Sunday October 14th 2007 - links
page
The
"Great Game" Enters the Mediterranean: Gas, Oil, War, and Geo-Politics
--- http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6862
[Part II of a series see also
Part
I] ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6688
Must Read - Some
quotes...."
It is no mere chance that before the upcoming summit in Tehran that
three important post-Soviet organizations (the Commonwealth of
Independents States, the Central Security Treaty Organization, and the
Eurasian Economic Community) simultaneously held meetings in
Tajikistan. Nor is it mere coincidence that the SCO and CSTO have
signed cooperation agreements during these meetings in Tajikistan,
which has effectively made China a semi-formal member of the CSTO
alliance. It should be noted that all SCO members are also members of
CSTO, aside from China."
"Two blocs are starting to manifest themselves in similarity to the
geographic boundaries of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and
Mackinder’s Islander versus Continental scheme; a
Eurasian-based bloc
and a naval-based,
oceanic bloc
based on the fringes of Eurasia as well as North America and
Australasia. The latter bloc is NATO and its network of regional
military alliances, while the former is the reactionary
counter-alliance formed by the Chinese-Russian-Iranian coalition as its
nucleus."
Take a guess at which "bloc" started this whole thing in the first
place, the MIOC
elites of this country initiated their plans for "global dominance"
more
then twenty years ago. The "Eurasians" are belatedly forming a
defensive
alliance to combat their efforts. Viewed against this context,
the sweeping
vastness of it all,
setting up and murdering three thousand Americans must have been
considered a bargain, just peanuts, or chump change by this nation's
MIOC
elites and those who continue to support their plans.
It was a price
they were all
perfectly willing to pay.
This is the true "clash of civilizations" and it's about time that we
as a
people put a stop this madness...before time runs out for all of us. –
mpg
For more on this see....
White
Man's Burden - 12-20-06 - mpg ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/whitemansburden-blog-mpg-122006
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Weenie
Nation ---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__071013_weenie_nation.htm
Must Read - A
quote...."If the truth be told the result of all this on the American
public psyche is that they have become a bunch of weenies and have
allowed their inalienable rights as protectors and guardians of the
Republic to be twisted and corrupted by this tiny “1% of 1%” who now
see America as their own choice piece of real estate.
The American public have become preoccupied with the ingesting of junk
foods, reflex shopping and other trivialities having been so “dumbed
and numbed down” by a steady daily diet of censored drivel that passes
for public information.
All this works for the powers that be. In order for these super-rich
folks to continue to binge-feed at the government and corporate trough
the populace must never be restive. The corporate/state machine
requires that the populace remain in blissful oblivion and obedience.
And the sheer need for survival of the majority poor and unwashed
necessitates that there be a parallel mechanism to “keep the populace
in its place.” Does anyone wonder at the rapid growth (and wealth) of
the religious industry the takes up from where corporate America leaves
off?
Today, Christian consumerism is not in doubt with the rise of
multi-million dollar mega-churches that offer “rewards in heaven” while
it fleeces the poor hapless sods seeking solace and fulfillment and
reassurances that somebody really cares.
Of course, while all that crap is going on our vaunted leader, King
George II, continues to make cooing noises while he basks in near
blissful ignorance the natural end result of an infantile
self-gratification of addictive power while his handlers and enablers
rock him to sleep. As the poster boy for a created political Disneyland
Dear George is perfect.
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The
‘Good Germans’ Among Us ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/opinion/14rich2.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
PG's Post - A quote...."“BUSH lies” doesn’t cut it anymore. It’s time
to confront the darker reality that we are lying to ourselves.
- Ten days ago The Times unearthed yet another round of secret
Department of Justice memos countenancing torture. President Bush gave
his standard response: “This government does not torture people.” Of
course, it all depends on what the meaning of “torture” is. The whole
point of these memos is to repeatedly recalibrate the definition so Mr.
Bush can keep pleading innocent."
British
Experience in Iraq Should Have Taught Us Something
---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucgg/20071011/cm_ucgg/britishexperienceiniraqshouldhavetaughtussomething
Must Read - Some
quotes...."We are not defeated," a leading British commanding general
huffed last week on CNN. "We pulled out. We could have stayed a long
time." (And I've got a bridge over the Tigris that I'd like to sell
him.) - As a cynical onlooker from outside, one might make
a quite different observation, rich of course with the historical and
philosophical reflection that we Americans exemplify so well. One might
suggest that the Brits knew well how to retreat from Iraq because
they've had so much practice at it." -- "In the beginning,
what grandiose dreams! Churchill, always a rampant colonialist, would
create a "native Iraqi army that could work alongside the Royal Air
Force." The Brits would control "the people" through airpower alone.
They would rule Iraq through a hand-chosen king, King Feisal, son of
the noble Hussein of Mecca, a direct descendant of the Prophet
Muhammad, a capable man but in the end one who wore the British down by
harping inexplicably on his lack of "legitimacy" -- because of their
support! - At any rate, it all ended in bitterness and quagmire, with
Churchill complaining to his prime minister that they were spending
millions a year "for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano."
US
fears of British pullout from Basra raise transatlantic tensions to new
pitch ---
http://wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/basr-a25.shtml
A quote..."Military circles in Washington and London are engaged in
mutual recriminations over the proposed drawdown of Britain’s troop
presence in Basra, with US top brass speaking of the UK’s “Saigon
moment” and full withdrawal. The British Army has made clear its anger
at such open criticism and the media has responded by accusing the US
of scapegoating Britain for the inability of America’s own forces to
defeat the Iraq insurgency."
Regarding the two articles shown above. - Isn't it just terrible
when you and another bunch of thugged gang bangers get all down
together and try to bust-up a country
that ain't yours, to take their oil, rake off some of
that fine phat booty and bling, establish squatters rights and set you
up a bunch of cribs. So your home boys were chilling, planning
to stay in da'hood a while and you'alls thinking it's gonna be'da bomb,
but when things go all fugly on'ya all and all yoz'crews, and the whole
shabang goes
south, it all just gets down right
nasty.
All'yo
crews starts on dissing each other, getting all up in each other's
grills. Whats up wi'dat?
It's true what they say than....there really is no honor among
thieves.- mpg -
posted 08-26-07
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Saturday October 13th 2007 -
links page
"Seven
countries in five years" ---
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/10/12/wesley_clark/index_np.html
A quote...."While the Bush White House promotes the possibility of
armed conflict with Iran,
a tantalizing
passage in Wesley Clark's new memoir suggests that another war is part
of a long-planned Department of Defense strategy that anticipated
"regime change" by force in no fewer than seven Mideast states. Critics
of the war have often voiced suspicions of such imperial schemes, but
this is the first time that a high-ranking former military officer has
claimed to know that such plans existed."
Tantalizing....
tantalizing! Wada'ya
mean tantalizing?!? You mean like, vague, unclear, subtle or with
discretion! The Neocons, Texas Cabal, PNAC'ers and associated
other
JERKS have for the last
twenty years been screaming to the whole world at the top of their
lungs, while obscenely gloating over their "master plan", about how
they were going to re-make (read ransack) the
ENTIER Middle East.
No one, absolutely
NO ONE in
this nation's faux-news-mass-media-infotainment complex (this does not
include Salon - see dozens of articles posted on this website - or the
author of this article) gets to even
hint, gets to even suggest, that this entire fiasco, this
murderous world wide rampage, wasn't fully known of
and fully approved of by all
the power elites at the top of this society's social-economic heap. -
mpg
For more on this see....
The Plan --
according to U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.) - (YouTube - 1 min 37
sec - Added: March 17, 2007)
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXS3vW47mOE
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Unable to Beat Muqtada
al-Sadr, the U.S. Tries to Divide his Movement ---
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/64926/
Must Read - PG's Post - A
quote...."While U.S. officials try to gin up a war with Iran by
accusing it of meddling in Iraq's affairs, their real problem is that
al Sadr's Mahdi army is determined to end the occupation and is simply
too big to be beaten by military force. - Although the U.S. military
command's frequent assertions that the primary threat to U.S. forces in
Iraq comes from Iranian meddling, its real problem is that Shiite
cleric Moqtada al Sadr's Mahdi army is determined to end the occupation
and is simply too big and too well entrenched to be weakened by
military force."
Lawmakers
Raise Concerns Over Call for Investigation of C.I.A. Watchdog’s Work
---
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/washington/13intel.html?th&emc=th
PG's Post - A quote....WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — The top Republican on the
Senate Intelligence Committee joined Democrats on Friday in expressing
strong concern about an unusual inquiry into the work of the Central
Intelligence Agency’s inspector general, John L. Helgerson, saying the
review could undermine Mr. Helgerson’s role as independent watchdog."
