Wednesday November 4th 2009 - links page

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Five British soldiers shot dead by rogue [pissed-off] Afghan policeman named
  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6902365.ece
A quote...."Five British soldiers have been shot dead after a rogue Afghan policeman turned a heavy machinegun against a British training team inside a checkpoint in Helmand Province."
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Jeremy Scahill Takes On Max Boot Over Afghan Fiasco  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/47484
Video - Good, spirited discussion, Scahill did great. - mpg
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UNDER THE AFPAK VOLCANO, Part 1 -- Welcome to Pashtunistan  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KK06Df01.html
A quote...."PARIS - As Washington mashes up the "Taliban" - be they Afghan neo-Taliban or Pakistani Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) - in Empire of Chaos logic to justify perennial United States/North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops stationed in AfPak, an increasing number of Pashtuns living on both sides of the border have seized the opportunity and started to look to the Taliban as a convenient facilitator for the emergence of Pashtunistan."
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Mottaki: Iran, Syria Favor Regional Stability  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8808140303
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki underlined that Iran and Syria favor regional stability and respect national sovereignty of the neighboring states."
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Qatari Emir in One-Day Visit to Iran  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8808140320
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani arrived in the Iranian capital, where he is scheduled to meet high-ranking officials in Tehran during his one-day visit."
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New row over Colombia-US accord  ---  http://en.mercopress.com/2009/11/05/new-row-over-colombia-us-accord
A quote...."Under the 10-year deal, the US military will not only have access to military bases, but also be able to use major international civilian airports.US personnel and defence contractors will also enjoy diplomatic immunity."
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House Resolution Designates Venezuela a State Sponsor of Terrorism
  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/196174-House-Resolution-Designates-Venezuela-a-State-Sponsor-of-Terrorism
Must Read - A quote...."At a time of growing US poverty, hunger, homelessness, and despair, imperial wars without end, and the Obama administration even worse than its predecessor....."
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No Sunset for Sweeping PATRIOT Act Powers?  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/fisher/2009/11/04/no-sunset-for-sweeping-patriot-act-powers/
A quote...."The USA PATRIOT Act, rushed into law by a panicky U.S. Congress in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, gave the government broad surveillance powers to spy on innocent citizens. But it also stipulated that three of its more controversial provisions should expire next month unless reapproved by lawmakers."
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Why Does AIPAC Spy on Americans?  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2009/11/04/why-does-aipac-spy-on-americans/
A quote...."According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Steven J. Rosen will be allowed to move ahead with his civil defamation lawsuit against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).  Rosen and fellow AIPAC employee Keith Weissman were indicted under the 1917 Espionage Act in 2005 along with Department of Defense Employee Col. Lawrence Franklin for passing classified national defense informaiton.  Franklin pled guilty, but Rosen and Weissman’s case never went to trial — US attorneys gave up (PDF) after the presiding judge made a successful prosecution  unlikely.  "
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Government agrees to pay $3 million in CIA lawsuit
  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ijAmf13jjYPJYRC3SXlEYdZfR7nQD9BOP9GO0
A quote...."(AP) – 17 hours ago -- WASHINGTON — The government has agreed to pay $3 million to a former agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration who sued CIA officers for illegal eavesdropping. -- The proposed settlement followed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in July that CIA officials committed fraud to protect a former covert agent against the eavesdropping allegations."
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Top 10 Weirdest CIA Programs  ---  http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-weirdest-cia-programs.php
A quote...."Over the years, the American Central Intelligence Agency has gained a reputation for being the most far-reaching, sophisticated, and effective government intelligence agency on the planet. At the same time, the CIA has also become known for its incredible paranoia and propensity to undertake costly, sometimes illegal, and often downright absurd projects in the name of gaining an edge on the competition. From spy cats to psychic hippies, the following are ten of the weirdest spy programs the government has proposed and funded over the years."
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Maine voters latest to turn down gay [homo-sexual] marriage  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5A312O20091104
The New Roman Empire ain't here....yet. - mpg -- When are people gonna get it through their thick heads? There is no such thing as "gay"  --- 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/letsbringbackpolygamy-mpg-reficultnias-082104.html  ---  mpg -- A quote...."PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - Voters in Maine on Tuesday overturned a law allowing same-sex couples to wed, dealing a fresh setback to the U.S. gay marriage movement in a race that attracted national attention. -- The law was approved by Maine's Legislature in May but was not implemented after opponents gathered enough signatures to put the issue to a "people's veto."
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Censorship Alert -- "Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.  ---  http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html  ---  By Cory Doctorow 03 Nov 2009 The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says that: *ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. *ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. *The whole world must adopt US-style "notice-and-takedown" rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused -- again, without evidence or trial -- of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright. *Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose... " -- Paragraph quoted from CLG  --- http://www.legitgov.org/
also posted at BLN   ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6197-0-32-32--.html
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Jon Stewart Eviscerates Fox News  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/196020-Jon-Stewart-Eviscerates-Fox-News-Video-
Video - A quote...."Jon Stewart dedicated more than 11 minutes of Thursday night's show on what he calls the "hyperbolic" war between the White House and Fox News."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Kucinich: "Almost As Serious As Committing War Crimes Is Covering Up War Crimes"
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tscCJznwIsA  ---  (YuTb - 2m22s - 11/03/09)
Must View Video - Wow! - mpg  -- A quote...."Dennis Kucinich expresses his opposition to H.Res.867 which calls on the President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the "Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict" (The Goldstone Report)."
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Israel keeps up Palestinian evictions 04 Nov 09
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EISikrLcSw8  ---  (YouTube - 2 min 41 sec - November 03, 2009)
Must View Video - A quote...."The United Nations, the United States and the European Union have all called on Israel to stop the illegal eviction of Palestinians and the demolition of their homes. -- Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, urged Israel to end its "provocative actions" in East Jerusalem, while calling for it to freeze all settlement activity in the occupied West Bank."
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A Nation of Golems  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15531
Must Read - A quote...."How do our representatives become a Golem? By obedience to their master. That master is Israel through its Zionist government and its multiple lobbies in the U.S., by their use of extortion and threat, and by control of monetary resources. There is no need to recount how these charges are true; books have been written about it, most especially those by former Congressman Paul Findlay and the recent study by Mearsheimer and Walt, Grant Smith’s America’s Defense Line, John Hosteller on the Iraq war, Aaron David Miller on the peace process, and Stephen Sniegoski’s Transparent Cabal. -- A cursory review of the U.S. Knesset actions taken on behalf of Israel demonstrates conclusively the obedience “our” representatives pay to their owners: 2003, a resolution supporting force against Palestinians, 399-5; 2004, a resolution forbidding a return to the 1967 borders, 407-9; 2006, a resolution defending Israel’s illegal invasion and destruction of Lebanon, 410-8; 2009, a resolution defending Israel’s Christmas invasion of the defenseless people of Gaza, 390-5; and today, a resolution condemning the Goldstone Report issued by the UNHRC, 344-35" -- For more on this issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeochristianconflictcontrolwithinus-weblist-mpg-010409
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The Nature and Significance of NATO-US-Israeli War Crimes  ---   http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15920
AltVid#1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXpp6V4Oho8
AltVid#2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Ip8Ow6hNQ
AltVid#3  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HK7vZclPWQ
Must View Videos - (YouTube - aprox. 10 min each - November 03, 2009) -- A quote...."Speech by George Galloway MP at the War Crimes Conference & Exhibition that took place at the Putra World Trade Center in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on 28th October 2009."
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They Didn't Even Read the Goldstone Report  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/11/they-didnt-even-read-goldstone-report.html
A quote...."House of Representatives condemned the Goldstone report. See if your representative voted "yes" and is owned by AIPAC HERE  --- 
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll838.xml  ---  so you can vote them out of office for working for a foreign country and putting Israel's illegal interests above America's. "
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36 House members who probably won't be around in 2011
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2009/11/36-house-members-who-probably-wont-be.html
Related Article - Why? Because these brave souls had enough balls and a conscience to say NO to the US House white-washing of the Goldstone Report AKA as the Israeli War Crimes Committed against Gaza report.
They voted against H.R. 867, "Calling on the President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the “Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict." -- Here is the list of those who will see a tremendous amount of AIPAC money pour into their opponent's campaign chest in the 2010 campaign. -- Just think, some of that money that MADOFF from your Wall Street bank account to Israel will be magically transported back to the USA and used to defeat these brave Americans who were uppity and thought that truth and justice were things to be desired."
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Gaza Inscribes 'Goldstone' on National Scarf
  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=3f886eacc489ad9251ee4c8249fb9f73&mode=details#3f886eacc489ad9251ee4c8249fb9f73
A quote...."South African Judge Richard Goldstone's name may spark anger for some in Israel, but in Gaza the name is synonymous with heroism and to prove it, it is being sewn onto souvenir Palestinian headscarves in honor of his war inquiry into Israel's deadly assault of the strip."
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Gazans not allowed to rebuild their lives  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10870.shtml
A quote...."Azzam Salim used to be one of the leading construction contractors in the central Gaza Strip. Today, however, he spends most of his days idly chatting with other unemployed friends near a bank that he helped build several years ago."
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The Gaza Chronicles: Part 3 - Shattered Minds And The Children of Gaza  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1159
A quote...."Dr. Kanter cited studies that revealed 62 % of Gaza’s inhabitants reported having a family member injured or killed, 67% saw injured or dead strangers and 83% had witnessed shootings. In a study of high school aged children from southern refugee camps in Rafah and Kahn Younis, 69% of the children showed symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress (PTS), 40% showed signs of moderate or severe depression, and a whopping 95% exhibited severe anxiety. Seventy percent showed limited or no ability to cope with their trauma. All of this was before the last Israeli invasion."
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Hamas: Obama’s administration gives Abbas hollow promises
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7G2MTR%2b%2fAcVHtxR3VX5RR
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Hah!  Join the club!  Wha'da'ya think "Hope" and "Change" are?? - mpg -- A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas Movement has accused Wednesday the administration of US president Barak Obama of encouraging the Israeli settlement activities, and of giving Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas “hollow” promises that aren’t implemented on the ground."
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Q&A:  'This Calm Will Not Last'  ---  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49126
Interview - Jon Elmer interviews Palestinian icon Leila Khaled -- A quote...."AMMAN, Nov 4 (IPS) - Leila Khaled became an instant icon of the Palestinian struggle in 1969, when at 24 she was an operative in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacking of a Boeing 707, the first in a series of high-profile actions intended to put the Palestinians on the political map." - also posted at UprootedPalestinians  ---
http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2009/11/q-this-calm-will-not-last-jon-elmer.html  ---  Hopefully the calm will last, the Palestinians are in absolutely no position to challenge Israel militarily.  They are of course allowed to defend themselves against attack, and should, but they should never copy the Israeli's criminal tactics of attacking civilians. - mpg
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Palestinians will prosecute Israel in ICC  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110479&sectionid=351020202
Action Alert - A quote...."The Palestinians have warned that they will seek justice for the case of Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the International Criminal Court."
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Write the LA Times in support of Bil’in  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2009/11/9201
Action Alert - A quote...."The LA Times has published a great article (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-nonviolence4-2009nov04,0,226753.story?page=1&track=rss) about Bil’in and the popular struggle in today’s edition (November 4th). -- As past experience teach us, an assault by Israel’s supporter is sure to follow immediately, and be directed at both the paper itself, its editors and the reporter."
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New York Mets called on to cancel settlement fundraiser  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10871.shtml
Action Alert - A quote...."Eleven organizations from the US, Palestine and Israel have called on baseball's New York Mets to cancel a 21 November dinner at the Caesars Club at Citi Field for the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund. The dinner is a fundraiser for Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank City of Hebron. In a letter sent to the Mets on 3 November, the groups said, "The New York Mets will be facilitating activities that directly violate international law and the Obama administration's call for a freeze in settlement construction, and that actively promote racial discrimination, and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homes in Hebron." Seven hundred Israeli settlers, living amidst 150,000 Palestinians in Hebron, are expanding their hold on the historic old city by driving out the Palestinian residents." -- also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-york-mets-called-on-to-cancel.html
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/209874
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Zelaya Decries US Stance on Honduras Coup  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=134630&Itemid=1
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Nov 4 (Prensa Latina) Honduras' constitutional President Manuel Zelaya warned that the United States intend to recognize the Honduran elections, without reversing the coup or solving the severe crisis his country is facing."
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Fannie, Freddie Single-Family Home Delinquencies Continue to Rise
  ---  http://www.dsnews.com/articles/fannie-freddie-single-family-home-delinquencies-continue-to-rise-2009-11-03
A quote...."Delinquencies on single-family homes continued to rise at the two big government-sponsored mortgage lenders, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, indicating that problems have yet to level off."
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October CMBS Performance Worsens, Loan Backing Union Square W Hotel To Default Imminently
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/october-cmbs-performance-worsens-loan-backing-union-square-w-hotel-default-imminently
A quote...."It really is time for the our central planning banking system, aka the Fed, to start thinking about enforcing CRE bailout strategies. Aaron Bryson over at Lehman, pardon, Barclays, has released his monthly CMBS remittance report, and things are getting worse ever faster. In disclosure that is sure to keep the market rally going for month, BarCap looks hard for CMBS green shoots and finds only their (near) homophone equivalents:"
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Four Reasons Hyperinflation Hasn’t Hit the US... Yet
  ---  http://www.minyanville.com/articles/hyperinflation-spending-bailout-consumer-hiring-cash-China-minyanville/index/a/25278/from/yahoo
Deflation is goinng to stay for quite a while folks, probably at least for the next ten years. - mpg - A quote...."Everything we know about classic economic theory suggests the US economy should be experiencing Zimbabwe-like hyperinflation right now, thanks to the nearly $2.2 trillion the US Federal Reserve has pumped into the system. -- But we’re not... yet."
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Brazil fears a “bubble” pumped by exuberant investors; Real 19% too strong
  ---  http://en.mercopress.com/2009/11/05/brazil-fears-a-bubble-pumped-by-exuberant-investors-real-19-too-strong
A quote...."In terms of asset bubbles, stock market, etcetera, I think that might happen, but evidently it’s up to investors not to get too exuberant” Meirelles said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in London."
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If Dems Don't Pass Health Insurance Reform This Year, What Do We Lose? And What Do We Gain?
  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/if-democrats-dont-pass-health-insurance-reform-year-what-do-we-lose-and-what-do-we-gain
Must Read - Regarding the health care issue -- A quote...."The version of health care reform championed by the White House and Congressional Democrats will force millions to buy crappy insurance from private providers with no interest in health care but plenty of interest in profits. Its pubic option is a cruel hoax that will not take effect till 2013 and even then will leave tens of millions uninsured. Now Democratic leaders in Congress say it might not pass this year anyway. Is that really so bad?"

