MPG'S DAILY RAPSHEET AND BLOTTER  ON THE "GREAT GAME"  -  links page

@ www.reficultnias.org
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Editor's note : From now on each daily blog will have several items culled from the past called  "9/11 - From The History File" : It's for those who didn't know, and also for those who forgot....or are trying to forget.

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. - mpg
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Sunday October 28th 2007 - links page

Iran steps up preparations for US war  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/28/wiran128.xml
War Warning - A quote...."Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is stepping up preparations for possible war with America by replacing a string of moderate regime officials with hardliners who more closely share his views. - After months in which his government has played down the risk of war over Iran's nuclear programme, officials have also begun making bellicose pronouncements in an apparent attempt to ready public opinion for a military clash." - bold/italics by website author

"Bellicose pronouncements" and "replacing moderates with hardliners."  That's something Bush and Cheney have been doing for years. And unlike Ahmadinejad, they weren't even legally elected. - mpg
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Cheney on Iran: Just how alarming?  ---  http://justworldnews.org/archives/002657.html
Just World New's take on Cheney's inflammatory (insane, nut-job, war monkey) comments last week. - mpg

Anti-Iran Rhetoric Raises UN Concerns  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7030982,00.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build nuclear weapons and expressed concern that escalating rhetoric from the U.S. could bring disaster."

Blix says Iran situation reminiscent of Iraq - (You Tube - 5 min 19 sec - Added:  October 27, 2007)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju_3XI4YMfw
Must View - Interview - al Jazeera interviews Hans Blix - A quote...."Al Jazeera has spoken with Hans Blix, the former head of the UN weapons inspection team in Iraq and current chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission about the recent US sanctions against Iran. Ghida Fakhry asked him if he believed the US had tangible evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons programme and if he accepted Washington's assertions that Iran poses a nuclear threat."

For more regarding the Neo-Cons' false allegations that IED's and EFP's come from Iran see...
Fake Intel - IED's & EFP's  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IEDS__EFPS
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A primer for living in a totalitarian state  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jerryl_071028_a_primer_for_living_.htm
Must Read - good satire/mpg - A quote...."Unless you are black or a recent immigrant, you have no experience living in a police state. Then, you may want to consider this article as your primer for living under terror. If Naomi Wolf in her recent book "The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot" has it right, you don't have much time to learn. Wolf's book is scarier than any Stephen King's fantasy (at least for me), I don't recommend reading it at night."

Thousands Protest Iraq War Across US  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/28/4857/
A quote...."SAN FRANCISCO - Thousands of people called for a swift end to the war in Iraq as they marched through downtown on Saturday, chanting and carrying signs that read: “Wall Street Gets Rich, Iraqis and GIs Die” or “Drop Tuition Not Bombs.” - The streets were filled with thousands as labor union members, anti-war activists, clergy and others rallied near City Hall before marching to Dolores Park."

Torture, Then And Now  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18627.htm
Must Read - A quote...." 10/26/07 "ICH" -- -- The story of a young Foreign Service officer who risked his budding career to defend a principle and the honor of the United States - Intro: In the fall of 1974, I was being tortured by members of the Brazilian army in Recife, Brazil, led by officers who bragged about having been trained at the School of the Americas (then in Panama). When I was kidnapped from my home in Recife, (Time, November 18, 1974 and Harpers’s, October, 1975) on September 30, 1974, I did not expect to survive. Since the CIA-sponsored overthrow of the democratically elected president of Brazil, João Goulart, in April of 1964, hundreds of Brazilians had been “disappeared” by the military security forces in their ongoing war against “international Communism” and its alleged collaborators within Brazil.

Papier Mâché...  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18622.htm
Must Read - A quote...." 10/26/07 "An Arab Woman Blues" -- -- - An acquaintance approached me the other day and suggested I join the world of media/journalism. Utilize my writing skills and whatever intelligence I have left, to good use...Good use? Because the media is good news? And am not only talking about mainstream media here...Besides, becoming part of some media - and that includes some of the “alternative media” also known for its share of blatant lies - means I will no longer be allowed to tell you some basic truths."

On Visit to France, Donald Rumsfeld Hit with Lawsuit for Ordering, Authorizing Torture
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/26/1452236
Listen to Segment ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007/oct/audio/dn20071026.ra&proto=rtsp&start=9:20
Download Show mp3  ||  ---  http://www.archive.org/download/dn2007-1026/dn2007-1026-1_64kb.mp3
Watch 128k stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007/oct/video/dnB20071026a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=9:20
Watch 256k stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007/oct/video/dnB20071026a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=9:20
Read Transcript ||  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/26/1452236#transcript
Interview - Juan Gonzalez interviews Michael Ratner and Jeanne Sulzer - A quote...."The complaint was filed with the Paris prosecutor’s office as Rumsfeld arrived in France for a visit. This is the fifth time Rumsfeld has been charged with direct involvement in torture since 9/11. We speak with two attorneys with the plaintiffs -- Center for Constitutional Rights president Michael Ratner and Jeanne Sulzer of the International Federation of Human Rights. [includes rush transcript]"

From CIA Jails, Inmates Fade Into Obscurity  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4623
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-- On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA's overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaeda leaders taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But since then, there has been no official accounting of what happened to about 30 other "ghost prisoners" who spent extended time in the custody of the CIA."

It's not just "water boarding" or "extremes of temperature"; it's all that really horrific stuff that came out of Central and South America during Ronald Regan's reign.  And just as "American" funded death squads did, our Neo-Romans are disappearing people.  And this lawless attitude is creeping closer to our shores every day.

So when your neighbor and their children "disappear" one bright and sunny morning, don't even pretend you didn't know what was happening. – mpg
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Rule of Law Under Attack  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/27/4850/
A quote...."Every law student promptly learns the national ideal that our country is governed by the rule of law, not the rule of men. Today, the rule of law is under attack. Such activities have become a big business and, not surprisingly, they have involved big business. - On October 25th, Secretary Condoleeza Rice officially recognized before a House Oversight Committee that, remarkably, there was no law covering the misbehavior of Blackwater Corporation and their private police in Iraq."

Self-Imposed Delusions  ---  http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1718
A quote...."The only thing more amazing than the Republican rank-and-file's willingness to flush the Constitution down the toilet for the promise of what they believe to be ironclad guaranteed security -- something that no government, group, person or political party can honestly deliver -- is the Democratic rank-and-file's keenness to dismantle the Constitution for a trail of broken promises and maybe (but only maybe) a chance at securing some form of health care for America's children. There is no doubt about it; the Founding Fathers have gone Nadia Comaneci in their graves."

The politics of hypocrisy  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2200241,00.html
A quote...."UK business interests in Burma are more important to this government than justice - The news is no more from Burma. The young monks are quiet in their cells, or they are dead. But words have escaped: the defiant, beautiful poetry of Aung Than and Zeya Aung; and we know of the unbroken will of the journalist U Win Tin, who makes ink out of brick powder on the walls of his prison cell and writes with a pen made from a bamboo mat - at the age of 77. These are the bravest of the brave. What shame they bring to those in the west whose hypocrisy and silence helps to feed the monster that rules Burma."
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Senator: WTC7's Omission from 9/11 Report is 'Black Helicopter Stuff'
  ---  http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/121007_coleman_wtc7_helicopters.html
A quote...."In an act of obvious dismissal, Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman claimed that WTC Building 7's omission from the 9/11 Commission Report is "black helicopter stuff," and repeated his characterization to follow-ups questioning whether or not "the building fell on 9/11."

Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser 10 Times  ---  http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/190907_wheelchair_taser.html
A quote...."A Clay County woman's family said it's seeking justice after their loved one died shortly after being shocked 10 times with Taser guns during a confrontation with police. - The family of 56-year-old Emily Delafield said it would take the Green Cove Springs Police Department to court, according to a WJXT-TV report."
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Cancer in Iraq vets raises possibility of toxic exposure  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7205
A quote...."After serving in Vietnam nearly 40 years ago — and receiving the Bronze Star for it — the Tucson soldier was called back to active duty in Iraq. - While there, he awoke one morning with a sore throat. Eighteen months later, Army Sgt. James Lauderdale was dead, of a bizarrely aggressive cancer rarely seen by the doctors who tried to treat it."

"Collateral Damage?" You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_timothy__071028__22collateral_damage_3f_22.htm
Related Article - A quote...."The worst thing we are doing to our military besides using a back-door draft that takes National Guard units and trains them quickly to bring them to a country that is full of resistance fighters that would rather die than accept an American occupation and let’s them loose in a fight they are not trained for, nor do they understand. The Stop-Loss policy of not letting American soldiers get out when their tour of duty is up, exposes them to a death in Iraq long after they should be home with their family. The very worst thing we do to our men and women in uniform is expose them to depleted uranium that bleeds radioactive isotopes that break DNA and cause every type of cancer and enter their reproductive organs and cause birth defects that will surface in the generations to follow."
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Basra fight pointless, says British commander
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=AO3DJY1XHC25RQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/10/28/nbasra128.xml
A quote...."One of the most senior British commanders in Iraq has claimed that there is no point in fighting on in Basra, likening British troops in the city to "Robocop" and admitting that innocent people were hurt as a result of their actions."

George Galloway: His TV appearance tonight may be as important as at Washington DC  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/145492
 (Update2: Saturday - Four hour broadcast!) - A quote...."With the US today declaring financial war on Iran, and the UK apparently backing them, this has to be the ideal opportunity for George Galloway to get his message across to the British (and a wider?) public, when he is "allowed" to appear on BBC1's flagship "Question Time" programme."

Creation of a Virtually Independent Kurdish State in Northern Iraq Was Certain to Provoke Turkey
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/28/4863/
A quote...." No one should be surprised by the dangerous crisis between Turkey and Iraq-based Kurdish separatists. - Critics long warned the U.S. invasion of Iraq would inevitably release the genii of Kurdish nationalism. Creation of a virtually independent, U.S.-backed Kurdish state in northern Iraq was certain to provoke Turkish fury."

