---  (YouTube - 35 min 51 sec - September 23, 2009)
Must View Video - This is a very good speech and contains some great quotes. - mpg -- A quote...."It is no longer possible to inject thousands of billions of dollars of unreal wealth to the world economy simply by printing worthless paper assets” – “globalization and setting up empires is over” – “the time has past for a group of people who believe alone that they can define concepts such as democracy and freedom while simultaneously violating the principles to which they espire” – “the awakening of nations and the expansion of freedom worldwide will no longer allow others to continue their hypocrisy” – “people of the United states are waiting for real changes” – *Ahmadinejad* -- For a complete transcript click here  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/09/24/video-ahmadinejad-speech-at-un/

Here's a portion this website editor transcripted from the video shown above.....Quote of the Day

========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Freedom Rider: Iran’s Right to Exist  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/freedom-rider-iran%E2%80%99s-right-exist
A quote...."Citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran have the right to live without fear of sanctions, military attack, and destruction at the hands of the United States. The Iranian government has the right to enrich uranium, launch satellites, build missiles or even to develop nuclear weapons. It has these rights of self-determination freely exercised by other nations, regardless of American, European or Israeli opinion. -- The United States does not have the right to wage or even to threaten war against Iran, or to tell bald-faced lies about nonexistent threats. These lies are particularly egregious given the United States’ long history of invading, destabilizing or occupying many foreign countries, including Iran, all over the world." -- Well, technically they are restricted from developing nuclear weapons under the NPT, which by the way, Iran has faithfully honored.  On the other hand the US-NRE has already shredded the NPT, along with the Geneva Conventions, the ABM treaty and even its own Constitution....so what the heck, maybe Iran should actually go for it and claim self-defense, which would be a true statement. – mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

A More Conciliatory Ahmadinejad at the U.N.  ---  http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/a-more-conciliatory-admadinejad-at-the-un/?ref=global-home
A quote...."President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted the downfall of the current economic system, championed the cause of Palestinians and called for a return to monotheistic morality during his address to the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday evening. However, the 35-minute speech was less pointedly confrontational than his previous statements before the body."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

At UN general assembly, Obama urges international support for US wars  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/obam-s24.shtml
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."On Wednesday, President Barack Obama used his first address to the United Nations General Assembly to defend US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and reiterate the American right to act unilaterally. At the same time, Obama implicitly appealed to foreign capitals to subordinate themselves to US geostrategic objectives."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Medvedev addresses UN  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnzO7cEfLtE&feature=channel  ---  (YouTube - 23 min 25 sec - September 23, 2009)
Video - A quote...."Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delivered his first speech at the United Nation's General Assembly. "
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Chechen leader claims US, Britain back rebels  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/09/23/chechen-leader-claims-us-britain-back-rebels/
Must Read - A quote...."The controversial Kremlin-backed president of Chechnya claims that militants in the violence-plagued Russian province are backed by U.S. and British intelligence agencies. -- Ramzan Kadyrov's remark was probably the bluntest claim by a Russian official that insurgents in the restive North Caucasus have Western support."  -- For more on this type of issue see....Putin's Folly - 09-21-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/putinsfolly-mpg-reficultnias-092109
& American Selective Attention Deficit Disorder (ASADD) - 08-16-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/americanselectiveattention-blog-mpg-081608
& US Support of Terror  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Africa's oil boom and Africom  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-5684-0-25-25--.html
A quote...."Potentially major oil strikes announced by an American-led consortium and a British company in West Africa have bolstered the region's reputation as the world's hottest energy zone. -- It has also become the focus of the U.S. military's global mission to protect America's energy supplies, a development that critics fear will trigger more trouble than it will prevent."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Gaddafi UN Speech VIDEO: Libyan Leader Chucks Charter, Slams Security Council
  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/gaddafi-un-speech-libyan-_n_296175.html
A quote...."He railed against the "inequality" of U.N. member states, quoting from a copy of the U.N. Charter that calls for equality of nations, and then noting that five nations hold veto power on the Security Council and can block actions contrary to their interests: the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France. -- Speaking rapid-fire Arabic, Gadhafi said the use of military power was contrary to the spirit of the U.N., unless such actions are sanctioned by the United Nations. -- Since the world body was founded in 1945, Gadhafi said it had failed to prevent or intervene in dozens of wars around the world. -- "But 65 aggressive wars took place without any collective action by the United Nations to prevent them, Gadhafi said."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Venezuela's resort island ready for South America-Africa Summit  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/24/content_12105911.htm
A quote...."CARACAS, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Margarita Island, in northeastern Venezuela, has geared up for the upcoming 2nd South America-Africa Summit (SAAS), which will take place on Saturday and Sunday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Peruvian president denounces arms buildup in S America  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/24/content_12104918.htm
A quote...."LIMA, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Peruvian President Alan Garcia on Wednesday urged the Organization of American States (OAS) to call on the governments of the region to stop spending on weapons."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

A Hypothetical Invasion of Bolivia  ---  http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-09-21.asp
A quote...."Suppose the world had awakened this morning to the news that the Russian army had attacked and invaded Bolivia. Thousands of Russian paratroopers have landed in the country, securing airports, permitting hundreds of Russian transport planes to bring in tens of thousands of Russian soldiers."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More On The Palestinian Situation....

Goldstone Report Buried Forever  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/09/goldstone-report-buried-forever.html
Special Note - A quote...."Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so....."U.S., Israel Move To Keep Goldstone Report From Going to Security Council".....  Israeli and American diplomats came to the United Nations not to praise the Goldstone Report, but to bury it. And unlike Marc Antony in his eulogy for Julius Caesar, they meant it. --  The report, released September 15, caused a huge initial international stir, not only because of its findings — the bulk of them focusing on Israel — but also because of its ultimate recommendation: that the United Nations Security Council, which has binding power under international law, require Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza, to conduct their own respective independent investigations of the evidence of human rights violations cited in the report. If they do not do so within six months, the report urged the Security Council to refer their cases to the International Criminal Court in the Hague."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The “democracy” that can do no wrong Israel and US apologists rattled by UN report on war crimes in Gaza
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58235&hd=&size=1&l=e
Special Note - A quote...."Israelis and their Zionist supporters in the US are having temper tantrums over the latest UN Human Rights Council report   ---  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/  ---  on the attacks in Gaza. Judge Richard Goldstone, a South African war crimes prosecutor, led the investigating team."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Apartheid is the Root of Israel’s Aggressions  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/apartheid-root-israel%E2%80%99s-aggressions
Special Note - A quote...."The State of Israel, by far the world champion violator of international law as interpreted by the United Nations, is once again raining vitriol and insult on the world body that gave it birth 61 years ago. Since almost the day that the U.N. recognized the Jewish state in 1948, Israel has placed itself above the accepted norms of civilized behavior. In its six decades of existence, Israel has violated virtually every United Nations declaration and flaunted countless tenets of international legality, most often with the diplomatic, economic and military protection of the United States. Israel’s arrogant disregard for the world body reached new heights with the release of a U.N. report urging Israel to conduct an “independent” investigation into “war crimes” and “serious violations” of human rights during its brutal attack on Gaza, last winter." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58232&hd=&size=1&l=e
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

How Israel Targets and Suppresses Opposition to Its Annexation Wall  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15448
A quote...."Established in 1992, the Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association helps Palestinian prisoners, and works to end torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, other forms of abuse, and unjust, unequal treatment in Israel's criminal justice system that handles Jews one way and Palestinians another."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Three injured, 15 Bedouins arrested over land confiscation protest  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=227269
A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies - Fifteen Bedouins were arrested on Wednesday near the Beersheba-area Goral Junction, according to the Hebrew-language newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

My Experience in Israhell  ---  http://factsnotinstincts.blogspot.com/2008/10/israhell-my-experinces-there.html
A quote...."My name is Joe Cortina. I am a retired Florida businessman who has done substantial world traveling - some purely as a 'tourist' and some in areas - shall I say- 'nothing to do with vacationing'. -- I am a former special operations officer and have done intelligence investigator work for over 15years - some of it overseas - mostly in Central America - but also in theMid-East. My political posture is ‘conservative’ and my religious values are Christian."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Report from Honduras: Ousted President Manuel Zelaya Returns to Honduras in Defiance of Coup Government
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/22/report_from_honduras_ousted_president_manuel
Special Note - A quote...."We go live to the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, where Manuel Zelaya has sought refuge. After Zelaya’s dramatic return, the coup government ordered a curfew, but thousands of Zelaya supporters defied the ban and rallied outside the Brazilian embassy. Earlier this morning police fired tear gas outside the embassy to disburse the crowd. We hear Zelaya speak from inside the embassy and speak to Andres Conteris and Mark Weisbrot. [includes rush transcript]"
||  Real Video Stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2009/sept/video/dnB20090922a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=00:07:20
||  Real Audio Stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2009/sept/audio/dn20090922.ra&proto=rtsp&start=00:07:20
||  MP3 Download  ||  ---  http://media.libsyn.com/media/democracynow/dn2009-0922-1.mp3
||  More…  ||  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/22/stream
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Spoiling Manuel Zelaya's homecoming  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/sep/22/manuel-zelaya-honduras-coup-obama
Special Note - Obama™ Update -- A quote...."Now that Manuel Zelaya has returned to Honduras, the coup government – after first denying that he was there – has unleashed a wave of repression to prevent people from gathering support for their elected president. -- This is how US secretary of state Hillary Clinton described the first phase of this new repression Monday night in a press conference: "I think that the government imposed a curfew, we just learned, to try to get people off the streets so that there couldn't be unforeseen developments." -- But the developments that this dictatorship is trying to repress are very much foreseen. A completely peaceful crowd of thousands surrounded the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where Zelaya has taken refuge, to greet their president. The military then used the curfew as an excuse to tear-gas, beat and arrest the crowd until there was nothing left. There are reports of scores wounded and three dead. The dictatorship has cut off electricity and water to the embassy and cut electricity to what little is left of the independent media, as well as some neighbourhoods." -- bold by website editor - also posted at OhBummer  ---  http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-much-repression-will-hillary.html  ---  & CommonDreams   ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/23-3  ---  Must be more ol'dat goofy, just-for-fun, Obama™,  "freedom and democracy".  And just as he stood by, grining from ear to ear, and did nothing while Israel slaughtered over 1,400 men women and children in Gaza during his blood soaked coronation, so too will he stand by while an embassy is besieged (an act of war) and do nothing so as to deliberately embarrass Lula da Silva of Brazil, while thousands of Hondurans are attacked for exercising their civil rights, and while (again) another legally elected, democratic government in the Americas is overthrown with US-NRE connivance and support. – mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

