Wednesday October 28th 2009 - links page

Tuesday October 27th 2009 - links page

Insanity and the Nobel Peace Prize: Obama and the Rule of Law  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15789
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child  is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame."  -- *Amnesty International* 1996. (3)"
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Empire of Illusion - The Cult of Self  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23819.htm
Must View Videos - Stay with this one, it's not just about celebrity culture; it's about the Empire, Globalization, War, the Federal Reserve and the Commoditization of everyone in this country. – mpg -- By Chris Hedges:
AltVid#1  ---  http://blip.tv/play/gbs5gaqLFAI
AltVid#2  ---  http://blip.tv/play/gbs5gaqNTwI
AltVid#3  ---  http://blip.tv/play/gbs5gaqPMQI
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Depraved Indifference: Drone Wars, Whack Jobs and Imperial Terror
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1865-depraved-indifference-drone-wars-whack-jobs-and-imperial-terror.html
Must Read - A quote...."Mayer's article relates a chilling story of suburban killers -- many of them stateside, firing their missiles from comfortable cubicles before heading home for dinner with the family -- operating in a secret program outside all traditional lines of legality and accountability. (Even the extremely low levels of legality and accountability that weakly adhere to the business of wholesale slaughter and destruction known as war.) For example, part of the program has been "outsourced" to private companies, who are killing people -- including hundreds of innocent civilians -- for profit, with American tax money." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59450&hd=&size=1&l=e
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The Denial Continues, and the Horror Remains Unrecognized
  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2009/10/denial-continues-and-horror-remains.html
A quote...."As soon as I read this Washington Post story about the resignation of Matthew Hoh, I knew I would write this article. The story is significant not only in itself, but also in the altogether predictable reaction it would elicit, particularly from those who criticize the United States presence and strategy in Afghanistan, and most especially from those who criticize our Afghanistan strategy most strongly. And I knew, before I read even one of those responses, that the reaction would miss or ignore what is most crucial to understand about Hoh's resignation and its meaning. In the event, everything I had thought proved to be accurate in every detail." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59448&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Multiple roadside bombings kill 8 U.S. soldiers in S Afghanistan  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/27/content_12343233.htm
Military Tactics Alert - A quote...."KABUL, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Eight U.S. service members and one Afghan civilian were killed Tuesday in multiple IED (Improvised Explosive Device) attacks in southern Afghanistan, said a statement of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). -- "Eight U.S. service members and an Afghan civilian working with the ISAF were killed today in multiple complex IED attacks in southern Afghanistan," the statement said." - bold by website editor
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No More US-[NRE] Troops For You Hamid....  ---  http://www.bendib.com/newones/2009/october/small/10-26-Afgha-Elections.jpg
Cartoon
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US Quietly Slips Funds Into Military Bill to Pay Off Taliban
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/27/us-quietly-slips-funds-into-military-bill-to-pay-off-taliban/
Otherwise known as the "Iraqi Surge Deux".  Pay the natives not to attack you.  After all, Bush got to claim victory for his "surge" in Iraq using this tactic, Obama just wants to do the same thing too.  Funny thing though, despite what the crap at the top of this economic garbage heap keeps telling everybody 24/7....not everyone and everything is for sale.  The Pashtun people and the Taliban may have other ideas about who gets to own and run Afghanistan. - mpg
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A Children's Market in Baghdad  ---  http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2009/10/childrens-market-in-baghdad.html
On the other hand, looks like everything's for sale in Iraq, what a proud day for Amerika. After twenty years of relentless sanctions, two invasions, constant bombings, and one arranged civil war, our thugocracy is  finally beginning to break down the Iraqi people. - mpg -- A quote...."There are auctions taking place selling stolen Iraqi artifacts and there are auctions taking place selling Iraqi children in the center of Baghdad's markets..." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59447&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  For more on this issue see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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Largest Iraq bombing in two years may have been inside job  ---  http://rawstory.com/2009/10/iraq-bombing-inside-job/
A quote...."Sunday's twin suicide bombings in Baghdad that killed at least 155 people and wounded 500 others may have had help from within Iraq's security apparatus, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow reported Monday. -- "This was a really well coordinated attack on an area in Baghdad that's supposed to be well protected," Maddow told viewers. "In order to reach their targets, the bombers driving these truck bombs had to pass through several checkpoints that were guarded by security forces and those security forces were supposed to be using hand-held devices designed to detect explosives."
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Lebanon, Israel exchange fires, no casualties  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/28/content_12343816.htm
Possible False Flag - A quote....."BEIRUT, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- A Katyusha rocket launched from South Lebanon hit Israel on Tuesday evening, while Israel responded later with artillery shells." -- Israel is ramping up the pressure....mpg
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Ecuador Seeks Russian Aid Against U.S. Military Buildup In Colombia  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15857
A quote...."Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa will come to Moscow to discuss weapons supplies, but the Kremlin also expects him to speak about the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. -- "We need to restore the might of our army," Correa said about the goal of his visit to Moscow, which he will make together with Defense Minister Javier Ponce. -- Ecuador has been alarmed by the decision of Colombia, with which it severed diplomatic relations in March 2008, to allow U.S. troops to use its bases." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/209221
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Iran, Turkey seek to triple trade by 2014  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109799&sectionid=351020102
A quote...."Iranian First Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi says Iran and Turkey have agreed to increase the level of their annual trade exchanges to $30 billion."
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The Anti-Proliferation Brigade  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/theantiproliferationbrigade-bendib-myopera-cached-102709
Cartoon
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Israel Seeks Final Confrontation Against Iran  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/10/27/israel-seeks-final-confrontation-against
A quote...."The reality is this: Iran, as it keeps telling the world, has no nuclear weapons program and is intent only on generating electrical energy. Israel insists that Iran does have a nuclear weapons program – despite the total lack of evidence – because it wants to use it as an excuse to attack Iran."
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Russia, India, China set to forge energy ties  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15856
A quote...."BANGALORE (India: The foreign ministers of Russia, India and China agreed on Tuesday to enhance energy cooperation. -- Russia's Sergei Lavrov, India's S.M. Krishna and China's Yang Jiechi met in the Indian city of Bangalore to discuss energy security, the fight against terrorism and climate change. -- "India, Russia and China are seeking to intensify international energy cooperation on a new basis to help make the energy market more open, transparent and competitive and reflect the common interests of all the parties involved," the three diplomats said in a joint declaration."
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Tortured to DEATH in Egypt  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15809
A quote...."In the early hours of Wednesday October 14, the body of Yousef Hamdan Abu Zuhri, brother of a Hamas spokesman, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri was handed down to the Palestinian side in Gaza. Yousef died in Burj al Arab prison in Alexandria, Egypt ."
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"Breaking: Brother of Afghan President Is on C.I.A. Payroll, Officials Say  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html  ---  28 Oct 2009 Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials. The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, and those financial ties and the agency's close working relationship with him raise significant questions about America's war strategy,  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/price_obusha_afpak_war_031009.html  ---  which is currently under review at the White House." -- Paragraph posted at CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Pakistani army offensive devastates tribal communities  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/oct2009/wazi-o28.shtml
A quote...."The ongoing Pakistani military offensive into the tribal agency of South Waziristan is having a devastating impact on the entire civilian population. Villages and towns are literally being bombed into rubble and tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee for their lives."
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Venezuela says it has captured Colombian 'spies'  ---  http://alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N27275353.htm
A quote...."CARACAS, Oct 27 (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday two Colombian security agents were arrested for spying in Venezuela, heightening tensions in a diplomatic dispute between the Andean nations."
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Court to reconsider CIA torture flight ruling  ---  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/27/BAMQ1AB9KF.DTL
A quote...."(10-27) 13:18 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court granted the Obama administration's request Tuesday to rehear a case over a Bay Area company's alleged participation in CIA torture flights, setting the stage for a critical test of government claims of secrecy and national security." -- For more on this issue see....Come Fly the Un-Friendly Boeing Skys
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-052207-053107#BOEING
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Intel Panel: CIA Misled Lawmakers On Torture, Other Issues
  ---  http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/intel_panel_cia_misled_lawmakers_on_torture_other.php?ref=fpb
A quote...."The CIA misled Congress about its torture program and other issues, Democrats on the House Intelligence committee are asserting as the committee continues to probe the matter." -- also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/27-13
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Young Afghan struggles to adapt after Guantanamo  ---  http://freedomsyndicate.com/fair0000/latimes00042.html
A quote...."He was about 12, he says, and had spent the day helping his uncle dig a well before heading out to buy some tea. -- He says he was grabbed by police who beat him and threatened to kill his family unless he put his thumbprint to paper and admitted he'd tried to kill two U.S. soldiers. The Pashto speaker, largely illiterate, didn't understand their Persian and had little idea what he'd agreed to, he says. A U.S. judge would later agree. -- That day, a grenade had been thrown at a U.S. Army vehicle, injuring the two soldiers and an interpreter. Jawad was charged with attempted murder based on the confession, held at Kabul's Bagram air base, then moved to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in early February 2003."
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Did Training Exercises Prevent Andrews Air Force Base From Responding to the 9/11 Attacks?
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/did-training-exercises-prevent-andrews-air-force-base-from-responding-to-the-911-attacks.html
A quote...."Why did airplanes fly around for an hour and a half without interceptors being scrambled from Andrews [Air Force Base] … right next to the capital?" -- *Paul Hellyer*, Canadian minister of national defense, 1963-1967 -- For more on this issue see....9/11 - NORAD
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911norad-weblist-mpg-091308
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CNBC Viewership Plunges 50% In October  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/cnbc-viewership-plunges-50-october
A quote...."If anyone wants to know why CNBC anchors are so pale and nervous these days, look no further. As Comcast CEO Brian Roberts considers what to keep and what to, well, cut, post his digestion of NBC Universal (assuming deal rumors are true naturally) his eyes likely cast casual nervous glances at Nielsen reports of CNBC viewership. Yet his nervousness is quite minor compared to what actual employees must be feeling after Nielsen reported a 50% plunge in CNBC vierwership in October year over year." -- For more on this sort of issue see article shown below....
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

