MPG'S DAILY RAPSHEET AND BLOTTER  ON THE "GREAT GAME"  --  10-14-11 to 10-20-11 -- links page

@ www.reficultnias.org
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Editor's note - War Update, War Alert, War Warning, Red War Warning and War Imminent - refer to articles regarding the upcoming war with Iran.  In the order they appear as shown above, they  represent less serious to more serious possible threats of war. -- Other issues such as world war (WW), false flags, privacy issues, etc. will also be categorized in the order as shown above. - mpg
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Thursday October 20th 2011 - links page 

An Uprooted Civilization: The Roots of The Political Crisis in The West
  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2011/10/uprooted-civilization-roots-of.html 
Must Read - A quote...."A state of global emergency has existed since 9/11, when the shadow CIA and shadow Mossad attacked America. The sooner we recognize this fact and its horrible implications the sooner we can bring an end to this global crisis and restore the rule of law in the world. -- What does this crisis mean? It's complicated. But the essential fact is that the Western power elite has uprooted Western civilization. They are in the process of establishing an authoritarian planetary civilization. This is a radical revolution that is being organized and implemented at the very top in the social, economic and political hierarchy in the West." - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html 
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9/11 is the Litmus Test.  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_les_visi_080224_9_2f11_is_the_litmus_t.htm 
From the History File - February 26, 2008 at 10:09:22 - Related Article - (previously posted....several times) -- A quote...."There is one thing that defines everyone over the course of these early years of this new century. That thing is the 9/11 attack. Everyone in government and every field of endeavor the world over is defined by their position on this event. It is not necessary to know the truth. It is only necessary to know the extent of the lies in order to define any leader in any position anywhere in the world. By what they have said and by what they have not said, one can accurately judge who is an enemy of the people’s of the world. One can accurately determine who is a tool of the psychopaths or one of them. -- Think about what you allow yourself to know. Think about what you pass by; ignore, deny and defend ...that defines you. It defines the degree of your personal courage, your relationship to the truth, your values, your principles and what you will pass on to your children and everyone you meet. It tells you in that place where your conscience must once have lived whether you are a hypocrite and a fool or whether something greater still lives within you." 
also posted at SmokingMirrors  ---  http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2008/02/911-is-litmus-test.html 
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Assessing 9/11 Evidence: A Reliable Source for a Media Under Pressure  ---  http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20111020133736917 
Or how the presstitutes keep getting tangled up in their own lies. - mpg -- A quote...."October 19, 2011 -- Increasingly the media is having to deal with evidence emerging against the official story of the 9/11 attacks. - For example, on October 10th, the New York Times revised its earlier reports on the source of the anthrax spores used in the frightening attacks on members of the media and the Senate, following 9/11. - The letters carrying the spores seemingly originated from a Muslim hand, and the spores were considered by the FBI to be low-tech. - The longest investigation in the FBI's history finally traced the spores to a deranged “lone-nut” working in the Fort Dietrick, Maryland, bioweapons laboratory. - The alleged culprit, Dr. Bruce Ivins, apparently committed suicide in 2008 following intensive FBI allegations against him, and the FBI closed the case. - However, it transpired that Dr. Ivins was a respected vaccine researcher with many publications to his credit, and a following of loyal colleagues. - An 18-month National Academy of Science investigation into the case has recently found that the weaponized spores were far too high-tech for one person to have made, and is suggesting a new investigation to replace the inadequate FBI account." - Topix ||  Anthrax Attacks  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/anthrax-weblist-mpg-082006 
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America's Descent to Depravity  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27180 
Quote of the Day...."I suspect that most people would like to believe that societies, no matter how base their origins, become better over time. Unfortunately history belies this notion; societies have often grown worse over time. The United States of America is no exception. It was not benign at its origin and has now descended to a region of depravity seldom matched by even the worst nations of history." 
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End Times Signs  ---  http://lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e107.html 
A quote...."America is dying. -- China and India are the future; we are the past. GM is moving to where the money is, and that ain’t here. -- The United States has arrived at the same point that now not-so-great Great Britain found itself occupying after the end of WWII: A bankrupted and exhausted imperially overstretched power that no longer had the will or even the capacity to keep up with the emerging colossus across the Atlantic, which was devoted to commerce primarily – not wars (and empire) the world over. -- Today, the colossus is across the Pacific, but the essentials are the same. -- In China, it is 1960." 
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The Natural Course of the US Empire  ---  http://dailyreckoning.com/the-natural-course-of-the-us-empire/ 
A quote...."The US will have to do something too. At least, that’s the way most people will see it. It will be “at war” with its malcontents. When you declare a state of war — as demonstrated by the Bush and Obama regimes — you can get away with anything. -- The US will continue its program of circuses overseas too. It would make much more sense to bring the troops home and shore up the nation’s finances. But empires don’t back up. And they always manage to find some jackass to lead them where they need to go — to their own destruction...." - bold by website editor 
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More on the Domestic Situation.... 

Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/19/pamela-meyer-how-to-spot-a-liar/ 
Must View Video - (To be forewarned is to be forearmed. - mpg) - Alt  ---  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pamela_meyer_how_to_spot_a_liar.html  ---  (TEDVideo - 18min51sec - Oct 2011) - Source:  TED  ---  http://www.ted.com  ---  A quote...."(TedTalks) – On any given day we’re lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows the manners and “hotspots” used by those trained to recognize deception — and she argues honesty is a value worth preserving." 
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TSA Takeover Of America – Army Of TSA Agents Conduct Random Searches Throughout Tennessee
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/20/tsa-takeover-of-america-army-of-tsa-agents-conduct-random-searches-throughout-tennessee/ 
Police State - A quote...."The full scale Department of Homeland Security takeover of America shifted into high gear Tuesday with an army of TSA agents conducting illegal, 4th amendment killing, random searches throughout Tennessee. -- The Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) program was put into motion at 2 public bus stations as well as at 5 weigh stations throughout the state." 
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Collapse Imminent…. and needed – Charlie McGrath  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/20/collapse-imminent-and-needed-charlie-mcgrath/ 
CMcGVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m376mkdacKc  ---  (CMcGYuTb - 3min09sec - Oct 19, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/crabbydogtrix 
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The Worlds Future is Being Dictated: Wayne Madsen Reports  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/4/S8wx-iO2sdc 
AJVideo - WayneMadsen(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8wx-iO2sdc  ---  WayneMadsen(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RYRV4B1J4E  ---  (AJYuTb - 12min - Oct 20, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."On the Thursday edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex returns to the command post in Austin and confronts the latest breaking news, including the reported death of ousted Libyan leader Gaddafi. Alex talks with investigative journalist and intelligence specialist Wayne Madsen about the NATO hit on Gaddafi as the "Lion of the Desert" attempted to flee Sirte after it fell to al-Qaeda in Libya, described as "rebels" by the corporate media." 
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Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - October 20, 2011  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/297959500 
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min10sec into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - Oct, 20th 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg 
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Fast & Furious File & The Iran Scam Comedy™  

Will "Fast and Furious" Topple Obama and Holder?  ---  http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=7667 
A quote...."The usual truism is that many politicians make the mistake of not coming completely clean when allegations of wrongdoing surface. The cover-up, it is said, is often worse than the underlying crime or ethical violation. This has often been cited as the mistake made by people including Richard Nixon (Watergate break-in), Bill Clinton (Lewinsky, not to mention Filegate and Travelgate), John Edwards (love child and cheating on his cancer-stricken wife), and more recently, Anthony Weiner. There is a long list. --  But in some cases, the crime, or lapse in judgment, is definitely worse than the cover-up." 
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Documents: Obama Admin. “Walked” Guns and Allowed Cocaine into U.S.
  ---  http://wvtea.org/forum/topics/documents-obama-admin-walked-guns-to-sinaloa-cartel-allowed-cocai?xg_source=activity 
Article List - From the History File - August 6, 2011 at 12:35pm in -- A quote...."The Obama administration, at the highest levels, and likely Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama themselves,  authorized  the sale of  at least 2,000 high-powered rifles and other sophisticated weapons to the “Sinaloa” Mexican drug cartel.   As bad as that is, it doesn’t stop there.   It is now learned through sworn affidavits in U.S. District court that the U.S. government, at very high levels, “negotiated” to allow tons of Sinaloa cocaine into the country, supposedly in exchange for information about other drug gangs."
also posted at Reficultnias  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/documentsobamadminwalkedgunstosinaloacartel-rwn-uncvrg-102011 
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US Prosecutors Confirm Classified Information Colors Zambada Niebla’s Case
  ---  http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/10/us-prosecutors-confirm-classified-information-colors-zambada-niebla-s-c 
From the History File - October 4, 2011 at 12:35 am - Related Article - A quote...."Zambada Niebla, son of one of the leaders of the Sinaloa “Cartel,” arguably the most powerful international narco-trafficking organization on the planet, argues in his criminal case that he and the other leadership of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug-trafficking organization, were, in effect, working for the U.S. government for years by providing US agents with intelligence about rival drug organizations. -- In exchange for that cooperation, Zambada Niebla, who was extradited from Mexico to the United States in February 2010, contends the US government granted the leadership of the Sinaloa “Cartel” immunity from prosecution for their criminal activities — including the narco-trafficking charges he now faces in Chicago." 
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US Government Accused of Seeking to Conceal Deal Cut With Sinaloa “Cartel”
  ---  http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/10/us-government-accused-seeking-conceal-deal-cut-sinaloa-cartel 
From the History File - October 1, 2011 at 5:52 pm - Related Article - A quote...."Zambada Niebla’s lawyers claim that the prosecution has, at this point, withheld evidence it is required to provide to the defense and is now attempting to cover its tracks and assure that evidence remains cloaked by arguing that it affects US national security." 
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Journalist Joe Lauria: Major Doubts About the Iranian-Mexican Plot to Kill Saudi Ambassador to US; Filmmaker Jeff Warrick on Subliminal Suggestion
  ---  http://peterbcollins.com/2011/10/19/journalist-joe-lauria-major-doubts-about-the-iranian-mexican-plot-to-kill-saudi-ambassador-to-us-filmmaker-jeff-warrick-on-subliminal-suggestion/ 
Audio - (Mp3 - 1hr07min16sec - Oct 19, 2011) - Source:  PeteCollins  ---  http://peterbcollins.com  ---  Related: DownLoadMp3  ---  http://www.peterbcollins.com/podcast/PBC_20111019p304.mp3  ---  A quote...."Journalist Joe Lauria talks about the bizarre, alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington, and his exclusive report for Boiling Frogs Post.  Filmmaker Jeff Warrick talks about his new documentary, Programming the Nation." 
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Lebanon: US 'plot' claim incredulous  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Lebanon-US-plot-claim-incredulous 
A quote...."21 Oct 2011 Lebanon's Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour has dismissed the US allegation of Tehran's involvement in a plot to assassinate the Saudi envoy to Washington, describing them as unbelievable. At a Thursday meeting in the Lebanese capital Beirut with the Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Rokn-Abadi, Mansour said that no diplomat could ever believe Washington's accusation against Iran, Mehr News Agency reported. Iran has even been denied access to Mansour Arbabsiar, the used-car dealer Washington says is behind the alleged plot. Arbabsiar has a criminal record [think CIA] and is described as hopelessly disorganized by his family and friends." 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Banking - the Greatest Scam on Earth  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/140101 
Must View Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9IH-XKQpOI  ---  (YuTb - 9min37sec - Sep 11, 2011) - Source:  BoKnowsEntertainment  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/BoKnowsEntertainment  ---  A quote...."The Greatest Scam on Earth - The Money Scam! The Money Scam is hidden right out in the open, yet buried in complication and confusion. A retired banker describes simply, the world's Money Scam and the reason every country is now going bankrupt. Private bankers have stolen the money creation process, and whereas once our money was created by the governments, debt-free, it is now created out of thin air and issued as debt with interest charges." 
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The Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destroy The Entire Global Financial System
  ---  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-coming-derivatives-crisis-that-could-destroy-the-entire-global-financial-system 
A quote...."Most people have no idea that Wall Street has become a gigantic financial casino.  The big Wall Street banks are making tens of billions of dollars a year in the derivatives market, and nobody in the financial community wants the party to end.  The word "derivatives" sounds complicated and technical, but understanding them is really not that hard.  A derivative is essentially a fancy way of saying that a bet has been made.  Originally, these bets were designed to hedge risk, but today the derivatives market has mushroomed into a mountain of speculation unlike anything the world has ever seen before.  Estimates of the notional value of the worldwide derivatives market go from $600 trillion all the way up to $1.5 quadrillion." - also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Coming_Derivatives_Crisis_That_Could_Destroy_The_Entire_Global_Financial_System_/16202/0/0/0/Y/M.html  ---  bold by website editor 
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U.S. Bank Credit Risk Climbs After Goldman Sachs Loss Exceeds Estimates
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-18/u-s-company-credit-risk-gauge-climbs-to-one-week-high-on-europe-crisis.html 
A quote...."Credit-default swaps on U.S. banks climbed on concern that the slowing economy was weighing on financial institutions’ balance sheets after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) reported its second quarterly loss in 12 years." 
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Italian Bonds Plunging: ECB Intervention Imminent  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/italian-bonds-plunging-ecb-intervention-imminent 
Chart - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2011/10/BTP%2010.20.jpg  ---  A quote...."After intervening for 3 days out of 3, Italian bonds have just taken out all recent lows and threaten to drag the entire Italian, and thus European market with them. We expect an ECB intervention any second or else the bottom is about to fall out of the market. Highlighted are all previous ECB (money losing) interventions." 
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What lies behind [all] the [proposals to TRY a] rescue of the Euro?  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/pers-o21.shtml 
A)  They're proposals that aren't going to be adopted in the first place, and B)  Even if they agree to adopt some sort of proposal to create more mountains of debt AND place this mountain of debt on the backs of their respective populations AND their respective populations don't rise up and hang them all from the nearest tree....it's not going to work anyway. - mpg -- A quote...."All the proposals put forward by European politicians to rescue the euro and the European Union boil down to shifting the crisis onto the backs of the population, plunging millions into unemployment and misery.." 
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More than 100,000 protest in Athens  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/demo-o21.shtml 
A quote...."More than 100,000 workers demonstrated in Athens outside the parliament yesterday to protest the PASOK government’s latest austerity measures. The protest was held on the second day of a 48-hour general strike by millions of workers." 
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News... 

Gerald Celente: Wall St is Washington and Washington is Wall St
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/gerald-celente-wall-st-is-washington-and-washington-is-wall-st.html 
Must View RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueVll5hdd_0  ---  (RTYuTb - 9min52sec - Oct 19, 2011) - Source:  RTAmerica  --- http://www.youtube.com/user/RTAmerica  ---  A quote...."Occupy Wall Street continues to spread across the global. The movement which started in Lower Manhattan began to voice its disdain for the economic structure a little over a month ago. The message is to end corporations’ grip on governments worldwide. Gerald Celente, publisher for The Trends Journal, tells us who the source of the people’s frustration is and who’s to blame." 
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Dylan Ratigan: To Be With the 99%, President Obama Must Fire Tim Geithner
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/dylan-ratigan-to-be-with-the-99-president-obama-must-fire-ti.html 
A quote...."About a decade ago, I read an article in The Onion, "U.S. Offers Platinum Plus Preferred Citizenship". Apparently, Tim Geithner did too, because from 2007-2011, this is the policy framework that he designed and executed, first as President of the New York Federal Reserve, and then as Treasury Secretary. Now, unequal democracy is not a new story, in many ways it's systemic and goes back hundreds of years. But what we're going to see in part this week is how Geithner deserves special recognition as sort of this decade's champion of making this system more explicit and entrenched." 
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How Many Billionaires do You Know?  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-many-billionaires-do-you-know.html 
Chart - A quote...."A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244." 
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If the “Occupy” Movement and Real Tea Party Join Together, We Can Save America  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/if-the-occupy-move 
ment-and-tea-party-join-together-we-can-end-the-malignant-partnership-between-big-government-and-big-corporations-which-is-destroying-america.html
Emphasis on "REAL" - mpg -- A quote...."Mike Krieger writes  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/news/rogue-government-traders  ---  today:..."    

"The reason the liberal mainstream corporate media demonized the Tea Party is because it threatens the status quo. - The reason the conservative corporate mainstream media demonizes Occupy Wall Street is because it threatens the status quo. - These are textbook divide and conquer strategies being used on the American people. Do not fall for it." - also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/%3F-older-posts-if-%E2%80%9Coccupy%E2%80%9D-movement-and-tea-party-join-together-we-can-end-malignant-part 
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Occupy Wall Street and Federal Reserve News – 10-21-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (6 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/21/occupy-wall-street-and-federal-reserve-news-10-21-11/    
Occupy Las Vegas Protesters Drown Out Erin Burnett: "The Banks Got Bailed Out, We Got Sold Out!" - vid
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/occupy-las-vegas-protesters-drown-out-erin-burnett-the-banks.html    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZkRur0ly_g    
Charles Hugh Smith on the Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) Movement
  ---  http://ampedstatus.org/charles-hugh-smith-on-the-occupy-wall-street-ows-movement/     
Cautiously, Libertarians Reach Out to Occupy Wall Street
  ---  http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/10/cautiously-libertarians-reach-out-to-occupy-wall-street/247045/    
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The Assault On Libya.... 

Do You Believe al-Qaeda’s Claim Gaddafi is Dead?  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/20/do-you-believe-al-qaeda%E2%80%99s-claim-gaddafi-is-dead/
Contains RTVideo - A quote...."So far, there has been zero independent verification of the claim. The NTC – otherwise known as al-Qaeda – said earlier today it has whisked off the body to a secret location for “security reasons.” -- Despite the lack of evidence, the corporate media is now accepting Gaddafi’s death as fact. This is the same media that accepted the unconfirmed death of Osama bin Laden and told us Saddam had aluminum tubes of mass destruction. -- Meanwhile, as the corporate media parades the morbid image and celebrates murder, the Green Charter Movement in Jamahiriya claims Gaddafi is alive. From Gaddafi’s very own propaganda outlet, the Mathaba News Agency:" 
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This website takes no position on whether Gaddafi is alive or dead except to stipulate one, by now well known established fact...      

NATO and the NTC have already proven themselves on countless occasions, (literally, they're too many to count), to be one of the world's biggest bunch of chronic, degenerate, compulsive, serial liars.  Their word is useless, any promise they make will never be honored and they're credibility long ago reached absolute zero....and fell from there.  They have lied about EVERYTHING for seven months, which if you actually think about it is pretty hard to do unless you really concentrate on it.  They're a pack of back-stabbing, feckless, jackals who are eventually going to betray each other in the end.  Just you wait and see....mpg 
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Al-Libya Television Denied Ghadaffi's Death - Here's the denial, veracity....unknown. - mpg 
  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/1272-al-libya-television-denied-ghadaffis-death.html 
Some quotes...."Hamsayeh.Net - Pro-Ghaddafi sources reject western media rumors of their leader's capture or death today during a firefight in the Mediterranean town of Sirte. It said the Libyan Leader was alive [unknown as of yet....mpg] and well leading the resistance against NATO-backed rebels."  ---  "The TV Station also said that NTC and NATO have previously made numerous false claims about Ghaddafi and his sons being killed or captured." - [Totally and utterly true. - mpg]  
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For US, Gadhafi’s [Probable] Death [is] a Laughing Matter -- Chuckling Hillary Mocks Slain Dictator
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/20/for-us-gadhafis-death-a-laughing-matter/ 
Some quotes...."In the ultimate reflection of the Obama Administration’s carefree attitude toward entering wars, a chuckling Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared on television today mocking the death of long-time Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, barely restraining her delight while declaring “we came, we saw, he died.”  ---  "President Obama himself termed the slaying of Gadhafi, under what remains mysterious circumstances, a “momentous day,” though he managed to see this without giggling like a gleeful schoolgirl." 
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Obama's War Effort Surpasses Bush, Mirrors Hitler!! - Webster G. Tarpley Reports
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/9/qu7ljDfa1Fc 
AJVideo  - WebsterTarpley(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu7ljDfa1Fc  ---  WebsterTarpley(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LZP_HsvSj4  ---  (AJYuTb - 10min - Oct 20, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."On the Thursday edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex returns to the command post in Austin and confronts the latest breaking news, including the reported death of ousted Libyan leader Qaddafi." 
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Obama is an Obsessional Pathological Liar! - Steve Pieczenik Reports
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/7/X7yCYamrMzo 
AJVideo  - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7yCYamrMzo  ---  (AJYuTb - 10min - Oct 20, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."On the Thursday edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex returns to the command post in Austin and confronts the latest breaking news, including the reported death of ousted Libyan leader Gaddafi." 
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Obama & Gadhafi  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2011/10/obama-gaddafi-handshake-091709-lg.jpg 
Photo - You shake his hand folks, this is what happens to you....mpg 
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Sarkozy & Gadhafi  ---  http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR1ugAsxv1yzyT_WgQaodyOLtNXQOsBGl2H1ipSs9aULnsc211IdA
Photo - You shake this guy's hand, better check to see if you have all your fingers left, or an STD....mpg
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Blair & Gadhafi  ---  http://www.hizb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/blair-gaddafi.jpg
Photo - And here's what happens when you hug this guy....mpg
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One by One, According to the Plan     
10-20-11    
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The Black Bull died today  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16019.htm    
From the History File - 12/30/06 - A quote...."Information Clearing House" -- They did it. They gave this Ummah a sacrifice on the day of Eid ul Adha. What an unforgettable Eid!! A human sacrifice. Not a sheep or goat. What a message!! Wow!! What a powerful message that I am sure has shaken all the thrones of the puppets who are watching the events. Poor puppets!!    

All the people in Britain and the US-NRE should keep in mind that EVERYTHING we've seen and experienced for the last thirty years, was done to carry out the PNAC Protocols.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409  ---  These protocols were conceived, written and have been ruthlessly promoted by the "Jewish Community" on behalf of just five million deluded members of that community living on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and six million members of that community living here within the US.    

Specifically, the actions of the US-NRE and Britain were carried out according to "A Strategy For Israel in the 1980's".  Here's a quote from .....Divide and Conquer: The Anglo-American Imperial Project  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9451    

"In 1982, Oded Yinon, an Israeli journalist with links to the Israeli Foreign Ministry wrote an article for a publication of the World Zionist Organization in which he outlined a "strategy for Israel in the 1980s." In this article, he stated, "The dissolution of Syria and Iraq into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front. Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel's targets."    

"Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run, it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel." He continued, "An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and Lebanon."    

"He continues, "In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul and Shiite areas in the South will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north."    

Of course these plans were "sold" to the parasites in the US-NRE and Britain as a strategy to gain control of the energy resources in the Middle East,  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/priorwarresource911-weblist-mpg-091106  ---  as a stepping stone to eventual control of the Caspian Basin and North Africa, to deprive their economic competitor China of her resources, and finally to curtail Russia's geo-political influence or possible future ambitions.    

But everyone should realize that even if NONE of these objectives were EVER achieved, Israel's objectives, according to the plan, of remaking the Middle East, (i.e. shattering any competitor nation states), along with the complete elimination of the Palestinian people as a viable entity would still be the end result.    

They're almost there, they've almost achieved their objectives.  There's only four countries left, Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Pakistan.  After they're eliminated as viable national entities Israel will finally turn its attention to one of the "Trinity of Evil"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810  ---  members, a group of people who actually still believe they won't be the final target on the hit list, the Saudi Royals....they'll be taught "freedom and democracy" just like all the others.  

And here's the fun part, it's only cost the US-NRE and the EU,  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/debtdoesntmatter-blog-mpg-022908  ---  fifty to one hundred trillion dollars so far.    

Isn't that wonderful? - mpg    
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FLASHBACK - Faked Photo of "Dead" Gaddafi was shown two months ago.  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/140033 
Photo - A quote...."So you can understand why we are a teensy bit hesitant to believe the latest claims." -- *Michael Rivero* 
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Qaddafi - more doubts surface?  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/140113 
Photo - A quote...."At this point it is totally irrelevant whether Qaddafi is alive or dead. I do not know for a certainty and neither do I really care. -- What is really significant about all the doubters is that nobody is willing to trust the claims of the United States any more. After Saddam's nuclear weapons and the phony bin Ladens and the phony dead Gaddafi from two months ago, the credibility of the government of the United States is absolutely worthless right now. -- And that is the really important part of the story today!" -- *Michael Rivero* 
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Misrata Libya: after and before "liberation" photos  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/10/misrata-libya-befor-and-after.html 
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In Tripoli, Libya's Interim Leader Says He Is Quitting
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/In_Tripoli%2C_Libya%27s_Interim_Leader_Says_He_Is_Quitting_/16208/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
A quote...."Two months after rebel fighters stormed into Tripoli and drove Muammar Gaddafi from power, the man effectively running the country in his role as temporary prime minister warned on Wednesday night that Libya could turn to chaos unless the war ended soon. Mahmoud Jibril, a U.S.-educated economist who helped persuade NATO members to launch their Libya campaign last March, also announced in an interview with TIME that he was quitting — potentially leaving Libya in a perilous state of limbo." -- Look folks, another  ---  http://open.salon.com/blog/hello_she_lied/2009/05/16/whatever_became_of_ahmed_chalabi  ---  Chalabi,  --- http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/apr2004/chal-a30.shtml  ---  he betrays his own country and his people -- utterly, totally, and completely -- to a bunch of rapacious foreign powers and Jihadist al-CIA'da mercenaries and now he doesn't have the stomach to stick around and watch the jackals and carpet baggers he himself helped unleash, further tear Libya apart as they snap and snarl over its gutted remains for the tastiest tid-bits.  What a miserable, miss-begotten piece of human dung he is. - mpg 
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Related Articles and Videos.... 