For more on this issue see...
Fun
& Torture - It's a Pleasure. ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/funandtorture-blog-mpg-020307
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1860,
1932, 2008 ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/12/4489/
A quote...."As accurate was Phillips assessment, we must extend our
understanding of the current situation to understand that George W.
Bush is not an anomaly, but the reduction ad absurdum of an ill-advised
plan of shared government created by the Founders. We can identify with
their felt need to erect a governmental structure that had adequate
checks and balances, a laudable caution. In fact, through most of the
years of our Republic, the concept of a strong executive to balance the
legislative branch has been variously realized, ranging from
ineffective executives to a few genuinely outstanding ones. This list,
however, did not include until the inauguration of President Bush, an
individual so destructive of the health of our democratic system. This
perversion of the Founders’ principle of balance has proved to be toxic
as well to conditions in several countries that have come into contact
with American policies, notably and tragically, of course, in Iraq."
The
Mother of all Pretexts - [And no, this article is not
about
9/11 - mpg]
A quote...."10/13/07 "ICH" -- - WHEN I hear mention of the "Clash of
Civilizations" I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. - To laugh,
because it is such a silly notion. - To cry, because it is liable to
cause untold disasters. - To cry even more, because our leaders are
exploiting this slogan as a pretext for sabotaging any possibility of
an Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation. It is just one more in a long
line of pretexts."
US
demands air passengers ask its permission to fly ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18549.htm
A quote...."10/13/07 "The Register" -- - Under new rules proposed
by the Transport Security Administration (TSA) (pdf), all airline
passengers would need advance permission before flying into, through,
or over the United States regardless of citizenship or the airline's
national origin."
For more on this 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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U.S.
military seeks alternatives to Turkey ---
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/10/13/us_military_seeks_alternatives_to_turkey/3943/
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Restricted access to Turkey
would affect 70 percent of the cargo and fuel supplies being shipped by
the United States to Iraq, a report said Saturday."
Namibia
deports two Americans for recruiting for Iraq ---
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL13551937.html
A quote...."WINDHOEK, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Namibia has ordered two
Americans to leave the country for trying to recruit Namibians to work
as security guards in Iraq and Afghanistan, the information minister
said."
No doubt trying to obtain more of the New Roman Empire's cannon
fodder....whoops, s'cuse me....more meat...dang, did it again, more
sheep....oh...what the heck...more
cannon-fodder-meat-sheep
from the local high school?
No doubt indeed. A warning to all the other countries out
there, keep a close eye on your children. - mpg
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New
Evidence That Blackwater Guards Took No Fire
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/world/middleeast/13blackwater.html?ex=1349928000&en=e13a14249068bae0&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
A quote..."BAGHDAD, Oct. 12 — Fresh accounts of the Blackwater shooting
last month, given by three rooftop witnesses and by American soldiers
who arrived shortly after the gunfire ended, cast new doubt Friday on
statements by Blackwater guards that they were responding to armed
insurgents when Iraqi investigators say 17 Iraqis were killed at a
Baghdad intersection."
Argentina
'dirty war' priest jailed ---
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/19BEF4BF-0381-4B59-81CE-5166E785A9AE.htm
A quote...."The first Roman Catholic priest charged for crimes
committed under Argentina's past military government
has been sentenced to
life in prison." - bold/italics by website author.
To the elites of this country, take a close look at this guy's
photo. If it takes ten years or thirty, one day you'll look just
like him. - mpg
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Here
Come da Judgment Day ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/12/4493/
PG's Post - A quote...."Homeland Security dropped the ball. Like a
thief in the night, Judgment Day came as unexpectedly as prophesied,
taking even the White House with its praying president by surprise. -
Around the world, potentates were dragged from their palaces and
dictators corralled from underground bunkers by winged creatures with
multiple faces and burning auras. - Media barons and billionaires
couldn’t hide from the final trumpet blast that ripped the once-routine
march of history to shreds. Wealth provided no defense on that dread
day as consciences caught fire and burned like exposed nerve endings."
COLOMBIA:
Defying Threats, Thousands Take to the Streets ---
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39638
PG's Post - quotes...."BOGOTA, Oct 12 (IPS) - Arbitrary arrests,
menacing warnings from the army and harsh crackdowns on protesters did
not daunt the tens of thousands of Colombians who took to the streets
over the last three days to protest against the rightwing government of
Álvaro Uribe."
Many
Americans Don't Realize Iraq War Is Illegal ---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_sherwood_071013_many_americans_don_t.htm
A quote...."Mistakenly, many Americans still believe President Bush's
war on Iraq is justified because Congress supported it and funds it. -
Yet, as international legal authority Francis Boyle of the University
of Illinois points out, President Bush got congressional backing by
lying that Hussein had W.M.D. and that Hussein was connected to 9/11. -
That's fraud, probably the bloodiest, costliest lie in White House
history. - Also, to start a war, a country needs UN Security
Council approval, which Bush failed to get. Otherwise, a nation can
fight only in self-defense when attacked. - By attacking
Iraq, Bush violated the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, the
Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact of 1928, the UN Charter, the Tokyo War Crimes
Tribunals, and the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment and Principles, Boyle
said."
Dick
Cheney & Vigilant Shield: Will a Missing Nuke from the B-52
Incident be used in a Simulated Terrorist Attack?
---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__071012_dick_cheney__26_vigila.htm
False Flag Alert - A
quote...."From October 15 to 19, 2007, a set of military and civil
exercises will be held in Oregon, Arizona and Guam. The exercises,
TOPOFF 4 and Vigilant Shield 08, are designed to test official
responses to the detonation of radiological dispersal devices on U.S.
territory. The exercises will be overseen by Vice President Dick Cheney
who will travel specifically to Portland to coordinate all Federal
departments and agencies responses to the simulated attacks. This has
led to a number of civilian groups expressing alarm that TOPOFF and
Vigilant Shield might be used as a cover for False Flag operations that
replicate what occurred during the 911 attacks ."
For more on this see....
False
Flag Ops - Barksdale / B-52 Loose Nukes Incident
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#BARKSDALE
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Pentagon
pay-to-stay program tops $100 million ---
http://www.yorkdispatch.com/nationworld/ci_7160214
A quote..." WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has paid more than $100 million
in bonuses to veteran Green Berets and Navy SEALs, reversing the flow
of top commandos to the corporate world, where security companies such
as Blackwater USA are offering big salaries. - The retention effort,
started nearly three years ago and overseen by U.S. Special Operations
Command in Tampa, Fla., has helped preserve a small but elite group of
enlisted troops with vast experience fighting the unconventional wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Defense Department statistics.
Overall, more than 1,200 of the military's most specialized personnel
near or already eligible for retirement have opted for payments of up
to $150,000 in return for staying in uniform several more years."
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Sage
Observations - PG's quotes - posted 07-24-07 ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/sageobservations-pg-blog-072407
Some sage observations.
For the most recent batch click on -
Sage
Observations 10-13-07 ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/sageobservations-pg-blog-072407#101307
"Right now, Washington is teaching the world a very ugly and dangerous
lesson: if you want to defend yourself from us, you had better mimic
North Korea and pose a credible military threat. Otherwise we will
demolish you."
-- *Noam Chomsky*, Interventions
"Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are
regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric
about bestowing freedom and independence."
-- *
Noam Chomsky*,
Interventions
"We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of
the seas, than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of
mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the
wealth and the resources of other nations."
-- *
Thomas Jefferson*
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of war,
corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high
places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to
prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until
all the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is
destroyed. I feel, at this moment, more anxiety for the safety of my
country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my
suspicions may prove groundless."
-- *
U.S. President Abraham
Lincoln* - in a letter to Col. William F. Elkins on
November 21, 1864
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Friday October 12th 2007 - links
page
Nancy
Pelosi and the
Arrogance of Power - Leadership Void ---
http://www.counterpunch.org/sheehan10122007.html
A quote....
"They are advocates. We are leaders." --
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in regards to "Anti-war activists."