At U.N., Brazil's Lula demands Zelaya reinstatement  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58M2YW20090923
A quote...."UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the first world leader to address the U.N. General Assembly, called on Wednesday for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to be reinstated."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Brazil: actions against Honduras embassy not tolerable  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN22355055
A quote...."NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Brazil will not tolerate any actions against its embassy in Tegucigalpa, where ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya sought refuge after slipping back into the country, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorin said on Tuesday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Brazil asks UN for emergency meeting on Honduras  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/09/22/brazil-asks-un-for-emergency-meeting-on-honduras/
A quote...."Brazil's government has asked the United Nations Security Council to convene an emergency meeting over a standoff in Honduras with the nation's deposed president taking refuge in the Brazilian Embassy."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

What Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis
  ---  http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3450/what-some-us-reporters-dont-get-about-brazil-and-honduras-crisis
A quote...."I don't know what is so hard for some observers to understand about that statement, which comes from the elected president of a country that itself was victimized by a military coup d'etat in 1964. Brazil, like every other democracy on the planet, has a legitimate self interest in making sure that no military coup succeeds, especially in its own hemisphere."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Honduran military to starve Manuel Zelaya out  ---  http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26115865-2703,00.html
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA: Honduran troops surrounded the Brazilian embassy yesterday where ousted president Manuel Zelaya was holed up with dwindling supplies and a few hundred supporters. -- Soldiers fired teargas and wielded truncheons to disperse about 4000 pro-Zelaya demonstrators who had camped out overnight around the embassy to protect the man they see as the rightful leader of their country."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

PANAMAX 2009 and Honduras: Did They or Didn’t They Attend the Annual War Games?
  ---  http://www.coha.org/panamax-2009-and-honduras-did-they-or-didnt-they-attend-the-annual-war-games/
A quote...."In another blow against the prestige of the de facto government, ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s unexpected return to Honduras has complicated matters for interim President Roberto Micheletti, who helped plan the seizure of the government on June 28. As public demonstrations suggest, a growing number of Hondurans now appear to be aligning in support of Zelaya. Several thousand of his supporters rallied at the Brazilian Embassy where Zelaya took refuge after arriving last night on Honduran soil."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Brazil urges action on Honduras  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8271309.stm
A qutoe...."Mr Lula said the international community "demands" Manuel Zelaya's reinstatement -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the international community demands the reinstatement of ousted Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya. -- Mr Lula told the UN that the crisis in Honduras is an example of where greater global political will is needed."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Coupists Want to Kill Me, Zelaya  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119462&Itemid=1 ---  With Hideous (the mad rabbit) Hillary  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/hideoushillary-mpg-080107.html  ---  grinning maniacally from ear to ear.
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Sep 23 (Prensa Latina) Honduran Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya slammed the existence of a plan by the de facto regime of assaulting the Brazilian embassy in this capital to capture and kill him."

Tuesday September 22nd 2009 - links page

Obama Asks Kangaroo Court to Hop Slower  ---  http://www.unknownnews.org/0909-09.html#Sep18
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."Military defense attorneys have asked a military judge to halt the pending kangaroo trials of several Guantanamo prisoners accused of participation in the 9/11 attacks, and the Obama administration has responded by asking for yet another delay. -- It's time to call bullsh*t on this whole sham-a-rama. The USA, alleged beacon of liberty and bastion of democracy, has been holding these alleged suspects for years, but they can't tried in ordinary courts because — because why, exactly? Because the evidence just ain't there, or everything prosecutors "know" came by way of torture, or the facts must remain classified for vague reasons that can't be explained, or yada yada yada. It's all just wrong, legally, morally, and every which way anything can be wrong." -- also posted at OhBummer  ---  http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-asks-kangaroo-court-to-hop-slower.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

ACLU Sues For Bagram Records  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58206&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking the disclosure of documents related to the detention and treatment of prisoners at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. According to the complaint, the government should promptly make public the Bagram records, including a list of vital information about detainees being held there, the rules that govern the facility and documents pertaining to the conditions of confinement and status review process afforded prisoners."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

CIA Experiments on U.S. Soldiers Linked to Torture Program  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58203&hd=&size=1&l=e
Special Note - A quote...."This report looks at those recent charges, and reveals that experiments by a CIA researcher on human subjects undergoing SERE training went unreported in the legal memos the Bush administration drafted to approve their torture program. It will also connect major military and intelligence figures to the SERE experiments, and tie some of them to major science and "experimental" directorates at the CIA and Special Operations Command."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Brutal Destruction Of Iraq's Archaeological Sites Continues (Photogallery)  ---  http://www.uruknet.info/index.php?p=m58169&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."Buried in Iraq's clay and dirt is the history of Western civilization. Great empires once thrived here, cultures that produced the world's first wheel, first cities, first agriculture, first code of law, first base-sixty number system, and very possibly the first writing. A brutal plundering of this rich cultural heritage has been taking place in broad daylight ever since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. These days Ancient Mesopotamia looks more like a scene from the movie Holes. -- "I still find it hard to believe this is happening," Clemens Reichel told the Huffington Post. "Since the 2003 Iraq War, my work as a field archaeologist has changed forever. Sometimes it feels more like an undertaker's work." -- For more on this issue see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Turkey seeks tie-up with Iraq  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/KI23Ag01.html
A quote...."The parties agreed to sign agreements or memorandums of understanding in over 40 areas. The detailed technical work on these projects will continue before final approval at the Turkish-Iraqi inter-governmental meeting during Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Baghdad in October."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Still Evil (And Twisting Facts) After All These Years  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/further/2009/09/22-2
A quote...."In a sickeningly ass-kissing interview that calls Rice "the should-be face of the GOP," Rice is portrayed as  an "eloquent and elegant figure," concert pianist, Russian scholar and football fan who is "something of a rock star among the 'tween girl set," though documentation of this particularly bizarre claim is noticeably absent. Mostly, she is here to remind us once again that, "Every day, terrorists plot and plan to try to attack us." - bold by website editor - And Condi's absolutely right!!  Former Bush officials, current Obama officials, the Saudi Royals, Israel's Mossad, the CIA's al-Qaeda division, elements from the DOD's "black program" (which receives about fifty billion dollars a year), various thugs and criminals from the Department of Homeland Insecurity.....the list goes on and on....mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Huge Hole in Gen. McChrystal's Afghan Counterinsurgency Strategy  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/spinney09222009.html
A quote...."Of course, there is nothing new in General McChrystal's strategy, it is merely a rehash of the failed oil spot (tache d'huile) strategy, first tried by French colonialist General Louis-Hubert-Gonsalve Lyautey, and then tried again under various guises, again without lasting success, by the Americans in Vietnam."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Britain Sending Mixed Signals on Afghan Escalation  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/09/22/britain-sending-mixed-signals-on-afghan-escalation/
Oh Please!  It's just the typical, lying, Anglo-American, bait & switch, two-step maneuver. Brown will be sending more troops for the slaughter, a lot more. - mpg -- A quote...."One day after it became public that the British military was drawing up plans to add another 1,000 troops to its combat force in Afghanistan to support Gen. McChrystal’s call for escalation, Prime Minister Gordon Brown was sending very different signals."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

German Peace Movement Demands Withdrawal From Afghanistan
  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/reiner-braun/2009/09/22/german-peace-movement-demands-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/
A quote...."On Sept. 4, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force conducted an air strike on a fuel tank hijacked by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan. The attack killed dozens of people, including civilians, according to NATO sources. However, the German minister of defense, Franz Josef Jung, has stubbornly denied that the attack harmed civilians, insisting instead that “only Taliban were killed.” Jung even verbally attacked NATO and EU statements on the topic, saying that “other countries should not interfere.”
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Iranian leader says ready to repair ties with U.S.  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20090923/156223345.html
A quote...."MOSCOW, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is ready to build friendly relations with the United States, the presidential website quoted him as saying in a French TV interview. -- The Iranian leader is currently in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, where he will deliver a speech later in the day. -- In response to a question on the possibility of meeting President Barack Obama, Ahmadinejad told France 2: "We consider ourselves as a friend of all nations and anybody who holds out his hands in a friendly manner, we will warmly shake his hands."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Iran Shows Modern Ballistic Missiles  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8806311166
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Armed Forces displayed the most modern home-made ballistic missiles during military parades here in Tehran on Tuesday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Iran hails nuclear advance ahead of talks with big powers  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iran_hails_nuclear_advance_ahead_of_09222009.html
A quote...."Iran on Tuesday hailed a major boost to its capacity to produce nuclear fuel as it prepared to join talks with the major powers next week that the West hopes will lead to a suspension of the sensitive process. -- The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, Ali Akbar Salehi, said that improved centrifuges were now being tested that would enable uranium to be enriched more rapidly."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Jalili: Iran Ready for Fair Talks with 5+1  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8806311543
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian national security official on Tuesday once again underlined Tehran's preparedness to sit to the negotiating table with the six world powers for just and fair talks."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Iran calls on Arab states visit its nuclear facilities: Salehi  ---  http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=203749
A quote...." TEHRAN, Sept. 21 (MNA) -- Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Director Ali Akbar Salehi has called on Persian Gulf states to visit Iran’s nuclear facilities. -- “Arab states of the Persian Gulf could make use of Iran’s experience in building nuclear plants. We invite them to come and visit to our nuclear facilities,” Salehi told reporters at a press conference here today/yesterday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

IAEA demands that Israel open nuclear facility to inspection  ---  http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2009/09/fine-print-iaea-demands-that-israel.html
Video - Special Note - This'll be fun. - mpg - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCzpJXW_3Bk  ---  (YouTube - 3 min 21 sec - September 21, 2009) -- A quote...."The International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution Thursday calling on the state of Israel to open its nuclear facility in Dimona to international inspection, and to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This is the first time in 18 years that such a resolution has managed to pass the IAEA General Assembly, as it has been blocked in previous years by Israel and the US."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

