Monday September 28th 2009 - links page

Update: NYC law dept.: New 9/11 probe 'not a proper subject' for voters
  ---  http://rawstory.com/2009/09/rescue-me-star-daniel-sunjata-joins-911-protest-march/
Must Read - (For the outrage) -- A quote...."A favorable ruling would likely be appealed by the City pushing the issue to the Appellate Court,” an NYC CAN advisory predicted. “If the Petition overcomes all legal challenges, goes to November ballot and the referendum passes, it would lead to the creation of a local, independent commission with subpoena power that would be tasked with comprehensively reinvestigating the attacks.” -- “While the specter of 9/11 is raised repeatedly, ghoulishly, dangled before us to justify the dismemberment of our Constitution, the trampling of our civil liberties,” said Sunjata. “Questioning 9/11 itself? Oh, that is strictly prohibited. Do you hear that, New York? Do you hear that, family members? Cops? Firefighters? First responders? Your government has just told you, again, again, that you are good enough to die for them, but that asking questions about the inciting event is un-American, unpatriotic and just quite simply out of bounds.” -- For more on this issue see....
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9/11 Whistleblower LTC Anthony Shaffer Endorses NYCCAN  ---  http://www.911blogger.com/node/21502
A quote...."I endorse the NYC CAN campaign and support the need for a new, independent, investigation of the events and failures that lead up to the 9/11 attacks. -- The original 9/11 Commission inquiry became an exercise in bureaucratic ass-covering and obfuscation of accountability." -- also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/09/29/911-whistleblower-ltc-anthony-shaffer-endorses-nyccan/
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The Case of the Missing Torture Documents  ---  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/case-missing-torture-documents
A quote...."Classified Bush-era documents on the administration's controversial interrogation and rendition programs are missing, according to a recent court filing submitted by the Obama Justice Department. But a Justice Department spokeswoman says the documents may not actually be gone; they may never have existed—even though Bush administration records say that they do. Welcome to the Case of the Disappearing Torture Documents. This is more than just a bureaucratic whodunit. There's a possibility that government officials purposely destroyed records pertaining to detainee abuse."
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Bush-Era Officials Face Personal Liability for Terror Policies
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/09/28/bush-era-officials-face-personal-liability-for-terror-policies/
A quote...."Former Attorney General John Ashcroft and Justice Department official John Yoo may wind up being held personally liable for the abuses of detainees in post-9/11 terror sweeps, as federal judges refuse to throw out cases in three courts."
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What Have We Done to Democracy?  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175119/arundhati_roy_is_democracy_melting_
Must Read - A quote...."The question here, really, is what have we done to democracy? What have we turned it into? What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning? What happens when each of its institutions has metastasized into something dangerous? What happens now that democracy and the free market have fused into a single predatory organism with a thin, constricted imagination that revolves almost entirely around the idea of maximizing profit? -- Is it possible to reverse this process? Can something that has mutated go back to being what it used to be? What we need today, for the sake of the survival of this planet, is long-term vision. Can governments whose very survival depends on immediate, extractive, short-term gain provide this? Could it be that democracy, the sacred answer to our short-term hopes and prayers, the protector of our individual freedoms and nurturer of our avaricious dreams, will turn out to be the endgame for the human race? Could it be that democracy is such a hit with modern humans precisely because it mirrors our greatest folly -- our nearsightedness? -- also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/28-0
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Time for Citizens to Convene  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/28-10