"People of America, this is truly the problem with what was once a
Representative Republic and now is a country run by "elected" officials
who believe that they, individually and collectively, are above any
accountability and are not answerable to their constituents. Our public
servants erroneously believe that they are the leaders!" --
Cindy Sheehan
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War
Without End, Amen: The
Sanguinary Vision of Robert Gates
---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/War_Without_End%2C_Amen%3A_The_Sanguinary_Vision_of_Robert_Gates/#jc_allComments
A quote...."There are actually some quarters where Pentagon honcho
Robert Gates is considered a moderate of some kind, one of the few
sensible, responsible figures in the Bush Administration able to
restrain – or at least moderate – the raging-bull belligerence of Dick
Cheney and his crew. This has always been a curious reputation for a
man who has spent most of his career hip-deep in militarist
skullduggery, as Robert Parry, among others, has amply demonstrated.
(Here and here, for example.) But in such desperate and degraded times
as these, it's only natural to clutch at the slightest straw of hope
that someone, somewhere, will stand between us and the worst excesses
of our masters, as we noted here earlier. "
Prime
minister says Turkey is ready to pay the price of any military campaign
in Iraq
---
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/10/12/news/nation/7_54_6910_12_07.txt
A quote...."If such an option is chosen, whatever its price, it will be
paid," Erdogan told reporters in response to a question about the
international repercussions of such a decision, which would strain ties
with the United States and Iraq. "There could be pros and cons of such
a decision, but what is important is our country's interests." -
Erdogan also had harsh words for the United States, which opposes a
Turkish incursion into northern Iraq -- one of the country's few
relatively stable areas. - "
Did they
seek
permission from anyone when they came from a distance of 10,000
kilometers and hit Iraq?" he said. "We do not need anyone else's
advice." - italics by website author.
By the way,
check
out IHT's
version of the AP' story, ---
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/12/europe/EU-GEN-Turkey-Prime-Minister.php
--- you'll note a "
few" paragraphs
are missing. (like about half the article, talk about a hatchet job).
PS: For everybody's info....both articles have been
cached. - mpg
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U.S.
threatens Turkey over energy support to Iran ---
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/ss_turkey_09_07.asp
A quote...."WASHINGTON — The United States has suggested that Turkey
could come under sanctions for its energy cooperation with Iran. - The
State Department has criticized Turkey for its agreement for natural
gas cooperation with Teheran. A senior official pointed out that
Congress was working on legislation that would sanction Ankara or
others that help develop Iran's energy sector, Middle East Newsline
reported. - "The U.S. government's policy is that countries
should not be stimulating their companies to be involved in oil and gas
investment in Iran," Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said. -
Burns said the Bush administration has stressed to U.S. allies that
sanctions on Iran would be strengthened. Over the last two months,
Turkey has agreed to develop three southern Iranian gas fields and
establish three gas-operated energy plants." -- This is the
complete article- mpg
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Qwest
CEO's 'classified defense' raises question on NSA surveillance
---
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Qwest_CEOs_classified_defense_raises_question_1012.html
A quote...."A former CEO who stood up to the Bush administration's
demands that he assist in the warrantless surveillance of Americans
suggests in court documents that the National Security Agency withdrew
a lucrative contract in retaliation for his refusal. -
Documents released as part of
Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio's insider trading trail also
seem to indicate that the NSA was
discussing the secretive, possibly illegal, surveillance of Americans several months before the 9/11
attacks President Bush used to justify the program. - italics/bold/inderline
by website author
It just keeps getting better and better all the time. It's
hilarious, it really is. - mpg
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9/11 - From The History File...The
USA PATRIOT Act Was Planned Before 9/11
---
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/05.21B.jvb.usapa.911.htm
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Joe
Klein's defense of warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty
---
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/11/klein_fisa/index.html
Related Article - A quote...."There is a lot of debate about what
accounts for the decrepit state of our political press, but often
overlooked is the sheer sloth and ignorance of journalists, who repeat
what they are told without having any idea what they are talking about.
Last night, Time's Joe Klein tried to explain why he supports the
"Protect America Act" enacted by Congress in August that, in essence,
allowed the administration to eavesdrop on all international telephone
calls of Americans without warrants. This is what he said:"
Ex-Commander
Blasts Iraq 'Nightmare' ---
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/101207.html
A quote...."Yet, while lambasting the Iraq War strategy, Sanchez
declined to call Bush’s decision to invade in March 2003 a mistake and
argued that the United States
has no
alternative now but to continue fighting in Iraq even if there is
little prospect for success." - italics by website author
A note to the wise, if you're going to make mistakes,
at least try not to make the
exact, same, identical ones that you (as an institution) made in
Vietnam....you look
really stupid when you do the same dumb thing all over again. - mpg
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CNBC
On Why They Pulled Debate Poll ---
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/121007CNBC.htm
A quote...."Some of you Ron Paul fans take issue with my decision to
take the poll down. Fine.
When a well-organized
and committed "few" can throw the results of a system meant to reflect
the sentiments of "the many," I get a little worried. I'd take
it down again." -- Sincerely, Allen Wastler Managing
Editor,
CNBC.com -- bold/italics by website author
Is Mr. Wastler talking about the five conglomerates (including his own
company) that control ninety percent of this nation's mass media
market....or is he talking about the RNC, the Neocons and Karl Rove and
how they kept the people of this nation from casting their votes during
the last several elections?
It's all so confusing, just exactly who is he talking about? – mpg
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Watchdog
of C.I.A. Is Subject of C.I.A. Inquiry
---
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/washington/12intel.html?ex=1349755200&en=e15a9ee3c811a56b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 — The director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, has
ordered an unusual
internal inquiry into the work of the agency’s inspector general,
whose
aggressive investigations of the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation
programs and other matters have created resentment among agency
operatives." - italics by website author
So nobody's supposed to watch the watchers heh? Typical Bush
crony mentality, "what we do is
legal"
they say, but try to find out if that's true, and it all becomes
hush-hush, super top secret, covered by the US's new "states secret
act" or Bush's infamous claim - used on almost everything so far - of
"executive privilege."
You can always spot a cheap hoodlum in the federal bureaucracy by his
thuggish and
juvenile
attempts at intimidation. - mpg
For more on this issue see...
Fun
& Torture - It's a Pleasure. ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/funandtorture-blog-mpg-020307
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ACLU:
Government forcibly gives deportees psychotropic drugs
--- http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4500
A quote...."LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union filed a
motion to stop immigration authorities forcibly drugging deportees as
they are put on commercial flights back to their home countries. - The
motion, filed Tuesday in federal court, comes after an immigration
official testified in the Senate last month that 50 immigrants over a
seven-month period were forced to take psychotropic drugs. Many of them
had no psychiatric diagnosis."
Iraqis
Sue Blackwater for Baghdad Killings ---
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071029/scahill
A quote...."Even before its operatives opened fire on a crowded Baghdad
street in mid-September, allegedly killing seventeen Iraqi civilians
and wounding twenty-four others, Blackwater faced two wrongful death
lawsuits in the United States stemming from its activities in Iraq and
Afghanistan, a federal investigation into arms smuggling accusations
and a mounting Congressional inquiry. Now the stakes have gotten even
higher for the politically connected mercenary firm. - The
families of three Iraqis killed in the Nisour Square shootings have
filed a major lawsuit in a US federal court in Washington, DC, against
Erik Prince's firm, charging that Blackwater's actions amounted to
"extra-judicial killing" and "war crimes."
Call
for release of AP photographer Bilal Hussein, held by US army for 18
months ---
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=23964
A quote...."Nothing has changed in the situation of Associated Press
photographer Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi national, since his arrest 18
months ago, Reporters Without Borders said today. He is still held at
Camp Cropper, near Baghdad airport, and he is still waiting to be
brought before a judge. The US authorities, who claim he represents “a
security threat,” have never said when this might happen."
Russia
refuses to back down on U.S. missile shield, CFE -1 ---
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071012/83662415.html
A quote...."MOSCOW, October 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russia refuses to change
its position on U.S. plans to deploy missile defense elements in Europe
and demands on an arms reduction treaty, a senior Defense Ministry
official said on Friday."
Putin to
support Iran Six policy on Tehran - FM Lavrov ---
http://en.rian.ru/world/20071012/83693467.html
A quote...."MOSCOW, October 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President
Vladimir Putin will back the shared position of the six international
mediators on Iran's nuclear program during his visit to Tehran next
week, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said."
Soyuz
spaceship docks with ISS ---
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11962239&PageNum=0
A quote...."KOROLYOV (Moscow region), October 12 (Itar-Tass) -- The
Soyuz manned spaceship carrying an international crew of three
automatically docked with the International Space Station (ISS) at 6:50
p.m. Moscow time on Friday, spokesman for the Russian mission control
center Valery Lyndin told Itar-Tass."
In
heat and cold: Why Kalashnikov rifle is so popular in the world.
