Monday September 29th 2008 - links page

The Facts Speak For Themselves - posted at 911Truth dot Org  ---  http://www.911truth.org/page.php?page=donate
  ---  http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20080930000847323
Must Read - A quote...."Before I begin, I would like to say that theorizing about what happened on 9/11, when you're not being given answers to your questions about that day by the people who SHOULD be able to do so, is PERFECTLY normal. As is suspecting that the reason these answers aren't being given is "sinister" in nature. As Ray McGovern said, "for people to dismiss these questioners as "conspiratorial advocates", or "conspiratorial theorists"... that's completely out of line because the... The questions remain because the President who should be able to answer them, WILL NOT." When you think about everything this Administration has done in almost 8 years, the idea that they might not be giving us the answers we seek because of something "sinister" is not crazy. In fact, it's the most logical conclusion one can come to at this point. After seven plus years of obfuscation, spin, lies, and cover-ups regarding the 9/11 attacks, it is unavoidable to think that criminal complicity is the reason why." -- For more on this issue see....
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A Nation of Jerks? Culpably Accepting of Basic Dishonesty and of Unscrupulous Big Shots
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Nation-of-Jerks-Culpabl-by-Jay-Janson-080929-775.html
Must Read - A quote...."For it is quite easy to discount the suffering of Iraqis, Somalis, Afghanis, or earlier, the Vietnamese, along with the poor half of mankind who live on less than two dollars a day, but quite difficult to stomach discomfort of Americans in America. And so this complete bailout of corporations and banks becomes a 'real damn shame'. Its just too close to home. -- However there is something silly about Americans belatedly directing their outrage solely at its elected government leaders and their corporate finance buddies, as if Americans nationwide were pure and innocent children victimized by a big bad world; if America is big and bad, it is Americans that have made it that way."
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Wrecking, Wrecking, Wrecked  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-frank/wrecking-wrecking-wrecked_b_130183.html
Must Read - A quote...."As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it. The regulators have indeed killed the regulated--not by intrusive meddling but by doing nothing, by taking a nap while the financial sector puffed up the bubble and blew itself to pieces."
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The Crisis is Far from Over  ---  http://watchingamerica.com/News/7315/the-crisis-is-far-from-over/
Must Read - This one's fun - mpg -- A quote...."Before anything else, a lesson (I don’t know the author) to illustrate the current financial crisis in the USA:"
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The Small at the Table of the Big
  ---  http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/09-2008/Article-20080929-ae91988d-c0a8-10ed-01ae-81ab89030b8b/story.html
A quote...."In the UN hall, the small and the big sit next to one another. The General Assembly misleads small nations; they are led to believe that international legitimacy guarantees equality and preserves rights. It is just a fleeting sensation. It is sufficient for one to be there when the master of the American empire arrives. The streets of New York become congested with security measures. Traffic breaks down. The taxi driver will not take you to the building that falls in the custody of Ban Ki-moon. He informs you that the city will not return to normalcy until he leaves. He means George Bush." -- To turn a very old phrase...."It's like making a moron into a mountain." - mpg
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Crazy or Liars?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2008-09-29_037_crazy_or_liars.mp3
Audio Commentary -- A quote...."Karen Kwiatkowski podcast on the lying warmongers called neoconservatives."
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[Iraq] Parliament further marginalizes Iraqi minorities  ---  http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2008-09-29%5Ckurd.htm
A quote...."A new decision by the Iraqi parliament leaves Iraqi minorities with no representation in the country’s provincial councils as well as the legislature. --  By an overwhelming majority, the parliament early this week revoked paragraph 50 from the constitution under which Iraqi minorities were assigned a set of seats in legislative and municipal councils."
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Al-Maliki: US Cannot Afford to Stay;  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2008/09/al-maliki-us-cannot-afford-to-stay.html
A quote...."In an interview with the Associated Press, PM Nuri al-Maliki warned that the future is dark if Iraq and the US do not agree on a security pact. And without a pact, he said, all the security progress made in the last year would be at risk. He points out that the alternative is to go back to the UN security council for an extension of Chapter 7 authorization of foreign troops in Iraq, and that UNSC approval is no longer assured because Russia may be in a bad mood after the Georgia tiff. He says Iraq still insists that US troops who are off base and not on a military mission, who commit crimes in Iraq, must be tried in Iraqi courts. -- Al-Maliki, who wants a timetable for US withdrawal by the end of 2010, ended the interview with a clever appeal over Bush's head to the American public:"
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Cleaning up of Jewish cemetery in Basra  ---  http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2008-09-28%5Ckurd.htm
A quote...."Municipal authorities in the southern city of Basra have mounted a campaign to clean up the Jewish cemetery there. --  The cemetery is seen as one of Basra’s ‘cultural landmarks’ and the authorities want to keep it clean and tidy, said Ahmad al-Yasseri who heads the cleaning-up campaign."
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Ahmadinejad accepts Israel's right to exist  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/29/iran.israel.ahmadinejad
A quote...."The Iranian president has said he would accept a two-state solution if the Palestinians agree. So where are the headlines?"
Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20898.htm
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Iran criticizes Security Council for politicizing nuclear program  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=70603
A quote...."Iran-Security Council-Nuclear Iran on Saturday criticized the Security Council for passing a new resolution as an effort to politicize the technical dispute between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency."
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China Urges West to Give up Force against Iran  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8707081474
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- China called for an end to the use of force against Tehran in a move that will further complicate the push for new anti-Iran sanctions."
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NATO: Afghan policeman fires on U.S. troops, 1 dead  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-09-29-nato-afghanistan_N.htm
Special Note - A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan policeman opened fire on U.S. troops inside a police station in eastern Afghanistan, killing an American soldier and wounding several other people, officials said Monday."