After all I am a Proper Zionist Jew - I am a Holocaust survivor  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23821.htm
Satire - A quote...."The Holocaust is a relatively new religion (4). It lacks mercy or compassion, instead it promises revenge through retribution. For its followers, it is somehow liberating because it allows them to punish whoever they like as long they gain some pleasure. This may explain why the Israelis ended up punishing the Palestinians for crimes that were committed by Europeans. It is rather clear that the newly emerging religion is not just about ‘eye for an eye’; it is actually an eye for thousands and thousands of eyes. -- A month ago, while visiting in Auschwitz, Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak left a note in the official visitors book: ‘a strong Israel is both the comfort and the revenge’(5). No one could summarise the aspiration of the religion any better."
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Israel, the United States and international law  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/oct2009/pers-o28.shtml
A quote...."Israel has responded to the United Nations Human Rights Council’s endorsement of the Goldstone report accusing it of war crimes during its assault on Gaza in 2008-2009 by denouncing the UN and seeking to overturn existing international law."
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Ehud Olmert could face war crimes arrest if he visits UK  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/27/olmert-could-face-warcrimes-arrest
A quote...."Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister during the Gaza war, would probably face arrest on war crimes charges if he visited Britain, according to a UK lawyer who is working to expand the application of "universal jurisdiction" for offences involving serious human rights abuses committed anywhere in the world." -- also posted at AftrDwngSt ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/47343
& CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/27-11
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Israeli minister's speech disrupted at London university  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10857.shtml
A quote...."Students protested and disrupted a lecture tonight at the London School of Economics (LSE) by Daniel Ayalon, the controversial Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel. -- More than 50 students and activists greeted Ayalon outside of the lecture on LSE's campus with placards and banners, while inside audience members heckled the controversial minister as a "racist" and "murderer" in relation to the illegal occupation and violence carried out by the Israeli state." -- also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/israeli-ministers-speech-disrupted-at.html
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Israelis Targeting Grassroots Activists  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/israelis-targeting-grassroots-activists.html
A quote...."EAST JERUSALEM, Oct 27, 2009 (IPS) - Israeli authorities are increasingly targeting and intimidating non-violent Palestinian grassroots activists involved in anti-occupation activities who are drawing increased support from the international community."
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Palestinian villager stands up to Israeli settlement, repairs damaged trees, continues olive harvest
  ---  http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7542
A quote...."Nablus / Amin Abu Wardeh and Rana Khmus for PNN – Palestinian farmer Abdel Asaus has become a model of steadfastness standing in front of Bracha Settlement. -- His home is in the southern Nablus village of Burin, nearby the confiscated West Bank land on which the Israeli settlement of Bracha was built. -- Repeated attacks by the settlers darken the area, but Asaus is continuing to grow his crops in spite of the ever present threat." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59452&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Abbas may not run in coming election: official   ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/28/content_12343815.htm
He couldn't be elected dog catcher. - mpg -- A quote...."GAZA, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas may not run in the Palestinian presidential election to be held in January 2010, an official from Abbas's Fatah party said on Tuesday."
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35% of East Jerusalem expropriated - study  ---  http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=21114
A quote...."AMMAN - Israel has expropriated some 35 per cent of East Jerusalem's territory, over 24,000 dunums of land, from its Palestinian owners despite the fact that in 20 years the majority of Jerusalem's population will be Palestinians, a study said."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59449&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Mansi deplores Israel for demolishing homes in Jerusalem
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7hOErpk9cwzmk2dCrDuJqWwX6vj59OCs
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A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian minister of public works and housing Dr. Yousif Al-Mansi strongly denounced the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) for continuing to demolish Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem."
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Nine injured as [Israeli] settlers rampage through olive harvest  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/nine-injured-as-settlers-rampage.html
A quote...."Nablus – Ma’an – Nine Palestinians were injured and one was detained on Tuesday when dozens of Israeli settlers attacked farmers were harvesting olives in the West Bank village of Qaryout, south of Nablus, according to witnesses, local officials, and medics."
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A Rare Victory For Lebanon’s Palestinians  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb261009.htm
A quote...."No way does Hezbollah control the General [Michel Naim Aoun], only his wife can do that!” he said with a grin. “We in Hezbollah consult regularly with his staff but frankly we benefit more from our alliance that he does and there are limits to what we can press him to do. I personally think Aoun made a mistake with his Nahr al Bared case and it appeared he was bashing the Palestinian refugees for immediate personal political gains. Honestly, all parties in Lebanon have been guilty of doing that including us I am sorry to say, but I would insist we have done it less than others. But that’s my view and it may or may not be that of our leadership. There are many strongly held opinions within Hezbollah. Contrary to Zionist propaganda and what some in the West believe, we are very democratic within the party and we are always analyzing and debating events and ideas. If a party member comes up with a sound idea it has a good chance of being implemented. In that sense we are different from the Lebanon Ziam (tribal leader) system still dominant in so many of the 18 Confessions here. But I believe the party has insisted that General Aoun drop his case”.
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

New Reports Demolish Justifications for Ouster of Zelaya -- Honduran Coup Myths Dispelled  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/lawrence10272009.html
A quote...."Two new reports dealing with the June 28 military coup in Honduras have demolished the arguments of the current de facto government and its foreign apologists that the coup was consistent with the Honduran constitution and that most Hondurans welcomed the illegal ouster of the country’s democratically elected president, Mel Zelaya." -- also posted at AlethoNews  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/honduran-coup-myths-dispelled.html
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Honduras: People to Not Approve Electoral Farce  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=132148&Itemid=1
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Oct 27 (Prensa Latina) The National Front against the Coup d'Etat in Honduras stated Tuesday that it will not recognize the November 29 elections if constitutional order is not re-established and President Manuel Zelaya is not restituted."
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Honduras' acting deputy defense minister's father kidnapped  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/28/content_12345563.htm
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Alfredo Jalil, 81, father of Honduras' acting Deputy Defense Minister Gabo Jalil, was kidnapped Tuesday in Tegucigalpa near the government house, police reported."
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What Is Money? - Part 10: When Money Dies  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north777.html
Must Read - A quote...."Bottom line: "When money dies, so do people." Hyperinflation in a modern urban nation would kill people. I think it would kill a lot of people. -- Why? Because we rely on the social division of labor to feed ourselves, heat our homes, and supply everything else that we buy or sell. This requires a highly complex price system. At the heart of this system is money. It would not exist without money. -- The free market coordinates the buying selling of billions of products and services."
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Gross, Roubini, Ritholtz and Smithers All Forecast a Correction  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/10/roubini-ritholtz-smithers-forecast.html
A quote...."Bill Gross says assets are overvalued and the rally is over. -- Nouriel Roubini - who called last year's crash - said last week that "a big crash is coming":" -- Editor's Caution:  the markets are over valued, they have gone up while most other components of the "real" economy have deteriorated, some quite substantially.  That does not mean however that the markets will necessarily go down.  John Maynard Keynes himself said "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." and with over one quadrillion dollars worth of derivatives out there, most controlled by the thugocracy that owns this government, they could make the markets act in ways that would be contrary to normal economic practice or theory. – mpg
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Roubini Says Carry Trades Fueling ‘Huge’ Asset Bubble (Update3)  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=atlyygQuBLUI
A quote...."Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Investors worldwide are borrowing dollars to buy assets including equities and commodities, fueling “huge” bubbles that may spark another financial crisis, said New York University professor Nouriel Roubini."
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Former Chairman of Citigroup: Restore Glass-Steagall  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/former-chairman-of-citigroup-restore.html
Full quote...."The former chairman of Citigroup, John S. Reed, wrote a letter to the editor  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/opinion/l23volcker.html?_r=2  ---  of the New York Times calling for a reinstatement of Glass-Steagall:"

"As another older banker and one who has experienced both the pre- and post-Glass-Steagall world, I would agree with Paul A. Volcker (and also Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England) that some kind of separation between institutions that deal primarily in the capital markets and those involved in more traditional deposit-taking and working-capital finance makes sense."