INFOgraphics ---
http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20071004/82472506.html
A quote...."The Kalashnikov assault rifle is the world's most
widespread and accessible weapon. It is a standard weapon in the armies
of 50 countries. The rifle is simple to manufacture and cheap - in some
countries it can be obtained at less than the price of an ordinary hen"
Venezuela
Raises Proven Oil Reserves to 100 Billion Barrels ---
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/newsbrief/2699
A quote...."Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela, the fourth-biggest
supplier of crude oil to the United States, said its proven oil
reserves have risen to 100 billion barrels."
Gazprom interested in Russia-Armenia-Iran oil refinery
--- http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=154756
A quote...." Gazprom said it is still positive about joint project
between Russia, Iran, and Armenia to construct an oil refinery in
Armenia. - Gazprom Neft — the oil arm of Russian energy company Gazprom
— is reportedly considering an investment of $1.7 billion to build the
joint oil refinery, which would process oil pumped from Tabriz in
northern Iran, “The Messenger” reported."
Seven
companies tender for Magallanes oil blocks ---
http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=11594&formato=HTML
A quote...."Seven corporations from United States, Canada, New Zealand,
Egypt and Russia presented tenders for the oil and gas exploration
blocks in Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile."
Hopefully the Chilean people will be smarter this time around and
they'll remember
what happened thirty years ago when they allowed US interests to
control their country's destiny. A lot of them died as a result.
They should think about those years long and hard before again agreeing
to deal with any US corporations. - mpg
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China
strikes huge gas deposit in northwest region ---
http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=11598&formato=HTML
A quote...."China's largest oil and gas company PetroChina has
discovered a major gas field in the nation's northwest Xinjiang region,
state media reported this week. The field, known as Dabei III, boasts
an estimated reserve of up to 130 billion cubic meters reports the
China Daily newspaper."
Forty
new aircrafts, and four A380, for Aerolineas Argentinas
---
http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=11601&formato=HTML
A quote...."Grupo Marsans the largest tourism and transport group in
Spain announced this week it has ordered 73 Airbus aircraft, including
four new A380 “Superjumbo”, for its Air Comet and Aerolineas Argentinas
fleets. - Privately owned Marsans said the deal is worth 7.5 billion US
dollars at list prices, making it one of the biggest in Spanish
aviation history. The Spanish group becomes the second new European
customer for the world's biggest passenger plane since 2001, and is the
first from Spain. The four aircraft, which can carry up to 853
passengers, will be split equally between Air Comet and Aerolineas
Argentinas."
Old
times were not good times ---
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2526.shtml
A quote...."Globalization is by no means new. The exportation of jobs
-- that is the loss of local employment that the beloved corporate word
“globalization” implies -- is as old as imperialism. The Egyptians,
Persians, Greeks and Romans of the ancient world, as well as the Aztecs
in the New World, solved the problem of labor costs with the use of
slaves, slaves both at home and in their colonies. In more recent times
the euphemism of “globalization” is applied to the outsourcing of labor
to places where it costs the very least, from the USA to Mexico, as
from West Europe to East Europe and Asia."
Income
inequality worst since 1920s, according to IRS data ---
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Wealthy_grabbing_larger_share_of_US_1012.html
Some quotes...."Americans in the bottom 50 percent of wage earners saw
their share of income shrink to 12.8 percent in 2005, down from 13.4
percent." - "The Journal notes that many Americans fear the
economy is entering a recession, and the
IRS data show income for the median earner
fell 2 percent between 2000 and 2005 to $30,881. Earnings for
the top 1 percent grew to $364,657 -- a 3 percent uptick."
- "Scholarly research suggests that top earners did not have such
a large share of total income since the 1920s, the Journal
reported." - italics by website author.
That means during the recent "boom" of this economy,
before everyone maxed out their
credit cards,
before the
housing market started to tank,
before
the end of this ten year cycle (still one to eighteen more months to
go)....most people had a
decline in
income. What the heck is going to happen when this country has
its usual recession (besides war with Iran)? - mpg
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Thursday October 11th 2007 -
links page
The Criminal State
--- http://www.lewrockwell.com/nock/nock13.html
Must Read - A quote...."
No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any
other purpose. Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first
instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed
first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing
its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake
of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which
circumstances make expedient. In the last analysis, what is the German,
Italian, French, or British State now actually doing? It is ruining its
own people in order to preserve itself, to enhance its own power and
prestige, and extend its own authority; and the American State is doing
the same thing to the utmost of its opportunities."
Turkey
set to attack Kurds in Iraq ---
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ12Ak01.html
A quote...."Turkey has defied the wishes of the United States by giving
its military a green light to cross the border into Iraq, following a
number of ambushes apparently waged by a Kurdish rebel group with bases
in northern Iraq. And on Wednesday, Turkish warplanes and helicopter
gunships attacked suspected rebel positions close to the Iraq border. -
Turkey's decision could come to imperil the already precarious
stability and prosperity of Iraq’s Kurdish region"
Who
Lost Turkey? ---
http://www.juancole.com/2007/10/who-lost-turkey.html
A quote...."Turkey has been the strongest ally that the United States
has had in the Middle East since the end of WW II. The Marshall Plan
started with Northern tier states like Turkey and Greece. Turkey joined
NATO and was a key player in the American victory in the Cold War. As a
secular government, Turkey stood against the rising tide of Muslim
radicalism. To the extent that Turkey is moderating its long-term
secular militancy, and moving toward fair elections, it may be
providing a model for a moderate, democratic Middle East. Its economy
is growing rapidly, foreign investment is in the billions. Turkey is in
short, almost everything the US could have asked for in the Middle
East."
There can be no
competitors
--- http://work.colum.edu/%7Eamiller/wolfowitz1992.htm
allowed,
---
http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eplatter/neo-conservatism/pnac.html
none
--- http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/PNAC-Primer.htm
....not
in a
region as vitally important as the Middle East. Democratic,
nation states with coherent national structures must be broken apart
("pre-emptive war") to get at their natural resources and/or reduce any
possible threats they could pose to the MIOC elites' future plans for
the oil in the region.
It's that simple. - mpg
Airstrikes
Hit Civilians In Pakistan: Hundreds Dead In Latest Round Of Terror War
By Proxy
---
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/10/airstrikes-hit-civilians-in-pakistan.html
Must Read - A
quote...."Hundreds of people have been killed in the past few days in
battles between the Pakistani military and suspected insurgents in
North Waziristan, the mountainous northwest bordering on Afghaninstan."
Regarding the three articles shown above. Soon every single
Muslim
country (with a geo-strategic position or oil) will be in flames, after
Syria and Iran comes Pakistan and Turkey....don't believe that? -
See....
The
US's New Map of the Middle East ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/newmemap-peters-nwa-cached-092507
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It’s the Oil
--- http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m37134&s1=h1
A quote...."Iraq is 'unwinnable’, a 'quagmire’, a 'fiasco’: so goes the
received opinion. But there is good reason to think that, from the
Bush-Cheney perspective, it is none of these things. Indeed, the US may
be 'stuck’ precisely where Bush et al want it to be, which is why there
is no 'exit strategy’."
Heritage
acquires block in Iraq, plans drilling ---
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/27639
Related article - A quote...."HOUSTON, Oct. 9 -- Heritage Oil Corp.
said it has signed a
production-sharing contract with the Kurdistan regional government
(KRG) for an exploration license covering the Miran block in the
southwest section of the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Heritage will begin
geological work immediately and could start a high-impact exploration
drilling program in 2008.
See also....
Bush
Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraq (Money Doesn't Talk, It Swears)
---
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackson-williams/bush-oil-buddies-divvy-up_b_65361.html
See also....
Let's
Make an Oil Deal - A Bush family friend may be undermining Iraqi peace.
--- http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/20920354/site/newsweek/
See also....
Ray
Hunt: Elevating Tensions Since 1974
---
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2007/09/ray_hunt_elevating_tensions_si.php
See also....
Why
Ray Hunt is so powerful
---
http://www.muckety.com/news/092407-Why-Ray-Hunt-is-so-powerful.html?recentPosts
See also....
Bush’s
pals begin the looting of Iraq
---
http://seesdifferent.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/bushs-pals-begin-the-looting-of-iraq/
See also....
The
Hunt for Oil
---
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/09/the-hunt-for-oi.html
See also....
Texas
Co. Signs Iraq Oil Deal With Kurds
---
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/09/business/main3244774.shtml
See also....
Canadian
Company Grabs Second Oil Contract in Iraq
--- http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/27368
See also....