Tuesday November 3rd 2009 - links page

The Inhuman Stain: Saying Yes to State Terror
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1869-the-inhuman-stain-saying-yes-to-state-terror.html
Must Read - A quote...."I've been writing about the case of Maher Arar since December 2003. He is the innocent Canadian man who was seized by U.S officials on his way back to Canada and then, at the order of the Justice Department, "renditioned" to Syria, where it was known that the authorities would torture the alleged "terrorist." They did, brutally. He was finally released, and his innocence was confirmed by the Canadian government, which paid him some $9 million for its part in his ordeal. – The United States, on the other hand, made no apologies, no restitution; instead, the government has resolutely blocked any attempt by Arar to seek justice in American courts."
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Tortured in far-off Countries: Obama Resuming G. W. Bush's "Extraordinary Renditions"  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15907
A quote...."Even though Barack Obama, the candidate, pledged to end “the practice of shipping away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far-off countries,” his FBI has been rendering kidnap victims to the U.S. The practice is still kidnapping, however; and it’s still illegal. -- Unlucky victim No. 1 was Raymond Azar, 45, flown from Afghanistan to Alexandria, Va., not to a foreign country. The construction manager for Sima International, a Lebanese outfit that did work for the U.S. military, Azar said he was tortured by his abductors. He might just as well have been flown to Egypt under the Bushies. -- Interestingly, Azar was never charged as a dangerous terrorist, only with conspiracy to commit bribery for wiring $106,000 in kickbacks to a U.S. employee’s bank account in hopes of getting $13 million in unpaid bills okayed."
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Govt Lawyers Seek to Quash Rendition Lawsuit  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/fisher/2009/11/03/govt-lawyers-seek-to-quash/
A quote...." The long road to the proverbial day in court just got longer for five men who claim they were "disappeared" and tortured by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. -- The men, who say they were victims of the extraordinary rendition program conducted during the administration of president George W. Bush, have been trying since 2007 to get their cases heard on the merits."
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Law Abandoned In Favor of Torture - The other Scott Horton on Holder's cover-ups  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/11/01/scott-horton-23/
Audio Interview - -- A quote...."The Other Scott Horton (no relation), international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, discusses Bush administration torture documents just released to the ACLU, the DOJ’s embarrassing 8-30 losing record in Guantanamo habeas hearings, how Gitmo was filled up courtesy of Pakistan’s bogus “terrorist” roundup after 9/11, Dick Cheney’s culpability in allowing Pakistan’s ISI to evacuate Taliban and al Qaeda leadership from Afghanistan, the Cheney family’s frantic pre-emptive defense against possible DOJ prosecution, the British High Court decision to disregard the CIA request for secrecy in the Binyam Mohamed torture case and the inspiration FOX’s 24 has been to torturers around the world." --  ||  MP3 here.  ---  http://dissentradio.com/radio/09_10_30_horton.mp3  ---  (50m:58s)  ||
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U.S. Settles Suit With Muslims In Post-9/11 Abuse   ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/47462
Sue them!  Sue them all, everyday, for the rest of their lives. - mpg -- A quote...."The report said videotapes showed some detention center staff "misused strip searches and restraints to punish detainees and that officers improperly and illegally recorded detainees' meetings with their attorneys." -- The lawsuit said some of the plaintiffs, upon entering the jail, had their faces smashed into a wall where a blood-smeared American flag T-shirt was taped and told "welcome to America," according to the lawsuit. -- The U.S. government will pay $1.26 million to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the September 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse, their lawyers said on Tuesday."
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Libertarian 9/11 truth leader Jim Duensing shot in the back by cops…
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/libertarian-911-truth-leader-jim-duensing-shot-in-the-back-by-cops.html
A quote...."Jim Duensing, 2008 Congressional candidate and founder of the Libertarian 9/11 truth caucus Libertarians for Justice, is in critical condition after being repeatedly shot in the back and arm by a Las Vegas cop. Our prayers go out to Jim, who is recovering with his wife in the hospital and thankfully is expected to survive."
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Detroit groups to protest FBI terrorism on Nov. 5 -- Feds change story about Imam’s assassination  ---  http://www.workers.org/2009/us/fbi_terrorism_1112/
Action Alert - A quote...."Funeral services for Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah were held Oct. 31 at the Muslim Center on Detroit’s west side. More than a thousand people attended the memorial from the Detroit area and around the United States. The Muslim leader had been gunned down by FBI agents on Oct. 28."
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Resistance is NOT Futile — The Rise of “Resistance Journalism”
  ---  http://rulersofusall.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/resistance-is-not-futile-the-rise-of-resistance-journalism/
Action Alert - A quote...."Nearly every American has a camera.  The government now has us under constant surveillance by satellite, cameras in nearly all public places, and they even have suggested that cameras should be installed in homes “to protect the children.”  Fine, if we are going to be on camera 24/7, then so should they.  Everyone should be carrying their camera at all times — not to document our neighbors as TV has taught us to do, but to document authority.  When you are in front of a federal building, corporate headquarters, police department, or any place where you are now likely to be confronted by private or public security thugs; get it on camera (or preferably video).  Then, use it as evidence to file a law suit immediately for the violation of your civil rights.  Be sure to know your constitutional rights, quote them on camera, and ask the official why they are violating your rights under the Constitution." -- also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/11/03/resistance-is-not-futile-%E2%80%94-the-rise-of-%E2%80%9Cresistance-journalism%E2%80%9D/
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Mueller on the Zazi Case: "This is It?"  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2009/11/mueller-on-zazi-case-this-is-it.html
Special Note  - Yeah....the "war on terror", all the "arrests", all the so-called "evidence", the "warnings", most of it was completely bogus crap." - mpg -- A quote...."Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001," notes the New York Timeit was all s with considerable understatement, "senior government officials have announced dozens of terrorism cases that on close examination seemed to diminish as legitimate threats."
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The American Way of Abandonment  ---  http://buchanan.org/blog/the-american-way-of-abandonment-2816
Must Read - A quote....By Patrick J. Buchanan -- "In this world it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, but to be a friend is fatal,” -- *Henry Kissinger*.
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Taliban snubs 'puppet' Karzai's embrace  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59698&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."We call on our Taliban brothers to come home and embrace their land," Karzai told a news conference a day after organizers declared him the winner of the country’s second presidential election. -- But his offer was slapped down by the Taliban. They accused Karzai of being in debt to Western powers who helped sweep him into office eight years ago and are still struggling to defeat the movement on the battlefield. -- The president has repeatedly appealed to the Taliban, offering an amnesty to its fugitive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, but has made little headway in dividing the shadowy movement’s ranks. -- "This is not the first time Karzai has made such statements," said Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi. -- "We do not attach any value to these offers of peace by Karzai as we know they are empty words."
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What the Military Industrial Complex Does Not Want You to Know: The History of Iran - (YuTb 9m48s 11/01/09)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3KDYE5KQE
Video - A quote...."America will go to war with Iran and here is the History of the NWO thugs that have taken over America!"
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Update on Iran Negotiations - Gareth Porter says US still playing with fire  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/11/01/gareth-porter-69/
Audio Interview - A quote...."Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Iran’s counter-proposal to the IAEA enrichment deal, the ambiguous meaning and political sensitivity of nuclear “breakout capability,” continued defense of the 2007 Iran NIE by U.S. intelligence agencies, a new generation of efficient uranium centrifuges intended for use at the Qom facility and how the ever-increasing sanctions imposed on Iran by Congress are tantamount to declaring war." --  ||  MP3 here. ---  http://dissentradio.com/radio/09_10_30_porter.mp3  ---  (27m:39s)  ||
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Russia to launch Iran's Bushehr power plant  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/03/content_12379091.htm
A quote...."TEHRAN, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) - Iran's ambassador to Moscow Seyed Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi said Tuesday that Russians will launch Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant soon, the semi-official Fars news agency reported."
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Gunmen kill Saudi security officer near Yemen border  ---  http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-43667420091104
A quote...."RIYADH (Reuters) - Gunmen who infiltrated into Saudi Arabia from Yemen have killed a Saudi security officer and wounded 11 others, the official Saudi Press Agency said on Wednesday."
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3 Yemeni Officials, Along With Guards, Killed in Ambush  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04yemen.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
Related Article - A quote...."BEIRUT, Lebanon — Gunmen ambushed a government motorcade in the eastern Yemeni province of Hadramawt on Tuesday, killing three top provincial officials and three guards in an attack that had all the hallmarks of Al Qaeda’s regional arm."
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Top Yemeni security officers killed in ambush  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/04/content_12381808.htm
Related Article - A quote...."SANAA, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Two top Yemeni security officers and four police escorts were killed when their car was ambushed on Tuesday by unidentified militants in the southeast of the country, where al-Qaida has been gaining strength."