Must Read - (From one of the "alternative" presidential candidates, bet many of you out there right now are really sorry you didn't vote for him, or one of the other alternatives to the DemoRepub's two candidates.  But despite the hopeful title of this article, this website editor's got news for you folks, it's probably way to late to convene anything anymore.) - mpg -- A quote...."by Ralph Nader -- Just when many conditions seemed ripe for a progressive political movement, the likelihood is fading fast. Concentrated corporate power over our political economy and its control over peoples lives knows few boundaries. -- As Republican investor advocate leader Robert Monks puts it: “The United States is a corporatist state. This means that individuals are largely excluded both in the political and corporate spheres.” -- Since Wall Street’s self-inflicted multi-trillion dollar collapse last year, the corporate supremacists have shown no remorse. They have become more aggressive: they are blocking regulatory reforms; pouring campaign donations into the governing Democrats’ coffers; and, shamelessly demanding more bailouts, subsidies and tax reductions. They also continue to block avenues for judicial justice by aggrieved people, whether they be the wrongfully injured, defrauded consumers and investors, or jettisoned workers and bilked pensioneers."
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Another War in the Works  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts273.html
Must Read - A quote...." Does anyone remember all the lies that they were told by President Bush and the "mainstream media" about the grave threat to America from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? These lies were repeated endlessly in the print and TV media despite the reports from the weapons inspectors, who had been sent to Iraq, that no such weapons existed. -- The weapons inspectors did an honest job in Iraq and told the truth, but the mainstream media did not emphasize their findings. Instead, the media served as a Ministry of Propaganda, beating the war drums for the US government. -- Now the whole process is repeating itself. This time the target is Iran."
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Mediasaurus  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/mediasaurus.html
Must Read - A quote...."To my mind, it is likely that what we now understand as the mass media will be gone within ten years. Vanished, without a trace. -- There has been evidence of impending extinction for a long time. We all know statistics about the decline in newspaper readers and network television viewers. The polls show increasingly negative public attitudes toward the press – and with good reason. A generation ago, Paddy Chayevsky's Network looked like an outrageous farce. Today, when Geraldo Rivera bares his buttocks, when the New York Times misquotes Barbie (the doll), and NBC fakes news footage of exploding trucks, Network looks like a documentary."
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Obama's Wars -- Stuck Between Two Failures  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/nasser09282009.html
Must Read - A quote...."It was extraordinarily questionable why U.S. President Barak Obama chose not to credit the War on Afghanistan with a separate paragraph in his speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations on September 23, to “note” the war on Iraq with only a four – line paragraph, and instead to escalate his war of words on Iran, as if the expansion of the war on Afghanistan into Pakistan was not enough over-depletion of an already exhausted U.S. human, financial and military resources, and as if a threat of a third war in the Middle East would serve in any way the U.S. vital interests in the region or contribute to U.S. elusive victory in either one of both wars. Downplaying the most pressing items on the U.S. agenda and leaping forward to the nuclear issue and Iran was only a thinly – veiled attempt to divert attention away from the fact that Obama was stuck between the worse and the worst in both countries." -- Not really, it's actually a way to placate AIPAC and start another war, the one they've always wanted, because Obama is a very sick, servile, spineless man who'll do anything to please his masters, including getting a lot more Americans killed. - mpg
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Dry Heaves and Sucker Ploys: The Great New Iran "Crisis"
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1847-dry-heaves-and-sucker-ploys-the-great-new-iran-qcrisisq.html
The new "Iran crisis" is such a sickening concoction of stupidity and lies that it almost defies comment. It certainly defies contemplation; even to think about it for thirty seconds is enough to bring on a bout of the dry heaves. -- Fortunately, several other writers -- with iron-clad innards, no doubt -- have boldly waded in and dismantled the deception behind the manufactured hissy fit over Iran's "secret nuclear facility." Jason Ditz at Antiwar.com gives a good overview of the case,  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/09/25/as-required-iran-informs-iaea-about-new-enrichment-site/  ---  which, shucked of all the warmongering frenzy, boils down to this little nubbin of reality:

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Obama Decides Karzai to Stay in Power Despite Fraud - More ol'dat "freedom & democracy" Obama style.
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/09/28/obama-decides-karzai-to-stay-in-power-despite-fraud/
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."Ending weeks of speculation regarding the massive fraud in Afghanistan’s August presidential election, the Obama Administration has formally decided that incumbent President Hamid Karzai will get a second five year term, no matter what the investigations determine."
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US, NATO reach “consensus” to sanction rigged election in Afghanistan  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/afgh-s29.shtml
Related Article - A quote...."The US and NATO countries involved in the occupation of Afghanistan have signaled their willingness to recognize the re-election of Afghan President Hamid Karzai despite evidence of massive ballot-stuffing and fraud in the August 20 elections."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

When leaders fail  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/09/28/when-leaders-fail
Must Read - Some quotes...."While the IDF systematically violated seemingly every tenet of international law, our supposed leaders sat by and left the defenseless people of Gaza to face the fury of the world's third largest army on their own. Aside from the sheer scale of the Israeli army's attacks on Gaza, the most astounding phenomenon of those 22 days was the inability of the world's leaders to take a united stand to bring about an end to the violence." -- "Not a single influential head of state had the guts to openly criticize Israel or ask them to stop. And of course, when any half-hearted statement indirectly suggested that the IDF's conduct was becoming a matter of concern, it was quickly qualified with the same standard line: that Hamas should cease firing rockets. Just to remind everyone that Hamas had actually started the fight, and that it really was up to them whether it would continue or not. When Hamas had respected the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire for the preceding six months while the IDF continued its incursions into Gaza, this was however not recognized. As usual, the Palestinians were again being blamed for bringing the latest massacre upon themselves."
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Settlers chop down Nablus olive grove on eve of harvest  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=228238
A quote...."Nablus – Ma’an – Dozens of chainsaw-wielding Israeli settlers cut down more than 150 olive trees in to the northern West Bank village of Burin, south of Nablus on Monday. -- The assault came a few days before Palestinian farmers throughout the country begin harvesting their olives."
also posted at AtheoNews  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/09/settlers-chop-down-nablus-olive-grove.html
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Report: Israel threatening to block cell provider over war crimes case  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=227952
A quote...."Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israel is threatening to withhold permission for a second Palestinian cellular phone network if the Palestinian Authority (PA) does not withdraw its call for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to look into allegations of Israeli war crimes in Gaza, a leading Israeli newspaper said on Sunday." -- also posted at AtheoNews  ---  http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/09/report-israel-threatening-to-block-cell.html
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A World Without Law  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15450
A quote...."Consider the consequences of the Israeli PR blitz that is now blanketing the world as its defiant answer to the United Nations’ authorized investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity by the state of Israel, known as the Goldstone Report. Ironically, the existence of the United Nations as an internationally accepted body charged with protection of all world citizens through its Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the continued acceptance by its members of the Geneva Conventions, resulted in part from the actions of the Nazi state against the Jews."
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Israeli forces seize dozens of Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=228330
A quote...."Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israeli forces raided the Old City of Jerusalem on Monday night and seized some 50 Palestinians allegedly involved in the confrontations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound last Sunday."
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Acoustic and Chemical Attacks on the Brazilian Embassy -- The Sound and Fury of the Honduran Coup - http://www.counterpunch.org/carlsen09282009.html
Special Note - A quote...."Over the past few days, reports poured in from Honduras of the use of sound devices and chemical warfare in attacks on the Brazilian Embassy by the Honduran coup. The use of Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) has been confirmed by observers and journalists. Numerous photographers have also documented their use. -- The UN Security Council today called upon the de facto government of Honduras to "cease harassing the Brazilian Embassy" and "condemned acts of intimidation." -- Same sort of stuff they used at the G20, you see folks, what comes around goes around, or to put it another way, an injustice to anyone anywhere is an injustice for us all. - mpg
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Brazil rejects Honduran ultimatum on Zelaya  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=107332&sectionid=351020706
A quote...."Brazil says it will not accept the ten-day ultimatum called by the interim government of Honduras urging the Latin country to “define” the status of Manuel Zelaya."
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Top US official says Zelaya's return 'irresponsible'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=107344&sectionid=351020706
A quote...."A top US official has described the ousted Honduran President's return to his country as "irresponsible", saying Manuel Zelaya's move is not going to unravel the crisis. " -- Hope everyone south of the border is taking note of this statement.  What total arrogance, what an egotistical little snot-nosed punk this US-NRE representative is.  A legally elected president, bravely returns to the country he was illegally ousted from in order to represent the people who elected him, and this official no-account jerk from the very country that was involved with the coup attempt has the temerity to say Zelaya's return was "irresponsible".  Who the heck does he think he is? – mpg
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Honduras Resistance Marks Three Months  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=120897&Itemid=1
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) The military coup against President Manuel Zelaya marked Monday three months of protests, with tenacious people''s resistance and the hardening of repressive measures."
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Miami Herald makes up story on Zelaya, Washington Post and New York Times spread it  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5176.shtml
Propaganda Alert - A quote..."(WMR)  --- WMR usually does not comment on propaganda masked as news emitted daily by the corporate media, but the September 24 report in the Miami Herald deserves to be panned for its flagrant attempt to portray ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya as a foolish “conspiracy theorist.”
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Honduran government hires fiction writer to hawk coup regime
  ---  http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2009/09/honduran-government-hires-fiction-writer-hawk-coup-regime
Propaganda Alert - A quote..."Micheletti junta shelling out $292,000 for D.C. flack attack"
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The Dictatorship Unmasked  ---  http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/kristin-bricker/2009/09/dictatorship-unmasked
A quote...."The Real Goal of the 45-Day Curfew is to Torpedo November's Electoral Process"
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What Is Money?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north761.html
Must Read - Some quotes...."In my forthcoming series of articles, you will learn the following:...."

1. The experts do not know horse apples from apple butter about monetary theory.
2. Monetary theory should be an integrated part of a general economic theory of how the world works.
3. Whenever an economic theory of how the world works makes an exception for monetary theory, the proposed monetary theory is incorrect, or the general theory is incorrect, or both are incorrect.
4. Fiat money is always a form of counterfeiting.
5. Counterfeiting produces bad results for almost everyone except the counterfeiters.
6. Fractional reserve banking is legalized counterfeiting.
7. Government fiat money is counterfeit.
8. Those who trust government money will lose wealth more surely than those who do not trust it.
9. There are ways to escape bad monetary policy.
10. The worse the policy, the fewer the avenues of escape.