The US power grab in Africa  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MJ21Dj03.html#.TqCXCoU-Sz0.gmail 
Must Read - A quote...."The new Fallujah -- In her exhausting six-and-a-half hours on "free Libya" soil, Clinton couldn't possibly find the time to hitch a helicopter ride to Sirte and see for herself how NATO is exercising R2P ("responsibility to protect" civilians). -- A few hundred soldiers and no less than 80,000 civilians have been bombed for weeks by NATO and the former "rebels". Only 20,000 civilians have managed to escape. There's no food left. Water and electricity have been cut off. Hospitals are idle. The city - under siege - is in ruins. Sirte imams have issued a fatwa (decree) allowing survivors to eat cats and dogs." 
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Obama's Great African Military Safari with Patrick Henningsen -- http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/1/ChOX_ZcgIF0 
Must View Related AJVideo - PatHenningsen(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChOX_ZcgIF0  ---  PatHenningsen(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhySsIB7Bd4  ---  (AJYuTb - 15min - Oct 20, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."We'll be joined by Infowars writer Patrick Henningsen to discuss the real agenda behind Obama's decision to send U.S. troops into Uganda and how it ties into the scramble to control African resources." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

US & Afghan Soldiers Allegedly Forced Civilians Onto Mine-Filled Roads
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/20/us-afghan-soldiers-allegedly-forced-civilians-onto-mine-filled-roads/ 
US-NRE War Crime - A quote...."Afghan and American troops forced civilians to march ahead of them on roads believed to have been filled with bombs and landmines planted by insurgents, according to allegations from villagers in southern Afghanistan." 
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10,000 at the Border: Turkish Troops Continue to Pour into Northern Iraq - Pro-Invasion Rally Held in Istanbul
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/20/10000-at-the-border-turkish-troops-continue-to-pour-into-northern-iraq/ 
Turkey's answer to Israel's "New Kurdistan" allies and their attack against Turkish forces. - mpg -- A quote...."The Turkish military has dispatched at least 10,000 additional troops to the border with Iraqi Kurdistan, and thousands of troops are already confirmed to have crossed into Iraq to hunt the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels after yesterday’s killings of Turkish soldiers." 
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US Closes Northern Iraq Base As Turkey Intensifies PKK Border Operations
  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2011/10/20/us-closes-northern-iraq-base-as-turkey-intensifies-pkk-border-operations/ 
A quote...."The U.S. military moved forward with its drawdown operations by officially shutting down one of its regional headquarters today. The base oversaw areas of northern Iraq where Turkish troops continued retaliating against Kurdish rebels. Meanwhile, at least four Iraqis were killed and 15 more were wounded in violence further south in Baghdad and Sadr City." 
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US Army patrol under attack in Kut  ---  http://en.aswataliraq.info/Default1.aspx?page=article_page&id=145340&l=1 
A quote...."WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: A US Army patrol has come under an explosive charge blast west of Kut, the center of southern Iraq Province of Wassit on Wednesday night, but losses were not known, a Wassit Police source reported on Thursday." 
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Sadr rejects presence of US Military trainers in Iraq  ---  http://en.aswataliraq.info/Default1.aspx?page=article_page&id=145345&l=1 
A quote...."BAGHDAD: The Leader of the Shiite al-Sadr Trend, Muqtada al-Sadr, has announced rejection of the presence of US Forces, including military trainers, in Iraq after the end of 2011, according to the Security Agreement signed between Iraq and the US." 
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US shuts north Iraq division ahead of pullout
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jJfa1NEWkCOujBiC-FpR-BeRxfSw?docId=CNG.51741d44ded9b31056a85d8267330981.551 
A quote...."BAGHDAD — The US military closed its north Iraq division on Thursday, leaving 18 bases in the country ahead of a year-end pullout, with Baghdad and Washington still at an impasse over a future troop deal. -- The closure of US Division-North was the latest in an operation to reduce Washington's troop presence in Iraq, with 39,500 American soldiers currently stationed in the country, all of whom must leave in around two months" 
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Syria agrees to receive an Arab League committee next week
  ---  http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1670224.php/Syria-agrees-to-receive-an-Arab-League-committee-next-week
A quote...."Beirut - Syria has agreed to receive an Arab league committee assigned last week to work on establishing a dialogue between the government and the opposition to end violence, Lebanese media reported late Thursday. " 
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Live broadcast of first ever Soyuz carrier rocket from Kourou on EN.RIA.RU  ---  http://en.rian.ru/science/20111021/167930237.html 
Contains Video - A quote...."Direct translation will begin at 10:25 GMT on EN.RIA.RU from the Kourou launch site where at 10:30 GMT the launch of the first ever Soyuz-ST space rocket from Kourou will take place, with two Galileo navigation system satellites on board." 
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Centuries of open justice [in Britain] threatened by secret courts
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/centuries-of-open-justice-threatened-by-secret-courts-2373201.html 
A quote...."Secret justice looks set to be a regular feature of British courts and tribunals when the intelligence services want to protect their sources of information. -- Civil courts, immigration panels and even coroner's inquests would go into secret session if the Government rules that hearing evidence in public could be a threat to national security. -- The proposals, which run counter to a centuries-old British tradition of open justice, were introduced to a sparsely attended House of Commons yesterday by the Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke – and met almost no opposition. The planned changes to the British justice system follow lobbying of the Government by the CIA." - bold by website editor 
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Colombian Soldiers Accused of Killing Civilians to Boost Kill Counts
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/20/colombian-soldiers-accused-of-killing-civilians-to-boost-kill-counts/ 
Our only major ally in South America has been doing this for YEARS!  Capitalism....at its inevitable and most extreme. - mpg -- A quote...."Five Colombian soldiers were accused Tuesday of murdering two farmers, in the latest case of “false positive” killings, in which the US-supported Colombian army kill civilians and report them as combatants." 
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300,000 babies stolen from their parents - and sold for adoption: Haunting BBC documentary exposes 50-year scandal of baby trafficking by the Catholic church in Spain  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049647/BBC-documentary-exposes-50-year-scandal-baby-trafficking-Catholic-church-Spain.html  ---  The reason this article was posted is that there are STILL, even after all these decades of lies and deceit, incredibly, mind-numbingly, really stupid people out there, that "believe you can't keep conspiracies secret".  But conspiracies are kept secret all the time, there are hundreds of thousands of them, big and small, and almost all of them harmful, or evil, or costly.  300,000 babies over fifty years....think about it, these were people's babies, they were stolen from them, it took generations of thousands of people to carry this out and this scandal wasn't 'made public' till now. - mpg 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

Americans Pay Dearly to Maintain Israel’s Nuclear Secrets
  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2011/10/19/americans-pay-dearly-to-maintain-israels-nuclear-secrets/ 
Special Note - A quote...."Officially, the CIA has never released records or issued formal statements about NUMEC. But the agency’s former employees have been much more vocal. Former CIA Tel Aviv station chief John Hadden once described to the BBC how Rafael Eitan — the master Israeli spy who visited NUMEC  ---  http://www.irmep.org/ila/numec/pg1_97-125.pdf  ---  [.pdf] undercover in the 1960s and who later handled spy Jonathan Pollard — might have found diverting HEU from NUMEC much lighter work than kidnapping a Nazi war criminal  ---  http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/trials/eichmanntrialcapture.html  ---  from the streets of Buenos Aires. “Just imagine to yourself how much easier it would be to remove a pound or two of this or that at any one time, as opposed to — which is inert material — as opposed to removing all at one blow. One hundred fifty pounds of shouting and kicking Eichmann. You see, they [the Israelis] are pretty good at removing things.” Hadden claimed that NUMEC was “an Israeli operation from the beginning.”" 
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The Liam Fox / Adam Werritty Affair.... 

Adam Werritty bankrolled by three pro-Israel business tycoons  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/18/adam-werritty-pro-israel-funders 
A quote...."Three of the six donors who funded Adam Werritty's jetset lifestyle were prominent pro-Israel business figures. -- Gus O'Donnell's report into the Liam Fox affair identified two previously unknown funders of Pargav, the company which paid more than £140,000 towards Werritty's first class flights and five star hotels." 
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Adam Werritty attended Israeli secret service meeting
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8835268/Adam-Werritty-attended-Israeli-secret-service-meeting.html 
A quote...."The meeting between Dr Fox, Mr Werritty and the head of Mossad will raise further concerns about Mr Werritty’s role and his connections to the Ministry of Defence." - also posted at IntelWars  ---  http://intelwars.com/2011/10/20/fox-werritty-mossad-adam-werritty-attended-israeli-secret-service-meeting/ 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

OCHA: Israel Cuts Access to 85% of Gaza Fishing Waters  ---  http://www.wafa.ps/english/index.php?action=detail&id=17798 
A quote...."JERUSALEM, October 18, 2011 (WAFA) –  A recent report published Tuesday by the Untied Nation Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) showed that 35% of Gaza’s farmland and 85% of its fishing waters are totally or partially inaccessible due to Israeli military measures." 
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Settlers, Soldiers Continue Attacks on Hebron Schools  ---  http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17821 
A quote...."HEBRON, October 20, 2011 (WAFA) – Groups of extremist Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers Thursday continued their attacks against students and teachers in Qurtuba and Susiya schools in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, according to local sources." 
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Settlers Attack Students Exiting Cordoba School, Soldiers Arrest Assistant Director
  ---  http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10787&Itemid=64 
A quote...."A group of Israeli settlers attacked students and teachers from the Cordoba girls’ school in the Old City of Hebron and Israeli soldiers arrested the assistant director of the school." 
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Free at Last - Some of the many Palestinian Prisoners
  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/gaza-strip/10335-free-at-last-some-of-the-many-palestinian-prisoners.html 
A quote...."Palestine, (Pal Telegraph) - The buzz of the week has been, without a doubt, the prisoner swap reached between Hamas and Israel. On October 18, over 400 Palestinian prisoners, some of them serving several life sentences, will walk out of Israel’s prison gates free men and women, hopefully for the last time. In two months, the second phase of the swap will be completed. Over 500 more prisoners will be released – this time at Israel’s choosing – in exchange for one lone soldier, the now infamous Gilad Shalit." 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

Now Evidence Has Emerged That the Radiation in Canada Was Worse Than Canadian Officials Ever Let On” — Radioactive Coverup?
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/20/%E2%80%9Cnow-evidence-has-emerged-that-the-radiation-in-canada-was-worse-than-canadian-officials-ever-let-on%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%94-radioactive-coverup/ 
A quote...."“Now evidence has emerged that the radiation in Canada was worse than Canadian officials ever let on,” Canada’s largest urban weekly, The Georgia Straight out of Vancouver, reported today. -- “Public officials in Japan and Canada alike jumped straight into Chernobyl-style damage-control mode, dismissing any worries about impacts,” writes The Straight’s Alex Roslin." 
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Fukushima Update with Arnie Gunderson  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/20/fukushima-update-with-arnie-gunderson/ 
CRVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKzOF97QuuU  ---  (CRYuTb - 6min42sec - Oct 19, 2011) - Source:  corbettreport  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/corbettreport  ---  A quote...."(FukushimaUpdate) – October 19th, 2011 – Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com joins us for today’s Fukushima Update. We discuss Tokyo’s radiation hot spots, TEPCO’s “cold shutdown” announcement and what the next step is at the site." 
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TEPCO: Significant Damage to Fukushima Unit 3  ---  http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/10/tepco-significant-damage-fukushima-unit-3 
GRVideo - Alt  ---  http://vimeo.com/30816614  ---  (GRVimeoVid - 6min41sec - Oct 19, 2011) - Source:  GlobalResearchTV  ---  http://tv.globalresearch.ca/  ---  A quote...."Analysis of new Fukushima 3 photographs released last week by TEPCO substantiate Fairewinds’ claim that explosion of Unit 3 began over the spent fuel pool. -- Fairewinds believes that significant damage has also occurred to the containment system of Fukushima Unit 3, and that the two events (fuel pool explosion and containment breach) did not occur simultaneously." 
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Japanese communities record Chernobyl-level radiation  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/japanese-communities-record-chernobyl-level-radiation.html 
ABCVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTvWZI10nAc  ---  (ABCYuTb - 6min53sec - Oct 19, 2011) - Source:  NewsOnABC  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/NewsOnABC  ---  A quote...."Thousands of Japanese forced to evacuate their homes by the Fukushima nuclear disaster are facing the prospect of never being able to return. 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

50% of All Workers Made Less than $26,000 in 2010
  ---  http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/50-of-all-workers-made-less-than-26-000-in-2010/247059/ 
Special Note - A quote...."Today we get our first look at American wages in 2010 based on payroll taxes reported to the Social Security Administration. David Cay Johnston picks out the most important takeaways, including: -- 1) Half of all workers made less than $26,364, the median wage in 2010. That means the typical wage is at its lowest level since 1999, after adjusting for inflation." 
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Equity Mutual Funds See Biggest Outflow Since August Despite Market Ramp
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/equity-mutual-funds-see-biggest-outflow-august-despite-market-ramp 
Mrkt Tech Note - Chart - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2011/10/Flows%2010.20.jpg  ---  A quote...."While once upon a time, retail equity capital flows would be a perfect coincident indicator to the overall market, with any notable spike in the S&P promptly matched by inflows into domestic equity mutual funds, this is no longer the case. As ICI reports, in the week ended July 12, equity mutual funds saw their 8th consecutive outflow, amounting to $5.9 billion, the largest outflow since the debt ceiling and US downgrade fiasco in August, and a number which brings the total year to date outflow to ($99) billion." 
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The Daily Bail Round-Up - Oct 21, 2011 at 4:09 AM  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/update-nypd-pepper-spray-thug-anthony-bologna-to-lose-vacati.html 
A round-up of todays business news from the Daily Bail. - mpg 
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Economy 10-21-11 - A DProgram Round-Up  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/21/economy-10-21-11/ 
A round-up of todays business news from DProgram. - mpg 
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Wednesday October 19th 2011 - links page 

Steve Pieczenik Speaks on 3rd Party Option and A New Constitution
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/8/gKAZzyZAaXU 
Must View AJVideo - StevePieczenik(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKAZzyZAaXU  ---  StevePieczenik(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDmNkNnryt0  ---  (AJYuTb - 13/15min - Oct 18, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."On the Tuesday edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex welcomes back critically acclaimed author and former State Department official Steve Pieczenik. Steve talks with Alex about the ongoing Iran assassination and terror plot drama now being used by the U.S. government to drive the country into a catastrophic war that will ignite the Middle East." 
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Courts Rule US Government Above the Law  ---  http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/10/courts-rule-us-government-above-law 
Must View GRTVVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOBY_umvVrQ  ---  (GRTVYuTb - 4min04sec - Oct 18, 2011) - Source:  GlobalRsearchTV  ---  A quote...."Manhattan Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein has declined to hold the CIA in contempt for destroying videos that it had been ordered by the courts to preserve. -- The case revolves around 92 videos, depicting hundreds of hours of interrogations of detainees. The tapes allegedly contained evidence of torture, and the CIA was ordered by numerous courts to produce the videos in relation to lawsuits arising from torture allegations. The 9/11 Commission also demanded that the tapes be produced. Instead, the agency destroyed them." 
Topix ||  NO 9/11 Trial Ever – Last Family Settles Out of Court  ||  ---  http://thepopulist.net/2011/09/23/no-911-trial-ever-last-family-settles-out-of-court/
||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909 
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More on the Domestic Situation.... 

The war on drugs has become the war on the American people  ---  http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/3691 
Police State - A quote...."On July 29, 2008, my family and I were terrorized by an errant Prince George’s County SWAT team. This unit forced entry into my home without a proper warrant, executed our beloved black Labradors, Payton and Chase, and bound and interrogated my mother-in-law and me for hours, as they ransacked our belongings . . . As I was forced to kneel, bound at gunpoint on my living room floor, I recall thinking that there had been a terrible mistake. However, as I have learned more, I have to understand that what my family and I experienced is part of a growing and troubling trend where law enforcement is relying on SWAT teams to perform duties once handled by ordinary police officers.” -- *Maryland Mayor Cheye Calvo*, in testimony before the Maryland Senate - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/the-war-on-drugs-has-become-the-war-on-the-american-people/ 
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The Big Wall Street Banks Are Already Trying To Buy The 2012 Election
  ---  http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-big-wall-street-banks-are-already-trying-to-buy-the-2012-election 
2012 Election Cycle - Contributions Data Base - A quote...."We are never going to restore legitimacy to our political system until we get the money out of politics.  Typically, in federal elections the candidate that raises the most money wins about 90 percent  ---  http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/11/money-wins-white-house-and.html  ---  of the time.  In 2008, Barack Obama raised almost twice as much money as John McCain did.  3 of the top 7 donors to Obama's campaign were big Wall Street banks (Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup).  ---  http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cid=N00009638  ---  Now Wall Street is doing it again.  The big Wall Street banks are already trying to buy the 2012 election.  So who do they want to win in 2012?  Based on contribution patterns so far, the overwhelming favorite of the Wall Street banks to win in 2012 is Mitt Romney. "
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/19/the-big-wall-street-banks-are-already-trying-to-buy-the-2012-election/ 
& PrisonPlanet  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-big-wall-street-banks-are-already-trying-to-buy-the-2012-election.html 
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Federal Records Show Romney Campaign Bought And Paid For By Big Banks
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/federal-records-show-romney-campaign-bought-and-paid-for-by-big-banks.html 
2012 Election Cycle - Contributions Analysis, Charts & Graphs -- A quote...."A new independent analysis of 2012 presidential candidates’ campaign contributions confirms that Mitt Romney is the banksters’ choice for the GOP nominee, and indeed for President." 
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White House accused of Barack Obama 'green screen' trickery  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139953 
Obama the Fake - (How utterly àpropos - mpg) -- A quote...."Experts in video effects said Mr Obama's talk on boosting employment had actually been recorded in front of a neutral "green screen" and the factory background filled in later. - They said the edges around the president's head and shoulders were too sharp." - A comment shown below....    

"The lighting on Obama doesn't match the lighting on the background and the perspective vanishing points don't line up, but other than that; nice fake!" -- *Michael Rivero* 
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Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - October 19 2011  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/297882539 
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min10sec into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - Oct, 19th 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg 
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Arbabsiar Charges Are Clumsy Attempt to Indict Iran: Webster Tarpley Reports
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/4/ZCQYrcT8cBo 
Must Listen AJVideo - (It's not just about the F&F Iran Scam Comedy, it's more like a round-table discussion. - mpg) --  WebsterTarpley(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCQYrcT8cBo  ---  WebsterTarpley(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lOUzXG3OJ4  ---  (YuTb - 15min - Oct 19, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Journalist and author Webster Tarpley talks about the growing momentum for a disastrous war against Iran under false pretense and he also talks about the End the Fed protests around the country."  
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Fast & Furious File & The Iran Scam Comedy™  

Will Holder Fold?  ---  http://lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski277.html  
Must Read - A quote...."October 15, 2011 -- The DOJ card players have a credibility problem. 17 well-publicized "terrorist" plots since 2001 have been federal setups  ---  mailto:http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano26.1.html  ---  that never approached the professionalism of an early talent screening for American Idol. The federally micromanaged Fast and Furious  ---  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/23/eveningnews/main20035609.shtml%3Ftag=contentMain;contentBody  ---  gun running operation purposely ran guns to Mexico, and then blamed it on the 2nd Amendment. After it became known that over 200 people were killed as a result, a normally passive Congress questioned Eric Holder, who apparently lied under oath  ---  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/if-you-want-to-stop-crime-in-america-start-in-the-white-house-and-work-your-way-down_10102011  ---  about it.-- Last week’s "terrorist plot" – an odd Iranian "caught" by the bold federales  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/10/13/the-terrorist-who-couldnt-think-straight/    in part because they "overheard" him explain in detail his complicated plan to his Mexican gangster "cohorts" has been immediately blown out of the water by state media from the left, right and center – taking their lead from independent media that is, thankfully, growing ever more influential." 
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Rep. Issa: Holder was 'dodging' in 'Fast and Furious' testimony
  ---  http://thehill.com/video/house/187331-rep-issa-attorney-general-was-dodging-in-fast-and-furious-testimony 
A quote...."10/13/11 11:38 AM ET  -- Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) slammed Attorney General Eric Holder for his testimony to Congress about the controversial "Fast and Furious" gun-tracking program, saying Holder did not meet his "obligation of candor" in his statements. -- "I believe that the attorney general was dodging at best, lying perhaps, but more likely dodging. He certainly knew Fast and Furious," said Issa on Fox News Channel's "On the Record" Wednesday." 
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The occupy Iran Fast and Furious plot (extended)  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/middle_east/mj14ak02.html 
A quote...."Oct 14, 2011 -- The US government expects an unsuspecting world to believe that a washed-up car salesman in Texas was tasked by a select intelligence arm of the Iranian government to fish for anyone who looked like a Mexican drug gangster and then order them a US$1.5 million hit on the Saudi ambassador in Washington - in the meantime promising them unfettered access to "tons of opium". -- Yet in the Sealed Amended Complaint against Arabsiar and Shakuri, signed by FBI special agent Robert Woloszyn, there is absolutely nothing specifically stating the involvement of the Iranian government, at the highest or at any level." 
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Unfolding a Plot: Mossad at Work  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29454.htm 
A quote...."October 19, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --  Despite its evidently make-believe facade, the cooked-up story of the Saudi envoy assassination plot does not seem to be something which can be easily banished from the minds of the American powers that be." 
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Iran: DC Plot Suspect a High Profile MeK Member  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/18/iran-dc-plot-suspect-a-high-profile-mek-member/
A quote...."Adding to the growing intrigue over last week’s DC assassination plot, the Iranian government revealed today that Gholam Shakuri, who US officials claimed was a member of the Quds Force, is actually a “key member” of the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MeK),  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/world/middleeast/iran-says-saudi-plot-defendant-belongs-to-exile-group.html?ref=world  ---  a State Department listed terrorist organization hostile to the Iranian government."  
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Iran Bores a Hole Through Obama's Sloppy Efforts to Pull a Coup  ---  http://www.larouchepac.com/node/19898 
A quote...."President Barack Obama's sloppy efforts to pull a British-ordered coup in the United States, and avoid his own impeachment, including by trying to rev up the "attack-Iran" jingoists for yet another provocation, received a set back on Oct. 18 when Tehran pointed its finger at the terrorist group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) as being at the center of what Washington had charged was an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington. -- The new revelations are highly embarassing, to say the least, to the Obama administration. MEK's political arm, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), is listed by the United States as a terrorist organization, and closed the NCRI's Washington office in 2003. But neither Great Britain nor the European Union listed them as terrorists. MEK maintains a headquarters in Paris." 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Non-Partisan Government Report: Federal Reserve Is Riddled with Corruption and Conflicts of Interest
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/federal-reserve-riddled-with-corruption.html 
A quote...."The GAO detailed instance after instance of top executives of corporations and financial institutions using their influence as Federal Reserve directors to financially benefit their firms, and, in at least one instance, themselves. “Clearly it is unacceptable for so few people to wield so much unchecked power,” Sanders said. “Not only do they run the banks, they run the institutions that regulate the banks.”" 
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Ron Paul: Audit The Gold At Fort Knox! (Monetary Policy Subcommittee
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/ron-paul-audit-the-gold-at-fort-knox-monetary-policy-subcomm.html 
Contains Videos - A quote...."Are the gold bars in Fort Knox really made of the precious metal?  Or has the government secretly sold off the stockpile and replaced it with tungsten bars that are painted gold? -- Ron Paul wants to find out." - Related videos posted below.... 
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Tungsten Plated Gold Bars - Bob Chapman Implicates Rubin & Summers - vid
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz79A8EXHlI 
(YuTb 1m59s 030810) - Src SR  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSchiffReport 
Tungsten Filled Gold Bars - vid
  ---   file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/mpg/Desktop/Ref/mikesfiles/www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oURCIDfhDQ 
(YuTb 1m27 03/02/10) - Src Truthicon333   ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/Truthicon333 
The GoldMoney Standard - Ultrasound gold bar testing - vid
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh0Mcagio5Q 
(YuTb 2m3s 11/01/10) - Src GMN  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/GoldMoneyNews 
Using Ultrasonic Gauge to Test Real & Fake 100oz Engelhard Silver Bars - vid
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T8fdshyEek 
(YuTb 2m34s 112410) Src AA  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/AboutAg 
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Holy Bailout! Federal Reserve Now Backstopping $75 Trillion Of Bank Of America's Derivatives Trades
  ---  http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=27144 
A quote...."This story from Bloomberg just hit the wires this morning. Bank of America is shifting derivatives in its Merrill investment banking unit to its depository arm, which has access to the Fed discount window and is protected by the FDIC. -- This means that the investment bank's European derivatives exposure is now backstopped by U.S. taxpayers. Bank of America didn't get regulatory approval to do this, they just did it at the request of frightened counterparties. Now the Fed and the FDIC are fighting as to whether this was sound. The Fed wants to "give relief" to the bank holding company, which is under heavy pressure." 
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Ironic "Scariest Chart Ever" Redux - America Will Surpass 100% Debt To GDP On Halloween
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ironic-scariest-chart-ever-redux-america-will-surpass-100-debt-gdp-helloween 
Chart - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2011/10/Debt%20Over%20GDP.jpg  ---  A quote...."Yes, ladies and gentlemen: All Hallows E'en will be doubly scary this year: for the first time since World War II, US debt will officially surpass GDP on Halloween 2011." 
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Former Financial Regulator William Black: Occupy Wall Street a Counter to White-Collar Fraud
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/19/former_financial_regulator_william_black_occupy 
Video - A quote...."If you look [at the Occupy protests], not just nationwide, but worldwide, you will see some pretty consistent themes developing," Black says. "Those themes include: we have to deal with the systemically dangerous institutions, the 20 biggest banks that the administration is saying are ticking time bombs, that as soon as one of them fails, we go back into a global crisis. We should fix that. There’s no reason to have institutions that large. That’s a theme. That accountability is a theme, that we should put these felons in prison... That we should get jobs now, and that we should deal with the foreclosure crisis. So those are four very common themes that you can see in virtually any of these protest sites... I think, over time, you won’t necessarily have some grand written agenda, but you’ll have, as I say, increasing consensus. And it’s a very broad consensus."     
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Bank Of America's $8.5 Billion Settlement Deal Falls Apart  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bank-americas-85-billion-settlement-deal-falls-apart 
A quote...."Bank of America has, for quite a while, been a proxy for all that is wrong with America's mortgage industry, courtesy of that most value-destroying purchase of the insolvent criminal entity that was Countrywide Financials. For a while the market was content that the proxy would not be in need of a shallow grave, unlike the US housing market...." 
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European CDS Ban Sends 1 Year Greek Bond Yield To 188%
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/european-cds-ban-sends-1-year-greek-bond-yield-188 
A quote...."Well, it is not just the CDS ban, the fact that Greece is now done is also a modest factor, but since nobody can short Greek default risk unhedged, the only option is to short the bonds. As they did today en masse. Greek 1 Year bonds: the most liquid proxy for default in the absence of 1 Year CDS, closed at 183%, after hitting an all time high of 188%, following yesterday's 173% close." 
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David Rosenberg On The Insanity Of Fixing Excess Leverage With More Leverage, And The Relentless Euro Rumormill
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/david-rosenberg-insanity-fixing-excess-leverage-more-leverage-and-relentless-euro-rumormill 
Quote of the Day - (in bold)....."We though we were the only ones brought to the verge with the relentless lies out of a completely clueless Europe, which as we learned at last weekend's G20 meeting, has 3 more days to get is act together. Oh wait, they were lying too? Got it. Well, no, David Rosenberg has also had it pretty much up to here. More importantly, Rosenberg also, like us, but also like Citi's and RBS, to throw some more "credible" names, is convinced that this latest deux ex machina is D.O.A. To wit: "How cool is it that we live in a world where complicated financial engineering in a radically overleveraged system forms the cornerstone of the solution to these debt problems...Why are we so skeptical?" - Because we're all just a crazy bunch of tin-foil-hat wearing nuts?  Because we "just don't understand" that going ever deeper into debt with ever more leverage is a THE way to solve a debt crisis?  Yeah that's IT, and of course if this whole thing comes un-glued, it's ALL OUR FAULT, because we didn't BELIEVE!  Uh-huh. - mpg 
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Athens Clashes LIVE: RT at Greece massive protest showdown  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/13/1clq1yVlIS4 
Must View RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1clq1yVlIS4  ---  (RTYuTb - 4min26sec - Oct 19, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."In the streets of Greece, arguably the biggest protest in years is now descending into violence. People are venting their anger against a new package of austerity measures the country is likley to adopt as soon as Thursday." - Topix  ||  A Quadruple Whammy - 12-16-10 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/aquadruplewhammy-mpg-reficultnias-121610 
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News... 