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Taliban leadership denies report of Afghan talks  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m47615&s1=h1
A quote...."KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban leadership on Monday denied a report they were negotiating with the Afghan government to end the war and the insurgents repeated their pledge to keep fighting till foreign troops were expelled from the country." -- Or in the Taliban's own words....Statement of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan regarding the untrue news about peace talk  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m47622&s1=h1
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Fatah official admits U.S. vetoes national Palestinian dialogue  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/28/content_10129096.htm
A quote...."RAMALLAH, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- A leader from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement on Sunday admitted that Washington vetoes talks between Fatah and its rival Hamas movement." -- For more on this issue see....US Sponsored Civil Wars - Palestine
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussponsoredcivilwars-weblist-mpg-101107#PALESTINE
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The Mischief-Makers - The real troublemakers in the Middle East  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13522
A quote...."What the heck is going on in Syria? The news of a huge explosion in Damascus, caused by a car bomb, has shaken the region, and it isn't at all clear who or what is responsible. Whatever the source, however, the attack – which killed 17 bystanders, including possibly a top Syrian intelligence official – augurs ill for the future of peace in the Middle East (an increasingly elusive goal). -- The attack occurred Saturday morning, near a major Syrian intelligence facility, although news reports in the West are focusing on the proximity of the Shi'ite shrine. Israeli media are emphasizing the possibility of an internal struggle within the Syrian regime itself, while the Iranians are saying the blast was the work of the Mossad and/or CIA. Suffice to say that this incident is shrouded in mystery, as the Syrians hint of attackers from beyond their borders, and the context – a series of equally mysterious attacks on targets in Syria over the past few years – indicates they may be correct."
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Arab newspapers see Israel behind deadly bombing in Syria  ---  http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=96377
A quote...."AMMAN: Israel's Mossad spy agency was behind a deadly car bomb attack in Damascus on Saturday which killed 17 people, according to a columnist in the semi-official Jordanian daily Ad-Dustour. "It's a US-backed Israeli conspiracy to destabilize the Syrian regime and create enough chaos to produce an opposition that would develop and grow under the sponsorship of Israel and the United States," Hashem al-Khaledi wrote in an editorial published on Sunday."
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Syria says 'terrorists' coming from outside border  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=386828
A quote...."Syria on Sunday hinted at foreign involvement in a deadly weekend car bombing, with its state-run media saying the objective was to undermine Damascus' efforts to emerge from years of international isolation."
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We run the road  ---  http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080926/REVIEW/410798081/1008
A quote...."At the edge of town, several hundred men with automatic rifles, rocket propelled grenade launchers, pistols and hand grenades stood before earthen barriers and fires. Some wore masks. There was nobody in command – this was a mob, not a militia. The men were angry, afraid, suspicious, shouting at strangers and each other, each one an authority unto himself, carelessly swinging weapons around, oblivious to where they were pointing. Some rested the barrels of their rifles on top of their feet, a sign they had no professional training."
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Is Pakistan's Zardari creating new dictatorship?  ---  http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2407
Video - A quote...."Tariq Khan: Pak President Zardari is not rescinding legal framework of dictatorship." -- Yeah...so?  Neither will "Bombs Away O-Bomb-a" or "Mad Dog McCain" in what was once called the U.S. (now known as the N.R.E.)
See....Thirty Five Acts to Restore Americans' Rights 11-10-06 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/seventeenacts-blog-mpg-111006
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Pakistan's powerful intel agency gets new chief
  ---  http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2008/September/international_September2579.xml&section=international
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan has named a new chief for its main intelligence service, an agency whose loyalties in the war on terror have long been a concern to the United States. -- Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha, previously the director general of military operations, was named the new head of Inter-Services Intelligence, according to an army statement late Monday."
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Israel in Focus at IAEA Conference  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8707081491
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- The UN nuclear watchdog's annual conference started Monday with the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and Islamic countries railing against Israel's nuclear program."
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ECUADOR:  Correa May Cancel Payment of Some "Illegitimate" Debt  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44061
A quote...."QUITO, Sep 29 (IPS) - The day after the new constitution promoted by his government won 63 percent support in a referendum, according to the preliminary returns, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said Monday that he may cancel payment of some loans, but that the country would not default on its foreign debt."
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South Korea to develop oil resources in Russia’s Far East  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/31111
A quote...."Russia and South Korea will closely co-operate on energy developments on Russia’s continental shelf, including those in western Kamchatka. The announcement comes following President Medvedev’s meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in Moscow on Monday."
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Russia to build four reactors in India  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C09%5C30%5Cstory_30-9-2008_pg7_57
A quote...."NEW DELHI: India will sign a deal with Russia to construct four nuclear reactors for electricity generation. The deal will be signed during President Dmitry Medvedav’s visit to New Delhi in December. “We are planning to build four reactors with Russia’s assistance in Kudankulam, Tamil Nadu,” Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar was quoted by a Russian television channel as saying."
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Russia to start MiG fighter deliveries to India in spring 2009  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080929/117273754.html
A quote...."NEW DELHI, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will start deliveries of MiG-29K Fulcrum-D carrier fighters to India in the spring of 2009, the aircraft manufacturer's marketing director said Monday. (MiG-29 K/KUB fighters for India - Image gallery) "
  ---  http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20070123/59541189.html
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New hypersonic missile to be 'uninterceptable'  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/31123
A quote...."A joint Russian-Indian company has started the development of a cruise missile capable of flying at Mach 5, which will make it 'impossible to intercept'. BrahMos-2 will be the next generation of the highly successful the BrahMos missile already used by Indian military."