"Because of the violation of nineteenth-century monetary policy, we have seen the rise of world wars, hyperinflation, and depression. None of these would have been likely apart from fiat money, which is a violation of the law of property. This violation leads to terrible consequences in the real world."
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Exclusive Smoking Gun: The Fed On Gold Manipulation  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/smoking-gun-fed-controlling-gold
Special Note - Related Article - (More for all you gold bugs out there) -- A quote...."Zero Hedge has recently presented several declassified documents from the pre-1971 "Nixon Shock"  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock  ---  days, that endorse the case for gold as a major historical factor in US monetary and foreign policy, as demonstrated by State Department   ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/declassified-state-dept-data-highlights-global-high-level-arrangement-remain-masters-gold  ---  and CIA  disclosure. Gold's special status in policy and administrative decision-making was a direct factor in Nixon's choice to abolish the gold reserve at a time of an exploding budget deficit. -- Yet what about the days after 1971, and specifically, how did that critical "behind the scenes" organization, the Federal Reserve, perceive and manipulate gold in the post Bretton-Woods world?"
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From bear to bear  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KI29Dj02.html
Must Read - A quote...."I was inspired to put a few thoughts together after pondering Jim Grant's interesting op-ed piece in last Saturday's Wall Street Journal, "From Bear to Bull". -- Along with Mr Grant, I don't want to be associated with the term "permabear". It implies a dogmatic lack of objectivity - the kiss of death for sound analysis. I've been bearish for awhile and I remain so. My view is firmly analytically based. Yet it doesn't mean that I expect the stock market to always go south or the current recession to last indefinitely. Indeed, I am firmly in the global reflation camp, going so far as to posit the emergence of a powerful global government finance bubble. -- I remain bearish because, from my analytical framework, deleterious credit system developments suggest worse yet to come - perhaps much worse. The global credit boom has not fully run its course, so the depths of the downturn remain indeterminable."
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All New! Dave’s (additional) 10 Reasons Why the Recession Will Last Forever  ---  http://blog.atimes.net/?p=1152
Market Tech Note - A quote...."With reference to Dave’s Top 10 Reasons  ---  http://blog.atimes.net/?p=1113  ---  why the recession will last forever, here’s another set. I continue to believe that the S&P will end 2009 about where it began." -- For market predictions, please see....Standard Disclaimer and the Ten Year Cycle  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207.html
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FDIC expected to ask banks to prepay $36B in fees  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090928/ap_on_bi_ge/us_fdic_shrinking_fund
Financial Alert - Somebody's run out of money.... mpg -- A quote...."WASHINGTON – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. may take the unprecedented step of ordering banks to prepay about $36 billion in premiums to replenish the deposit insurance fund that has been severely depleted by a rash of bank failures." - bold by website editor
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Bank [of England] calls unprecedented meeting of economists
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6224090/Bank-calls-crisis-meeting-for-experts.html
Financial Warning - A quote...."The Bank of England has summoned the City's leading economists to an unprecedented meeting in Threadneedle Street, as the pound plunges amid growing confusion over its radical Quantitative Easing (QE) policy."
also posted at BLN   ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-5747-0-13-13--.html
& RogueGov  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Bank_of_England_Calls_Emergency_Meeting_Over_Sterling/17460/0/8/8/Y/M.html
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Americans threatened with jail time, huge fines for refusing to buy health insurance  http://www.naturalnews.com/027124_health_health_insurance_America.html
On the health care issue - A quote...."(NaturalNews) There's a popular video circulating on the 'net right now about how to escape handcuffs without using a key. Americans are watching the video to bone up on essential skills that will soon be needed for health care reform, it seems, since the new laws that are about to be put in place call for Americans to be arrested and thrown in jail if they refuse to buy health insurance." -- also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/09/29/americans-threatened-with-jail-time-huge-fines-for-refusing-to-buy-health-insurance/

Sunday September 27th 2009 - links page

President Ahmadinejad: An Interview With Katie Couric  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23571.htm
Alt-part1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gWexCJ3RBk
Alt-part2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpOq4ofUMCg  ---  (YuTb 15m 09/23/09)
Must View Video - A quote...."In part one of an exclusive interview with Katie Couric, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks about his country's nuclear ambitions." -- "In part two of an exclusive interview with Katie Couric, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks about Iranian protests and his comments regarding the Holocaust." -- This is a plea to Ahmadinejad, and this website editor is beginning to like the guy despite the exercise of better judgment.  ---  You CANNOT triangulate truth, the holocaust really happened, but your statement was also ABSOLUTELY true in that the holocaust does not EVER justify the occupation of Palestine, in fact it PROVES that what Israel is doing to the Palestinians is an abomination upon all of mankind and no different than the holocaust itself.  And why the ghosts of the victims of what happened in Europe don't rise up out of their graves and strangle their own progeny in Israel for using their deaths for their own evil ends is an utter mystery to this website editor.  Nevertheless you cannot deny the truth no matter the abomination it is used to serve. Truth is all important, always, for it is all we will ever really have that is our own. -  mpg