UN set for fireworks at annual assembly   ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=34495
Everybody's coming to the party, it's going to be one wild show! -- A quote...."UNITED NATIONS - Some of the world's most firebrand and charismatic leaders step into the global spotlight Wednesday. -- Libya's Moamer Gathafi, known for his long speeches more usually delivered in his nomad tent, will step up to the UN podium for the first time in his four-decade rule."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Black Sea Wars  ---  http://buchanan.org/blog/black-sea-wars-2270
Special Note - A quote...."In August, the Georgian navy seized a Turkish tanker carrying fuel to Abkhazia, Georgia’s former province whose declaration of independence a year ago is recognized by Russia but not the West." -- also posted at LewRockwell --- http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan117.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Missile Impossible: How the Russians View America's AMD Backdown
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Missile-Impossible-How-th-by-Rakesh-Krishnan-Si-090920-620.html
Special Note - A quote...."Pentagon hawks don't usually transform into doves. Likewise, US presidents are known for bombing small - if somewhat wayward - countries into a pulp rather than making conciliatory moves. Still, when Barack Obama pulled the plug on the much maligned anti-missile defense (AMD), it wasn't entirely unexpected. -- Neither were the reactions. While cries of betrayal haven't stopped echoing through the capitals of Eastern and Central Europe, people from countries without as serious a death wish as Poland have hailed Obama's move. The response from American commentators was entirely on predictable lines - from "Poland for Russia, not a bad trade!" to "OK, we've done our part, now will the Russians please deliver Ahmadijenad's head. -- But Russia is unaware of any tradeoff. From their side of the fence the picture doesn't look rosy at all. "By temporarily dropping its missile shield, the US is just trying to sell a dead cat for good money," says Konstantin Sivkov, the Vice President of the Moscow-based Academy of Geopolitical Problems."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine  ---  http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand
Special Note - A quote...."The Perimeter system is very, very nice," he says. "We remove unique responsibility from high politicians and the military." He looks around again. -- Yarynich is talking about Russia's doomsday machine. That's right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called "the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination." Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Venezuela to donate combat planes to Ecuador  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/23/content_12100645.htm
Everybody's started to arm up since the US-NRE announced its plans to occupy seven bases in Columbia. - mpg -- A quote...."QUITO, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Venezuela plans to donate a fleet of combat planes to Ecuador, local media reported on Tuesday. -- TV Ecuavisa quoted Ecuadorian military sources as saying that Venezuela would donate Ecuador a fleet of Mirage-50 planes made in the 1970s, a kind of planes that the Ecuadorian Air Force also has."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Argentina, Jordan sign nuclear agreement  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/23/content_12100652.htm
A quote...."BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Argentina and Jordan signed a cooperation agreement on the pacific use of nuclear energy Tuesday, the Argentine Foreign Ministry announced."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Morales Draws High Electoral Support in Bolivia  ---  http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/34147/morales_draws_high_electoral_support_in_bolivia/
A quote...."(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Bolivian president Evo Morales will likely secure another term in office in an upcoming election, according to a poll by Encuestas & Estudios Gallup International. 57.7 per cent of respondents would vote for Morales in the December ballot."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA:  New Summit to Boost Cooperation  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48548
A quote...."CARACAS, Sep 22 (IPS) - Heads of state and other officials from 54 African and 12 South American nations will meet for the Second Africa-South America Summit this Saturday and Sunday on Isla Margarita, Venezuela, to boost cooperation in a score of areas with potential for greater bi-regional exchange."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Parable of the Skyjacking -- Mexico Convulsed by Paranoia  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/ross09222009.html
This article is actually quite funny. - mpg - A quote...."To illustrate the paranoia that this unrelenting orgy of homicidal violence had bred, this September 9th a Bolivian-born evangelical preacher Jose Mar Flores Peyrera "skyjacked" an Aeromexico Boeing 737 with 104 passengers aboard, including a number of U.S. citizens, bound from Cancun to Mexico City.  Initially identified as a Venezuelan or a Colombian or some such dangerous South American, Flores turned out to be neither a drug thug or a"21st Century Socialist" but rather a self-anointed messenger of Jesus Christ sent to save Mexico. "
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

US embassy in Dubai 'is a recruiting ground for Iranian spies'
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/6218606/US-embassy-in-Dubai-is-a-recruiting-ground-for-Iranian-spies.html
A quote...."The CIA uses the American consulate in Dubai as a recruiting ground for Iranian spies, according to a new book, giving out visas only in exchange for inside information on the country."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

"The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7"  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15340
A quote....."David Ray Griffin interviewed by Michel Chossudovsky on the Global Research News Hour on RBN radio, September 10, 2009. -- Prof. Griffin's discusses themes raised in his new book, The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report About 9/11 Is Unscientific and False."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Nosferatu and Michael Chertoff: Separated at birth?  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2009/09/nosferatu-and-michael-chertoff.html
Special Note - A quote....""Nosferatu" was the original vampire movie, made in 1922. Notice how the 'undead' Nosferatu and 'Mikey Chertoff look similar?
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

FBI says imam Ahmad Afzali worked both sides and tipped off suspects
  ---  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/09/21/2009-09-21_fbi_says_imam_ahmad_afzali_worked_both_sides__tipped_off_suspects.html
No sooner than this website editor had written that this case might actually involve "real" terrorists, than it turns out it might just involve more "manufactured" terrorists (like all the others).  Just read the article and think about it. – mpg -- A quote...."The Queens imam arrested in the Denver terrorism probe is an FBI informant the feds say became a double agent - tipping suspects that they were in the government's crosshairs. -- Ahmad Afzali, 37, insisted he's been loyally helping the government root out extremists since 9/11. -- His lawyer, Ron Kuby, calls him a fall guy. -- "I think the FBI is angry that they blew this case, and they want to blame poor Imam Afzali for blowing the investigation," Kuby said."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Media hypes terror plot, despite the fact no one is charged with terror
  ---  http://rawstory.com/2009/09/media-hypes-terror-plot-despite-the-fact-no-one-is-charged-with-terror/
Related Article - A quote...."It has a familiar ring: “Investigators are looking for about a dozen more people in connection with a wide-ranging terror investigation that has already netted arrests in Colorado and New York City, a source familiar with the investigation said Tuesday.” -- also posted at RogueGov
  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Media_Hypes_Terror_Threat_Despite_The_Fact_No_One_Is_Charged_With_Terror/17378/0/7/7/Y/M.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

GERMANY: Terror Plot Emerges as Secret Service Game
  ---  http://factsnotfairies.blogspot.com/search/label/GERMANY%3A%20Terror%20Plot%20Emerges%20as%20Secret%20Service%20Game
Related Article - Some quotes...."It was announced as a terror plot busted. German police had captured three young Muslim men in the small village Medebach-Oberschledor, some 450 km southwest of Berlin Sep. 4 in 2007. The police declared they had seized 730 kilograms of hydrogen peroxide, enough to make 550 kg of explosives." -- "But now, the case has ceased to be "the serious terrorist threat" it was called. It is now a mysterious puzzle of secret service games, prosecutors' alarmism spread by the media, and basic failures of justice. The supposedly dangerous group members have emerged as no more than some muddle-heads. They had no links whatsoever to international Islamic terror groups."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

In Germany, 'al Qaeda' warnings spice up election  ---  http://factsnotfairies.blogspot.com/2009/09/in-germany-al-qaeda-warnings-spice-up.html
Related Article - A quote...."Reports have suggested that the timing of the threats could help the current government, which is facing increasing criticism over the unpopular war in Afghanistan." -- For more on the articles shown above, see article below....
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====


MSM: Another Microbiology Researcher Dies  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/09/22/msm-another-microbiology-researcher-dies/ 
It seems to be a very dangerous profession. - mpg -- A quote...."(ABC7) – A University of Chicago researcher died after being exposed to a strain of bacteria that causes plague. And Malcolm Casadaban’s family wants answers."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Police State: 14-Year-Old Girl Tasered In The Head  ---  http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2009/09/22/police-state-14-year-old-girl-tasered-in-the-head/
Thugs in Blue Alert --  Of course it's dangerous just to be a "citizen" these days. - mpg --  A quote...."Hatcher said he shot two Taser darts at Kailee Martinez, 14, Thursday while responding to a domestic dispute between the girl and her mother. One hit her in the head and the other struck her back. -- Martinez said she was released from Albuquerques University of New Mexico Hospital on Sunday following a two-hour surgery to remove one of the darts from her head. The surgery left her with 18 staples and six stitches. “I feel good being home,” Martinez said Tuesday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More On The Palestinian Situation....

Haniyeh to UN chief: Hamas accepts Palestinian state in '67 borders  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116171.html
A quote...."The head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip has told United Nations Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon that the group supports any steps leading to the creation of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, according to the Palestinian news agency Ramattan. -- The letter - written by Ismail Haniyeh on Tuesday to coincide with a UN conference currently underway in New York - stated that, "We would never thwart efforts to create an independent Palestinian state with borders [from] June 4, 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital."  also posted at ICH - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23555.htm
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Exclusive: Hamas leader interview  ---  http://www.newstatesman.com/middle-east/2009/09/israel-palestinian-hamas
A quote...."No major conflict can be resolved without each side talking to the other. That was the case in South Africa, Ireland and countless other situations where people said they would never talk to their opponents. I was vilified in the Eighties for saying that, to resolve the Irish conflict, you had to talk to Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. -- In the Middle East, peace can only be achieved through discussion between the elected representatives of both the Israelis and the Palestinians - and that means Hamas, which won a big majority in the last Palestinian parliamentary election, as well as Fatah."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23554.htm
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Settlers destroy Palestinian owned lands and the military kidnapped four farmers  ---  http://imemc.org/article/61707
A quote...."A group of armed Israeli settlers destroyed on Monday Palestinian owned lands in northern West Bank while the military kidnapped four farmers who tired to stop the attack." -- also posted at AtheoNews  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/09/settlers-destroy-palestinian-owned.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Time to Break Free from Partition Straightjacket  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15445
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."The desperate and desultory New York 'summit' among Barack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas and the evident capitulation of Obama to Israeli defiance of even his minimalist effort to achieve mere maintenance of the status quo have left most observers who genuinely seek peace with some measure of justice in an understandable state of despair." -- It's all those false expectations that leave people in despair, which is sort of confusing, because after twice watching the most obsequious and craven performance ever given before AIPAC by a candidate for the office of president of the United States, and also watching this same person's laughing indifference to Gaza's savage bombardment, death and misery  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/noleadershipfromobama-ohcontraire-mpg-reficultnias-122808  ----  for a whole month right before his coronation  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/thegazainvasion-mpg-weblist-122708  ----  as Emperor, one finds it hard to believe how anyone could have had any expectations that this lackey of AIPAC would do anything but get on bended knee to service Israel's needs. – mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