Pressure for Turkish military action grows
  ---  http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/October/theworld_October902.xml&section=theworld
Related article - A quote..."ANKARA - Turkey will launch a military strike against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq when necessary, regardless of the attitude of the international community, Turkey’s prime minister said on Saturday." -  bold/italics by website author

A haven for Kurdish rebels who await the Turks
  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-kurds28oct28,1,2765503.story?coll=la-news-a_section&ctrack=1&cset=true
Related article - A quote...."PKK fighters train in Iraq's northern mountains, sheltered by the terrain and by villagers who hail them as champions of their rights."

Blair's true colours  ---  http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/868/re62.htm
A quote...."Rabbi Benny Elon, president of the right-wing Israeli National Union Party, was unable to conceal his relief last Thursday when a Hebrew radio news programme presenter asked him about his evaluation of the recent plan devised by Quartet envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "Finally, even Blair agrees with us on two primary points," Benny Elon said. "These are uprooting the Palestinian terrorist organisations and solving the problem of the refugees without holding Israel any responsibility for it."

Does “Loving Lebanon” Mean the Bush Administration Never Has to Say It’s Sorry?

  ---  http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/10/does-loving-lebanon-mean-the-bush-administration-never-has-to-say-im-sorry/
Must Read - A quote..."As US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman packs his bags and prepares to depart Lebanon for his next assignment, he probably should be forgiven for feeling a bit abused these past few months."

Jeffery Feltman....One of this country's uglier Neo-Romans (they used to be called "ugly-Americans", but they're not, not anymore.  These sorts of people have given up any pretensions of being "Americans.") 

For all the other countries throughout the world, this is the sort of behavior you can continue to expect as long as the PNAC'ing Neo-Romans remain in charge.
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Controlling the debate on Palestine, Israel  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2572.shtml
A quote...."The last time I spoke publicly in the United States before my current tour was nearly four years ago. During this time I had travelled the world, passing my message to people in nearly 20 countries. Wherever I went, my calls for justice for the Palestinian people and for global alternatives to racism and war were well received. However, my latest talks in the US have made me realize that the witch-hunt on intellectuals that escalated rapidly since September 11, 2001, is nowhere near over."

Sabotage Fails, Free speech Wins  ---  http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/sabotage_fails.html
Must Read - Related article - A quote...."IRVINE, Calif. It was not the fact that this reporter was under surveillance at the Spokane InternationalAirport by a man/woman team when heading toward California nor that one of the scheduled speakers, a Roman Catholic - priest, was detained for close to 30 minutes as a “risk to aviation safety” by Michael Chertoff’s Department of Homeland Security that indicated that trouble was brewing for the upcoming “No More wars for Israel” conference in Southern California."

For more on this see....What Terrorists?  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mpgrapsheet-blogpg-mpg-012707#WHAT_TERRORISTS
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‘SOUTH AMERICANS CHALLENGE BANKSTERS  ---  http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/challenge_banksters.html
A quote...."On November 3, Banco del Sur, a new Latin American development bank, will be inaugurated in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, in a direct challenge to the U.S.-dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund."

EXCLUSIVE: ES&S Certification Testing Suspended in Colorado  ---  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5210
A quote...."Once again, the country's largest voting machine vendor, Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S), has failed in yet another state certification process, The BRAD BLOG has learned. - In a letter faxed to the company yesterday, Colorado's Secretary of State Mike Coffman informed the Omaha, Nebraska, company that the state has suspended the certification process of ES&S's voting systems due to a failure to provide required documentation and other materials needed to complete testing. That, after several previous deadline extensions had been granted."
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Senator Denies AT&T, Verizon Cash Bought Spying Immunity Vote
  ---  http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/senator-denies-.html
Must Read - A quote...."Telecom executives from companies seeking escape from privacy lawsuits accusing them of illegally collaborating with secret domestic spying programs wrote thousands in checks to the re-election campaign of Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia), THREAT LEVEL
reported   ---  http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/dem-pushing-spy.html
last Thursday. - But in a Tuesday New York Times
story,   ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/washington/23nsa.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
the lawmaker's spokeswoman denies that the telco cash affected Rockefeller's decision last week to include
retroactive immunity for those companies in a bill passed by a Rockefeller-led committee." --  http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/senate-bill-get.html

Scott Stroud: AT&T and others suddenly giving to key Democratic senator
  ---  http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/politics/stories/MYSA102707.03B.stroudcolumn.33ad118.html
Related article - A quote...." Are the telephone behemoths, including local heavyweight AT&T, suddenly trying to curry favor with Democrats? And have they bought themselves a Rockefeller? - It would be easy to draw those conclusions from a recent flurry of campaign contributions by phone company executives to Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, D-West Virginia. The contributions, as analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics, were reported this week in Wired, an online journal, and picked up by the New York Times."

Senators Want Probe on Content Blocking  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=44555
Related article - A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Senators on Friday called for a congressional hearing to investigate reports that phone and cable companies are unfairly stifling communications over the Internet and on cell phones."

For more on the three articles shown above see....The Last Bastion of Freedom is Falling - 05-30-06 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/lastbastionoffreedom-essay-mpg-053006
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 'Titanic' Tactics When the Fed Hits an Iceberg  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north580.html
Some quotes...." Alan Greenspan took over as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in October, 1987, just days before the legendary 508-point decline: 22%. His response, like the FED's, was to pump in fiat money – "liquidity." That kept the economy from falling into a recession. Only in 1990–91 did the recession finally hit. The FED's response was the same: increased fiat money. For the next decade, there was no recession." - bold by website author.

Well that's true, but oil prices are sky rocketing, the US's Neo-Roman Neocons are losing another war, (and about to start another one) the trade deficit is unchecked, the Federal deficit at the end of this ten year cycle will start to get worse, the dollar is tanking along with the housing market.  So it is possible the recession might hit a tad earlier than 2010 or 2011. - mpg

And...."The U.S. housing market is down – on paper – by over a trillion dollars, CBS News reports. But who knows how much? The report cited one forecast that says it will be down by another $3 trillion in a year. I think this estimate is plausible. - Median prices are down by about 4%, year to year – the first national decline since 1933. Sales are down by 8% nationally, and by 25% in the Southwest."

For more on this issue see.....Standard Disclaimer  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207
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Arctic Ice Breaking-up Faster Than Predicted, Icebergs Risk To Shipping  ---  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071026095001.htm
A quote...."ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2007) — The International Ice Charting Working Group predicts more marine transportation in the Arctic as sea ice continues to diminish and warns of "significant hazards to navigation," according to a recent statement "

Many States Seen Facing Water Shortages  ---  http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gsBhi0vfVCHr-E0eSckT5ZnADWxwD8SH50DO0
A quote...."The government projects that at least 36 states will face water shortages within five years because of a combination of rising temperatures, drought, population growth, urban sprawl, waste and excess.'

And we as a country won't have much money to spend on infrastructure improvements because the filthy rich one tenth of one percent of this population decided to spend our tax dollars building their New Roman Empire. - mpg
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Saturday October 27th 2007 - links page

No posts - mpg

Friday October 26th 2007 - links page

Truth Matters  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/sullivan261007.htm
Must Read - A quote...."It is not coincidental that professional journalists, those who write for profit in the mainstream media, are the least likely to tell us the truth, the whole truth; whereas, free-lance writers, who operate under a different set of rules and out of the mainstream, are more likely to serve the public interest, and tell us what we need to know in order to be a free people, and good world citizens."
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Pete, Nancy, George and WWIII  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18619.htm
A quote...."10/25/07 "ICH" -- -- I cheered inside my head when I heard Rep. Stark unbelievably utter his words condemning the murderous acts of BushCo on the House floor, and I was impressed with his candor, compassion and what I consider an appropriate amount of rage and honesty. How many of us were not thinking the same thing about the S-CHIP votes? I knew, however, that it would not be long until Pete Stark had to apologize. It happened today."

Following Hillary over a cliff  ---  http://scholarsandrogues.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/following-hillary-over-a-cliff/
A quote...."Zogby’s recent poll asking “Whom would you NEVER vote for president?” was kind of mischievous, wasn’t it? But if I were a member of the Democratic National Committee, not to mention a congressional Democrat, I’d be sweating bullets over it."

See also....You Can STILL Vote to Stop the Madness 10-07-07 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/stopthemadness-blog-mpg-100707
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US Sanctions on Iran [and other items]  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2007/10/us-sanctions-on-iran.html
A quote...."These unilateral sanctions clearly reflect frustration on the part of Bush/Cheney that they have not been able to convince the UN Security Council to apply international sanctions. (Iran has not been demonstrated to be doing anything that is illegal in international law.)"

Iran's nuclear negotiator attacks U.S. sanctions  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20071026/85639367.html
A quote...."TEHRAN, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Iran's new chief nuclear negotiator said on Friday that by introducing new sanctions against Tehran the United States would only isolate itself."

Iran, Europe views begin to converge on nuclear issue  ---  http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=575343
A quote...."TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (MNA) – Ali Larijani said on Friday that the views of Iran and European countries on nuclear issue is beginning to converge. - “I have no doubt that the views have become closer, especially in negotiations with Mr. Solana in Lisbon which we agreed to move ahead according to the modality plan and that they set aside their adventures,” Larijani told reporters upon return from Europe where he and his successor Saeed Jalili held talks with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier."

On Track for U.S. Collapse  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff183.html
A quote...."Bush and Cheney are steering the U.S. into a collapse. Only strong public voices by influential people can prevent the coming disaster. We desperately need for men and women who are known to the public and have credibility to speak up in the critical period ahead to avoid catastrophe."

Condi’s (quasi) mea culpa  ---  http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/270324
Sort of like the NYT's regarding the Iraq war...no?  One truly wonders what they're both going to say after the Iranian debacle. - mpg

A quote...."OTTAWA–In a stunning turnaround, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has acknowledged the United States mishandled the case of Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen deported to Syria by American authorities. - But Rice stopped well short yesterday of apologizing for the role American government officials played in Arar's fate."
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The FBI’s Right To Threaten Torture  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard52.html
A quote...."A federal appeals court has concluded that an FBI agent must go to trial on charges he coerced a false confession out of a prime suspect in the 9/11 attacks. But the FBI still insists that its agent did nothing wrong. And the feds swayed the court to suppress that portion of a recent decision detailing how the FBI agent used the threat of torture to break an innocent man."