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Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko to visit Russia on Thursday  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20080929/117273184.html
A quote...."MOSCOW, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will pay a working visit to Moscow on Thursday at the invitation of her Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, the Russian government said Monday."
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The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 3 articles - Monday - [ Day 53 ] =====  ==========

U.S. Should Recognize South Ossetia  ---  http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1016/42/371290.htm
A quote...."29 September 2008 -- The United States should recognize the independence of South Ossetia. Short of a major war, South Ossetia will never be part of Georgia again, and half of the country -- North Ossetia -- is already part of Russia. In addition, the Ossetians wish to be united under Russian rule, as any impartial, internationally monitored referendum would show."
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Comparing South Ossetia to Kosovo  ---  http://russia.suite101.com/article.cfm/comparing_south_ossetia_to_kosovo
A  quote...."Sep 29, 2008 -- After the recognition of the independence of Kosovo by the United States and a minority of world states (45 for now), Russia replied by exposing what it perceived as the inconsistency and hypocrisy of their position. Why not grant independence of the Georgian breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, since their populations also claim to fear majority rule in their larger country?"
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South Ossetia prepares a low blow for Saakashvili  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/31117
A quote...."September 29, 2008, 17:54 -- South Ossetian authorities are planning to put Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili on an international wanted list. The South Ossetian Prosecutor General's Office will complete all necessary procedures next week."
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END - The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 3 articles - Monday - [ Day 53 ] === ==========

Former CIA executive pleads guilty to defrauding government  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-foggo30-2008sep30,0,5681841.story
A quote...."Prosecutors said Kyle Dustin Foggo, along with convicted Congressman Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, helped steer an estimated $100 million in contracts to San Diego-area firms run by Foggo's old roommate."
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The CIA has been tickling people to death for years  ---  http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=25947
A quote...."Michael Hayden said the clandestine agency is using Predator missile attacks to “tickle” enemy groups to provoke a reaction. -- “We use military operations to excite the enemy, prompting him to respond.” -- The agency director was jokingly referring to the policy of committing multiple mass-murders of innocent citizens of Pakistan, as a tactic for provoking retaliation by their relatives. This immoral terrorist act is considered to be a legitimate military strategy by the demented CIA mind. It sees no wrong in committing criminal acts to cause others to commit further criminal acts as a rationale for starting a divisive world war for resources, under the guise of “self-defense.”
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Australia Plans Mass Surveillance System  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-1672-0-14-14--.html
A quote...."CRIMTRAC's planned automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system could become a mass surveillance system, taking as many as 70 million photos of cars and drivers every day across a vast network of roadside cameras." -- For more on this issue see....White Man's Burden - 12-20-06 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/whitemansburden-blog-mpg-122006.html
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Republican IT consultant subpoenaed in case alleging tampering with 2004 election
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Republican_IT_consultant_subpoenaed_in_case_0929.html
A quote...."COLUMBUS -- A high-level Republican consultant has been subpoenaed in a case regarding alleged tampering with the 2004 election."
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The Credit Markets Are ALREADY Frozen, Folks...  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=9751
Must Read - A quote...."No self-respecting shylock is going to loan a thin dime to any consumer in these waters.  In fact, only the surest of sure bets in the commercial market is going to see a nickel of any money we throw out into the ether. -- This bailout bill is a bill to stall the inevitable and make it the problem of the next administration to deal with.  Pure and simple.  No one in a position to spend money in this economy is going to get a thin dime out of any Washington bailout."
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House Rejects $700 Billion Rescue Plan - For now. But it will come back again...and again....and again. - mpg
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20895.htm
A quote...."The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue package, ignoring urgent pleas from President Bush and bipartisan congressional leaders to quickly bail out the staggering financial industry."
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US wealth in shrink mode  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JI30Dj08.html
A quote...."If the wealth-to-income ratio falls back to its 1989 level, the net worth of Americans would fall by a third. That is a frightening prospect, but it is not necessarily the bottom."
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How bad was Monday, really? Commentary: From long-term perspective, Monday plunge isn't unique
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/putting-mondays-plunge-historical-context/story.aspx?
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Special Note -- Dow Jones (-777.68 or 7% )  Nasdaq (-199.61 or 9.1%)  S&P 500 (-106.85 or 8.8%) -- A quote...."Monday's market plunge may have been the worst point drop ever for the Dow Jones Industrial Average  (DJIA 10,365.45, -777.68) , but in percentage terms it came nowhere close. It dropped 7% on Monday, or just one-third as much as the 22.6% decline in the 1987 crash.  -- In fact, there have been 16 other occasions since the Dow was created in 1896 in which the Dow's percentage drop was greater than it was Monday. That works out to an average of [one] every seven years. -- bold by website editor
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Citi to buy Wachovia banking business for $2.16 bln
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/citi-buy-wachovias-bank-biz/story.aspx?
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Special Note - A quote...."FDIC backs roughly $300 bln of Wachovia assets to avoid another huge failure. -- BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Wachovia Corp. became the latest financial-services giant to succumb to the global credit crunch when regulators announced Monday that the company's banking operations were being bought by Citigroup Inc. for a knock-down price of $2.16 billion in stock."
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Fed Pumps Further $630 Billion Into Financial System (Update3)  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aP5hzUWla7Jg&refer=home
Special Note - A quote....."The Fed increased its existing currency swaps with foreign central banks by $330 billion to $620 billion to make more dollars available worldwide. The Term Auction Facility, the Fed's emergency loan program, will expand by $300 billion to $450 billion. The European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan are among the participating authorities." -- bold by website editor
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ECB Cuts Gold Sales  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=12165
Special Note - A quote...."European central banks have cut their sales of gold to the lowest level in almost a decade, reversing the practice of recent years when hefty sales helped depress prices."
