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
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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
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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§ion=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,
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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
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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?"
---
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
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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.''