'One super-corporation runs the global economy'... and it could be terrifyingly unstable
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2051008/Study-shows-super-corporation-pulls-strings-global-economy.html 
Graphic - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/19/article-0-0E71A3E200000578-180_634x636.jpg  ---  One World Government is already HERE....and it's Corporate!! - mpg -- A quote...."A University of Zurich study 'proves' that a small group of companies - mainly banks - wields huge power over the global economy. -- The study is the first to look at all 43,060 transnational corporations and the web of ownership between them - and created a 'map' of 1,318 companies at the heart of the global economy. -- The study found that 147 companies formed a 'super entity' within this, controlling 40 per cent of its  wealth. All own part or all of one another. Most are banks - the top 20 includes Barclays and Goldman Sachs. But the close connections mean that the network could be vulnerable to collapse."  - Topix ||  The Almighty Corporation - 03-30-08 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thealmightycorporation-mpg-reficultnias-033008 
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"This One Could Take Them All Down."  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29452.htm 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj8UlxhfJLw  ---  (YuTb - 6min58sec - Oct 17, 2011) - Source:  munderlarkst  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/munderlarkst  ---  A quote...."Chris Hedges: "What happens is in all of these movements ... the foot soldiers of the elite -- the blue uniformed police, the mechanisms of control -- finally don't want to impede the movement and at that point the power elite is left defenseless ... the only thing I can say having been in the middle of similar movements is that this one is real, and this one could take them all down ... I can guarantee you that huge segments of those blue uniformed police sympathize with everything that you're doing." -- Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges brings his 20 years of experience as a war correspondent, having covered movements and revolutions throughout the the world, to the discussion." 
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Occupy This: US History exposes the 1%’s crimes then and now. 3 of 6
  ---  http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/occupy-this-us-history-exposes-the-1-s-crimes-then-and-now-3-of-6 
A quote...."Occupy Wall Street  ---  http://occupywallst.org/  ---  (and nationwide)  ---  http://occupywallst.org/attendees/  ---  has three emerging objectives...." 
  1. Public recognition of the 1%’s crimes, centering on war and money.    
  2. End war and money crimes that annually kill millions, injure billions, and loot trillions of our dollars.    
  3. Build a brighter future for 100% of humanity, centering on full constructive employment and the creation of money that maximizes public good.    
"My Open proposal for US Revolution:  ---  http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/open-proposal-for-us-revolution-end-unlawful-wars-parasitic-economics-1-of-4  ---  end unlawful wars, parasitic economics explains and documents" 
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Wall Street Is Dazed and Confused  ---  http://www.truth-out.org/wall-street-dazed-and-confused/1319028757 
A quote...."In assessing the spreading public protest against the rampaging greed of today's corporate and financial elite, John Paulson turns out to be as confused as a goat on Astroturf. Oh, he gets it that the people's anger is directed at hedge fund profiteers like him, but he claims that riff-raff like us are simply confused on the virtue of accumulated wealth." - also posted at the DailyBail
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/cue-the-violins-billionaire-hedge-fund-manager-john-paulson.html 
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DC area tops US income list; average fed employee makes $126,000 a year
  ---  http://johnu78.blogspot.com/2011/10/dc-area-tops-us-income-list-average-fed.html 
Where your money's going folks, into their pockets.  Keep in mind these are just the butt-kissing, bought & paid for shills racking in a little cream off the top, or collecting bribes from their Corporate masters down on K-Street.  The REAL money, almost all of it, through direct pay-outs, subsidies, guarantees, zero interest loans and most importantly, asset transfers (toxic asset swaps which YOU pay for) flows directly out of the Treasury and from the Fed's printing presses (devaluing your dollars) and into the Banksters' pockets and the pockets of those they control. - mpg -- A quote...."According to government figures Washington D.C. has surpassed San Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area. Federal workers total compensation averages more than $126,000 per year. Also contributing to D.C. placing first is that it has the highest concentration of lawyers in the nation." 
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Occupy Wall Street – 10-19-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (19 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/19/occupy-wall-street-10-19-11/    
Occupy Wall Street Protests - WSWS Round-Up 10-19-11 - (12 articles)
  ---  http://wsws.org/category/wallst.shtml    
Tucson Activist Craig Barber discusses constitutional protections against fines levied on ~ Occupy movements
  ---  http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/10/tucson-activist-craig-barber-discusses.html    
Alt  ---  http://current.com/shows/countdown/blog/craig-barber-discusses-constitutional-protections-against-fines-levied-on-local-occupy-movements    
Occupy The World! To the Barricades Comrades?
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29456.htm    
70% of #OWS Supporters are Politically Independent
  ---  http://occupywallst.org/article/70-percent-ows-supporters-independent/    
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The Assault On Libya.... 

Open forum: Unjust Libyan war far from over
  ---  http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2011-10-19/open-forum-unjust-libyan-war-far-over#.TqALVnJTBkg 
Must Read - A quote...."Seven months ago the Libyan people enjoyed free universal medical care, free education through university level, were well housed and well nourished. -- The U.S. and NATO decided to wage another unprovoked war for more direct control by western corporations and banks of the oil wealth and financial institutions of Libya. Though Gaddafi called for international investigation of accusations of impending massacre of civilians, these lies were used to portray war as a humanitarian mission. -- Calls from Latin American and the African Union for negotiated resolution of the conflict were accepted by the Libyan government but ignored by western powers and the coalition of monarchists, Islamists, racists and mercenaries they had organized, trained and armed." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82419&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Major Media Liars Never Quit  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82417&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."Whenever major media Libya reports appear, truth is distorted, manipulated and falsified. For seven months, despite daily terror bombing and ground attacks, courageous loyalists bested the ferocity of NATO and its rebel army." - Source:  SteveLendman
  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/10/major-media-liars-never-quit.html 
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Lies, Damn Lies, and NATO Claiming Control Across Libya
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/19/lies-damn-lies-and-nato-claiming-control-across-libya/ 
A quote...."Since March 19, NATO waged lawless aggression against a nonbelligerent country, mischaracterized as humanitarian intervention responsibility to protect. - It violated UN Charter’s Chapter VI calling for peaceful conflict dispute resolutions. Humanitarian intervention authority never permits military force or other hostile acts. - It ignored Chapter VII authorization to impose boycotts, embargoes, blockades, and severed diplomatic ties when justified – never war, except in self-defense and only until the Security Council acts. - No justification whatever existed. A humanitarian crisis didn’t exist until NATO arrived. For seven months, it terror bombed Libya relentlessly. Targets included schools, hospitals, mosques, civilian neighborhoods, and others unrelated to military necessity." 
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People of Sirte Still Resisting NATO Backed Rebels  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29448.htm 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WvZGSONPAc  ---  (YuTb - 1min54sec - Oct 18, 2011) - Source:  WolkenZwemmer  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/WolkenZwemmer  ---  A quote...."AAhmed Bani, a military spokesperson from the rebels admitted that they are not making any progress in Sirte, whereas he claims that his forces hold 90% of Bani Walid, where the flag of King Idriss has now been raised." 
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Libya : NATO war crimes charges  ---  http://english.pravda.ru/world/africa/19-10-2011/119379-nato_war-0/ 
War Crime Alert - (White Phosphorus)  ---  http://www.google.im/search?q=%22white+phosphorus%22&hl=en&lr=&biw=1013&bih=533&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=L9KfTvmIMcXeiALiyKlp&ved=0CDsQsAQ  ---  A quote...."Is NATO using forbidden weaponry in Libya Below is video footage of what is purported to be attacks using white phosphorous (as it did in Kosovo, as it did in Iraq)? The graphic images of the effects upon human beings this horrific substance are too horrendous for us to place here, but a search will reveal the demonic mindset involved in deploying this substance. But then again with NATO, is anyone really surprised?" 
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'NATO bombed Libya back into Stone Age'  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/8/TNczox-l0Sk 
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4min19sec - Oct 19, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."During her unannounced visit to Libya, U.S. chief diplomat - Hillary Clinton - stated that Washington hopes to see ousted leader Colonel Gaddafi captured or killed. To discuss the situation in Libya and country's international relations RT's joined by Annie Machon, a former MI5 intelligence officer." 
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The destruction of Sirte  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/pers-o19.shtml 
A quote...."The Libyan city of Sirte is being systematically destroyed by National Transitional Council “rebel” fighters and NATO fighter planes. The operation stands as a monumental war crime, for which primary responsibility rests with the leading forces behind the military intervention in Libya—US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy." 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82410&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Is Dr Shakir Going Over The Head of NATO?  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/0/xuBbHE0laTs 
M108Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuBbHE0laTs  ---  (M108YuTb - 4min45sec - Oct 19, 2011) - Source:  108morris108  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108  ---  A quote...."Just this one time only; "No Comments allowed". Dr Shakir is the most official Libyan Government spokesman in Exile. In his regular TV show he addresses the Libyan Jewish issue." 
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Libyan Air Operations:
[As of Oct 18th 2011] -- Since the beginning of the NATO operation (31 March 2011, 06.00GMT) a total of 26,022 sorties, including 9,602 strike sorties*, have been conducted." 

Sorties conducted 18 OCTOBER: 61    
Strike sorties conducted 18 OCTOBER: 18    

"*Strike sorties are intended to identify and engage appropriate targets, but do not necessarily deploy munitions each time." - from:  NATO Source - Alliance News Blog  ---  http://www.acus.org/natosource/update-nato-activities-libya-october-18 
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More On The International Situation....

Al-Qaeda - The Mechanisms - The Inside Info  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/1/oYOX0-QT8nI 
Must View - M108Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYOX0-QT8nI  ---  (M108YuTb - 6min35sec - Oct 19, 2011) - Source:  108morris108  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108  ---  A quote...."This is a refreshing look at reality - totally absent from Mainstream Media. And it has a ring of truth throughout it. We Western Nations are the terrorists." - Topix ||  US Support of Terror  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306 
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The Shadow CIA And Bush White House Assassinated Afghan Hero Ahmad Shah Massoud Two Days Before 9/11
  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2011/10/shadow-cia-and-bush-white-house.html 
Related Article - A quote...."Two days before the events that dramatically altered our perceptions of the Middle East and changed the political landscape in the West, Afghanistan's George Washington, Ahmad Shah Massoud, was killed by the shadow CIA and the Bush White House on September 9, 2001, because he stood in the way of their evil plans for Afghanistan." 
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Afghanistan Resistance Reports 24 Hours to 19th Oct  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/2/kxDFZ8k9ssA 
M108Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxDFZ8k9ssA  ---  (M108YuTb - 3min44sec - Oct 19, 2011) - Source:  108morris108
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108 
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Two NATO Soldiers Among 10 Killed in Afghanistan  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/19/two-nato-soldiers-among-10-killed-in-afghanistan/ 
A quote...."A pair of NATO soldiers were killed today in a roadside bomb in the eastern portion of Afghanistan, according to reports from officials. The nationalities of the slain has so far not been disclosed." 
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Pentagon: IED Use Soaring Worldwide  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/19/pentagon-ied-use-soaring-worldwide/ 
A quote...."In comments which likely don’t augur well for his organization’s future, Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, the head of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, suggested there was no real way to defeat improvised explosive devices." 
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France begins withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15363624 
A quote...."France is set to pull out nearly 200 troops from Afghanistan in a few hours, kickstarting withdrawals announced three months ago by Paris. - Another 200 soldiers are due to return home before Christmas...." 
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Uranium and other contaminants in hair from the parents of children with congenital anomalies in Fallujah, Iraq
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82407&hd=&size=1&l=e 
US-NRE War Crime - For The Record - A quote...."Recent reports have drawn attention to increases in congenital birth anomalies and cancer in Fallujah Iraq blamed on teratogenic, genetic and genomic stress thought to result from depleted Uranium contamination following the battles in the town in 2004. Contamination of the parents of the children and of the environment by Uranium and other elements was investigated using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry. Hair samples from 25 fathers and mothers of children diagnosed with congenital anomalies were analysed for Uranium and 51 other elements." 
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The cause of congenital anomaly and cancer in Fallujah Iraq is identified as Enriched Uranium from novel weapons systems deployed by the US.
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82405&hd=&size=1&l=e 
US-NRE War Crime - Press Release -- A quote...."Remarkably high levels of congenital anomaly at birth, together with high cancer rates in Fallujah, Iraq were previously found in a joint UK Iraqi epidemiological study published in the International Journal of Environment and Public Health in July 2010 and reported in The Independent. The illnesses and unusual changes in the sex-ratio at birth, were shown to appear following the US-led attacks on the town in 2004. -- Many believed that Depleted Uranium weapons were employed but no evidence of this was available. USA forces denied using DU. Now, one year after this, the authors have nailed down the cause of the genetic and genomic effects found in Fallujah." 
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Iraq's Sadr calls for full US withdrawal  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Iraqs-Sadr-calls-full-US-withdrawal 
A quote...."19 Oct 2011 The head of Iraq's Sadr movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, has called for the complete withdrawal of all American troops from the country by the end of the year. Speaking in the holy city of Najaf on Wednesday, the cleric rejected any form of US presence in the country, as Washington and Baghdad are discussing keeping a limited number of US troops as military trainers in Iraq. Sadr said the presence of US military trainers in Iraq beyond the Dec. 31 deadline is an "organized occupation"." 
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The Saban Center’s prescient paper on war with Iran  ---  http://maidhcocathail.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/provoking-a-path-to-persia/ 
A quote...."In June 2009, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy published “Which Path to Persia?—Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran.” Writing in a tone strikingly reminiscent of the Project for a New American Century’s infamous pre-9/11 paper “Rebuilding America’s Defenses-PDF,”  ---  http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf  ---  the six co-authors noted-PDF  ---  http://www.brookings.edu/%7E/media/files/rc/papers/2009/06_iran_strategy/06_iran_strategy.pdf  ---  that, “It seems highly unlikely that the United States would mount an invasion without any provocation or other buildup.” For a think tank specifically established  ---  http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/05/07/wish_id_said_that_wa
it_a_minutei_did  ---  by media mogul Haim Saban to protect Israel, this could prove to be a formidable obstacle impeding their desired march—of U.S. troops—to Tehran." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/provoking-a-path-to-persia/ 
Topix ||  The PNAC Protocols  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409 
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[Another] Massive rally in Syria to support president  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/massive-rally-syria-support-president-112212243.html 
A quote...."BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state television is showing tens of thousands rallying in a major city in a demonstration of support for the country's embattled President Bashar Assad. -- The pro-regime gathering in Aleppo comes a week after a similar rally in the capital, Damascus. -- Damascus and Aleppo are the largest cities in Syria and economic powerhouses. The regime is counting on their support to halt the momentum of a 7-month-old uprising."
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French intelligence chief accused of spying on journalist  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/18/nicolas-sarkozy-ally-spying-journalist 
A quote...."The head of France's secret services and a close ally of President Nicolas Sarkozy has been put under investigation accused of spying on a journalist." 
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Saudi Arabia arrests YouTube activists  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205509.html 
A quote...."Saudi Arabia has arrested three young men for posting online a video on poverty in the oil-rich country, rights activists have reported."    
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Russia talks tough in missile shield dispute  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/19/us-russia-usa-missiles-idUSTRE79I5NI20111019 
A quote...."(Reuters) - A top Russian diplomat said on Wednesday that talks with the United States on missile defense had hit a "dead end," and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded coolly to a gesture designed to allay the Kremlin's concerns about U.S. plans." 
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Kenya Faces Somalia Quagmire After U.S., Ethiopian Failures
  ---  http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-19/kenya-faces-somalia-quagmire-after-u-s-ethiopian-failures.html 
A quote...."Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s military drive into neighboring Somalia to thwart attacks by the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab risks ending like previous interventions by the U.S. and Ethiopia -- in retreat and failure. -- While Kenya’s well-equipped army has been able to advance into southern Somalia, it may not be able to withstand attacks by a determined guerrilla force, according to Thomas Cargill, assistant head of the Africa Program at the London-based international-affairs institute Chatham House, who called it Kenya’s first foreign intervention." 
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Somalis Under Relentless Drone Attack as U.S. Tightens Military Grip on Continent
  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/somalis-under-relentless-drone-attack-us-tightens-military-grip-continent 
A quote...."Africa, under President Obama, is an expanding theater of war for the United States. There are few points on the African map where the U.S. military does not operate, independently, through proxies, or by agreement with local governments and militaries. AFRICOM has penetrated the armed forces of the continent to a degree no single European power could have ever aspired. Indeed, “the U.S. has so thoroughly infiltrated African armies, many, if not most, would be of no use for national defense against the Americans.”"also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82388&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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The Son of Africa Claims a Continent’s Crown Jewels  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29461.htm 
Geo-Political Analysis - A quote...."October 19, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They will only “engage” for “self-defence”, says Obama, satirically. With Libya secured, an American invasion of the African continent is under way." - Topix ||  Africa - the Next Target - 02-28-08 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/africathenexttarget-blog-mpg-022808 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

"Eleven years later, the wound is still bleeding"  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/content/eleven-years-later-wound-still-bleeding/ 
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A quote...."On 1 October, thousands of Palestinians marched in Sakhnin to commemorate the eleventh anniversary of the October 2000 uprising during which Israeli police forces murdered 13 unarmed Palestinian citizens of Israel over the course of eight days. None of the slain protesters posed a threat to the life of police forces or others and most of them were shot in the upper-body at close range. The killings took place in Umm al-Fahm, Jatt, Arrabeh, Sakhnin, Nazareth, Kufr Kanna and Kufr Manda between 1-8 October 2000." - bold by website editor - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/eleven-years-later-the-wound-is-still-bleeding/ 
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Spare a thought for the 8,000 Palestinian prisoners  ---  http://www.redress.cc/palestine/slittlewood20111020 
A quote...."Stuart Littlewood highlights the hypocrisy of Britain’s Israeli stooges, foremost Prime Minister David Cameron and Defence Select Committe Chairman James Arbuthnot who, while rejoicing over the release of Israeli prisoner Gilad Shalit​, are happy to ignore the fate of 8,000 Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons and Israel’s utter disregard for international humanitarian conventions." 
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Concerns over Palestinian children in Israeli custody  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82414&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."GAZA CITY, 19 October 2011 (IRIN) - While there have been emotional scenes after the release of 477 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, concerns are being raised about the plight of 164 Palestinian children from the West Bank in Israeli custody." 
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Israel Mistreatment of Palestinian Political Prisoner:  Free Majd Ziada Now!!!!
  ---  http://www.change.org/petitions/israel-mistreatment-of-palestinian-political-prisoners-free-majd-ziada-now 
This is a very typical case, one of tens of thousands.  This was done to him because he was living in the wrong place at the wrong time, it's the sort of thing that could happen to any of us if things in this country continue to go the way they are. - mpg -- A quote...."Majd Ziada was barely out of his teens when he got arrested by the Israeli Occupation Forces. It was at the height of the second intifada in 2002 when the Israeli army during its collective arrest campaign detained Majd on the evening of the Israeli invasion of the twin cities Ramallah and Al-Bireh. He was 19 years old. - Before he got arrested, Majd enjoyed playing basketball at Ramallah’s First Club in al-Tira. With the outbreak of the second intifada however, life became more grim. He lost his best friend who was killed by the Israeli soldiers, and Majd himself was once used as a human shield where he was forced to walk in front of the Israeli tanks. Just before he was due to take his final exams of his senior year (tawjehi) the Occupying Army raided his home and dragged him out where he was bundled into a jeep. His family knew nothing about his whereabouts or condition for fifty days after his arrest. They then learned from a newspaper that he had been beaten up in custody. " 
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Israeli Soldiers Raid Houses in Bethlehem  ---  http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17820 
A quote...."Sources told WAFA that Israeli soldiers raided a number of houses belonging to Palestinians and photographed them. - Al-Khader witnesses daily harassment by Israeli soldiers, through house raids and attacks on residents." 
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A harvest of tears: Palestinian agriculture continues to suffer as a result of ruthless Israeli policies  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/
reports/by-dr-hanan-chehata/2959-a-harvest-of-tears-palestinian-agriculture-continues-to-suffer-as-a-result-of-ruthless-israeli-policies 
A quote...."It is olive harvest season once again in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) and something unusual is taking place, something unique to this region. Unlike most harvests around the world which are collected either by local farmers or migrant workers, in the case of Palestine people are literally flying in from all over the globe, albeit in very small numbers, in order to participate in the olive picking season. This is not due to a cultural tradition or as a communal celebration or festival, but to a sense of solidarity." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82413&hd=&size=1&l=e  
Topix ||  Israel's Scorched Earth  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israelsscorchedearth-weblist-mpg-022510 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

Fukushima Update – October 19th, 2011 – James Corbett  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/19/fukushima-update-october-19th-2011-james-corbett/ 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgCRVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjwGTJbgQtw  ---  (YuTb - 7min47sec - Oct 18, 2011) - Source:  corbettreport  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/corbettreport  ---  A quote...."(FukushimaUpdate.com) – In today’s update, we cover the piling up of radioactive suits at the J-Village; more on the Tokyo hot spot phenomenon; a round up of news reports from around the web; a worrying report on the possibility that Fukushima is going recritical (again); and a video of a radioactive fallout forecast." 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

A long, steep drop for Americans' standard of living
  ---  http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2011/1019/A-long-steep-drop-for-Americans-standard-of-living 
A quote...."Not since at least 1960 has the US standard of living fallen so fast for so long. The average American has $1,315 less in annual disposable income now than at the onset of the Great Recession." - bold by website editor 
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When a 30-Year Mortgage is a 30-Year Prison Sentence - Don’t Be Suckered Into Buying a House Now
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29444.htm 
Housing Mrkt Warning - A quote...."October 18, 2011 --- Don’t even think about buying a house for the next year or so. Not unless you can afford to flush tens of thousands of dollars down the toilet, because that’s what you’ll be doing. -- Here’s what’s happening. As everyone knows,  housing is driven by the same supply-demand dynamics as every other market. The problem is, the banksters have gamed the system so it looks like there’s less inventory then there really is, so prices are higher than they should be. By keeping millions of homes off the market the banks are protecting themselves from bigger losses. Unfortunately, it’s the buyer who ends up being the victim in this market-rigging scam. -- Now take a look at this goofy article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal and I’ll try to explain what’s really going on...." 
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Houston, We've Got A Problem - Bevilacqua  ---  http://amvona.com/blog/economics/28217-houston-weve-got-a-problem-bevilacqua.html 
Mortgage Mrkt Financial Alert - A quote...."In essence, the ruling upheld that those who had purchased foreclosure properties that had been illegally foreclosed upon (which is virtually all foreclosure sales in the last five years), did not in fact have title to those properties. - Given the fact that more than two-thirds of all real estate transactions in the last five years have also been foreclosed properties, this creates a small problem." - bold by website editor - also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-houston-weve-got-problem-bevilacqua 
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The Daily Bail Round-Up - Oct 18, 2011 at 11:25 AM  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/ron-paul-unveils-his-economic-plan-cuts-spending-by-1-trilli.html 
A round-up of todays business news from the Daily Bail. - mpg 
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Tuesday October 18th 2011 - links page 

9/11: The Ultimate Triumph of the Strategy of Tension (II)
  ---  http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/09/10/9-11-the-ultimate-triumph-of-the-strategy-of-tension-ii.html 
A quote...."After years of employing the fascistic “strategy of tension” in Western Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, the neo-conservatives who dominated the Bush administration on the eve of September 11, 2001, were confident that the ultimate act of destroying the World Trade Center in New York and bombing the Pentagon, in addition to destroying a yet unknown target by United flight 93 [That would be WTC7, see....9/11 Shock Opera… Act 4 – Building 7 and Flight 93: The Grand Finale that Wasn’t]  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/shockopera911-act4building7andflight93-screighton-ae-cached-072209  ---  shot down by U.S. Air Force fighter-interceptors over Pennsylvania – would bring about the sea change foreseen by the neo-conservatives." 
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Obama's Imperial Arrogance  ---  http://warisacrime.org/content/obamas-imperial-arrogance 
A quote...."Candidate Obama promised peace. As president, he double downed Bush and then some, waging multiple direct and proxy wars. - The business of America is war. Washington has a permanent war policy. Republicans and Democrats perpetuate it." - Source:  SteveLendman
  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/10/obamas-imperial-arrogance.html 
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Family Values: The Roman Rigor of Obama's Death Squad
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/2176-family-values-the-roman-rigor-of-obamas-death-squad.html 
A quote...."It is not enough for the Peace Laureate to murder American citizens without charges, without trial and without warning; he must also murder their children too -- in the same cowardly, cold-blooded fashion." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82382&hd=&size=1&l=e
& PrisonPlanet  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/family-values-the-roman-rigor-of-obamas-death-squad.html
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More on the Domestic Situation.... 

Cain and Romney caught in campaign cash scandal
  ---  http://endthelie.com/2011/10/18/cain-and-romney-caught-in-campaign-cash-scandal/#axzz1bDWmaX68 
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."What would be a race to the role as the Republican nominee for president without a little money scandal? Thankfully Herman Cain and Mitt Romney have taken care of that as things heat up within the GOP." 
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Remote Personal Computer Surveillance Scandal Hits Germany  ---  http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/10/remote-personal-computer-surveillance.html 
Police State - A quote...."It sounds like something out of George Orwell's novel "1984" -- a computer program that can remotely control someone's computer without their knowledge, search its complete contents and use it to conduct audio-visual surveillance via the microphone or webcam."
Source: Der Spiegal  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,790944,00.html 
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What If A Court Gave An Important Ruling, But We Were Not Allowed To Know What It Was?  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139774 
Police State - A quote...."DC federal appeals court has issued a ruling (pdf) in the case of Gitmo detainee Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif, but the entire ruling is classified, so the public has no idea what it says." 
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Local police forces are now little armies. Why?  ---  http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/10/local-police-forces-are-now-little.html 
Police State - A quote...."Last March, when some 500 activists arrived at the Quantico Marine Corps Base in northern Virginia to protest the abusive treatment that Pfc. Bradley Manning, the accused leaker of secret government documents to the Wikileaks website, was being subjected to while incarcerated there, they were confronted by a heavily-armed, riot-geared phalanx of dozens of state and local police, many of them on horseback for added measure. - I was there and wondered what in the world was going on." - Source:  NiemanWatchdog
  ---  http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/64-64/7792-local-police-forces-are-now-little-armies-why 
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CIA officer holds mystery assignment at NYPD  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/CIA-officer-holds-mystery-assignment-NYPD 
Police State - A quote...."17 Oct 2011 Three months ago, one of the CIA's most experienced clandestine operatives started work inside the New York Police Department. His title is special assistant to the deputy commissioner of intelligence. On that much, everyone agrees. Exactly what he's doing there, however, is much less clear. Since The Associated Press revealed the assignment in August, federal and city officials have offered differing explanations for why this CIA officer -- a seasoned operative who handled foreign agents and ran complex operations in Jordan and Pakistan -- was assigned to a municipal police department." 
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FEMA Communication Takeover Test Scheduled for November 9
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/18/fema-communication-takeover-test-scheduled-for-november-9/ 
False Flag Alert - A quote...."FEMA, the FCC, and Homeland Security plan to commandeer the airwaves next month. The Emergency Alert System (EAS) will be [nationally] tested at 1 PM EST on November 9. EAS alerts are transmitted over radio and television broadcast stations, cable television and other media services." - Source:  InfoWars  ---  http://www.infowars.com/fema-communication-takeover-test-scheduled-for-november-9/ 
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Operation Gladio Returns?  ---  http://www.infowars.com/operation-gladio-returns/ 
A quote...."The corporate media is famous for only telling you part of the story. -- In the news item below, published by The Australian,  ---  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/world-politics/echoes-of-70s-as-bombs-shut-down-german-lines/story-fn9hkofv-1226168014094  ---  we are told that there is a possible terror campaign afoot in Germany and it is reminiscent of the Baader-Meinhof operations in the 1970s and may represent “a far-left campaign of violence.” -- In fact, there was no “far-left campaign of violence” in the 1970s. The violence was orchestrated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO under Operation Gladio." - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/18/operation-gladio-returns/ 
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Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - October 18 2011  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/297806882 
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min10sec into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - Oct, 18th 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg 
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Fast & Furious File & The Iran Scam Comedy™  