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Consumer spending slows as stimulus fades August report was weakest in six months, shows threat to economy  ---  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26940695/
A quote...."WASHINGTON - Consumer spending in August turned in the weakest performance in six months, underscoring the threat the economy faces as the government's stimulus program fades into the past."
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The Shadow of the Pitchfork: Elite Panic Attack as Bailout Goes Bust
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1618-the-shadow-of-the-pitchfork-elite-panic-attack-as-bailout-goes-bust.html
A quote...."The vote by the House of Representatives to defeat the Wall Street bailout plan is the first act of political courage that the Congress of the United States has mounted in the last seven years. The fact that it was due largely to right-wing Republicans afraid of going down with the sinking ship of the witless leader they have followed blindly throughout his reign is a delicious irony -- but the whys and wherefores of the vote are not important. What matters is that one of America's moribund institutions has flickered to life long enough to derail a disastrous action that would have shoved the nation even deeper into the pit of corruption and ruin where it has been mired for so long."
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Bush Wants To Bankrupt America: There is Method To His Madness  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3977.htm
A quote...."The plan is very simple, but not obvious on first blush. Make sure that all the money is gone from the U.S. treasury, make sure the deficits are so great that all social and educational programs are cut, increase the military and security budgets to "protect our nation" with all these monies going to corporations and security firms who are extra-national (not tied to any country, but actually more than multi-national in that they are outside the purview of any nation at any single moment) and stave in the social security fund by allowing it to go to private corporations for "investment"-and you have the perfect scenario for saying, "only the private sector can save us-we're broke and they have the money to run every program, fund every program, but of course, at huge costs and profits for the private corporations."
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The Bailout Round II: Adult Version?
  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/36442
The Financial Collapse and the Housing Market - Hell to Pay
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/farago09292008.html
House and Global Investors Vote "No" on Paulson Bailout - Black Monday?
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney09292008.html
I've watched the economy for 30 years. Now I'm truly scared
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/28/globaleconomy.creditcrunch
The Paulson Plan - The Rise Of The American Oligarch Class
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20892.htm
Global banks expect to fall under U. S. bailout umbrella
  ---  http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/21/business/global.php#
Giuliani's law firm seeking bailout business - Will he be wearing a pink tutu? - mpg
  ---  http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080926/bailout_giuliani.html?.v=1
Paulson Will Have No Peer
  ---  http://www.truthout.org/092908S
Understanding the Bank Bailout
  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers222.html
The Power of "No" and the Need to Keep the Pressure on Congress
  ---  http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/17557
Protests on Wall Street - what the news media isn't showing you - contains video
  ---  http://hubpages.com/hub/Protests-on-Wall-Street---what-the-news-media-isnt-showing-you
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Lula blames rich nations for crisis  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/09/200893006218621.html
A quote...."The Brazilian president has accused wealthy nations of being responsible for the global financial crisis, saying their "irresponsibility" could destroy fiscal progress made in the developing world."
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Brazilean Real drops to nine year record past 2 dollar level  ---  http://www4.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=14697&formato=HTML
A quote...."Brazil's Real plummeted the most in nine years, weakening past the 2-per-dollar level, as a direct consequence of the US House of Representatives rejection of the 700 billion US dollars bailout package for the financial system."
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Chilean peso looses 22% value in dollar terms in 6 months  ---  http://www4.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=14696&formato=HTML
A quote...."Chile's Central Bank on Monday called an early halt to the 8 billion US dollars foreign-exchange intervention plan that has seen the peso depreciate 22% against the US dollar since April arguing the impact of international financial markets."
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Argentina and Brazil ready to trade in local currencies  ---  http://www4.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=14698&formato=HTML
A quote...."Argentina and Brazil will be launching in a week’s time a “de-dollarized” trade system for small and medium companies which should considerably reduce financial costs that could be extended in the near future to the tourism industry, according to banking sources quoted in Buenos Aires La Nacion."

Sunday September 28th 2008 - links page

"The illusion of the existence of a unipolar world confused many.  For some people it generated a desire to place all their eggs in it's basket.  In exchange for absolute loyalty, they expected to enjoy a carte blanche to resolve all their problems using any means.  The emerging, all permissive, syndrome that they acquired went on a rampage on the night of the eighth of August when aggression was unleashed on South Ossetia...." -- *Sergey Lavrov*, In his address to the United Nations

Show Us the Money  ---  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/greider3
A quote..."Taxpayers should wake up the politicians and ask them to tell Wall Street: "We want the same deal Warren Buffett got." The Omaha billionaire announced he is playing White Knight to Goldman Sachs by investing $5 billion in the endangered investment house. What a big-hearted guy. Buffett is an old-fashioned capitalist who invests in companies for the long term and I am a big admirer. But Warren Buffett did not get to be a billionaire by committing public-spirited acts of charity. He plays to win."
Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20867.htm
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Not to mention the fact that Hank Paulson, the man in charge of this plan, the man who wants unlimited power to carry it out,  --- 
http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080921/REG/809219995/1036  ---  the man who knows where all the toxic waste is buried, just happens to have joined Goldman Sachs  ---  http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/22/paulson-goldman-bailout/  ---  in 1974 working his way up till he became "Chief Operating Officer from December 1994 to June 1998;
  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson#Career_highlights  ---   eventually succeeding Jon Corzine (now Governor of New Jersey) as its chief executive" -- Warren Buffett is one of the smartest investors around, however by making this investment, he is implicitly giving his blessing,  ---  http://morris108.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/bloombergcom-america-must-rescue-the-bonuses-at-goldman-sachs-michael-lewis/  ---   and participating in a racket, that's going to rob tens of millions of hard working Americans of their life savings. -- Frank Paulson is to Goldman Sachs what Dick Cheney is to Haliburton, it's a true shame that Warren Buffet has chosen to associate himself, along with his hard earned reputation for prudent investing, with an arrangement of this sort. - mpg -- Posted below on 09-24-08

Saturday September 27th 2008 - links page

Friday September 26th 2008 - links page

"How Major U.S. Neo-Imperialist Wars End" by Robert Higgs  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/docs3/higgs-fff.html
Videos - A quote...."On June 6, 2008, Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, author of Crisis and Leviathan and Neither Liberty nor Safety, and editor of The Independent Review, delivered the following speech, "How Major U.S. Neo-imperialist Wars End," to the second Future of Freedom Foundation conference, "Restoring the Republic," held in Reston, Virginia. -- What must be done to make those in power believe that their interests are best served by stopping the killing?"
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Multipolar World  ---  http://www.truthout.org/092608E
A quote...."The international financial crisis has suddenly accelerated a tendency that has been manifest since the United States' first setbacks in Iraq: American hegemony, and, one should say, Western hegemony, which seemed to settle over the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Communist system at the end of the 1980s-beginning of the 1990s, has seen its heyday."
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Immortal Technique: The Poverty of Philosophy (Repost)
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/immortal-technique-the-poverty-of-philosophy-repost/
Must View Video - Angry, truthful, classical, radicalism....sort of refreshing in a way. - mpg -- A quote...."Note to Obamatrolls: “When you say you can change the system from within, that is a lie. It is not you who will change the system, but the system that will change you.”
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Should We Fear Iran? The Peter Principle Playoffs  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20876.htm
A quote..."So here we sit, our heads jerking back and forth so rapidly most of us are suffering severe whiplash. Will the US attack Iran? Will Israel attack Iran? Or will the two war-mongering bullies join forces and "bomb, bomb, bomb" that belligerent twit-nation into subservience? -- It's a great game. A deadly game. The momentum to attack Iran has been building for so long that we're conditioned to watching it like some grotesque international tennis competition. It's the Peter Principle Playoffs, with neoconsters and ziomonsters out on the court milling around, working at their highest "levels of incompetence," feverishly plotting Iran's destruction. Foul lines mean nothing to them. There are no rules, no officials, no scores, no accountability."
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UN General Assembly Ahmadinejad Speech
||  Transcript  ||   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20872.htm
& Videos -  ||  Part 1/4  ||  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXZ4OFtI8Gw
||  Part 2/4  ||  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woN0k36tPpU&feature=related
||  Part 3/4  ||  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsngjes4qMg&feature=related
||  Part 4/4  ||  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3maAuI77fko&feature=related
Videos - (YouTube - aprox. 10 min each - Added:  September 26, 2007) -- A quote...."The Speech of Ahmadinejad at the UN General Assembly."
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President Stresses Iran's Right to Produce N. Fuel  ---  http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8707051105
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran needs the ability to produce nuclear fuel because it cannot rely on other nations to supply enriched uranium to the Islamic Republic's planned reactors, the Iranian president said Thursday."
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Iran escapes new sanctions in next U.N. resolution  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080927/wl_nm/us_nuclear_iran_resolution
A quote...."UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Six world powers handed the U.N. Security Council a toothless draft resolution on Iran's nuclear program on Friday after the United States, facing stiff Russian opposition, failed to secure agreement for new sanctions."
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Iran Resolution Shelved in Rare Defeat for AIPAC  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=13515
A quote...."In a significant and highly unusual defeat for the so-called "Israel Lobby," the Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives has decided to shelve a long-pending, albeit nonbinding, resolution that called for President George W. Bush to launch what critics called a blockade against Iran." -- See also quote shown below....

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After Firefight, Pakistan Tells US to Stay Away From Border  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2008/09/26/pakistan-warns-us-against-incursions-after-firefight/
A quote...."One day after a reported five minute exchange of fire between Pakistani and US troops
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2008/09/26/2008/09/25/us-pakistani-troops-trade-fire-across-border/  ---  along the Afghan border, Pakistani government spokesman Akram Shaheedi warned the US-led coalition forces “not to violate territorial sovereignty of Pakistan as it is counterproductive to the war on terror.”  ---  http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jGZpVhxTZJutt--aeNvpnUl8sSvgD93EHURO0  ---  President Asif Ali Zardari described US support as a “blessing,”   ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080926/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_us  ---  however the general trend appears to point to relations between the two countries continuing to deteriorate."
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Pakistan not to seek weapons from US  ---  http://www.dawn.com/2008/09/26/nat2.htm
Special Note - A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Sept 25: The government has decided that it will not take technical assistance and weapons from the United States under a comprehensive security strategy being devised by a high-powered committee to combat terrorism."
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Zardari lashes out at US in UN speech  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/176587
A quote...."Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari has lashed out at the United States over alleged violation of airspace on the border with Afghanistan. - In a speech to the UN General Assembly, Zardari said Pakistan would not tolerate violations of its sovereignty, even by its allies." -- But what are "friends" for?  Remember, you always hurt the ones you "love". - mpg
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Marriott Was Set Ablaze by Americans  ---  http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=9412
A quote...."The Marriott Hotel Islamabad has turned into ashes and there seems almost nothing left. But the dubious activities of US officials are still going on. And despite what U.S. officials say, the fire at the Marriott was more complex than it looks."
