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Monday October 18th 2010

Bin Laden Now in Pakistan Livin La Vida Loca, as the “Weekend at Bernie’s” Floating War Party Rolls On
Must Read - A quote...."CNN mockingbird Barbara Starr is reporting that “unnamed NATO sources” are claiming that Bin Laden is living the high life somewhere around north-west Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. Apparently bin Laden is  partying and living large, no more of those fake cave stories for him. And just for good measure, mockingbird Starr claims Gen. Petraeus says things are going great in Afghanistan…" - Topix  ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Osama bin long gone Laden  ||

Hate Mongers Among US (4 Part Video) [An Update] - Original videos posted 10-14-10 - mpg
Video - HMupdt(1/4) - HMupdt(2/4) - HMupdt(3/4) - HMupdt(4/4) - (YuTb - 10/15m - October 09, 2010) - Source:  argonium79 -- A quote...."I write to share with you four recent YouTube videos (links below) prepared by a colleague who added photos, film footage and humor to a series of analyses published last month titled “The Hate Mongers Among Us” — chronicling how Zionists create serial conflicts while profiting off the misery of both sides. -- The text of this four-part series appears on the Criminal State website -- Read  PARTS 1 – 4 and more at : http://www.criminalstate.com" -- "Part/1 - Part/2 - Part/3 - Part/4"

How Many LIES Can You spot in This Zionist Nonsense?
Special Note - A quote...."Background: Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal were three of the four Americans who decided to go hiking around the Iraq-Iran border in the Summer of 2009 and 'accidentally' strayed across the border into Iran. -- They were taken into custody by alert Iranian border guards and stayed in Iran until recently, when Ms. Shourd was released. -- Their other comrade, Shon Meckfessel, conveniently got 'sick' right before their little jaunt onto the world stage and stayed behind in their hotel room. -- Shourd then went on a nationwide 'pity party tour,' telling some rather interesting, uh, tales about her version of the story. She claimed here band of hikers were not spies, they just wanted to see the Ahmed Awa waterfall, near the Iraq/Iranain border and hike around the area."

The Nariman House Story – Mumbai
From the History File - December 5, 2008 - A quote...."The drama started weeks before the terrorist attacks – at a Jewish residential complex in Mumbai run by the Chabad-Lubavitch ultra-orthodox movement."

The Odyssey of David Coleman Headley
Special Note - A quote...."When the city of Mumbai, India, was attacked by terrorists allegedly from the Lashkar-i- Taiba (LeT) group – a Muslim separatist organization fighting for independence for Kashmir from Indian occupiers – the CIA chief at the time, Gen. Michael Hayden, reportedly confronted his Pakistani counterpart, Lieutenant Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, and, according to Bob Woodward, said:"  -- “’We’ve got to get to the bottom of this. This is a big deal.’ He urged Pasha to come clean and disclose all.” -- "With the revelation that David Coleman Headley, the “scout” who visited Mumbai and did reconnaissance work for LeT prior to the attack, was an informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), one might say pretty much the same thing to Hayden and his successor: come clean and disclose all." - Topix ||  Just Give it a Rest OK!! - 11-27-09 - mpg  || - also posted at AmericanEveryman

Pakistan intelligence services 'aided Mumbai terror attacks'
Propaganda Alert - Related Article -  OH LOOK!  Headley, the US-NRE's agent provocateur extraordinaire has now pinned the ENTIRE Mumbai attack on Pakistan's ISI....and the "report" is coming out now, coincidentally while the US-NRE has been revving up for more attacks, air strikes and even a possible invasion of....hold your breath...think hard now....what country have you heard negative comments about for the last month (besides Iran)....that's right....Pakistan!!!  What a complete SURPRISE!!!   Who would have thunk it!!  WOW, ain't that amazing folks, that this report, created by an admitted US-NRE agent, blaming Pakistan for EVERYTHING, is issued right now, just when the US-NRE needs it to put more pressure on and justify further attacks against Pakistan??  Golly gee weepers the US-NRE is just so darned lucky!!  (roll your eyes folks)  And all this right AFTER Pakistan lifted it's blockade of the Torkham Gate crossing into Afghanistan!!  Now there's US-NRE gratitude for you!! - mpg

The United States fights and pays for Israel's wars: Maidhc Ó Cathail
Interview - A quote..."Maidhc joined me in an exclusive interview and responded to my questions about the 9/11 attacks, the influence of Israeli lobby over the U.S. administration, the prospect of Israeli – Palestinian conflict, the prolonged controversy over Iran's nuclear program and the freedom of press in the United States." - also posted at AlethoNews

Obama's Finest Hour: Killing Innocent People For "Made-Up Crap"
Special Note - Quote of the Day - (Editor's alert, Chris Floyd's website is still being hacked as of 8:35pm PST 10/18/10) -- A quote...."Friends, it's very simple: if you support Barack Obama and the Democrats -- even if reluctantly, even if you're just being all sophisticatedly super-savvy and blogospherically strategic about it, playing the "long game" or eleven-dimensional chess or what have you -- you are supporting the outright murder of innocent people who have never done anything against you or yours. You have walked into a house, battered down the bedroom door, put the barrel of a gun against the temple of a sleeping child, and pulled the trigger. That is what you are supporting, that is what you are complicit in, that is what you yourself are doing." - AMEN! - People, it's time to STOP voting for the DemoRepub party!  Vote for someone else, vote for anyone else, vote for another party!  Stop voting for endless war, an endless police state, and your own personal financial destruction! - mpg

Report Shows Drones Strikes Based on Scant Evidence
Related Article - A quote...."WASHINGTON, Oct 18, 2010 (IPS) - New information on the Central Intelligence Agency's campaign of drone strikes in northwest Pakistan directly contradicts the image the Barack Obama administration and the CIA have sought to establish in the news media of a programme based on highly accurate targeting that is effective in disrupting al Qaeda's terrorist plots against the United States." - also posted at Uruknet

Dirty War in Afghanistan
Special Note - From the History File - July 12, 2010 -- A quote...."On the morning of Dec. 30, 2009, I listened in disbelief as an NPR "terrorism" expert disingenuously explained how the suicide bombing that killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan was especially hideous, because the CIA victims were spreading economic development and democracy through a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT)." - also posted at Uruknet

The Evil of Madeleine Albright - "Could you have one of our U-2s shot down?"
A quote...."Madeleine Albright is infamous for her reply to the question posed by 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl about the sanctions against Iraq in May 1996. --  "We have heard that a half million children have died," stated Stahl. "I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" -- "I think this is a very hard choice," replied Albright, "but the price–we think the price is worth it." - also posted at AlethoNews & Uruknet

How propaganda is disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition - Article also posted at ICH
A quote...."This is how the U.S. government and American media jointly disseminate propaganda: in the immediate wake of some newsworthy War on Terror event, U.S. Government officials (usually anonymous) make wild and reckless -- though unverifiable -- claims. The U.S. media mindlessly trumpets them around the world without question or challenge. Those claims become consecrated as widely accepted fact. And then weeks, months or years later, those claims get quietly exposed as being utter falsehoods, by which point it does not matter, because the goal is already well-achieved: the falsehoods are ingrained as accepted truth."