Keystone Cops Wag The Dog  ---  http://www.personalliberty.com/conservative-politics/government/keystone-cops-wag-the-dog/ 
Must Read - Some quotes...."With investigations into U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s complicity in the Fast and Furious guns to Mexico criminality gaining steam, and public appetite for another U.S. war in another Mideast nation waning, President Barack Obama needed a big play. - What he got was a four-base error."  ---  "High-up officials in those (Iranian) agencies, which is an integral part of the Iranian government, were responsible for this plot,” Holder told the news conference. - If so, they must have planned it about four hours into a booze- and cocaine-fueled night of poker, because it is one of the most convoluted, pathetically inept, unprofessional hits ever concocted. A 10-year-old semi-literate could have devised a plan with a better chance of success." - bold by website editor - also posted at FreeRepublic  ---  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2793904/posts 
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'Fast and Furious' provision clears Senate  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-cornyn-furious-20111018,0,6241022.story 
A quote...."October 18, 2011, 2:40 p.m. -- In a stinging rebuke of the Obama administration and Attorney General Eric H. Holder, an amendment to prevent the Justice Department from conducting any future gun-tracking operations such as the failed "Fast and Furious" program in the future sailed unanimously through the Senate Tuesday." 
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[Justice Dept in Desperation Attempts to Smear Issa]
  ---  http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/justice-department-accuses-issa-of-mischaracterizing-evidence-in-probe-of-operation-fast-and-furious/ 
A quote...."So what’s a false flag operation the DOJ is trying to pull when you consider Holder is already on under investigation for perjury. Congressman Issa merely said there “may have been” a third gun at the scene of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s death  This is the classic Obama Way….Just stall and delay while attempting to switch the focus from the actual happening. -- That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, I’m J.C. and I approve this message." 
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Holder on Hot Seat for Fast and Furious Documents  ---  http://biggovernment.com/tfitton/2011/10/18/holder-on-hot-seat-for-fast-and-furious-documents/ 
A quote...."The Fast and Furious scandal may be the final undoing of Obama Attorney General Eric Holder. Fast and Furious is a Department of Justice (DOJ)/Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “gun-running” operation in which guns were sold to Mexican drug cartels in hopes that they would end up at crime scenes! Well, they did, such as the crime scene of the murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry – and countless others in Mexico." 
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Feds Trafficked Guns To Suspected Criminals Under Bush  ---  http://www.infowars.com/feds-trafficked-guns-to-suspected-criminals-under-bush/ 
A quote...."During an appearance on CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa acknowledged that an almost identical program to Fast and Furious, in which the federal government trafficked guns directly to suspected criminals, existed under the Bush administration." - also posted at PrisonPlanet  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/feds-trafficked-guns-to-suspected-criminals-under-bush.html
& INH  ---  http://independentnewshub.com/?p=46359 
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Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2011/10/16/ray-mcgovern-33/ 
Audio - (Mp3Audio - 33min39sec - October 16, 2011) - Related:  DownLoadMp3  ---  http://dissentradio.com/radio/11_10_14_mcgovern.mp3  ---  "Ray McGovern,  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/author/mcgovern/  ---  member of Veterans For Peace and former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses his article “Petraeus’s CIA Fuels Iran Murder Plot;”  ---  http://consortiumnews.com/2011/10/13/petraeuss-cia-fuels-iran-murder-plot/  ---  fixing the facts around the policy yet again, this time to start a war with Iran; why you can bet Petraeus’s first objective as CIA director was to make analysts stop honest assessments of the failing Afghanistan War, and start saying “the surge worked;” how Obama’s advisors are limiting his options and trapping him into a war with Iran; and why you should get out and protest  ---  http://occupywallst.org/  ---  government wrongdoing (there’s plenty to choose from)." 
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History Repeating Itself: U.S. Hawks Hover Over Iran  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27150 
A quote...."Whether calls for war against Iran are meant to placate American allies in the Middle East who cannot stomach its supposed nuclear ambitions, are an attempt to reassert US dominance in the oil rich region, or are the last signs of a flagging empire lashing out in self-denial, those who are longing for it to be morning again in America might very well expedite its imperial twilight. -- History seems to be repeating itself as the hawks who called for the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein are now rattling their sabers for war against Iran. But why are those who once called for a new American Century hopelessly stuck in a bygone era?" - also posted at RussiaToday  ---  http://rt.com/news/iran-war-assassination-plot-113/ 
& Hamsayeh  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/society/1268-history-repeating-itself-us-hawks-hover-over-iran.html 
& ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29440.htm 
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America's FBI goes rogue on Iran  ---  http://www.redress.cc/americas/ldavidson20111019 
A quote...."Lawrence Davidson looks at the questionable behaviour of the FBI, which has used the illegal practice of entrapment to concoct the Iranian plot story, and the environment of hypocrisy, political lobbies, self-serving interest groups and public indifference that permits such behaviour to take place."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29446.htm 
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WRAPUP 1-Iran demands access to accused US plotter - Ask for a PUBLIC investigation!!! - mpg
  ---  http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL5E7LG0LO20111016?sp=true 
Iran's Reply -- A quote...."TEHRAN, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Iran demanded consular access on Sunday to a man held in the United States over a suspected plot to kill the Saudi ambassador and vowed to respond robustly to any "inappropriate measure" by the West. -- Manssor Arbabsiar, who holds U.S. and Iranian citizenship, was arrested in September over the plot which Tehran called a fabricated "comedy show" but which U.S. lawmakers said was "very real" and showed the need for tougher sanctions on Iran." 
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'US claims aim to create Iran-Saudi rift'  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/US-claims-aim-create-Iran-Saudi-rift 
Iran's Reply -- A quote...."18 Oct 2011 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Washington's latest allegations are meant to create discord between the Islamic Republic and Saudi Arabia. President Ahmadinejad made the remarks in an interview with the Al Jazeera television network on Monday night, the website of the president's office reported. "Creating conflicts in relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia in order to dominate the region and diverting attention from the United States' internal problems are the most important objectives of this baseless allegation against the Iranian nation, but experience shows that such measures never bear fruit for US officials, and the truth will eventually be known by all nations," the Iranian president said." 
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Iran: US plot allegations resemble Iraq WMD claims  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Iran-US-plot-allegations-resemble-Iraq-WMD-claims 
Iran's Reply -- A quote...."Ahmadinejad says assassination plot a U.S. lie aimed to create rift between Iran and Saudi Arabia 17 Oct 2011 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday U.S. allegations of an Iranian assassination plot resembled its claims of weapons of mass destruction that formed the basis for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and would prove to be equally untrue...." 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

In Debt Up To Our Eyeballs  ---  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/in-debt-up-to-our-eyeballs 
Must Read - A quote...."The entire financial system of the western world is designed to be a debt spiral.  The total amount of money and and the total amount of debt are supposed to continually expand.  Today, we are in debt up to our eyeballs and it seems like nearly everyone is talking about "deleveraging" and reducing government debt.  But in a world where the entire financial system is based on debt, is there any way for massive deleveraging to take place without plunging us all into a horrific worldwide depression?  The governments of the western world have had a lot of fun spending money as if there was no tomorrow, but now tomorrow has arrived and all of that debt is rapidly catching up with us.  Politicians in Europe and in the United States are running around trying to come up with a "plan", but there is no "plan" that is going to fix the current debt-based system.  Over the next few years we are going to reap what we have sown."
also posted at DProgram   ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/18/in-debt-up-to-our-eyeballs/ 
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Keiser Report: Live by Fraud, Die by Fraud (E198)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/7/t5jdMDiEeco 
Must View MKVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jdMDiEeco  ---  (MKRTYuTb - 25min56sec - Oct 18, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Producer:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) -- This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, talk about JP Morgan's bet against itself, a Florida legislator's plans to boost the economy with 'dwarf-tossing' and Tim Geithner flying economy. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser interviews Saifedean Ammous about Mubarak's odious debts and about whether or not Occupy Wall Street is an Arab Spring for the West." 
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The Federal Reserve and Bank of America Initiate a Coup to Dump Billions of Dollars of Losses on the American Taxpayer
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/the-federal-reserve-and-bank-of-america-initiate-a-coup-to-dump-hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars-of-losses-on-the-american-taxpayer.html 
Financial Warning - A quote...."Yves Smith notes...." 

"If you have any doubt that Bank of America is going down, this development should settle it …. Both [professor of economics and law, and former head S&L prosecutor] Bill Black (who I interviewed just now) and I see this as a desperate move by Bank of America’s management, a de facto admission that they know the bank is in serious trouble." - also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/federal-reserve-and-bank-america-initiate-coup-dump-hundreds-billions-dollars-losses-ame  ---  & BLN  --- http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Federal_Reserve_and_Bank_of_America_Initiate_a_Coup_to_Dump_Billions_of_Dollars_of_Losses_on_the_American_Taxpayer/16194/0/38/38/Y/M.html   
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Debt-Serfdom Is Now the New American Norm  ---  http://www.oftwominds.com/blogoct11/debt-serfdom-now-norm10-11.html 
A quote...."Trapped assets that generate no income streams in the present are not capital; the value of such non-productive assets is illusory. Strip away these trapped assets and the reality is revealed: most American households toil to service their debts." 
also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/category/tags/real-estate 
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[US] Inflation Pressures Intensify as Producer Prices Jump  ---  http://www.cnbc.com/id/44942965  ---  Not as much as the UK's....yet. - mpg 
A quote...."U.S. producer prices rose more than expected in September to record their largest increase in five months as gasoline prices surged, a government report showed on Tuesday.." 
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Moody's Downgrades Spain Two Notches To A1, Outlook Negative
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/moodys-downgrades-spain-two-notches-a1-outlook-negative 
A quote...."Moody's downgrades Spain's government bond ratings to A1, negative outlook --  London, 18 October 2011 -- Moody's Investors Service has today downgraded Spain's government bond ratings to A1 from Aa2. This rating action concludes the review for possible downgrade that Moody's had initiated for Spain's rating on 29 July. The ratings carry a negative outlook." 
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S&P Downgrades Over 20 Italian Banks, Says Difficult Climate Is Neither "Transitory" Nor "Easily Reversed"
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/sp-downgrades-over-20-italian-banks-says-difficult-climate-neither-transitory-nor-easily-revers 
A quote...."We do not believe that this difficult operating climate is transitory or that it will be easily reversed. In our view, funding costs for Italian banks and corporates will remain noticeably higher than those in other eurozone countries unless the Italian government implements workable growth-enhancing measures and achieves a faster reduction in the public sector debt burden." 
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Miserable Times In The UK, As Inflation Surges Way Beyond Forecast  ---  http://www.businessinsider.com/cpi-hits-52-2011-10 
Related Article - THIS - Is what money printing by the Banksters does to a small economy within a few short years, it's just going to take a little longer for this to happen to the US's New Roman Empire. - mpg -- A quote...."CPI in the U.K.: 5.2%. - The expected forecast 4.9%. - According to Markit, this was the highest reading since September 2008.  ---  http://twitter.com/MarkitEconomics/statuses/126213751291641856  ---  Meanwhile, unemployment has hit its highest level since 1994 at 8.1%.  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/12/britain-jobless-idUSL3E7LC1RH20111012  ---  This table from the report  ---  http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/cpi/consumer-price-indices/september-2011/stb---consumer-price-indices---september-2011.html  ---  has a breakdown of the components and their year-over year change." 
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Hong Kong becomes first centre for gold trading in yuan  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15330664 
Dollar Alert - A quote...."Hong Kong has become the world's first place to offer gold trading in yuan, cementing its status as an offshore hub for the Chinese currency." 
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News... 

#OWS Interview: Prosecute the Wall Street Mafia! Bill Black, Dylan Ratigan & David DeGraw on the Destruction of the Rule of Law
  ---  http://ampedstatus.org/ows-interview-prosecute-the-wall-street-mafia-will-black-dylan-ratigan-david-degraw-on-the-destruction-of-the-rule-of-law/
Must View MSNBCVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3oP1aN5FVM  ---  (MSNBCYuTb - 10min14sec - Oct 17, 2011) - Source:  MOXNEWS  ---  http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fmoxnews.com%2F&session_token=WGZyq5Nz3HafRtqv4FRCe8WOK
HJ8MTMxOTA5ODMyOEAxMzE5MDExOTI4  ---  A quote...."When it comes to prosecuting the lead players involved in the fraudulent financial activities that have led to the destruction of our economy, the Obama Administration, loaded with Wall Street campaign contributions and led by major financial firm operatives such as Tim Geithner and Bill Daley, has delivered empty rhetoric and minimal action. In the absence of leadership on this critical issue, it may come down to a new proposed OccupyWallStreet Department of Justice Working Group to restore the rule of law. The proposed group will feature members such as Bill Black, a man who has a strong track record of successfully prosecuting and jailing bankers during the S&L crisis." 
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Tea Party Founder Karl Denninger Backs #OccupyWallStreet  ---  http://ampedstatus.org/tea-party-founder-karl-denninger-backs-occupywallstreet/ 
Must View RTVideo - Co-Option Avoidence Advice - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sgym2OL4tc  ---  (RTYuTb - 8min56sec Oct 14, 2011) - Source:  RTAmerica  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RTAmerica  ---  A quote...."Occupy Wall Street has been compared to the Tea Party. There are many similarities between the two. Both movements started as protests against the banks and the bailouts. Later the Tea Party was co-opted by Fox News, but will Occupy Wall Street suffer a similar fate? Karl Denninger from The Market Ticker looks further into the similarities and differences." 
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Cenk Uygur at OWS: 'Obama is the establishment'  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9gm5pNGOPc 
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 19min08sec - Oct 18, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur stopped in Lower Manhattan on Monday to report from the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests on what was officially it's one-month anniversary. Uygur tells RT that even though the mainstream media and most of America have acknowledged the demonstrations, President Barack Obama has yet to. With protesters angry at how the establishment is treating 99 percent of America, Uygur says it is no surprise that Obama isn't representing the bulk of the country. After all, he says, Obama is the establishment." 
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Pretty Much How I Have Been Feeling About The News Lately Too - Amen!! - mpg
  ---  http://smashabanana.blogspot.com/2011/10/pretty-much-how-i-feel-about-news.html 
Video Satire - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Qissm2WyQ  ---  (YuTb - 5min08sec - Oct 18, 2011) - Source:  ChangeDaChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ChangeDaChannel  ---  A quote...."Blowing off some steam about news." 
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The #OccupyWallStreet Praying Man  ---  http://ampedstatus.org/the-occupywallstreet-praying-man/ 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbrSuMpdmpM  ---  (YuTb - 3min15sec - Oct 16, 2011) - Source:  FinalOutlawTV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/FinalOutlawTV  ---  A quote...."There are so many powerful and inspiring videos covering #OWS, it’s hard to keep track of them. This is one of a man silently reciting a prayer in the middle of Wall Street just before being arrested. As he was being cuffed and put into a police car, people asked him for his name, but he never spoke." 
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Occupy Wall Street and the Fed Reserve News – 10-18-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (19 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/18/occupy-wall-street-and-the-federal-reserve-news-10-18-11/    
Occupy Wall Street Protests - WSWS Round-Up 10-18-11 - (12 articles)
  ---  http://wsws.org/category/wallst.shtml    
Much Respect to the Mighty Sha! US Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas Schools NYPD... vids & photos
  ---  http://ampedstatus.org/much-respect-to-the-mighty-sha-united-states-marine-corps-sgt-shamar-thomas-schools-nypd-on-police-brutality-there-is-no-honor-in-this-these-are-peaceful-american-citizens/    
Olbermann Interviews Marine Vet Who Annihilated The NYPD For Brutalizing Protesters - contains vid
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/olbermann-interviews-marine-vet-who-annihilated-the-nypd-for.html    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItGnI6tP_jA    
Big Bank Revolt in Full Swing, Million$ Withdrawn - multiple vids
  ---  http://ampedstatus.org/big-bank-revolt-in-full-swing/    
Occupy Wall Street Photos - photos
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-photos.html    
Src JulieDermansky  ---  http://juliedermansky.blogspot.com/    
Occupy Oakland Photos - photos
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-Oakland-by-Bob-Patterson-111018-699.html    
Uhuru Video - Omali Yeshitela speaks at Occupy Oakland - vid
  ---  http://uhurunews.com/video/play?resource_name=omali-yeshitela-speaks-at-occupy-wall-street-in-oakland    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0yySzgKREA  ---  (YuTb 34m21s 10/16/11) - Src UhuruTV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/uhurutv    
NYPD use strobe lights on RT camera at OWS - vid
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/15/dVaCGHn8LnY    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVaCGHn8LnY  ---  (RTYuTb 3m5s Oct 17, 2011) - Source:  RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday
The Facilitators Are the Counter-Revolution — Real Mass Leaders Must Organize a Coup...Tarpley video
  ---  http://tarpley.net/2011/10/18/the-facilitators-are-the-counter-revolution/    
Occupying America: Sowing the Seeds of a Second American Revolution
  ---  http://warisacrime.org/content/occupying-america-sowing-seeds-a%C2%A0second-american-revolution    
They're Us - article & photos
  ---  http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/a-lesson-in-democracy.html    
Wall Street’s Second Occupation: The Rise of the NYPD's Homeland Security State  ---  http://www.alternet.org/story/
152770/wall_street%E2%80%99s_second_occupation%3A_the_rise_of_the_nypd%27s_homeland_security_state?akid=7732.217311.Wr2nQ0&rd=1&t=2
PANDEMONIUM - Amazing Video Of NYPD Charging Times Square Protesters With Police Horses
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/pandemonium-amazing-video-of-nypd-charging-times-square-prot.html    
Src  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/16/nypd-charges-times-square-protesters-with-police-horses/    
NYPD probed over assault on OWS protesters - vid
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KwltQkGmTY  ---  (RTYuTb 2m27s Oct 18, 2011) - Src RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RTAmerica    
WSJ Pollster Grossly Misrepresents His Own Poll Results To Smear Occupy Wall Street
http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/news/journalism-a-media/21203-wsj-pollster-grossly-misrepresents-his-own-poll-results-to-smear-occupy-wall-street.html  
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The Assault On Libya.... 

NATO Crimes and Mainstream Media Lies in Libya Exposed  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZfaKvwJjvM    
Must View RTVideo - From the History File - Sep 14, 2011 - (previously posted) - (RTYuTb - 8min50sec - 09/14/11) - Source:  LeakSourceArchive  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/LeakSourceArchive  ---  A quote.... "NATO's presence in Libya little resembles a humanitarian mission with houses, hospitals and schools being hit. But Libya prospered prior to NATO's intrusion, Yvonne Di Vito, an activist from Libyanfriends.com told RT. ­RT: You have been saying that here in Italy the news reports abut what is happening in Libya were very confusing, a lot of conflicting information there. Can you tell us what you saw and what you found?" -- This interview gets better with a second viewing, Yvonne Di Vito is, and was, spot-on.  By the way, compare her to the stupid, vapid, drooling, cows we're all forced to watch on this nation's corporate owned mass media networks.  It was a really sad day when this nation's formally semi-independent press was reduced to a bunch of presstituting, childish, moronic, stenographers for the parasites.  - mpg 
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Lies Behind the "Humanitarian War" in Libya: There is No Evidence! - The Immense Criminal Enterprise Known as "Responsibility to Protect."
  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/10/lies-behind-humanitarian-war-in-libya.html  ---  A quote...."October 19, 2011 - Meet Dr. Sliman Bouchuiguir, the man behind the verified pack of lies used to justify NATO's intervention in Libya. This amazing piece of investigative journalism reveals not only how tenuous these fabrications were, but have produced Bouchuiguir himself admitting fragrantly that the allegations he made were contrived, baseless, unconfirmed, and designed specifically to give the necessary requirements for NATO's intervention." 
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U.S.-NATO War In Libya Meets Ongoing Resistance  ---  http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2011/10/us-nato-war-in-libya-meets-ongoing.html 
A quote...."On October 17 there was another barrage of corporate media reports that the NATO-led National Transitional Council (NTC) rebels had taken “most” of the city of Bani Walid. The battle for this area has been raging for over a month with the loyalist troops forcing the retreat of the opposition units on several occasions. -- A similar series of reports have been publicized about the military situation in the coastal city of Sirte where NTC forces have suffered numerous casualties. NATO air operations against the civilian population in Bani Walid and Sirte have created a severe humanitarian crisis in both cities."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82370&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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The Legend of Sirte  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29437.htm 
Special Note - A quote...."October 18, 2011 "Information Clearing House"  -- Ankara - A legend is being created that is going to haunt the people who have been propelled into power in Tripoli. In Sirte a handful of men have set an example of bravery in the face of impossible odds that will eventually find its place in Arab history. Weeks of missile and bomb attacks have reduced the centre of the city to ruins and killed an unknown number of civilians. The photos coming out of the city show Beirut-style devastation. The fighters defending the city would seem to be doomed. They have their backs to the sea and are surrounded on three sides. We don't know who they are or how many of them there are. Some might be the remnants of the Libyan army and others civilians who have taken up arms to defend their city. We don't know why they are fighting. We are told that they are just fighting for their lives. We are told that they are mercenaries, but mercenaries put down their arms when the money runs out....." 
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Sirte destroyed by NTC-NATO offensive in Libya  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/liby-o18.shtml 
A quote...."The Libyan town of Sirte has been all but destroyed and its inhabitants turned into homeless refugees. This situation has gone largely unreported, but those press reports that have emerged paint a picture of a city being reduced to ruins by attacks of the National Transitional Council (NTC) “rebels” and NATO bombing raids against which it has no defense." 
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Libya News Update Oct 17 6.00pm GMT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/0/7nlKAdYetOI 
M108Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nlKAdYetOI  ---  (M108YuTb - 3min08sec - Oct 17, 2011) - Source:  108morris108  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Karzai Asks Nato to Explain Killing of Former Afghan Senator's Family
  ---  http://tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/4210-karzai-asks-nato-to-explain-killing-of-former-afghan-senators-family 
A quote...."Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday said he was asking Nato to explain why three family members of a former senator were killed in an operation conducted by international troops in Wardak province." 
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Survey in a War Zone: More than Half of Afghans See NATO as Occupiers - And the others were already dead. 
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27140 
A quote...."Fully 60 percent of Afghans fear that the country will descend into civil war once NATO forces leave, but over half see the Western alliance as occupiers. A new survey carried out be the Konrad Adenauer Foundation has found that the mood in Afghanistan is worsening." 
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US forces 'massing on Afghanistan-Pakistan border'
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8834040/US-forces-massing-on-Afghanistan-Pakistan-border.html 
War Alert - A quote...."US forces are massing on the Pakistan border in eastern Afghanistan amid reports of an imminent drone missile offensive against fighters from the feared Haqqani Network, a Taliban faction which operates from safe havens in Pakistan's North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan Army sources have confirmed." 
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US attack in N. Waziristan unlikely  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139775 
War Alert - A quote...."Chief of the Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has ruled out the possibility of an immediate unilateral US military offensive in North Waziristan, saying the Americans will have to think 10 times before going for this. -- The comments came at a rare briefing held on Tuesday for members of the standing committees on defence of the two houses of parliament at the General Headquarters. -- A participant of the meeting told Dawn that the army chief had been asked to comment on the possibility of a US strike in Pakistan for its failure in Afghanistan, like it had attacked Laos and Cambodia before leaving Vietnam." 
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Three Katyusha Target US Occ. Base  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/258633 
A quote...."The U.S. military admitted that three soldiers were injured in a rocket attack targeted the baseir in Maysan province [Iraq]. The spokesman of the occupation army in a statement published today told that their base was attacked by Katyusha rockets where three soldiers were injured." 
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Syrian Bloodshed and the West's Abdication of Journalistic Responsibility  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29445.htm 
A quote...."October 18, 2011 "Information Clearing House"  -- The October 13 BBC headline read: Clashes in Syria leave 19 dead – rights activists. --  That gives the impression that the brutal Syrian army killed 19 Syrian demonstrators. -- Not quite.  The story continues...." 
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PKK attacks on Turkish forces kill 26  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205400.html 
A quote...."The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) terrorists have killed at least 26 Turkish soldiers in attacks in the country's southeast, Press TV reports." 
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Turkish planes bomb PKK bases in Iraq  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205412.html 
A quote...."Turkish planes have bombarded alleged Kurdish terrorist bases in northern Iraq after PKK terror elements killed dozens of Turkish soldiers in southeast Turkey." 
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Most CIS states sign free trade zone agreement  ---  http://en.rian.ru/business/20111019/167852994.html 
A quote...."The majority of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries have agreed to set up a free trade regime after two decades of debate, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said late on Tuesday." 
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Pepe Escobar: Oil behind US nose poking in Uganda  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/2/L20uNqJtYYo 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L20uNqJtYYo&feature=channel_video_title  ---  (RTYuTb - 1min53sec - Oct 18, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Washington is to send a hundred special operations troops to Uganda to help local forces fight the Lord's Resistance Army, widely considered a terrorist organization. The Ugandan government has been fighting this guerilla group for over two decades. But Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar says America has far-reaching plans for the region, that have little to do with protecting civilians." 
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US denies interest in Uganda oil  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139698 
Related Article - A quote...."No, really; it';s just an amazing coincidence that just as Uganda discovers a vast oil field that we decide to take time out from the other 9 wars we are involved in to send troops into Uganda. That makes 10. Iran will be 11. Is it a world war yet? I always wanted to be President during a world war! They get bigger chapters in the history books!" -- Official White Horse Souse -- *Michael Rivero* 
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Obama, the king of Africa  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MJ18Dj06.html 
Related Article - A quote...."If United States President Barack Obama really wanted to get rid of the new bogeyman du jour, Uganda's Joseph Kony - a former altar boy turned mystical Christian prophet/politico, sporting at least 60 wives - he would order US Attorney General Eric “The Fast and the Furious" Holder to concoct a plot subcontracting the hit to a lunatic Iranian linked to a Mexican drug cartel." 
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Obama’s Great African Military Safari  ---  http://www.infowars.com/obamas-great-african-military-safari/ 
Related Article - A quote...."In 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first black President in the United States of America. Three years later, he has made history again, this time as the first US President to establish a permanent US military presence on the African continent. -- Obama announced late last week, “I believe that deploying these U.S. armed forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and will be a significant contribution toward counter-LRA efforts in central Africa.” 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

The Liam Fox / Adam Werritty Affair.... 