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New Twist in Downed Drone Mystery  ---  http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/09/new-twist-in-do.html
A quote...."The other day, an American-made Predator spy drone went down in Pakistan. But, strangely, U.S. officials said they didn't know a thing about the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) -- despite the pictures of its wreckage on Pakistani television."
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British troops 'will leave Iraq within a year'  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/british-troops-will-leave-iraq-within-a-year-944044.html
A quote...."Britain's war in Iraq will end by this time next year, a highly placed defence source said yesterday. But asked whether the pullout from Iraq would mean reinforcements being sent to combat a resurgent Taliban, the senior officer responded: "Emphatically no. We have already mortgaged the Iraq dividend by boosting our force in Afghanistan to 8,000. That is the limit."
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Iraq: The Biggest Hospitals Become Sick  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/jamail260908.htm
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Sep 25 (IPS) - Not even the elevators work now at Baghdad Medical City, built once as the centre for some of the best medical care." -- For more on this issue, see a blast from the past - must view video - Congressional Progressive Caucus: Dr. Dahlia Wasfi at Iraq Forum
 ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELjgVq6GtPA  ---  (YouTube - 6 min 14 sec - Added:  September 22, 2006) & The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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No more British troops to be deployed despite Taleban resurgence  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4834570.ece
A quote...."Britain will not increase troop numbers in Afghanistan, despite the escalation in violent attacks by the Taleban, a senior defence official said yesterday."
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POLITICS:  Mideast Peace-Making Quartet Gets Flunking Grade  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43992
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Sep 25 (IPS) - A new report from several international aid organisations blasts the Quartet, an international group assembled to facilitate the Middle East peace process, for failing to meet their goals in advancing a lasting peace between Israel and Palestinians."
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Venezuela arrests general on conspiracy  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70642&sectionid=351020704
A quote...."Venezuela has arrested an air force general on charges he was seeking to kill President Hugo Chavez, a lawmaker says."
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New Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela  ---  http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3831
A quote...."Throughout most of his tenure and since the Bush administration took over, CIA and various misnamed US quasi-governmental agencies have been active in Venezuela. Ones like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The International Republican Institute (IRI) with John McCain as its chairman and its ties to extremist Republican party elements, and the US Agency for International Development (USAID). All are imperial instruments. Undemocratic and for rule by the power of money."
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“Ahead of Financial Crisis,” Venezuela’s Chávez Spins through Europe  ---  http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3835
A quote...."During the visit, the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA formed a mixed energy company with five Russian companies, Gazprom, Lukoil, Rosneft, TNK-BP, and Surgutneftegaz. The company will exploit Venezuelan oil and national gas and, in accordance with the Venezuelan constitution, the majority share will be controlled by PDVSA."
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Putin back nuclear talks with Chavez  ---  http://www.stuff.co.nz/4706537a12.html
A quote...."Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he was ready to consider helping Venezuela develop a nuclear energy programme after meeting the country's President Hugo Chavez."
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Russian ships to take part in naval exercise in South Korea  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/176527
A quote...."VLADIVOSTOK, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Two Russian coast guard vessels from the Far East port of Vladivostok are on their way to South Korea to take part in a joint anti-terror exercise, a regional coast guard official said on Friday."
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Election? I want them all! – Timoshenko  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/31019
A quote...."Ukraine's Prime Minister, Yulia Timosheko, says an early parliamentary election could take place alongside a presidential vote. The statement came amid the country's third major political crisis in four years, this time caused by the collapse of the governing ‘Orange’ coalition."
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China's lift-off into space   ---  http://www.blinkx.com/video/china-lift-off-into-space/FjyRQ5pNAw_DC5q-dMyMYA
(Blinkx - 1 min 2 sec - September 26, 2008) -- Video - A quote...."China's third manned spacecraft blasts off on a mission which is expected to include its first space walk."
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US House of Representatives approves NASA buying Russian spacecraft  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/25/congress.spaceexploration
Special Note - HAH!! Ha, Ha, Haaaaah!.... Them there New Roman Empires can get to be really expensive, ain't that right?  The NRE's NASA can't even afford to get itself to the International Space Station without help.  It's really quite funny. - mpg -- A quote...."Nasa's top achievement in Congress this year boils down to a single sentence - one line in a huge spending bill that would allow Nasa to circumvent an arms-control law and purchase Russian-made Soyuz spacecraft. -- For Nasa administrator Michael Griffin, that might be enough to enable him to retire the space shuttle in 2010 and still get US astronauts to the international space station."
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The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 2 articles - Friday - [ Day 50 ] =====  ==========

Putin erases border between Russia and South Ossetia  ---  http://english.pravda.ru/russia/kremlin/26-09-2008/106464-putin_ossetia-0
A quote...."26.09.2008 - Source: Pravda.Ru -- The recently signed interstate agreement between South Ossetia and Russia provides a legal base to erase the border between the two nations, Itar-Tass reports with reference to a statement from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin."
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South Ossetia and Abkhazia - Notes from the Inside  ---  http://antiamerica.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/south-ossetia-and-abkhazia-notes-from-the-inside/
A quote...."Moscow waited for almost 24 hours, during which Georgian artillery and planes were sending the capital of South Ossetia to ruins. Almost 1600 people were killed in the shelling. Now it is being presented by the mainstream media exclusively as Russia’s intervention and expansionist policy.”