You better not shout, you better not protest, if you do you’re gonna plead no contest ‘cause the FBI is coming to town

They don't care if you're innocent, they don't care if you're guilty.

All they care about is if you got, no connections to the wealthy.

Oh you better not shout, you better not pry, if you do you're gonna die.

The FBI is coming to town. -- to torture you.

This is one sick, twisted, malevolent government. All you Quakers better start quaking, all you librarians better start living in fear....because the good 'ol FBI is here. – mpg
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9/11 - From The History File...Judicial Watch Releases New FBI Documents: Osama bin Laden May Have
Chartered Saudi Flight Out of U.S. after 9/11
  ---  http://www.judicialwatch.org/September_11_2006_SaudiFlight.shtml

FBI's 9/11 Saudi Flight Documents Released
  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062207A.shtml
FBI Knowingly Allowed Bin Laden To Personally Charter Flight After 9/11
  ---  http://prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/210607Laden.htm
Bin Laden may have arranged family's US exit: FBI docs
  ---  http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070620200413.fd64rwmy&show_article=1
Osama bin Laden Chartered Flight?
  ---  http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/26077.html
Flights 9/11
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/flights911-weblist-mpg-081906
US Support of Terror - FBI_OBSTRUCTED
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#FBI_OBSTRUCTED
Ties between the Bush and Bin Laden families.
  ---  http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/bin_laden_ties.html
The FBI has refused to release an entire copy of the July 2001 memo
  ---  http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/phoenixmemo1.html
1994: FBI Watches Suicide Bomber Train in Arizona, Fails to Take Action
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&projects_and_programs=phoenixMemo
FBI's 'Phoenix' Memo Unmasked
  ---  http://www.unansweredquestions.org/timeline/2002/fortune052202.html
911 Review
  ---  http://911review.org/
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Targeting Iraqis as ‘Big Game’  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=22820
A quote...."Nor is there anything new about Americans treating racial and ethnic enemies as the equivalent of animals to be abused or killed. In his memoir of the Vietnam War, Dispatches, acclaimed combat correspondent Michael Herr, for example, recalled a young soldier from the Army's 1st Infantry Division who admitted, "Well, you know what we do to animals…. kill ‘em and hurt ‘em and beat on ‘em…. Shit, we don't treat the Dinks [Vietnamese] no different than that." Another veteran, quoted elsewhere remembered, "As soon as I hit boot camp…. they tried to change your total personality…. Right away they told us not to call them Vietnamese. Call them gooks, dinks…. They were like animals, or something other than human…. They told us they're not to be treated with any type of mercy…" Today, the slurs of the Vietnam era have been replaced by "haji" and "raghead," while the big-game hunters and the language that goes with killing animals have added to the atmosphere of dehumanization."

U.S. diplomats will be ordered to serve in Iraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/145629
A quote...."WASHINGTON - The State Department said Friday it will begin ordering diplomats to serve in Iraq because of a lack of volunteers to work at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the first such large-scale call-up since the Vietnam War." - bold/italics by website author

Classify this one under humor. - mpg
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"Everything they couldn't take they destroyed"  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m37581&s1=h1
A quote....""Don't ask what they stole, ask what they left," dryly jokes Khaled, a Palestinian refugee from Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon. It was evident from what remained of the crown molding along the ceiling that his three-story house was once grand. Now, only one year after the seven-year process of building the house was completed, the structure is largely destroyed and its contents looted."

Lebanese army opens fire on intruding Israeli jets  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=22803
A quote...."MARJAYOUN, Lebanon - Lebanese troops opened fire on two Israeli jets flying low over the south of the country on Thursday, the police and army said."

Turkey bombs Kurdish targets on Iraq border  ---  http://archive.gulfnews.com/region/Iraq/10163131.html
A quote...."Ankara: Turkish helicopters and fighter jets pounded Kurdish rebel positions yesterday as diplomatic efforts began in Ankara to avert a major offensive against the guerrillas based in northern Iraq."

US's Largest Anti-War Coalition Decries Unilateral Sanctions, Oct 27 Anti-War Marches to Call for No War on Iran
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=44470
Action Alert - A quote...."United for Peace and Justice, the country's largest anti war coalition and organizer of the October 27th National Day of Action to End the War in Iraq, today spoke out against unilateral sanctions against Iran as announced by the Bush Administration today."

Anti-war activists ramp up for protest on Saturday in San Francisco
  ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/25/BA1OSVG1D.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
Action Alert - A quote...." Saturday's demonstration, which starts at 11 a.m. at Civic Center, is one of 11 anti-war protests around the United States that organizers hope will draw 1 million people. The San Francisco rally will feature speakers such as East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Cindy Sheehan, who told reporters Wednesday that she wants President Bush tried as a war criminal and impeached - even after he leaves office in 2009."

Torture Complaint Filed Against Rumsfeld  ---  http://www.usadaily.com/article.cfm?articleID=139239
A quote...."American and European rights groups filed a legal complaint in France accusing former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for torture in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay. - The complaint was filed with the Paris prosecutor's office as Rumsfeld arrived in France for a visit, according to the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and two Paris-based groups, the International Federation of Human Rights and the League of Human Rights."

What the Media Won't Tell You: The Military is Supporting Anti-War candidates  ---  http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/10669
A quote...."While you probably won’t hear this on the mainstream media, the Center for Responsive Politics has provided me with information about the military contributions that are going to both parties candidates. While the military heavily favored the Republican Party in the last Presidential Elections, the trend is changing. The top candidate for contributions from military members is surprisingly Ron Paul. This, from a former career military man, warms my heart. This goes to show that military people think, and don’t blindly follow leader's with pro-military agenda’s."

Officials balked on '05 Blackwater inquiry - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-emails26oct26,0,798301.story?coll=la-home-center
A quote...."Even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended her department's oversight of private security contractors, new evidence surfaced Thursday that the U.S. sought to conceal details of Blackwater shootings of Iraqi civilians more than two years ago. - In one instance, internal e-mails show that State Department officials tried to deflect a 2005 Los Angeles Times inquiry into an alleged killing of an Iraqi civilian by Blackwater guards.

How to "spin" the news and make gunning down a bunch of civilians as no big deal.  Keep in mind gentle reader it could happen to you or your family one day. – mpg
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US disaster agency apologizes for fake 'reporters' - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/americasCrisis/idUSN26619054
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - The main U.S. disaster-response agency apologized on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a news briefing on California's wildfires that no journalists attended." - italics/underline by website author

Good ol'FEMA, not the brightest bunch of people, after all if they had just emulated the Bush administration and had their own bought and paid for, "in-bed-with", sycophantic, bootlicking, presstitutes from our nation's faux-media attend their press conference as regularly as they attend Bush's, there would have been no need for all this embarrassing rigmarole. – mpg
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Bank of the South opening delayed until December  ---  http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=11727&formato=HTML
A quote...."The official opening of the Bank of the South, a development-promotion financial institution with the support of most South American countries has been delayed until December 5, announced Venezuela’s Foreign Affairs minister Nicolas Maduro."

President Chavez announces US$6 billion China-Venezuela Strategic Fund  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/145611
A quote...."ABN News Service: Venezuelam President Hugo Chavez Frias has announced approval for a China-Venezuela Strategic Fund of US$6 billion. - �We were already politically agree ... four billion dollars from China and two billion from Venezuela ... a total of US$6 billion aimed at productive investment.� "

20th Russia-EU summit winds up in Portugal  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20071026/85642667.html
A quote...."MAFRA (Portugal), October 26 (RIA Novosti) - The 20th Russia-EU summit ended in Portugal on Friday with a host of announcements on energy and economic issues from both Russia and the European Union."

Putin compares US shield to Cuba  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7064428.stm
A quote...."Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared US plans for a missile shield in Europe to the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s."

Russia set to launch 5 ballistic missiles by yearend  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071026/85578539.html
A quote...."VLASIKHA (Moscow Region), October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Strategic Missile Forces will conduct five launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles by the end of 2007, the SMF commander said Friday. - "By the end of this year, we will test launch another five missiles, including a RS-18 (SS-19 Stiletto), a RS-12M (SS-25 Sickle), a missile interceptor and a heavy RS-20 (SS-18 Satan)," Colonel General Nikolai Solovtsov told a news conference."

China launches lunar probe. Video - (94 sec./3.43Mb, shows: 222 - Reuters - posted at Novosti)
  ---  http://en.rian.ru/video/20071025/85455638.html
A quote...."China re-enters the space race as it launches the country's first moon orbiter into space."

Dollar dives to record low against euro  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Dollar_dives_to_record_low_against__10262007.html
A quote...."The dollar slumped to a record low against the euro on Friday after weak US economic data heightened expectations of a fresh cut to US interest rates next week, dealers said."

Oil hits record above $92 on weak dollar, Nigeria - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSSP21758220071026?sp=true
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices shot to an all-time high above $92 a barrel on Friday as the tumbling dollar and Nigerian output disruptions helped extend a rally that has lifted prices nearly 30 percent since August."

CO2 Levels Begin Accelerated Climb  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39824
A quote...."BROOKLIN, Canada, Oct 26 (IPS) - Global warming has been compared to a slow-moving train wreck, in which the passengers are blissfully unaware of the coming catastrophe. - With the shocking loss of the Arctic sea ice this summer and several new reports this week that oceans and tropical forests are now absorbing less of the world's steadily rising carbon emissions, our collective train wreck appears to have already tipped into fast forward."
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Airbus A380: on board the superjumbo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml;jsessionid=BRTC4RIZBUDJJQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/travel/2007/10/27/et-a380-front-127.xml
A quote...."Adrian Bridge joined 454 other passengers on the first flight of the mighty - and mightily hyped - Airbus A380. Is it the future of flying?"