Fox aide's 'plot to topple Iran chief': Sidekick Werritty 'met dissidents and spies and was even briefed by MI6'
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049952/Fox-aides-plot-topple-Iran-chief-Sidekick-Werritty-met-dissidents-spies-briefed-MI6.html 
A quote...."Adam Werritty was involved in a shadowy international plot to topple the Iranian leader, it was claimed yesterday. - Liam Fox’s right-hand man was said to have regularly met Iranian dissidents, Israeli spies and right-wing U.S. groups with an interest in destabilising President Ahmadinejad. - Mr Werritty, 33, was highly regarded by the feared Israeli intelligence service Mossad, who believed he was the Defence Secretary’s chief of staff." 
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Adam Werritty 'plotted with Israel' to topple Iran's President Ahmadinejad
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/8829922/Adam-Werritty-plotted-with-Israel-to-topple-Irans-President-Ahmadinejad.html 
A quote...."Adam Werritty, the self-styled adviser to former Defence Secretary Liam Fox, plotted with the Israeli intelligence service Mossad to topple Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it has been claimed. " 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Life in East Jerusalem  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82386&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."Palestinians suffer grievously under occupation, including in East Jerusalem. Israel wants it entirely Judaized as its capital even though legally it's an international city under UN trusteeship." - Source:  SteveLendman  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/10/life-in-east-jerusalem.html 
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Released Irena and her Daughters Meet in Tears after 10 Years  ---  http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17807 
A quote...."RAMALLAH, October 18, 2011, (WAFA) – The released Ukrainian prisoner, Irena Sarhaneh, could not control herself when she saw her mother and daughter Yasmeen, who came from Ukrania, to see her and share her joy of being released after ten years of detention. Irena broke down in tears, according to witnesses." 
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"I was 1-day-old when my father was jailed"  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/content/i-was-1-day-old-when-my-father-was-jailed/10499#.Tp6lzXJTBkg 
A quote...."Gazing at the faces of the prisoners’ families in the solidarity tent in Gaza City, I see a look that I have never seen before: eyes glittering with hope. These people have attended every event in solidarity with our detainees, have never given up hope that their freedom is inevitable someday, and have stayed strong during their loved ones’ absence inside Israeli cells. Thinking about those women whose relatives are most likely to be released and seeing their big smiles makes me happy. But at the same time, thinking about the other 5,000 detainees who will steadfastly go on with their resistance in the prisons makes my heart break for them." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82380&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Upon Releasing the Infamous 477 Detainees, Army Kidnaps Four West Bank Residents  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62317 
A quote...."The Israeli Army detained four Palestinian residents from the southern part of the West Bank on Wednesday morning, the Palestinian News Agency Ma’an reported." 
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Tunnels prove vital in rebuilding Gaza mosques  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/content/tunnels-prove-vital-rebuilding-gaza-mosques/10496#.Tp6odXJTBkg 
A quote...."GAZA CITY (IRIN) - An increased flow of building materials entering the Gaza Strip via underground tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border has allowed reconstruction work to begin on hundreds of religious sites damaged or destroyed during the 23-day Israeli offensive which ended in January 2009. -- Nearly a quarter of Gaza’s 850 mosques were affected; 45 mosques were totally destroyed, 107 sustained major damage, and about another 50 had minor damage such as smashed windows and doors, according to the Gaza public works and housing ministry, the religious affairs ministry, and private mosque owners." 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

When a 30-Year Mortgage is a 30-Year Prison Sentence - Don’t Be Suckered Into Buying a House Now
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29444.htm 
Special Note - Mrkt Warning - A quote...."October 18, 2011 --- Don’t even think about buying a house for the next year or so. Not unless you can afford to flush tens of thousands of dollars down the toilet, because that’s what you’ll be doing. -- Here’s what’s happening. As everyone knows,  housing is driven by the same supply-demand dynamics as every other market. The problem is, the banksters have gamed the system so it looks like there’s less inventory then there really is, so prices are higher than they should be. By keeping millions of homes off the market the banks are protecting themselves from bigger losses. Unfortunately, it’s the buyer who ends up being the victim in this market-rigging scam." - bold by website editor
also posted at CounterPunch  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/18/dont-be-suckered-into-buying-a-house-now/ 
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Goldman Reports Massive $0.84 Loss Per Share, Prop Trading Loss Of $2.5 Billion, Comp Accrual Of $358,713 Per Employee
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/goldman-reports-084-loss-expectations-011-revenues-plummets-359-expectations-437 
DIE SQUID, DIE!! - mpg -- A quote...."Topline bloodbath Summary: Net revenues in Investment Banking were $781 million, 33% lower than the third quarter of 2010 and 46% lower than the second quarter of 2011. Net revenues in Financial Advisory were $523 million, up slightly from the third quarter of 2010. Net revenues in the firm’s Underwriting business were $258 million, 61% lower than the third quarter of 2010. Net revenues in both equity underwriting and debt underwriting were significantly lower than the third quarter of 2010, reflecting a significant decline in industry-wide activity." 
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Economy 10-18-11 - A DProgram Round-Up  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/18/economy-10-18-11/ 
A round-up of todays business news from DProgram. - mpg 
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Monday October 17th 2011 - links page 

The EyeOpener- Morbid Addiction: CIA & the Drug Trade
  ---  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/10/14/the-eyeopener-morbid-addiction-cia-the-drug-trade/ 
Must View Video - (CRVideo - 19min17sec - Oct 14, 2011) - Source: BoilingFrogs  ---  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/  ---  Related:  Transcript  ---  http://www.corbettreport.com/the-cia-and-the-drug-trade-eyeopener-preview/  ---  Download: Mp4Vid  ---  http://www.corbettreport.com/mp4/bfp20111014preview.mp4  ---  A quote...."Just as the British Empire was in part financed by their control of the opium trade through the British East India Company, so too has the CIA been found time after time to be at the heart of the modern international drug trade. From its very inception, the CIA has been embroiled in the murky underworld of drug trafficking. -- There are billions of dollars per year to be made in keeping the drug trade going, and it has long been established that Wall Street and the major American banks rely on drug money as a ready source of liquid capital. With those kinds of funds at stake, it is unsurprising to see a media-government-banking nexus develop around the status quo of a never-ending war on drugs – aided, abetted and facilitated by the modern-day British East India Company, the CIA." - Topix ||  US Support - Drug Trade  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportdrugtrade-weblist-mpg-101010 
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Why did the US really invade Afghanistan?  ---  http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=27109&p=169325#p169325 
Must Read - Maps, Charts & Graphs - A quote...."The US had an alliance with both the Taliban and Usama bin Laden. The US actively supported the Mujaheddin, of which Bin Laden and his foreign fighters were a sub group of, in a war against the Soviets. The Afghans were purchasing American weapons with Saudi oil money and receiving training from the CIA and ISI. Tim Osman as the CIA called Bin Laden. had full support of the US and met with the likes of Zbigniew Brzezinski." 
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Afghanistan: Ten Years of Illegal Occupation  ---  http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/10/afghanistan-ten-years-illegal-occupation 
Must View GRTVideo - (previously posted) - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl7OsnD3XEk  ---  (GRTVYuTb - 20min12sec - Oct 7, 2011) - Source:  GlobalResearchTV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/GlobalResearchTV  ---  A quote...."October 7th marks the ten year anniversary of the commencement of NATO operations in Afghanistan. Although the impending illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 was enough to drive millions of people worldwide into the streets in protest, there has never been the same widespread resistance to the Afghan war." 
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Emperor George and the Lost War In Iraq  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/17/emperor-george-and-the-lost-war-in-iraq/ 
A quote...."Once upon a time there was a President named George who wanted to be Emperor. (Not a bad idea. He was a lousy President. He really needed a different job.) -- President George had traveled to Mexico—once. So he figured the whole world was pretty much like Texas. He thought about it for, oh, five minutes. What he needed was a country far, far away to invade. Surely those foreigners would be charmed by his folksy swagger (being more primitive and all). They’d appreciate him more than those Gosh Darn Americans, who had awfully high expectations of a President. Why, he imagined these foreigners would bow and scrape and wow over his every golf shot. -- So he pulled out a map. And he saw Iraq— with a “Q.” And he asked one of his ministers what he’d heard about this place. The minister’s eyes got bright: “Ohhh,” he said. “Iraq’s got oil and pipelines. We could make some serious profits if we grabbed Baghdad, and tossed its rulers in the trash can of history.” -- Well, if there was one thing President George understood, it was oil profits." 
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More on the Domestic Situation.... 

America's child death shame  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15288865 
A quote...."Every five hours a child dies from abuse or neglect in the US. - The latest government figures show an estimated 1,770 children were killed as a result of maltreatment in 2009. - A recent congressional report concludes the real number could be nearer 2,500. - In fact, America has the worst child abuse record in the industrialised world. -- Why? -- The BBC's Natalia Antelava investigates." - bold by website editor    
"Why?", The BBC of all organizations asks why?  Because the growth of this nation's Empire, and the expansion of Israel's Empire, and the Bankster's continued and growing control of this nation's entire economy is more important...by far....to many people in this country than the welfare of their very own children!!!  THAT'S WHY!!! -  The proof you ask?  This empire crap has been going on for almost sixty years, it's gotten worse every single year, if the people in this country cared the slightest bit about themselves, or their children's future, they would have done something about it by now. But they haven't.  IT'S THAT SIMPLE!!! -  mpg 
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McCain Begins Attack on Military and Vets  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/10/mccain-begins-attack-on-military-and.html 
A quote...."Congress can begin slashing military pay and benefits, cutting access to Tricare Prime and upping fees for retirees.  John McCain said so and he represents everything military...."  - Source:  Veteran'sToday  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/17/mccain-begins-attack-on-military-and-vets/ 
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[Obama's] Drones to Monitor US Citizens - Soon, they'll be murdering them, just like they do overseas. - mpg 
  ---  http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2011/10/drones-to-monitor-us-citizens.html 
Police State - A quote...."Barack Obama’s government is expanding its use of remote-controlled drone aircraft from monitoring and killing its enemies overseas to tracking and monitoring average Americans here inside the United States. These are the same drones that the U.S. military claims have successfully assassinated so many of its political opponents abroad." 
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NYTimes Sues The Federal Government For Refusing To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act
  ---  http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111010/04043716279/nytimes-sues-federal-government-refusing-to-reveal-its-secret-interpretation-patriot-act.shtml 
Police State - A quote...."We've been covering for a while now how Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have been very concerned over the secret interpretation the feds have of one piece of the PATRIOT Act. They've been trying to pressure the government into publicly explaining how they interpret the law, because they believe that it directly contrasts how most of the public (and many elected officials) believe the feds are interpreting the law. While the two Senators continue to put pressure on the feds and to hint at the feds' interpretation, just the fact that the government won't even explain its own interpretation of the law seems ridiculous." - also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/U.S._Government_Refuses_FOIA_Request_to_Turn_Over_%E2%80%98Secret%E2%80%99_Interpretation_of_Patriot_Act_/16156/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
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Profiles in Patronage -- Obama campaign reports more than 350 big bundlers, including Solyndra figures  ---  http://www.iwatchnews.org/print/7127 
The 2012 Election Cycle - The Obamathon Begins - A quote...."More than 350 big money bundlers have contributed at least $55 million so far this year to President Obama’s re-election efforts, according to an iWatch News analysis of the campaign’s Friday disclosure. [3]  And more than 40 bundlers each roped in at least $500,000. -- Among the 358 big bundlers are two men prominently tied to the ongoing Solyndra controversy. -- Included in those totals are 114 new bundlers who had not been reported as bundlers in the first half of the year, almost a 50 percent increase from just three months ago. Another 80 bundlers disclosed last summer have notably increased their efforts for Obama." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29429.htm  ---  Remember folks, all you have to do, to know what Obama is going to do, is simply "FOLLOW THE MONEY"!! - mpg 
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Bankster Election Cash Flows to Perry and Cain  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/17/why-wall-street-hates-obama/ 
The 2012 Election Cycle -  A quote...."For millions of Americans and others around the world, President Obama has been an enigma.  One person was elected and another took office, or so it seems.  How do you know?  The news tells you, news we all know is controlled by Wall Street Corporations or worse, the Murdoch empire. -- Worse still are the “think tanks” and phony groups funded by the Koch Brothers, the oil billionaires to bought the Tea Party and are now running “Mr. Bunkum,” Herman Cain for president, a man who makes Michelle Bachmann seem stable." 
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Thousands of fraud cases just 'tip of iceberg'  ---  http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=355461 
The 2012 Election Cycle - Election Fraud - A quote...."A group that monitors elections in Minnesota and roots out fraudulent votes is warning ballot fraud is on the rise across the nation, and if unchecked, the ultimate consequences would be an electorate that simply doesn't believe the system works and refuses to participate – "a total breakdown in the cohesion of American society." 
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Michael Rivero in New York City Sept 11, 2011  ---  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDFA6252092177909 
Videos - YuTb Playlist - A quote...."Michael Rivero, activist and webmaster of http://whatreallyhappened.com/ came from Hawaii to New York City to give a presentation on Government Lies for the 10th Anniversary of September 11th. On September 12th he was kind enough to give me an interview where we discuss the nasty tricks that the bankers play to gain complete control of the world. Little did we know, that in 5 days the people would start to fight back and would #OccupyWallStreet!" 
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Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - October 17 2011  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/297729897 
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 9min50sec into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - Oct, 17th 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg 
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Fast & Furious File & The Iran Scam Comedy™  

If The Establishment Media Will Defend The Bogus Iranian-Mexican Terror Hoax, What Won't They Defend?
  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2011/10/if-establishment-media-will-defend_18.html 
Must Read - A quote...."Establishment journalists in America and the West are a modern version of a priest class. The White House is their Vatican and the President is their Pope. Barack Obama is the current chosen speaker whose words are infallible and who cannot tell a lie according to this totalitarian priest class. They are not journalists, they are state officials. -- One of the reasons why the Obama White House is standing so forcefully behind the ridiculous lie that the Iranian government plotted to kill American allies on American soil is because they want to test the subservience of the U.S. and Western media to the authority of the U.S. government." - also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/18/if-the-establishment-media-will-defend-the-bogus-iranian-mexican-terror-hoax-what-won%e2%80%99t-they-defend/ 
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Hillary Also on Hot Seat Over Fast & Furious  ---  http://gunowners.org/ff10172011.htm 
Quote of the Day - (in bold)....A quote...."The recent move by Congressman Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, to subpoena scores of documents from Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the Fast and Furious debacle hardly comes as a surprise. -- The testimony before the Oversight committee by Holder and numerous officials from the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, and other federal agencies was a clinic on obfuscation -- and it left Issa with little choice." 
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If You Want to Stop Crime in America, Start in the White House and Work Your Way Down
  ---  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/if-you-want-to-stop-crime-in-america-start-in-the-white-house-and-work-your-way-down_10102011 
A quote...."Over 200 people are confirmed dead, including at least one US agent, with “Fast and Furious” weapons which were directed into the hands of drug cartels in Mexico at the order of our Justice Department and the BATF. -- Under oath Attorney General Holder denied any knowledge of the operation or active participation in it and continues to deny his involvement to this day...." 
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Issa to press FBI for "gunwalking" info  ---  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/17/earlyshow/main20121254.shtml 
A quote...."(CBS News) - October 17, 2011 9:10 AM - WASHINGTON - The head of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, said he plans to send a letter to the FBI this week to ask about apparent discrepancies in the investigation of a murder related to "Fast and Furious," the government's controversial "gunwalking" case, CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports." 
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10 Arizona Sheriffs Call For Eric Holder to Resign or Be Fired  ---  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2789645/posts 
A quote...."Sheriff Paul Babeu led a press conference with 9 other Arizona sheriffs today, to blast  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-sheriffs-blast-gun-smuggling-operation-195525527.html  ---  Attorney General Eric Holder and the Administration for the disastrous 'Operation Fast and Furious', calling it a a "betrayal of state law enforcement". -- Standing in front of a Phoenix memorial for fallen law enforcement officers, including Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry - murdered as a direct result of the operation - the sheriffs called  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-sheriffs-blast-gun-smuggling-operation-195525527.html  ---  for the president to launch an independent investigation and for Attorney General Eric Holder to step down or be fired. They are demanding that Holder reveal the truth  ---  http://www.kvoa.com/news/sheriffs-demand-answers-about-operation-fast-and-furious-/  ---  behind the scandal, and believe that those responsible should be [held] criminally accountable [Amen!! - mpg]  for allowing 2,000 guns to be purchased on U.S. Soil and turned over to the Mexican drug cartels." - Source: StandWithAZ  ---  http://standwitharizona.com/blog/2011/10/07/10-arizona-sheriffs-call-for-eric-holder-to-resign-or-be-fired/ 
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The nonsensical alleged Iranian plot and the end of all reason
  ---  http://endthelie.com/2011/10/13/the-nonsensical-alleged-iranian-plot-and-the-end-of-all-reason/#axzz1b7T2aUI2 
A quote...."Even the U.S. government seems to realize these allegations are wildly unrealistic, including State Department Victoria Nuland who said, “When you look at these details, it seems like something out of a movie”. -- No, Nuland, it seems like something out of a bad movie written by writers who know little to nothing about Iran or terrorism in general, for that matter." 
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U.S. Officials Peddle False Intel to Support Terror Plot Claims  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29434.htm 
Obama's Lies Exposed - A quote...."October 17, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Officials of the Barack Obama administration have aggressively leaked information supposedly based on classified intelligence in recent days to bolster its allegation that two higher- ranking officials from Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were involved in a plot to assassinate Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir in Washington, D.C. -- The media stories generated by the leaks helped divert press attention from the fact that there is no verifiable evidence of any official Iranian involvement in the alleged assassination plan, contrary to the broad claim being made by the administration. -- But the information about the two Iranian officials leaked to NBC News, the Washington Post and Reuters was unambiguously false and misleading, as confirmed by official documents in one case and a former senior intelligence and counterterrorism official in the other."
also posted at GlobalResearch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27121 
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Ten Reasons To Question US Allegations of Iranian Terror Plot  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=48546  ---  Ten reasons.... 
A quote...."There are plenty of valid reasons to doubt the veracity of US's allegation that it has foiled an Iranian terror plot involving a Mexican drug cartel, despite the western media frenzy aiming at the credibility and legitimacy of Iranian regime in the international community. On the whole, these reasons cast serious question marks on US's real motives and raise the distinct possibility of a historical deja vu, i.e., the repetition of the pre-Iraq war ferocious campaign of vilification and manufacturing WMD lies with much media complicity." 
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Who is Really Behind It? The Implausibility of an Iranian Plot - Another eight reasons to question the story... 
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27125 
Here's one of them....A quote...."So what do we know about this alleged conspiracy? And what are the facts pertinent to this explosive charge? -- 1) The alleged conspirator, Mansour Arbabsiar, is a 56 year old naturalized American of Iranian descent. He has been living in several Texas communities since the late 1970s when he arrived to the U.S. as a student. By all accounts, Arbabsiar led a disorderly life marked by constant failure, whether as a student, husband, father, or businessman. - For over two decades the alleged “mastermind” left behind a trail of successive failed businesses, including a used car lot, a restaurant, a convenience store, and a finance company. One of his friends told the Washington Post that he is “a goofy guy who always had a smile on his face.”" 
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Conduit for Saddam’s 45-min WMD threat and 9/11-Iraqi links calls ‘diabolical Iranian plot’ a ‘wake-up call’ for Obama - http://thepassionateattachment.com/
2011/10/17/conduit-for-saddams-45-min-wmd-threat-and-911-iraqi-links-calls-diabolical-iranian-plot-a-wake-up-call-for-obama/ 
Another AIPAC/Israeli Consortium maggot crawls out of the woodwork. - mpg -- A quote.... "Sounding like he’s transcribing an Israeli Foreign Ministry press release, the Telegraph’s executive foreign editor Con Coughlin writes...." - also posted at Hamsayeh
http://hamsayeh.net/society/1264-conduit-for-saddams-45-min-wmd-threat-and-911-iraqi-links-calls-diabolical-iranian-plot-a-wake-up-call-for-obama.html 
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Pakistani Intelligence Official Says Mossad Gave Supposed Iranian Terrorist Arbabsiar Fake Papers
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/17/pakistani-intelligence-official-says-mossad-gave-supposed-iranian-terrorist-arbabsiar-fake-papers/ 
Possible scenario, still unresolved as of yet....mpg -- A quote...."The so called Iranian terror plot has continued to come apart at the seems. Today, a Pakistani Intelligence official told the Pakistani Urdu-language daily that the Mossad gave Mansour Arbabsiar fake id papers only three months ago. -- Mansour Arbabsiar is accused of plotting to kill the Saudi Ambassador and his arrest has caused a furry of calls to bomb Iran from the usual war hawks on Capital Hill." 
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'Saudi envoy plot suspect is MKO man'  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139591 
Possible scenario, still unresolved as of yet....mpg -- A quote...."Interpol has gained information about the second suspect in the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States indicating that he is a key member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). -- A source told the Mehr news agency on Monday that Interpol has learned that Gholam-Hossein Shakouri, aka Ali Shakouri and Gholam Shakouri, the second suspect in the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington, is one of the senior members of the MKO, which is an anti-Iranian terrorist group." 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Why Does The DOJ Refuse To Prosecute Crimes Committed By Big Wall Street Banks? Obama Lies Again...
  ---  http://smashabanana.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-does-doj-refuse-to-prosecute-crimes.html 
MKVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks-sc4LYqck  ---  A clip from Max's E197  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzujA6hP6IE  ---  Oct. 15th epsoide which was previously posted - mpg - (MKRTYuTb - 2min14sec - Oct 15, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Producer:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) - Why Does The DOJ Refuse To Prosecute Crimes Committed By Big Wall Street Banks? Obama Lies Again." 
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Another Quarter, Another Blatant Window Dressing By The Primary [US] Dealer Banks To Make Their Balance Sheets Seem Strong
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/another-quarter-another-blatant-window-dressing-primary-dealer-banks-make-their-balance-sheets- 
They're lying again.  What is that old phrase? "There's liars, damn liars, politicians, statisticians and finally....bank bookkeepers??" - mpg -- A quote...."When back in 2010, Lehman examiner Anton Valukas exposed the bankrupt bank's Repo 105 practices (which subsequently we learned were also partaken into by most other banks, although the trail ends there and nobody was prosecuted for it, let alone went to jail -after all, everyone was doing it, and everyone knew about it), many were shocked and appalled that such a blatant window dressing practice was allowed to continue quarter after quarter. Which is why we suppose nobody will be surprised to learn that glaringly "in your face" window dressing continues to this very day...." 
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Moody's Announces That France's Debt Metrics Have Deteriorated And Are Now The Weakest Of All Aaa-Rated Peers
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/moodys-announces-frances-debt-metrics-have-deteriorated-and-are-now-weakest-all-aaa-rated-peers 
Financial Alert - A quote...."This is not what Europe needed, 6 days ahead of the G20 ultimatum's expiration for Europe to somehow fix itself, and hours after Deutsche Bank said the rating agencies may go ahead and put France on downgrade review. Just out "Moody's notes that the government's financial strength has weakened, as it has for other euro area sovereigns, because the global financial and economic crisis has led to a deterioration in French government debt metrics -- which are now among the weakest of France's Aaa peers." 
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Berlin experts fear euro break-up from bail-out escalation
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8832798/Berlin-experts-fear-euro-break-up-from-bail-out-escalation.html 
Related Article - A quote..."Dr Ansgar Belke, the group’s research chief, said the leverage proposal emerging as part of the EU’s “Grand Plan” to restore confidence is self-defeating. “It counteracts efforts made so far to stabilise the eurozone debt crisis, which are premised on the AAA rating of a sufficiently large number of strong economies. In extremis, it would probably cause the break-up of the eurozone”, he told newspaper Handelsblatt."
Topix ||  The Prisoner's Dilemma - (It's A Matter of Trust) - 10-06-11 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theprisonersdilemmaitsamatteroftrust-mpg-reficultnias-100611 
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Europe's lost decade as $7 trillion loan crunch looms - So WHY doesn't the Euro go DOWN?!?!? - mpg 
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8830072/Europes-lost-decade-as-7-trillion-loan-crunch-looms.html
A quote...."Europe’s banks face a $7 trillion lending contraction to bring their balance sheets in line with the US and Japan, threatening to trap the region in a credit crunch and chronic depression for a decade." 
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Deutsche Bank Warns France May Be Put On Downgrade Review Before Year End
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/deutsche-bank-warns-france-may-be-put-downgrade-review-year-end 
A quote...."First we have Credit Suisse saying 66 European banks will fail the 3rd stress test, and will need hundreds of billions in fresh capital, something the market ignored entirely last week but may want to reevaluate [You would think, at least till the next FT rumor that all's well in Euroland. - mpg] now that the idiocy appears to have subsided. And now, inexplicably, we have Deutsche Bank warning that France may well be put on downgrade review by year end. "We highlight in this note that the French corporate sector is already financially stretched, with poor profitability and large borrowing requirements." 
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S&P Again Downgrades Spain's Credit Rating
  ---  http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/9386-sap-again-downgrades-spains-credit-rating- 
A quote...."Troubled European nations' credit ratings are continuing to plummet. On October 13 Standard & Poor’s downgraded Spain to AA-, three steps beneath the optimum AAA rating. Last week the Fitch agency also downgraded Spanish credit worthiness (as well as Italian)." 
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News... 

Banker tells the truth  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139607 
Must Listen Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQv5p7ihf04  ---  (YuTb - 6min02sec - Jan 10, 2011) - Source:  peoplestandup  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/peoplestandup  ---  A quote..."The Banker.... 

"Hello, my name is Montague William [the] 3rd    
And what I will tell you may well sound absurd    
But the less who believe it the better for me    
For you see I'm in Banking and big industry    

For many a year we have controlled your lives    
While you all just struggle and suffer in strife    
We created the things that you don't really need    
Your sports cars and Fashions and Plasma TV's....."    
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My One Demand  ---  http://guymcpherson.com/2011/10/my-one-demand/ 
Must Read - Second Quote of the Day...."Take a map and draw a circle, then say, everyone outside the circle is to have their labor and resources exploited for the benefit of those inside the circle. If you live outside the circle you say, “this system is completely f-cked up.” If you live inside the circle you say, “this is capitalism and it’s the best system on earth you should try it it’s awesome. Sure, people outside are suffering, but who gives a f-ck about them?”    

"Now as the circle shrinks, as it is designed to do, concentrating accumulated wealth, people begin finding themselves suddenly outside of the circle. They jump up and down and cry foul, but the ones still in the circle say, “tough sh-t, you were too slow, shoulda run faster to stay inside the circle“. But then, they soon realize that they too are too slow to keep up with the rapidly shrinking circle, and quickly they find themselves left out, so they cry foul."    

“The system is broken!!!” they decry! But is it? Isn’t this the way the system has always functioned? Why is it now broken just because they, we, no longer reside within the bounds of its benefits? We stand outside the ever shrinking circle, yelling fixes, throwing band-aids, making demands that the ever shrinking circle expand! at least big enough to include us so that we can go back to not giving a f-ck about the people outside, but alas, it will not."    

" The circle does not expand, it does not know how. It only knows how to contract, concentrate, condense, like a dark star collapsing in on itself." - bold by website editor    
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A Movement Too Big to Fail  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_movement_too_big_to_fail_20111017/ 
Must Read - Third Quote of the Day...."There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups like MoveOn. The faux liberal reformers, whose abject failure to stand up for the rights of the poor and the working class, have signed on to this movement because they fear becoming irrelevant. Union leaders, who pull down salaries five times that of the rank and file as they bargain away rights and benefits, know the foundations are shaking. So do Democratic politicians from Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi. So do the array of “liberal” groups and institutions, including the press, that have worked to funnel discontented voters back into the swamp of electoral politics and mocked those who called for profound structural reform." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29431.htm 
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Is Anyone Dumb Enough to Believe that Obama Supports the 99%?
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/is-anyone-dumb-enough-to-believe-that-obama-supports-the-99.html 
Special Note - A quote...."Obama is pretending that he supports the 99%.  ---  http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+99&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a  ---  But Obama has raised more from Wall Street than anyone else.  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/08/obama-still-wall-streets-honey-raises-more-as-both-raw-amount-and-percentage-from-wall-street-than-in-2008.html  ---  He is bought and paid for.  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/well-theres-your-problem-right-there.html  ---  Mr. Obama has appointed the very Wall Street insiders who helped cause the financial crisis to top posts. See this,  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/01/obama-appoints-ultimate-wall-street-insiders-to-top-posts-again.html  ---  this,  ---   http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/02/larry-summers-fox-guarding-the-henhouse.html  ---  this  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/07/geithner-for-a-lot-of-people-its-going-to-feel-very-hard-harder-than-anything-theyve-experienced-in-their-lifetime-now-for-a-long-time-to-come.html  ---  and this. ---  http://www.salon.com/2011/10/11/can_ows_be_turned_into_a_democratic_party_movement/singleton/  ---  He thinks that high unemployment is a good thing.  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/09/obama-unemployment-okay-jobs.html  ---  Obama – just like the other pimps  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/chairman-of-the-department-of-economics-at-george-mason-university-politicians-are-not-prostitutes-they-are-pimps.html  ---  in D.C. – has institutionalized fraud  ---  http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/07/third-way-document-proves-democratic-party-supports-institutionalized-looting-by-banks.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29  ---  as an official (if unspoken) party platform."
also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/%3F-older-posts-anyone-dumb-enough-believe-obama-supports-99 
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A message From A Texan to the Police About Occupy Wall Street Nationwide in All the Cities
  ---  http://lonestarwatchdog.blogspot.com/2011/10/message-from-texan-to-police-about.html 
A quote...."To all Sworn Peace Officers and Police:  I would like to know is my question to the men in blue. Who do you work for and what is your mission? Do you work to protect the rights of the people? [Are] your orders to protect the Political class from the people? Do you swear an oath to the corrupt political class to do their dirty work? Do you swear an oath to protect the bankers and Wall Street Robber Barons or did you swear to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States and the State you reside in? I mean from all enemies foreign and domestic. Do you believe the city goverment cares about you? Do you know what a lawful order is and unlawful directive is? While occupy Wall Street is escalating nationwide. Do you believe you are on the winning side?" 
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United States Code Section 1983 & Civil Rights Litigation  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139583 
Action Alert - (every person who was physically assaulted in any way by the police should sue the individual and municipality involved.  Every person who is arrested and who qualifies should sue the municipality for false arrest. - mpg) -- A quote...."Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress...2" 
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#OWS PHOTO OF THE DAY - MBS Fraud - Photo
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/ows-photo-of-the-day-mbs-fraud.html    
Occupy Wall Street 10-17-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (12 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/17/occupy-wall-street-10-17-11/    
Occupy Wall Street, Sellected Articles [from Global Research] - (32 articles)
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27108    
Occupy Wall Street Protests - WSWS Round-Up -10-17-11 - (12 articles)
  ---  http://wsws.org/category/wallst.shtml    
Occupy Wall Street: second senior NYPD officer [Deputy inspector Johnny Cardona] faces investigation
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/17/occupy-wall-street-cardona-investigation    
Legal And Police Situation Update October 17th – 4:30PM #OccupyWallStreet
  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/10/17/legal-police-situation-update-october-17th-430pm-occupywallstreet-77501/    
NYPD Chief J. Esposito intervenes between thug cops & OWS... vid
  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139582    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_togBvULW0  ---  (YuTb 5m13s 101711)- Src Strggl  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/thestrugglevideo
More Police Brutality at Occupy Wall Street Protest - contains photos & videos
   ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/17/more-police-brutality-at-occupy-wall-street-protest/    
Occupy Toronto - video
  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139608    
(YuTb 8m5s Oct 17, 2011) - Source:  collapsenet  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/collapsenet    
Occupy Olympia Oct. 17th, 2011 - video
  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139586    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJfYLmt1qw4  ---  (YuTb 13sec Oct 17, 2011)
Src chuckwesttv  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/chuckwesttv    
City of Tucson Defies U.S. and State Constitutions by Shutting Down Occupy Protest
  ---  http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/10/city-of-tucson-defies-us-and-az.html    
NYPD Tricks Occupy Wall Street Protester Into Walking Past ~ Then Proceeds To Arrest [Them] - cntns vid
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/17/video-nypd-tricks-occupywallstreet-protester-into-walking-past-them-after-lying-then-proceeds-to-arrest-him/    
Police Officer, Refusing To Identify Himself, Orders Removal Of Media Gear At OccupyWallStreet Offshoot
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/17/police-officer-refusing-to-identify-himself-orders-removal-of-media-gear-at-occupywallstreet-offshoot/    
NYPD charges [at] Times Square protesters with police horses
  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/16/nypd-charges-times-square-protesters-with-police-horses/    
US Marine Serg Shames NYPD 4 Harsh Treatment of Peaceful Ctzns - vid
  ---   http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/us-marine-sergeant-shames-nypd-for.html    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmEHcOc0Sys  ---  (YuTb 5m32s 101611) Src BH  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/BklynJHandy    
Hundreds arrested at 'Occupy' events in Chicago, Denver, Arizona, as movement spreads across U.S.   ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/    
Hundreds_arrested_at_%27Occupy%27_events_in_Chicago%2C_Denver%2C_Arizona%2C_as_movement_spreads_across_U.S._/16157/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
Obama's Attempt To Use #OWS As A Diversionary Smoke Screen Fails: 56% Believe Washington To Blame....
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/obamas-attempt-use-ows-diversionary-smoke-screen-fails-56-believe-washington-blame-crisis-and-r    
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The Assault On Libya.... 