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End - The US Neocon's New Proxy War in Georgia - 2 articles - Friday - [ Day 50 ] === ==========

Statement Of September 11th Advocates Regarding The Release Of The NIST Final Draft Of Collapse Of WTC7
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=9686
A quote...."Essentially, the construction of WTC 7 utilized traditional steel frame skeleton (uniformly spaced column and beam construction), without the questionable bar joists and trusses used in the construction of the WTC 1 and 2 Towers. WTC 7 was not a "tube" building like the WTC Towers. It was a rectangular shape and was less than half the height of WTC 1 and 2. -- Dr. Sunder also stated that WTC 7 met all New York City codes. Yet, WTC 7 is the first steel high-rise building of traditional construction in the United States – and the world, to completely collapse as a result of fire." -- For more on this issue see....9/11 - WTC7  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-wtc7-weblist-mpg-082308
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September 12, 2001: FBI and NTSB Limit Evidence Recovery Efforts at Pentagon
  ---  http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a091201fbilimits#a091201fbilimits
A quote...."Several FBI supervisors convene and discuss what the bureau should be recovering. One of them says every airplane part is significant and needs to be treated as valuable evidence. But Adams counters: -- That can’t be. We know what happened here. Do we really need to collect every piece of the airplane?” Adams goes over to some National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) crash experts at the site, who are responsible for determining what happened to Flight 77. When he asks them, “Do you guys want pieces of the plane?” an NTSB official responds: “No, it’s clear what happened here. We don’t need pieces of the wings and stuff like that. But we do need the black boxes.” [Creed and Newman, 2008, pp. 351-352]" -- For more on this issue see....9/11 - NORAD
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911norad-weblist-mpg-091308
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Internet attacks on 9/11 Truth intensify  ---  http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20080921_youtube_crackdown.htm
Special Note - A quote...."Internet censorship is once again in the news after legendary YouTube user Nuffrespect posted a new video detailing the latest online attack on 9/11 Truth: a user who is creating clones of respected user accounts and truth movement leaders in order to smear 9/11 Truth by posting racist comments. These have already led to the deletion of several well-known accounts in what has been revealed as a coordinated effort to eliminate 9/11 Truth from YouTube."
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What Did Bush Tell Gonzales?  ---  http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200809u/gonzales-investigation
A quote...."In March 2004, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales made a now-famous late-night visit to the hospital room of Attorney General John Ashcroft, seeking to get Ashcroft to sign a certification stating that the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program was legal. According to people familiar with statements recently made by Gonzales to federal investigators, Gonzales is now saying that George Bush personally directed him to make that hospital visit."
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Documents Reveal Massive DHS Border Spying Operations  ---  http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2008/09/documents-reveal-massive-dhs-border.html
A quote...."New documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Asian Law Caucus (ALC) revealed that the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) subunit "reversed a two-decades-old policy that restricted customs agents from reading and copying the personal papers carried by travelers, including U.S. citizens."
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Subpoena for Office of Legal Counsel Documents Authorized  ---  http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/09/subpoena_for_olc.html
A quote...."The Senate Judiciary Committee has authorized the issuance of a subpoena for a copy of opinions of the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). -- OLC opinions interpret the law for executive branch agencies. Controversially, they have been used to sanction official departures from existing legal norms in domestic surveillance, prisoner interrogation, and other areas. They have also frequently been withheld from most members of Congress (though they have reportedly been provided to the intelligence committees in many cases)."
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Rep. Baldwin Introduces Bill to Undo and Prosecute Bush-Cheney Crimes  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/baldwinbill
A quote...."Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin has just introduced the Executive Branch Accountability Act of 2008, which calls on the next President of the United States to....."
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Independent U.S. presidential candidate banned from debates  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/31038
A quote...."While millions of people around the world watched Barack Obama and fellow U.S. presidential candidate John McCain debate each other, another man running for the high office was ignored. Independent Ralph Nader is not allowed to debate McCain and Obama because officials say he doesn't qualify. However, Nader's influence on the tight election may be greater than he's being given credit for." -- For more on this issue see....You Have a Choice Democracy or Empire 07-24-08 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/youhaveachoice-democracyorempire-blog-mpg-072408
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Wall Street Meltdown Primer  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5560
Special Note - A quote...."Was it lack of regulation? -- Yes. Everyone acknowledges by now that Wall Street’s capacity to innovate and turn out more and more sophisticated financial instruments had run far ahead of government’s regulatory capability. This wasn’t because the government was incapable of regulating but because the dominant neoliberal, laissez-faire attitude prevented government from devising effective regulatory mechanisms."

But isn’t there something more that is happening? -- We’re seeing the intensification of one of the central crises or contradictions of global capitalism: the crisis of overproduction, also known as overaccumulation or overcapacity. - In other words, capitalism has a tendency to build up tremendous productive capacity that outruns the population’s capacity to consume owing to social inequalities that limit popular purchasing power, thus eroding profitability." -- For more on this issue see....Effective Fed Funds Rate 03-24-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407
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Democrats, Republicans conspire to remove Wall Street bailout from election debate  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/sep2008/bail-s27.shtml
A quote...."Closed-door talks continued throughout the day Friday between congressional Democratic and Republican leaders and the Bush administration, with all sides pledging to reach agreement on terms of a $700 billion bailout package for the US financial system before the Asian stock markets open Monday morning—Sunday afternoon in the US." -- If the American public goes into the polls this November and are actually stupid enough to go vote for the DemoRepubs....they deserve exactly the government they're going to get.  More of the same. - mpg
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Back in the USSR  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080925_back_in_the_ussr/
A quote...." Bolivian socialists nationalize to combat wealth stratification, remove greed from human necessities like energy, and allow the public to own the means of producing valuable commodities. Amerika’s socialists nationalize to preserve inequality and force the public to own the means of worthless production. Most recently, taxpayers’ $85 billion will purchase bankrupt AIG and its means of producing paper, all to let speculators continue profiteering off the human need for housing. -- Close a factory in socialist Denmark, and workers get immediate government help, along with their free health care. Shutter one in Ohio, and workers get nothing, except politicians saying their jobs are never returning and national health care is “unaffordable.” But if investment banks teeter, those same politicians quickly find billions for bailouts."