Regarding the three articles shown above.  It actually appears to this website editor that the Yemeni Houthis   ---  http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&
resnum=0&q=yemen+houthis&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=s0LxSoDiD4P8sQOhkMn4AQ&sa=X&oi=news_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CBgQsQQwAw  ---    are employing the IRA's highly successful "Squad"  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army#IRA_campaign_and_organisation  ---  tactics. - mpg
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Japan’s new government seeks to refashion US alliance  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/japa-n04.shtml
A quote...."In the lead-up to US President Barack Obama’s first visit to Japan on November 12-13, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has signalled that his government is seeking to readjust the country’s longstanding alliance with the US. He told the Diet or parliament last week that the partnership should be more equal, with Japan able to “actively propose roles and concrete actions” for the alliance to perform."
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United Europe – Signed and sealed  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/Politics/2009-11-04/united-europe-signed-sealed.html
Contains Video - A quote...."Czech president Vaclav Klaus, who is widely known as a Eurosceptic, has put his pen to the EU’s Lisbon Treaty agreement -- The document paves the way for the streamlining of the Union's decision making process. -- This removes the last hurdle to a united Europe and comes just hours after a court rejected a complaint about the agreement."
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Venezuela announces military reinforcement on border with Colombia  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/04/content_12384032.htm
A quote...."CARACAS, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan Vice President Ramon Carrizalez announced Tuesday that his country will increase its military presence on its border with Colombia, due to the incursion of Colombian paramilitaries into its territory."
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"Ukraine virus mystery deepens  ---  http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/ukraine-virus-mystery-deepens  ---  03 Nov 2009 The mystery of the unidentified flu virus in the Ukraine, first reported by RNW on 29 October, has deepened... In August 2009, a man called Joseph Mosse, who claims to be a former microbiologist with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, was arrested in Los Angeles, having made threats against the White House. Shortly after his arrest, there were reports that he had called into a radio show with a warning about a biological weapon being prepared in the Ukraine by a company called Baxter International. According to these reports, Mr Mosse said that the weapon would be spread via a flu vaccine. Credence is being given to these reports because Mr Mosse's qualifications as a microbiologist are confirmed by his research profile on this website. There is also a story doing the rounds that a light aircraft has been spotted spraying an unidentified substance over the capital, Kiev, but this has been denied by the country’s Office of Emergency Reponse. [See: Baxter working on vaccine to stop swine flu, though admitted sending live pandemic flu viruses to subcontractor]  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/baxter_flu_vaccine_260409.html  ---  Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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One Flu Over the Ukraine's Nest  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/11/03/one-flu-over-the-ukraine-s-nest
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."So far, the worst of this outbreak is in Western Ukraine, in and around the city of Lviv, but a few hundred kilometers to the East, in the capital city of Kiev, nearly half the people now stalk the streets wearing surgical masks. It would be an understatement to say that the people of Ukraine are moving into full panic mode. I can see why. So should you. I will explain why in a moment."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

"A remarkable failure for a journalist"-2009 Courage in Journalism Award Acceptance Speech by Amira Hass
  ---  http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/11/03/a-remarkable-failure-for-a-journalist-2009-courage-in-journalism-award-acceptance-speech-by-amira-hass/
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."Allow me to start with a correction. How impolite, you'd rightly think, but anyway, we Israelis are being forgiven for much worse than impoliteness. -- What is so  generously termed today by the International Women's Media Foundation as my lifetime achievement  needs to be corrected.  Because it is Failure.  Nothing more than a  failure.   A lifetime failure. -- Come to think of it, the lifetime part is just as questionable: after all, it is about a  third of my life, not more, that I have been engaged  in Journalism. -- Also, if the 'lifetime' part gives you the impression that I am soon going to retire  – then this impression has to be corrected as well. I am not planning to end soon what I am doing. -- What am I doing?   I am generally defined as a reporter on Palestinian issues.  But, in fact,  my reports are about the Israeli society and policies, about Domination and its intoxications.  My sources are not secret documents and leaked out minutes which were taken at meetings of  people with Power and in Power.  My sources are the open ways by which the subjugated are being dispossessed of their equal rights as human beings." -- *Amira Hass*, journalist
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An Individual Commitment
11-03-09 - revised 11-13-09
mpg

Israel Must be so Proud of America  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/11/israel-must-be-so-proud-of-america.html
Special Note - A quote...."Today America has done its masters bidding and voted to condemn the Goldstone Report, and in doing so sends a very CLEAR message to the Arab and Muslim world. That message says that equality under the law does not exist for you, legal avenues are shutdown for you, the law means nothing, it doesn't apply to you. And to think Obama wants to "extend the hand of friendship" to the Muslim world? When in fact his message has been heard loud and clear, choose violence and resistance over the law....THAT is America's message."

NOT TRUE, to all the people in the Middle East....do not choose violence (unless it's in self-defense) just make it clear to any and ALL self-respecting Muslims that if you do "business" with Israel or the US-NRE, you support apartheid, discrimination, concentration camps, torture, invasion, robbery and murder.

Just teach your children, your grand children and your great grandchildren and those of Africa, Latin and Central America all of Asia and Eurasia and even Europe....don't do "business" with Israel or the US-NRE.  Don't buy their products, don't accept their "aid", don't invite them or their "NGOs" into your countries or your homes, shun them, isolate them, don’t allow your leaders to do "business" with them....ever.

If you sell to them charge ten percent more than you would anyone else, or a hundred percent.  Trade with each other, invest in each other and remember there's Brazil, Russia, India, China and Japan to get your products from.  Even France and Germany are great places to obtain planes and heavy equipment if they would make a bettter effort to curb their neo-colonial ambitions.

Make a moral commitment, a solemn oath, a pledge to your faith, your family and your community.  Say to yourself  -- "this is something "I "as an individual CAN DO, this is something "I" have the POWER TO DO, this is something "I" can COMMIT TO for the rest of my life"....and than just do it.