UN SUMMIT~GAZA RESPONDS  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/09/un-summitgaza-responds.html
Must Read - Obama™ Update -- Great short satirical video loop, which just about sums up the whole sorry situation - mpg -- A quote...."While the US Government celebrates its Summit Victory for Israel with a cruise around New York.....  There is absolute outrage in Gaza (and the rest of the normal world) happening live right now, There is a huge public speaking engagement going on now in Gaza outside in the streets, people are shouting and angry. I am listening to the shouting in Gaza as I type this. People there are very angry over the summit that just concluded between Obama/Netanyahu and Abbas. Obama has achieved nothing, and in fact has made matters worse. They see this as a victory for Israel and a defeat for Abbas and Palestine, and I agree."
also posted at Uruknet   ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58205&hd=&size=1&l=e
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Ali Hattar – Israel's thirst for the Nile's water  ---  http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/09/22/ali-hattar-israels-thirst-for-the-niles-water/
A quote...."What is taking place regarding the Nile’s water is not a simple matter… Without exaggeration… It is as important as war itself…"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

“Free yourselves from the shackles of Israeli pressure,” the man said  ---  http://www.redress.cc/stooges/slittlewood20090922
You ever notice how shekel is so similar to shackle, there's a reason for that folks, just think about it for awhile. - mpg -- A quote...."British Zionist minister froths at Ken Livingstone interview with Hamas leader. -- Stuart Littlewood views the rabid reaction of a notorious Israeli agent of influence, British Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis, to an interview with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, conducted by former London Mayor Ken Livingstone and published in the New Statesmen."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Settlement university dropped from prestigious architecture competition  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58210&hd=&size=1&l=e
Action Update - Boycott, Divest, Sanction - it works folks, it really truly works. - mpg -- A quote...."On this basis, the UK-based Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine (APJP) initiated a campaign backed by UK and international architects and academics, which was also taken up by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) in Palestine, against official Spanish recognition of the illegal Israeli university in occupied Palestinian territory. The support of many individuals and organizations in Spain for the cancellation of AUCS's participation in the Solar Decathlon culminated in a parliamentary question in the Spanish Parliament and the eventual exclusion of the illegal settlement's academic institution from the competition." -- For more on how to boycott Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/  ---  of this website. - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

US 'likely behind' Chavez coup  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/09/200992116049879437.html
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."Jimmy Carter, a former US president, has said that Washington knew about an abortive coup against Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, in 2002, and that it may even have taken part. -- "I think there is no doubt that in 2002, the United States had at the very least full knowledge about the coup, and could even have been directly involved," Carter said in an interview with Colombian El Tiempo newspaper published on Sunday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Honduran forces lay siege to embassy sheltering deposed President  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6844565.ece
A quote...."Honduras stood on the brink of widespread civil unrest last night as security forces laid siege to an embassy where the deposed President, Manuel Zelaya, had taken refuge, and clashed with protesters flooding the capital." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/206344
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Soldiers Should Stop Repressing People, Zelaya  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119101&Itemid=1
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Sep 22 (Prensa Latina) Honduras Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya demanded Tuesday armed forces to stop repressing people and withdraw to their barracks to achieve restitution of democracy in the country."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The One-Sided War on the Streets of Honduras  ---  http://www.narconews.com/Issue60/article3822.html
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS, SEPTEMBER 22, 2009: Government forces attacked a peaceful crowd outside the Brazilian Embassy Tuesday morning, in an apparent attempt to dispel support for deposed President Mel Zelaya. Mr. Zelaya had returned to the country on Monday after almost three months in exile."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Road to Zelaya’s Return: Money, Guns and Social Movements in Honduras  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/22-2
A quote...."At least 11 anti-coup activists have been killed since Zelaya was ousted.(2) Following the coup, approximately 1,500 people have been jailed for political purposes, and many Zelaya supporters have been beaten.(3) Via Campesina offices have been attacked, and the Feminists of Honduras in Resistance said that there have been 19 documented cases of rape by police officers since the coup took place.(4) The newspaper El Tiempo reported that armed groups in Colombia have been recruiting demobilized paramilitaries for mercenary work in Honduras. Honduras business leaders are hiring these paramilitaries for their own private security.(5)" -- More ol'dat US-NRE styled "freedom and democracy" in action! - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Arguments for Deflation: Unemployment, Debt and Deleveraging, the Pension Crisis, Collapse of the Shadow Banking System, and Interest on Reserves.
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/best-recent-arguments-for-deflation.html
Special Note - "As Absolute Return Partners wrote in its July newsletter:"


"So which is it, inflation or deflation"?
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

'Dr. Deflation' Changes His Mind After 27+ Years --- http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north760.html --- Gary North thinks there is going to be inflation.
Special Note - A quote...."Dr. Martin Weiss has reversed course. He now thinks price inflation lies ahead. - This is the equivalent of Steve Jobs announcing: "The future of computing over the next decade is with Microsoft Windows 7."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Report: China weighs purchase of IMF gold  ---  http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2009/09/22/report-china-weighs-purchase-of-imf-gold/
A quote...."BEIJING, Sept 21 (Reuters) - China is considering buying gold being offered for sale by the International Monetary Fund, Market News International said on Monday, citing two unnamed government sources, but the report could not immediately be confirmed."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

And Now… FDIC Could Seek Bailout from Banks    ---  http://cryptogon.com/?p=11177  ---  Haaaa haaaa haaaa!  It's just so funny! - mpg
A quote...."Regulators may borrow billions from big banks to shore up the dwindling fund that insures regular deposit accounts. -- The loans would go to the fund maintained by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. that insure depositors when banks fail, said one industry and one government official familiar with the FDIC board’s thinking, who requested anonymity because the plans are still evolving." -- For on this issue see....Michel Chossudovsky's "Circular Process" - 09-17-09 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/michaelchossudovskyscircularprocess-mpg-reficultnias-091709
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Obamacare and the $13 rule  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/KI23Ad01.html
On the health care issue - A quote...."In the capitalist haven of Hong Kong, my adopted home, anybody who can scrape together the equivalent of US$13 can receive generous, timely and usually first-rate health care in an emergency ward. By contrast, US hospitals are turning away the sick, the injured and the dying, even though they might be carrying a lot more than $13 bucks in their pockets."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Monday September 21st 2009 - links page

IAEA Denies Report it is Sure Iran is Seeking Bomb  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23544.htm
Special Note - The US-NRE's presstitutes, caught lying again to promote another war.  As long as people keep buying their newspapers, watching their TV programs and listening to their radio broadcasts, this will continue.  It's time to boycott the faux-infotainment-complex folks because YOUR mind, along with your money, your lives, and the lives of your children are terrible things to waste. - mpg -- A quote...."September 21, 2009 "AFP" Sept 18, 2009 -- VIENNA — The UN atomic watchdog said Thursday it has no concrete proof that there is or has been a nuclear weapons programme in Iran. -- The International Atomic Energy Agency rejected a US media report which claimed its experts believed Tehran had the ability to make a nuclear bomb and was on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead. -- "With respect to a recent media report, the IAEA reiterates that it has no concrete proof that there is or has been a nuclear weapon programme in Iran," a statement said."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Was the Iranian Election 'Rigged'?  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/092109.html
posted at Consortium News  ---  https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/consortiumnews/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2043
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."It is conventional wisdom in the U.S. press corps that Iran’s June 12 presidential election was rigged, with the word “fraud” now sometimes appearing without the qualifier “alleged.” But a new poll of Iranians uncovered a different opinion, an overwhelming judgment that the election was legitimate."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Dear President Obama: Blogs Fact-Check and Put Stories in Context Much Better than the Corporate Media
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/dear-president-obama-blogs-fact-check.html
Special Note - Obama™ Update - Related Article - A quote...."President Obama said yesterday:


"But as Dan Rather pointed out in July, the quality of journalism in the mainstream media has eroded considerably, and news has been corporatized, politicized, and trivialized."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Zbig Brzezinski: Obama Administration Should Tell Israel U.S. Will Attack Israeli Jets if They Try to Attack Iran
  ---  http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/8626
A quote...."The national security adviser for former President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, gave an interview to The Daily Beast in which he suggested President Obama should make it clear to Israel that if they attempt to attack Iran's nuclear weapons sites the U.S. Air Force will stop them."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Senior Iranian diplomats on their way to Europe  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106777&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."The first of the post-presidential-election diplomatic appointments of the Ahmadinejad government are being implemented with new ambassadors lined up for European countries. -- In an interview with the Tabnak News Agency, an un-named "informed source" speaks of a serious determination in the diplomatic apparatus to raise Iran's level of political-economic ties with all the countries of the world, including those in Europe, within the framework of mutual respect and principles of bilateral exchange."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

US ships arrive in Israel ahead of joint drill  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/206266
War Warning - So that's what they call the plan to attack Iran....a drill.  Similar to the exercises and "drills"  the US-NRE held on 9/11 heh?!? - mpg -- A quote...."US Navy missile ships started arriving in Israel on Sunday ahead of next month's joint missile defense exercise between the IDF and the American military's European Command. -- Officials say US may leave some systems in Israel after planned drill -- Called Juniper Cobra, the exercise will include the Arrow missile defense system as well as three American systems - the THAAD, Aegis and PAC3 - that will all be deployed in Israel for the duration of the exercise." -- For more on this issue see....The First "Red War Warning" in a Year - 07-18-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thefirstredwarwarninginayear-mpg-reficultnias-071809
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The American Doomsday Machine  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/092109b.html
posted at Consortium News  ---  https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/consortiumnews/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2043
A quote...."One day in the spring of 1961, soon after my 30th birthday, I was shown how our world would end. Not the Earth, not—so far as I knew then—all humanity or life, but the destruction of most cities and people in the Northern Hemisphere."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