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Bailout can't hide it - the United States is broke  ---  http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=e9bbdf59-9773-4a21-b738-34efa1d76cc8
A quote...."Even leading Republicans in Congress, including presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, recoiled from Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson's proposal to take absolute power over $700 billion to be borrowed by the federal government and used to purchase every sort of bad debt without ever having to answer for it - not to the courts, not to regulatory agencies, and only occasionally and incidentally to Congress itself. -- The bad-debt bailout would be the biggest government patronage program in history and would amount to declaring martial law over the U.S. financial system and economy."
Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20874.htm
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US taxpayers are being enrolled in an economic chain gang  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/26/do2606.xml
A quote....""To preserve their [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude" - Thomas Jefferson -- There was a time, early in America's history, when its leaders believed in financial discipline. No more. Perpetual debt, which Jefferson feared would enslave future generations, is clamped on Uncle Sam's undercarriage like a ball and chain. US public borrowing is $9.8 trillion - and rising." -- Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20875.htm
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S.E.C. Concedes Oversight Flaws Fueled Collapse - One is seriously tempted to wax sarcastic. - mpg
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/business/27sec.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Bailout bill, once 3 pages, swells in length [to 102 pages!] - Oh My Gawd! Congress is legislating again! - mpg
  ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/26/national/w151533D20.DTL&feed=rss.news
Day of Reckoning
  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan98.html
The Great Bailout: Is The Cure Worse Than The Disease?
  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/lieberman260908.htm
Ron Paul: Greenspan, Bernanke Should Be Criminally Charged
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/ron-paul-congress-has-opted-for-10-year-plus-depression.html
Bailout Backlash: Five Surprising Things That Happened on Thursday
  ---  http://www.alternet.org/election08/100391/bailout_backlash%3A_five_surprising_things_that_happened_on_thursday/
The Pyramids Crumble
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/26-1
Corporate Hogs at the Public Trough
  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/09/corporate-hogs-at-public-trough.html
Are We On The Verge of The Deluge?
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/26-10
Paulson proposal puts CEOs first, public last
  ---  http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/380351_bookmanonline25.html
ECONOMY-US:  Bailout for Who?
  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44027
ECONOMY-US:  National Protests Erupt Over Bailout Plan
  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44012
Credit Default Swaps: The Insane Problem and the Radical but Sane Solution
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/CREDIT-DEFAULT-SWAPS--THE-by-Chuck-Simpson-080924-49.html
Financial Meltdown And The Madness Of Imperialism
  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/lotta260908.htm
Big bailout is unlikely to work
  ---  http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/25/business/col26.php
Glaring gaps in the financial system
  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JI27Dj03.html
The Dumbing-Down of a Nation
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Dumbing-Down-of-a-Nati-by-Anthony-Wade-080926-885.html
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The GDP Revision [3.3% down to 2.8%] Raises Recession Risk
  ---  http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/sep2008/pi20080926_840356.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_investing
A quote...."Action Economics says the downward adjustment to second-quarter growth may signal accelerated weakness in the third and fourth quarters."
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Confidence in US banks nosedives after Washington Mutual collapse  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/26/banking.creditcrunch1
A quote...."The failure of one of America's biggest retail banks undermined confidence in a fresh clutch of US household names today as investors digested the implications of the biggest collapse of a high-street bank on record."
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Wachovia Stock Sinks On WaMu News  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=12142
A quote...."Wachovia Corp. stock, which has been experiencing huge swings throughout the credit crisis, was down big again Friday as a potential bank bailout deal fizzled and Washington Mutual Inc. failed."
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U.S. Mint Suspends Sale Of Buffalo Gold Coins  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=12133
Special Note - A quote...."The U.S. Mint has temporarily halted distribution of its one-ounce American buffalo gold coins a month after placing limits on the sale of American eagle gold coins."
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California: foreclosures and homeless on the rise  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/sep2008/home-s27.shtml
A quote...."Stagnating wages, increasing unemployment and rising food and fuel prices are driving a wave of foreclosures in California, forcing hundreds of thousands into destitution."
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Thursday September 25th 2008 - links page

Not to mention the fact that Hank Paulson, the man in charge of this plan, the man who wants unlimited power to carry it out,
  ---  http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080921/REG/809219995/1036  ---  the man who knows where all the toxic waste is buried, just happens to have joined Goldman Sachs   ---  http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/22/paulson-goldman-bailout/  ---  in 1974 working his way up till he became "Chief Operating Officer from December 1994 to June 1998;
  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson#Career_highlights  ---  eventually succeeding Jon Corzine (now Governor of New Jersey) as its chief executive" -- Warren Buffett is one of the smartest investors around, however by making this investment, he is implicitly giving his blessing,  ---  http://morris108.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/bloombergcom-america-must-rescue-the-bonuses-at-goldman-sachs-michael-lewis/  ---   and participating in a racket, that's going to rob tens of millions of hard working Americans of their life savings. -- Frank Paulson is to Goldman Sachs what Dick Cheney is to Haliburton, it's a true shame that Warren Buffet has chosen to associate himself, along with his hard earned reputation for prudent investing, with an arrangement of this sort. - mpg -- Posted below on 09-24-08
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Wednesday September 24th 2008 - links page