It's that simple, it doesn't matter what other people do, it doesn't really matter if other people join you, YOU HAVE THE POWER -- YOU CAN DO THIS FOR YOURSELF!!  -- YOU can make this personal commitment....nobody can EVER force you to buy anything from these countries ever again if you don't want to....forever. – mpg
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Rights groups: UN General Assembly must adopt Goldstone recommendations  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10866.shtml
A quote...."On 4 November 2009, the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report) is scheduled to be tabled before the Plenary of the UN General Assembly in New York. Following the Report's endorsement at the Human Rights Council on 21 October 2009, it now falls to the General Assembly to ensure that the Report is endorsed and its recommendations acted upon."
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Olive farmers suffer through ‘worst harvest in 40 years'
  ---  http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/olive-farmers-suffer-through-worst-harvest-in-40-years-39-1.522887
A quote...."Gaza City: As Abu Mohammad looks at what remains of his olive trees in the fields bordering Israel, he considers himself lucky when compared to his neighbours. -- While half of his land in Beit Hanoun was destroyed by Israeli forces in the last war, farmers next to him have nothing left."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59694&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Tens of Jewish settlers break into, occupy home of 83-year-old Palestinian woman
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uken/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7AnuZ2RM1jF6CIQaq8YQoPzutSktHpAm
2azoUdPhXswbcVLCfWwh3BcT70o1SACZz444fDvhKcRSkbIhCrtcQDCQKukUDibGI6xlyh52VthM%3d
Sixty settlers against an eighty three year old Palestinian woman.  Wow!  Who knew the Israelis were such a brave bunch of people! - mpg -- A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Tens of armed Jewish settlers on Tuesday stormed and occupied the home of 83-year-old Rifka Al-Kurd in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the heart of occupied Jerusalem. -- The PIC reporter said that about 60 settlers broke into the house under the threat of guns and with Israeli police protection and settled in it despite an Israeli court order banning them access into this part of the house."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59673&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Demolishing homes and lives in East Jerusalem  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59667&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."Editor’s note: If you want to know what municipal ethnic cleansing looks like, then look at what is happening in East Jerusalem.  The story below  is yet another uprooting  of Palestinian families living in a city where they have always lived.   This is all part of Israel’s plan to Judaise Jerusalem before there is any more talk of dividing the city between Israelis and Palestinians for a two-state solution.  It is not enough that Israel illegally occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 and made life unbelievably miserable for the Palestinians in the city; since then, it has demolished over 24,000 Palestinian homes to move in Jewish settlers."
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Fenced in but defiant in Israeli-occupied West Bank
  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/west-bank/2786-fenced-in-but-defiant-in-israeli-occupied-west-bank
A quote...."West Bank, November 3, 2009 (Pal Telegraph) - Sabri Mohammed Ghraieb has seen the olive groves that once fringed his West Bank home turn into a Jewish settlement and prison-like walls but still he refuses to leave. ImageFor a quarter of a century, the 73-year-old who goes by the nickname, Abu Samir, has stubbornly refused to abandon his home, despite Israel's efforts to make him leave."
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

The Reinstatement of Zelaya -- The Little Coup That Couldn't  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/carlsen11032009.html
A quote...."On Oct. 29, Honduras' de facto regime finally agreed to allow Congress to vote on whether to "return executive power to its state prior to June 28"--a convoluted way of saying "reinstate President Manuel Zelaya." Conceding to international and national pressure, the Honduran coup appears to be facing its final days. -- June 28 was the date when the Armed Forces kidnapped the elected president, Manuel Zelaya, and forcibly exiled him to Costa Rica. If the agreement brokered this week holds, Honduran society will have turned the ugly precedent of a modern-day military coup d'etat into an example of the strength of nonviolent grassroots resistance."
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Geithner "Burned Billions," Shafted Taxpayers on CIT Loan, Prof. Bill Black Says
  ---  http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/364593/Geithner-%22Burned-Billions%22-Shafted-Taxpayers-on-CIT-Loan-Prof.-Bill-Black-
Says?tickers=cit,aig,xlf,skf,gs,c,bac
Must View Video - A quote...."Another one of the nation's largest lenders has filed for bankruptcy.  On the brink for months, CIT filed for Chapter 11 protection on Sunday. -- The prepackaged plan allows CIT to restructure its debt while trying to keep badly needed loans flowing to thousands of mid-sized and small businesses. The plan keeps CIT's operations alive and makes it possible for the company to exit bankruptcy by year's end."

Think about it this way folks....remember three to five years ago, when everybody was running around saying it's a darn shame the way these company executives keep deliberately skewing their quarterly numbers to attract investor's money to pump their company's stocks up and thereby inflate their year end compensation and bonus packages?

So what did we as a nation do after complaining for years about these fraudulent schemes?  We let a group of Bankster industry insiders, Geithner and Paulson along with our Representitutes in Washington DC give twenty four trillion TAXPAYER dollars in back-stops, guarantees and bail-outs to the Financial Sector so they could pump their stocks up in order to collect one hundred and forty BILLION dollars in total compensation and bonuses this year.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html

Stupid doesn't quite cover it. – mpg
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Goldman left foreign investors holding the subprime bag  ---  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/77844.html
A quote...." The Sept. 26, 2006, document offered sophisticated U.S. and European investors an opportunity to buy into a pool of supposedly high-grade bonds backed by residential, commercial and student loans. The transaction was registered through a shell company in the Cayman Islands. -- Few of the potential investors knew it, but the ratings of many of the mortgage securities hid their true risks and, in some cases, Goldman's descriptions exaggerated their quality. -- The Cayman offering — one of perhaps dozens made through the British territory — occurred as Goldman began to ditch the subprime mortgage business before the U.S. housing market collapsed under an avalanche of homeowner defaults." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/goldman-left-foreign-investors-holding.html
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White House Quietly Working To Weaken Investor Protection  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/02/white-house-quietly-worki_n_340791.html
A quote....""This has enormous significance to individual investors," former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt told the Huffington Post. "This is something the Republicans could never have accomplished, and what a bitter irony it is that the Democrats...are emasculating the best piece of legislation of the past 20 years." -- For more on the two articles shown above see....The Green Light 01-16-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thegreenlight-blog-mpg-011608
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RBS, Lloyds Get $51 Billion in Second Bank Bailout (Update6)  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a9MBFPNg_6mY&pos=1
A quote...."Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Lloyds Banking Group Plc will receive 31.3 billion pounds ($51 billion) in a second bailout from the U.K. taxpayer as the two banks agreed to cap bonuses."
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GE's $19 Billion (And Increasing) Toxic Asset Sink Hole  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/ges-19-billion-and-increasing-toxic-asset-sink-hole
A quote...."One, and maybe the only, of the recent benefits of the FASB's meager attempts at providing balance sheet transparency has been the requirement for banks and financial companies to disclose the difference between the Fair Market Value and the Carrying (Book) value of their assets, especially as pertains to loans held on the balance sheet. And while even the FMV calculation leaves much to be desired, it does demonstrate which companies take abnormal liberties with their balance sheets, instead of performing needed asset write-downs as more and more loans turn toxic. A good example of just such optimism appears when one evaluates the disclosure by "banking" company General Electric."
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Blackstone Top Ticks Market Again, As Second IPO Pulled  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/blackstone-top-ticks-market-again-second-ipo-pulled
A quote...."The IPO window has closed. Just like in 2007, Blackstone once again times the exit opportunity perfectly (too bad you can't IPO twice), while firms like AEI and now Aviv REIT end up having to pull their initial public offerings. And this one happens to be the triple whammy of not just an IPO, and not just a REIT, but one lead managed by REIT reverse-interest expert (and short interest terminator) Bank of Countrywide Lynch. If Merrill was unable to find enough interest, then look out below."
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What Is Money? -- Part 12: Why Central Banking Persists  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north779.html
A quote...."I have presented the basics of monetary theory, as developed by Austrian School economists. A distinct Austrian School theory of money goes back to Ludwig von Mises' book, The Theory of Money and Credit (1912). Mises amplified this theory over the years until its culmination in Human Action (1949). His disciple, Murray Rothbard, extended Mises' analysis in a series of books, most notably chapter 11 of Man, Economy, and State (1962), America's Great Depression (1963), What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1964), and The Mystery of Banking (1983)."
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Monday November 2nd 2009 - links page