Updated: Nashwan Ghanem in last post before “suicide” accuses Yemeni gov’t of complicity in al-Qaeda attack on US Embassy - Blogger Possibly "Suicided" - A quote...."Nashwan Ghanem was found dead of an “apparent suicide” by gun in Ibb today.  These are his last posts,  on his fourth blog, the one they didn’t know he had. The other three sites were shut down by the authorities. He had been writing me for some time, more and more frantically, saying they were trying to kill him. Nashwan accused leaders of the Yemeni military and the Vice President’s Media Secretary of complicity in the al Qaeda attack on the US embassy in Sept ‘08. That post brought a 24 month avalanche of state harassment." - This website editor won't blame the Yemeni government as far as the attack against the US-NRE's embassy is concerned.  Simply because they probably did it under the orders of the US-NRE itself, possibly in collusion with the Saudi Royals' GIP.

U.S. Wars Are Bankrupting the World
A quote...."The endless and infinite "war on terra" is bankrupting the planet. I don't mean moral bankruptcy; that goes without saying. I mean financial bankruptcy. And don't take my word for it. This is the argument made in a new book called "Terrorism and the Economy: How the War on Terror Is Bankrupting the World," by Loretta Napoleoni, a financial reporter for Internazionale, l'Unita, il Caffe, Mondo e Missione, El Pais, Vanity Fair Spain, and Vanity Fair Italy."

The End of History
Must Read - A quote...."The Universe, the Cosmos, Awareness, Consciousness, Love, Hate, Friendship, Life...the triumph of Love over Death....All is made of many levels...so is History. -- There is the Beginning and there is the End. There is the beginning of Civilization and there is the end of Civilization...and there are the gray areas in between, the pangs of Death and Rebirth. -- History's many levels are made of beginnings and ends...and those gray areas. -- Some beginnings illuminate the world and some of its endings darken it into total Obscurity. -- So how do we define History ? Most probably by its contribution to Civilization - by its insertion in the Civilization process..." - Source:  An Arab Woman Blues
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In Afghan town, insurgents vanish after battles
Must Read - A quote...."MARJAH, Afghanistan – The Marines have found bloody clothes and spent bullet casings and bombs meant to kill them. They've heard bullets flying overhead and seen muzzle flashes in tree lines. -- In this southern Afghan town that coalition forces seized from Taliban fighters eight months ago — and are still clearing — you don't have to go far to find the insurgency. But finding insurgents is another story altogether. -- "The only time we see them is when we're in contact" in a gunfight, said Cpl. Chuck Martin, 24, of Middletown, R.I. -- And even catching a glimpse of them during gunbattles can be rare."

Sats Spot 3 Miles of NATO Supply Trucks Bottlenecked in Pakistan - Awesome bird's eye view. - mpg
Contains Video - Alt - (FlickR auto photo gallery - aprox 30sec - October 14, 2010) - Source:  www.digitalglobe.com  - A quote...."Pakistan’s 10-day blockade against NATO convoys has ended, but a new video released by a commercial satellite company shows just how massive the consequences were: a sprawling, three-mile bottleneck of oil tankers and supply trucks, some parked in a dry riverbed, waiting to cross the Torkham border pass into Afghanistan."

2 NATO tankers set ablaze
A quote...."QUETTA: Two NATO tankers carrying oil for the international forces stationed in Afghanistan were set ablaze in two separate incidents in the Akhterabad area of Quetta and Mangochar, Kalat on Monday."

Maliki Visits Iran’s Supreme Leader, Hears Calls for US Ouster
A quote...."....meeting was with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Iranian cleric pressed Maliki to hurry up with forming his government, while apparently making it clear that they strongly support the Maliki-INA pairing as constituted.With Sadr included, naturally. -- Then, going even further, Khamenei told Maliki that it was vital he “get rid of America,” ending the seven plus years of American occupation. This appears to be a clear laying down of the gauntlet, with America’s demand for a Sadr-less government on one side, and Iran’s support for an America-less Iraq with a Shi’ite religious government on the other."

Iraq's Premier Maliki meets rival Sadr in Iran
A quote...."TEHRAN: The Iraqi premier met his erstwhile Shiite Muslim rival in Iran Monday, state television said, as Tehran moved to patch over their differences to help ensure Iraq’s next government is led by Shiites."

Chavez arrives in Tehran for energy talks
A quote...."Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in Iran for a three-day official visit, with the goal of boosting ties between Tehran and Caracas."

Iran attends Afghan diplomatic talks for first time
A quote...."Iran took part in top-level international diplomatic talks on Afghanistan for the first time on Monday, with participants including the US recognising that the Islamic repbulic has a key role to play. "We recognise that Iran... has a role to play in the peaceful settlement of the situation in Afhganistan," Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said on the sidelines of the talks in Rome." - also posted at Uruknet

The True Significance of Ahmadinejad's Visit
Special Note - A quote...."Firstly, let us put to one side the nonsense: The President of Iran’s visit was not about embedding Lebanon as a part of the Iranian state, nor was it about paving the way for any Hizbullah ‘take-over’ of Lebanon; and nor can the visit be described as a ‘provocation’. It was of course self-evidently intended to express defiance towards Israeli military hegemony and to assert a stand of counter-deterrence to any Israeli military threat, but that it is very different from an ‘act of provocation’ deliberately intended to draw an Israeli response.  All these claims for the purpose of the visit are just a part of the psychological warfare mounted against Iran, and can be ignored." - bold by wewbsite editor

Turkish PM says will not talk with Netanyahu
A quote...."ATHENS (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan does not want to talk with his Israeli counterpart and will not attend a climate change conference in Athens on Friday if Benjamin Netanyahu is there, he told Greece's Skai TV on Monday." - also posted at WarInIraq

Xi Jinping on track to become China's next president
A quote...." The Communist Party official is named to a post that is considered a steppingstone for assuming the leadership. He has a reputation for being tough on corruption and friendly toward business, even foreign companies. -- Unless something goes badly wrong for Xi Jinping over the next two years, it looks like a fait accompli that the 57-year-old Communist Party official, who has been groomed his entire career for leadership, will be China's next president."