Displaced black Libyans tell of beatings, expulsion at gunpoint
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Displaced_black_Libyans_tell_of_beatings%2C_expulsion_at_gunpoint/16160/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
A quote...."After weeks on the run, thousands of black Libyans driven from their homes during the revolt against Muammar Gaddafi have resurfaced across the country, finding refuge in a squalid camp they hope is only temporary." 
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Sirte destroyed by NTC-NATO offensive in Libya  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/liby-o18.shtml 
A quote...."The Libyan town of Sirte has been all but destroyed and its inhabitants turned into homeless refugees. This situation has gone largely unreported, but those press reports that have emerged paint a picture of a city being reduced to ruins by attacks of the National Transitional Council (NTC) “rebels” and NATO bombing raids against which it has no defense." 
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Analysis: Libya oil fields face guerrilla war threat  ---  http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111017/wl_nm/us_libya_security 
A quote...."LONDON (Reuters) – Pro-Gaddafi fighters may resort to hit-and-run guerilla attacks against Libyan politicians, foreign workers and oil installations in the remote southwestern Fezzan district if they are driven from their last bastions, risk consultants say." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Da Nang International Airport – Agent Orange and the Removal of Dioxin: Status
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/17/da-nang-international-airport-%e2%80%93-agent-orange-and-the-removal-of-dioxin-status/ 
Special Note - For The Record -- A quote...."Agent Orange is the code name for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.  --  A 50:50 mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, it was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical. The herbicides used to produce Agent Orange were later discovered to be contaminated with 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TCDD), an extremely toxic dioxin. Because of the large military demand for Agent Orange, the manufacturing processes were accelerated, resulting in higher levels of dioxin contamination than in the 2,4,5-T produced for civilian applications. It was given its name from the color of the orange-striped 55 US gallon (200 L) barrels in which it was shipped, and was by far the most widely used of the so-called “Rainbow Herbicides”." - also posted at WB  ---  http://williambowles.info/2011/10/17/da-nang-international-airport-%e2%80%93-agent-orange-and-the-removal-of-dioxin/ 
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US Deaths in Afghanistan: Obama Doubles Entire Bush-Era Total
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/17/us-deaths-in-afghanistan-obama-doubles-entire-bush-era-total/ 
Obama's Butcher Bill - A quote...."A grim new milestone was reached in the US occupation of Afghanistan this week, as the death toll in less than three years under President Obama has now more than doubled the number of US soldiers slain during President Bush’s seven plus years in the nation." - This is what one might call, "Obama's 'Doubling Down'....in US soldiers lives that is....mpg 
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Two NATO soldiers killed in south Afghanistan  ---  http://en.ria.ru/world/20111016/167741817.html 
A quote...."Two soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed on Saturday in the south of Afghanistan, the coalition said in a statement on Sunday, giving no other details." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82344&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Impasse: US Says No Breakthrough in Iraq Talks - Nor was one expected....mpg 
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/17/impasse-us-says-no-breakthrough-in-iraq-talks/ 
A quote...."Despite several media reports suggesting it is a done deal, US officials deny that any decision has been made about removing its combat forces from Iraq at the end of 2011. They also say talks are ongoing, and Pentagon officials express confidence in reaching a deal." 
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Mosul celebrates US forces withdrawal  ---  http://en.aswataliraq.info/Default1.aspx?page=article_page&id=145309&l=1 
A quote...."NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Ninewa province organized today a central festival to celebrate the U.S.
forces withdrawal form Mosul city. --  Our Aswat al-Iraq correspondent reported that the festival was attended by senior governmental officials." 
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Syria seizes Israeli weapons  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204997.html 
A quote...."The Syrian security forces have seized Israeli weapons from armed groups responsible for the killing of hundreds of people across the country. " 
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Iran's Total Recoverable Oil Reserves Reach 158 Billion Barrels
  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/1263-irans-total-recoverable-oil-reserves-reach-158-billion-barrels.html 
A quote...."By the end of the Fifth Development Plan (2010-2015), the country's oil production must increase to 5.2 million barrels per day (bpd) and this should happen from the country's joint fields: Oil Minister." 
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Putin in Beijing: testing new political course  ---  http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/10/18/putin-in-beijing-testing-new-political-course.html 
A quote...."Though Vladimir Putin planned his two-day visit to Beijing (from October 11 to 12) as the current Prime Minister in the result but arrived there as the future president. It is quite symbolic that in his new status Putin made his first foreign to China where he definitely could not avoid speaking about changes in the Russian foreign policy, which is by all accounts turning towards the East." 
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Uganda Deployment Latest Move in a Long-Standing Policy of Escalation
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/17/uganda-deployment-latest-move-in-a-long-standing-policy-of-escalation/ 
A quote...."The deployment of 100 US special forces troops into northern Uganda over the weekend took many by surprise, but the Obama Administration’s move was actually part of a long-standing policy of escalation in central Africa." 
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Neo-Colonialism, Subversion in Africa and Global Conflict
  ---  http://nsnbc.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/neo-colonialism-subversion-in-africa-and-global-conflict/ 
Special Note - A quote...."The withdrawal of the old colonial powers from Africa, in the context of a developing cold war, (1), a developing Pan-African Nationalism (2), and the rising cost of maintaining a colonial administration system, during the nineteen-hundred and sixties left the African nations in a euphoric state of independence. In most cases this euphoria was soon to be substituted by [s]hocking massacres and conflict, coup d´etats unrest and destabilization. The old colonial rulers had returned with a vengeance. Over fifty years later, most African nations are, in spite of the richness of their resources and productivity of their population, still catastrophically under developed, impoverished, endebbed, plagued by conflict, unrest and instability due to the return of the colonial powers influence. Those African nations who failed to comply with their returning rulers were and are mercilessly attacked." - Looks like all that Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Colonialism has worked. - mpg 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

Covert operative for Israel had legal immunity - Fulbright's Warning - IRmep
  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/articles/1265-covert-operative-for-israel-had-legal-immunity-fulbrights-warning-irmep.html 
Historical Documents - A quote...."Nahum Amber Bernstein (1907-1983) AKA Ned Bernay, AKA Meyers, AKA, Corman was a well-connected New York lawyer and founding chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation.  ---  http://www.jerusalemfoundation.org/board_content.aspx?MID=546&CID=555&SID=709&ID=841  ---  After graduating from law school and a stint doing investigations at a law firm, Bernstein went to work as an Office of Strategic Services (predecessor to the CIA) operative training agents for "overseas operations in enemy territory" during WWII.  In 1943 Bernstein listed his qualifications as "police methods including surveillance, cover, wire-tapping, Dictaphone, sound recordings, agent's reports, records, statistics, witness interrogation and personnel." 
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Warning from the Past: Israeli covert operations to influence US policy
  ---  http://thepassionateattachment.com/2011/10/18/warning-from-the-past-israeli-covert-operations-to-influence-us-policy/ 
A quote...."Early in 1961 Senator J. W. Fulbright, chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, secretly chartered an investigation utilizing the Senate’s full subpoena power. A declassified committee charter reads...."    

“In recent years there has been an increasing number of incidents involving attempts by foreign governments, or their agents, to influence the conduct of American foreign policy by techniques outside normal diplomatic channels…there have been occasions when representatives of other governments have been privately accused of engaging in covert activities within the United States and elsewhere, for the purpose of influencing United States Policy (the Lavon Affair).” 
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The Liam Fox / Adam Werritty Affair.... 

Israel’s Mossad gets dragged into latest British political scandal
  ---  http://www.bobtuskin.com/2011/10/17/israel%E2%80%99s-mossad-gets-dragged-into-latest-british-political-scandal/ 
A quote...."British media have speculated that the man behind the fall of their minister of defense was in cahoots with Israel’s famed intelligence agency, Mossad, perhaps unwittingly, as the perfect spy. -- Adam Werritty, an unofficial “chief of staff” to Defense Minister Liam Fox – a much respected, staunch conservative who quit in disgrace this weekend – boasted extraordinary access, had no security vetting and plotted to overthrow the Iranian regime." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Rights groups: Exile of prisoners 'a war crime'  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=430174 
A quote...."RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israel's exile of prisoners to the Gaza Strip and abroad is a serious war crime, rights groups said Monday." - Yes it is....mpg -- also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/rights-groups-exile-of-prisoners-a-war-crime/ 
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Forced Israeli curriculum violates Palestinians’ education rights
  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/content/forced-israeli-curriculum-violates-palestinians-education-rights/10497?utm_source=feedburner&
utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29#.TpzYeHJTBkh 
A quote...."Palestinian activists, parents and students are fighting against the Israeli authorities’ recent push to impose an Israeli curriculum on East Jerusalem schools, which they say threatens the city’s Palestinian culture and identity." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/forced-israeli-curriculum-violates-palestinians%e2%80%99-education-rights/ 
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Burin: Zionist soldiers and colonists collaborate against harvesting
  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2011/10/burin-zionist-soldiers-and-colonists-collaborate-against-harvesting/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29 
A quote...."The Israeli military conducted arrests, mistreated detainees and continued to prevent villagers from picking olives in certain areas of Burin, near Nablus, yesterday on October 16 2011.  International activists have been prevented by the military from attending olive harvests during the past two days in some areas and settlers harassed and threw stones at villagers picking olives in Burin today." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/burin-zionist-soldiers-and-colonists-collaborate-against-harvesting/ 
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This year’s olive harvest in Walaja may be the last  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/?p=2687 
A quote...."This week, the olive harvest began across the West Bank, with people returning to villages from city jobs to assist with the picking. - Many farmers face restrictions, imposed by the Israeli Defence Forces, on when and where they can harvest due to the proliferation of Israeli settlements and outposts."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82355&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

October Empire State index little changed at -8.5  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oct-empire-state-index-little-changed-at-85-2011-10-17
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The Empire State manufacturing index increased only slightly in October and remained in negative territory for the fifth straight month, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said Monday." 
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The Daily Bail Round-Up - Oct 17, 2011 at 7:45 PM  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/bill-gross-supports-occupy-wall-street-fannie-freddie-still.html 
A round-up of todays business news from the Daily Bail. - mpg 
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Sunday October 16th 2011 - links page

Breaking Points: Recognizing The Signs Of Painful Cultural Shift
  ---  http://www.alt-market.com/articles/305-breaking-points-recognizing-the-signs-of-painful-cultural-shift 
Quote of the Day...."Through the ages, nations and cultures of spectacular proportion and prominence have risen to prosperity, and fallen to chaos, on very particular and fundamental principles. In some cases, these great and terrible declines have taken centuries to culminate (as was the story of the Roman Empire), and only a few years in others (the Soviet Union comes to mind). In every example of societal destabilization, however, there were many signs of danger long before the final plunge; some unique to each particular culture, and some common to all. One of the most enduring and frightening similarities between crumbling nations is an overwhelming belief amongst the people that they have somehow “advanced” beyond the need for concern. Each self-destructing society presumed itself invincible. Each country thought itself the pinnacle of human potential, only to discover yet again that in abandoning or subverting the principles of freedom, and the bedrock pillars of conscience, reason, and wisdom, they had become merely another footnote in a long marathon of footnotes."
also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-breaking-points-recognizing-signs-painful-cultural-shift 
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History Bites Hillary  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/16/history-bites-hillary/ 
A quote...."You can have a very strong economic and scientific community with a strong and credible military deterrence to invasion, or you can have a globe encircling military force that will force other countries and cultures to constantly confront you.  Take your pick, it can’t and won’t be both!" 
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Obama Is Selling Fear & War To Win Re-Election in 2012  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2011/10/president-obama-is-selling-fear-and-war.htm 
Obama Bites the Statue of Liberty http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8yBmwXW4XEM/SxGB-6ZX5oI/AAAAAAAACtM/7iMIo4_wZe4/s1600/vampire_obama.jpg
A quote...."Three years ago, President Obama cynically sold hope and change to get elected. He promised to initiate diplomatic talks with Iran, bring an end to the Iraq war, undo Bush-era laws, and create millions of new jobs. -- The American people thought they were voting for the anti-Bush. What they got instead was a third Bush term." 
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More on the Domestic Situation.... 

Cash Transactions Banned by Louisiana: Government Takes Private Property Without Due Process
  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/236218-Cash-Transactions-Banned-by-Louisiana-Government-Takes-Private-Property-Without-Due-Process 
A quote...."This summer, the State Legislature and Governor of Louisiana passed a law that bans individuals and businesses from transacting in cash if they are considered a "secondhand dealer". House Bill 195 of the 2011 Regular Session (Act 389) broadly defines a secondhand dealer to include "... " 
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We fabricated drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas, former detective testifies
  ---  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/10/13/2011-10-13_excop_we_fabricated_drug_raps_for_quotas.html 
A quote...."A former NYPD narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas." 
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Fast & Furious File & The Iran Scam Comedy™  

Obama Spoke About “Fast & Furious” Before Holder Claimed He Knew
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/obama-spoke-about-fast-furious-before-holder-claimed-he-knew/ 
The Liar in Chief & his minions can't get their lies straight. - mpg -- A quote...."CNN’s John King plays Holder’s testimony to Congress on MAY 3, 2011, where he said he had only just recently heard about the Fast & Furious gunrunning program. “I’m not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks,” Attorney General Eric Holder said." 
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'Israelis, Saudis' behind Iran terror plot - Press TV News  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BroW3Cwm4b4 
FOXVideo - (FOXYuTb - 3min55sec - Oct 15, 2011) - Source:  presstvmobile  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/presstvmobile 
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Corporate-Fascists Clamor for Iran War  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Corporate-Fascists_Clamor_for_Iran_War/16154/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
A quote...."While US politicians grapple over the credibility of using the US DEA's bomb plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador as a pretext to escalate tensions with Iran, America's unelected, corporate-funded policy makers have already announced their long, foregone conclusion. The DEA's entrapment case is decidedly to be used as a pretext for war with Iran." - also posted at LandDestroyerReport
  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/10/corporate-fascists-clamor-for-iran-war.html 
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Leading US lawmaker [Dianne Feinstein] warns of Iran 'collision course'  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139377 
More BS from another AIPAC/Israeli Consortium lackey - A quote...."Memo to Senator Feinstein: the plot is laughable; the real evidence is non-existent, and even if Saudi Arabia makes a formal complaint at the UN, Russia and China will veto any sanctions against it. - So what then? The US, NATO, and possibly EU sanctions will move forward, to the point of embargoes on Iranian shipping through the Gulf, which will be, in and of themselves, acts of war against Iran. - Your "certainty" about this case is implausible in the extreme particularly in light of the fact that this alcoholic used car salesman was "interrogated" for 12 days before he confessed...." -- *Michael Rivero* 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

G. Edward Griffin: A Den of Vipers  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/g-edward-griffin-den-of-vipers.html 
Must Read - Excerpt - A quote...."The government had encouraged widespread banking fraud during the War of 1812 as an expedient for paying its bills, and this had left the nation in monetary chaos.  At the end of the war, instead of allowing the fraudulent banks to fall and letting the free market heal the damage, Congress decided to protect the banks, to organize the fraud, and to perpetuate the losses.  It did this by creating the nation's third central bank called the Second Bank of the United States." - Does what you just read sound familiar? - mpg - Topix ||  Debt Doesn't Matter When the Rubes Pay - 02-29-08 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/debtdoesntmatter-blog-mpg-022908 
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Are the Federal Reserve and Its Primary Dealer Banks Manipulating the Stock Market?  ---  http://lewrockwell.com/barnett/barnett39.1.html 
Special Note - A quote...."The "Quantitative Easing" programs were structured to transfer money (out of thin air) from the New York Fed to its primary dealer banks. This is done when the Fed purchases treasury bonds from these dealers, some of which include Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, along with 18 others. This process infuses the banks receiving this money with instant liquidity. During QE2 for example, from November 3rd of 2010 through June 30th of 2011, the New York Fed bought from its primary dealers $770 billion worth of treasuries, not the $600 billion it claimed. These banks acquired many of these treasuries during the bailouts by trading worthless securities for full value treasuries. This was, by the way, at taxpayer expense.

There is a direct correlation between these bond purchases and stock market performance. When QE1 ended, after an increase of approximately 90% in the markets, the markets began to fall.  After falling about 23% from those highs, QE2 was announced, and began in November of 2010. The markets proceeded to go up again until QE2 ended in June of 2011. After the money stopped flowing, there was a sudden drop of over 18% from July through September of this year." 
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Unseating the Entrenched Polticians in Bed with the Bankers
  ---  http://lonestarwatchdog.blogspot.com/2011/10/unseating-entrenched-polticians-in-bed.html 
A quote...."One of the biggest problems we have such turmoil in our great nation is the political establishment in all levels of the government from local government to the top. These people have not only undermined the people, they used their office they were elected to serve the people. They used the office for personal gain. Over the years when they deceived the people into reelecting them. As time goes by, they reorganized the government structure to insure their political career will survive.They fortified the government to protect them from the people." 
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Four US banks hold a staggering 95.9% of U.S. derivatives: The $600 Trillion Time Bomb That's Set to Explode
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27106 
A quote...."Do you want to know the real reason banks aren't lending and the PIIGS have control of the barnyard in Europe? -- It's because risk in the $600 trillion derivatives market isn't evening out. To the contrary, it's growing increasingly concentrated among a select few banks, especially here in the United States. -- In 2009, five banks held 80% of derivatives in America. Now, just four banks hold a staggering 95.9% of U.S. derivatives, according to a recent report from the Office of the Currency Comptroller. -- The four banks in question...." 
Also known as the "Bail Out Pigs", the "Too Piggy to Bail", and the "Four Pigs of the Apocalypse" As hard as it may be to believe, one of these pigs (Citigroup) just had some of its customers ARRESTED (!?!?) because they actually had the audacity to try and close their accounts and take THEIR money out!!!  Another one of the pigs (BofA) also refused to allow their customers to close their accounts (but at least it didn't have them arrested)
Related ||  Thinking About Closing Your TBTF Bank Account?  ||  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/thinking-about-closing-your-tbtf-bank-account
||  Want To Talk To Vikram Pandit, CEO Of Citigroup? Here’s His Cell Phone Number  ||
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/want-to-talk-to-vikram-pandit-ceo-of-citigroup-heres-his-cel.html 
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Calvin And Hobbes Explain Modern Capitalism  ---  http://dailybail.com/storage/calvin-hobbes-crony-capitalism.jpg 
Cartoon - So true and so sad....mpg 
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America's Multi-Headed Monster  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/10/americas-multi-headed-monster.html 
A quote...."It' combines and represents...." 
"Angry street protesters nationwide must understand and focus on these above other issues. Achieving social justice depends on it." 
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Obama Is Tip Of Wall Street Iceberg  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/15/obama-is-tip-of-wall-street-iceberg/ 
A quote...."President Obama is in deep re-election trouble, for not only do the majority of Americans not trust the global elite and Wall Street but that mistrust also extends to Obama ~ whose re-election campaign pockets are lined with ongoing donations from his corporate base. In essence, American taxpayers are being ripped off by Wall Street and Obama is being paid off to look the other way." 
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EFSF needs to be 4 trillion euros, says Daniel Gros  ---  http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/efsf-needs-to-be-4-trillion-euros-says-daniel-gros/ 
A quote...."The new eurozone bailout fund, the EFSF, may need to be as big as 4 trillion euros to assist banks, Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies, has admitted – and senior officials are afraid to tell lawmakers, reports the FT."  ---  http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/526099b8-e3a3-11e0-8990-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1Z0HeDTms  ---  Keep in mind this is the exact same FT that kept floating all those rumors about a US led bail-out, how Merkel and Sarkozy had "solved" the EU's financial woes, etc. etc., during the US-NRE stock market's recent miraculous nine day vapor-volume melt-up.  Just FYI. - mpg 
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The Moral Unraveling of the EU, Bailouts and Central Banking
  ---  http://www.thedailybell.com/3086/Anthony-Wile-The-Moral-Unraveling-of-the-EU-Bailouts-and-Central-Banking 
A quote...."Money continues to flood Western regimes and financial institutions with billions and billions that they don't deserve and cannot properly apply. Perhaps there is no alternative but to "kick the can down the road." On the other hand, perhaps the bailouts are part of a wider elite destabilization effort, one intended to generate chaos and misery that will pave the way for global governance and maybe a new world currency. This is the view of the more conspiratorially-minded among the alternative media. -- For whatever reasons, the bailouts, against all logic, continue apace and are being increasingly resisted ... not merely for their Draconian impacts but because people are using technology to become more informed. This bailout saga, therefore, has been unusual, not only for the incalculable wealth that's been extended but also because it's played out in front of millions." 
also posted at LewRockwell  ---  http://lewrockwell.com/wile/wile43.1.html 
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News... 

Occupy Capitalism: 'No freedom of press in London'  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/16/ZXoRbiD26FU 
Must View RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXoRbiD26FU  ---  (RTYuTb - 3min12sec - Oct 15, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."A global outcry against corporate greed has risen up in almost a thousand cities worldwide. People have taken their anger to the streets, saying their governments have been taken over by big business. RT talks to author and journalist Afshin Rattansi." 
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Occupy World St: From NYC to Everywhere  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29425.htm 
Must View RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73gtsiWu8g4  ---  (RTYuTb - 12min10sec - Oct 15, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."All over the globe people are rising up and demanding their rights in a worldwide rally of discontent as protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement spread around the world on Saturday." 
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Big Banks Refuse to Let People Close Accounts  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/big-banks-refuse-to-let-people-close-accounts.html 
Action Alert - Close Your Accounts!! - Contains Video - A quote...."I’ve long supported the campaign to “Move Your Money” from the giant, insolvent banks who take billions in bailouts and use the money to speculate and to corrupt the system to smaller banks. See this and this. - The Occupy Wall Street protesters have announced that November 5th is “Bank Transfer Day”, a targeted day to “Move Your Money”. - The big banks are trying to preempt the efforts of their customers to move their money to smaller banks. - This week, protesters were arrested when they tried to close their Citibank accounts...." - bold by website editor - This is OPEN, NAKED, Bankster theft!!! - mpg 
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Bank Of America Branch In California Reportedly Refuses To Allow Protesters To Close Accounts
  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/16/bank-of-america-protesters-close-accounts_n_1013490.html 
Contains Related Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK0O30aFT7g  ---  A quote...."Should people who are tired of paying extra fees be allowed to close their bank accounts in protest? One Bank of America official reportedly doesn't think so" -- "We went to BoA intending to make a mild statement while choosing to closer our account. It got emotional and more than we were expecting." 
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Federal Reserve Tries to Censor Infowars Video  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/alert-federal-reserve-tries-to-censor.html 
Censorship Alert - Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UqcY8lGUUE  ---  A quote...."We [Prison Planet & Alex Jones] have received a privacy claim by agents of the FED. They are threatening to remove the video and take down the channel within 36 hours if we don’t bow down to their demands. Alex is preparing a video response later and will talk about this more on the (Monday Edition) of the Alex Jones Show. -- Alex is also looking at taking legal action against the Privately owned Federal Reserve for violating his crews first amendment rights when they were shooting film at a world war one memorial back in April 2009. -- more videos and updates about this censorship HERE."  ---  http://www.infowars.com/alert-federal-reserve-tries-to-censor-infowars-video/ 
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The Video That Scares The Federal Reserve Traitors  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2011/10/video-that-scares-federal-reserve.html 
Censorship Alert - Contains Videos - Alt1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZArcsRXHQPI  ---  Alt2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ton4iQqbH8s  ---  Related Article - A quote...."The criminal private Federal Reserve System is afraid of the video below that shows the naked truth about the evil nature of America's central bank." 
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Global 99 Percent Rally Worldwide in Solidarity With Occupy Wall Street
  ---  http://www.truth-out.org/solidarity-wall-street-protests-rallies-sweep-globe/1318772134 
A quote...."Buoyed by the longevity of the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Manhattan, a wave of protests swept across Asia, the Americas and Europe on Saturday, with hundreds and in some cases thousands of people expressing discontent with the economic tides in marches, rallies and occasional clashes with the police." 
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Massive Standoff at Occupy Times Square  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxF-Evdhh7w 
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 3min09sec -  Oct 16, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Thousands of protesters gather at NYC Times Square to support the Occupy Wall Street movement. Confrontation with the police lead to numerous arrests of peaceful demonstrators. Tens of thousands of people in hundreds of cities around the word have been venting their fury against the greed of the big banks - and the debt management inflicted by their governments. Inspired by the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement in Manhattan, protests took hold in Europe, Asia, and around the U.S. - with some turning violent. " 
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OWS, The Next Revolution is Here with Bryce Shonka  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/15/ows-the-next-revolution-is-here-with-bryce-shonka/ 
AJVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSw5b5RJskQ  ---  (AJYuTb - 12min32sec - Oct 14, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."(AJC) – Mike Adams talks with Bryce Shonka, the deputy director of the Tenth Amendment Center, about the Occupy Wall Street movement, now closing in on a month encamped in Lower Manhattan." 
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Global Occupation: 1,000 cities unite in 'Wall St' anger worldwide  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJqj4iXg8o 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJqj4iXg8o  ---  (RTYuTb - 2min39sec -  Oct 15, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."A global outcry against corporate greed has risen up in almost a thousand cities worldwide. People have taken their anger to the streets, saying their governments have been taken over by big business. RT talks to Tim Matthews, Occupy London Stock exchange activist." 
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Operation Cooptation: The Dems Try to Seduce the Occupation Movement
  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/operation-cooptation-dems-try-seduce-occupation-movement 
Co-Option Alert - A quote...."It’s cooptation time in the Occupation Movement, with the Democrats attempting to convert the anti-Wall Street protests into political assets for Obama – even as he tries to raise a billion dollars from the filthy rich. Al Sharpton is the president’s key cooptation operative. “The goal, of course, is to keep the attentions of African Americans and unionists focused on the Republicans and their Tea Party annex, as opposed to Wall Street, with which the administration has been intimately entwined from day-one.”" 
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Occupy (No, we are NOT kidding) ANTARCTICA!  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139346 
Photo - Now that's funny. - mpg 
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Occupy Together: World Street protests fight big banksters - video
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/19/GoG-ZYNjQrI    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoG-ZYNjQrI  ---  (RTYuTb 6m4s Oct 15, 2011) - Src RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday    
Freedom Rider: Occupy Wall Street, Denounce the Democrats
  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-occupy-wall-street-denounce-democrats    
12160's Featured Photos (546) - photo gallery
  ---  http://12160.info/photo/photo/listFeatured    
Occupy nola at duncan plaza new orleans - photos
  ---  http://12160.info/photo/occupy-nola-at-duncan-plaza-new-orleans?context=featured    
Protesters march in Tokyo as Wall St. movement goes global
  ---  http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20111016p2g00m0dm004000c.html    
A day of international action against Wall Street
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/pers-o17.shtml    
Hundreds of thousands protest internationally against social inequality
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/prot-o17.shtml    
Canada: Occupy Wall Street movement hits twenty cities
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/cana-o17.shtml    
Australia: Demonstrations held in every capital
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/auop-o17.shtml    
Europe: Protestors speak out in the UK and Germany
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/euro-o17.shtml    
The way forward in the fight against Wall Street
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/pers-o15.shtml    
Financial protests spread across the globe
  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/1260-financial-protests-spread-across-the-globe.html    
Police identify 20 protesters arrested at Occupy Raleigh  ---  http://www.newsobserver.com/
2011/10/16/1569939/police-arrest-19-demonstrators.html?tab=gallery&gallery=/2011/10/15/1569130/occupy-raleigh-101511.html&gid_index=1    
19 'Occupy Sacramento' Protesters Arrested
  ---  http://www.kcra.com/r/29500379/detail.html    
Occupy Wall Street: At least 19 arrested at Citibank branch
  ---  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/15/1026768/-Occupy-Wall-Street:-At-least-19-arrested-at-Citibank-branch    
Chicago: As anti-Wall Street protests grow more than 175 arrested at Grant Park
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/chic-o17.shtml    
Dr. Cornel West and 16 Others Arrested Protesting Corporate Power at US Supreme Court
  ---  http://ampedstatus.org/dr-cornel-west-and-16-others-arrested-protesting-corporate-power-at-us-supreme-court/    
12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement Around the Country
  ---  http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/152743/12_most_absurd_laws_used_to_stifle_the_occupy_wall_st._movement_around_the_country/?page=entire
Alt  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/12_Most_Absurd_Laws_Used_to_Stifle_the_Occupy_Wall_St._Movement_Around_the_Country/16142/0/38/38   /Y/M.html    
Hundreds arrested at 'Occupy' events in Chicago, Denver, Arizona, as movement spreads across US
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Hundreds-arrested-Occupy-events-Chicago-Denver-Arizona-movement-spreads-across-US    
Occupy Wall Street Protesters Tell Mayor Bloomberg “Hell No We Won’t Go!”
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/occupy-wall-street-protesters-tell-mayor-bloomberg-hell-no-we-wont-go.html    
Fight & Chaos: First video of 'Occupy Rome' rally turning violent - vid
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/15/0aMD4QIvGUE    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aMD4QIvGUE  ---  (RTYuTb 3m15s 101511) - Src RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday    
Occupy London clashes: Fighting erupts at UK protest - video
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/13/HpqPM7E7PO0    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpqPM7E7PO0  ---  (RTYuTb 3m2s -  Oct 15, 2011) - Src RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday    
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The Assault On Libya.... 