Osama bin Laden as Responsible for the 9/11 Attacks: Is This Belief Based on Evidence?
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15892
Must Read - Analysis -- A quote...."The idea that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks has been an article of faith for public officials and the mainstream media. Calling it an “article of faith” points to two features of this idea. On the one hand, no one in these circles publicly challenges this idea. -- On the other hand, as I pointed out at length in two of my books – "9/11 Contradictions"1  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=O5DBxpfVBuUC&dq  ---  [GoglBkSrch]*  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=O5DBxpfVBuUC&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0  ---  and "The New Pearl Harbor Revisited",2  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=35LaAAAAMAAJ&q  ---  [GoglBkSrch]*  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=35LaAAAAMAAJ&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0  ---  no good evidence has ever been publicly presented to support it." - *links added
also posted at AmericanEveryman
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/osama-bin-laden-as-responsible-for-the-911-attacks-is-this-belief-based-on-evidence/
& ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23862.htm
& VeteransToday  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9194
& DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/11/03/osama-bin-laden-responsible-for-the-911-attacks-where-is-the-evidence/
For more on this issue see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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Destabilizing Baluchistan, Fracturing Pakistan -- The Triangle of Jundallah, the Taliban, and Sipah-e-Sahaba
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15858
A quote...."Managed Chaos” is the proper term to describe the tensions in NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan and the border zones of Pakistan. Afghanistan and Pakistan, which are now being described by the Pentagon and NATO as the same front in the very same war, are tied to the Iranian border province of Sistan and Baluchistan or Sistan-Baluchistan. It is with the tenure of George W. Bush Jr. and his administration that Sistan-Baluchistan, with emphases on “Baluchistan” begun getting international attention through the ignition of a series of attacks inside the Iranian border with Pakistan by a group originally calling itself the “Army of God” or Jundallah in Arabic." -- For more on this issue see....US Support of Terror - Jundallah
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#JUNDULLAH
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Scott Horton Interviews Sibel Edmonds and John M. Cole  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/10/26/sibel-edmonds-and-john-m-cole/
Audio Interview - A quote....."Former FBI contract-translator-turned whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and former FBI counter-intelligence officer John M. Cole discuss State Department cooperation with the “mujahedeen” in the Central Asian Turkic countries through the Turkish military and intelligence in the time before 9/11, a State Department order to release suspicious Uzbeks and Turks after the attack, the neocons’ and realists’ joint-attempt to negotiate the invasion of Iraq from Turkey in the summer of 2001, Edmonds’s overall credibility and level of access to information in her role as “language specialist” for the FBI, espionage within the FBI and why it continues unabated, Cole’s “conservative estimate” of 125 worthwhile investigations into Israeli espionage in the U.S. which quashed by political pressure from above, Edmonds’s accusations that Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and Marc Grossman have been participating in the stealing and fencing of nuclear secrets to Turkish and Israeli agents for years, Grossman’s outing of CIA front-company “Brewster-Jennings” to a Turkish diplomat in August, 2001 – nearly 2 years before the Valerie Plame scandal – and it’s destruction as a result, the grey area where legitimate lobbying by foreign governments crosses into espionage and criminality, Cole’s call for prosecutions and Edmonds’s intention to turn her new news Website, BoilingFrogsPost.com, into a home for journalists who want to practice their craft without partisanship or political pressure." -- MP3 here.  ---  http://dissentradio.com/radio/09_10_23edmonds_cole.mp3  ---  (1h:17m:21s)
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US Offers Taliban 6 Provinces for 8 Bases
  ---  http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout&cid=1256909637728&utm_source=rss&
utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
Special Note -- Naturally....of course....to complete the PNAC Protocols, "service" Israel’s “needs”,  ---  and finally go after Iran, the last remaining free state (besides the Palestinian people and the countries of Lebanon and Syria) in the Middle East.  Proof positive, if anyone needed any, that the ENTIRE "war on terror" was bogus, that the PNAC agenda  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409  ---  rules all (including that long called for "Pearl Harbor"), and an indication that elements within this government, in collusion with Israel and the Saudi Royals, were complicit in the event that started it all....9/11. – mpg -- A quote.... "ISLAMABAD – The emboldened Taliban movement in Afghanistan turned down an American offer of power-sharing in exchange for accepting the presence of foreign troops, Afghan government sources confirmed." -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23861.htm
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Occupiers involved in drug trade: Afghan minister  ---  http://www.presstv.com/classic/detail.aspx?id=110130&sectionid=351020403
A quote...."The Afghan minister of counter narcotics says foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan. -- General Khodaidad Khodaidad said the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by troops from the US, the UK, and Canada, IRNA reported on Saturday."
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Neocon Ex-Congressman & His ‘Laundering’ Business in Afghanistan
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/11/02/neocon-ex-congressman-his-%E2%80%98laundering%E2%80%99-business-in-afghanistan/
A quote...."As the bodies in Afghanistan are piling up and the number of wounded keeps escalating, while Washington is buzzing with the long-known but selectively-buried corrupt and criminal past and present of our installed government officials there, some are cashing in on both sides, and some are paving the way to the next pot(s) of gold reserved for carpetbaggers and war-profiteers in every war or conflict."
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The Land of the Free?  ---  http://ajit8.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/the-land-of-the-free/
Must Read - A quote...."The United States puts itself forward as a ‘democracy’; it calls itself the ‘land of the free’; it considers that it has the right to police the world, the right to label other countries as ‘undemocratic’ or lacking in freedom; it imposes sanctions and wages wars in the name of ‘human rights’. -- And yet the US state, along with its fellow imperialist vultures in Britain and elsewhere, is the worst violator of human rights in the world. -- By waging unjust wars for economic and geo-political advantage, the US and its allies deny millions of people the most fundamental human right: the right to life."
also posted at Uruknet   ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59660&hd=&size=1&l=e
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U.S. court denies Maher Arar's appeal  ---  http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/11/02/arar-maher-united-states-suit-denied-torture.html
A quote...."Syrian-born Canadian Maher Arar has again been denied the right to sue the United States over his deportation to Syria, where he was tortured. -- During a September 2002 stopover in New York, while returning to Canada from a vacation in Tunisia, Arar was detained by U.S authorities, who were acting on information from Canadian security officials. Based on the erroneous Canadian information that Arar had links to al-Qaeda, the U.S. deported him to Syria, even though he was carrying a Canadian passport."
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RIGHTS-US:  Lawsuit Probes Role of Psychologists in Terror War  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49107
A quote...."NEW YORK, Nov 2 (IPS) - The state board responsible for licensing - and disciplining - psychologists in Louisiana is accused of turning a blind eye to serious allegations of abuse against one of its members, including complicity in beatings, religious and sexual humiliation, rape threats and painful body positions during his service as a senior advisor on interrogations for the U.S. military in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib."
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FBI Not Reviewing Terror Evidence, Report Says  ---  http://www.clickorlando.com/nationalnews/21428555/detail.html
Why bother, they'd have to shred it all anyway. - mpg -- A quote...."The 131-page report says that since 2003, the FBI has not reviewed about 47,000 hours of audio files in counterterrorism cases -- the equivalent of a single recording running for five and a half years straight. The bureau says the real backlog is only about a tenth of that, or 4,770 hours -- 200 days worth." -- also posted at BLN   ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6160-0-22-22--.html
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/209693
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AP admits: Cheney equivocated to the FBI  ---  http://rawstory.com/2009/11/ap-admits-cheney-equivocated-fbi/
That's a nice way of saying he lied, but what the heck, unlike the other ninty-nine percent of the great un-washed who live in this country, he's one of the parasitic-class so he gets a free pass. -  mpg -- A quote...."Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way."
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Being Muslims at the Wrong Time in America  ---  http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15527
A quote...."Post-9/11, America declared war on Islam with the FBI in the lead at home. It notoriously targets the vulnerable, entraps them with paid informants, inflates bogus charges, spreads them maliciously through the media, then intimidates juries to convict and sentence innocent men and some women to long prison terms. Justice is nearly always denied. At times willful killings are committed. The Detroit Muslims are their latest victims."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59650&hd=&size=1&l=e
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US soldier caught with cache of military explosives  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110293&sectionid=3510203
A quote...."A US Army soldier has been detained and charged with possession of a large amount of stolen military ordnance. -- US Army and federal investigation agents confirmed the arrest of an unnamed Army Special Forces trooper around Clarksville on the Tennessee-Kentucky border."
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Noam Chomsky: No Change in US 'Mafia Principle'  ---  http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15528
Must Read - A quote...."As people across the world breathed a sigh of relief to see the back of former US president George W. Bush, top American intellectual Noam Chomsky warned against assuming or expecting significant changes in the basis of Washington's foreign policy under President Barack Obama. -- During two lectures organized by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, Chomsky cited numerous examples of the driving doctrines behind US foreign policy since the end of World War II."
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US used "false pretext" to invade Iraq in 2003, ElBaradei says
  ---  http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1510903.php/US-used-false-pretext-to-invade-Iraq-in-2003-ElBaradei-says
A quote...."New York - Outgoing UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei criticized the United States
on Monday for using a 'false pretext' to invade Iraq, costing 'the lives of possibly hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.'"
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Outcry against 'colonial' takeover by BP of Rumaila oilfield in Iraq  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6900112.ece
A quote...."The British oil giant BP will today take control of Iraq’s biggest oilfield in the first important energy deal since the 2003 invasion. The move has created uproar among local politicians invoking resentful memories of their nation’s colonial past."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59653&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Iraqi Armed Troops Fire at Peaceful Demonstration in Baghdad  ---  http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/3469-
A quote...."The ICEM received a report over this past weekend from the Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions (FWCUI) that a workers’ demonstration in Baghdad was fired upon by armed forces. The demonstration and use of armed force occurred on 6 October near the Green Zone in central Baghdad." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59661&hd=&size=1&l=e
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1,000 Iraqi detainees risk execution as premier rules out clemency
  ---  http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2009-11-02%5Ckurd.htm
A quote...."Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki wants to have more than 1,000 Iraqi detainees executed before the general elections scheduled for January 2010. --  The detainees were tried in Iraqi courts and tribunals and have been sentenced to death. Capital punishment is permissible in Iraq and apparently Iraqi courts find it easy to pass the penalty. --  Maliki has been under immense pressure to show mercy but observers believe his determination to go ahead and implement the death sentences is politically motivated." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59648&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Iraqi Government Bans Live Coverage by Journalists
  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/middle-east/77-middle-east/2780-iraqi-government-bans-live-coverage-by-journalists
A quote...."Iraq, November 2, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) - The government has banned movement by press vehicles with equipment to broadcast live."
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US goofs the Afghan election  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KK03Df04.html
Special Note - A quote...."Abdullah Abdullah's refusal to take part in the Afghan presidential election runoff on November 7 is a watershed event. From his point of view, the former foreign minister did the sensible thing, having carefully assessed he had no stake whatsoever in a runoff that he had zero chance of winning. -- President Hamid Karzai has also shown the door to Abdullah's Western sponsors. They had approached in hopes of gaining a last-minute "deal" that would see Abdullah, their protege, gain some position in the future administration. Abdullah saw that from this point onward, the law of diminishing returns would be at work if he kept pecking at Karzai."
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Afghanistan Just Got Messier  ---  http://www.progressive.org/wx110209.html
Special Note - A quote...."The mess that is Afghanistan just got messier for Washington. -- Abdullah’s withdrawal from the presidential runoff leaves Hamid Karzai in power but without legitimacy. -- He’s widely perceived to have rigged the last election, and Abdullah took himself out, he says, because he couldn’t be assured that Kazai wouldn’t do it again." -- also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/02-13
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Bonaparte Blair & Co  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23870.htm
A quote...."November 02, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- Gordon brown urged European Socialist leaders last week to appoint Tony Blair as the European President. “Get real”, he told them, “This is a unique opportunity to get a strong progressive politician to be the president.” -- Brown is obviously correct, nothing could be more refreshing, innovative ‘real’ and ‘progressive’ than assigning the job to a man who has more blood on his hands than any other person in Europe. It may also be right to argue that there  is just one living person on this planet with more blood on his hands than Blair. That man dwells in Texas, his name is George and actually unlike our Bonaparte figure, he keeps relatively quiet. Unlike George, our Boney is craving for recognition, he cannot live without a crown or an official title. Someone should remind Boney that he already made it into history, he can really take a break. With more than one million fatalities in Iraq, he is not far behind Hitler and Stalin." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59649&hd=&size=1&l=e
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'Russian who spied on Israel shot dead in Moscow'  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125329.html
A quote...."Shabtai Kalmanovitch, an Israeli immigrant from the former Soviet Union who served time in prison for spying for the KGB, was shot and killed while driving in downtown Moscow, news agencies reported on Monday. --
According to the Interfax news agency, Kalmanovitch was shot while driving in his Mercedes in the Russian capital." -- also posted at Uruknet
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Palestinians foil attack on Al-Aqsa worshippers  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110224&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Palestinian security guards have foiled a Jewish gunman's attempt to infiltrate the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a Palestinian official reports. -- Hatim Abdulqader, who is in charge of the Jerusalem Al-Quds portfolio in the Fatah movement told Arab Newsthat the Palestinian guards succeeded in stopping the gunman as he went up the stairs of a building adjacent to the mosque on Sunday."
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Jet named in torture flight report is met by SAS at British airport
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224386/Jet-named-torture-flight-report-met-SAS-British-airport.html
A quote...."A U.S. plane that featured in a European Parliament report into the 'extraordinary rendition' of terror suspects was met by two SAS helicopters in a secret operation at one of Britain's biggest airports. -- The Gulfstream jet landed at Birmingham International Airport on Friday, October 2, having flown in from an undisclosed location, and was seen by a member of staff being met minutes later by the Special Forces regiment aircraft."
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Panama denies agreement with U.S. on military bases  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/03/content_12375771.htm
A quote...."PANAMA CITY, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Panama's Vice President and Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela denied on Monday his country had reached agreement with the United States on the creation of four aerial-maritime bases in the Panamanian coasts."
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Putin cautions EU over Ukraine's gas paying issue  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/02/content_12369706.htm
A quote...."MOSCOW, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned his Swedish counterpart Fredrik Reinfeldt, rotating president of the European Union (EU), on Sunday that Ukraine might again have difficulty paying for Russian natural gas."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/209697
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Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/6480227/Russia-simulates-nuclear-attack-on-Poland.html
A quote...."The armed forces are said to have carried out "war games" in which nuclear missiles were fired and troops practised an amphibious landing on the country's coast. -- Documents obtained by Wprost, one of Poland's leading news magazines, said the exercise was carried out in conjunction with soldiers from Belarus." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/209691
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