Hunt
Denies His Political Ties Aided Kurdish Pact
--- http://www.kurdishaspect.com/doc100307BD.html
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9/11 - From The History File...Timeline
of Competition between Unocal and Bridas for the Afghanistan Pipeline
---
http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm
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Unhappy
Birthday: The Meltdown in Pakistan
---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Unhappy_Birthday%3A_The_Meltdown_in_Pakistan/#jc_allComments
Related Article - A quote...."That hardy purveyor of stone-cold truths,
Winter Patriot, has the low-down on the alarming events unfolding in
Pakistan, the nuclear-armed basket case whose regime is being held
together by baling twine and Bush largess. WP skillfully weaves
together reports on mass slaughters of civilians carried out to please
Washington, and on sleazy backroom political deals carried out to
please Washington: all of which is exacerbating the chaos in Pakistan.
This is outstanding work; you should read the whole thing, now."
It
Takes A Village to Start World War III ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/11/4460/
A quote...."On September 26, 2007, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton voted
yes on the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment that effectively labeled the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps a “terrorist organization.” The Revolutionary
Guard Corps is the largest branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s
military. It is unprecedented in American history that the armed forces
of a sovereign nation have been named “a terrorist organization.” In
response to the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment, Iran’s Foreign Ministry and
parliament have designated the U.S. Army and CIA as terrorist
organizations.
Clinton was the lone Democratic
presidential candidate to support this legislation that many view as
giving President Bush authority to launch an air war against Iran. - bold/italics/underline by website
author
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Explaining
the Weakness of the Dems in Spiritual Terms ---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_andrew_b_071009_explaining_the_weakn.htm
A quote...."An old saying in politics has it, 'You can't beat somebody
with nobody." When it comes to explaining the way the Democrats are
still getting rolled by this lame-duck, unpopular administration,
something similar obtains. But in this case, it's at the spiritual
level. And the problem is, "You can't beat some spirit with no spirit."
What If They Had a Peace Rally and (Almost) No One Came?
--- http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/11/4484/
A quote...."We sit glassy-eyed through committee hearings on such
fantastical characters as Blackwater USA’s Erik Prince — a secretive
megabuck donor to President Bush whose “troops,” paid to escort
diplomats, will now have members of the State Department paid to escort
them. - We watch slack-jawed as Republicans vie for the affections of
their crumbling evangelical base by proclaiming love for their (third)
wife or the unborn — unless the unborn becomes born and requires health
care and education. - We nod out as Hillary’s machine rolls on toward
the inevitable, fed by media reports of — the inevitable. And as 2008
approaches, those of the liberal persuasion are filled with a familiar
dread."
42%
Believe U.S. Tortures Prisoners, 27% Say It Should
---
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/42_believe_u_s_tortures_prisoners_27_say_it_should
Thirty percent of our nation's population consists of Neo-Roman
thugs. This is not to say that
all of
these
people ---
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/14/new-report-rumsfeld/
would
enjoy
watching ---
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/15/hersh-children-raped.html
--- the proceedings over their high speed video links as
Rumsfeld did. It is to say most of them would. - mpg
Torture
Endorsed, Torture Denied ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18528.htm
A quote...." 10/09/07 "Jurist" - -- -- The April 2004 publication of
grotesque photographs of naked Iraqis piled on top of each other,
forced to masturbate, and led around on leashes like dogs, sent shock
waves around the world. George W. Bush declared, “I shared a deep
disgust that those prisoners were treated the way they were treated.”
Yet less than a year later, his Justice Department issued a secret
opinion endorsing the harshest techniques the CIA has ever used,
according to a report in the New York Times. These include head
slapping, frigid temperatures, and water boarding, in which the subject
is made to feel he is drowning. Water boarding is widely considered a
torture technique. Once again, Bush is compelled to issue a denial.
“This government does not torture people,” he insisted."
U.S.
holds 10,000 more detainees in Iraq than last year, commander says
---
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/10/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Detainees.php?WT.mc_id=rssafrica
A quote...."CAMP VICTORY, Iraq: Sixty prisoners — 10 of them youths —
raised their hands Wednesday and swore to live a peaceful life. In
return, U.S. authorities set them free. More than 25,000 Iraqis still
in American custody haven't been so lucky."
And it will be ten thousand more next year, and it will go on and on
and on. Don't kid yourselves gentle reader, the US is there to
stay. - mpg
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U.N. Report on
Iraq Details An 'Ever-Deepening' Crisis ---
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m37136&s1=h1
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Oct. 11 -- A U.N. report issued Thursday outlined
an "ever-deepening humanitarian crisis" in Iraq, with thousands of
people driven from their homes each month, ongoing indiscriminate
killings, and "routine torture" in Iraqi prisons."
Abbas
wants return to pre-1967 borders ---
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-10-10-mideast_N.htm
A quote...."RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas on Wednesday laid out his most specific demands for the borders
of a future independent state, calling for a full Israeli withdrawal
from all territories captured in the 1967 Mideast war."
So....all the scheming, all the Machiavellian plans of divide and
conquer, the arranged civil war between Fatah and Hammas in the
Palestinian territories, the training and arms giving to one side, all
the hopes deliberately and sadistically raised and dashed over and over
again, the economic blockade, the lies, the false promises, the fake
blandishments, the deaths and destruction, all of these acts in the
hope that Abbas and Fatah would agree to give up more Palestinian
territory were
completely in vain. The Israelis and the US arrived back exactly
at the point were they started.
Guess the US and Israel will just have to start all over again with
another group....who will it be this time, any volunteers? - mpg
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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Divide and rule
--- http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m37133&s1=h1
A quote...."US plans to partition Iraq have been on the back burner for
almost two decades. Now the future of the Arab world for generations to
come hangs on whether or not they succeed, writes Galal Nassar"
See also....
The
US's New Map of the Middle East
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/newmemap-peters-nwa-cached-092507
See also....
[US]
Senate Endorses Plan to Divide Iraq
---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/26/AR2007092601506.html
See also....
Kuwait's
ruler rejects any partition of Iraq
---
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2007-10-
--- 04T091435Z_01_L04504616_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-KUWAIT.xml
See also....
Al-Maliki
rejects Senate proposal to partition Iraq
---
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/333678_iraq29.html
See also....
Iraq's
Shiites and Sunnis reject US partition idea
---
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/140838-Iraq%27s+Shiites+and+Sunnis+reject+US+partition+idea
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US
silent on Israel grab of Arab land ---
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8cMPuGf1zLyet-k_UG2tgGu0CMQ
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States refused to immediately
comment Wednesday on Israel's decision to confiscate Arab land near
Jerusalem, one day before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to
head to the region."
Attack
on main U.S. base kills 2, wounds 40 ---
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2003941974_webiraq11.html
A quote...."BAGHDAD — A series of rockets or mortar rounds struck Camp
Victory, killing two members of the U.S.-led coalition and wounding 40
other people on the sprawling headquarters for U.S. forces in Iraq, the
military said today."
U.S.
military: 19 insurgents and 15 civilians, including 9 children, killed
in raid targeting al-Qaida in Iraq
---
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/11/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Civilians-Killed.php
A quote...."BAGHDAD: U.S. troops backed by attack aircraft killed 19
suspected insurgents and 15 civilians, i
ncluding nine children,
in an operation Thursday targeting al-Qaida in Iraq leaders northwest
of Baghdad, the military said." - bold/italics by website author
Documents:
Qwest was targeted ---
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/27643
A quote...."The National Security Agency and other government agencies
retaliated against Qwest because the Denver telco refused to go along
with a phone spying program, documents released Wednesday suggest."
9/11
and the neocon cabal will be the the twin foci of the post 2008
"Nuremberg Trials".
---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_w__chris_071011_9_2f11_and_the_neocon_.htm
A quote...."The neocon cabal is the stinger of the scorpion. This
profoundly UN American coterie of special interests has limitless funds
and zero patriotism. It has taken American foreign policy hostage for
the last seven years (or more) and its secret agendas have NOTHING to
do with the well being and national security of the United States of
America. The masters for whom the neocon lobby lobbies never sing God
Bless America."
Democrats:
Slack-Jawed Yokels at a Three Card Monty Festival ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/11/4467/
A quote...."In rhetoric there are two common tactics debaters use when
the facts aren’t on their side: they attempt to change the subject or
alter the terms of the debate. - Magicians frequently use misdirection
when they’re about to make something disappear. - Grifters have been
making money off of rubes since biblical times with the, “Hey, look
over there” ploy just before they hide a card, slip a coin from under a
shell or otherwise fool the mark. - And strong-armed stooges have been
intimidating the timid for time immemorial. - But none of them hold a
candle to what the Bush administration and the right wing echo-chamber
has been doing to both the press and the Democrats for going on seven
years now."