"But for Barney Frank, Tim Geithner and the rest of the boys, it is business as usual."  ---  http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/financialsvcs_dem/presstitleone_102709.shtml
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Taxpayer Getting The Shaft  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/taxpayergettingtheshaft-bendib-wrdprs-cached-102709
Cartoon
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Rhetoric and Reality  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23824.htm
Regarding the Health Care Issue. - mpg -- A quote...."By Ralph Nader -- October 27, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- I just received a letter from President Obama. Right there on the outside envelope are the words “I need you.” After not answering several letters which I have mailed and faxed to him, I was, for the briefest of moments, curious about this personal plea for help. Then, of course, I realized that it was a form letter from Mr. Obama via the auspices of the Democratic National Committee (DNC)."
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Monday October 26th 2009 - links page

Welcome to 2025 -- American Preeminence Is Disappearing Fifteen Years Early
  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175131/michael_klare_the_great_superpower_meltdown
Must Read - A quote...."The report examined many facets of the future strategic environment, but its most startling, and news-making, finding concerned the projected long-term erosion of American dominance and the emergence of new global competitors. "Although the United States is likely to remain the single most powerful actor [in 2025]," it stated definitively, the country's "relative strength -- even in the military realm -- will decline and U.S. leverage will become more constrained." -- That, of course, was then; this -- some 11 months into the future -- is now and how things have changed. Futuristic predictions will just have to catch up to the fast-shifting realities of the present moment. Although published after the onset of the global economic meltdown was underway, the report was written before the crisis reached its full proportions and so emphasized that the decline of American power would be gradual, extending over the assessment's 15-year time horizon." -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23817.htm
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"America's Priorities," by the Beltway elite  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/24/american_priorities/index.html
Must Read - A quote...."Something very unusual happened on The Washington Post Editorial Page today:  they deigned to address a response from one of their readers, who "challenged [them] to explain what he sees as a contradiction in [their] editorial positions":  namely, the Post demands that Obama's health care plan not be paid for with borrowed money, yet the very same Post Editors vocally support escalation in Afghanistan without specifying how it should be paid for.   --  The Post editors give two answers.  They first claim that Obama will save substantial money by reducing defense spending -- by which they mean that he is merely decreasing the rate at which defense spending increases ("from 2008 to 2019, defense spending would increase only 17 percent") -- as well as withdrawing from Iraq.  But so what?  Even if those things really happen, we're still paying for our glorious, endless war in Afghanistan by borrowing the money from China and Japan, all of which continues to explode our crippling national debt.  We have absolutely no ability to pay for our Afghan adventure other than by expanding our ignominious status as the largest and most insatiable debtor nation which history has ever known.  That debt gravely bothers Beltway elites like the Post editors when it comes to providing ordinary Americans with basic services (which Post editors already enjoy), but it's totally irrelevant to them when it comes to re-fueling the vicarious joys of endless war."
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Are You Ready for the Next Crisis?  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23810.htm
Contains Video - (videos posted yesterday 10-25-09) -- A quote...." October 26, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- Evidence that the US is a failed state is piling up faster than I can record it. --  One conclusive hallmark of a failed state is that the crooks are inside the government, using government to protect and to advance their private interests." -- also posted at AlethoNews --- http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/are-you-ready-for-next-crisis.html
& CounterPunch  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts10262009.html
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Bank Charge Off Rate Is Worse Than During the Great Depression
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/moodys-bank-loan-loss-rate-worse-than.html
Financial Sector Warning - Chart - A quote...."In May, analyst Mike Mayo predicted  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/05/banks-loan-loss-rate-will-be-much-worse.html  ---  that the bank loan loss rate would be higher than during the Great Depression.In a new report, Moody's has just confirmed (as summarized  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/rate-bank-charge-offs-surpasses-set-during-great-depression  ---  by Zero Hedge)*:"  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/  ---  *link added
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Capmark Files for Bankruptcy With $21 Billion in Debt (Update3)
  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Capmark_Files_for_Bankruptcy_With_%2421_Billion_in_Debt_%28Update3%29_/17843/0/8/8/Y/M.html
A quote...."Capmark Financial Group Inc., the lender owned by companies including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and KKR & Co., filed for bankruptcy protection after posting a second-quarter loss of about $1.6 billion."
From Bloomberg  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ach4oCVomZ6M
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Detroit House Auction Flops For Urban Wasteland  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23813.htm
A quote...."October 26, 2009 - DETROIT (Reuters) - In a crowded ballroom next to a bankrupt casino, what remains of the Detroit property market was being picked over by speculators and mostly discarded. -- After five hours of calling out a drumbeat of "no bid" for properties listed in an auction book as thick as a city phone directory, the energy of the county auctioneer began to flag. -- "OK," he said. "We only have 300 more pages to go."
From Reuters  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/gc03/idUSTRE59O17F20091026
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Fall of the Dollar on G-20 Finance Ministers Agenda  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15838
Related Article - A quote...."The G-20 finance ministers meet in Scotland on November 6th and 7th, and they will all be bleating about the fall in the dollar. France started this week, and the others will follow. Their currencies are rising in value and they do not like it.  -- We expect other nations to follow, Mexico and Brazil in imposing a 2% tax on incoming funds and others will print their currencies and buy dollars to reduce the value of their currencies and at the same time buy US Treasuries that are decreasing in value. That will neutralize any benefit from the exercise." -- That actually seems to be a good idea to prevent the US-NRE & Britain from gaining any more advantage by gaming the system in their ceaseless efforts to fund their economies, and in the case of the US-NRE, its sick and twisted empire, on the backs of other countries.  Editor's Caution: keep in mind folks there currently is a HUGE dollar carry trade, IF the world economy should start to get into trouble again, there might very well be a large unwind of that trade, the dollar would go up and gold would probably go down. – mpg
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China Should Raise Euro, Yen Holdings, News Reports  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/china-should-raise-euro-yen-holdings.html
A quote...."Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- China should increase the representation of the yen and the euro in its foreign-exchange reserves, the Financial News, a newspaper affiliated with China’s central bank, reported today." -- From Bloomberg
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601089&sid=auZ6mmb.nuoM
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Showdown in Chicago: Protesters Greet American Bankers Association Conference
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/26/showdown_in_chicago_protesters_greet_american
A quote...."When the American Bankers Association scheduled their annual meeting in Chicago for this week, they probably weren’t expecting the reception they’ve received. Instead of a quiet convention in a downtown hotel, the ABA has been greeted by a parallel gathering of thousands of people in what organizers call the “Showdown in Chicago.” Spearheaded by the group National People’s Action, organizers have tried to bring together a cross-section of Americans affected by the financial meltdown, including homeowners, renters, farmers, workers and retirees. The Showdown kicked off Sunday when protesters entered the lobby of the hotel where the ABA delegates are gathering. [includes rush transcript]"
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Reform or Revolution? Why the Left failed so miserably  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15811
A quote...."It’s not fair to leave you hanging like that (see Reform or Revolution?),  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/?p=10995  ---  we really need to know why the left in the so-called developed world has failed so miserably to carry out its allotted task, a task laid down by our ancestors who spilt much blood, sweat and tears. -- It occurs to me that the left is trapped in its own history, a history that views the industrial working class as the natural ‘partner’ in the revolutionary project but without recognizing that it is now a shadow of its former self. Compounding this paradox is the lack of debate over who is is to take their place, or join the struggle?"
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American newspaper circulation plunges again  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109689&sectionid=3510203
Special Note - A quote...."American newspapers are experiencing bad times as their sales have dipped 10 percent in the six months ending September 30, compared to a year earlier. -- The Audit Bureau of Circulation figures suggested on Monday that nearly two-thirds of the country's 25 largest papers posted declines of 10 percent or more." -- Anytime the US-NRE's "mainstream", presstituting, AIPAC butt-kissing, war mongering, infotainment-complex wants to stop their decline by actually "connecting the dots" for the public by printing stories that would make the thugocracy of this nation uncomfortable (Gasp! Aw My Gawd! Thud!) they can do so.....in the meantime....suffer! – mpg
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: An Emotional Response
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1863-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs-an-emotional-response.html
Must Read - A quote...."Recently, I wrote of "the 'counterinsurgency doctrine' so beloved by the Pentagon and eagerly embraced by Barack Obama." A reader took me to task for this inflammatory remark, saying:"