The Gaza Chronicles: Part 2 - What a Siege Looks Like  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1150
Special Note - Photo Gallery - A quote...."Gaza is an example of a society that has been deliberately reduced to a state of abject destitution,” Sara Roy wrote in July. It has led to “mass suffering, created largely by Israel,” and aided by the active participation of the United States, European Union, and Palestinian Authority in the West Bank." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59659&hd=&size=1&l=e
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George Galloway -- Canadian Court to Hear Case  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/11/george-gallowaycanadian-court-to-hear.html
A quote...."Canada should know better than to tackle Galloway, they have a tiger by the tail, and he won't soon be going down without a good fight. somethign tells me he'll be speaking in Canada in the new year.
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Legal action against Israel increases over Gaza assault  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10863.shtml
Sue them, sue them all, every day, in every court of the world. Put leans and levies on every Israeli corporation, every Israeli asset, every Isreali government bank account and the personal accounts of each and every government official you can identify who participated in these war crimes. - mpg -- A quote...."RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - As the legal and moral implications of the UN Goldstone report on Israel's military assault on Gaza continue to mount, Palestinians in Gaza are taking matters into their own hands and preparing civil lawsuits."
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Gaza activists organize to harvest  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10862.shtml
A quote...."BEIT HANOUN, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - On a quiet October morning, Fida Zaneen, 19, sings a traditional love song as she pulls olives from trees in Beit Hanoun's border region during the annual olive harvest. -- "My grandmother taught me the folk songs. They were popular all over Palestine many decades ago."
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Evicted Sheikh Jarrah families demonstrate outside of US consulate  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2009/11/9144
A quote...."On Monday 2 November 2009 between 11 and 12am, a quiet demonstration was held outside the USA consulate in East Jerusalem, close to the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood. Coinciding with USA foreign secretary Hillary Clinton’s visit to Israel, the demonstration asked for the USA to apply more pressure on Israel and stop the home confiscations and evictions of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah."
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Settler Colonialism: Return to the Middle Ages  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/shaaban11022009.html
A quote...."When you read a news story saying that “the United Nations called on Israel to stop demolishing Palestinian homes and put an end to the policy of forced evictions in East Jerusalem, warning that there are 60,000 Palestinians threatened of becoming homeless,” you cannot but wonder about the role of the international organization today and about the goal for which it was created on the eve of the victory of the forces of freedom against Nazism and Fascism and whether it is the same organization authorized by history and the world’s peoples to guarantee the right to ‘self determination’? Is it the same organization charged with “putting an end to colonialism”? Is it the same organization which believes in the right of all peoples to freedom without discrimination in terms of race or religion? If it is the same organization, why does it allow Palestinian civilians suffer from the brutality of armed settlers?"
also posted at UprootedPalestinians   ---  http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2009/11/settler-colonialism-return-to-middle_02.html
& SilverLining  ---  http://realisticbird.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/settler-colonialism-return-to-the-middle-ages/
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Hamas calls on Europe to bear responsibility for its crime against Palestine
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7VmhPm37YaGQEx5PMnef4bZ6kaos5%2bazY
Wgua%2b2iCSF4HfT6t45JMsP6KY1wakOZ7CROAcbR%2fgZwa4BUxk6X4bTu1Vj8%2fqfq5YsR5GBaCD2g%3d
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- The Movement of Hamas on the 92nd anniversary of the ill-fated Balfour declaration expressed its supreme confidence in achieving victory and restoring the Palestinian usurped rights and demanded European states in general and Britain in particular to bear the moral responsibility for the crime they had committed against Palestine."
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Clinton ‘Re-Backtracks’ on Israeli Settlements  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/11/02/clinton-re-backtracks-on-israeli-settlements/
In other words, she pulled her face out of Netanyahu's butt long enough to realize she was in a Muslim country. -  mpg -- A quote...."The Obama Administration’s position on Israeli settlements is as changeable as the seasons, and like the seasons they appear to be starkly different depending on which country one is in. Nowhere was this more apparent than during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Marrakesh."
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America, stop sucking up to Israel  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1124928.html?
A quote...."Barack Obama has been busy - offering the Jewish People blessings for Rosh Hashanah, and recording a flattering video for the President's Conference in Jerusalem and another for Yitzhak Rabin's memorial rally. Only Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah surpasses him in terms of sheer output of recorded remarks."
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Ongoing U.S. efforts to protect and coddle Israel  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/11/02/levy
Glen Greenwald on the article shown above -- A quote...."The latest Haaretz column   ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1124928.html?  ---  by the outstanding and courageous Israeli columnist, Gideon Levy, is entitled "America, Stop Sucking Up to Israel," and it highlights one of the most bizarre political facts:  criticism of Israeli actions is far more tolerated and permitted in Israeli political discourse than it is in America's.  It's simply inconceivable that any establishment journalist or national politician would ever echo Levy's scathing indictments of Israel's conduct and his calls for the U.S. to apply serious pressure and even threats to coerce changes in Israeli behavior.  After describing the increasingly conciliatory actions towards Israel by the Obama administration in exchange for nothing but obstinance, Levy writes:" -- also posted at PJB  ---  http://buchanan.org/blog/ongoing-u-s-efforts-to-protect-and-coddle-israel-2825