Sudan VP criticises Obama warning of bloodshed - Another!!  US-NRE sponsored civil war in progress! - mpg
A quote...."DOHA - Sudan's vice president on Saturday criticised US President Barack Obama for warning of possible bloodshed if a referendum on independence for south Sudan does not take place as planned in January. -- "Obama receives reports from entities who do not know what is happening in Sudan," Ali Osman Taha told a news conference in Doha. -- "This is not the first time he speaks as such of Sudan, and it will not be the last. He makes those remarks based on what he hears from pressure groups." - also posted at WarInIraq - What the US-NRE has done to Iraq and the Palestinians, intends to do to Afghanistan and Pakistan, dreams of one day doing to Iran, Lebanon and Syria, it is now doing to the Sudan. - Topix ||  US Sponsored Civil Wars  ||  The US-NRE's New Map of the Middle East  ||  The US-NRE's New Map of Iraq  || See also ....US diplomat urges NATO to partition Afghanistan or loose control

Will 10 Downing Street Scuttle the Royal Navy?
Some quotes...."PARIS – Britain’s mighty Royal Navy ruled the waves until World War II, fully 25% [70%] of the earth’s surface. There are few greater epochs in history than the stirring saga the Royal Navy, Britain’s famed "wooden walls." -- As a boy, I thrilled to the glorious adventures of Britain’s sailors, such as Sir Francis Drake, the renowned admirals Anson and Howe, and the great Sir Horatio Nelson, whose name will live forever in naval glory." -- "The Royal Navy’s budget is reportedly to be cut by at least 10%, perhaps far more. Britain’s new Conservative-Liberal-Dem coalition of David Cameron and Nick Clegg vow to slash the monstrous deficit it inherited from the former Blair-Brown Labour government that left Britain drowning in red ink. For supposed socialists, Blair and Brown spent like drunken sailors on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and on trying to keep up militarily with the United States. - Cameron has spoken of 20-25% cuts in government across the board. In spite of earlier denials, military spending will be a choice target."

Japan's Nissan to decide on stake in Russia's AvtoVAZ - AvtoVAZ CEO
A quote...."Japanese carmaker Nissan, part of the alliance with French Renault, will decide on buying shares in Russia's largest car producer AvtoVAZ in the coming months, Igor Komarov, AvtoVAZ head, said on Tuesday."

Polish govt. to approve Russian gas supply agreement
A quote...."The Polish government will on Tuesday approve an agreement with Russia on natural gas supplies initialed in Moscow on Sunday, said Waldemar Pawlak, a deputy Polish prime minister."

Six dead in attack on Chechen parliament - Kadyrov
A quote...."At around 8.45 am three militants opened fire at parliamentary security guards,” Kadyrov said, adding that two police officers and a parliamentary administrative manager had been killed. -- He also said three militants were killed in the ensuing special operation, which took place after the building had been evacuated."

Ukrainian Firms to Pump Oil in Venezuela
A quote...."KIEV – Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych and Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez announced on Monday an agreement that will allow companies from the European nation to exploit oil and natural gas reserves in Venezuela."
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Promises, Promises
A quote...."Do Republicans think we’re stupid? Do they think we’ve forgotten the eight-year presidency of Republican George W. Bush? Do they think we’ve forgotten that Republicans had an absolute majority in both houses of Congress for over four years of the Bush administration? Do they think we’ve forgotten that the Republican Party controlled the Congress during the last six years of Clinton’s presidency? -- The empty promises, grandiose claims, vain assurances, and blatant lies in the Republican "Pledge to America" mean that it’s not worth the paper and toner it would take to print out a copy. Republicans are clearly trying to capitalize on voter discontent with the Democratic Party, garner the support of the Tea Party movement, and sucker Americans into voting them back into power."

Justice for Oscar Grant! Jail for Killer Cops! - Longshoremen Will Shut Down All Bay Area Ports @ CntrPnch
Protest Alert - Action Alert - A qutoe...."Emotions ran high when longshoremen at their July membership meeting were addressed by Cephus Johnson, the uncle of Oscar Grant, the young black man who was killed by a cop at the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland on New Year’s Day 2009. Recounting the sidewalk mural in the front of the hiring hall near Fisherman’s Wharf that depicts two strikers lying face down with the inscription: “Two ILA (longshoremen) Shot in the Back, Police Murder”, he appealed to the union to support justice for his slain nephew. He said, “That mural shook me because that’s exactly what happened to Oscar”. - also posted at Uruknet
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Financing the Israeli Occupation
A quote...."Israeli banks provide the financial infrastructure for all activities of companies, governmental agencies and individuals in the continuing occupation of Palestine and the Syrian Golan Heights. The services provided by the banks support and sustain these activities. Additionally, as this report shows, it is evident that the banks are well aware of the types and whereabouts of the activity that is being carried out with their financial assistance. -- Our research has identified six categories of involvement of Israeli banks in the occupation. There is solid evidence of the involvement of most of the major Israeli commercial banks in these categories:" - also posted at Uruknet - It's the BANKS folks!!  It's ALWAYS been the banks, here in this country just as well as over there! - mpg

Israel continues political detention campaign
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained a Hamas-affiliated member of the Palestinian Legislative Council on Monday from the southern West Bank district of Hebron. -- Hatem Qafaish, elected to the Palestinian parliament in 2006 with Hamas' Change and Reform bloc, was detained after Israeli forces ransacked his home, a local source told Ma'an. The PLC member was detained on 6 November 2007 and placed under administrative detention until his release in 2009." - also posted at Uruknet

20 Palestinians Injured In Jerusalem Clashes
A quote...."Palestinian medical sources report that at least 20 Palestinians were injured, on Sunday night, during clashes that took place with Israeli soldiers and policemen in the town of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem." - also posted at Uruknet

The international community's final test
Second Quote of the Day...."Negotiations between two unequal parties cannot succeed. Success in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations requires a reasonable balance of power, clear terms of reference and abstention of both sides from imposing unilateral facts on the ground. None of that existed in the talks that were re-initiated in September."