Testimony of Libya - Lizzy Phelan - LIBYA ON WAR  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/10/testimony-of-libya-lizzy-phelan-libya.html 
Must View Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqb6Q65AdKc  ---  (YuTb - 11min56sec - Oct 11, 2011) - Source:  amigosdelibia  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/amigosdelibia 
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Libyan Air Operations:  [As of Oct 16th 2011] -- Since the beginning of the NATO operation (31 March 2011, 06.00GMT) a total of 25,793 sorties, including 9,542 strike sorties*, have been conducted." 

Sorties conducted 14 OCTOBER: 67    
Strike sorties conducted 14 OCTOBER: 16    

"*Strike sorties are intended to identify and engage appropriate targets, but do not necessarily deploy munitions each time." - from:  NATO Source - Alliance News Blog  ---  http://www.acus.org/natosource/update-nato-activities-libya-october-14 
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Fighting Erupts in Tripoli  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Fighting_Erupts_in_Tripoli/16139/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
A quote...."NATO claims of 'victory" in Libya up in smoke as fighting erupts in Tripoli and rebel "final assault" of Sirte drags on past one week. -- October 15, 2011 - Pro-Qaddafi protesters took to the streets in Tripoli carrying aloft the green flags synonymous with Libya's sovereign government. The demonstration quickly unraveled into a two-hour firefight when the city's supposed rulers, NATO-backed rebels, confronted them with machine guns. The violence underscores just how tenuous the rebel's grip is on the capital, while ongoing battles in Bani Walid, Sabha, and Sirte illustrate how flimsy NATO's premature claim of victory was 2 months ago after their bombardment of Tripoli." 
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Libya: The Humanitarian War. There is no Evidence  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27101 
A Documented Trail Of NATO & US-NRE Lies - A quote...."This document makes it possible to understand how international law and justice works, but mostly how its basic principles can be bypassed. The resolutions passed against Lybia are based on various allegations : notably on the statement claiming that Gaddafi had carried out jet attacks on his own people and engaged in a violent repression against an uprising, killing more than 6000 civilians. These allegations were spread before they could have been verified. Even though it was on the basis of this claim that the Lybian Jamahiriya government was suspended from the United Nations Human Rights Council, before being referred to the United Nations Security Council." 
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Security firms eye Libya from Afghan quagmire  ---  http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/13/security-firms-eye-libya-from-afghan-quagmire.html 
(i.e. Carpet baggers are now going to feast on the corpse of another country - mpg) -- A quote...."KABUL: Fed up with corruption, bureaucratic nightmares and government restrictions, Western security contractors are putting the 10-year war in Afghanistan behind them for the world’s latest hotspot, Libya." - You see, they're gonna "HELP" the Libyan people.  Uh-huh....(now nod your head knowingly)" - Who would have thought it could get worse in Libya....but it's going too....mpg 
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Black Libyans Make Their Stand in Sirte and Bani Walid - Glen Ford  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/4/OPmpnqKe7bY 
M108Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPmpnqKe7bY  ---  (M108YuTb - 5min35sec - Oct 15, 2011) - Source: 108morris108  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108  ---  A quote...."An Interview with a very knowledgeable Black American Editor on the subject of Libya - His (and the article and radio program) is at Black Agenda Report dot Com."  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com 
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Black Libyans Make Their Stand in Sirte and Bani Walid  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/black-libyans-make-their-stand-sirte-and-bani-walid 
A quote...."Black soldiers are fighting for survival against the world’s biggest lynch mob, armed to the teeth by the United States and Europe.” When it comes to Blacks – whether Libyans or immigrant workers - NATO-backed rebels have shown no respect for the rules of war, or for women and children. If surrender means torture and debasement or summary execution at the hands of racist killers, the only option is a battle to the bitter end." 
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Morris thinks Khamis is alive  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/1/uWGRvATqxM8 
M108Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWGRvATqxM8  ---  (M108YuTb - 3min22sec - Oct 15, 2011) - Source: 108morris108  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108  ---  A quote...."In a period of 12 hours only one source is reporting Khamis' martyrdom. Unfortunately it is a source I admire and trust, perhaps I have been a little light hearted in this video, but there is a contradiction between my trust and the message.
Probably Khamis has gone to get the Algerian Army." 
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Something is really wrong with PressTV  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82298&hd=&size=1&l=e 
Press Self-Censorship? - (Has PressTV Been Bought? - Morris is not going to like this. - mpg) -- A quote...."I came across an article which was meant to expose major NATO lies in Libya, the article was published by PressTV, but it was removed within half an hour, I did not have a chance to read it." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82298&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  Related ||  Lizzie Phelan Latest  ---  http://globalciviliansforpeace.com/tag/lizzies-liberation-blog/  ---  ||  ---  Video  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqb6Q65AdKc  ---  (posted above - YuTb 11m56s 10/11/11)  || 
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This is The Democracy that NATO Brought to Libya 14/10/2011 - videos  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82318&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Afghanistan, "Operation Enduring Slaughter": Ten Bloody Years  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27064
A quote...."What a murderous, infanticidel, appalling, shameful, ignorant – and arguable, decade-long war crime. -- “Operation Enduring Freedom”, turned “Operation Enduring Slaughter.”  
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US troops kill Afghan teacher, daughters  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204883.html 
War Crimes Alert - Some quotes...."US-led soldiers have killed an Afghan teacher and his two daughters during a night raid in troubled eastern Afghanistan, Press TV reports. - According to local officials, troops stormed the house located in Wardak Province, shooting and killing the teacher and his daughters aged18 and 20. " -- "The deaths follow the killing of four Afghan civilians after US military forces attacked a residential area in Kunar Province." 
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British, Estonian troops killed in southern Afghanistan  ---  http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-88511.html 
A quote...."KABUL : Two British and Estonian soldiers serving with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed on Saturday as a result of two separate insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan, officials said." 
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More very guilty [expletive deleted]...  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139374 
Crime Against Humanity - (Canada) -- A quote...."Preliminary scanning by ground penetrating radar adjacent to the now closed main building Mohawk Institute has revealed that "between 15-20 feet of soil" was brought in and put over the mass graves just before the Mohawk Institute closed in 1970 in order to camouflage the mass graves of Mohawk Children and avoid prosecution for genocide and crimes against humanity under the Geneva Conventions, the International Criminal Court, and cooperating national courts." 
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Afghan lawmakers OK Kabul Bank IMF bailout
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Afghan_lawmakers_OK_IMF_Kabul_Bank_bailout/16151/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
Another Bankster slave country is born. - mpg -- A quote...."The lower house passed a bill to provide up to $825 million over the next eight years to recapitalize Afghanistan's central bank — a move that smooths the way for the International Monetary Fund to extend Afghanistan a new line of credit. Afghanistan has been without IMF backing for more than a year, threatening to choke off billions in aid to the country." - a comment shown below.... 

“No” he says while shaking his head, “no…..no….”, he says again. “The IBBC is a bank, their objective isn’t to control the conflict, it’s to control the debt that the conflict produces.  You see the real value of a conflict….the true value, is in the debt that it creates.  You control the debt….you control everything.” -- *The International : Scene with Umberto Calvini - Transcript - 02-20-10 - mpg*  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theinternationalscenewithumbertocalvini-tnscpt-mpg-reficultnias-022010  
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'Iran gas to ease Pakistan energy crisis'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205020.html 
A quote...."Iran's Ambassador to Islamabad Mashallah Shakeri says a planned Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline will help Islamabad tackle its energy crisis and will revolutionize the Pakistani industry." 
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Turkey to open new trade gate with Iran  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205003.html 
A quote...."Turkish Customs and Trade Minister Hayati Yazici says the country plans to open new border gates with Iran, Iraq, and Georgia, Press TV reports." 
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Deputy Minister: Over 400 Foreign Companies Directly Investing in Iran  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=9007161195 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Economy Minister Behrouz Alishiri said Iran ranks among the world's top countries in terms of the growth of foreign direct investment (FDI), and added that despite economic sanctions, over 400 foreign firms and companies are now directly investing in Iran in different sectors." 
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As Yemeni Revolt Escalates, Pro-Government Forces Fire on Protesters for a Second Day
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/world/middleeast/yemeni-forces-fire-on-protesters-for-second-day.html?_r=1 
A quote...."SANA, Yemen — For the second day in a row, demonstrators in the capital escalated their protest by marching into government-held territory on Sunday, and for the second day in a row they were fired on by pro-government forces. At least five people were killed." 
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Tymoshenko's trial was 'a trial of revenge' says daughter  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20111016/167751985.html 
A quote...."Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych will stop at nothing to destroy former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, her daughter says." 
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New War of Choice in Uganda Follows Familiar Foreign Police Doctrine - More on Obama's brand new war.
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/15/new-war-of-choice-in-uganda-follows-familiar-foreign-police-doctrine/ 
A quote...."Sending 100 combat troops to Uganda, Obama is fighting a routine fight: unnecessary war, support for dictatorship, and blowback as an afterthought." 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

Ongoing Israeli Human Rights Abuses  ---  http://www.bobtuskin.com/2011/10/16/ongoing-israeli-human-rights-abuses/ 
Second Quote of the Day -- A quote...."Throughout its history, Israel’s been a serial human rights abuser. Count the ways. - State-sponsored terror is official policy. So is collective punishment, apartheid, colonialism, premeditated war, torture, and filling prison cells illegally with Palestinians wanting to live free on their own land in their own country. - Instead they’ve suffered brutal indignities and persecution under 44 years of occupation. They’ve endured racism, land theft, dispossessions, road blocks, checkpoints, Separation Walls, mass arrests, prison hell, economic strangulation, terrorized neighborhood incursions, and isolation in cantonized communities and Gaza under siege." - Source:  SteveLendman  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/10/ongoing-israeli-human-rights-abuses.html 
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The Liam Fox / Adam Werritty Affair.... 

Revealed: Fox's best man and his ties to Iran's opposition
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-foxs-best-man-and-his-ties-to-irans-opposition-2371352.html 
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29421.htm 
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
AIPAC/Israeli Presstitute & Operative Exposed - A quote...."Adam Werritty, the man at the centre of the Liam Fox cash-for-access scandal, has been involved in an audacious plot to topple Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it was claimed last night. -- The self-styled adviser to Mr Fox, whose close personal friendship with the former defence secretary led to Mr Fox's downfall, has visited Iran on several occasions and met Iranian opposition groups in Washington and London over the past few years, The Independent on Sunday has learnt." 
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Disgraced former UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox​ knowingly served Israel  ---  http://www.redress.cc/global/gatzmon20111017 
Related Article - A quote...."Gilad Atzmon argues that recently-resigned UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox and his friend, the spiv Adam Werrity, are not Israel’s useful idiots but “knew exactly what they were doing and who were their donors ... fully understood their role and willingly did what was required” of them by Israel”, and that Prime Minister Cameron and his Cabinet are fully complicit." 
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No tears for warmonger Liam Fox  ---  http://www.redress.cc/global/slittlewood20111017 
Related Article - A quote...."Stuart Littlewood considers the murky world of Britain’s recently-resigned defence secretary, Liam Fox, whose views and beliefs on crucial issues seem to have been shaped by Israel and lobbies than by any concern for the UK’s national interests." 
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Liam Fox Resignation Exposes Tory Links to US Neocons  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/15/liam-fox-resignation-exposes-tories
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29419.htm 
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
Related Article - A quote...."David Cameron has been accused of allowing a secret rightwing agenda to flourish at the heart of the Conservative party, as fallout from the resignation of Liam Fox exposed its close links with a US network of lobbyists, climate change deniers and defence hawks." 
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Was Mossad using Fox and Werritty as 'useful idiots'?  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/
article-2049642/Was-Mossad-using-Fox-Werritty-useful-idiots-Ex-Ambassador-reveals-links-advisers-set-alarm-bells-ringing.html# 
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29424.htm 
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
Related Article - A quote...."The real reason Liam Fox had to resign was not a grubby little money scandal about firms funding Adam Werritty as he jetted round the world with the Defence Secretary. It was much more important, and much worse, than that. -- Last Sunday, ‘friends of Liam Fox’ were letting it be known that the investigation of Werritty would bring up nothing scandalous. -- These friends were widely reported as saying that Werritty’s funding came from those wishing to promote U.S. and Israeli interests to the British government." -- Werrity appears to be another bought and paid for AIPAC/Israeli Consortium shill. - mpg 
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Israeli espionage mole exposed in Britain? - Liam Fox is Not a Useful Idiot  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/16/liam-fox-is-not-a-useful-idiot/ 
A quote...."While Fox was Defence Minister, Werrity visited Fox at the Ministry on many occasions, accompanied Fox on numerous official trips, attended some of his meetings with foreign dignitaries and used official-looking business cards which announced him as an ‘adviser’ to Fox – and all despite having no official government post whatsoever. -- However, it has now also been revealed that Fox and Werritty were heavily financed by the Israeli lobby and ‘beyond’." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Gaza Represents the Ultimate Failure of Politics  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29423.htm 
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
Special Note - A quote...."October 16, 2011 "The Guardian" --  Government is all about statistics. But life is about people, and the disjunction between the two explains a lot about the cynicism and disaffection with politics. This is true for domestic policy, but also in international affairs, where the confusion and fatigue induced by distance is increased by the seemingly intractable nature of many of the problems. -- The people who suffer are those who most need the attention of the world. This is notably true of the 1.5 million people crowded into the Gaza Strip, locked between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean sea."
Source:  TheGuardian  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/11/david-miliband-gaza-politics-save-the-children 
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Palestinian Prisoners Enter 20th Day of Hunger Strike  ---  http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17773 
A quote...."GAZA, October 16, 2011 (WAFA) – Thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails Sunday entered their 20th day of their open-ended hunger strike to protest their worsening detention conditions, said a statement by Prisoners Center for Studies (PCS)." 
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Israeli Army Closes Palestinian School in Hebron  ---  http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17771 
A quote...."HEBRON, October 16, 2011 (WAFA) – The Israeli army Sunday attacked and closed a Palestinian school in the Old City in Hebron for the fourth day in a row, said a local official." 
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Settlers [Squatters & Vagrants] Enter [& Attempt to Steal] Palestinian Land in Khallet al-Nahleh and Artas
  ---  http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10758&Itemid=62 
A quote...."Dozens of vehicles transporting settlers [vagrants and squatters] entered to the area under the protection of Israeli forces,” claimed Abu Swei. “These incursions have increased lately, because the settlers [vagrants and squatters] intend to lay claim to Jabal Tareq mountain and expand the Efrat settlement [squatter camp]”.  
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A Palestinian mayor explains how Israeli army starves his village of water
  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2011/10/a-palestinian-mayor-explains-how-israeli-army-starves-his-village-of-water.html 
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls6RvAObTE4  ---  A quote...."Whenever I go to Palestine, I come away shocked at what Israel is doing there, without any American recognition. -- I realize that I am almost as blind as all the other Americans-- because our media has done nothing to inform us about conditions. Our society has ignored these conditions by saying, Well it's a tough neighborhood, or, They're Arabs. Below is a video about the Arabs in that tough neighborhood. It is one of several videos I'll be posting in days to come." 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m82314&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

Goldman's Jim O'Neill Goes Bear Hunting  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/goldmans-jim-oneill-goes-bear-hunting 
Mrkt Tech Note - A quote...."The last time (May 2010) when the head of the worst performing division at Goldman, GSAM's Jim O'Neill openly taunted the market skeptics ("Anyhow, dear grizzlies....bet your [sic] worried about today’s rally? See u later.") the market proceeded to implode with such ferocity (not to mention see the first and biggest SEC fine charged against his firm for CDO rigging) that it took QE2 to prevent a depressionary relapse. Now, following the latest two week surge in risk assets, driven as we currently speculate primarily due to a FX repatriation out of French banks on asset liquidation and USD to EUR conversion, Jim O'Neill has once again crawled out of his shell and has gone "bear hunting." 
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Free Trade Or Fair Trade? 20 Reasons Why All Americans Should Be Against The Insane Trade Policies Of The Globalists
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Free_Trade_Or_Fair_Trade%3F_20_Reasons_Why_All_Amer 
icans_Should_Be_Against_The_Insane_Trade_Policies_Of_The_Globalists/16152/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
A quote...."It is absolutely amazing how many Americans are still convinced that more "free trade" is the answer to our economic problems.  The truth is that there is a vast difference between "free trade" and "fair trade", and in this article I will prove that all true conservatives and all true liberals should be completely against the insane trade policies of the federal government." - also posted at EconomicCollapse  ---  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/
archives/free-trade-or-fair-trade-20-reasons-why-all-americans-should-be-against-the-insane-trade-policies-of-the-globalists 
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Saturday October 15th 2011 - links page 

No posts. - mpg 

Friday October 14th 2011 - links page 

From Afghanistan to Libya - The Price of Getting It Wrong  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/14/the-price-of-getting-it-wrong/ 
Must Read - A quote...."In 1979, when Soviet troops swept into Afghanistan, an angry Jimmy Carter organized an unofficial alliance to give the Soviets ‘their Vietnam’ (which Afghanistan became).”  --*Marvin Kalb*, New York Times, 11/9/11  

"The writer of the above paragraph is Marvin Kalb, a former network correspondent, Harvard professor emeritus, co-author “Haunting legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama.” -- It is false history. --  As Paul Jay of the Real News (and before him, the French publication Le Nouvel Observateur) discovered, the Carter administration made the decision to intervene in an Afghan civil war fully six months before the Soviet invasion. In a July 1979 “finding” the White House authorized U.S. military and intelligence agencies to supply the anti-communist mujahideen fighters with money and supplies. -- The “finding” was the beginning of “Operation Cyclone,” a clandestine plan aimed at luring the Soviets into invading Afghanistan." - bold by website editor 
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The Boiling Frogs Presents Nada Prouty  ---  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/10/13/podcast-show-61/ 
Must Listen Audio - (BFPAudio - 57min46sec - Oct 13, 2011) -- A quote...."Former FBI-CIA Agent Nada Prouty joins us in an exclusive interview to discuss her journey from Lebanon to the United States, her sham marriage to obtain US citizenship, what motivated her to join the FBI counterterrorism unit, and why she left the FBI to join the CIA. She provides us with details of being investigated and eventually prosecuted by the Justice Department, and the reasons she pled guilty to two felonies and a misdemeanor to the sham marriage and unauthorized use of a FBI computer. Ms. Prouty shares with us her assessment of the FBI and the CIA, the differences between the two agencies in approaching counter-terror related operations, her take on the Agency’s scandals, from lying on Iraq WMD to documented cases of assassination-rendition- torture, and more!" 
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More on the Domestic Situation.... 

Episode 045 – PTech and the 9/11 Software  ---  http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-045-ptech-and-the-911-software/ 
CRAudio - (CRAudio - 1:07:28) -- A quote...."PTech’s clients included some of the most sensitive organizations and agencies in the United States government, including NATO, The U.S. Armed Forces, Congress, The Department of Energy, The Department of Justice, The FBI, Customs, The FAA, The IRS, The Secret Service, and the White House. -- This sterling roster of clients made Indira Singh very eager to take a look at PTech software. However, when the PTech representatives arrived at the J.P. Morgan-Chase offices to display and present their software, Ms. Singh knew there was something wrong right away." - Related ||  Ptech and the 9/11 Software  ||  ---  http://www.corbettreport.com/ptech-and-the-911-software/ 
||  DownLoadMp3  ||  ---  http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode045_ptech_and_the_911_software.mp3 
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Gerald Celente – Mike Broomhead 550 KFYI – October 10th, 2011
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/14/gerald-celente-mike-broomhead-550-kfyi-october-10th-2011/ 
GCAudio - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3c3ylgiEzw  ---  (YuTb - 11min - Oct 13, 2011) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/GeraldCelenteChannel 
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Occupation Nation – Charlie McGrath  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/14/occupation-nation-charlie-mcgrath/ 
CMcGVideo - Alt  ---  (CMcGYuTb - 3min36sec - Oct 13, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/crabbydogtrix 
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Israel: A History of Self-Inflicted Genocide & Terrorism with Steve Pieczenik
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/a/u/1/Spm7QrODWLw 
AJVideo - StevePieczenik(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spm7QrODWLw  ---  StevePieczenik(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65c8QPYNrA  ---  (AJYuTb - 15min - - Oct 14, 2011) -- Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."On the Friday edition of the Alex Jones Show, former State Department official Steve Pieczenik returns with more commentary on the bogus Iranian terror attack." 
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House Bill Would Criminalize Satire of TSA : Alex Jones Reports
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/7/eKHPE1avKpk 
AJVideo - Police State Alert - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKHPE1avKpk  ---  (AJYuTb - 3min57sec - Oct 14, 2011) -- Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  The TSA is completely out of control!!  And this proposal is so blatantly, completely, and contemptuously unconstitutional that any representative even considering it, much less actually voting for it, has automatically foresworn themselves of their oath to defend the constitution and should be immediately  removed from office by any legal means necessary. - mpg 
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Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - October 14 2011  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/297482612 
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 9min00sec into the broadcast - mpg - (JustInTV - 2hrs - Oct, 14th 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. - mpg 
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Fast & Furious File & The Iran Scam Comedy™  