Saturday September 26th 2009 - links page

A fast-growing FBI data-mining system billed as a tool for hunting terrorists is being used in hacker and domestic criminal investigations, and now contains tens of thousands of records from private corporate databases, including car-rental companies, large hotel chains and at least one national department store...

Federal Reserve General Counsel Scott Alvarez said audits of monetary policy by the U.S. Congress could lead to higher interest rates and reduced confidence in central bank policy.

Friday September 25th 2009 - links page

Iran builds second uranium enrichment plant  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=34550
Must Read - A quote...."VIENNA - Iran has said it built a second uranium enrichment plant, the UN nuclear watchdog said Friday. -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran had sent a letter on September 21 to inform the watchdog "that a new pilot fuel enrichment plant is under construction in the country," agency spokesman Marc Vidricaire said in a statement. - The New York Times reported that the facility was being built inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom, 160 kilometres (100 miles) south of Tehran. Iran already has one enrichment plant at Natanz. -- Vidricaire said: "the IAEA has requested Iran to provide specific information and access to the facility as soon as possible." -- No nuclear material has yet been introduced into the new enrichment plant under construction, the IAEA said." -  bold by website editor
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There are three things that should be noted about this situation...One, there has been an enormous amount of "terrorist" warnings, arrests, conspiracies, bomb threats, and even another bin Laden "tape" released just yesterday, and all of this goofy garbage came flooding into the mass-infauxtainment-complex SINCE SEPT 21st....now we know why, and now we also know how our "elites" in the so-called "West" really conduct their "business". Two is that the "Western Powers" and Israel, despite what they said in the New York Times article, obviously had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA this plant was being built.  Kudos and congrats to Iran and so much for the vaunted Israeli Mossad.  Three, this website editor is not an expert on the NPT,  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty  ---  but it appears as long as you inform the IAEA about your plant during costruction and before you introduce nuclear material or engage in nuclear activity, you're still in compliance with the NPT.  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty  ---  In other words Iran legally, and in in front of the entire world, pulled a fait accompli and made Israel and it's colony the US-NRE into a bigger bunch of idiots than they already appear to be.  Not a good thing to do, they might get angry and kill millions of people in the Middle East, oh wait, they’re already killing millions of people in the Middle East!  But it's still highly amusing to see Iran get the better of them. - mpg
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Iran building new nuclear fuel production plant  ---  http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=203915
Related Article - A quote...."TEHRAN - The director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has announced that the Islamic Republic is building a new nuclear fuel production plant."
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As Required, Iran Informs IAEA About New Enrichment Site  ---  http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/8653
Related Article - A quote...."Western leaders reacted with a combination of indignation and outrage today when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that Iran had informed them it was in the process of constructing a second uranium enrichment facility."
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Iran to allow IAEA visit nuclear site  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58313&hd=&size=1&l=e
Related Article - A quote...."TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will allow the U.N. nuclear agency to inspect a newly revealed and still unfinished uranium enrichment facility, the country's nuclear chief told state television Saturday."
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Ahmadinejad: Iran is not violating IAEA rules  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/09/25/ahmadinejad-iran-is-not-violating-iaea-rules-3/
Related Article - A quote...."Iranian President Ahmadinejad says new enrichment facility not operational for 18 months. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday his country has complied with U.N. rules that require it to inform the world body's nuclear agency six months before a uranium enrichment facility becomes operational." - bold by website editor
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Happy Junta Grounds: Militarist Machiavellis Maneuver for More War
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1846-happy-junta-grounds-militarist-machiavellis-maneuver-for-more-war.html
Must Read - A quote...."These days, the always noxious air of the Beltway is astir with the machinations of the military junta that now dominates the gutted and looted ruins of the American republic. Two recent articles provide excellent guides to the brazen Pentagon squeeze play to ensure that the civilian government does not stray from the militarist agenda of more war, all the time, everywhere, always -- a condition best captured in the marvelous title of the latest volume of Christopher Logue's serial reworking of The Illiad: All-Day Permanent Red."  ---  http://www.amazon.com/All-Day-Permanent-Red-Rewritten/dp/0374529299
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Italian Leader Calls for Afghan Withdrawal  ---  http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3525&Itemid=48
A quote....." Italian Premier called on foreign troops to leave Afghanistan after six Italian troops were killed in Kabul on Thursday -- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who attended an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, said that they are “keen" to take international troops out of Afghanistan "as soon as possible”. -- The Italian leader conceded that any decision would only be made with the country's Nato allies, saying that Italy "is dealing with an international question that you can't decide on your own because that would betray an accord". -- But he added: "We are all convinced that we have to get out of Afghanistan as soon as possible."
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US accuses ISI of supporting Taliban 'shadow govt.'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=107084&sectionid=351020401
A quote...."Senior US military officials blame Islamabad's military intelligence, ISI, for providing sanctuaries in Pakistan for the pro-Taliban insurgents who attack foreign troops in Afghanistan." -- But they've been doing that for over twenty years at the insistence of the US-NRE....oh wait....that's right, the Taliban (as apposed to the CIA's al Qaeda) are currently "out of favor" right now, oh my goodness, haven't Pakistan's ISI been told the US-NRE determines who's currently the flavor of the month, who's to be a "club VIP" and who's being handed their hat.  Gee whiz, when are the Wogs gonna learn? – mpg
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Pakistan, Saudi Arabia in secret nuke pact  ---  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2003/oct/21/20031021-112804-8451r/?page=2
Oh My Gawd, How Awful!!  We have to start bombing the.....wait....that's right, the Saudi Royals are "our friends"...never mind folks, just a false alarm, you just go back to watching American Idol or Britney's crotch or Stupid Pet Tricks, OK? - mpg -- A quote...."Both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia," the Pakistani source said, "see a world that is moving from nonproliferation to proliferation of nuclear weapons." -- The Saudi rulers, who are Sunni Muslims, are believed to have concluded that nothing will deter the Shi'ite Muslims who rule Iran from continuing their quest for a nuclear weapons capability. -- Pakistan, meanwhile, is concerned about a recent arms agreement between India, its nuclear archrival, and Israel, a longtime nuclear power whose inventory is estimated at between 200 and 400 weapons."  -- And since the US-NRE tore-up and used the NPT as toilet paper in its deal with India, what the heck, right?  -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/206533