S[outh] A[frica] boycotts International Tourism Conference in Israel
BREAKING: Monday, 18 October 2010 14:09 -- Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel!!  Because all of us, everyone of us, should give peace a chance. - mpg -- A quote...."By its decision, South Africa now joins Britain, Spain and Turkey who have all refused to attend the conference." - bold by website editor - For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website.

Award Winning British Film Director Boycotts Israel
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel!!  Because it's TIME!  It's time to stop this abomination of state from murdering any more people! - mpg -- A quote...."Mike Leigh had been due to teach classes at the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School (SSFTS) in Jerusalem next month, but has pulled out following the Israeli government’s amendment to the Citizenship Act." - also posted at Uruknet -- For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website.

ADL's demonization of student activism denounced
A quote...."On 14 October, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) named Students for Justice in Palestine on its list of the "Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups in America," claiming that "SJP chapters regularly organize activities presenting a biased view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including mock 'apartheid walls' and 'checkpoint' displays." As members of several student groups working for justice in Palestine, we affirmatively state that the ADL's characterization of our campus educational efforts and activism about Israeli injustices against Palestinians as "biased" is a disingenuous and misguided attempt to vilify students who criticize Israel's occupation, which denies Palestinian human rights and self-determination."
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What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – October 18th, 2010
Must View Video - Alt - (JustInTV - 2hrs - October 18 2010) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV -- The Banksters, the mass-infotainment complex,  the Government, and courtesy of one brilliant caller, the so-called "Christian" evangelicals (a.k.a. The Armageddon Cult -- or per the caller -- voluntary, joyous, goy-slaves of Israel and the "Jewish Community") get a well deserved roasting. - mpg

Mortgage Time Bomb: Reporting From The Epicenter Of Fraudclosures
A quote...."Millions of us are trapped in our own mines, "underwater" in homes that have lost value with bills we cannot afford, trapped in unemployment, in jobs that are gone and not coming back. Poverty is up and the noxious Newt Gingrich wants to end the food stamps that so many now depend on. -- There is no rescue in sight, and the human plight of most of the millions affected takes part outside of media sight. -- The gaggle of reporters that covered the mine rescue as a human-interest story --not a political issue-- missed the back-story there, just as they miss our own here. -- Far fewer reporters are covering this crisis."

The Biggest Bank Robbery In History? More Quantitative Easing = Backdoor Bailouts For The Big Banks Without Having To Go Through Congress -- A quote...."The U.S. Federal Reserve is getting ready to conduct another gigantic bailout of the big banks, but this time virtually nobody in the mainstream media will use the term "bailout" and the American people are going to get a lot less upset about it.  You see, one lesson that was learned during the last round of bank bailouts was that the American people really, really do not like it when the U.S. Congress votes to give money to the big banks.  So this time, the financial "powers that be" have figured out a way around that.  Instead of going through the massive headache of dealing with the U.S. Congress, the Federal Reserve is simply going to print money and give it directly to the banks.  To be more precise, the Federal Reserve is going to use a procedure known as "quantitative easing" to print money out of thin air in order to purchase large quantities of "troubled assets" (such as mortgage-backed securities) from the biggest U.S. banks at well above market price. "

45.5 Trillion Dollar Loss
Contains Video -  Alt - (MSNBCVid - 14 min 09 sec - 10-18-10) -- A quote...."For years I was thought of as “extreme” in my Road to Roota conclusions that we are about to experience a Creative Destruction event that will wipe clean all electronic and paper financial assets and debts from the face of the earth. I have tried to show people why and how through my Road to Roota Letters and slowly but surely many have opened their eyes. -- After watching this interview even the “non believers” will have a hard time arguing that the massively corrupt banking system can avoid the crash…" - Well....that's a bit of a stretch.  Bernie and his boys, who have been secretly implementing QE2 for the last four months, are now getting ready to REALLY rev it up, we're talking about  TRILLIONS more for the Banksters.  Either out in the open like another TARP program, or under the table as the Fed has already done during QE1 (roughly thirty trillion in back-stops, guarantees, pay-outs, off-balance sheet bookings etc.) - mpg

The Perfect Storm
A quote...."It's a perfect storm. And I'm not talking about the impending dangers facing Democrats. I'm talking about the dangers facing our democracy. -- First, income in America is now more concentrated in fewer hands than it's been in 80 years. Almost a quarter of total income generated in the United States is going to the top 1 percent of Americans. -- The top one-tenth of one percent of Americans now earn as much as the bottom 120 million of us."

Production in U.S. Unexpectedly Falls for First Time in a Year
A quote...."Production in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped in September for the first time in more than a year, evidence of the slowdown in growth that is concerning some Federal Reserve policy makers."

The Number One U.S. Export To China: Waste Paper And Scrap Metal
Related Article - A quote...."Historians tell us that by the very end of the Roman Empire, goods were pouring into Rome from all over the known world, but about the only thing being sent out of Rome was human waste and garbage.  America has not yet reached that point, but we are certainly well on our way.  In 2010, the number one U.S. export to China is "scrap and trash".  Yes, you read the correctly.  The number one thing that China buys from us is our garbage." - also posted at DProgram & PrisonPlanet

US policies intensify world currency, trade conflicts
A quote...."In the wake of the fractious International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting held October 9-10 in Washington, the descent into global currency and trade war has accelerated, with the United States playing the role of instigator-in-chief. -- The US is deliberately encouraging a sell-off of dollars on international currency markets in order to raise the relative exchange rates of its major trade rivals, increasing the effective price of their exports to the US while cheapening US exports to their markets."

Sunday October 17th 2010

When Will the Crimes of 9/11 End?
Must Read - A quote...."9 years after 9/11, American drug production in Afghanistan has gone from zero to 92% of world output.  Calling the drug business there anything but “American” is a lie.  We don’t just “turn way,” we are in it up to our necks, maybe deeper.  Last week we learned that USAID, part of the Department of State, was supplying fertilizer for opium production.  Testimony that implicates every level of the American government in drug dealing, corruption and even complicity in terrorism has been ignored or suppressed for years.  The American government, in concert with the powerful Israel lobby, is working to silence citizen dissent, suppress “open source” information and control, not just the media but every form of human communication beyond the guarded whisper. -- No police state in history is guilty of more." - also posted at MyCatBird'sSeat -- Topix ||  US Support / Drug Trade - Afghanistan  ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||

Operation Northwoods: acts of terrorism that never happened
From the History File - May 1st 2001 -- A quote...."In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. -- Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities."