"To which, this brief reply:  I realize that historical memory has always been a rare commodity in the United States, but one shudders to see that the onset of this chronic amnesia is now down to the merest months. Was it not just six months ago, in May 2009, that Obama made a great show of firing the commander in Afghanistan, General David McKiernan, and replacing him with a much-lauded "expert" in counterinsurgency, Gen. Stanley McChrystal -- a close associate of the much-lauded "architect" of counterinsurgency in Iraq, General David Petraeus -- the Bush-appointed officer whom Obama has retained as the top dog in the central fronts of the Terror War? Was not McChrystal championed by Robert Gates -- the Bush-appointed factotum whom Obama has retained as the top dog in the Pentagon war machine?" -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59387&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Two Puppets Are Not Better Than One  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis166.html
Must Read - A quote...." Here we go again with more political theater in war-ravaged Afghanistan. -- The last vote, held in August, was so blatantly rigged that Washington put a gun to the head of its Afghan client, Hamid Karzai, and forced him into the humiliation of holding a runoff vote in November against rival Abdullah Abdullah. -- As Henry Kissinger once observed, being America’s ally can be more dangerous than being its enemy. -- Poor Hamid Karzai, the amiable former business consultant and CIA "asset" installed by Washington as Afghanistan’s president is another doleful example. As the US increasingly gets its backside kicked in Afghanistan, it has blamed the powerless Karzai for its woes and bumbling. -- You can almost hear Washington rebuking, "bad puppet! Bad puppet!"
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US casualties rise as Obama prepares Afghan escalation  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/oct2009/afgh-o27.shtml
A quote...."Eleven US soldiers and three drug agents were killed Monday in two separate incidents in different regions of Afghanistan, as the Obama administration’s war cabinet prepared to meet to consider escalating the war by sending tens of thousands of additional troops."
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14 Americans killed in separate helicopter crashes in Afghanistan --- http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_13643240?source=rss&nclick_check=1
A quote...."In the first crash, a helicopter went down in the west of the country after leaving the scene of a firefight with insurgents, killing 10 Americans — seven troops and three civilians working for the government. Eleven American troops, one U.S. civilian and 14 Afghans were also injured. -- In a separate incident in the south, two other U.S. choppers collided while in flight, killing four American troops and wounding two more, the military said."
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Afghan police open fire at demonstration  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iSwSuzz5Dk60oCYE92vi0cqM9odA
A quote...."KABUL — Afghan police Monday opened fire and turned a water cannon on demonstrators angry about allegations that Western troops torched a Koran, wounding at least three people, officials and witnesses said. -- Clashes erupted as police tried to prevent around 300 students, most of them men, from marching on parliament, the city's criminal investigation police chief, Sayed Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada, told AFP."
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12 mln Afghans live under poverty line: ministry  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/24/content_12314514.htm
A quote...."KABUL, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Afghan Minister for Public Health Syed Mohammad Amin Fatimi has revealed that 12 million out of the total 30 million Afghans, including 3 million children, live under poverty line in the war-torn country, a local newspaper reported Saturday."
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U.S. official resigns over Afghan war  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/10/26/ST2009102603447.html
Quote of the Day....""I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States' presence in Afghanistan," he wrote Sept. 10 in a four-page letter to the department's head of personnel. "I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end." -- *Matthew Hoh*, former Marine Corps captain. -- Who last month resigned in protest over the Afghan war. - mpg
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Carnage and corruption in Iraq  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/25/carnage-and-corruption-in-iraq
Must Read - A quote...."It is tragic that Iraq hits the headlines only if there is a major explosion with hundreds killed and injured. Yesterday's carnage in Baghdad is the second of its kind in two months, and yet another horrific reminder that the Iraqi people are still paying with their blood for the US-led invasion and occupation of their country."
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Iraq: Deadly car bombs 'made inside' Green Zone  ---  http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3914410423
Special Note - Uhhhhhh....anybody paying attention to this?  If true, doesn't that make the US-NRE look REALLY, REALLY bad, as in "false flag" attack?  To be honest, unlike some others,  ---  http://notsylvia.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/another-136-people-dead-in-baghdad-cui-bono/  ---  this website editor finally thought this one might actually be former Bathist supporters, or perhaps other insurgent groups and not the US-NRE's-Saudi Royal-al Qaeda nexis as is usually the case for these sorts of attacks, but this editor's perfectly willing to admit any error.  - mpg -- A quote...."Baghdad, 26 October (Aki) - The twin car bombings which on Sunday killed over 150 people and injured 500 in the Iraqi capital Baghdad were made inside the heavily fortified Green Zone, Iraq's deputy interior minister Ahmad al-Khafaji told Adnkronos International (AKI). -- "The two vehicles that exploded yesterday in the al-Salihiya area of Baghdad were made in a location right next to the blasts," al-Khafaji told AKI. -- "This is why the devices were not detected at the police checkpoints," he added." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59405&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Iraqi Refugees Forgotten, Like the War that Displaced Them
  ---  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/25/797017/-Iraqi-Refugees-Forgotten,-Like-the-War-that-Displaced-Them
A quote...."No embedded U.S. reporters ply their trade among the millions of Iraqis who are refugees in foreign countries or displaced inside their own. But nowadays the occupation of Iraq itself is mostly forgotten as Americans who actually care about U.S. actions abroad focus on what is happening and will happen in what was previously the forgotten occupation – Afghanistan. This rises to the highest levels. When Sen. John Kerry convened the Senate Foreign Relations Committee September 10 to hear U.S. Ambassador Christopher Day Hill discuss his status report for Iraq, only five of the 19 committee members showed up."
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RUSH TO WARs - false grounds, tainted history
  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/10/27/rush-to-wars-false-grounds-tainted-histo
Must Read - A quote...."Reverberations in U.S./Iran (U.S.'s Afghanistan, Somalia, Iranian Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi), a Brit's inconvenient truths running up to war that won't go away -- "Why is it now so urgent that we should take military action to disarm a military capacity that has been there for 20 years, and which we helped to create? .. Thirty years since resolution 242 called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories we do not express the same impatience with the persistent refusal of Israel to comply..."
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Turkey chastises the West on Iran  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8325373.stm
A quote...."Turkey's prime minister has accused the West of treating Iran unfairly over its nuclear programme."
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Turkish PM arrives in Tehran  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109709&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in Tehran for a two-day visit. -- Erdogan and his high-ranking delegation were welcomed on arrival by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki at Tehran's Mehrabad international airport on Monday night."
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Iran launches oil bourse  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109697&sectionid=351020103
War Warning - A quote...."Iran has launched an oil bourse on Kish Island in the Persian Gulf for trade in crude and petrochemical products. -- The new international exchange hall will offer 40 kinds of oil products. -- "The inauguration of the hall will enhance Iran's strategic position in the region," Bourse Organization Chairman Ali Salehabadi said on Monday."
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Russian president unsatisfied with pace of defense modernization  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/26/content_12334696.htm
A quote...."MOSCOW, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday he was not satisfied with the pace of the development and modernization of Russian defense sector."
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Colombia to Collaborate with Venezuela  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=131884&Itemid=1
A quote...."Bogotá, Oct 26 (Prensa Latina) Head of National Police, General Oscar Naranjo, affirmed Monday that his country is willing to collaborate with Venezuelan authorities in order to clarify the multiple murder of at least 10 Colombians in that country."
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Ministry of prisoners: 100 citizens arrested during storming of Aqsa
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7ZaBZ3Unsuvs3%2fRFsPls8W%2bURxw
1BmF8W9jgbSoFxLjaaeuytLEl9%2bb6G1nCWHX%2fY9tAVbPPrMzyLkf%2fit%2fTcSa98fufTRNIgTBRGSNnclqg%3d
Israel is OBVIOUSLY trying to provoke a war, everyone in the Middle East should therefore prepare themselves, be wary of "false flag" attacks and watch Israel very closely. - mpg -- A quote...."GAZA, (PIC) -- The ministry of prisoners in Gaza has said that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) had rounded up 100 citizens in the vicinity of the Aqsa Mosque during the attempt to storm the holy site."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59385&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Surprised by Disaster  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed167.html
Must Read - Welcome to the New Roman Empire folks. - mpg -- A quote...."In re Afghanistan, why, you might ask, is the world’s hugest, expensivest, most begadgeted military unable to defeat a few thousand angry tribesmen armed with AKs and RPGs? -- Easy: Character. The men running the war are mentally the wrong ones to do it. -- Think about this for a moment. Suppose that your boss at the lab or law firm or newsroom demanded that, when he entered the room, you leapt spasmodically to your feet, stood rigidly erect with your feet at a forty-five degree angle like a congenitally deformed duck, and stared straight ahead until he gave you permission to relax. You would think, correctly, that he was crazy as a bedbug. If he then required reporters to stand in a square so he could inspect their belt buckles, you would either figure he was a gay blade or call for a struggle buggy and some big orderlies. This weird posturing is not normal, nor are those it appeals to."
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Police beating of Asian student in California angers many Americans  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/27/content_12337451.htm
A quote...."LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- The police beating of a Vietnamese student from San Jose State University in California has angered many Americans and reminded them of the similar beating of Rodney King, a black motorist, in Los Angeles in 1991, which aroused nationwide protests." -- Here's the video  ---  http://vodpod.com/watch/2396506-vid-cell-phone-video-shows-police-beating-of-student-phuong-ho
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Guantánamo torture: UK wants claims of complicity to be heard in secret
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/26/guantanamo-torture-claims-court-case
A quote...."The government wants allegations that it was complicit in the torture by the US of Britons held as terrorism suspects to be heard in secret. -- In documents seen by the Guardian, lawyers for the government argue it must be allowed to present evidence to the high court with the public excluded, otherwise Britain's relations with other countries and its national security could be damaged. The government also wants its evidence kept secret from defence lawyers."
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How [British] police rebranded lawful protest as 'domestic extremism'
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/25/police-surveillance-protest-domestic-extremism
A quote...."The term "domestic extremism" is now common currency within the police. It is a phrase which shapes how forces seek to control demonstrations. It has led to the personal details and photographs of a substantial number of protesters being stored on secret police databases around the country. There is no official or legal definition of the term. Instead, the police have made a vague stab at what they think it means. Senior officers describe domestic extremists as individuals or groups "that carry out criminal acts of direct action in furtherance of a campaign."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