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Afghan Presidential Election Is a False Hope for Change  ---  http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3534&Itemid=43
Videos - Special Note - A quote...."Almost eight years after military defeat of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan is back to square one -- Insecurity and poverty are Afghans’ utmost concern. In addition, the same powerbrokers, who should have been sidelined from political process after president Karzai’s election in 2004, still manipulate Afghan politics. Meanwhile, a majority of senior officials from Afghan Diaspora, who were once considered a hope for the country, have lost their credibility by enriching themselves at the detriment of the very poor people."
also posed at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23572.htm
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President Ahmadinejad: An Interview With Katie Couric
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23571.htm
Alt-part1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gWexCJ3RBk
Alt-part2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpOq4ofUMCg  ---  (YuTb 15m 09/23/09)
Must View Video - A quote...."In part one of an exclusive interview with Katie Couric, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks about his country's nuclear ambitions." -- "In part two of an exclusive interview with Katie Couric, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks about Iranian protests and his comments regarding the Holocaust." -- This is a plea to Ahmadinejad, and this website editor is beginning to like the guy despite the exercise of better judgment.  ---  You CANNOT triangulate truth, the holocaust really happened, but your statement was also ABSOLUTELY true in that the holocaust does not EVER justify the occupation of Palestine, in fact it PROVES that what Israel is doing to the Palestinians is an abomination upon all of mankind and no different than the holocaust itself.  And why the ghosts of the victims of what happened in Europe don't rise up out of their graves and strangle their own progeny in Israel for using their deaths for their own evil ends is an utter mystery to this website editor.  Nevertheless you cannot deny the truth no matter the abomination it is used to serve. Truth is all important, always, for it is all we will ever really have that is our own. -  mpg
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Israeli Drive to Prevent Jewish Girls Dating Arabs  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23573.htm
A quote...."Hostility to intimate relationships developing across Israel’s ethnic divide is shared by many Israeli Jews, who regard such behaviour as a threat to the state’s Jewishness. One of the few polls on the subject, in 2007, found that more than half of Israeli Jews believed intermarriage should be equated with “national treason”.
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America's Teacher  ---  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091012/klein
A quote...."On September 17, in the midst of the publicity blitz for his cinematic takedown of the capitalist order, Moore talked with Nation columnist Naomi Klein by phone about the film, the roots of our economic crisis and the promise and peril of the present political moment. To listen to a podcast of the full conversation, click here. Following is an edited transcript of their conversation.--The Editors.
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23577.htm
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Judge blasts case against Kuwaiti held at Guantanamo --- http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2009/09/25/judge-blasts-case-against-kuwaiti-held-at-guantanamo/
A quote...."So how did an overweight, 43-year-old Kuwaiti man with bad knees and no real military training or experience suddenly become a logistics expert helping al Qaeda leaders organize the defense of Tora Bora in 2001?"
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Troop Increases Help Drive Spread of the Insurgency in Afghanistan
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2009/09/troop-increases-help-drive-spread-of.html
Alt   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdPoExVOz8I  ---  (YuTb - 1 min 54 sec - Sept 11, 2009)
Video - Maps - A quote...."The International Council on Security published maps of the insurgency's presence in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The United States added troops in Afghanistan in each of these years. ICOS's maps show that none of these troop increases arrested the growth of the insurgency. In fact, analysts at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and UK's DFID suggest that the presence of foreign troops drives Afghans to join the insurgency."
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Japan Abandons America  ---  http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6567.5047.0.0
Thank God - And let's just call it the New Roman Empire shall we and be done with it. -- A quote...."For over 50 years, one party ruled Japan virtually uninterrupted. During that time, Japan remained a loyal ally and supporter of U.S. policy. This month, a historic event took place. --  Japan has new leadership. In a landslide victory, a new party has done the seemingly impossible. A new freshman class of leaders now governs the Land of the Rising Sun. The effects are already rippling across the Pacific toward America. -- Yukio Hatoyama is Japan’s new leader. He officially took office last Wednesday, and he is already threatening to split with the United States." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/206595
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Brazil VP says country should build nuclear arms  ---  http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/09/25/brazil-vp-says-country-should-build-nuclear-arms-2/
Absolutely!!  because Brazil has oil, and by now the whole world knows what that means! - mpg -- A quote...."Brazil's vice president says in an interview published Friday that his country should develop nuclear weapons. Other officials stressed that his comments were not government policy." -- Yet!  Not at last till the first US-NRE aircraft carriers start showing up, of course by than they'll wish they had some. - mpg
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Exclusive: Crown challenged to prove semtex link to Pan Am103
  ---  http://www.firmmagazine.com/news/1718/Exclusive:_Crown_challenged_to_prove_semtex_link_to_Pan_Am103_.html
A quote...."Professor Robert Black QC and UN appointed international observer Hans Kochler have backed a campaign initiated by the Lockerbie Justice Group which challenges the Lord Advocate to openly demonstrate that Pan Am 103 could have been brought down by a semtex bomb, under controlled laboratory conditions." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/206552
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Al Maliki Announces Break With Iraqi National Alliance  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58303&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki ended speculation surrounding his return to the Shia Iraqi National Alliance coalition by announcing that he will form his own 'State of Law’ coalition soon. Al Maliki announced that he will contest the forthcoming Iraqi parliamentary elections [to be held in January 2010] by way of this coalition, and ruled out joining any other political coalitions."
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Where Did the H1N1 Late-2009 Flu Season Virus Come From?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi122.html
A quote...."If your understanding is the current H1N1 late-2009 season flu pandemic began in Mexico as it spread from herds of pigs to humans there you are probably among the millions who have been misled as to the origins of this flu outbreak. "
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