Quantitative Easing, Inflation, Hyperinflation and Global Deflationary Depression
Must Read - A quote...."Today’s great debate basically between the US and Europe is – should the Fed go full bore by implementing a second quantitative easing? In part it is a moot point, because they have been doing just that in the repo market for four months without letting anyone know what they were up too. Their mandate is to reduce inflation and create full employment. Real inflation is 7% and unemployment is 22-3/4%. The Fed for three years has concentrated on bailing out Wall Street, banking, insurance and transnational conglomerates. Little has been done to fulfill their mandated mission. The main recipients of their largess, of course, are the firms that actually own the privately owned Fed. -- There are two options left to the Fed. Create a full QE2 by injecting another $2.5 trillion into the economy, as they just did with QE1 with $868 billion in assistance from the Senate and the House, or they can purge the system and have a deflationary depression. That result will be the fate of the Fed eventually if they create QE2 or perhaps QE3. No matter what the Fed does a deflationary collapse, one way or another, is inevitable." -  Of course by doing what they've done, and intend to do, they're going to make it a whole lot worse. - mpg

Global systemic crisis - LEAP/E2020’s analysis of 39 countries’ risks 2010-2014
Must Read - Charts - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."In this issue, our team introduces the annual "country risk" update in the light of the crisis. Based on an analysis incorporating eleven criteria this year, this decision-making tool has already demonstrated its relevance in faithfully anticipating developments over these past twelve months." - also posted at Hamsayeh

High Noon In America
Special Note - For every person everywhere still resisting the forces of tyranny. - mpg -- A quote...."Time is running out in the little western town of Hadleyville. Frank Miller, the leader of a violent gang that terrorized the hapless settlement years ago, was sent to the gallows by Will Kane, the local marshal, but the justice system failed, and now after so long, Frank Miller is free, heading back to Hadleyville on the noon train to meet his men, and take revenge…  Will Kane is just married, just retired, and just about to leave town when he gets the news that the tyrant he had deposed is about to waltz back into the parish with impunity and begin killing the people who sent him away. Everyone is afraid of reverting back to the terrible past they had left behind them. Kane decides to stay in town until the matter is resolved, and he reaches out to the local community for assistance in stopping Miller’s band of thugs. There’s just one problem; no one will help him… " - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog

All Along the Watchtower
Special Note - A Chris Floyd round-up on some of the latest insanities of the Empire....mpg -- A quote...."Pentagon brass and their sycophants in mufti are now making the media rounds, laying the groundwork for the next great move by the world-historical military genius David Petraeus, the most-lauded general never to, er, actually win a war: moving ground troops into Pakistan. The Los Angeles Times has the story...."

Missing weapons, ethnic cleansing details may be part of Wikileaks' 400,000 Iraq War files
A quote...."THE Pentagon is scouring an Iraq war database to prepare for potential fallout from an expected release by WikiLeaks of some 400,000 secret military reports. -- Officials set up the taskforce several weeks ago in order to prepare for tonight's anticipated release of sensitive intelligence on the US-led Iraq war."
'US seeking to rewrite Iraq war history'
A quote...."In 2006, a study conducted by the British medical journal The Lancet, revealed that 655,000 Iraqis had died in the war. The Opinion Research Business (ORB)'s study, similarly, put the number of post-invasion deaths at over 1 million. -- "Basically what we have accomplished in Iraq is ethnic cleansing and genocide. The Lancet report, and you mentioned the ORB, these are legitimate scientific reports that estimate the deaths in Iraq at well over a million," the activist added. -- "This is an effort by the US military to minimize its horrible impact on Iraq." - Topix ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Iraq Deaths  ||

Sunnis in Iraq Allied With U.S. Rejoin Rebels
A quote...."BAQUBA, Iraq — Members of United States-allied Awakening Councils  have quit or been dismissed from their positions in significant numbers in recent months, prey to an intensive recruitment campaign by the Sunni insurgency, according to government officials, current and former members of the Awakening and insurgents."
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The Endless Warfare/Surveillance State
10-17-10
mpg

The war on Afghanistan: a crime against humanity
A quote...."This October marks the 10th year since the US and its allies, including Australia, invaded Afghanistan. The bombing of the poorest country in the world by some of the richest is a crime against humanity. The real purpose of this crime is to further US power in the region. -- Its initial legal justification has been called into question since the US and Britain’s use of United Nations Article 51 prevents any self-defense that continues after an attack. -- Furthermore, the right of self-defense relates to attacks by other nation states, not criminal activity, such as terrorism."

As many authors have repeatedly pointed out, the whole "9/11 thing" was DESIGNED, from the very beginning, to provide the excuse needed for perpetual war abroad and a perpetual police state at home.  Back in the mid-seventies and early eighties what was later to become the Neocons along with some of their fellow travelers (American traitors one and all) sat down with members of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and tried to figure out just how to prevent another Vietnam from ever happening again during their up-coming attempts to expand the Empire and while doing so, how to further their own economic, personal and geo-political interests and ambitions:

• They had to control the press.  The number of media conglomerates dropped from over 50 in the nineteen eighties to just 5 by the beginning of this century.  Check!
• They had to control the reporters. They were either embedded, bought and paid for or, were....well....er...ummm....murdered.  Check!
• They had to control Congress, either through terror attacks like the Anthrax mailings....or through AIPAC's and the "Jewish Community's" control of the media and political system.  Check!
• They had to take over the now mis-named "Christian" church, (it has now been converted into a money worshiping, Zionist-worshiping, Armageddon Cult) who before they were taken over, had staunchly opposed the "Jewish Community's" repeated attempts to completely control this nation's political system. Check!
  
• They had to control the money. On Sept 10th 2001 one day before 9/11, Rumsfeld told the world about the 1.3 TRILLION dollars "uncounted" for at the Pentagon.  Check!
• Also they (the Banksters in particular) were able use the Federal Reserve's and Congress's continued largess to create between $500 Trillion and $1,000 Trillion dollars worth of derivatives of various sorts in an attempt to control the world's financial system. Fail! (so far!)

And of course, they followed Leo Strauss's "noble lie" precepts to the letter.  By creating a "never-ending" threat (a threat which is continuously supplied with money and weapons from the US-NRE's black ops and the Saudi Royals' oil wealth) from "fanatic" (steeped in the Saudi Royals' state sponsored religion of Wahabism) "terrorists" (a.k.a. Saudi or Yemeni citizens, former CIA-DEA-RAW-ISI-GIP-Mossad employees, private contractors, former special ops., mercenaries, etc.) who could "appear anywhere, anytime" (because their passage would be facilitated by the US-NRE along with other interested parties) they could justify and implement the five following objectives:

• Endless war
• An endless surveillance/police state
• The De-legitimatizing of any "national resistance movements" who would oppose these plans, either domestically or overseas, by constantly and ceaselessly referring to them as "terrorists" while also staging false-flag events, reported without any examination by the five corporate media conglomerates, as "proof" of their accusations.
  