The Quitter, The Criminal and The New King  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/10/quitter-criminal-and-new-king.html
Special Note - A quote...."The world is going to hell in a handbasket. Three, count them THREE insane news reports. First we have Abbas the quitting whinger, (Oh God let him quit for the sake of Palestine!) who rings Obama on the phone and says "Where's my payoff! Net-And -Yahoo was supposed to be nice to me!" and "Hamas won't do what I want them to" To which Obama rings him back and "comforts" him. I kid you not:"
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Report: Turkey PM says Lieberman threatened to nuke Gaza  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123646.html
A quote...."Turkey's prime minister has further inflamed simmering Israel-Turkey tensions, claiming that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman threatened to use nuclear weapons against Gaza, The Guardian reported Monday." -- For more on this issue see....A Mortal Threat – Europe’s New Frankenstein Monster - 01-26-09 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/amortalthreat-europesnewfrankenstein-mpg-reficultnias-012609
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Erdogan: Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Israel in Gaza is a Fact, We Cannot Remain Silent about Targeting Civilians with White Phosphorus
  ---  http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2009/10/25/252002.htm
A quote...."Damascus, (SANA) – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that the use of weapons of mass destruction by Israel is a fact, and that it is unfair to remain silent while civilians are targeted with white phosphorus bombs."
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Prisoner Society: more than 2,000 cases of torture in Israeli prison during past year
  ---  http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7537&Itemid=27
A quote...."Ramallah / PNN – President of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, Qaddura Fares, reported today that during the past year there have been more than 2,000 cases of torture in Israeli prison." -- also posted at Uruknet   ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59404&hd=&size=1&l=e
& AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/prisoner-society-more-than-2000-cases.html
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MADA: The Israeli occupation forces continue attacks on journalists in Jerusalem  ---  http://www.madacenter.org/en/?p=290
A quote...."The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) strongly condemns the Israeli attacks on Palestinian journalists in Jerusalem. The Israeli occupation forces attacked yesterday (25 October): the reporter and photographer of “Alquds Net” Dyala Jwayhan, the correspondent of Palestinian News Network (PNN) Mais Abu-Ghazaleh, AP photographer Mahfouz Abu Turk. “Yediot Aharonot” newspaper photographer, Atta Ewissat was injured by Palestinian youth who’s hurled a stone on him, during coverage the events in the vicinity of Al Aqsa Mosque." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59393&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israel 'cuts Palestinian water'  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8327188.stm
A quote...."Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says. -- In a report, the human rights group says Israeli water restrictions discriminate against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank."
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Mazin Qumsiyeh – it is essential to speak the truth regardless of which prison section we are in
  ---  http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/10/26/mazin-qumsiyeh-it-is-essential-to-speak-the-truth-regardless-of-which-prison-section-we-are-in/
A quote...."The past weekend, we had a conference over two days attended by over 200 people from around the world.  The Conference addressed issues of Israeli colonialism, occupation, and racism.  It was held in the Paradise Hotel in Bethlehem, a scene of previous Israeli attack that severely damaged this beautiful hotel.  In workshops and panels we heard from distinguished activists like Omar Barghouti (PACBI), Shawan Jabarin (AlHaq), Ameer Makhoul (Ittijah), Jamal Juma' (Stopthewall.org), Shir Hever (AIC), Dalit Baum (WhoProfits), Ingrid Jaradat Gassner (Badil), Michael Warschawski (AIC), and many more. It was a very productive meeting with significant networking accomplished and plans for coalition building, for enhancing the growing BDS movement, for support of the people of Gaza and Jerusalem, and more. JAI"  ---  http://www.jai-pal.org/content.php?page=816  ---  also posted at Uruknet
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59401&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Miguel Martinez – Italy: an attempt to outlaw defending freedom of speech
  ---  http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/10/26/miguel-martinez-italy-an-attempt-to-outlaw-defending-freedom-of-speech/
A quote...."Antonio Caracciolo is a scholar of philosophy of law who works at the Faculty of Political Sciences of Rome University. -- Politically, he is a liberal in the Italian sense of the word: a believer in the separation of Church and state, constitutional democracy, the rule of law and a free market; however he keeps his opinions strictly out of his work, reserving them for his blog Civium Libertas. http://civiumlibertas.blogspot.com/  ---  http://civiumlibertas.blogspot.com/  ---  Recently, his blog has dedicated much attention to the politics of Israel and the methods used by Zionist organizations in Italy to silence criticism of Israel in the Italian media and political sphere."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/italy-attempt-to-outlaw-defending.html
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Israel rules out questioning troops about Gaza offensive  ---  http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/26/israel.gaza.report/index.html?eref=edition
My goodness, who would of thunk it?  This website editor is totally shocked that a government, along with what appears to be a majority of its people, both brimming with utter mendacity and filled with the vile ghost of a Nazi regime past, would refuse to investigate their own war crimes. We should all just call every Isreali the world's newest "Mini-Nazis" – mpg -- also posted at Uruknet
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59406&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Arab Inaction Over [Israeli] 'Organ Theft' Shocks Journalist
  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=ff85f0d127d6b3f0145895f792979449&mode=details#ff85f0d127d6b3f0145895f792979449
posted at The Palestine Chronicle  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15458
A quote...."The Swedish journalist, who caused controversy by accusing Israeli troops of killing Palestinians for their organs, has criticized Arab countries for their lack of action regarding the humanitarian tragedy. -- Donald Bostrom said on Saturday that the Arab indifference to Israel's gross mistreatments of Palestinians has bitterly disappointed him. Bostrom said the least he expected was a widespread condemnation." -- For more on this issue see....Israeli Organ Thefts  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israeliorgnthefts-weblist-mpg-092409
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EU Lawyers Hold Lists of IDF Officers Suspected of War Crimes in Gaza
  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/gaza-strip/2729-eu-lawyers-hold-lists-of-idf-officers-suspected-of-war-crimes-in-gaza
Action Alert - A quote...."UK, October 27, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) - Human rights lawyers and pro-Palestinian activists in a number of European countries hold lists with names of Israel Defense Forces soldiers allegedly linked to war crimes committed during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip." -- Follow them, arrest them, sue them, convict them, imprison them. - mpg
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The Maiden Voyage of the DIGNITY  ---  http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/56-news/1096-the-maiden-voyage-of-the-dignity
Action Alert - A quote...."A year ago today, our boat, the DIGNITY, made her first voyage to Gaza. She was a beautiful yacht, donated by people who believed in the Free Gaza movement after our first voyage in August. On board were dignitaries such as Mairead Maquire, the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner from Ireland and Mustafa Barghouti, President of the Palestinian National Initiative and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (MP)."
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

100 Days of Resistance: Al Jazeera’s Avi Lewis Reports from Honduras - http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/26/100_days_of_resistance_al_jazeeras
A quote...."In Honduras, the conflict between the coup regime and supporters of the ousted president Manuel Zelaya remains at a standstill. Talks broke down last week after the coup regime refused to drop its objection to Zelaya’s return to office. Zelaya has accused the regime of trying to drag out negotiations until the presidential elections it plans to hold next month. Zelaya’s supporters are boycotting the elections, and the international community has refused to recognize them. The Canadian journalist and Al Jazeera English correspondent Avi Lewis recently traveled to Honduras for a rare look at the grassroots movement against the coup regime. This is an excerpt of his report, which aired on the Al Jazeera English program Fault Lines. [includes rush transcript]"
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Honduras Resistance on Day 121  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=131810&Itemid=1
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Oct 26 (Prensa Latina) The National Front against the Coup d'Etat has reached its 121st consecutive day against the military coup on Monday, demanding restitution of democratic institutionality."
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Sunday October 25th 2009 - links page

What You Didn’t Know About The War  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/what-you-didnt-know-about-the-war/
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsrMzfhdmkU  ---  (RT-YuTb - 10m 42s - 10/22/09)
Must View Video -- A quote...."This video is mandatory viewing to all supporters of the war(s).
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By the way....her voice is unmistakable, the speaker at the end of the video was Dr. Dahlia Wasfi.  For videos regarding her views see below....