ARRESTED & CONVICTED ~FREE SPEECH GONE  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/09/arrested-convicted-free-speech-gone.html
Special Note - How many of us in December and January watched in sheer and utter horror at the IDF murdering innocent civilians in the Gaza Genocide? How many of us screamed expletives at the television when viewing the deaths and holocaust in action? Well get ready and start packing your overnight bag. Because they are coming for us all. Anyone who criticizes Israel in public can be targeted next. I hope they have some big jail cells, they're gonna need them......"
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Israeli forces arrest anti-wall organizer  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10795.shtml
A quote...."Addameer expresses its concern at the arrest and detention of human rights defender and activist Mohammad Othman on 22 September 2009. Mohammad, 33, originally from Jayyus village, is a human rights activist and a volunteer with the grassroots Stop the Wall Campaign."
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Think Again: Palestine  ---  http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/09/think-again-palestine.html
A quote...."President Obama got the leaders of Israel and Palestine to shake hands this week. But a meeting in Midtown does not a Palestinian deal make. Here’s why."
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Libya's Qaddafi rejects two-state solution  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=107105&sectionid=351020506
A quote...."In two interviews following his contentious address at the UN General Assembly, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi rejects a two-state solution to the conflict in Middle East. -- Qaddafi told Time magazine and Aljazeera network that he deemed that the UN Security Council's efforts for a lasting peace between Palestinians and Israel were futile. -- "There is no way to have these two states so close, because they are already integrated. Two million Palestinians live in Israel, Gaza is isolated … torn apart and isolated. Israel should get rid of their nuclear weapons - the Muslim countries will not recognize Israel as long as they have nuclear weapons - and these problems would be done," he told Aljazeera." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/206585
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Obama comes to aid of Israel over UN war crimes charges  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58305&hd=&size=1&l=e
Obama™ Update -- Obama is a good little janitor, no matter how much blood is spilled, he's always willing to mop it all up. - mpg -- A quote...."The report predictably elicited a furious counteroffensive from Israel, denouncing its findings. The campaign was waged throughout the media, including in the nominally liberal press. Britain’s Guardian, for example, gave space to Dan Koski, who works for an organisation dedicated to countering the arguments of human rights organisations critical of Israel, to mount a defence of Israel’s actions. -- But Tel Aviv’s success in avoiding accountability for its criminal actions rests more properly on the active support of the United States and silent complicity of the major European powers, all of whom are anxious to avoid being brought to book for their own contempt for international law."
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Gaza to Obama: "Mr. President, our justice still denied, Our wounds are still open”
  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/latest/2360-gaza-to-obama-qmr-president-our-justice-still-denied-our-wounds-are-still-open
Obama™ Update -- A quote...."Gaza, September 24, 2009, (Pal Telegraph)- Dear President Obama: Our wounds in Gaza are still open, our justice still denied. Israel's 23 day offensive (28 December 2008- 19 January 2009) has left our children afraid to return to school, and feeling unsafe in their beds." -- also posted at OhBummer  ---  http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/09/gaza-to-obama-mr-president-our-justice.html
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