UK army 'rotten', Iraq probe told  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8266699.stm
A quote...."British soldiers who abused an Iraqi detainee who died in their custody were not just "a few bad apples", a public inquiry has been told. - There was "something rotten in the whole barrel", Rabinder Singh QC said."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Abuse of Iraqi civilians by British army widespread
  ---  http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?col=&section=middleeast&xfile=data/middleeast/2009/September/middleeast_September506.xml
Related Article - A quote...."LONDON - The use of “coercive interrogation techniques” by the British army in Iraq was widespread and endemic, a public inquiry into the 2003 death of hotel receptionist Baha Mousa was told Monday. -- British troops in Iraq routinely used interrogation methods banned by the government in 1972 and clearly did not think they were doing anything illegal, Rabinder Singh, a lawyer for the Mousa family said."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

British army "widespreadly torture Iraqi civilians"  ---  http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=47510
Related Article - A quote...."Baha Mousa, a 26-year old Iraqi, was beaten and killed in the custody of British troops following a raid on his hotel in the southern Iraq city of Basra in September 2003. -- He died after suffering up to 100 injuries in the course of 36 hours of beating during which he screamed constantly, the inquiry heard."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

CIA Torturers Running Scared  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23543.htm
A quote...."September 20, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- -For the CIA supervisors and operatives responsible for torture, the chickens are coming home to roost; that is, if President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder mean it when they say no one is above the law – and if they don’t fall victim to brazen intimidation. -- Unable to prevent Holder from starting an investigation of torture and other war crimes that implicate CIA officials past and present, those same CIA officials, together with what those in the intelligence trade call “agents of influence” in the media, are pulling out all the stops to quash the Justice Department’s preliminary investigation." -- For more on this issue see....Fun & Torture - It's a Pleasure.
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/funandtorture-blog-mpg-020307.html
 
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Obama administration shields CIA torturers  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/pers-s22.shtml
Special Note - Obama™ Update -- A quote...."In response to a public campaign by the CIA, the Obama administration has decided to further scale back an already narrow investigation of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) torture during the Bush years that was announced last month by Attorney General Eric Holder." -- For more on this issue see....9/11 - Iraq - Torture Fables  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Blackwater involved in Bhutto and Hariri hits: former Pakistani army chief  ---  http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=203224
Special Note - A quote...."General Beg recently told the Saudi Arabian daily Al Watan that former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf had given Blackwater the green light to carry out terrorist operations in the cities of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, and Quetta. -- General Beg, who was chief of army staff during Benazir Bhutto’s first administration, said U.S. officials always kept the presence of Blackwater in Pakistan secret because they were afraid of possible attacks on the U.S. Embassy and its consulates in Pakistan."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Meet the Afghan Army - Is It a Figment of Washington's Imagination?  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175116/ann_jones_us_or_them_in_afghanistan_
Special Note - A quote...."The big Afghanistan debate in Washington is not over whether more troops are needed, but just who they should be: Americans or Afghans -- Us or Them. Having just spent time in Afghanistan seeing how things stand, I wouldn't bet on Them. -- Frankly, I wouldn't bet on Us either. In eight years, American troops have worn out their welcome. Their very presence now incites opposition, but that's another story. It's Them -- the Afghans -- I want to talk about."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Matt McCarten: Afghan election scam a terrifying tragedy  ---  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10598362
A quote...."I've been watching an immoral and farcical tragedy unfold in Afghanistan in the past fortnight, with a sense of despair. The world is pretending that, despite a few hiccups, the Afghan people have had the pleasure of electing a democratic government to govern them. -- The presence of foreign soldiers, including Kiwis, makes it all possible. What delusional nonsense. We are part of a criminal con job and the sooner we admit it, the better."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23547.htm
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Afghan Disaster  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/afghan-disaster130.html
Special Note - Quote of the Day...."The case in question here is the Afghan invasion and occupation. The top military commander there, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, has written a report (supposed to be secret but emailed to the Washington Post) that says unless more troops arrive soon, the entire operation will fail. They won't be able to defeat the insurgency unless more force is applied. That's a serious problem, since it is not unreasonable to define the current and would-be insurgency as the entire population of Afghanistan, perhaps excepting those directly on the US payroll."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

ANALYSIS-Europe to resist larger Afghan troops commitment  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSLL506550
A quote...."LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The United States looks ready to ask allies for more troops for Afghanistan, but Europe won't make any significant further contributions unless they are part of a clear plan for training Afghan security forces."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Bad Medicine: The Terror War's "Public Option"
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1843-bad-medicine-the-terror-wars-qpublic-optionq.html
A quote...."As Barack Obama continues his noble struggle to reform the wreck of America's health care system by forcing millions of people to pay billions of dollars to the very insurance companies who wrecked America's health care system – continuing his winning policy of reforming the wreck of America's financial system by giving trillions of dollars to the scamsters who wrecked America's financial system -- his soldiers in the good and necessary war of good necessity in Afghanistan have been implenting their own reforms to health care practices in their "host" country. -- Dahr Jamail reports on the underreported story of an American assault on an Afghan hospital earlier this month, during which armed soldiers "stormed" through the wards, looking for Taliban fighters – and then insisted on vetting all incoming patients to decide if they are worthy of treatment or not."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Seven million people in Yemen poor, three million lack food  ---  http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1296&p=front&a=1
A quote...."As many as seven million people in Yemen- 35 percent of the population of 22 million- are poor. Almost three million of them cannot provide for their basic needs and food."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Russia hasn't abandon missile defense plans --- http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/21/content_12091098.htm --- Well, neither has the US-NRE. - mpg
A quote...."MOSCOW, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Russia has not abandoned its plans to install short-range Iskander missiles in its western Kaliningrad enclave, chief of Russia's General Staff Nikolai Makarov said on Monday. "
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Norwegian State Television presents 9/11 Truth (en subs)  ---  http://zelikow.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/norwegian-state-television-presents-911-truth/
Video - A quote...."Their broadcast on September 10th 2009 (Norwegian) is described as follows on NRK’s web pages for streaming video: -- Niels Harrit chemist at the University of Copenhagen have scientific discoveries, which he believes undermines the official story of the 11 September tragedy. … The presenter is Hanne Kari Fossum. -- The issue is also followed by a news article aptly titled “The World Trade Center was blown up” (Auto-translate en) on Schrödinger’s Cat program-page at the NRK website. This is the first written presentation of 9/11 Truth done by NRK Television. You might call it more than fashionably late, but the content is no less groundbreaking considering Norway’s NATO membership and military participation in US led operations in Afghanistan." -- For more on this issue see....9/11 - WTC7   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-wtc7-weblist-mpg-082308
& 9/11 - WTC-1&2  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911WTC1&2-weblist-mpg-030709
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Zionist False Flag Terror and Deceptions  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/09/zionist-false-flag-terror-and.html
Special Note - Timeline - Database - A quote...."1946: July 22. Menachem Begin's Irgun Jewish terrorists dress as Arabs and bomb the King David Hotel, killing 92 people. The Irgun also plot to assassinate British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin; fortunately, this conspiracy is foiled by MI6.....
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Putin's Folly
09-21-09
mpg

Dirty war rages on Russia's doorstep  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6841296.ece
A quote...."WHEN Arsen Butayev was seized on a street in broad daylight last month and held captive with four other men, including his younger brother, he must have known a terrible fate awaited them. The witnesses to his abduction knew it too. Nobody intervened. -- Butayev, 23, and his comrades had fallen into the hands of a death squad operated by the security services in Dagestan, a small, mountainous republic of 3m souls riven by growing conflict in the southernmost part of Russia."

Putin is being stupid, or those he's allowed to administer Dagestan are being stupid. It appears the authorities in Dagestan are acting like thugs from the US-NRE, if Putin tolerates these tactics, he's obviously buying into the false "War on Terror" cover story which conceals a policy cooked up by the US-NRE, Britain and Israel with help from the Saudi Royals more than thirty years ago.  A policy to fund every single Wahabbist, Salafist, Jihadist group out there to justify their Neo-Colonial plans for the Middle East and destabilize any "nation state" that obstructs their pursuit of the world's natural resources.

“Muslims" are NOT the problem, foreign support for terrorists, including the four state actors just mentioned above....is.  The RUSSIAN CITIZENS of Dagestan are not the problem, casual torture, mayhem and murder of them creating well justified blow-back and revenge attacks....is.  If CITIZENS are disloyal to the national unity of a nation state, there are several time tested methods which will usually bring such movements to heel....

• You do not denigrate their religion. You are NOT at war with their religion.
• You do not denigrate their culture, way of dress or their way of life. You are NOT at war with their way of life.
• You do not create martyrs, grieving parents or grieving children.  In other words....you do NOT kill YOUR own.
• You do however denigrate the act of terrorism itself; you blame the terrorists for all the deaths and destruction that have occurred.
• Do not be tempted to try the "El Salvador" option as the US-NRE and Britain are currently trying to implement in the Middle East.  Also known as death squads, "riding with the bad boys", etc.
  
• Do not be tempted to try the Mau Mau (British) or the Algerian (French) gambit of radicalizing a small group of terrorists to terrorize the population and discredit their entire movement, which the US-NRE, Israel the Saudi Royals and Britain have already implemented in their so-called “War on Terror", something they planned out more than thirty years ago.
• Do not be tempted to stage any false flag operations; such an act would make any government, institution, or person carrying it out, much more evil than the terrorists themselves.
• Show no mercy to those who are disloyal. But do not do so through the use of crude, evil, immoral, unethical, illegal, counter productive and unlawful acts of torture, murder and mayhem, but by lawful acts such as....
• Immediate seizure and forfeiture of ALL property and assets of anyone giving any support to terrorism, this includes any religious institutions, madras’s or mosques. Support could consist of ANY type of support by ANY person, group or entity.  Their farms, factories, homes, businesses, bank accounts, securities, lands and even personal property of anyone giving aid and comfort to the terrorists would be forfeit.
  
• Reward loyal citizens by giving them the assets and monies that are seized.  Give them positions, lands and grants.
  
• Protect and support loyal citizens by encouraging them to form their own LAWFUL and DISCIPLINED citizen’s militias.  Arm and train them.
  
• Very importantly, reward loyal citizens by allowing them to govern the given territory...as long as they remain loyal to the central government and follow the constitution.  Do not dictate.  But do not allow illegality or attacks for profit.
  