• Endless profits, either stolen domestically from this nation's treasury, printed when needed by the Federal Reserve, or extorted/extracted from conquered foreign territories.
• And of course, two out of the three partners of this "Trinity of Evil" Israel, and the Saudi Royals, would get to further extend their long planned geo-political and economic ambitions.

What more could ANY self-respecting, participating member of this nation's fascist dictatorship want, either for themselves or their two co-equal partners in crime? - mpg
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US Middle East Wars: Social Opposition and Political Impotence
From the History File - July 4th 2007 -- A quote...."Everywhere I visit from Copenhagen to Istanbul, Patagonia to Mexico City, journalists and academics, trade unionists and businesspeople, as well as ordinary citizens, inevitably ask me why the US public tolerates the killing of over a million Iraqis over the last two decades, and thousands of Afghans since 2001?  -- Why, they ask, is a public, which opinion polls reveal as over sixty percent in favor of withdrawing US troops from Iraq, so politically impotent? A journalist from a leading business journal in India asked me what is preventing the US government from ending its aggression against Iran, if almost all of the world’s major oil companies, including US multinationals are eager to strike oil deals with Teheran? Anti-war advocates in Europe, Asia and Latin America ask me at large public forums what has happened to the US peace movement in the face of the consensus between the Republican White House and the Democratic Party-dominated Congress to continue funding the slaughter of Iraqis, supporting Israeli starvation, killing and occupation of Palestine and destruction of Lebanon?" - Proof positive that the more things "change" (remember that campaign slogan folks?), the more they remain the same, or in fact, get a whole heck of a lot worse.  Another article in a long extensive list of thousands, only a few of which have been posted to this website, demonstrating that there has not been the, teeniest, tiniest, bit of change in the US-NRE's on-going attempts (totally and disastrously failing at this particular moment) to establish a New Roman Empire. - mpg --  also posted at AlethoNews

US understates civilian casualties in Pakistan, makes no amends - What a surprise (roll the eyes) - mpg
A quote...."An American NGO working to raise awareness of the civilian victims of conflict has argued, in an extensive report, that the number of civilians killed or injured because of US airstrikes using unmanned aerial vehicles, or “drones,” is larger than the US government admits." - also posted at AlethoNews

Injustice in the Age of Obama: the Harrowing tale of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, bu Cindy Sheehan
A quote...."Since being the defendant in about six trials after I was arrested for protesting the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations, it’s my experience that the police lie. Period. -- However the lies don’t stop at street law enforcement level. From lies about WMD and connections to "al Qaeda," almost every institution of so-called authority - the Pentagon, State Department, CIA, FBI, all the way up to the Oval Office and back down - lie. Not white lies, but big, Mother of all BS (MOAB) lies that lead to the destruction of innocent lives. I.F Stone was most definitely on the ball when he proclaimed, "Governments lie"." - also posted at Uruknet - Period....full stop. - mpg

"I wonder, why was I victimized?" - Because it was "fun" for a bunch of pimply faced, droolling, morons?
A quote...."A new report  from the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) concludes that innocent civilians in northwest Pakistan are getting hammered by all sides -- the U.S. (drone strikes), the Pakistan military (ground and aerial bombardment) and local militants (terrorist attacks)." - also posted at ICH

US-NATO Casualties in Afghanistan Soaring - 45 Service Members Killed in October
A quote..."KABUL, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The casualties of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan is on rise as over 45 service members have been killed since the beginning of this month in militancy-ridden Afghanistan. --  In the latest suffering the NATO-led ISAF in Afghanistan on Friday reported losing three soldiers in three separate incidents in Afghanistan's restive southern and eastern regions."

Pakistani Taliban Leader ‘Wasn’t Killed in Drone Strike’
A quote...."Hot on the heels of a leak claiming that he had been killed in one of the many, many US drone strikes earlier this month, the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is reported that spokesman and high ranking official Qari Hussain Ahmad Mehsud is still alive and well."

US backing international terrorists: Turkish PM
Special Note - A quote...."The Turkish premier said that the people of Pakistan should not fight with each other and they must concentrate on rehabilitation of 20 million flood victims. “Instability and infighting will only help your enemies who are looking for an opportunity to use Pakistanis against Pakistanis." - also posted at AlethoNews

Zardari says he has proof of US terror against Paksitan
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."The so called Pakistani sycophantic  secularists are in cahoots with the war mongering Neocons and Neolibs in the US. Both blame the local Pakistanis for the terror attacks in Pakistan. It is poignant to note that almost all major Pakistani leaders have now concluded and publicly accused the US of sponsoring terror in Pakistan. The Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan directly accused America of sponsoring terror in Turkey and Pakistan."

Now Balochistan
Related Article - A quote...."AS if the destruction caused by the Americans in FATA was not enough, the US now plans to extend the war formally into Balochistan. The Americans have long been clamouring about the Quetta Shura creating a false hype about the province as yet another alleged militants safe haven, despite knowing very well that the problem existing there concerns the centre-province dispute over the sharing of resources. We know that at least on the face of it, the American demands of launching an aerial warfare in Balochistan alongside the tribal areas have been rebuffed by the government so far." -- Topix ||  It will happen every single time  ||  US Support of Terror  ||

Iran arrests 7 Afghan military men
Related Article - A quote...."Iranian border police have arrested seven armed Afghans after crossing the border into the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan."

How Iran brokered a secret deal to put its ally in power in Iraq
Special Note - A quote...."In the sprawling slums of Baghdad's Shia heartland, signs of triumph are everywhere. Loyalists of Muqtada al-Sadr are posting giant images of the cleric in hospitals, schools and on neighbourhood squares. Cakes and nuts, usually reserved for festivals, are being served to guests of key officials." - also posted at Uruknet

New War Rumors: U.S. Plans To Seize Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal
A quote..."Two recent news items emanating from the United States have begun to reverberate in Pakistan and give rise to speculation that growing American drone strikes and NATO helicopter attacks in that country may be the harbingers of far broader actions: Nothing less than the expansion of the West’s war in Afghanistan into Pakistan with the ultimate goal of seizing the nation’s nuclear weapons."