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Life & Debt (problem note @ ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/  ---  it auto-loads ALL vids) go to....
AltVid#1  ---  http://www.livevideo.com/video/BESToftheBEST/8572389162284FFD9468AD17757C5D95/life-and-debt-1of-4.aspx
AltVid#2  ---  http://www.livevideo.com/video/BESToftheBEST/5D52F7AC943849E8812F947A3F773653/life-and-debt-2of-4.aspx
AltVid#3  ---  http://www.livevideo.com/video/BESToftheBEST/D2121E20B3684A9BA393E0B61E8320A5/life-and-debt-3of-4.aspx
AltVid#4  ---  http://www.livevideo.com/video/BESToftheBEST/A21ED0E47BC54A7191549BB396A4B22B/life-and-debt-4of-4.aspx
Must View Videos - A quote...."Life and Debt is a feature-length documentary which addresses the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalization policies on a developing country such as Jamaica. -- Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact." -- For more on this issue see....Currency Spheres - 10-29-09 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/currencyspheres-mpg-reficultnias-102909
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The Iron Cheer of Empire  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/bageant10302009.html
Special Note - A quote...."Every afternoon when I knock off from writing, after I suck down a Modelo beer and take an hour nap, I step out onto the 400-year-old cobbled street, with its hap-scatter string of vendors lining both sides. All sorts of vendors -- vegetable vendors, vendors of tacos, chicharrones, chenille bedspreads and plucked chickens, cigarros, soft drinks, sopa and suet. Merchants whose business address consists of a tiny one room aboratto or a card table in front of their casita."
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How Wall Street and Its Backers on Capitol Hill Silenced a Critic Calling for Greater Regulation of Derivatives
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/2/how_wall_street_and_its_backers
 A quote...."Last month, when the a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on the derivatives market, Robert Johnson was the only non-industry expert invited to speak. The former economist at the Senate Banking Committee and the Senate Budget Committee was invited just sixteen hours before the hearing. His testimony was cut short after five minutes by Congresswoman Melissa Bean, and the committee has since refused to post online his full testimony along with the statements of the other panelists. Robert Johnson comes on Democracy Now! to explain what he tried to tell Congress. [includes rush transcript]
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India, China, Russia and Some EU Central Banks Buying Gold
  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/11/india-china-russia-and-some-eu-central.html
A quote...."India's central bank is buying  ---  http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2009/pr09381.htm  ---  200 metric tons of gold from the IMF. -- China, Russia and some EU central banks have also expressed interest  ---  http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/02231541/RBI-to-buy-200-tonnes-of-IMF-g.html  ---   in buying gold from the IMF or elsewhere.  -- Therefore, Bloomberg's article  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601012&sid=agl8iwWuXS_k  ---  of today saying that "Central Banks Will Become Net Buyers of Gold, WGC CEO Says" is not controversial. -- Given that the IMF has only authorized  ---  the sale of 403.3 metric tons of gold at this time, the IMFs sales won't drive gold prices down. Indeed, the other 203.3 metric tons should go pretty quickly, and there will almost certainly be left over demand from the world's central banks. Remember, China itself previously considered purchasing  ---  http://news.alibaba.com/article/detail/business-in-china/100175429-1-china-mulls-buying-imf-gold.html  ---  the entire 403.3 metric tons. --  For the big picture on gold, see this"  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/gold-big-picture.html
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US Treasury Delays Debt Ceiling Expansion, Q4 Borrowing Needs Shifted To Q1 2010
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-treasury-delays-debt-ceiling-expansion-q4-borrowing-needs-shifted-q1-2010
Fed Alert - A quote...."The US Treasury today announced a preliminary estimate of borrowing needs in the Q4 2009 and Q1 2010 quarters. The October-December borrowing need has been revised lower to $276 billion from the $485 billion announced in July 2009. The primary reason for the decline, aside from the need to stay below the $12.1 trillion debt ceiling which would have already been breached had this number been in line with prior expectations, is due to the $185 billion refunded from the Supplementary Financing Program announced earlier, which as of October 28 has been completed. Yet, like everything else with the current administration, current peace of mind comes at a magnified future cost: the US Treasury now expected to issue $478 billion in Treasurys in Q1, and coupled with a net cash decline of $40 billion from Q4, implies that in Q1 2010 over half a trillion in debt will be issued net, if not more." - bold by website editor -- So....they're still kicking the can down the road. My, oh, my, that's one really big can. - mpg
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Here Comes Stimulus 2.0  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/here-comes-stimulus-20
Contains Video - A quote...."In this Bloomberg clip, commerce secretary Gary Locke says that "if there is to be another stimulus -- and that’s being hotly discussed and very seriously considered within the administration as well as members of Congress -- it needs to be very targeted, very specific and we need to be very mindful of the deficit as well.In other words, with unemployment not improving after the first $787 billion was spent, with GDP improvements having peaked, and since at this point nothing matters since America will never be able to realistically service its debt, with mid-term elections coming up, and Obama's rating plummeting even despite an orchestrated 50% rally, it is a matter of months, if not days, before the President unveils another multi-trillion Treasury sinkhole. And since no horrible policy decision can go unused, the next stimulus is likely to be promptly followed by the Chairman announcing the next iteration of Quantitative Easing."
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Roubini: "Deleveraging Requires The Writing Down Of Debt As Reflationary Policies Are Not A Free Lunch And Won't Solve The Debt Overhang Problem"
  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/11/roubini-deleveraging-requires-writing.html
Nouriel Roubini writes  --- http://www.rgemonitor.com/10000?cluster_id=13965

"Ultimately, deleveraging requires the writing down of debt as reflationary policies are not a free lunch and won't solve the debt overhang problem (Dr. Roubini). Important case study: Japan back into deflationary territory despite huge public debt and QE (Chinn). Rather than a sign of inflation, higher long-term yields may be pointing to higher real interest rates which are compatible with a deflationary environment (BofA). The equilibrium coexistence of zero interest rates, high unemployment, deflation, rising cash balances and excess reserves points to a liquidity trap environment as during the Great Depression and Japan's lost decade."

"But America's economic "leadership" (Geithner, Summers, Bernanke and company) are doing everything in their power to keep the giant banks from writing down bad debt (see this,  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/08/roubini-this-is-crisis-of-solvency-but.html  ---  this,  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/08/taleb-our-leadership-is-literally.html  ---  this
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/economists-have-acted-like-team-docors.html  ---  and this  --- 
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/10/in-trying-to-stop-inevitable.html  ---  ). When will they be fired  --- 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/02/maria-cantwell-im-not-sur_n_342509.html  ---  ?"
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We Can't Even BEGIN to Debate Keynesian Stimulus Until We Know the Facts
  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/11/aggressive-fiscal-stimulus-spending.html
Special Note - A quote...."Many also argue that the 1930s Keynesian stimulus programs did not work, and that the Depression did not end until World War II. And they also argue that every dollar in additional debt incurred now is another burden added to our childrens' shoulders. - Who is right? - Before deciding, you might want to look at two pieces of data."
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What Is Money? - Part 11: The Great Default  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north778.html
A quote...."The governments of every major nation are going to default on their debts. There are two relevant questions: (1) How? (2) When?"
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ISM's new-order drop raises doubts about energy stocks
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/isms-new-orders-hold-clues-to-energy-stocks-citi-2009-11-02
Here's the good news - Some quotes...."The Institute for Supply Management said its factory index rose to 55.7% in October from 52.6% the prior month, topping economists' forecasts for a rise to 53%. -- It was a broad expansion, with 13 of 18 industries reporting growth, and the fastest rate of increase since April 2006." -- However.... "Details of Monday's ISM report may hold a warning about further advances in energy, materials and capital-goods stocks over the next three months, according to an analysis by Citigroup." -- bold by website editor
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Pending home sales up 6.1% in September  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/pending-home-sales-up-61-in-september-2009-11-02
More good news - A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- An index that tracks pending sales of existing homes rose a seasonally adjusted 6.1% in September, the eighth consecutive increase, the National Association of Realtors reported Monday."
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British economy sinks deeper into recession  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109403&sectionid=3510213
A quote...."A statement issued by the British Office of National Statistics revealed a 0.4 percent cut in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), dashing any hopes of a speedy recovery for the British economy." -- Britain is the US-NRE's lap dog, it doesn't get any advantage from the Euro or the US-NRE's dollar because it uses it's own currency, therefore it's losing badly since it isn't included in either "Currency Sphere"  ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/currencyspheres-mpg-reficultnias-102909  ---  and no longer has one of its own - mpg
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Sunday November 1st 2009 - links page

The Truth About the Middle East is Buried Beneath the Headlines
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fiskrsquos-world-the-truth-about-the-middle-east-is-buried-beneath-the-headlines-
1812300.html
Must Read - A quote...."Once government and editors and television management have decided on the "story", you can be sure that an Israeli "wall" will become a "security barrier" or a "fence", a pro-Western Arab dictator a "strongman" and "occupied" Israeli territory will become "disputed"; the unjustly treated will thus become generically violent, brutality softened and occupation legalised. Fred Halliday of the LSE is coming out next June with a book called Shocked and Awed about the artillery and minefields used in the battlefield of language. The "War on Terror" – yes, let's give this trash the capital letters it deserves, as in "South Sea Bubble" – has given us "Gitmo" and "extraordinary rendition" ("extraordinary" indeed!) and imported, as Halliday observes, perversions of imported words such as "jihad". -- But I think the problem goes further than this. It's not just a White House-State Department-Pentagon-CNN-Downing Street-Defence Ministry-BBC military-political-journalistic complex."
also posted at PJB  ---  http://buchanan.org/blog/the-truth-about-the-middle-east-is-buried-beneath-the-headlines-2797
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Tortured Memories and the Culture of War  ---  http://www.truthout.org/1101092
A quote...."For the last decade, we have lived through a historical period in which the United States relinquished its tenuous claim to democracy. The frames through which democracy apprehends the lives of others as human beings worthy of respect, dignity and human rights were sacrificed to a mode of politics and culture that simply became an extension of war, both at home and abroad. At home the punishing state increasingly replaced the welfare state, however ill-conceived, as more and more individuals and groups were now treated as disposable populations, undeserving of those safety nets and basic protections that provide the conditions for living with a sense of security and dignity. Under such conditions, basic social supports were replaced by an increase in the production of prisons, the expansion of the criminal justice system into everyday life, and the further erosion of crucial civil liberties."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59615&hd=&size=1&l=e
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First they came for....  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-they-came-for-911-truthers-and-i.html
Full quote...."First they came for the 9/11 Truthers, and I did not speak out--because I believed the official story;
Then they came for the unemployed, and I did not speak out—because I had a job;
Then they came for those who had lost their homes, and I did not speak out-because I had my home;
Then they came for the working class poor, and I did not speak out—because I wasn't poor;
Then they came for the peaceful protesters, and I did not speak out--because I didn't protest;
Then they came for the middle class, and I did not speak out—because I was not part of the middle class;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me."
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Obama's latest use of "secrecy" to shield presidential lawbreaking  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/11/01/state_secrets/index.html
Special Note - A quote...."The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the "state secrets" privilege  ---  http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/10/obama-administration-invokes-state-secrets-privilegeagain.html  ---  which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil among loyal Democrats  ---  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/29/0759/54872  ---  (when used by Bush/Cheney) -- to attempt to block courts from ruling on the legality of the government's domestic surveillance activities.  Obama did so again this past Friday -- just six weeks after the DOJ announced voluntary new internal guidelines  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/us/politics/23secrets.html?hp  ---  which, it insisted, would prevent abuses of the state secrets privilege.  Instead -- as predicted  ---  http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/23/obamas-new-state-secrets-policy-is-reaffirmation-of-bushs-policy/  ---  the DOJ continues to embrace the very same "state secrets" theories of the Bush administration -- which Democrats generally  ---  http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/15/first-monday-marty-lederman-on-the-restoration-of-the-rule-of-law/  ---  and Barack Obama specifically  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/10/obama/  ---  once vehemently condemned -- and is doing so in order literally to shield the President from judicial review or accountability when he is accused of breaking the law."
also posted at OhBummer   ---  http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/obamas-latest-use-of-secrecy-to-shield.html
& PJB  ---  http://buchanan.org/blog/obamas-latest-use-of-secrecy-to-shield-presidential-lawbreaking-2800
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Obama Administration Invokes State Secrets Privilege…Again
  ---  http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/10/obama-administration-invokes-state-secrets-privilegeagain.html
A quote...."The Obama administration invoked the controversial "state secrets" privilege again on Friday, arguing that if U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker were to permit a legal case against the government to proceed, he would be putting national security at risk."
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"Obama administration: Toss wiretap lawsuit  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j9n5u8khGqNQT6DTlcKGV6ouKqfQD9BLULIG2  ---  31 Oct 2009 Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out. In making the argument, the Obama administration agreed with the Bush administration's position on the case but insists it came to the decision differently. Holder's effort to stop the lawsuit marks the first time the administration has tried to invoke the state secrets privilege under a new policy it launched last month designed to make such a legal argument more difficult. Under the state secrets privilege, the government can have a lawsuit dismissed if hearing the case would jeopardize national security. "The Obama administration has essentially adopted the position of the Bush administration in these cases, even though candidate Obama was incredibly critical of both the warrantless wiretapping program and the Bush administration's abuse of the state secrets privilege," said Kevin Bankston, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation."  -- Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Barack Obama Continues Bush Administration Policy Regarding Posse Comitatus
  ---  http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/2195-barack-obama-continues-bush-administration-policy-regarding-posse-comitatus
A quote...."It has been just over one year since the U.S. Army announced that the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team was being placed under the direct control of the US Army Northern Command (NORTHCOM), and was being indefinitely reassigned as an “on-call federal response force” for emergencies of all sorts, natural and man-made, including terrorist attacks, within NORTHCOM's area of responsibility — the United States, Mexico, and Canada." -- also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6156-0-5-5--.html
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Obama Continuing Bush Renditions  ---  http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-continuing-bush-renditions.html
A quote...."Even though Barack Obama, the candidate, pledged to end “the practice of shipping away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far-off countries,” his FBI has been rendering kidnap victims to the U.S. The practice is still kidnapping, however; and it’s still illegal."
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A Bad Precedent for the Parasitic Class
11-01-09
mpg