• Find those who carry grievances against the terrorists.  Make them your allies and friends.
  
• Emphasize that the terrorists are not part of the people; they are foreigners from afar bringing foreign ideology along with death and destruction.
• Treat terrorism as a criminal act, find the terrorists, all those that support them, prosecute them and punish them in accordance with the rule of law.
• Do not execute anyone unless it is for murder, or treason on behalf of another nation state.
• Imprison and exile those who are disloyal, but always offer amnesty and mercy to those who truly renounce their past misdeeds and renew their oath of allegiance.
• Understand YOU are NOT at war with YOUR people.
  
• Address all grievances possible.
• Deny motivation for the terrorists.
• Isolate the terrorists.
• Offer rewards and recruit informants.
• Get good intelligence.
• Protect the innocent.
• Strike hard and swiftly.
• And above all, make sure everyone understands the ONLY question is loyalty of the people, to the nation they are a part of and that nation's constitution which gives them the right to legally redress wrongs done to them.  - mpg
  

========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More On The Palestinian Situation....

They Like to Call it a War  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15440
Must Read - A quote...."48 hours after I landed the reality of this land, a land that people like to call holy, began taking its toll on me.  The movie “Boy In Stripped Pajamas” came to mind as I played with my kids in the pool of Kibbutz Zikkim.  This beautiful pastoral little kibbutz or agricultural commune, is on the Mediterranean coast just a stone’s throw from Gaza to the north. -- It’s only been about six months since my last visit here, just as Israel was preparing to launch its latest sadistic terror attack on the civilian population of Gaza, a population whose average age is 15.5, a population of innocent children. I visited Zikkim then because after all, it is the home of my in-laws, the place where my wife was born and raised."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Israeli troops 'ill-treat kids'  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8186905.stm
A quote...."A former Israeli military commander has told the BBC that Palestinian youngsters are routinely ill-treated by Israeli soldiers while in custody, reports the BBC' s Katya Adler from Jerusalem and the West Bank."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Syria: Israel dumping N-waste in Golan  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106770&sectionid=351020206
A quote...."Syria charges Israel with dumping nuclear waste near the Syrian border, in territories occupied by the regime during the 1967 Middle East war. -- In a report titled The suffering of Syrian citizens in the Golan and submitted to the United Nations, Syrian officials have stated that the Israeli regime uses tunnels in the Golan Heights to bury nuclear waste, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram reported."
also posted at AtheoNews  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/09/syria-israel-dumping-nuclear-waste-in.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Photostory: Struggling to worship in Jerusalem  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10785.shtml
Photo Gallery - A quote...."Each year during the month of Ramadan, thousands of Palestinian Muslim worshipers struggle to reach Jerusalem on Fridays to pray at the Haram al-Sharif, home of the al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam. -- The Israeli army imposes additional barriers with concrete slabs at both the Qalandiya and Bethlehem checkpoints -- the two main checkpoints that Palestinians from the occupied West Bank must pass in order to reach Jerusalem." -- also posted at AtheoNews  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/09/photostory-struggling-to-worship-in.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

President Zelaya is Back in Honduras!  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23552.htm
Breaking News - A quote...."September 21, 2009 "BBC" -- The ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, has returned to his country after nearly three months in exile following a political coup. --  Below is the transcript of an interview he gave to the BBC's Latin American service from inside the Brazilian embassy in the capital Tegucigalpa."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Live Blog: President Zelaya Has Returned to Honduras  ---  http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3439/live-blog-president-zelaya-has-returned-honduras
Breaking News - More on the story -- A quote...."As occurred during the first hours of the June 28 coup d'etat, the Internet signals of Channel 36 and Radio Globo are blocked, as is cell phone service in the capital (I've yet to confirm that there is any Internet or cell phone access in Tegucigalpa at all right now - it all appears to be jammed - but we do have reporter Belén Fernández reporting right this moment from that city and the information blockade will be broken soon enough.) We can take that extreme of censorship as additional confirmation that the President has indeed returned and the illegitimate coup regime is panicking. -- Developing... We'll update here as we're able to report and confirm more..." -- also posted at AtheoNews
  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/09/president-zelaya-has-returned-to.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Honduras under curfew after Zelaya return  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106794&sectionid=351020706
Breaking News - More on the story -- A quote...."The de facto government of Honduras has imposed a nationwide curfew over the deposed President Manuel Zelaya's secret return to the Latin American state." --  Heck the US-NRE's thugs are turning out to be a bunch of panicky little thieves who tried to steal a country and are now scared of getting caught and going to jail. So much for Obama's first coup.  May ALL his other attempts at stealing other people’s lands founder in the same way. - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Honduras Tilts Toward Revolution  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/092109c.html
posted at Consortium News  ---  https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/consortiumnews/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2043
Contains Video - A quote...."The struggle against the Honduran coup regime continues, with members of the resistance challenging the authorities at traditional Independence Day celebrations and in the streets."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Globalization Goes Bankrupt  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090921_globalization_goes_bankrupt/
Must Read - Military State Alert - Action Alert - A quote...."The draconian security measures put in place to silence dissent in Pittsburgh are disproportionate to any actual security concern. They are a response not to a real threat, but to the fear gripping the established centers of power. The power elite grasps, even if we do not, the massive fraud and theft being undertaken to save a criminal class on Wall Street and international speculators of the kinds who were executed in other periods of human history. They know the awful cost this plundering of state treasuries will impose on workers, who will become a permanent underclass. And they also know that once this is clear to the rest of us, rebellion will no longer be a foreign concept. -- The delegates to the G-20, the gathering of the world’s wealthiest nations, will consequently be protected by a National Guard combat battalion, recently returned from Iraq. The battalion will shut down the area around the city center, man checkpoints and patrol the streets in combat gear." -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23549.htm
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

New Deal Liberalism Writes Its Obituary  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/nasser09212009.html
Special Note - A quote...."Since the administration of Jimmy Carter, the Democratic Party has been galloping to the right like there’s no tomorrow. Countless opportunities to mobilize constituencies against the depradations of Reaganism/neoliberalism were lost, or better, deliberately misplaced. Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society was the last rallying cry of New Deal liberalism, and it was not Nixon who initiated the Great Reversal. It was the luminaries of liberalism itself who got the ball rolling. It’s now on record that the mission has been accomplished. New Deal liberalism is dead as a doornail. -- The gloves are off, and it is now officially open season on working people."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Economy Is A Lie, Too  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23550.htm
Special Note - A quote...."  September 21, 2009 "Information Clearing House" --- Americans cannot get any truth out of their government about anything, the economy included.  Americans are being driven into the ground economically, with one million school children now homeless, while Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announces that the recession is over. --  The spin that masquerades as news is becoming more delusional. Consumer spending is 70% of the US economy.  It is the driving force, and it has been shut down.  Except for the super rich, there has been no growth in consumer incomes in the 21st century.  Statistician John Williams of shadowstats.com reports that real household income has never recovered its pre-2001 peak. --  The US economy has been kept going by substituting growth in consumer debt for growth in consumer income."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Is THIS How the Bank Bailout Money is Being Used?  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15323
 Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSVIXQzsFs  ---  (YuTb - 9min 5sec - September 03, 2009)
Audio Interview - A quote...."Michel Chossudovsky, interviewed by Bonnie Faulkner, Guns and Butter --   KPFA.ORG, KPFA Fm 94.1" -- (a quote from YouTube) -- "Who do the banks owe money to? Are those hudge funds affiliated with the very banks that were bailed out? Prof. Chossudovsky explains. He emphasizes the bailouts will not help the crisis, but will exacerbate it. He explains that to pay for Obama's budget defecits, public roads and parks will be sold off to private companies and banks, who will charge user fees to citizens, and that these user fees will be used to pay back the bailout money to the government. In short, the government is helping the banks finance their own debt. He also says that bailed out banks are using the bailout money to buy up assets in the real economy (such as industry, tech, & airline stocks) at rock bottom prices, which will dramatically change the ownership structure in America. Will this lead to the creation of a financial and industrial oligarchy?" -- posted by evmazu   ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/evmazu  ---  See also....Michel Chossudovsky's "Circular Process" 09-17-09 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/michaelchossudovskyscircularprocess-mpg-reficultnias-091709
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Satyajit Das: “Derivatives and Debt Are the Needles of Finance”  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/satyajit-das-derivatives-and-debt-are.html
I have repeatedly argued that:

• Derivatives are still extremely dangerous  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/credit-default-swaps-are-still.html
• The insiders are killing any real reform  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/05/big-banks-have-already-killed-reform-of.html
• Credit default swaps aren't meaningfully being regulated, as only "standard" CDS contracts   ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/obamas-economic-regulations-are-like.html  ---  are subject to regulation
• Even standard contracts might not really end up being regulated  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/credit-default-swaps-are-still.html
• Most economists have acted like team doctors for the financial giants, pushing increased levels of leverage   ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/economists-have-acted-like-team-docors.html  ---  (i.e. debt - to the extent that increased leverage means borrowing more) like sports docs push injured athletes to get a shot of steroids and get back on the field
  

Derivatives expert Satyajit Das confirms  ---  http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/09/guest-post-satyajit-das-on-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-finance.html  ---  all of these points (and provides some memorable quotes in the process):
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Landmark Decision: Massive Relief for Homeowners and Trouble for the Banks  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15324
Financial Alert - A quote...."A landmark ruling in a recent Kansas Supreme Court case may have given millions of distressed homeowners the legal wedge they need to avoid foreclosure. In Landmark National Bank v. Kesler, 2009 Kan. LEXIS 834, the Kansas Supreme Court held that a nominee company called MERS has no right or standing to bring an action for foreclosure. MERS is an acronym for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, a private company that registers mortgages electronically and tracks changes in ownership. The significance of the holding is that if MERS has no standing to foreclose, then nobody has standing to foreclose – on 60 million mortgages."