WHO'LL
STOP THE TRAIN (WRECK)? Reject Theft-Enabling Voting Computers
---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/opedne_andi_nov_071011_who_ll_stop_the_trai.htm
A quote...."the expert reviewers reported that all of the voting
systems studied contain serious design flaws that have led directly to
specific vulnerabilities, which attackers could exploit to affect
election outcomes - Among the machines New York is nonetheless still
considering purchasing (Diebold and Sequoia), the California reports
specifically stated:"
Bush's
Campaign of Lies to Conceal War Crimes ---
http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/Reviews/campaign.html
A quote...."During his recent, hour-long interview on Al-Arabiya TV,
President Bush denied "the U.S. is gearing up to attack Iran" and
dismissed as "'gossip' reports in the Arab press that he has issued
orders to senior U.S. military officials to prepare for an attack on
Iran at the end of January or in February." [AP, Arizona Daily Star,
Oct. 6, 2007] He then added: "Evidently, there's a lot of gossip in
parts of the country - world that try to scare people about me
personally or my country or what we stand for."
Only
One Congress Member Gets It ---
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson111007.htm
A quote...."For almost a year Congressman Dennis Kucinich has been
saying that the Democratic leadership in Congress should end the
occupation of Iraq by not bringing up for a vote any more bills to fund
it. For all these months, he has been the only member of Congress
willing to say this."
Ron
Paul Wins Debate In Another Landslide ---
http://infowars.net/articles/october2007/111007Paul.htm
A quote..."Ron Paul won another debate by a landslide this week despite
efforts on the part of the mainstream media to limit the Congressman's
exposure and to force Rudy Giuliani down the necks of viewers"
Wednesday October 10th 2007
- links
page
Charlie
Savage: Cheney Plotted Bush’s Imperial Presidency ‘Thirty Years Ago’
--- http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/09/savage-cheney/
Must Read - A
quote...."The Bush administration has long held that President Bush’s
expanded executive power is justified due to 9/11. “I believe in a
strong, robust executive authority and I think that the world we live
in demands it,” claimed Vice President Cheney in 2005. - But in his new
book, Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the
Subversion of American Democracy, Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage
reveals that Cheney has been on a thirty-year quest to implement his
views of unfettered executive power.
See also....
Hitler
Would Have Sympathized - 05-26-07 - mpg
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/hitlerssympathy-blog-mpg-052607
See also....
Ghawar
is Dead - Long Live PNAC - 03-07-07 - mpg
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/ghawarisdead-blog-mpg-030707
See also....
The
CONversation - 09-04-06 - mpg
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/theconversation-blog-mpg-090406
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French
Say Iran attack Oct 15, NORTHCOM Plans 5 Day Martial Law Exercise The
Same Day
---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_justanot_071010_french_say_iran_atta.htm
War Warning - A
quote...."Do you believe in coincidences? Of course, they happen all
the time, and with this government, coincidence and incompetence are
the bread and butter of the Bush administration. When I quoted “Le
Canard Enchaîné” which I found in The New York Sun that
predicted an attack on Iran would occur on October the 15th, I was then
unaware that NORTHCOM was Planning a 5 Day anti-terrorism exercise
called Vigilant Shield 08. I noted that members from the site George W.
Bush - Terrorist in the White House were following a link to my article
on the subject, Attack On Iran Slated For October 15th, Prepare For
Disaster. Being my usual curious self, I went to their site, and I
found this link staring me in the face - and when I read it, a chill
ran up my spine as I attempted to grasp the magnitude of the
“coincidence.”:
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Nuke
Transportation Story Has Explosive Implications ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/09/4414/
A quote...."This is about how six nuclear advanced cruise missiles got
out of their bunkers and onto a combat aircraft without notice of the
wing commander, squadron commander, munitions maintenance squadron
(MMS), the B-52H’s crew chief and command pilot and onto another Air
Force base tarmac without notice of that air base’s chain of command —
for 10 hours. -- It is time that we got to the bottom of it
through a comprehensive investigation."
See also....
World
War 3: Cheney Ordered Strike On Iran
---
http://www.thought-criminal.org/2007/10/07/world-war-3-cheney-ordered-strike-on-iran
See also....
The
Strange
Death Of Todd Blue
--- http://www.rense.com/general78/strange.htm
See also....
Puts
and Nukes
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-091507-092207#Puts_and_Nukes
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Democrats Signal
New Spying Cave-in ---
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/100907.html
Must Read - A
quote...."An intriguing part of the Washington political dynamic is
that the more the Democrats think they might win an upcoming election,
the more timid they become – fearful that they will give the powerful
right-wing media machine some issue that will destroy their victory
dreams."
They are contemptuous, they are disgusting, they're not even properly
evil - they’re just cowardly
enablers
of evil. They don't have
enough guts to do evil themselves, they just give Bush everything he
wants....and then just stand back and watch. Like a sick bunch of
voyeurs. – mpg
On
Wiretapping, Democrats Ask Bush: "Would You Like it Gift-Wrapped?"
---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dean_pow_071009_on_wiretapping_democ.htm
Related article - A quote...."Rooting for the Democrats is like rooting
for the Chicago Cubs...except it has only been about a half-century
since Democrats have won a championship. - Here's a quick summation of
the last several weeks: Democrats failed to pass anything to change
course in Iraq, then ended weeks of Congressional deadlock by helping
Republicans resolve to condemn MoveOn.org for exercising their free
speech. Then, to top it off, Democrats passed on an opportunity to hold
Republicans accountable to their own standards by condemning Rush
Limbaugh, who compared an anti-war soldier to a suicide bomber. - How
could it get any worse? Seriously. I'm looking for ideas. Please post
them below. I might feel better about my life."
Camp
Pelosi: Nancy Lashes Out at the Antiwar Movement
---
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/10/10/camp-pelosi-nancy-lashes-out-at-the-antiwar-movement/
Related article - A quote...."
Better
Iraqis and Americans should continue to die than the Democrats should
have to get up off their knees, and rise to the occasion like real
leaders, instead of craven opportunists. Aside from which, their
opportunism is seriously misplaced: over 70 percent of the American
people have had it up to here with this rotten war." - italics by
webist author
How
Pelosi Ended ‘The War With Iraq’ ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/09/4418/
Related article - A quote...."Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but The War
With Iraq is over. - Like everything with the Bush administration’s
relationship to it’s gullible public, the point is never what they’re
doing, but what they say they’re doing; it’s the words, not the deeds.
- So No Child Left Behind of course has nothing to do with helping
challenged children in bad schools to keep up, it’s about defunding and
dismantling the public school system. And ’saving Social Security’ has
nothing to do with saving social security, its about handing over
what’s left of the public trough to the investment industry, etc, etc,
etc—is there a single American under a rock anywhere that doesn’t know
this drill by heart by now? - And now the war with Iraq is no longer
‘The War With Iraq’;
its been successfully
rebranded as ‘The War with Iran’." - bold/italics by website author
The
Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq War Resolution: Why We Can’t Forgive or
Forget
--- http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/10/4445/
Related article - A quote...."This week marks the fifth anniversary of
the Congressional vote granting President George W. Bush unprecedented
war-making authority to invade Iraq at the time and circumstances of
his own choosing. Had a majority of either the Republican-controlled
House or the Democratic-controlled Senate voted against the resolution
or had they passed an alternative resolution conditioning such
authority on an authorization from the United Nations Security Council,
all the tragic events that have unfolded as a consequence of the March
2003 invasion would have never occurred. As a result, the
responsibility for the deaths of nearly 4000 American soldiers, the
deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the waste of over a
half trillion dollars of our national treasury, and the rise of
terrorism and Islamist extremism that has come as a result of the
invasion and occupation of Iraq rests as much in the hands of the
members in Congress who authorized the invasion as it does with the
administration that requested it."
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Political
Wickedness and Moral Bankruptcy - The Iraq Occupation and the Coming
War Against Iran
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18530.htm
A quote...." How do you get out of a hole? -- First of all,
you stop
digging. —This is the simple lesson that the Bush-Cheney White House
has so much trouble understanding. For Bush and his
neocon crowd,
they are militarily occupying Iraq and they intend to
remain there,
no matter what. It doesn't matter that this immoral and illegal
occupation has caused the death of more than one million Iraqis and
killed more than 3000 American soldiers. And now, they want to escalate
the Iraq war into a wider Middle East conflict involving
Iran, thus
making sure the United States will be involved militarily in that
region of the globe for the next twenty years.