  • The superjumbo's vital statistics
  •   ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/10/27/et-a380-stats-127.xml
  • In pictures: how the A380 took to the skies
  •   ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Slideshow/slideshowContentFrameFragXL.jhtml?xml=/travel/slideshow/a380/pixa380new.xml&site=
  • In pictures: one hundred years of aviation history
  •   ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Slideshow/slideshowContentFrameFragXL.jhtml;jsessionid=
      ---  T4N5FUUMYX3UTQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/travel/slideshow/aviation/pixaviation.xml&site=

    "After all the fanfare and loud proclamations, the new A380 superjumbo began active service surprisingly quietly."
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    Thursday October 25th 2007 - links page

    Tomgram: Jack Miles, Baghdad to Bush: You Have 14 Months
      ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174853/jack_miles_baghdad_to_bush_you_have_14_months
    Must Read - A quote...."The oil game in Iraq may be almost up. On September 29th, like a landlord serving notice, the government of Iraq announced that the next annual renewal of the United Nations Security Council mandate for a multinational force in Iraq -- the only legal basis for a continuation of the American occupation -- will be the last. That was, it seems, the first shoe to fall. The second may be an announcement terminating the little-noticed, but crucial companion Security Council mandate governing the disposition of Iraq's oil revenues."

    To the filthy rich of this country who started this misbegotten war.  It's their oil, have the dignity and courage to acknowledge that fundamental fact, have the wisdom to understand you can never change it no matter how many people you murder, have the decency to end this carnage and have the good grace to know it's time for you TO LEAVE - NOW! – mpg
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    United States Of America Is Turning Into An Orwellian Dystopia  ---  http://www.thought-criminal.org/article/node/888
    Must Read - A quote...."George Orwell was born in 1903 and died in 1950 after a long struggle with tuberculosis. Early in life he learned to be suspicious of authority and to hate empire while developing a compassion for the poor. In 1936 he joined the Spanish Civil War, like thousands of volunteers who joined the Lincoln Brigade to fight on the side of the republic against fascist Gen. Francisco Franco and his Falange Party. More than half of the volunteers died in battle. Orwell was injured and nearly died."

    Bush's Free-Fire Zones  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/102407.html
    Must Read - A quote..."Determined to gain the upper hand in Iraq and Afghanistan, George W. Bush has turned large portions of the two countries into near free-fire zones where any resistance, even in populated areas, is met with aggressive tactics that often kill civilians."
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    U.S. military steps up war-zone airstrikes  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-10-21-airstrikes_N.htm
    Related article - A quote...."The U.S. military has increased airstrikes in Iraq four-fold this year, reflecting a steep escalation in combat operations aimed at al-Qaeda and other militants. - Coalition forces launched 1,140 airstrikes in the first nine months of this year compared with 229 in all of last year, according to military statistics."

    US soldiers shy from battle in Iraq  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ26Ak07.html
    A quote...."WATERTOWN, New York - Iraq war veterans now stationed at a base here in upstate New York say that morale among US soldiers in the country is so poor, many are simply parking their Humvees and pretending to be on patrol, a practice dubbed "search and avoid" missions"

    Afghanistan is lost, says Lord Ashdown  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/25/wafg125.xml
    A quote...."Nato has "lost in Afghanistan" and its failure to bring stability there could provoke a regional sectarian war "on a grand scale", according to Lord Ashdown."

    British troops 'to depend on rented helicopters'  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/25/wafg225.xml
    A quote...."British troops in Afghanistan could soon be relying for their resupply on rented civilian helicopters.- Nato defence ministers meeting in the Netherlands last night were discussing the plan after several European members refused to meet a shortfall in transport helicopters."

    The rest of Europe has come to realize that this whole "Afghanistan thing" is part and parcel of the US Neocons' plan for a New Roman Empire....and they don't want to pay for it. - mpg
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    US Military Ignored Evidence of Iraqi-Made EFPs  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/porter/?articleid=11816
    A quote...."When the US military command accused the Iranian Quds Force last January of providing the armor-piercing EFPs (explosively formed penetrators) that were killing US troops, it knew that Iraqi machine shops had been producing their own EFPs for years, a review of the historical record of evidence on EFPs in Iraq shows. - The record also shows that the US command had considerable evidence that the Mahdi army had gotten the technology and the training on how to use it from Hezbollah rather than Iran. - The command, operating under close White House supervision, chose to deny these facts in making the dramatic accusation that became the main rationale for the present aggressive US stance toward Iran."

    Hope no one's surprised by this, if you are, you're pretty stupid. - mpg

    For more on this issue see...
    Fake Intel - IED's and EFP's  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IEDS__EFPS
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    9/11 - From The History File...THE TOP 40 REASONS TO DOUBT THE OFFICIAL STORY OF 9/11
      ---  http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041221155307646
     The 9/11 Whistleblowers - Alex Jones Interviews
      ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/230904_whistleblowers.html
     Grand Theft Country - 9/11 Forknowledge
      ---  http://www.grandtheftcountry.com/facts/911/foreknowledge/ashcroft.html
    9/11 "Conspiracies" and the Defactualisation of Analysis
      ---  http://www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq37.html
    Verifiable Research on 9/11
      ---  http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg
    David Schippers was a participant or observer in the following events:
      ---  http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=david_schippers
    The Truth About the 9/11 Attacks
      ---  http://www.geocities.com/vonchloride/
    9/11 and the American Empire:
      ---  http://911review.com/articles/griffin/madison.html
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    Chris Floyd for Glenn Greenwald: People get ready -- one shoe away from war with Iran
      ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/25/iran/index.html
    War Warning - A quote...."This is the sound of one shoe dropping: - "Ratcheting up the pressure on Tehran, the United States on Thursday designated Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a proliferater of weapons of mass destruction and its elite Qods force a supporter of terrorism. In total, Washington slapped sanctions on more than 20 Iranian companies, major banks and individuals, as well as the Defense Ministry, in a bid to pressure Tehran to halt its nuclear program and curb its 'terrorist' activities."

    Kucinich: Bush Wants More War  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18616.htm
    A quote...."10/25/07 "ICH" -- -- WASHINGTON, DC - October 25 - Today, the Bush Administration announced additional sanctions on Iran and labeled the Revolutionary Guard Corps as proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and a unit of the Corps – the Quds Force – as a “specially designed global terrorist.” Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) charged the Administration with drumming up support for a war with Iran."

    Interview with Dennis Kucinich; "Fear is not a basis to run a government in a Democracy."
      ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_rob_kall_071025_interview_with_denni.htm
    Interview - Rob Kall interviews Dennis Kucinich - A quote...."I interviewed Dennis Kucinich about the details of a plan to refuse to fund the war. What would it look like? He replied with the quote in the title in answer to my comment that Democrats are not refusing to fund the war because they are afraid the Republicans will accuse them of refusing to fund the troops. Here's the transcript of the interview:"

    US to transfer $410 million to PA  ---  http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3463425,00.html
    A quote...."'Unprecedented amount' part of effort to strengthen Abbas in battle against Hamas for public opinion. Finance Minister Bar-On: International community must aid PA economic recovery"

    Much Like Auschwitz  ---  http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/868/re61.htm
    A quote..." On Monday 22 October, in the quiet hours before dawn, hundreds of soldiers from two notoriously brutal army units, code-named Nachshon and Massada, stormed the prisoner camp for what was described as a "routine inspection". During these routine inspections, inmates are forced to take off their clothes and are subject to every imaginable form of humiliation. Whoever protests is normally placed in open-ended solitary confinement."

    Torture, Paramilitarism, Occupation and Genocide  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7180
    Must Read - A quote...."On October 5, George Bush confronted a public uproar and defended his administration claiming "This government does not torture people." Again he lied. Once secret US Department of Justice (DOJ) legal opinions confirm the Bush administration condones torture by endorsing "the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency." It also condones paramilitary thuggery, oppressive occupation, and genocide. This unholy combination is the ugly face of an imperial nation run by war criminals. That's the state of things today. First, the practice of torture."

    Attack Iran and you attack Russia  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ26Ak06.html
    & Ahmadinejad, Iran's Putin? ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ25Ak04.html
    A quote from the first article...."The barely reported highlight of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran for the Caspian Sea summit last week was a key face-to-face meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei."

    Interesting views on internal Iranian politics. - mpg
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    Seven Questions: A Conversation with Zbigniew Brzezinski  ---  http://www.thought-criminal.org/article/node/883
    Interview - FP interviews Zbigniew Brzezinski - A quote...."Vladimir Putin’s Russia is growing more authoritarian at home and increasingly aggressive abroad. China’s global clout seems to expand by the day. And in the Middle East, a possible conflict with Iran looms on the horizon. For insights on this dangerous new world, FP turned to Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. national security advisor, author, and all-around foreign-policy guru."

    The business press and me: a case of unrequited love  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2198483,00.html
    A quote...."On a recent visit to Calgary, Alberta, I was taken aback to see my book on disaster capitalism selling briskly at the airport. Calgary is ground zero of North America's oil and gas boom, where business suits and cowboy hats are the de facto uniform. I had a sudden sinking feeling: did Calgary's business class think The Shock Doctrine was a how-to guide - a manual for making millions from catastrophe? Were they hoping for tips on landing no-bid contracts if the US bombs Iran?"

    China says economy grew 11.5 pct. in 3Q
      ---  http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2007/10/24/china_says_economy_grew_115_pct_in_3q/
    A quote...."BEIJING --China's sizzling economy grew by an eye-popping 11.5 percent in the third quarter, surging ahead despite official efforts to cool the boom and putting it on track to overtake Germany as the world's third-largest, according to data reported Thursday."

    Sort'a funny that the US is averaging around three percent GDP a year while China's getting eleven percent, guess New Roman Empires can be really expensive huh? – mpg
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    Merrill Lynch reports billions in losses amidst growing signs of US recession  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/merr-o26.shtml
    War Warning - A quote...."Merrill Lynch & Co., the world’s largest brokerage firm, reported a net third-quarter loss of $2.4 billion Wednesday and acknowledged writing off $8.4 billion in assets from failed investments in subprime mortgage-linked securities."

    US crude oil surges to all-time high  ---  http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/us-crude-oil-surges-to-alltime-high/20071526-16ca.html
    War Warning - A quote...."US crude oil futures surged to a new all-time record, fuelled by concerns about supply ahead of the winter after Wednesday's inventory data showed surprise draws in crude and product stocks."