The Siege of Tegucigalpa   ---  http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/09/siege-of-tegucigalpa.html
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW1_4Dg450c&feature=player_embedded#  ---  (RealNews YuTb - 11 min 11 sec - September 24, 2009)
Must View Video - A quote...."Repression ordered to the neighborhoods of the Honduran capital, forcing the poor to fight or starve "
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How Much Repression Will Hillary Clinton Support in Honduras?  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/weisbrot09232009.html
Special Note - She's a walking, talking, human monster.  She'll let the "School of the Americas" trained forces gun down innocent women and children without batting an eye lid. - mpg - A quote...."Now that President 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 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the first phase of this new repression last night in a press conference:"
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/206593
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UN deplores Honduras embassy siege  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net//news/americas/2009/09/200992517513891915.html
A quote...."The UN Security Council has "condemned" the siege of the Brazilian embassy in Honduras by the military-backed interim government since Manuel Zelaya, the country's ousted president, took shelter there."
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Why Consolidation in the Banking Industry Threatens Our Economy --- http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/why-consolidation-in-banking-industry.html
A quote...." As everyone knows, the big banks have gotten bigger and bigger.  ---  http://blogs.reuters.com/rolfe-winkler/2009/09/15/break-up-the-big-banks/  ---  Noted economist Mark Zandi says  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/zandi-oligopoly-has-tightened.html  ---  we have an oligopoly of banks, and that "the oligopoly has tightened". -- The TARP Inspector - Neil Barofsky - told  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvwKzF6TLKo&feature=player_embedded  ---  Huffington Post yesterday that, because of the consolidation in the banking industry and the moral hazard created by the bailouts:"
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THIS Is How a Congressman Does His Job  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/this-is-how-congressman-should-do-his.html
Video - A quote...."Watch Alan Grayson question the general counsel for the Federal Reserve:"
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Existing-Home Sales Decline Unexpectedly; Market Weak  ---  http://www.cnbc.com/id/33001468
A quote...."Existing-home sales dipped unexpectedly last month after a four-month streak of gains, providing evidence that the housing market recovery remains fragile."
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New Home Sales Lose Momentum in August  ---  http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2009/09/new_home_sales_4.html
A quote...."New home sales, after four months of robust gains, only inched up 0.7% in August, the Commerce Department reported Sept. 25. -- The government’s monthly new home sales report, which has a wide margin of error, is relatively unreliable. But it follows disappointing results for existing home sales and housing starts."
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U.S. durable goods orders drop by 2.4% in August  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/26/content_12112643.htm
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- New orders for manufactured durable goods in August decreased 4.0 billion U.S. dollars or 2.4 percent to 164.4 billion dollars, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Friday. -- This was the second decrease in the last three months. This followed a 4.8 percent July increase."
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Thursday September 24th 2009 - links page

Executives at the New York company plan to narrow the focus of Citigroup's U.S. branch network to six major metropolitan areas, according to people familiar with the situation. Citigroup also will limit its overall consumer lending in the U.S. primarily to credit cards and "jumbo" mortgages, while catering largely to affluent customers.