From
NASA to Lt. Watada - Finally, a Good Day for the Constitution
--- http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff1082007.html
A quote...."
So it turns out that
there are still honest, thinking judges in the federal court system who
take their Constitution seriously, despite seven years of Bush
administration court packing (and years more of such packing under two
prior Republican presidents)." - italics by website author
There's still a few left? How did that happen? - mpg
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Land
of the Free? ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/10/4438/
A quote...."I’ve noticed what may be a new phenomenon in the
Israel-Palestine debate as it plays out in the US. I call it
pre-emptive censorship. A number of non-Jewish organisations have
denied supposedly controversial speakers or organisations the right to
speak or perform due to the anticipated reaction of the local Jewish
community."
'Rendition'
victim is denied justice in US ---
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ11Ak01.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court has declined to take up
the case of a German citizen who was allegedly abducted, detained and
tortured by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as part of the CIA's
"extraordinary rendition" program."
Because of "
state secrets"!
They've got to be kidding....they
HAVE
NO secrets, the whole world knows what they've done, their
sponsorship of the very "terrorists" they say they're fighting
(government supported false flag operators & death squads, freedom
fighters, and various other groups throughout the Middle East), not to
mention 9/11, an event no one in this government seems to want to
really investigate. - mpg
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CBS:
Three weeks after Blackwater shooting, FBI ignores key evidence
---
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/CBS_Blackwater_shooters_have_scattered_to_1009.html
A quote...."CBS News reported on Tuesday that the FBI's investigation
of last month's Blackwater shooting incident in Baghdad appears to be
ignoring evidence that might support the Iraqi government's version of
events and hold Blackwater at fault."
Iran
condemns arrest, beating of reporter by US forces in Afghanistan
--- http://www.payvand.com/news/07/oct/1085.html
A quote...."Tehran, Oct 9, IRNA - Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman
Mohammad Ali Hosseini here on Tuesday strongly condemned the arrest and
beating up by US forces in Afghanistan of the Iranian English Press TV
channel reporter in Kabul Faez Khorshid. - Speaking to reporters, he
called the move as inhuman which runs counter to the principle of
freedom of press and free flow of news and information."
US
forces torture Press TV reporter ---
http://infowars.net/articles/october2007/091007reporter.htm
A quote...."The Afghan journalist was rendered unconscious by a taser
and taken to a US base where the officers in charge of interrogating
him, forced him to watch all the reports he had made for Press TV,
while “shocking him on an electric chair and beating him on the head”.
America's new version of winning their hearts and minds - Hey it worked
in Vietnam didn't it....whoops.
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Iran
builds air base near Afghan border ---
http://www.thought-criminal.org/2007/10/09/iran-builds-air-base-near-afghan-border
A quote...."TEHRAN, October 9 (RIA Novosti) - Iran has built an air
base not far from its border with Afghanistan, Iranian television
reported Tuesday. - "The base is designed to enhance the combat
readiness of our Armed Forces in standing up to possible aggression
against our country," Gen. Ahmad Migani, Air Force commander, said at
the base's opening ceremony."
Putin:
No Proof Iran Seeks Nuclear Arms ---
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/10/10/international/i081226D69.DTL
A quote...."President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday there is no proof
Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons, but emphasized that Tehran
must be encouraged to make its nuclear program fully transparent."
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U.S.-Led
Iraq Coalition Withering Fast ---
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gNxhjHEDIfpu74862OyWN4dypN3gD8S5S6300
A quote...."Britain's decision to bring half of its 5,000 soldiers home
from Iraq by spring is the latest blow to the U.S.-led coalition. The
alliance is crumbling, and fast: excluding Americans, the multinational
force was once 50,000 strong — by mid-2008, it will be down to 7,000."
Even
the British Are Leaving Iraq ---
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100907B.shtml
Related article - A quote...."The "coalition of the willing" is over.
One by one, its members have ceded the bloodstained ground to the
battling Iraqis and the unyielding U.S. president. Prime Minister
Gordon Brown's decision Monday to halve the vestigial British military
force in Basra was inevitable; backing the U.S. in Iraq has become a
political albatross for governments all over the world."
Poles
Want Troops Out of Afghanistan ---
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/28556/poles_want_troops_out_of_afghanistan
Related article - A quote...."(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Although
the number has slightly decreased, the vast majority of people in
Poland still oppose the presence of their country’s soldiers in
Afghanistan, according to a poll by CBOS. 72 per cent of respondents
are against Poland’s participation in the war on terrorism, down six
points since June."
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American
AFRICOM initiative is not welcome in Africa ---
http://www.thought-criminal.org/2007/10/08/american-africom-initiative-is-not-welcome-in-africa
A quote...."MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Dina Lyakhovich) -
American troops attract terrorists like magnet attracts metal. African
and Asian countries have made this conclusion four and a half years
after the Iraqi campaign began."
US
detains nearly 25,000 in Iraq ---
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_detains_nearly_25_000_in_Iraq_10102007.html
A quote...."The US military is holding nearly 25,000 people in its
prisons in Iraq, 860 of whom are under the age of 16, the general in
charge of their detention said on Wednesday."
US
Embassy opening in Baghdad delayed indefinitely ---
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N09435348.htm
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The opening of the mammoth
new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has been delayed indefinitely while its
Kuwaiti contractor fixes a punch list of problems, the State Department
said on Tuesday."
Guards
Kill Two Women In Iraq
---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/AR2007100900481.html?nav=rss_email/components
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Oct. 9 -- Private security guards from an
Australian-run firm opened fire on a white sedan in downtown Baghdad on
Tuesday afternoon, killing two Iraqi Christian women who were driving
home from work."
Turkey
Escalates Action Near Iraq Border ---
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hHDG79AIius7McB6xz3lTQFLIdhQD8S6M0LG0
A quote...."SIRNAK, Turkey (AP) — Turkish warplanes and helicopter
gunships attacked suspected positions of Kurdish rebels near Iraq on
Wednesday, a possible prelude to a cross-border operation that would
likely raise tensions with Washington."
Morales
says U.S. soldiers should leave Bolivia ---
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/10/america/LA-GEN-Bolivia-US-Military.php
A quote...."LA PAZ, Bolivia: President Evo Morales said he expects U.S.
military aid to Bolivia to stop soon, as his government plans to bar
U.S. troops from assisting in anti-drug operations."
Ukraine:
Parliamentary election fails to resolve political crisis
--- http://wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/ukra-o11.shtml
A quote...."A third election within three years has proved incapable of
resolving the deep political crisis in Ukraine. Once again, it has
become clear that the struggle between rival political cliques, carried
out at the expense of the broad population, has nothing in common with
democracy."
Declassified
Document: "U.S. Army explored using radioactive poisons to assassinate
'important individuals'"
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7046
A quote...."October 9, 2007. Associated Press. In one of the
longest-held secrets of the Cold War, the U.S. Army explored the
potential for using radioactive poisons to assassinate “important
individuals” such as military or civilian leaders, according to newly
declassified documents obtained by The Associated Press."
Laugh
with Laffer over Supply-Side Economics ---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_richard__071008_laugh_with_laffer_ov.htm
A quote..."Since 1913, almost a hundred years now, this is the first
time that we have had back-to-back elected presidents of opposing
parties who have served two full terms. - Being able to compare the
results of the economy under such diametrically different policies is a
once-in-a-life-time opportunity. Balanced budget and surplus
under Clinton - endless and mindless tax-cuts for the rich and big
business under Bush, resulting in a National Debt increase of $3.2
trillion dollars."
Boeing
announces delay in deliveries of 787 Dreamliner ---
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/10/business/boeing.php
A quote...."Boeing said Wednesday that continued challenges in
completing the assembly of its first 787 "Dreamliner" jets would force
it to delay initial deliveries of the plane by six months, to late
2008."
Tuesday October 9th 2007
- links
page
No posts - mpg
Monday October 8th 2007 - links
page
Bush’s
torturers follow where the Nazis led ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18515.htm
Must Read - PG post - A
quote...." 10/07/07 "The Times" -- -- I remember that my first response
to the reports of abuse and torture at Guantanamo Bay was to accuse the
accusers of exaggeration or deliberate deception. I didn’t believe
America would ever do those things. I’d also supported George W Bush in
2000, believed it necessary to give the president the benefit of the
doubt in wartime, and knew Donald Rumsfeld as a friend."