    Why are the two articles shown above War Warnings?  See
    ....Standard Disclaimer  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207
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    Chavez blames US for high oil price  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/145541
    Full Quote - Venezuela's president has predicted the price of crude oil heading for USD 100, calling US responsible for the increasing oil prices. - Hugo Chavez said, " if the United States keeps threatening oil-producing countries or trying to destabilize us like they did in Iraq, the price of oil is going to continue rising.'' - Oil futures closed at a new record of USD 90.46 a barrel Thursday on news that OPEC production increases will be slow in coming, and output quotas won't likely be raised at next month's meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. - Chavez also accused US President George W. Bush of "threatening World War III with atomic weapons."  - bold/italics by website author

    Hugo Chavez -President of Venezuela  - (note: actually elected)

    Hey Hugo, yeah and so?  Your point is Bush's buds and the MIOC elites are making buco bucks.  No doubt it's all an accident of chance....yeah that's it, it's one of them there "fortuitous" circumstances.

    Oh Oh - this editor used that "f" word again.

    It's all Hugo's fault, he has this unfortunate and extremely rude tendency of telling the truth...how vulgar.  – mpg
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    Creating Our Own Hell on Earth  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/25/4792/
    A quote...."In the past five days, parts of southern California have become out-of-control, raging infernos as another hot dry summer turns dehydrated forests into combustible tinder‑boxes. On October 21, 2007, CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley reported that “recently there has been an enormous change in Western fires. In truth, we’ve never seen anything like them in recorded history. It appears we’re living in a new age of mega-fires — forest infernos ten times bigger than the fires we’re used to seeing.” According to the number of acres burned, 7 of the 10 busiest forest fire seasons in the United States have occurred since 1999 based on records going back 47 fire seasons to 1960."

    Thursday October 25th 2007 - links page

    Tomgram: Jack Miles, Baghdad to Bush: You Have 14 Months
      ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174853/jack_miles_baghdad_to_bush_you_have_14_months
    Must Read - A quote...."The oil game in Iraq may be almost up. On September 29th, like a landlord serving notice, the government of Iraq announced that the next annual renewal of the United Nations Security Council mandate for a multinational force in Iraq -- the only legal basis for a continuation of the American occupation -- will be the last. That was, it seems, the first shoe to fall. The second may be an announcement terminating the little-noticed, but crucial companion Security Council mandate governing the disposition of Iraq's oil revenues."

    To the filthy rich of this country who started this misbegotten war.  It's their oil, have the dignity and courage to acknowledge that fundamental fact, have the wisdom to understand you can never change it no matter how many people you murder, have the decency to end this carnage and have the grace to know it's now time for you TO LEAVE - NOW! – mpg

    Wednesday October 24th 2007 - links page

    Bush Regime Preaches Democracy, Proposes Tyranny  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18611.htm
    Must Read - A quote...."10/24/07 "ICH" -- -- US citizens had best rethink the "war on terror" while they still have the liberty to do so. For all of President Bush’s blah-blah talk about bringing democracy to the world, the Bush administration has proved that it is no friend of liberty at home. - The Bush administration has violated constitutional principles, US law, and the Geneva Conventions as no previous administration has done. Here is a short list of the Bush administration’s crimes:

    Stark For A Day: I'm Dreadfully Sorry  ---  http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/10/stark-for-day-im-dreadfully-sorry.html
    Must Read - A quote...."California Congressman Pete Stark, whose "incendiary comments" last week "offended" supporters of the president, his war, and his health care policy, survived a censure motion yesterday in the House but gave a teary apology nonetheless."

    The Biggest Problem With Today's Democrats  ---  http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1714
    A quote...."Once again, the Democrats have relapsed into following the advice of the useless inside-the-beltway consultants and the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). That means they are buying hook-line-n-sinker into the DLC's Republican-lite gobbledygook. Not sure what the DLC is all about? All one need know is that the onetime Democrat-turned-Independent Republican, Joe Lieberman, and FOX News contributor Harold Ford are the DLC's two favorite puppets. Still, foolishly and mindlessly following the sure-to-fail advice of the DC consultants and the DLC isn't the biggest problem with today's Democrats."

    TO: The Free World – FROM: The American People – RE: HELP!
      --- http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ernest_p_071024_to_3a_the_free_world__96.htm
    A quote...."And so today there are, in effect, two Americas: first, the "official" United States comprising the Bush/Cheney administration, the mainstream media, both political parties, and the corporate elites that both support and benefit from this political establishment. Add to these the quarter of the population that persists in the belief that this political/corporate establishment is legitimate and serves the public interest." - a.k.a. Neo-Romans - mpg

    The second America, consisting of as much as two-thirds of the population includes the dissenting "subjects" of the political establishment. This public is acted upon, but is powerless to act. It demands an end to the Iraq disaster. It demands health care reform. This public demands fiscal responsibility and a fair tax burden. All to no avail. The public also demands fair and verifiable elections. Majorities go to the polls and vote to "throw the rascals out." Nonetheless, " black-box" paperless voting machines reverse the public will and keep the rascals in." - a.k.a. Americans - mpg
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    General Says Bush Personally Ordered Torture Tactics  ---  http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/65925/
    A quote...."More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents to demonstrate how US military interrogators "abused, tortured or killed" scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept. 11, 2001, including some who were not even expected of having terrorist ties, according to a just-published book." - bold/italics by website author

    To all the Bush supporting so-called "Christians" in this country, you can pretend all you want, you can say that "you didn't know" or that "you had no idea" or that you were “shocked by it all" but everyone in this country and throughout the whole world knows you're guilty, that you supported these abominations....that some of you actually still approve, to this very day, of  what has been done in your name.

    You should be ashamed, you should express remorse and contrition, you should denounce these abominations and abandon all those who support them, but since this is something you are manifestly incapable of doing....you should be shunned, no one should ever converse or conduct commerce with you ever again. -  mpg
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    Protester Waves Blood-Colored Hands in Rice’s Face  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/24/4789/
    Must View - A quote...."WASHINGTON - An anti-war protester waved blood-colored hands in U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s face at a congressional hearing on Wednesday and shouted “war criminal!”, but was pushed away and detained by police."

    Breaking Video: Condi Rice attacked by Protester at Capitol Hill Hearing - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
      ---  http://newssophisticate.blogspot.com/2007/10/breaking-video-condi-rice-attacked-by.html
    Same scene in video

    Code Pink is outstanding. - mpg
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    Terror watch list swells to more than 755,000 - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
      ---  http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-23-Watchlist_N.htm
    A quote...."WASHINGTON — The government's terrorist watch list has swelled to more than 755,000 names, according to a new government report that has raised worries about the list's effectiveness."

    Come on now, there's no "terrorists" on that list, after all not one of those people have probably ever received a single dollar of the tens of billions of dollars this government gave (directly or indirectly) to al Qaeda, the Taliban, the Sunni guerillas, the MEK the PKK and so on and so forth.

    These are just people who appose Bush and his New Roman Empire....oh that’s right, that's the new definition for what is a "terrorist" in this country nowadays isn't it? – mpg

    For more on this see....US Support of Terror PKK-MEK-OTHERS
      ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#MEK-PKK-OTHERS
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    U.S. bunker-buster request prompts Iran attack fears
      ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2416973620071024?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews
    A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some Democratic lawmakers questioned on Wednesday whether a new Bush administration request for $88 million to fit "bunker-busting" bombs to B-2 stealth bombers was part of preparations for an attack on Iran."

    Since Cheney's little stunt over there in Barksdale AFB   --- 
    didn't go off too well, it looks like the poor little tyke is going to have to use his MOP Bunker Busters (conventional explosives) on Iran.

    Isn't it just awful when you can't use your nuclear weapons on a country whenever you want too?

    Cheney must be so vexed right now.- mpg
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    Wars May Cost $2.4 Trillion Over Decade  ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/10/24/national/w001156D21.DTL
    A quote...."The estimate was the most comprehensive and far-reaching one to date. It factored in costs previously not counted and assumed that large number of forces would remain in the regions. - According to analysis, the U.S. has spent about $604 billion on the wars, including $39 billion in diplomatic operations and foreign aid."

    Bush wars to cost 40 times higher than original estimates; $8,000 per man, woman child in US
      ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Your_bill_for_US_wars_8000_1024.html
    A quote...."More than one-fourth of the money spent in Iraq and Afghanistan -- $705 billion -- will go to paying interest on the wars' costs, which are being funded with borrowed dollars, according to an estimate to be released Wednesday by the Congressional Budget Office. Iraq accounts for about 80 percent of the costs with a $1.9 trillion tab, including $564 million in interest, a House budget committee staff director told USA Today, which reported the numbers Wednesday morning."

    Security worsens in Diwaniya  ---  http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2007-10-18%5Ckurd.htm
    A quote...."Armed groups are fighting U.S. and Iraqi troops in the Province of Qadisiyya of which the city of Diwaniya is the capital. - The fighting has marred a short period of stability in the province where warring factional Shiite armed groups vie for control."

    US diplomatic security chief resigns after Blackwater row  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=22795
    A quote...."WASHINGTON - The State Department's security chief resigned Wednesday amid criticism over his office's poor supervision of private security firms in Iraq, after Blackwater guards shot dead several civilians."

    The collapse of Bush's foreign policy  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/10/24/kurds/
    A quote...."Oct. 24, 2007 | The Bush administration once imagined that its presence in Afghanistan and Iraq would be anchored by friendly neighbors, Turkey to the west and Pakistan to the east. Last week, as the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan continued to deteriorate, the anchors themselves also came loose."

    Turkish troops launch raids inside Iraq  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/24/wkurds224.xml
    A quote...."Turkey has targeted Kurdish separatists with a series of cross-border attacks despite reports that Iraq had succumbed to pressure to close down terrorist training camps."