Obama Panders to Israel on Iran Strike Agenda: Ray McGovern Reports
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/12/DZhqyTyIkOs
Must View AJVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZhqyTyIkOs ---  (AJYuTb - 15min26sec - Oct 14, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex talks to former CIA Officer Ray McGovern about the possible strike on Iran, and what may lead from that if Russia or other countries get involved."
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Attorney General Eric Holder subpoenaed again in "Fast & Furious" probe - Iran Scam Deux anyone?? - mpg 
  ---  http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2011/10/14/21009/fast-and-furious 
A quote...."The House's investigative committee is digging deeper into the ATF's troubled gun-walking operation. Yesterday, it issued a lengthy subpoena to Attorney General Holder demanding unredacted documents related to "Operation Fast & Furious."" 
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"Grenade-walking" part of "Gunwalker" scandal  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139034 
A quote...."CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, who has reported on this story from the beginning, said on "The Early Show" that the investigation into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)'s so-called "Fast and Furious" operation branches out to a case involving grenades. Sources tell her a suspect was left to traffic and manufacture them for Mexican drug cartels." 
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New Evidence Shows Hillary a Mastermind Behind Gunwalker
  ---  http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/breaking-new-evidence-show-hillary-a-mastermind-behind-gunwalker 
BREAKING:  A quote...."Last week it was reported that the State Department and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were deeply involved in the scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, or Project Gunwalker. Today, however, new evidence has surfaced indicating that not only was Hillary deeply involved in the scandal but was one of the masterminds behind it. -- According to investigative citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh, sources close to the development of the Gunwalker scheme state that early on, Hillary and her trusted associated at State, Andrew J. Shapiro, devised at least part of the framework of what would later become Operation Fast and Furious. It was Shapiro who first described the details of the proposed scheme early in 2009 just after the Obama Administration took office." 
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History Moves Fast And Furiously For Eric Holder And The Obama White House
  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2011/10/history-moves-fast-and-furiously-for.html 
The lying liars & how they love to lie. - mpg -- A quote...."The White House has a pattern of manufacturing political propaganda, inventing terrorist plots, and creating fake political narratives. All this is done to direct American public attention towards fantasy and fiction, and away from reality and truth. -- When controversy starts brewing in Washington, Obama White House officials get busy behind the scenes to try to change the political conversation in order to save themselves from facing public scrutiny and justice for their crimes against America and humanity." 
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The Audacity of The U.S. Government: Waging Wars Based On Lies & Kindergarten Fiction
  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2011/10/audacity-of-us-government-waging-wars.html 
A quote...."Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Robert Mueller must have a very low opinion of the intelligence of the American people to think they can get away with dumping a pile of bullshit on the press and public." 
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The Iranian “Plot”  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/14/the-iranian-%e2%80%9cplot%e2%80%9d/ 
A quote...."First, a simple rule: utter absurdity in allegations leveled by the US government is no bar to a deferential hearing in our nation’s major conduits of official opinion.   Suppose the CIA leaks a secret national security review concluding that the moon is actually made of cheese, and the Chinese are planning to send up a pair of gigantic bio-engineered rats to breed in numbers sufficient to eat the cheese and thus sabotage US plans for Missile Defense radar deployment on the moon’s dark side." 
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Feds Foil Own Saudi Assassination Plot: Pin it on Iran  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/10/feds-foil-own-saudi-assassination-plot.html 
Quote of the Day...."Apparently, manufacturing such a "necessary pretext" to unilaterally bomb a nation of 70 million is now also a part of US foreign policy toward Iran. An oafish fabrication announced this week by Attorney General Eric Holder, consisted of an Iranian-American used-car salesman that "allegedly" attempted to hire an undercover US DEA agent, posing as a Mexican Los Zetas gangster, to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would add "nobody could make that up, right?" Wrong. -- The Fortune 500-funded US policy think-tank, Brookings Institution, in 2009 made it quite clear that the US would pursue its interests across the Middle East and would not tolerate a strong, assertive Iran standing in the way...." - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/14/feds-foil-own-saudi-assassination-plot-pin-it-on-iran-tony-carlucci/ 
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The Iran-Saudi Assassination “Hoax?”  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29404.htm 
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
A quote...."October 14, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- I have been staring incredulously at my TV screen these past few hours as the story of Iran’s alleged assassination attempt of a Saudi diplomat in Washington unfolds in dramatic increments. - Reporters keep repeating the theme “like out of a Hollywood script” as they eke out increasingly unlikely details about this “terror” plot. - My immediate thoughts? Ah. So this is how Washington intends to overrule objections to its $120 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Arab dictatorships of the Persian Gulf." 
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Libya Sent Death Squads To Assassinate Reagan - A History Of CIA Propaganda & Hit Squads - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29406.htm
posted @ ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
Contains Videos - A quote...."John Stockwell and Louis Wolf on the CIA and the Covert Action Information Bulletin (1982) - The Mossad setup the US Government to believe that Libya had sent death squads to kill President Reagan - The following is a ten minute snippet -  The full program can be viewed below." 
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First Great War of The 21st Century is Here! with Gerald Celente - More Gerald....mpg 
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/6/LGfNO4-6bhA 
AJVideo - Related Video - GeraldCelente(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGfNO4-6bhA  ---  GeraldCelente(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3dJVEYHNUA  ---  GeraldCelente(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QrvwIy_TJ4  ---  (AJYuTb - 6/15min - Oct 14, 2011) -- Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Renowned trends forecaster Gerald Celente about the false flag op and the move toward World War Three. Celente forecasted that there will be a major war as the economy crumbles." 
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Press TV taken off air in UK – war for freedom of speech now on
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Press_TV_taken_off_air_in_UK_%E2%80%93_war_for_freedom_of_speech_now_on_/16129/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
War Alert - False Flag Alert - Video - Related Article - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzlBmJcc9c  ---  (YuTb - 2min36sec - Oct 13, 2011) -- Source:  91177info  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/91177info  ---  Producer: RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  (Why is this video classified as a "War Alert" and "False Flag Alert"?  Because it's what the parasites in the US-NRE did during Sept of 2001, they shut down thousands of Muslim blog sites a few days or weeks before 9/11,  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fbishut.html  ---  in preparation for their arranged attack  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html  ---  on that day! - mpg) -- A quote...."In case you are not yet aware, OfCom, Britain’s Office of Communications, decided to take Press TV off air in the UK this week. The significance of this move by the state regulator should not be underestimated. The battle for free speech is definitely on." 
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Press TV Taken off Air in UK!  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/a/u/2/Y-spCodYzgg 
AJVideo - Related Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-spCodYzgg  ---  (AJYuTb - 3min41sec - Oct 14, 2011) -- Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Press TV taken off air in UK -- war for freedom of speech now on." 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Keiser Report: Pirates & Protesters (E197)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/3/NzujA6hP6IE 
MKVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzujA6hP6IE  ---  (MKRTYuTb - 25min40sec - Oct 15, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Producer:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) -- This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, talk about pirates and protesters and about ponzi schemes operated by Brooks Brothers Bolsheviks. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser interviews Michael W. Hudson about Countrywide's role in the subprime mortgage fraud that Obama's Justice Department refuses to prosecute." 
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U.S. budget deficit second-highest on record  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-budget-deficit-second-highest-on-record-2011-10-14 
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The government’s gap between spending and income remained above $1 trillion for the third straight year in 2011, according to fresh government data." 
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End The FED (What They Feed You 7)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LQXpBINoR4 
Video - (YuTb - 1min48sec - Oct 8, 2011) - Source:  ChangeDaChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ChangeDaChannel  ---  Nifty little video, makes the point. - mpg 
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US "Pours Cold Water" On IMF Expansion Plans, Leaves European Bailout To Europeans
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-pours-cold-water-imf-expansion-plans-leaves-european-bailout-europeans 
Anybody ever get the feeling that we're ALL just being played with, or is that just being paranoid? - mpg -- A quote...."It is probably not too surprising that the negative news of the day, namely that the US has decided against expanding the IMF and thus leaving the European bailout to the Europeans (at least for now), was released quietly long after happy hour started on Friday. Yet that is precisely what happened after Reuters dropped a Friday night bomb that with hours before a communique is issued by the G20 in Paris, contrary to previous rumors and representation "U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and his Canadian and Australian counterparts poured cold water on the idea" of injecting $350 billion into the International Monetary Fund. As a reminder, the IMF expansion myth was one of the latest rumors floated today by none other than the tag team of Geithner and Liesman. It lasted less than24 hours but it served its purpose. The full on media onslaught of never ending lies has never been more acute, more relentless, and more blatant...." 
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UBS Kills Latest European Bailout Proposal: "Why A 50% Haircut On Greek Debt Will Not Work"
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ubs-kills-latest-european-bailout-proposal-why-50-haircut-greek-debt-will-not-work 
A quote...."UBS' Stephane Deo has rapidly become of one of the most vocal, and luckily most erudite, critics of the veritable rumor-a-palooza that Europe has become: a continent that is now desperately throwing anything and everything at the wall in hopes it will stick and generate another intraday EURUSD short covering squeeze to perpetuate the illusion that Europe is viable for at least one more day. His note today effectively puts an end to the most current approach whereby Greece will see a 50% haircut on its debt " -- Try....ohhhh.....ummmm.....70% to 95%. - mpg 
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News... 

At Occupied Hartford - Live from Obamaville  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/14/live-from-obamaville/ 
Special Note - A quote...."By 1933, the jobless rate was twenty five per cent. In May 1932, seventeen thousand veterans came to Washington on a Bonus March. They were fed up. Their friends and relations had been thrown by the wayside, and promises made to them had been betrayed. Across the Potomac from Washington’s offices, the Bonus Army created an encampment. It would soon be given the name, Hooverville, and it was soon to be imitated across the country. Hoover sent General Douglas MacArthur (later of the wars in Asia) to quell the peaceful Bonus Army. MacArthur unleashed tanks and tear gas. -- But the Hoovervilles continued." 
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NYPD EPIC FAIL at Intimidating Journalists  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/14/nypd-epic-fail-at-intimidating-journalists/ 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded  ---  (YuTb - 5min54sec - Oct 13, 2011) -- A quote...."The NYPD, completely destroying the very fabric that this country was founded upon, is actively working to intimidate journalists into submission. -- The American people must stand up against this outright tyranny and DEMAND that the NYPD stop their open intimidation of the freedom of press!" 
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NYPD White Shirt KO's a Female Protester Today 10/14/11  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139082 
Video - (YuTb is censoring this video - 1min07sec - Oct 14, 2011) - A quote...."Is this a--hole working for the city, or is he one of the ones rented out to the bankers? - Because if is he being paid by the bankers then he is subject to arrest for assault and battery." -- *Michael Rivero* 
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Passionate Denver Protestor  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/passionate-denver-protestor 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJxE3KH9Wc  ---  (YuTb - 4min11sec -  Oct 14, 2011) - Source:  Ramonamisfit  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/Ramonamisfit  ---  A quote...."Man recounts October 14th, 2011's raid on the Occupy Denver encampment infront of the Capital building." 
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Move On Tries to Take Over Occupy Wall Street Protests
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/move-on-tries-to-take-over-occupy-wall-street-protests.html 
Co-Option Alert - A quote...."Top MoveOn leaders / executives are all over national television speaking for the movement. fully appreciate the help and support of MoveOn, but the MSM is clearly using them as the spokespeople for OWS. This is an blatant attempt to fracture the 99% into a Democratic Party organization. The leadership of MoveON are Democratic Party operatives. they are divide and conquer pawns. For years they ignored Wall Street protests to keep complete focus on the Republicans, in favor of Goldman’s Obama and Wall Street’s Democratic leadership." 
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An Insidious Threat to the Occupy Movement  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/14/an-insidious-threat-to-the-occupy-movement/ 
Co-Option Alert - A quote...."The threat I am referring to is not that of being pepper-sprayed, arrested, beaten or imprisoned. It is a different type of threat: a stealthy challenger that while pretending to advance the goals of the Occupy Movement tends to undermine it from within—more or less like the proverbial elephant in the room. I am referring to the threat of preemption, or cooptation, posed by the Democratic Party and union officials. In light of their unsavory record of undermining the revolutionary energy of social movements, projections of sympathy for the anti-Wall Street protesters by the White House, the Democratic Party officials and union leaders can be viewed only with suspicion." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/an-insidious-threat-to-the-occupy-movement/  ---  The "workers" right to organize is a basic right of ALL Americans, and unions (i.e. organized workers) are an essential and necessary check on the power of organized capital.  However, unions don't check that power very well when they're led by a bunch of co-opted sell-outs. - mpg 
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Judge Napolitano's Open Letter to Occupy Wall Street October 13, 2011
  ---  http://lonestarwatchdog.blogspot.com/2011/10/judge-napolitanos-open-letter-to-occupy.html 
FOXVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVTj-vuoRoE  ---  (FOXYuTb - 5min16sec - Oct 14, 2011) - Source:  realman2020  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/realman2020  ---  A quote...."The Judge says [to] all protesters [do] not allow the Democrats to Co-opt the Movement but unite behind three simple demands." 
  1. End the Federal Reserve Bank. 
  2. End the Undeclared illegal Wars 
  3. End the Income Tax and the IRS 
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Occupy Wall Street 10-14-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (9 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/10/14/occupy-wall-street-10-14-11/    
'OWS puts focus on banks hijacking economy' - video
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/9/fvc8eg-v2B4    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvc8eg-v2B4  ---  (RTYuTb 4m37s Oct 14, 2011) - Src: RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday    
OWS Contagious: Global Revolution Live - video
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/7/ZQNSCwo__rQ    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQNSCwo__rQ  ---  (RTYuTb 4m20s Oct 14, 2011) - Src: RT -- http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday   
Victory for OWS: Zuccotti Park clean-up shelved - video
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/13/67aPSGgnXbA    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67aPSGgnXbA  ---  (RTYuTb 3m59s Oct 14, 2011) - Src: RT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  
Lech Walesa, ~ Who Defeated Communism In Europe, To Visit New York In Support Of Occupy Wall Street
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/lech-walesa-revolutionary-free-market-capitalist-who-defeate.html    
It’s Time To Say It: Regime Change, Here – Now!
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/15/its-time-to-say-it-regime-change-here-now/    
RAW VIDEO - Moment Of Celebration At Occupy Wall Street As Bloomberg Backs Down - video
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/raw-video-moment-of-celebration-at-occupy-wall-street-as-blo.html    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9D33hr4CW0    
#OWS VICTORY: After Protesters Successfully Defended and Cleaned Up Liberty Park.... - photos & vids
  ---  http://ampedstatus.org/ows-victory-after-protesters-successfully-defended-and-cleaned-up-liberty-park-they-went-on-the-offensive-and-used-their-brooms-and-mops-to-clean-up-wall-street-several-arrests/    
AFL-CIO Calls on Members to Defend Occupy Wall Street
  ---  http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october132011/aflcio-wall-st.php    
More NYPD Police Brutality Against Peaceful Protesters?
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/more-nypd-police-brutality-against-peaceful-protesters.html    
GOP Rep Peter King: "We Can’t Allow More Coverage Of Occupy Wall Street, Or They Will Win"
  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139086    
Drums, Dance and Rain Occupy People’s Plaza in Minneapolis - video
  ---  http://www.theuptake.org/2011/10/11/drums-dance-and-rain-occupy-peoples-plaza-in-minneapolis/    
Wall Street Occupation Goes Global Saturday - contains video
  ---  http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/316-20/7888-focus-wall-street-occupation-goes-global-saturday    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y3X2VFruLM    
Protesters from #OccupyWallStreet heckled News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch during a speech Friday
  ---  http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/protesters-from-occupywallstreet-heckled-news-corp-ceo-rupert-mur    
Hundreds March up for "Occupy Detroit" in U.S.
  ---  http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/10/15/hundreds-march-up-for-occupy-detroit-in-us.html    
RAW VID - Italian Students Rampage Goldman Sachs, Unicredit & Fininvest HQ (Berlusconi's Bank) - vid
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/raw-video-italian-students-rampage-goldman-sachs-unicredit-a.html    
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Y5M8MfBVQ    
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The Assault On Libya.... 

Last stand in Sirte: Extraordinary pictures show Libyan city shelled to smithereens
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049108/Libya-wars-stand-Sirte-Pictures-city-shelled-smithereens.html 
Must View Photos - A quote...."Buildings are crumbling, heavily armed fighters stand on every street corner and snipers lurk on rooftops - welcome to Sirte. -- The home city of Libya's fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi is one of the last area's not to have succumbed to the militia army of the National Transitional Council." 
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New Fighting Breaks Out In Heart Of Libyan Capital
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/New_Fighting_Breaks_Out_In_Heart_Of_Libyan_Capital/16127/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
A quote...."TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A gunbattle erupted Friday between hundreds of revolutionary forces and Moammar Gadhafi supporters in the capital for the first time in more than two months after loyalists tried to raise the green flag that symbolizes the ousted leader's regime. -- The fighting began when dozens of loyalists carrying the green flag appeared on the streets of Tripoli's Abu Salim neighborhood, which houses the notorious prison of the same name." 
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Israel and Libya: Preparing Africa for the “Clash of Civilizations”  ---  http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27029 
Article  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29407.htm 
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
A uqote...."Once again, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya peels away the veneer of legitimacy and deception enveloping the U.S./NATO genocide currently taking place in Libya. In his first article, Nazemroaya exposed the mechanism by which the world came to "know" of the need for a humanitarian intervention in the Libyan Arab Jamahirya and U.S./NATO admissions of targeted assassination attempts against the Leader of the 1969 Libyan Revolution, Muammar Qaddafi. In his first of these four installments since his return from Libya, Nazemraoya makes it clear that there never was any evidence given to the United Nations or the International Criminal Court to warrant or justify United Nations Resolutions 1970 and 1973 or current U.S./NATO operations inside Libya." 
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Libya owes $1 billion for fuel for revolution  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139015 
Contains Video - Alt  ---  (YuTb - 1min43sec - Sep 13, 2009) - Source:  RalleyWolf  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RalleyWolf  ---  Related:  Transcript  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theinternationalscenewithumbertocalvini-tnscpt-mpg-reficultnias-022010  ---  A quote...."Which is, of course, what wars are created for; to plunge both sides into debt to the bankers for the next several generations. That is why no sooner had the Federal Reserve been established in the US, we were plunged into WW1. As long as private central bankers control the public money, there will always be wars and death to keep us all the bankers' debt-slaves." -- *Michael Rivero* 
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Up to 7,000 held in Libyan prisons, U.N. says  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/14/us-libya-un-rights-idUSTRE79D42M20111014 
A quote...."(Reuters) - Up to 7,000 prisoners are held in dozens of makeshift detention centers in Libya more than two months after rebel forces toppled Muammar Gaddafi, amid serious allegations and some evidence of torture, the United Nations said on Friday." 
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Website editor's caution:  Regarding the videos shown below....Morris obviously gets much of his information from the Green resistance or their supporters.  A lot of it is impossible to confirm, there are undoubtedly large exagerations of their battlefield successes. Not so much the atrocities committed by the rebels and NATO because many of these have been independently confirmed.  The intel on who the "rebels" actually are and where they come from appears to be spot on, again confirmed by other sources. - mpg 
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Libyan News Update Oct 15 - Very Early Morning  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/0/IFh4X10RIZY 
M108Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108  ---  (M108YuTb - 4min22sec - Oct 15, 2011) - Source:  108Morris108  ---  A quote...."Big successes for the Green resistance. Even the Rixos hotel has been taken by the Green Resistance. -- The rebels seemed to have never gained any support from the residents." 
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Libyan News Update Oct 14 - 1.00am GMT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/1/aCHlsXyoHjc 
M108Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCHlsXyoHjc  ---  (M108YuTb - 5min35sec - Oct 14, 2011) - Source:  108Morris108  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108  ---  A quote...."Latest News from Libya." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Colored Revolutions: A New Form of Regime Change, Made in the USA  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27061 
Must Read - A quote...."In 1983, the strategy of overthrowing inconvenient governments and calling it “democracy promotion” was born. -- Through the creation of a series of quasi-private “foundations”, such as Albert Einstein Institute (AEI), National Endowment for Democracy (NED), International Republican Institute (IRI), National Democratic Institute (NDI), Freedom House and later the International Center for Non-Violent Conflict (ICNC), Washington began to filter funding and strategic aid to political parties and groups abroad that promoted US agenda in nations with insubordinate governments." 
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US drone strike kills 78 in Somalia  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/US-drone-strike-kills-78-Somalia 
What Obama is doing, and has done, to Somalia....he's soon going to be doing to poor Uganda. (see article below) Considering what Idi Amin did to Uganda one is tempted to ask, "hasn't that country and it's poor people suffered enough"? Now they're going to suffer under Obama's tender mercies.  For an idea of what's going to happen during this "mission to protect", a phrase that will go down in history as being chillingly Orwellian as "bringing them freedom and democracy", just take a look at the recent photos of Libya's Sirte - mpg
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049108/Libya-wars-stand-Sirte-Pictures-city-shelled-smithereens.html 
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Nobel Peace Prize-President quietly opens 8th US battlefront, Uganda  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/nobel-peace-prize-president-quietly.html 
A quote...."While America occupies Iraq and Afghanistan, wages covert war on Pakistan, conducts drone attacks on Yemen and Somalia, bombards Libya, and positions for a wider confrontation with Iran and Syria, Nobel Peace Prize Laurette President Obama has now quietly, without much fanfare, sent 100 US troops to help Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni  ---  http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b4c0b7a8-f692-11e0-9381-00144feab49a.html?
ftcamp=rss#axzz1amthT6tq  ---  crush rebels threatening his 25-year dictatorship." - And it keeps growing and growing and growing.....mpg - Topix ||  Africa - the Next Target - 02-28-08 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/africathenexttarget-blog-mpg-022808 
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US Policy Toward Iran One-Way Ticket to War  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/10/us-policy-toward-iran-one-way-ticket-to.html 
Second Quote of the Day...."Iran is a nation of 70 million, has a developed infrastructure, as well as a tremendous wealth in natural resources, including oil and natural gas.  ---  A Western dominated banking system lording over 70 million people, telecommunications companies supplying services to this vast population, and the immense consumerist troughs that could be laid out before these people alone serves as a compelling incentive to attempt to domineer Iran.  ---  War against such a nation would be a trillion dollar endeavor, utterly bankrupting the American people, but enriching the military industrial complex [and the Banksters] beyond imagination." 
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[Iranian] Leader raps US' anti-Iran efforts  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204675.html 
A quote...."Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has denounced the United States' anti-Iran efforts aimed at isolating the Islamic Republic. - They say that they want to isolate Iran... they are themselves isolated; today, no country is more hated than the US in the world, the Leader said in an address to a mass crowd of people in the city of Gilan-e Gharb in the western province of Kermanshah on Saturday." 
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Cyprus, Israel and Turkey Near “High Noon” Standoff Over Med’s Natural Gas  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139024 
A quote...."The entire picture becomes even more intense with the addition of Erdogan’s increasing antagonism against Israel, whose natural gas exploration and production in the eastern Mediterranean is also being contested by Turkey, as well as by Lebanon." 
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Egyptian generals are not eager to relinquish power
  ---  http://www.thenational.ae/featured-content/latest/egyptian-generals-are-not-eager-to-relinquish-power 
A quote...."Eight months after the military generals took over from Hosni Mubarak, their initial promise to hand over power in six months has been all but forgotten. The nearest thing to a handover timetable extends their rule to the end of next year. Furthermore, they have pledged to tighten their hold on power following deadly sectarian violence on Sunday." 
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Egypt’s Military Expands Power, Raising Alarms
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/world/middleeast/egypts-military-expands-power-raising-alarms.html?_r=1 
A quote...."CAIRO — Egypt’s military rulers are moving to assert and extend their own power so broadly that a growing number of lawyers and activists are questioning their willingness to ultimately submit to civilian authority. " 
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2,000 march in Cairo unity rally, anger at army  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/14/us-egypt-march-unity-idUSTRE79D4VD20111014 
A quote...."(Reuters) - At least 2,000 people rallied in Cairo on Friday in a show of unity between Muslims and Christians and to express anger at the ruling military council after 25 people died when a protest by Coptic Christians led to clashes with the army." 
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Growing strike wave in Greece  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/gree-o15.shtml 
A quote...."Strikes and protests escalated throughout Greece this week as workers protested against the austerity programme of the social democratic PASOK government of Prime Minister George Papandreou." 
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Eastern Partnership Close to Expiration Date?  ---  http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/10/15/eastern-partnership-close-to-expiration-date.html 
A quote...."Economically and politically embattled, the EU nevertheless struggles to retain whatever influence it has over the post-Soviet republics. In the process, Brussels mostly relies on its already floated initiatives including the Eastern Partnership, a project which reflects the European Union's attempt to outpace the US in pulling FSU countries out of Moscow's orbit and securing a grip on the post-Soviet space." 
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German investigators discover Khodorkovsky's 15 mln euro Swiss bank account  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20111015/167712751.html 
A quote...."German investigators have accidentally come across bank accounts owned by jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and members of his family during a raid at the Munster office of Swiss bank Julius Baer, a German newspaper reported on Saturday." 
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Top [UK] army lawyer slams MoD [Britain's Ministry of Defense] on human rights abuses  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qKsxyhCP2g 
CH4Video - (CH4YuTb - 9min46sec - Oct 12, 2011) - Source:  Channel4News  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/Channel4News  ---  A quote...."Exclusive: The army's former chief legal officer in Iraq has told this programme that British forces have used - and continue to use - interrogation methods which are illegal under international law." 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

Iran 'most significant' threat to world: Harper - NO, it's Israel and their lackeys like Stephen Harper. - mpg
http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139056 
A quote...."Prime Minister Stephen Harper took direct aim at Iran on Friday, describing the regime as the biggest threat in the world to peace and security." -- Almost without a doubt, Stephen Harper was a DIRECT and  MATERIAL  participant in an Israeli mounted false-flag attempt against the 2010 winter Olympics.   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thevancouverfalseflagredwarningandredwarwarning-mpg-reficultnias-020110  ---  The Israelis and Harper were planning to use the tragedy to initiate an attack against Iran.  He is now participating in another attempt to drum up a war against Iran.  He should've been investigated, arrested, tried, convicted and executed at the time, along with all of his fellow co-conspirators.  It is a sad commentary on the Canadian people that they have done nothing yet to bring Harper and his cronies to justice as it is also a sad commentary on the American people that they have done very little to bring those in this country responsible for 9/11 to justice. - mpg 
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No Israel gas transit via Turkey: Ankara  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204651.html 
Perhaps Israel shouldn't have massacred all those innocent Turkish civilians on board the MV Mavi Marmara?  It's just a thought of course. - mpg -- A quote...."Ankara has rejected requests from its private firms to allow the transit of natural gas produced in Israel through Turkey to Europe, says Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, Press TV reports." 
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Finns to host talks on WMD-free Mideast  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204631.html  ---  That means Israel. - mpg  
A quote...."Finland has agreed to host a conference next year to discuss ways to ban nuclear weapons in the Middle East and make the region a weapons of mass destruction free-zone, the United Nations says." 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

Treasuries Tumble in Longest Weekly Losing Streaks Since April
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-14/treasuries-tumble-in-longest-weekly-losing-stretches-in-more-than-6-months.html 
A quote...."Treasuries fell, with 10- and 30- year securities in their longest weekly losing streaks in more than six months, as European leaders’ efforts to resolve the sovereign-debt crisis damped refuge demand." - In other words folks it's RISK ON! - (bond prices to go DOWN, interest rates go UP and there's less of a chance for war.) - mpg 
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Bill Gross Just Made A Huge Bet On Economic Doom, And Nobody Seems To Care  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/139033 
A quote...."This week, bond god Bill Gross just made a super-long bet on the long end of the yield curve, coming right after a historic rally in fixed income. -- It was a gigantic shift from his stance earlier this year, when he bet against Treasuries -- a bet that famously worked out badly for him." - In other words folks it's RISK OFF - (bond prices go UP, interest rates go DOWN, and there's more of a chance for war.) - mpg 
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US to Experience Stagflation Worse Than 1970s: Jim Rogers
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-to-experience-stagflation-worse-than-1970s-jim-rogers.html 
A quote...."The U.S. economy is likely to experience a period of stagflation worse than the 1970s, which would cause bond yields to spike, commodity bull Jim Rogers told CNBC on Friday. Rogers said governments were lying about the inflation problem and the recent rally in Treasurys was a bubble." - In other words RISK ON (which is inflation) + RISK OFF (which is deflation) = STAGFLATION. (both the direction of interest rates, bond prices and the chances for war are problematical) - mpg 
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Did Bill Gross make another bad bet?  Is Jim Rogers right, are they both right, CAN they both be right?  Are they both wrong? Are we going to war? Stay tuned for the ride of your lives folks!!  Keep in mind of course that it's YOUR LIVES, not those of the parasitic Banksters you've allowed to rule over you all these many years. - mpg - Topix:  ||  Some Tentative Laws - 07-20-08 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/sometentativelaws-blog-mpg-072008 
||  The Ten Year Economic / War Cycle  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407 
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Quick News: US economy at weakest since Sept. 2010  ---  http://www.presstv.com/usdetail/204588.html 
Related Article - A quote...."U.S. economic growth hit a 57-week low, posting its weakest reading since Sept. 2010, the Weekly Leading Index (WLI) growth indicator of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) showed Friday. --  Economic growth as of the week ending Oct. 7 was -9.6%, the biggest decline since Sept. 3, 2010, when it was -9.8%, ECRI said." 
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Banks closed in Ga, NC, NJ, Ill; 80 failed in '11  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Banks-closed-Ga-NC-NJ-Ill-80-failed-11 
A quote...."Regulators shut down small banks in Ga, NC, NJ, Ill; makes 80 US bank failures this year 14 Oct 2011 Regulators have closed small banks in Georgia, North Carolina, New Jersey and Illinois, boosting to 80 the number of U.S. bank failures this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday seized Piedmont Community Bank of Gray, Ga., with $201.7 million in assets and $181.4 million in deposits. It also shuttered Blue Ridge Savings Bank, based in Asheville, N.C., with $161 million in assets and $158.7 million in deposits..." 
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Charting Nine Days Of Short Squeezes And Vapor Volume  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/charting-nine-days-short-squeezes-and-vapor-volume 
Mrkt Tech Note - Charts - (click  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2011/09/Short%20Squeeze.jpg  ---  to enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2011/09/ES%20Volume.jpg  ---  A quote...."Still unclear on what drove the policy vehicle known as the stock market straight up, which for some reason speculators still participate in despite relentless warnings that it is broken, manipulated, etc, for nine consecutive days, following the release of the FT rumor of a bank recapitalization on October 4, since refuted? Simple: look at the chart below."  
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Short Interest Slides As Market Squeeze Takes Victims  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/market-short-interest-slides-squeeze-takes-victims 
Mrkt Tech Note - Chart - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2011/09  /NYSE%20Short%20Interest.jpg  ---  A quote...."A week ago we showed NYSE short interest, which in the aftermath of the massive slide in the EURUSD (the only real driver of beta these days, and with correlation at 1.000, also alpha), had soared to March 2009 levels. Naturally that left the market extremely exposed to any forced short squeeze, such as that witnessed 9 days ago when based on since refuted, but metastasized rumors, we saw a major flush higher in the Euro, and hence ES, which became self-sustaining once the short covering squeeze in stocks took over." 
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EU considering massive cuts to food aid for poor - So they can give the money to the Banksters. - mpg 
http://m.yahoo.com/w/news_america/eu-considering-massive-cuts-food-aid-poor-110155873.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=us&.lang=en-us
A quote...."BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is considering a roughly 75 percent cut in funding for a program that helps feed 18 million of its poorest citizens. -- The cuts, set to take effect after New Year's, would come at a time of rising unemployment and consumer food prices in many parts of
Europe, as well as overall economic turmoil on the continent. The looming cuts already have raised fears among people who rely heavily on the program." 
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