Evil
Empire - Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for America?
--- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17708.htm
Must Read - PG Post -
From the history file / posted - 051507
- A quote...."05/17/07 "ICH" -- -- In politics, as in medicine, a cure
based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening
the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today,
suffers from a plethora of public ills. Most of them can be traced to
the militarism and imperialism that have led to the near-collapse of
our Constitutional system of checks and balances. Unfortunately, none
of the remedies proposed so far by American politicians or analysts
addresses the root causes of the problem."
Iraq
Demands $136M Blackwater Payout ---
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/08/iraq/main3343975.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_3343975
A quote...."(CBS/AP) Iraqi authorities want the U.S. government to
sever all contracts in Iraq with Blackwater USA within six months and
pay $8 million in compensation to each of the families of 17 people
killed when the firm's guards sprayed a traffic circle with heavy
machine gun fire last month."
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Americans
No Longer Question Authority ---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_timothy__071008_americans_no_longer_.htm
A quote...."
Have
we passed the point of no return in this country? Has the right
engineered such a change in our laws that nothing can be done to bring
the country back from an Orwellian State that exists to serve the
oligarchy and has stripped the common man of his basic unalienable
rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness?"
Point,
Click ... Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates
--- http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/08/wiretap
PG Post - A quote...."The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated,
point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on
almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages
of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information
Act."
Collecting
of Details on Travelers Documented ---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092102347.html
PG Post - A quote...."The U.S. government is collecting electronic
records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or
take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they
travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their
journeys, and even the books that travelers have carried, according to
documents obtained by a group of civil liberties advocates and
statements by government officials."
For more on the three articles shown above see....
Thirty
Five Acts to Restore Americans' Rights 11-10-06 ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/seventeenacts-blog-mpg-111006
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On
the take and loving it: CIA torture related research and NSA spying and
intel related research
---
http://www.thought-criminal.org/2007/10/08/on-the-take-and-loving-it-cia-torture-related-research-and-nsa-spying-and-intel-related-research
A quote...."Over the last decade, U.S intelligence funding of academic
research has taken on cavalier, even brazen qualities. This article
reveals over 3,000 National Security Agency and over 100 Defense
Intelligence Agency funded papers and draws attention to recent
unreported revelations of CIA funding for torture research."
Thou
Shalt Not Kill, Except in a Popular Video Game at Church
---
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/us/07halo.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&hp&oref=slogin
A quote...."First the percussive sounds of sniper fire and the thrill
of the kill. Then the gospel of peace. - Across the country, hundreds
of ministers and pastors desperate to reach young congregants have
drawn concern and criticism through their use of an unusual recruiting
tool: the immersive and violent video game Halo."
The population must be "conditioned" to kill. Be it Jews in the
gas chambers, Gooks in Southeast Asia, or "rag heads" in the Middle
East teenagers don't usually kill willingly unless their
desensitized or trained to do so….or unless someone helps breakdown
their innocence and corrupts them. - mpg
For more on this see....
White
Mans Burden ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/whitemansburden-blog-mpg-122006
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U.S. Soldier:
'I Was Ordered to Murder Unarmed Iraqi' ---
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/63780/
PG Post - Related article - A quote...."A U.S. soldier broke down in
tears Thursday as he testified that he was ordered to shoot an unarmed
Iraqi man, and that his sergeant laughed and told the trooper to finish
the job as the man convulsed on the ground."
Hired
Gun Fetish
---
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/opinion/28krugman.html?ei=5087%0A&em=&en=5f2344ab6ca8ff95&ex=1191211200&pagewanted=print
PG Post - Related article - A quote...."And, yes, the so-called private
security contractors are mercenaries. They’re heavily armed. They carry
out military missions, but they’re private employees who don’t answer
to military discipline. On the other hand, they don’t seem to be
accountable to Iraqi or U.S. law, either. And they behave accordingly."
What a War on
Iran Might Look Like [photo essay] ---
http://www.alternet.org/stories/63908/
PG Post -
Slide Show - Related
article - A quote...."Nina Berman: In 34 days last summer, the Israeli
Defense Forces lay waste to a large swath of Lebanon. Thousands of
rocket attacks, more than 3 million cluster bombs, over 1,000 Lebanese
civilians killed, and despite all the destruction and a small number of
Israeli casualties, the general consensus, George Bush notwithstanding,
is that Hezbollah, the intended target, emerged stronger than ever."
Noted
psychologist Beth Shinn resigns from American Psychological Association
---
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/10/07/noted-psychologist-beth-shinn-resigns-from-american-psychological-association/
PG Post - Related article - A quote...."“because the American
Psychological Association continues to condone psychologists’ work in
detention centers that violate international law and because of actions
by APA’s leadership to discourage dissent from its policies in this
matter.” -- *
Marybeth
Shinn* - Member # 1603-1653
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Bush
faces court ruling over CIA prisons ---
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e28ba28a-7511-11dc-892d-0000779fd2ac.html
PG Post - A quote...."The administration of President George W. Bush
could face a further challenge to its anti-terrorism policies from the
Supreme Court, which is expected to say on Tuesday whether it will take
up a case involving US secret prisons overseas."
Czech
Republic plans Iraq pullout ---
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22548314-5005961,00.html
A quote...."THE Czech Republic is planning to pull its troops out of
Iraq, Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said today, without giving a
timetable for the withdrawal."
Japan
May Cut Support of Afghan Mission ---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6977947,00.html
A quote...."TOKYO (AP) - Japan would scale back its support of the U.S.
in Afghanistan by ending naval assistance to vessels involved in ground
missions there under a ruling party proposal that officials predicted
Sunday would gain parliament's approval."
Sanctions
put Iranians on the road to Damascus ---
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/business.cfm?id=1600142007
PG Post - A quote...."AHMED Ansare's petroleum recycling business, the
Damascus Petrochemical Refinery Company, was the first private Iranian
company to set foot in Syria, and it looks like being the first of
many."
It's sort'a fun to see the US help keep Iran's influence expanding
throughout the Middle East. - mpg
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Sage
Observations - PG's quotes ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/sageobservations-pg-blog-072407
Some examples of the most recent batch....for more goto...
Sage
Observations - PG's quotes - 100807 ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/sageobservations-pg-blog-072407#100807
"Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means
unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away
anxiety."
-- *
Louis Kronenberger*
- (1904-1980)
"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as
though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things
that seem than by those that are."
-- *
Niccolo Machiavelli*
- (1469-1527) Italian Statesman and
Political Philosopher - Source: Discourses, 1513-1517
"The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the
noblest causes."
-- *
Thomas Paine*
"You know your country is dying when you have to make a distinction
between what is moral and ethical, and what is legal."
-- *
John De Armond*
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice”
-- *
Confucius*
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
-- *
Voltaire* -
[François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
"Wars are seldom caused by spontaneous hatreds between people, for
peoples in general are too ignorant of one another to have grievances
and too indifferent to what goes on beyond their borders to plan
conquests. They must be urged to the slaughter by politicians who know
how to alarm them."
-- *
H.L. Mencken*
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A
Steady Decline in Security for Most Workers - The US Economy Since 1980
--- http://www.counterpunch.org/sandronsky09292007.html
A quote...."What makes the U.S. so unlike other rich nations? There is
no single answer. At the top of a list is the power of the business
class to shape policy-making and the lives of the nation's populace. In
The United States Since 1980, economist Dean Baker focuses on the
policies that have set the country on a business-friendly path. There
have been far-reaching effects."
Closeted
Gay Republican Watch: Armstrong Williams Hosts an A-List Book Party for
Justice Thomas
---
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/10/08/closeted-gay-gop-watch-williams-hosts-thomas/
More tales from the NRE (New Roman Empire) - Some quotes...."It’s no
surprise that there was an A-list book party in Washington for Supreme
Court Justice Clarence Thomas last week." - "But what might
surprise rank and file GOP types far outside the Beltway is the fact
that the host of the party, Armstrong Williams, the former conservative
TV pundit, is a closeted gay man."
Climate
Change and Entire Landscapes on the Move ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/05/4348/
PG Post - A quote...."BROOKLIN, Canada - The hot breath of global
warming has now touched some of the coldest northern regions of world,
turning the frozen landscape into mush as temperatures soar 15 degrees
C. above normal."
Mike
Gravel pulverizes the protective bubble of the 'Democrat' Elite with
Truth --- http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/3777
PG Post - A quote...."Mike Gravel tells like it is again at New
Hampshire Democratic debate at Dartmouth College the night of September
26."
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