World Peace Forum - Dahlia Wasfi -- (Gogl Vid - 15 min 26 sec - 15:26 - 11 months ago)
---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5502185627647601221&hl=en#
Dr.Dahlia Wasfi - Life in Iraq Under US Occupation -- (MySpace Vid - 14 min 26 sec - Jul 28, 2007)
  ---  http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=14323457
CONG PROG CAUCUS: Dahlia Wasfi at Iraq Forum -- (YuTb - 6m14s - Sept. 22, 2006)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELjgVq6GtPA
Dahlia Wasfi: Ain’t Nothin’ Green About the Green Zone -- (Gogl Vid - 33m28s - 33:28 - 1 year ago)
  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5502185627647601221&hl=en#docid=-6437050627977537160
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One of the other women's voices ("flags are bits of colored cloth....") was that of Ms. Arundhati Roy. For videos regarding her views see below....


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An Interview with Economist Ethan Kaplan - Challenging the Dollar Dictatorship  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff10232009.html
Special Note - A quote...."Last week, representatives of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (known by its Spanish acronym ALBA) met in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba to discuss the future evolution of the trade bloc, designed to promote complementarity and reciprocity amongst left-leaning regimes in the region such as Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador. Since its inception in 2004, ALBA has carried out important exchanges of goods and services; for example Venezuela has exported subsidized oil to Cuba and receives Cuban medical assistance in return. However, some wonder whether ALBA is practical or can help to foster real economic development for the region’s poor."
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Obama Every Bit as Bad as Bush/Cheney on Patriot Act
  ---  http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/opinion-obama-every-bit-as-bad-as-bush-cheney-on-patriot-act
A quote...."While battling the FBI's expanded surveillance guidelines, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., also revealed (Daily Kos, Oct. 8) that in the Senate Judiciary Committee review of the Patriot Act (also Oct. 8), Republicans protecting the Act were joined, in a closed-door classified session, by Obama officials with amendments further preserving it. Then, in a public session, all but three Democrats voted for a watered-down "compromise" bill by Patrick Leahy and Diane Feinstein." -- also posted at Uruknet   ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59315&hd=&size=1&l=e
& OhBummer   ---  http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-every-bit-as-bad-as-bushcheney-on.html
& BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6071-0-5-5--.html
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Pakistan must review its partnership with the US war on terror which has already turned into a war of terror for Pakistan
  ---  http://countercurrents.org/chaudry221009.htm
Special Note -  [title from Uruknet]  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59309&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  A quote...."It is highly unlikely that Obama can deliver peace for which he won the Nobel prize merely on the basis of his oratories and the political rhetoric. But, Pakistan can help him achieve exactly that by distancing itself from the so called war on terror. By now it is clear that the world at large has no illusions about the American war on terror which is basically a metaphor for the American geo-political interests in the region to pave the way for its pipeline to tap into the future energy resources of the Central Asia. -- It is an open secret that Pakistan was coerced into taking part in the American invasion of Afghanistan following the events of September 11, 2001. Gen. Musharraf had little choice but to comply or risk getting Pakistan bombed back to the stone age."
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Americans : Looters & Thieves.  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59291&hd=&size=1&l=e
Special Note....So much has been stolen and looted from Iraq, from my Beloved's lap, treasures, boxes, and shelves... If I tell you that it is in the billion of Dollars, be it in cash or or in things/goods...I am not exaggerating one bit. -- I, for one was a witness, and I saw it with my own two eyes, 675 million dollars in cash, taken by the US soldiers in trunks in 2003, to be "counted in New York". This money is still in New York. -- I have hundreds of stories of US soldiers looting homes they raided, stealing the money, the jewelery, even the food..."
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Nato faces same problems in Afghanistan as Russia did in 1985  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6888273.ece
Special Note - A quote...."In 1985 the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan was at a turning point. Mikhail Gorbachev had just become Communist Party chief and was looking for an exit strategy. The Red Army wanted more troops. -- Both had lost faith in Babrak Karmal, the Afghan President whom they installed in 1979 but who was now weak, incompetent and confined mostly to his palace. -- Sound familiar? -- It is easy to overstate the parallels between the Soviet and Nato campaigns in Afghanistan. President Obama faces similar challenges as he prepares to decide — probably in the next month — how to avoid the same fate as the British in the 19th century and the Soviets in the 20th." -- Oh that's real easy....he could leave now....rather than later. - mpg
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Karzai Questions US ‘Reliability’ as Partner  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/25/karzai-questions-us-reliability-as-partner/
Him and Noriega, General Trujillo, Ngo Dinh Diem and lets not forget Saddam Hussein. - mpg -- A quote...."After eight years governing the US-backed administration and as US officials lauded August’s election as a success despite over a million fraudulent votes cast on his behalf, one would think that Afghan President Hamid Karzai would be inexorably linked with the international forces in general and America in particular."
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The runoff farce in Afghanistan  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/oct2009/pers-o26.shtml
A quote...."The protracted crisis over the fraudulent election in Afghanistan, culminating in President Hamid Karzai’s acceptance last week of a runoff with his top challenger and former foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah, has once again laid bare the colonial character of the US occupation and the puppet status of the government in Kabul."
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Solider who refuses to return to Afghanistan leads thousands on anti-war march in London
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222662/Solider-refuses-return-Afghanistan-accuses-politicians-betraying-armys-trust-anti-war-march-London.html
Contains Video - A quote...."A serving soldier yesterday accused politicians of abusing the trust of the army and serving soldiers. -- Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, who is facing a court martial for refusing to return to Afghanistan, made his comments before an anti-war demonstration in central London. -- Lance Corporal Glenton is leading former colleagues, military families and anti-war protesters in the march, calling for British troops to be brought home."
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[British] Soldier's mother wants Tony Blair to answer for Iraq war  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/23/military-defence
A quote...."The mother of a teenage soldier killed in Iraq broke down today as she told an inquiry she wanted Tony Blair to be held to account for the "illegal war". -- Time for another false flag event. - mpg
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Four Afghan civilians killed by US military  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109498&sectionid=351020403
A quote...."American forces in Afghanistan have opened fire on a vehicle killing four civilian aboard, including a woman and two children." -- also posted at OhBummer  ---  http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/10/four-afghan-civilians-killed-by-us.html
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Now That's Just Sick
10-25-09
mpg

Last Uruguayan dictator sentenced to 25 years  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8769671
Special Note - Justice Alert -- This is what's going to happen to Bush and Cheney and all those who helped them one day....including Obama if he keeps running around saying "let's put all of this behind us".  One of the most stupid phrases ever uttered since it wasn't "us" that committed all those crimes, it was "them", that tiny fraction of the US-NRE's thugocracy, probably numbering not more than five or ten thousand, and their helpers, lackeys and assorted sycophants, probably not more than fifty thousand, that took this nation down the road to hell. -- also posted at YahooNews  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091022/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_uruguay_ex_dictator

A quote...."MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – Uruguay's last dictator, Gregorio Alvarez, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday for 37 homicides, including forced disappearances in "Operation Condor" when South America's military regimes cooperated to crush leftist dissent in the late 1970s."

Editor's special note - Censorship Alert -- By the way, compare AlethoNew's  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/uruguays-last-dictator-gregorio-alvarez.html  ---  copy of "The Australian's"  ---  http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26251113-36235,00.html  ---  AFP article regarding this issue to the copies from AP's articles shown above. The AP story is much more extensive than AFP's and mentions the US-NRE's "Operation Condor", one of hundreds of assassination, death squad and terror programs that have been implemented over the years by this nation's thugocracy.

This is what much of the US-NRE's infotainment presstitue corps does 24/7, (although AFP is actually French, the example still holds) if you read AFP's story you'd sigh and think to yourself "my isn't our country great, aren't we so much more civilized than those little brown people down South, at least we don't have to deal with all those death squads running around” Whereas the truth is we trained all those guys at the School of the Americas (including how to do torture), financed them, sold them their weapons, came up with the "program" and gave them their marching orders.

This is the open secret of the US-NRE's foreign policy, we support the worst of the worst in any society, we deliberately find and hire the psychos who are detested by their own people and therefore dependent on us, train them, arm them, encourage them in their depredations and than (now this is the really disgustingly sick part) we cluck, cluck and tsk, tsk (especially all those Limousine Liberals) and write articles about how those poor people are "always fighting each other" and how "they'll never have democracy" and isn’t it just a "darn shame they're so barbaric" and of course, in the end, the dreaded "let's go 'help' them".

Now that's just sick, what's worse is that many people in this country actually think they're being clever with all these little games they're playing.  Funding the "terrorists" with one hand while supporting the foreign "government's forces" with the other.  Dividing and conquering countries and their peoples willy nilly.  Putting them deeper into debt and more beholden to the "West's" banks as the worlds newest debt slaves all the while making buco-bucks playing both sides against the middle.