Sunday September 20th 2009 - links page

Saturday September 19th 2009 - links page

Military & Govt. oath: Defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC
  ---  http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner%7Ey2009m9d18-Military--govt-oath-Defend-the-US-
Constitution-against-all-enemies-foreign-and-DOMESTIC
Must Read - A quote...."Among hundreds of writers, I’ve documented overwhelming evidence that the US is waging illegal Wars of Aggression, the worst crime a nation can commit. I’ve also documented the OBVIOUS lies political “leadership” from both parties told and still tell to justify these campaigns for empire. I’ve given historical context of Abraham Lincoln doing the same as a freshman in Congress pointing out the OBVIOUS lies justifying invasion of Mexico.  -- The Left and Right arms of the one oligarchic political body will not prosecute each other, of course. These politicians are not merely lying sacks of spin; their crimes are treason against the United States because they’ve killed over 5,000 American troops. They betray their oath of office to protect and defend the US Constitution each and every day." -- also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/09/19/military-govt-oath-defend-the-us-constitution-against-all-enemies-foreign-and-domestic/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Australian adviser to US military provides chilling insight into neo-colonial mentality  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/kilc-s19.shtml
Must Read - A quote...."The theme of Kilcullen’s lecture was “Defeating Global Terrorism”. What it actually contained was a presentation of the tactics that were used in Iraq, described as “clear, hold, build” in current military manuals, and outlined how they should be applied in Afghanistan. The central tenet of Kilcullen’s COIN theory is “support follows strength”—in other words, that force convinces. Perhaps sensing the audience had not grasped his meaning, he cited Mao Zedong’s dictum that “power comes from the barrel of a gun”. -- Kilcullen asserts that most armed resistance to the US-led occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq is carried out by “accidental guerillas”—people who are fighting only because foreign powers “are intruding in their space”. This formulation deliberately obscures the fact that insurgencies reflect a legitimate, political rejection of neo-colonial oppression by the occupied populations. According to Kilcullen, people are primarily motivated by self-interest and will therefore “do almost anything or support anyone for the gift of safety”. Providing the occupying forces prove they are stronger than the insurgency, the population will ultimately accept being ruled by a US puppet state." - bold by website editor - also posted at ThePeoplesVoice  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/09/19/australian-adviser-to-us-military-provid  ---  A policy of brutal, unapologetic, racist, murderous, colonial, thuggery, openly declared for all the world to see by a person who works for two out of the four countries currently promoting "White Man's Burden".  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/whitemansburden-blog-mpg-122006  --- mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Taliban leader tells 'invaders' to study history  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/09/19/taliban-leader-tells-invaders-to-study-history-2/
Must Read - Some quotes...."The Taliban's reclusive leader said in a Muslim holiday message Saturday that the U.S. and NATO should study Afghanistan's long history of war, in a pointed reminder that foreign forces have had limited military success in the country." -- "In his message for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which ends the fasting month of Ramadan, Omar said the U.S. and NATO should study the history of Alexander the Great, whose forces were defeated by Pashtun tribesmen in the 4th century.  "We would like to point out that we fought against the British invaders for 80 years from 1839 to 1919 and ultimately got independence by defeating" Britain, a statement attributed to Omar said.
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

CIA Adding Bases in Afghanistan as Taliban Gains, Panetta Says  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aea63RATz1lM
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The growing strength of the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan prompted the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to establish more bases there, the agency’s director said."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Al Jazeera exposes Iraq's booming, 'endemic' drug trade  ---  http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/al-jazeera-exposes-iraqs-booming-endemic-drug-trade/
Special Note - A quote...."A little-noticed report by Arab news network Al Jazeera on Friday shined a light on an often overlooked aspect of occupied Iraq: Its blossoming drug trade, fueled by Afghanistan and Iran, the profits from which have begun to spill over from the drug cartels to the militias." -- The two countries currently being occupied by the US-NRE, Afghanistan and Iraq, are now exporting drugs like crazy. No doubt with a goodly portion being shipped by the CIA to support their black ops. Where as before these ruinous and merciless occupations, Saddam hadn't allowed any drugs to be produced in Iraq, and the Taliban had eliminated them (through harsh measures) in Afghanistan.  Does everyone get the point?  Does everyone understand? This is what the US-NRE DOES; IT IS ALL THAT IT DOES!!  - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Shoe thrower shot by US troops dies - The "other one", not the Bush Basher. - mpg
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58117&hd=&size=1&l=e
Special Note - A quote...."A man who lived through the "cleansing" of Fallujah by occupation forces. Two battles - not one. He saw his city burn, his friends killed, his neighbours maimed. His mind broke, and he became imbalanced. He roamed the streets with long unkempt hair, disheveled clothes and a wild look in his eyes. Whenever he saw an American military convoy pass, he would shake his fists in the air and raise his voice and swear at them. He would sometimes pick up a pebble and hurl it at them."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Pakistan police raid US-contracted security firm  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/09/19/pakistan-police-raid-us-contracted-security-firm-4/
Special Note - Ahhh Haa, Pakistan isn't just going to roll over and play dead under the US-NRE's jack boots! - mpg -- A quote...."Pakistani police raided a local security firm that helps protect the U.S. Embassy on Saturday, seizing dozens of allegedly unlicensed weapons at a time when unusually intense media scrutiny of America's use of private contractors has deepened anti-U.S. sentiment. -- Two employees of the Inter-Risk company were arrested during the raids in Islamabad, police official Rana Akram said. Reporters were shown the seized weapons — 61 assault rifles and nine pistols. Akram said police were seeking the firm's owner."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

NAM urges IAEA to protect nuclear sites  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106621&sectionid=351020104
A quote...."On the final day of the 53rd General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Egypt's ambassador read out a statement on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, in support of a 1985 non-binding resolution that bans military attacks on nuclear sites."
also posted at AtheoNews  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/09/non-aligned-movement-urges-iaea-to.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

New Poll Finds Strong Domestic Support for Iran Regime  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/09/non-aligned-movement-urges-iaea-to.html
A quote...."Despite persistent mass demonstrations protesting June’s disputed reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a new survey of Iranian public opinion released here Saturday suggests majority domestic support for both him and the country’s basic governing institutions."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Iran Wins One Against the USA  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/09/iran-wins-one-against-usa.html
Special Note - A quote...."Tut, tut America, It's not nice to play favorites.Clinton warns Iran: talk to us about your weapons or face isolation So what does Iran say about this?
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Iran ready to pay for probe into Israeli nukes  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106590&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Iran is prepared to allocate a budget for a probe into Israel's largely clandestine nuclear industry, Tehran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says." -- also posted at AtheoNews  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/09/iran-ready-to-pay-for-probe-into.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

What Did Ahmadinejad Really Say?  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/091909.html
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23540.htm
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
A quote...."September 19, 2009 "Consortium News" -- It is an important principle of journalism that when someone makes a statement, especially a controversial one with grave implications, the comment should be put in the fullest possible context so the reader can make an informed judgment. But that rule doesn’t seem to apply when the New York Times writes about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
also posted at AtheoNews  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-did-ahmadinejad-really-say.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

In Missile ‘Backdown,’ Obama Moves Toward War on Iran  ---  http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/09/in-missile-backdown-obama-moves-toward.html
Special Note -- Well wad'da'ya know, the US-NRE caught in another lie....again....for the thousandth time.- mpg -- A quote...."The countries previously in the Soviet satellite (and currently in the US satellite) may be sycophantic but they’re not stupid. Though the US administration had insisted for years that placing missiles on Czech and Polish soil was all about Iran, had nothing to do with Russia, and that only a paranoid Russian nationalist would suggest otherwise, the Poles knew better. Upon President Obama’s announcement that the Polish and Czech deal was off, these two NATO “allies” screamed: “Betrayal! The U.S. sold us to Russia and stabbed us in the back.” Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski, himself the product of spooky US and British think-tanks like the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute, wagged a finger at his handlers back in the US and called the timing of the announcement “clumsy.” Why clumsy? Because it came on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet occupation of parts of Poland!"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Minister: Russia won't deploy missiles near Poland  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/09/19/minister-russia-wont-deploy-missiles-near-poland/
A quote..."Russia will scrap a plan to deploy missiles near Poland because the U.S. no longer wants to place a missile-defense system in Eastern Europe, a Russian deputy defense minister said Saturday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Putin’s power play keeps the West guessing  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/Politics/2009-09-19/putins-medvedev-power-play.html
Must Read - A quote...."Vladimir Putin personifies that magical moment when Russia went from being a crippled, post-Soviet state, to a relatively healthy, modern nation. Many will never forgive him for that. -- But before we understand what exactly it is that unnerves the West about Vladimir Putin, and his potential return to the Russian presidency, it is necessary to understand the political atmosphere in both the United States and in Russia just before his sudden rise to power."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Israel wants more of your money... NOW!  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2009/09/once-we-squeeze-all-we-can-out-of.html
Quote of the Day....""Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away." -- Israeli CRIME Minister *'Bibi' Netanyahu*
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Records of Massive Explosions on 911:Down the Memory Hole in Service of the “nanothermite” Theory
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/so-they-had-to-use-nanothermite-because-you-couldnt-hear-explosions-guess-again/
Special Note - A quote...."Notice how HBO edits out the sounds of explosions when they run part of that same clip. In the clip, you can see the dust from the Twin Towers all around them, so the towers are down, already demoed, and Building 7 is still standing… and guess what? Explosions. -- So they didn’t use “nanothermite” to keep us from hearing explosions… they used EDITORS." -- For more on this issue see....9/11 - WTC7
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-wtc7-weblist-mpg-082308
& 9/11 - WTC-1&2  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911WTC1&2-weblist-mpg-030709
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Germany boosts terrorism alert level  ---  http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/18/germany.alqaeda/index.html
Special Note - A quote...."BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- The German government raised its terrorism alert level after al Qaeda posted a video on the Internet threatening attacks in Germany if this month's elections do not come out the way the terrorist organization wants." -- Right before the election where Chancellor Angela Merkel, who supports a continued German presence in Afghanistan, was losing support because of the most recent disastrous bombing in that country.  Why doesn't al Qaeda just publicly come fourth and state they work for the CIA? This is just a pathetic, kindergarten level Psyops electioneering attempt. Exactly how many times, in how many countries, is al Qaeda going to come to the rescue of various Neocon policies and politicians right before they're voted on by releasing "tapes"?  This is really childish, predictable and it's becoming truly boring....and please this website editor is not encouraging the security services of the US-NRE or Germany to "prove" that this threat is real.  The people of this world have had enough of their false flag "events' already. The Saudi Royals, Israel and the US-NRE should just give up the whole pretense, everyone knows about what they're doing so they should just stop it. – mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Krakauer Seethes Over Tillman Tragedy, Cover-up  ---  http://www.mercurynews.com/books/ci_13350735
A quote...."In "Where Men Win Glory," Jon Krakauer examines the killing by friendly fire of professional football player Pat Tillman, combining empathy and extensive reporting in an affecting portrait of the victim and a bitter condemnation of the cover-up that followed his death while on duty in Afghanistan. -- Krakauer also ties the tragedy into a long line of U.S. misfires with the Taliban and al-Qaida — a pointed exercise at a time when the Afghanistan campaign is losing political and public support." -- For more on this issue see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Pat Tillman
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#TILLMAN
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