    Israel's largest cable provider to drop CNN for Al-Jazeera
      ---  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380626849&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
    A quote...."It's about to lose the right to broadcast CNN in Israel, but the country's largest cable provider appears to have found a replacement: Al-Jazeera in English. - A contract with the controversial Gulf-based news network "should be finalized within a few days," a senior representative of HOT Television told The Jerusalem Post Monday. Should the deal be signed, it will put Al-Jazeera's English-language offshoot on the air around the time HOT drops CNN, said Yossi Lubaton, the company's vice president of marketing."

    The US meddles aggressively in Iran  ---  http://www.deepjournal.nl/p/7/a/en/1028.html
    A quote...."Despite the disaster of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Bush administration wants not just to deter Iran’s nuclear ambitions but maybe even to overthrow the Islamic Republic. It has already authorised ‘non-lethal’ action within Iran and helped separatist groups. But instead of supporting the country’s democratic opposition, US meddling has encouraged its hardliners to reinforce their positions."

    Stalin, Mao And … Ahmadinejad?  ---  http://www.newsweek.com/id/57346
    A quote...."Here is the reality. Iran has an economy the size of Finland's and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are quietly or actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?"

    Iran wins major infrastructure contract in Iraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/145419
    A quote...."BAGHDAD — Iraq has awarded a vital infrastructure contract to Iran that could facilitate its military presence in a developoment that has alarmed the U.S. - The Iraqi Electricity Ministry has selected companies from China and Iran to construct two power plants. The ministry said the awards totaled $1.1 billion and would reduce the constant power outages in Baghdad."

    Israel shaken by troops' tales of brutality against Palestinians  ---  http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2195924,00.html
    Some quotes...."In the words of one soldier: 'The truth? When there is chaos, I like it. That's when I enjoy it. It's like a drug. If I don't go into Rafah, and if there isn't some kind of riot once in some weeks, I go nuts.'

    "Another explained: 'The most important thing is that it removes the burden of the law from you. You feel that you are the law. You are the law. You are the one who decides... As though from the moment you leave the place that is called Eretz Yisrael [the Land of Israel] and go through the Erez checkpoint into the Gaza Strip, you are the law. You are God.'"

    Intoxicating isn't it, total and complete power over the "vermin", being able to show them who's boss, putting them in their place, doing anything you want to them?  It should bring back fond memories for some people in Israel.  This editor remembers one...it was a short clip from a film, it showed in an officer walking up to this painfully stooped, bent over little old lady, who was carefully trying to make her way down a cobbled street, the officer, with total disregard for her dignity, casually placed his billy club under her chin and forced her head up to look at him. You could see her fear and her shame at being treated like an animal.

    You could also see the officer's complete disgust with the "vermin" he was humiliating; he didn't actually want to touch her so he used his club instead.

    The clip was from an old black and white film that was probably taken during the late thirties in Germany. – mpg
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    Taliban power grows  ---  http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/taliban%20power%20grows/952162
    A quote...."A 30 minutes drive from the centre of Kabul, and the Taliban is in the ascendant. The insurgency is now encroaching on the capital."

    Mexico, one of the world's biggest oil producers, is running out - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
      ---  http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/22/bloomberg/bxatm.php
    A quote..."MEXICO CITY: President Felipe Calderón of Mexico is delivering a grim message: The largest oil producer in Latin America is running out of crude. - "Our oil reserves have been consistently falling," and the decline is "severely threatening" government finances, Calderón told a nationwide television audience in an address last month at the National Palace. That is the same place where seven decades earlier Lázaro Cárdenas cemented the anti-U.S. legacy of his presidency by nationalizing the oil industry."

    Oh Oh. - Note to Chavez, you know all those armaments you've been buying from the Russians, Spaniards and Chinese...you better buy some more, A LOT more.  You may not have much time left. – mpg
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    Were Those Cruise Missiles Targeted? Did Anybody Check?
      ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_dave_lin_071024_were_those_cruise_mi.htm
    A quote...."He wants to know if the six nuclear-tipped Advanced Cruise Missiles that were improperly removed from a guarded bunker at the Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and flown in launch position on a wing pod of a B-52H Stratofortress bomber on Aug. 29-30 to Barksdale AFB were programmed with targeting information."

    See also...False Flag Ops - Barksdale / B-52 Loose Nukes Incident
      ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/rapsheetarch/rapsheet-101507-links#BARKSDALE
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    Police could not find any fingerprints on Dr Kelly's 'suicide' knife
      ---  http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/15691/Police_could_not_find_any_fingerprints_on_Dr_Kelly_s_suicide_knife
    A quote...."Renowned bioweapons expert died days after being outed as a source for media accusations that Tony Blair was telling lies to kick-start the Iraq war - Fresh doubts were raised over the suicide of Dr David Kelly after it emerged that no fingerprints were found on the knife he supposedly used to kill himself. - The Hutton Inquiry into the death of the Ministry of Defence weapons expert ruled that he slashed one of his wrists with a blunt garden knife and took an overdose of pills."

    Robert Fisk: Secret armies pose sinister new threat to Lebanon  ---  http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article3075730.ece
    A quote...."Lebanon is peopled with ghosts. But the phantoms now returning to haunt this damaged country –the militias which tore it apart more than 30 years ago – are real. Guns are flooding back into the country – $800 for an AK-47, $3,700 for a brand-new French Famas – as Lebanon security apparatus hunt desperately for the leadership of the new and secret armies."

    Pentagon Used Independent Military Newspaper For Pro-Bush PR Campaign  ---  http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/terkel/65887/
    A quote..."The Pentagon has engaged in an aggressive U.S. grassroots efforts to drum up support for Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of supporting the troops. A central front in this effort has been the "non-political" America Supports You (ASY) program. (One branch of ASY is Operation Straight Up, an "evangelical entertainment troupe that actively proselytizes among active-duty members of the US military.")"

    Shame on NBC for Banning Mike Gravel From Its Next Debate
      ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_071023_shame_on_nbc_for_ban.htm
    The elites are already trying to squeeze out those representatives not completely beholden to them.  This is one very good sign that Mike Gravel should be one of those few representatives the electorate should consider come this November 2008. – mpg

    To the American voters: Instead of voting for one of the three stooges, Hillary, Giuliani, or Obama, why not think about
    Kucinich,   ---  http://www.dennis4president.com/
    Gravel,   ---  http://www.gravel2008.us/
    Edwards   ---  http://www.gravel2008.us/
    or Ron Paul.  ---  http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

    See also....You Can STILL Vote to Stop the Madness 10-07-07 - mpg
      ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/stopthemadness-blog-mpg-100707
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    The California wildfires and the American social crisis  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/fire-o25.shtml
    A quote...."As in Hurricane Katrina, the wildfires in southern California have laid bare the social crisis of a country riven by class inequality and imprisoned in an economic system dominated by the profit interests of a tiny minority of millionaires and billionaires. The richest country in the world, able to wage two wars simultaneously on the other side of the world, is incapable of providing adequate resources for so elementary a public service as firefighting."

    White House Cut Warming Impact Testimony  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7019565,00.html
    A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources familiar with the documents."

    Jim Rogers Shifts Assets Out of Dollar to Buy Yuan  ---  http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=amQBwDBSDvBE
    A quote...."The U.S. dollar is and has been the world's reserve currency, the world's medium of exchange,'' he said. ``That's in the process of changing. The pound sterling, which used to be the world's reserve currency, lost 80 percent of its value, top to bottom, as it went through the whole period of losing its status as the world's reserve currency.''

    Tuesday October 23rd 2007 - links page

    A True Patriot Watches A Perfect Anti-Democracy Storm Reach Full Fury
      ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_andrew_b_071023_the_lament_of_a_true.htm
    Must Read - A quote...." Now there has arisen --from within the American political system-- the very kind of threat that our Founders feared most: a lawless and usurpatious presidency systematically assaulting our constitutional system. - The picture of presidential lawlessness could not be clearer. The case has been made powerfully and in detail by responsible and knowledgeable Americans-- by people like Bruce Fein, Elizabeth de la Vega, Glenn Greenwald, John Dean. They show the unmistakable pattern of conduct by which the heart of America --"a nation of laws, not of men"-- is being destroyed by this Bush regime."

    Is a Presidential Coup Under Way?  ---  http://www.alternet.org/rights/65450/
    Related article - A quote...."Where is Congress? It's way past time for members to stand up. Historic matters are at stake. The Constitution is being trampled, the very form of our government is being perverted, and nothing less than American democracy itself is endangered -- a presidential coup is taking place. I think of Barbara Jordan, the late congresswoman from Houston. On July 25, 1974, this powerful thinker and member of the House Judiciary Committee took her turn to speak during the Nixon impeachment inquiry. - "My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total," she declared in her thundering voice. "And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution."

    World War III and the Moment of Truth for Democrats  ---  http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/10609
    Related article - A quote...."As the president speaks of World War III and potential war with Iran with fevered rhetoric in a near-hysterical atmosphere, the world stands at a moment of great danger. - For Democrats as a leadership party and the Congress as a co-equal branch of government, it is a moment of truth, and recent history does not augur well."

    Bush offers to bomb Kurds  ---  http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22636940-663,00.html
    A quote...."THE Bush Administration is considering air strikes, including cruise missiles, against the Kurdish rebel group PKK in northern Iraq."

    My God that's right; Bush forgot all about the Kurds, they're the only group of people left in the Middle East that Bush hasn't really ticked off yet.

    Bomb the Kurds, bomb the Iraqis, bomb the Syrians*, bomb the Somalis, bomb the Ethiopians, bomb the Lebanese*, bomb the Palestinians*, bomb Qatar,** bomb the Pakistanis, bomb the Afghanis, bomb the Iranians, bomb the......  Who wants to be next?  That's right folks, get up off your chairs and walk right on down here and do some "business" with our illustrious elites and YOU TOO could enjoy the benefits of America's favorite foreign policy stratagem.

    You’ve got it folks, it's guaranteed every single time or your money back (well not really, but it sounded good.....actually you’ll never see a dime of what we'll eventually steal from you)....if we don't bomb your entire nation to smithereens, if we don't flatten every one of your cities within ten years of appropriating your natural resources, obtaining basing rights, doing "business" with you or occupying your country....we won’t ever leave and we won't give you your money back.