They're not, the Wheel of Life does turn folks, Karma and the Fates can really be a bitch at times, and Justice is very patient. – mpg
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Another 147 people dead in Baghdad, cui bono?  ---  http://notsylvia.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/another-136-people-dead-in-baghdad-cui-bono/
Special Note - A quote...."Once again in the bloodiest attack in the last two months an alleged suicide bomber killed and injured over 650 people. -- Nearly a whole street was flattened. -- This surely is not the kind of destruction which can be caused by a home-made bomb, put together in some basement. -- The people behind the attacks, we are told, are supposedly former supporters of the late Saddam Hussein or maybe members of AlQaida or other Sunni radical groups, supported by Syria (What interest would Syria have in destabilizing Iraq, while Syria´s ally Iran is supporting the Shiite dominated government?). -- While the attacks were supposedly directed at government buildings, the people killed or maimed were mainly civilians on the street. -- What kind of support could Saddam´s supporters possibly gain from the civilian population with this kind of brutal attacks against them. Do they actually think that anyone would vote for them after having lost family or friends in such an attack or being afraid the next attack might kill a loved one?"
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/another-147-people-dead-in-baghdad-cui.html
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Israel increasing military build-up near Lebanon  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109558&sectionid=351020203
War Alert - A quote...."Israel is sharply increasing its military build-up at its bases near the border with Lebanon while putting Israeli troops on alert. -- Israel has increased its military patrols near the border with Lebanon, including the Golan Heights, IRNA reported on Saturday."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/israel-increasing-military-build-up.html
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Israeli police invade al-Aqsa Mosque again  ---  http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=109554&sectionid=351020202
War Provocation - Related Article -- (Israel appears to be attempting to get a war started, everyone should be thinking why now?) -- A quote...."Israeli police have invaded the al-Aqsa mosque for the second time in recent weeks, which has prompted clashes with Arab worshippers, Israeli and Palestinian officials have said." -- also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/israeli-police-invade-al-aqsa-mosque.html
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The Jundullah Attack Against Iran of October 19th 2009....

When They Say “Saudi-Backed, Anti-Iranian”, Think CIA. Think Mossad
  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/10/25/when-they-say-a-8220-saudi-backed-anti-i
Special Note - A quote...."[The White House feigns ignorance of some CIA programs, in order to maintain its deniability. There has never been even one anti-Iranian operation anywhere that was not controlled or monitored by the CIA. Even if it was true that the Jundullah outfit that attacked in Iran was really not a Pakistani group, even though it was based in S. Waziristan, the CIA knew of their actions and aims beforehand and chose to let them happen, just the way they "let 911 happen." Every Sunni terrorist outfit, especially all those described as being "al Qaida related" are CIA sponsored, using Saudi money, under ISI direction, facilitated by the Mossad."
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Iran warns foreign elements 'behind' terror attack  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109616&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."After more than 40 people, including senior commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps were killed in a terrorist attack in southeastern Iran, one of the country's senior army officials talks of the involvement of the US, UK, an Arab country and an eastern neighbor in the deadly bombing."
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Jundullah is common enemy of Iran and Pakistan: Zardari  ---  http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=206384
A quote...."TEHRAN -– Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari stated that the terrorist group Jundullah is the common enemy of Iran and Pakistan. "
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Iran, Pakistan agree on joint anti-terrorism mechanism  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109533&sectionid=351020401
A quote...."In the wake of the bloody attack in southeastern Iran carried out by the the Pakistan-based Jundallah terrorist group, Tehran and Islamabad have agreed to adopt joint measures to fight terrorism. "