Iran trade with P5+1 rises 12%
A quote...."Trade exchange between Iran and the world's major powers has seen a 12% rise in the first six months of the current Iranian year despite recent US-engineered sanctions." - also posted at AlethoNews

Medieval Observatory Unearthed in Northern Iran
A quote...."Archeologist noticed three large windows facing southeast where stars rise after sunset, precisely matching the ones in Maragheh."

(3 million) Protesters rally across France over pension reforms
A quote...."(all this while the “progressives’ in the U.S. are planning the “EVERYTHING IS JUST FINE” rally with Jon Stewart (surprise appearance by Bill Clinton?))"

France pension protests escalate with new trucker, rail worker actions
A quote...."PARIS, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Rail unions and truckers in France joined fuel blocking strikes on Sunday to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform, exerting more pressure on the government."

Chavez/Venezuela not the enemy – Wayne Madsen
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min 34sec - October 15, 2010) - Source:  RTAmerica -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – RT sat down for an exclusive interview with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez; most people in the United States view him as an enemy. Meanwhile, outside the US he is seen as a tremendous politician and a leader for the future. RT Contributor Wayne Madsen points out that the US media slams Chavez and that is why US citizens are receiving this anti Chavez propaganda." -- Topix ||  US Sponsored Civil Wars - Ecuador  ||

LIVE Exclusive: Hugo Chavez talks to RT
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 59min 39sec - October 15, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who is in Moscow for talks on cooperation between Russia and Venezuela, has given an exclusive live interview to RT."
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The US-NRE - AIPAC/Israeli Consortium's version of "democracy" world wide....

Egypt detains 154 opposition members
More "ol'dat dare US-NRE/Israeli styled da'mockery" in action. - mpg -- A quote...."The Egyptian government has detained 154 members of the country's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, ahead of [the] general elections." - bold by website editor - For more on this type of issue see articles shown below....


Labor Rights in Occupied Lands: US Busting Labor Unions in Iraq
Oh looky here...a continous, never ending supply of "dat dare US-NRE da'mockery" in action. - mpg -- Quote of the Day...."It is only in comic books and Hollywood movies that America's superheroes exist to defend the underdog. In practice, the armies of America have fanned out around the globe to show they are the willing servants of the corporate overdog. As Noam Chomsky writes in his book “Imperial Ambitions”(Metropolitan), “You can almost predict (U.S.) policy by that simple principle: Does it help rich people or does it help the general population? And from that you can virtually deduce what's going to happen.” There is no more disgraceful example than Iraq." - bold by website editor -- Topix ||  Now That's Just Sick - 10-25-09 - mpg  ||
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Scout in Mumbai attacks was DEA informant while in terror camp, authorities say
More MSM bull regarding the now completely exposed US-NRE sponsored Mumbai terror plot - mpg....A quote...."Federal officials acknowledged Saturday that David Coleman Headley, the U.S. businessman who confessed to being a terrorist scout in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was working as a Drug Enforcement Administration informant while training with terrorists in Pakistan." - For more on this issue see previously posted article shown below....


Teabagger's private security guards handcuff, detain editor
A quote...."[Article] - Alaska Dispatch founder and editor had his wrists in handcuffs after arrest by Republican Senate candidate's private security guards Waffen-SS. 17 Oct 2010 The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller on camera at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school. Tony Hopfinger was handcuffed by the guards and detained in a hallway at Central Middle School until Anchorage police came and told the guards to release him."

CIA paid Liverpool buyout tycoon millions...to use his jet for 'torture' flights
A quote..."A jet owned by a senior executive in the US firm which has bought Liverpool Football Club was chartered by the CIA and used in flights allegedly linked to the rendition of terror suspects." - No doubt they also let him keep the torture photos and videos of the screaming victims for his own sick amusement. - mpg

New Hearing Set for Sami Al-Arian
A quote...."Under Obama, prosecutors are as ruthlessly corrupted as their predecessors, using every trick in the book to convict, whether guilty or innocent, and when trials are politically motivated, intensifying pressure even more. The Justice Department thus filed a motion to deny a defense motion, filed 18 months earlier to dismiss criminal contempt charges. Three previous DOJ motions were rejected. This time, Holder prosecutors not only requested denying the defense’s dismissal request, but asked Judge Brinkema to reverse her earlier decision letting Al-Arian’s attorneys present evidence in case of trial." - also posted at AlethoNews
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Yes indeed, show us all the map!
Must Read - (For the simple, elegant, highly pertinent, completely devastating idea that it is - mpg) -- A quote...."Better late than never, a very senior Palestinian official in Ramallah, Yasser Abed Rabbo, found the right way to challenge Israel and the U.S. As reported by AFP on 13 October, he said, “We officially demand that the US administration and the Israeli government provide a map of the borders of the state of Israel which they want us to recognise.” -- That’s a completely logical and totally reasonable demand. --  "IF Israel was interested in peace on terms virtually all Palestinians and most other Arabs and Muslims everywhere could accept, the map provided would show Israel with borders as they were on the eve of the 1967 war. An accompanying note would say that, subject to agreement in final negotiations, Israel seeks minor border adjustments here and there. The note would also propose that Jerusalem should be an open, undivided city and the capital of two states. -- If such a map with the note as above was presented, it would open the door to peace. -- But the implementation of such land-for-peace deal would require the IDF to confront and forcibly remove illegal Jewish settlers who refused to leave; and that would open the door to a Jewish civil war – the price Israel’s Jews would have to pay for 62 years of contempt for and defiance of international law." - bold by website editor

Erdogan: US Supporter of Terrorism
A quote...."The nine Turkish martyrs were shot by 21 bullets fired by Israeli soldiers. We sent the autopsy reports and pictures to the US and the EU, but the US was not ready to condemn the state terrorism: Erdogan."

My Amazing and Disturbing Experiences in Israel
A quote...."My name is Joe Cortina. I am a retired Florida businessman who has done substantial world traveling;  some purely as a ‘tourist’ and, some in areas shall I say,  ‘nothing to do with vacationing’. -- I am a former airborne special operations commander and have done intelligence investigator work for over 15years – some of it overseas – mostly in Central America – but also in the Mid-East. My political posture is ‘conservative’ and my religious values are Christian. -- Exposing lies and revealing the truth was what I did professionally for a long time."