    Sounds to good to be true doesn’t it? Any takers? – mpg

    *Israel did the bombing, but we supplied all the weaponry and encouragement we could, including
     cluster munitions   ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/leba-s01.shtml
    which were used repeatedly and deliberately   ---  http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/9/28/183133/378
    all over civilian areas of South Lebanon.  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/makdisi10232006.html

    **Yep, dear old George   ---  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051219/scahill
    wanted to bomb al Jazeera's
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16397937&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=exclusive--bush-plot-to-bomb-his-arab-ally-name_page.html
    head quarters in Qatar.
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    Bush’s Request for Wars Increases to $196 Billion  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4582
    A quote...."President Bush asked Congress on Monday to approve $196 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other national security programs, setting the stage for a new confrontation with Democrats over the administration’s handling of Iraq."

    Chris Floyd for Glenn Greenwald: Rain of terror in the U.S. air war in Iraq
      ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/23/us_terror_in_iraq/index.html
    A quote...."Monday, the Pentagon acknowledged a long-unspoken truth: that the bombardment of civilian neighborhoods in Iraq is an integral part of the vaunted "counterinsurgency" doctrine of Gen. David Petraeus. The number of airstrikes in the conquered land has risen fivefold since George W. Bush escalated the war in January, as USA Today reports:"

    Military steps up war-zone airstrikes - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
      ---  http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20071022/1a_lede22.art.htm
    Related article - A quote...."The U.S. military has increased airstrikes in Iraq fivefold this year, reflecting a steep escalation in combat operations aimed at al-Qaeda and other militants."

    Trillion-dollar war: Afghanistan and Iraq set to cost more than Vietnam and Korea  ---  http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3090340.ece
    A quote...."President George Bush will have spent more than $1 trillion on military adventures by the time he leaves office at the end of next year, more than the entire amount spent on the Korean and Vietnam wars combined."

    US forced into 'Plan B' for Pakistan  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IJ24Df01.html
    A quote...."KARACHI - Beyond the horrific body count of about 140 people dead and hundreds injured, the major political casualty of last week's bomb attack in Karachi is likely to be the United States-brokered plan to unite President General Pervez Musharraf and former premier Benazir Bhutto in a marriage of convenience."

    Iran flaunts new weapons  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ24Ak05.html
    War Update - A quote...."As tensions with the United States rise over Iran's nuclear ambitions and regional security issues, Tehran has been flaunting its military capabilities and asserting its preparedness in the face of a possible attack "

    Iran breaks with the US dollar  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/october2007/231007Iran.htm
    War Warning - A quote...."The Central Bank of Iran says the process of converting the country's dollar reserves to other foreign currencies has been completed."
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    How Did We Get Here?  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11803
    A quote...."We keep hearing about the
    "liberal,"   ---  http://www.google.com/search?q=%22liberal%2Bmedia%22&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS176US231 --- 
    "antiwar"  ---  http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/15/msm-propaganda-watch-ready-aimnot-fired/  
    media, which is supposedly  ---  http://www.newsbusters.org/node/10039
    spinning the "success"  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-boot8sep08,0,5273015,print.story?coll=la-opinion-center
    of the administration's "surge"  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030901839_pf.html
    in Iraq into a defeat. The stab-in-the-back thesis  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11498
    is being run up the flagpole by the neocons, in the hopes that at least some of their base
     â€“ the most deluded  ---  http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/10/22/crowd-boos-ron-paul-for-saying-americans-want-troops-home/
    of the Kool-Aid drinkers – will swallow it. Yet it was this supposedly liberal media that led us down
     the primrose path  ---  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html
    to war and occupation and immersed us in what Gen. William E. Odom  ---  http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=OdomWill
    calls the biggest strategic disaster in American military history  ---  http://www.mclaughlin.com/library/moo_transcript.asp?id=205
    – and they did it by instilling fear." ---  http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html
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    Self-righteous warmongers phony patriots  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18607.htm
    A quote...."10/2307 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" -- - You have to wonder if the whole conservative movement in the U.S. is living in a weird alternate reality in which the only thing that matters is what you say, and facts, consistency and honor mean nothing."

    Dead Men and Women Walking  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dave_lin_071023_dead_men_and_women_w.htm
    A quote...."The Democratic Party in Congress, and indeed the leading candidates for the party's presidential nomination, are all dead men and women walking. - They look alive. They may even think they're alive. But their political futures are close to moribund. - Faced with grave moral issues--a criminal and unpopular war that is costing the country the lives of thousands of its young people, and hundreds of billions of dollars a year, a president who treats the Constitution like so much toiletpaper, and an economy that is being hollowed out like a Halloween pumpkin, these Democrats are doing nothing."

    Freedom Rider: Nancy Pelosi, Public Enemy Number One  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=44049
    A quote...."The Democratic Speaker of the House would like to arrest activists for loitering. Her Quisling like behavior has led protesters to her front door in San Francisco, but she has only herself to blame for the inconveniences she and her rich neighbors now suffer. The great unwashed masses have a right to assemble at her home, her office, or anywhere else they choose in order to exercise what is left of their right to speak freely. Her own words show her level of contempt for the democratic process."

    Cheney, Howard 'did deal on Hicks'  ---  http://www.bigpond.com/news/topstories/content/20071023/2067496.asp
    A quote...."US Vice-President Dick Cheney agreed to a deal with Prime Minister John Howard to release former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks, a US media report says."

    It isn't whether you're guilty or innocent, it doesn't really matter if they have one scintilla of evidence against you, you’re just a political commodity the "back room boys" are negotiating a deal over.  What is this, the Middle Ages?  Who are these guys?  Cheney wasn’t even legitimately elected as VP. - mpg
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    Pete Stark - Wings of Justice - Award - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
      ---  http://www.wingsofjustice.com/07/10/woj07043.html
    Related article - A quote...."So Stark finally told it like it is on the House floor. In the incomprehensible double standard of modern day politics, Republicans can lie with abandon in Congressional remarks, on the stump and in the media, but Democrats are bullied into apologizing for telling the truth. So, Nancy Pelosi, increasingly a “leader” who prefers to be recognized as being “civilized” and “polite” rather than fighting for her party’s positions, rebuked Stark instead of expressing revulsion at the hundreds of billions of our dollars for Bush’s War and his high dudgeon over more money for medical care that our children need."

    For more on this issue see....Democratatis Horibolis Rex  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/rapsheetarch/rapsheet-101507-links#REX
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    Edwards Says He'll Cut Military Budget  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/27954
    A quote...."John Edwards talks about military expenditures and the spending priorities of an Edwards Administration."

    Kucinich Pushes Bush Impeachment  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/23/4767/
    A quote...."Congressman Dennis Kucinich, weary from a dozen campaign stops in a week, sat in a small room at the Monterey fairgrounds on Sunday, but he had a look in his eyes that said he knew he wouldn’t sit for long."

    To the American voters: Instead of voting for one of the three stooges, Hillary, Giuliani, or Obama, why not think about
    Kucinich,   ---  http://www.dennis4president.com/
    Gravel,   ---  http://www.gravel2008.us/
    Edwards   ---  http://www.gravel2008.us/
    or Ron Paul.  ---  http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

    See also....You Can STILL Vote to Stop the Madness 10-07-07 - mpg
      ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/stopthemadness-blog-mpg-100707
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    Ecuador wants military base in Miami  ---  http://uk.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUKADD25267520071022?sp=true
    A quote...."NAPLES (Reuters) - Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast."

    Marc Cooper on Hugo Chavez  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/print/20071011_marc_cooper_on_hugo_chavez/
    A quote...." A mere decade ago, Latin America was in the thrall of conservative, pro-American and free-market regimes, all enthusiastic subscribers to what’s been called the Washington Consensus. But after repeated failure to see much if any of the prosperity promised, the wheel has turned. With only a few exceptions (notably Colombia and Peru), every major Latin American country is now governed by some sort of center-left, leftist, or even socialist regime, with Chavez happily presiding as the loudest, if not the leading, voice."

    Jewish Glasnost Update: Zionist Panic!  ---  http://tonykaron.com/2007/10/23/jewish-glasnost-update-zionist-panic/
    A quote...."And then, to cap it all, in the continuing tradition of Nixonesque paranoia that has everyone from Jimmy Carter to Bishop Tutu being closet Jew-haters, the CAMERA people  identify a new target requiring urgent pressure: No, not Iran, Haaretz! Turns out the Israeli liberal daily (which, BTW, still pursues what it calls a Zionist editorial line, albeit from the left) is the latest “threat” to Israel, because it tends to report the truth about Israeli actions. And what they’re most worried about is Haaretz’s excellent  English-language web site. As Weiss reports:"

    Why Is the CIA Suppressing JFK Files?  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/102307b.html
    A quote...."Editor’s [Robert Perry] Note: The CIA continues to resist the release of documents pertaining to a CIA officer who oversaw an anti-Castro Cuban group that had curious dealings with Lee Harvey Oswald in the run-up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. - In this guest essay, historian Lisa Pease comments on how the CIA still is subverting the intent of the JFK Records Act:"

    Prison Industrial Complex: Will California Spend More on Jails Than Universities?  ---  http://www.thought-criminal.org/article/node/872
    A quote...."incarceration is one of the great policy failures of our times. Thirty years ago, California had 12 prisons and fewer than 30,000 prisoners. Today, after a generation of "tough-on-crime" legislation pushed through the legislature and the initiative process -- from three-strikes-and-you're-out to draconian anti-drug and anti-gang legislation -- the state has close to 175,000 inmates living in 34 prisons. That means almost one in every 200 California residents is now a prisoner of the state."

    And we're at just the start of the upcoming ten year crime wave/cycle unleashed by our greedy elites, to quote.

    Remember what happened during the late sixties and early seventies as the Vietnam War was winding down to its ignoble close?  Remember the breakdown in this country's social fabric, the rising crime rates, the drug use, the many neighborhoods laid to waste?

    This country will now reap this poisonous harvest, these bitter fruits once again for many years to come.