U.S. Agents Arrest Father and Son in Terror Inquiry  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/nyregion/20terror.html?_r=1
These might actually be the first "real" terrorists arrested in the US-NRE so far.  Given the past history of the FBI in these sorts of cases of course, we'll just have to wait and see.  But at least these aren't hobos, or crack-heads living in a warehouse somewhere who are accused of nefarious deeds after being wined, dined given loads of cash along with delusions of grandeur and taught plans for mayhem and murder by the FBI's "finest" for six months.  THAT is at least a start in the right direction.  Who knows, maybe one day the FBI will even be able to summon up enough courage to track down those really responsible for ordering and paying for the "hit" called 9/11!!  One can only hope. – mpg -- A quote...."Federal authorities arrested a 24-year-old Denver shuttle bus driver and his father on Saturday night, charging them both with making false statements to the government in an ongoing federal terrorism investigation stretching from New York to Colorado to overseas, government officials said."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Official: FCC to propose 'Net neutrality' rules  ---  http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090919/ap_on_hi_te/us_internet_rules
A quote...."The head of the FCC plans to propose new rules that would prohibit Internet service providers from interfering with the free flow of information and certain applications over their networks, an official at the agency said Saturday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More On The Palestinian Situation....

Those Dastardly Anti-Semites?  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23539.htm
A quote...."September 19, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- IS THERE no limit to the wiles of those dastardly anti-Semites? -- Now they have decided to slander the Jews with another blood libel. Not the old accusation of slaughtering Christian children to use their blood for baking Passover matzoth, as in the past, but of the mass slaughter of women and children in Gaza. -- And who did they put at the head of the commission which was charged with this task? Neither a British Holocaust-denier nor a German neo-Nazi, nor even an Iranian fanatic, but of all people a Jewish judge who bears the very Jewish name of Goldstone (originally Goldstein, of course). And not just a Jew with a Jewish name, but a Zionist, whose daughter, Nicole, is an enthusiastic Zionist who once “made Aliyah” and speaks fluent Hebrew. And not just a Jewish Zionist, but a South African who opposed apartheid and was appointed to the country’s Constitutional Court when that system was abolished. -- All this in order to defame the most moral army in the world, fresh from waging the most just war in history!"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Swedish paper cleared over Israeli organ claims  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106644&sectionid=351020606
A quote...."A Swedish newspaper report which had said that Israeli soldiers stole and sold body parts of dead Palestinians did not constitute inciting racism. - Two written requests had been submitted to the Swedish Chancellor of Justice to probe whether the report in the Aftonbladet tabloid last month amounted to inciting racial hatred and violated freedom of expression laws. - On Saturday, the news agency TT reported that the country's Chancellor of Justice had decided not to open a preliminary investigation into the case." -- For more on this issue see....Israeli Organ Thefts
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israeliorgnthefts-weblist-mpg-092409
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Shining a light on Israeli aggression in Gaza  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58136&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."So, Stephen Harper and his ministers were defending possible war crimes and crimes against humanity, while Michael Ignatieff and senior Liberals were staying mostly mum. And much of our mainstream media were averting their gaze from, or excusing, the possible crimes. -- Now, no less an authority than Richard Goldstone, former chief prosecutor with the war crimes tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, says that the three-week Israeli onslaught on Gaza eight months ago amounted to "war crimes and possibly, in some respects, crimes against humanity."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Historic Palestine Photo Album - My Occupied Land  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58130&hd=&size=1&l=e
Alt  ---  http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/159967/overview#5728173  ---  (BublShr - April 30, 2007 - Album photo: 1 of 82)
Must View Photo Gallery - A quote...."By Sabbah"  ---  http://www.bubbleshare.com/users/profile/18822
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Palestine Pre-1947  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58115&hd=&size=1&l=e
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjEBQ_bE7uA  ---  (YouTube - 5 min 32 sec - October 29, 2007)
Must View Video - A quote...."The old lie that Palestine was dry desert waiting for a people is just that--a lie. This clip for all people to see the Beauty of the Palestinian People before they were ethnically cleansed and murdered and made into refugees by the State of Israel." -- Music Joaquin Rodrigo, lyrics Helmut Lotti, sung by Lotti  -- All Photos (b&w) from http://fai.cyberia.net.lb/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Honduras Resistance Remains Firm  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=118371&Itemid=1
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Sep 19 (Prensa Latina) The National Front against the coup d''Etat stated that the resistance to the de facto government remains firm and it could not be defeated despite repression."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Honduras Resistance Warns of Provocateurs on the Internet -- http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3435/honduras-resistance-warns-provocateurs-internet
A quote...."A sure sign that the Honduran people’s resistance against the June 28 coup d’etat continues to enjoy massive public support comes from the continued disinformation campaigns against it. After all, if the coup regime really had, as its defenders claim, won the battle for Honduran hearts and minds, it wouldn’t need to persist in its overstated PR and disinfo campaigns against coup opponents."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Lehman Brothers Revisited  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff48.1.html
Must Read - A quote...."The most popular storyline offered by these Monday morning quarterbacks is that the mistaken decision to allow Lehman to fail resulted from the Bush Administration's misplaced faith in the free markets. In this telling, the real crises began in the days following the Lehman bankruptcy, which unleashed a financial panic that would have caused complete economic collapse – if not for the subsequent federal intervention. -- In reality, Lehman's demise was simply the result of an unfolding crisis that began years before. Popular belief aside, allowing the institution to succumb to the overwhelming debts on its balance sheet was perhaps the only correct decision made by government since this crisis began."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Negative Interest Rates  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north758.html
Must Read - A quote...."There is considerable discussion about the possibility that the Federal Reserve could and possibly should create a monetary environment in which interest rates are negative."

• First, why should it do this?
• Second, is this even possible?
• Third, if it is possible, under what conditions could/should the FED do this?

"I am not speaking here of real interest rates, i.e., the cost of borrowing discounted by the rate of price inflation. That environment existed in the late 1970s when Federal Reserve policy under the pipe-smoking Arthur Burns and then the long-forgotten G. William Miller produced negative real interest rates. Prices were rising at rates higher than T-bill rates or T-bond rates. Investors lost wealth by investing in these assets rather than gold or silver."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The rich still run the US  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/sep/17/healthcare-us-economy-reform
Must Read - A quote...."The United States is a rich country, so it seems obvious that our forms of corruption are preferable to those that plague developing countries. And they are, in the sense that it is always better to be a rich country and have rich country problems than to be a poor or middle-income country. But if we look at the US from the point of view of its potential – and I don't mean utopian dreams but merely what is quite feasible and practical in the immediate or near future – it seems that we have a very limited form of democracy. -- One year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and nearly two years into our worst recession since the Great Depression, we have almost nothing to show in the way of reforms that could prevent a recurrence. The financial sector is probably more concentrated than it was before the crisis, and financial firms are still gambling with taxpayer guarantees, and even subsidies."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Moody's Does Not Expect Housing To Return To Pre-Bust Levels Before 2020
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/moodys-does-not-expect-housing-return-pre-bust-levels-2020
Special Note - Map - (Click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Troubled rating agency Moody's, in its most recent Resi Landscape publication, has provided some very brutal projections for the housing market turnaround, which, if true, will promptly make any V-shaped recovery conversation moot. And for all homeowners who are holding on to underwater mortgages hoping for a quick bubble #2 inspired turnaround, you may want to reevaluate: quote Moody's "It will take more than a decade to completely recover from the 40% peak-to-trough decline in national home prices." - bold by website editor
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Housing Agency's Cash Reserves Will Drop Below Requirement  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15279
A quote...."The Federal Housing Administration has been hit so hard by the mortgage crisis that for the first time, the agency's cash reserves will drop below the minimum level set by Congress, FHA officials said. -- The FHA guaranteed about a quarter of all U.S. home loans made this year, and the reserves are meant as a financial cushion to ensure that the agency can cover unexpected losses. -- "It's very serious," FHA Commissioner David H. Stevens said in an interview. "There's nothing more serious that we're addressing right now, outside the housing crisis in general, than this issue."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Are U.S. Treasury Bond Sales a Ponzi Scheme?  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/are-us-treasury-bond-sales-ponzi-scheme.html
Must Read - A quote...."I have heard at least 5 different theories by very smart people about how U.S. treasury bond sales are being faked. -- I do not have either the background or the inside knowledge to be able to comment on whether any of them are true."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-5643-0-5-5--.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

U.S. Authorities Probing $100 Billion of Bonds Seized in Italy  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601208&sid=afX0BWHToC1g
link posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908
Another one!!  What the HECK is going on??? -- A quote...."Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Secret Service is examining more than $100 billion of U.S. government bonds confiscated in northern Italy in August, just two months after $134 billion of allegedly fake securities were seized in a nearby town. "
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

French farmers dump milk to protest price slump  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/19/content_12079905.htm
Photo Gallery - We should call these shots "Depression Memories" - mpg -- A quote...."French milk producers arrive to pour litres of milk on a field near Le Mont Saint Michel, western France, September 18, 2009 in protest over a growing industrial dispute over low prices. The banner reads "milk strike".(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Friday September 18th 2009 - links page

"This is a crisis of solvency, not just liquidity, but true deleveraging has not begun yet because the losses of financial institutions have been socialised and put on government balance sheets. This limits the ability of banks to lend, households to spend and companies to invest......  The releveraging of the public sector through its build-up of large fiscal deficits risks crowding out a recovery in private sector spending."

"A settler tosses wine at a Palestinian woman on Shuhada Street in Hebron. The approach of some settlers towards neighboring Palestinians, especially around Nablus in the north and Hebron in the south, has often been one of contempt and violence. Photo: Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times"