Gosh, another American writing for liberal magazine says lowering ‘Arab’ birthrate inside Israel is hunky-dory
Genocide Watch - A quote...."This is what I don't understand. Jonathan Tepperman of the "Eurasia group, a global political risk consulting firm," is I'm guessing Jewish and is doing fine in the U.S. So for him personally, as for me, the structural basis of Zionism-- that Jews are endangered in the west-- is probably meaningless; and I bet he likes living in a country where a member of a minority gets to be president. But here he is given a platform at the Atlantic  to say that Israel is the "refuge for the Jews" and therefore it's legitimate that it act to limit the population growth of Israeli Palestinians so they don't threaten the Jewish majority--of a country he has the freedom to move to tomorrow and doesn't want to." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

PA: Israel isolating itself internationally
A quote...."BETLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israel delayed a Paris summit of regional leaders to avoid revealing its rejection of peace negotiations, the Palestinian Authority presidential spokesman said Sunday."

500 civil activists from Asia will march to Gaza against siege
A quote...."New Delhi: About 500 civil rights activists from 17 Asian countries will march to Palestine to press Israel to end the siege of Gaza. The activists will gather in New Delhi on December 1 and proceed to Gaza. The march is being organized by Asian People's Solidarity for Palestine."  - also posted at AlethoNews

DCI Report: IOA child arrests on the rise
A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Defense for Children International (DCI) marked a sharp rise this year in Israeli arrests against Palestinian children in Jerusalem and the West Bank." - also posted at Uruknet

Settlers Attack Burin Olive Farmers
A quote...."Today farmers in Burin, a village located south of Nablus, were forced to abandon their olive harvesting when about one hundred settlers came down to their fields. The settlers came from the illegal settlement of Bracha, Yitzhar and from the outpost located on another hilltop. Villagers reported that the settlers threw rocks and shot slingshots, aiming to hit the farming families and children. One farmer was hit by a rock that caused a bleeding injury. The settlers also verbally harassed the Palestinians, shouting statements such as “This is not your land, go to Jordan” or insults to the Prophet Mohammed." - Topix ||  Israel's Scorched Earth  ||

Open Letter to EU High Representative and Foreign Affairs Ministers concerning the Palestinian olive harvest
A quote...."As a Palestinian NGO committed to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), we would like to draw to your attention the upcoming olive harvest season and the associated hardships for Palestinians. In light of your engagement in the region, we seek your assistance in protecting the rights of Palestinian harvesters this year."

Monday 10/18: Protest Israeli Dance Troupe at Benaroya Hall in Seattle
Protest Alert Action Alert -- A quote...."Please join members of Greater Seattle Veterans for Peace and Voices of Palestine at Benaroya Hall on October 18 from 6 PM until 7:15 PM as we protest the violation of the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and the Palestinian campaign for "broad boycotts ... against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era." That evening Benaroya Hall will host the Israeli government-sponsored Beta Dance Troupe." - also posted at AlethoNews

• What: Protest for Justice & Peace in Palestine
• When: 6 PM, Monday, October18, 2010
• Where: Benaroya Hall, 3rd & University in downtown Seattle

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In US, 300th bank fails
A quote...."US regulators have shut down three more lenders in the states of Missouri and Kansas, bringing the number of failed banks to 132 so far this year. -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) reported the closure of Premier Bank of Jefferson City, Mo., WestBridge Bank and Trust Co. of Chesterfield, Mo. and Security Savings Bank, based in Olathe, Kan., Bloomberg reported."

Wells Fargo WON'T Halt Foreclosures Despite Evidence That Servicers Didn't Read Paperwork
A quote...."WASHINGTON — Wells Fargo & Co. does not plan to halt foreclosures despite an employee's testimony that she signed up to 500 foreclosure documents daily without reading them. -- The employee of the San Francisco-based bank said in a deposition taken last March that she signed between 300 and 500 foreclosure documents per day, verifying only her name and title."

Wells Fargo Prepares For Tsunami Of Loan Repurchase Demands
A quote...."Zero Hedge has obtained Wells Fargo's brand new confidential protocol guidelines on loan repurchase demands by investors and mortgage insurers, sent out on October 15, and which becomes effective tomorrow. We have reproduced these below to see just how much more "streamlined" the process is, now that the bank is fully aware of the massive liability it faces as a "loan puttable" entity in a world that is suddenly replete with pervasive and rampant title fraud."

Art Cashin Explains Why The Stock Market Is Broken, Shares More Perspectives On Hyperinflation
A quote...."Money only gets velocity when you lend it or spend it. The difficulty with studying things like the Weimar republic, is that the money supply growing drastically the initial reaction was small. There was very little doing, and it went slowly, until it went suddenly, and when it went suddenly, it went parabolic."

IMF sets central bank meeting in Shanghai Monday
A quote...."WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund on Friday said it will hold a high-level conference of central bank governors in Shanghai next week to discuss ways to address the global financial crisis." - bold by website editor - HEY!  Wait a minute, that's all behind us now ain't that right?  You know, "green shoots" and the 'banking system is just fine' and all that?  They weren't lying again were they? - mpg

Saturday October 16th 2010

No posts. - mpg

Friday October 15th 2010 - links page

33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know...  ---  http://www.newworldorderreport.com/
News/tabid/266/ID/980/33-Conspiracy-Theories-That-Turned-Out-To-Be-True-What-Every-Person-Should-Know.aspx
Contains Multiple Videos - A quote...."If you enjoy this article, please check out my documentary film series, Core of Corruption.  You can see it at CoreOfCorruption.com  ---  http://coreofcorruption.com/  ---  After reading the article released by Cracked.com, I decided to update and revise their work. The article gave me a chuckle because it lacked many famous and much larger conspiracy theories that became known.  Their article had only listed seven. I can name 33 and I am about to release a revised list soon with 75.  The article I read at cracked can be viewed here,  ---  http://www.cracked.com/article_15974_7-insane-conspiracies-that-actually-happened.html  --  but don't waste your time, all of that is in this article and more." - bold by website editor - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/10/03/33-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true-what-every-person-should-know/  ---  posted 10-03-10 - See also the article shown below....

"New York City  ---  http://is.gd/g1nxF  ---  NY has spent almost $1,000,000,000 [One Billion Dollars] on police-related lawsuits in the last 10 years according to a recent Associated Press investigative report. So far this year, at least from January through September, the NPMSRP has tracked about $213,622,000 in police misconduct-related civil judgments and settlements in the US. That’s approximately $23,736,000 per month." - bold by website editor - also posted at Orwell'sDream  ---  http://orwellsdreams.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/police-misconduct-news-feed-for-thursday-14-10-10/

Thursday October 14th 2010 - links page

Wednesday October 13th 2010 - links page