    And the wealthy elites of this country caused all this.  They knowingly, with malice aforethought, went and did the exact same identically stupid thing again; they started an illegal, immoral, vicious, murderous, senseless war so they and their buddies could make some money.
    Fruits from the Poisonous Tree 12-08-06 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/poisonoustree-mpg-essay-120806
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    Hagel Skewers Iraq War, Defends Greenspan's Oil Comments  ---  http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=144&a=3684
    A quote...."Excerpt: "People say we're not fighting for oil. Of course we are," said Hagel. "They talk about America's national interest. What the hell do you think they're talking about? We're not there for figs."

    For more on famous people who say we're there for the oil see....
    It's About the Oil - Famous Quotes / People
      ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/priorwarresource911-weblist-mpg-091106#OIL_QUOTES

    Steep decline in oil production brings risk of war and unrest, says new study - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
      ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,,2196435,00.html
    A quote...."World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown."

    Editor's note: The prediction that world oil production will fall by half in twenty years seems a little excessive, but prices are going to go up no matter what.
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    Northern Rock: the crisis mounts for British government  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/rock-o24.shtml
    A quote...."The ever increasing financial support for Northern Rock, Britain’s eighth largest bank, by the Bank of England is testimony to a growing financial crisis that the government is powerless to contain."

    Air America inks 11 new affiliates - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
      ---  http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2007/10/air-america-inks-11-new-affiliates.html
    A quote...."They say it wouldn't happen. Evidently, all those affirmations and violated voodoo dolls must have convinced them that Air America Radio was dead."

    Wildfires engulf Southern California  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/fire-o24.shtml
    A quote...."Massive wildfires have engulfed large swaths of southern California in the US, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes and seek refuge in stadiums and other safe locations. As of the writing of this report, state officials and news agencies estimate that between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people have been forced to evacuate as a result of fires that began on Sunday."


    Monday October 22nd 2007 - links page

    Time To Choose  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese405.html
    A quote...."Most politicians, when they talk about reducing spending, chatter on about cutting waste and fraud. That's OK, but it's a mere nick on the federal budget. If you really want to reduce spending, you must dismantle the overseas empire."

    The country called the United States...or..the New Roman Empire.  It's time to choose. - mpg
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    The GOP Purge - The War Party can't win the war in Iraq, so they're taking it out on the GOP  ---  http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11796
    A quote...."The ongoing hara-kiri of the GOP proceeds apace, with the latest being a concerted effort by the party's neoconservative wing to oust sitting Republican members of Congress who oppose the war. The latest examples: Walter B. Jones of North Carolina and Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland"

    Not quite the "night of the long knives"....not yet anyway. - mpg
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    Is There a Method to Bush's Middle East Madness?  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/amiri10222007.html
    A quote...."Over the past several weeks, the United States has gone out of its way to offend, irk and otherwise provoke a select group of leaders and nations. Through a series of deliberate and calculated actions intended to purposefully estrange those most likely to succeed at diplomacy with Iran, its failure has been ordained and the stage for military action set. For those who think the upcoming war will be another Bush-Cheney folly (as they believe Iraq to be), the collusion of the Democrats in the process again belies that assumption."

    For more on this see....The CONversation 09-04-06 mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/theconversation-blog-mpg-090406
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    Chris Floyd for Glenn Greenwald: The Democrats' year of living disastrously
      ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/22/Democrats/index.html
    A quote...."Outrage  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/18/rockefeller/
    follows outrage, surrender  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Machine_Tools%3A_Another_Terror_War_Triumph_for_the_Texas_Twerp/
    follows surrender: Every day the unreality of our political discourse worsens, even as the reality on the ground grows more bitter and uncontainable. As we approach the anniversary of the Democrats' recapture of Congress -- an event that was supposed to mark the repudiation of the Bush administration's lawless, blood-soaked enterprise -- it is undeniable that the situation is actually worse now than before."
      ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Post-Mortem_America%3A_Bush%27s_Year_of_Triumph_and_the_Hard_Way_Ahead/

    Halliburton third-quarter profit rises 19 percent
      ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSN2134555820071022?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&rpc=23&sp=true
    A quote...."HOUSTON (Reuters) - Oil services company Halliburton Co (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Sunday said third-quarter net profit rose 19 percent, helped by a tax benefit, new international contracts and higher activity from its customers."

    To all the men and woman in the armed forces....thank you, thank you, thank you, for what you've done for this nation's Military Industrial Complex.  Think that's overdoing it....check this out - mpg

    Defense stocks hit new highs  ---  http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-19848906.htm
    A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense stocks on Wednesday hit new highs as Defense Secretary Robert Gates requested an extra $42 billion in funding from Congress to cover military costs in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008. - The AMEX Defense Index, which tracks 14 major defense company stocks, rose 14.25 to a high of 1,686.72 in afternoon trading. Since [just!] last year, the index has risen roughly 47 percent, outperforming the broader S&P 500 index, which has climbed nearly 15 percent over the same period." - bold/italics by website author. - posted 10-01-07

    Bush Asks for $46 Billion More for Wars  ---  http://www.usadaily.com/article.cfm?articleID=133323
    A quote...."President Bush asked Congress on Monday for another $46 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and finance other national security needs. "We must provide our troops with the help and support they need to get the job done," Bush said. - The figure brings to $196.4 billion the total requested by the administration for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere for the budget year that started Oct. 1. It includes $189.3 billion for the Defense Department, $6.9 billion for the State Department and $200 million for other agencies." - italics by website author

    Army to keep forcibly re-enlisting soldiers  ---  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21362930/
    A quote...."WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army will continue to rely on an unpopular program that forces some soldiers to stay on beyond their retirement or re-enlistment dates, despite repeated pressure from Defense Secretary Robert Gates to reduce and eventually eliminate the practice."

    Mercenaries Part of U.S. 'Plot' to Destroy the Iraqi People …  ---  http://www.watchingamerica.com/almadina000003.shtml
    A quote...."The main objective is the destruction of Iraqi rights … and when we talk of the destruction of rights, it doesn't stop at murder, instability, poverty and the need to flee the country. This also includes mutilating the identity of this people and changing their landmarks."

    For more on this see....The Method 05-07-07 mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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    Caspian Summit: Putin Puts Forward A War-Avoidance Plan  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7151
    A quote...."The visit to Tehran on Oct. 16, by Russian President Vladimir Putin was officially billed as his participation in the second summit of the Caspian Sea littoral nations, convoked to deal with legal and other aspects of resource-sharing in the oil-rich waters. Although that summit did take place as scheduled, and important decisions were reached by the leaders of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Iran, the main thrust of Putin's visit was another: The Russian President's trip--the first of a Russian head of state since the 1943 Tehran conference of war-time powers--was geared to register his government's commitment to prevent a new war in the region, at all costs. That new war is the one on the strategic agenda of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, against Iran."

    Pakistan: The Forgotten Conflict in Balochistan
      ---  http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ICG/d0b81a03eba7b9be08901dc40337d388.htm
    A quote...."Relying on divide-and-rule policies, the military supports Pashtun Islamist parties like the JUI-F, a key patron of the Afghan Taliban, in a bid to counter secular Baloch and moderate Pashtun forces. Using Balochistan as a base of operation and sanctuary and recruiting from JUI’s extensive madrasa network, the Taliban and its Pakistani allies are undermining the state-building effort in Afghanistan. At the same time, U.S. and other Western support for Musharraf is alienating the Baloch, who otherwise could be natural partners in countering extremism in Pakistan."

    Gee look at Pakistan's ISI supporting religious fundamentalists against the "secularists"....one wonders what large super power they got that "brilliant" idea from....hmmmmm? - mpg
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    Iraq: U.S. Involved In Terrrorist Acts  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4570
    A quote...."A report by Iraq's parliament confirms that the US military had cooperated with terrorists in a raid on a village in Diyala province."

    The US has been sponsoring false flag operations and cooperating with "terrorist" groups for the last thirty years in the Middle East.  This one incident is one among thousands and should surprise no one. – mpg

    For more on this see....US Support of Terror   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
    & False Flag Ops  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006
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    NY police corruption soars  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4572
    A quote...."The number of NYPD cops using drugs, stealing property - even from the dead - and committing other acts of corruption, including extorting sex from female suspects, spiked sharply last year, according to a confidential NYPD report."

    The breakdown of society is just beginning, the rot starts from the top and these officers are simply emulating the politicians and all the others in that cesspit called Washington DC, and all of this was started by our wealthy elite’s sick, twisted, plans of world wide conquest. – mpg
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    The Early 1960s: From Right to Left  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4572
    A quote...."My total break with National Review and the right wing, my final emotional divorce from thinking of myself as a right winger or an ally of the Right, came around 1960. "

    The "Fix" Is In  ---  http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20070928.html
    A quote....""Bush quietly advising Hillary Clinton, top Democrats." This is the title of a much under-reported news story, which appeared in The Examiner on September 24th. The Examiner opens the story by saying, "President Bush is quietly providing back-channel advice to Hillary Rodham Clinton, urging her to modulate her rhetoric so she can effectively prosecute the war in Iraq if elected president."

    See also....You Can STILL Vote to Stop the Madness  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/stopthemadness-blog-mpg-100707
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    More than 60 arrested near Capitol - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
      ---  http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/60-arrested-near-capitol-2007-10-22.html
    A quote...."The protesters, wearing polar bear costumes and giant George W. Bush heads, blocked the intersection at New Jersey and Independence avenues, SE. - The protesters included representatives from the Oil for Change Coalition, Code Pink and Iraq Veterans Against the War. They held signs declaring, “No war, no warming.”"

    Chávez’s Plan for Development Bank Moves Ahead
      ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/world/americas/22bank.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
    A quote...."RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 21 — The idea by Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s president, to create a Bank of the South to finance regional development projects is moving forward, aided by the tacit approval of Brazil, which has South America’s largest economy."

    Hope Chavez hires competent people to run the bank, also hope he's aware that the US's banking elites will do absolutely anything to kill this institution before it's born....to literally strangle it in it's cradle so to speak. - mpg.
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    Pedophile priest crime victims who can't file civil lawsuits, the "silent victims"
      ---   http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_kay_ebel_071022_pedophile_priest_cri.htm
    More Tales from the NRE  - (New Roman Empire) - mpg