For more on the four articles shown above see....US Support of Terror- MEK-PKK-Others
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#MEK-PKK-OTHERS
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Turkey will go ahead with Iran gas agreement  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109552&sectionid=351020103
A quote...."Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yilldiz says his country plans to go ahead with its $3.5 billion natural gas development plans in Iran. -- The plan includes development of phases 22, 23 and 24 in Iran's South Pars gas field."
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Iran: There was no IAEA deadline  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109561&sectionid=351020104
A quote...."Iran says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had set no deadline for responding to the draft of the nuclear fuel agreement discussed in Vienna."
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Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/10/23/gareth-porter-68/
Must Listen Audio Interview - A quote...."Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the counterproductive coercive diplomacy in U.S./Iran talks, political pressure brought to bear by U.S. allies on the 2007 Iran NIE, new evidence of manufactured controversy about the Qom facility and Iran’s well-reasoned decision to halt disclosure under the additional protocol to their Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA in 2007."
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Yemeni army bombs three markets in north  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109519&sectionid=351020206
A quote...."Houthi fighters in Yemen say they have inflicted heavy losses on government forces as the army continues to target residential areas in Saada Province. -- In a statement released on Saturday, the fighters said they captured two military camps along with all their equipment in the town of Al-Razih." -- also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/yemeni-army-bombs-three-markets-in.html
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Houthis kill top Yemeni commander  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109606&sectionid=351020206
A quote...."Houthi fighters in Yemen say they have killed a top army commander in northern Sa'ada province, where the fighters inflicted heavy losses on government forces."
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France, Spain evicted from Kyrgyz air base  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109625&sectionid=351020406
A quote...."French and Spanish forces have vacated an air base in Kyrgyzstan because their deals to use it as a refueling point for aircraft supplying NATO forces in Afghanistan were cancelled. "
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Russia to build aircraft maintenance center in Bolivia  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109541&sectionid=351020706
A quote...."President Evo Morales has announced that Moscow plans to build a "maintenance center for Russian planes that fly in South America" in Bolivia." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/209124
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Che Guevara's daughter campaigns for Cuban 5  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109536&sectionid=3510203
A quote...."On the 11th anniversary of the detention of the Cuban Five in the United States, Dr. Aleida Guevara says that they are national heroes. -- The five Cubans, Antonio Guerrero, Raman Labaino, Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, and Rene Gonzalez were arrested in Miami in 1998 and are now entering their 12th year of incarceration. "
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Japan govt coalition partner rejects US base proposal  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/japan-govt-coalition-partner-rejects-us.html
Hey!  Why struggle, if the US-NRE rudely insists on staying....let them!!  Just charge them a billion dollars a day to do so!!  Eventually, they'll leave, and Japan will be rid of a nuisance and a whole lot richer.  Problem solved. – mpg -- A quote...."TOKYO (AFP) – A coalition partner of Japan's centre-left government on Saturday voiced opposition to a fresh proposal for keeping a controversial US base within the southern Japanese island of Okinawa."
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Bosnia 'on brink of new civil war'  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/bosnia/6364680/Bosnia-on-brink-of-new-civil-war.html
A quote...."Bosnia is heading for a new civil war as a constitutional crisis threatens to cause the collapse of the political system, the country's leaders have warned." -- also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6077-0-3-3--.html
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Poland joins growing list of countries opposing Tony Blair's bid to be EU president -- Hip Hip Hooray !!! - mpg
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6425821/Poland-joins-growing-list-of-countries-opposing-Tony-Blairs-bid-to-be-EU-president.html
President!! Tony Blair should be tried for war crimes, convicted, and shown a "short drop with a sharp stop"!! - mpg -- A quote...."Tony Blair's hopes of becoming the first president of the European Union have been dealt a potentially fatal blow by Poland."
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Lithuanian President Announces Investigation into CIA Secret Prison
  ---  http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/lithuania-investigating-secret-cia-prisons/story?id=8874887
A quote...."The president of Lithuania called for an official investigation Tuesday into an ABC News.com exclusive report in August that the CIA housed a secret prison for al Qaeda suspects in Lithuania for more than a year beginning in 2004."
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Scottish police to launch new inquiry into Lockerbie
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/scottish-police-to-launch-new-inquiry-into-lockerbie-1809209.html
No doubt they'll blame it all on Iran. - mpg -- A quote...."Scottish police have launched a new investigation into the Lockerbie bombing, saying they are reviewing forensic evidence and have "several potential lines of inquiry". -- Heading the investigation is Detective Chief Inspector Michael Dalgleish, a member of the original team which brought the case against Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the only man to be convicted of the bombing."
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Mind Your Tweets: CIA and European Union Building Social Networking Surveillance System
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6070-0-0-0--.html
A quote...."Social networking sites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and their competitors can facilitate communication and information sharing amongst diverse groups and individuals is by now a cliché." -- also posted at RogueGov  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Mind_Your_Tweets%3
A_CIA_and_European_Union_Building_Social_Networking_Surveillance_System/17824/0/4/4/Y/M.html
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Spy Scandel -- Israel's Very Real problem -- Spies Defending Spies - http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/10/spy-scandelisraels-very-real-problem.html
A quote...."The comedy never ends with Israel. When trawling the news I noticed in the Jpost THIS article where AIPAC’s former chief Steve Rosen is defending Nozette, the "latest" to spy on America. Rosen claims the FBI and CIA are “Paranoid” about Jewish spies. That would be the very SAME Steve Rosen accused of spying on America for Israel. You can read about HOW and WHO, helped Rosen and his pals to escape the charges HERE.  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/04/aipac-spies-maybe-set-free.html  ---  And of course Nancy Pelosi's contribution HERE.
  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/04/aipac-spiesus-political-scandal-pelosi.html
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Why 911 Truth Matters  ---  http://bigeye.com/why911truthmatters.htm
A quote...."Human antipathy to murder is hard-wired. -- Consider murder mystery novels, TV forensic dramas, sensational news stories, and political murder (assassination). Discovering and prosecuting the guilty, "bringing them to justice" is the goal. Exploring and analyzing antecedents and psychopathology may be undertaken by a few, typically writers and intellectuals. When noticed at all by the public, such critics tend to be summarily marginalized as apologists." -- The author makes many good points but the chief reason why the truth regarding what happened on 9/11 should matter to all of us is because it's bad business to let those in this country who helped set up 9/11 get away with it. This was too big, too obvious and most importantly to successful to "put it behind us"  This nation's thugocracy made WAY to much money for them to not do "it" again.  In other words, it's a matter of national self-preservation to find these people as soon as possible, try them, convict them, and hang all of them. It’s them or us folks, this website editor prefers “us”. - mpg -- also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/10/25/why-911-truth-matters/
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israel’s Fraudulent Casus Belli  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/10/israels-fraudulent-casus-belli.html
A quote...."Are UN Sanctions in order here? Israel uses the “peace process” as a casus belli to continue the war on Palestine, and nobody notices??? In the run up to the Goldstone draft Resolution and immediately afterward, Israel took the following position;"
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Netanyahu insists Israel is only for Jews  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109573&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has openly voiced the Israeli government's plans to expel indigenous Palestinian Arabs from their occupied lands. -- Netanyahu stressed that Palestinians should recognize Israel as a Jewish state in order to end their conflict." - bold by website editor - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/netanyahu-insists-israel-is-only-for.html
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Palestinians Behind Bars with No Recourse to Justice  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,656934,00.html
A quote...."Hundreds of Palestinians are kept behind bars in Israel without charges having been filed and with no access to a fair trial. Not even their lawyers are allowed to look at the evidence. Some governments in the West have expressed their concern, but the Israelis haven't budged."
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Israeli Settlers Sing And Dance In Front Of Palestinian House They Occupied In East Jerusalem
  ---  http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=56903
A quote...."Dozens of fundamentalist Jewish settlers held prayers on Friday in front of a Palestinian home they occupied by court order in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in East Jerusalem. After praying, the settlers held a dance and party."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/israeli-settlers-sing-and-dance-in.html
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Why Israel is unlikely to conduct any investigation into Gaza war crimes  ---  http://www.redress.cc/palestine/uavnery20091026
A quote...."Uri Avnery explains why Israel is unlikely to carry out a real – or even a sham – investigation into its conduct during the invasion of Gaza in 2008/09, as demanded by the UN-sponsored Goldstone report."
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Hamas official: Reconciliation talks totally frozen  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=234853
A quote...."Gaza – Ma’an – Hamas declared on Sunday that reconciliation talks with the rival Fatah movement are now completely on hold after President Mahmoud Abbas set a date for elections." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59348&hd=&size=1&l=e
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Agreement in sight: Honduras' Zelaya tells supporters  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/26/content_12327140.htm
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya assured his supporters on Sunday that an agreement would soon be reached on settling the country's political crisis."
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Capitalism, Socialism or Fascism?  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/capitalism-socialism-fascism-or.html
Must Read - A quote...."What is the current American economy: capitalism, socialism or fascism?"
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On The Edge with Max Keiser and Paul Craig Roberts  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/10/24/video-on-the-edge-with-max-keiser-and-paul-craig-roberts/
Alt1of4  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOWREog3zYM
Alt2of4  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgZUzK6WLZM
Alt3of4  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfokAugdyHg
Alt4of4  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmvLPmSKn7o  ---  (4-7m 10/23/09)
Videos - Special Note - More Mad Max ! - A great round-up of the world's financial headlines. - mpg -- A quote...."In this enlightening episode of On The Edge Keiser talks with former assistant secretary of the treasury Paul Craig Roberts. The segment with Roberts is very in depth, during it, Roberts talks about his most recent column titled, “U.S. Joins the Ranks of Failed States”. -- Roberts who is credited with being the father of Reaganomics asserts that the U.S. will breakdown financially very soon. He goes on to explain that the country cannot come back from the financial abyss that it’s going into."
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The Federal Reserve System....  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north775.html
A quote...."Most critics of the Federal Reserve believe that the central bank earns enormous profits as a result of its legal authority to create money. I have tried to correct this misconception for almost 40 years. I keep trying."
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An Overview Of The Fed's Intervention In Equity Markets Via The Primary Dealer Credit Facility
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/overview-feds-intervention-equity-markets-primary-dealer-credit-facility
Special Note - A quote...."Recently, Zero Hedge presented a snapshot analysis of the various securities that made up the triparty repo agreement involving JPM, Lehman and the Fed. We uncovered numerous bankrupt companies' equities that were being pledged as collateral for what ultimately was taxpayer exposure. To our surprise, this discovery is not an exception, and in fact in the days immediately preceding the collapse of Bear Stearns first, and subsequently, Lehman Brothers, the Federal Reserve established and refined a program that permitted banks to pledge virtually any security as collateral, including not just investment grade bonds and higher ranked securities, but also stocks of companies, the riskiest investment possible, and a guaranteed way for taxpayer capital to evaporate in the context of a disintegrating financial system, all with the purpose of bailing out Wall Street's major institutions."
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Capmark To File For Bankruptcy, More FDIC Headaches  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/capmark-file-bankruptcy-more-fdic-headaches
A quote...."It's game over for Capmark, which is expected to file for bankruptcy within 24 hours. The firm which was formerly GMAC's commercial real estate business (Or GMAC Commercial Holding Ccapital Markets Corp in short), and had originated over $10 billion in CRE loans (by the way, did we say that CRE REITs are undervalued? if you didn't buy at least 5 shares of some multi-apartment or hotel REIT yesterday with every share of Amazon you were covering you are a bubble uninflating traitor and have to be shot for not believing in a 100x P/E), was LBOed by KKR and Goldman in 2006. Needless to say, that particular investment won't be making the next Calpers pitch book."
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Observations On Reverse Repos Coupled With A Record Excess Bank Reserve Balance
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/observations-reverse-repos-coupled-record-excess-bank-reserve-balance
Chart - A quote...."Those who follow the meandering permutations of the Fed's balance sheet must have observed with great irony the proclamation by the NY Fed on October 19th that it is prepared to commence tightening liquidity via reverse repo operations, even as 48 short hours later later the Fed announced a new all time high in bank reserves, which for the first time ever hit a level over $1 trillion. The glaring discrepancy between these two observations has left many wondering not only about the veracity of any statements coming out of the Fed, but to consider what the best trades to front-run the Federal Reserve may be for that time when, whether it likes it or not, the NY Fed is forced (politically or otherwise) to start extracting its pound of flesh from the banking system."
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Economics and Moral Courage  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/econ-and-moral-courage129.html
A quote...."It must be really painful to be an economist of the mainstream today, or, at least, it should smart to some extent. In a financial and economic calamity of the current scale, people naturally want to know who issued the warnings about the real estate bubble and its likely aftermath."
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Karl Marx as Religious Eschatologist  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard206.html
Analysis - A quote...."The key to the intricate and massive system of thought created by Karl Marx is at bottom a simple one: Karl Marx was a communist. -- A seemingly trite and banal statement set alongside Marxism's myriad of jargon-ridden concepts in philosophy, economics, and culture, yet Marx's devotion to communism was his crucial focus, far more central than the class struggle, the dialectic, the theory of surplus value, and all the rest."
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ASEAN looks forward to realization of ASEAN-China Free Trade Area  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/24/content_12315371.htm
A quote...."HUA HIN, Thailand, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- The 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit issued a Chairman's Statement Saturday, saying the bloc looked forward to the realization of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) on January 1, 2010."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6056-0-13-13--.html
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President Obama discouraging public opt-out option, reports say  http://rawstory.com/2009/10/president-obama-discouraging-public-optout-option-reports/
Regarding the Health Care Issue -- A quote...."The wheels may be coming off the cart of the Democrats' all-in-this together strategy for overhauling healthcare. -- And according to two reports, the people doing the wheel removing work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."
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Saturday October 24th 2009 - links page

Friday October 23rd 2009 - links page

Don't give up yet folks, there's still HOPE (Obama style) that Obama can pull a gigantic catastrophic disaster from the jaws of utter defeat and produce a plan in conjunction with the HMOs and pharmaceutical companies that will be even MORE expensive for the US treasury while providing even LESS health care for the average American than anyone could've possibly imagined.  It's simply a wonder that Obama doesn't get rug burns on his knees from all his frenetic "activity". -- *mpg* -- posted 08-18-09

Thursday October 22nd 2009 - links page