Has the Government Broken the Social Contract with the American People?
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/11/government-has-broken-social-contract.html
A quote...."In a provocative comment to an essay I wrote, Kevin de Bruxelles argues that the government has broken the social contract with the American people, and discusses the ultimate meaning of such a breach of contract:"

One should add as long as people have the right to freely garner, exercise and accurately count their vote AND the contract (the Constitution) remains unbroken, the "people" should generally remain law abiding and peaceful.  The Constitution of this country however, has without a doubt, been thoroughly broken, to quote what was written two days ago on this blog.....


The parasitic class however, are still being very cautious about actually enforcing their break with the constitution, (and for those in government, their oath of office).  They're introducing the "concept" of these Constitutional violations to the American people while, for the moment, refraining from actually deploying these concepts on a mass scale.  As many commentators have repeatedly pointed out, "they want to condition" the American people to accept there newly imposed slave status before actually making them into slaves.

For example, they tortured Jose Padilla  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/greenwald1.html  ---  who they imprisoned and they also imprisoned John Walker Lindh,  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_Lindh  ---  both were American citizens.  And they have assassinated many Americans overseas. In many cases with hardly any evidence of their supposed crimes.  On the other hand neither Jose Padilla nor John Walker Lindh were executed after they'd been arrested because actual evidence in a public trial is still needed to do so in this country.  Much more importantly to do so would have set a bad precedent for the parasites who occupy Washington DC.

After all, with anywhere from fifty to a hundred thousand Americans having been responsible at one point or another during the last thirty years in supplying over a hundred billion dollars to various "terrorist" groups  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306  ---  throughout the Middle East, (and they're still supplying them to this day) and with several thousand of the parasitic class directly involved in staging the event called 9/11,  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html  ---  (almost all of them by helping to cover it up) it would have set a very bad precedent for them to advocate executions at this particular point in time.

But that policy will eventually change. – mpg
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'Blackwater behind Peshawar blast'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110059&sectionid=351020401
A quote...."Pakistan's pro-Taliban militants blame private US security firm Blackwater for a Wednesday bomb blast in Peshawar which killed over 100 people. -- Hakimullah Mehsud, head of the Tehrik-e-Taliban, said Blackwater and some Pakistani agencies were involved in the bomb explosion at a crowded market in Peshawar."
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US spy agencies' spending rises to $49.8 billion  ---  http://airamerica.com/breakingnews/2467/
Related Article - A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. spy agencies spent $49.8 billion in fiscal year 2009, $2 billion more than in 2008 and the second such multibillion-dollar increase in as many years." -- And with the Pentagon's "Black Budget"
  ---  http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/pentagons-black-budget-grows-to-more-than-50-billion/  ---  also at fifty billion, that leaves, excluding the additional tens of billions in "aid", billions for NGO's and the occasional lost  ---  http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/iraq_billions200710  ---   palet  ---  http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/february2007/070207_b_cash.htm  ---  of cash,
 ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1  ---  about one hundred billion in slush funds to help support the US-NRE's never-ending "self-licking ice cream cone".  In other words the US-NRE's non-stop support of terror worldwide.
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
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Islamabad: Americans Dressed as Afghans Caught With Illegal Weapons and Explosives
  ---  http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/islamabad-americans-dressed-as-afghans-caught-with-illegal-weapons-and-explosives/
Related Article - A quote...."ISLAMABAD – FOUR American citizens were caught red-handed by Capital Police in the early hours of Tuesday for photographing sensitive buildings. All four were dressed in traditional Afghan outfits and were found to be in possession of illegal weapons and explosives."
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Pakistan's growing anti-US anger  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8332569.stm
Related Article - A quote...."Recently, while Pakistan's government may have been saying the things that the White House wants to hear, the country's media and public have often been openly hostile towards the United States."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59596&hd=&size=1&l=e
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[Iranian] Speaker Reiterates US Involvement in [Jundallah] Terrorist Attack in Iran  ---  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8808080964
Related Article - A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Evidences show that the US was involved in recent terrorist attack in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan Balouchestan, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said."
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'US using Jundallah in plot to destabilize Iran'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109626&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."The US is trying to destabilize Iran's borders by making use of the terrorist group Jundallah, a retired Pakistani general says. -- Jundallah, also known as the Rigi group because it is led by Abdolmalek Rigi, has claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack carried out on October 18 in the Iranian city of Pishin, near the border with Pakistan, which killed over 40 people, including several senior commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps." -- For more on the two articles shown above see....US Support of Terror - Jundallah
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#JUNDULLAH
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Lawmaker Highlights Role of Zionist Lobbies in US Policy Makings  ---  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8808101416
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian legislator on Sunday said that ratification of a 55-milion-dollar budget for the Pentagon to launch soft war against Iran indicates the role of the Zionist lobbies in the US policy makings."
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Can Mrs. Clinton Control CIA In Afghanistan?  ---  http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/can-mrs-clinton-control-cia-in-afghanistan/ 
 She has absolutely no intention of doing so. - mpg -- A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Two years ago, when isolated reports in the Pakistani media accused the United States of playing a double game in Afghanistan, most commentators dismissed them as conspiracy theories and kneejerk anti-Americanism. -- Today those reports dominate the mainstream Pakistani media.  The distrust is so serious that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had to turn her first official visit to Pakistan into a firefighting mission, kicking off a charm offensive to win over skeptic Pakistanis."
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NATO forces turn to warlords  ---  http://khilafah.com/index.php/news-watch/south-asia/7981-nato-forces-turn-to-warlords
A quote...."WASHINGTON - The revelation by the New York Times on Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been on the payroll of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg of heavy dependence by US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) counter-insurgency forces on Afghan warlords for security, according to a recently published report and investigations by Australian and Canadian journalists." -- also posted at Khilafah  ---  http://khilafah.com/index.php/news-watch/south-asia/7981-nato-forces-turn-to-warlords
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We Entered Afghanistan Bearing Cash For Warlords, After All
  ---  http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/10/28/we-entered-afghanistan-bearing-cash-for-warlords-after-all/
(For the comments) -- A quote...."So about Ahmed Wali Karzai. Remember we got into Afghanistan in 2001 thanks to the derring-do of CIA operatives who politicked with Northern Alliance warlords thanks to bricks of cash. That got us into Kabul and into Kandahar. People wrote books that celebrated it. Woodward wrote overwrought accounts of it. No one found it objectionable."
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CIA Agent Sees Dead People  ---  http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/3198/81/
From the History File -- Monday, 07 January 2008 13:32 -- A quote...."C.J. Chivers and David Rohde explained that 'American tactics and training became integral parts of the [al Qaeda] schools,' that instruction was standardized so 'courses taught in different languages and hundreds of miles apart . . . were identical,' They all have the same basic skills. . . and received funds from Gulf donors to cover costs" (never mentioning that the Gulf donors were matching US funds). -- Like Scheuer, the Times ignored the fact that al Qaida did not exist before 1999, according to experts like director of Congressional Task Force on Terrorism, Yossef Bodansky.:" -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m39922&s1=h1  ---   posted 01-07-08
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The U.S. and Afghan Tragedy  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5878
From the History File -- February 18, 2009 -- A quote...."The United States sent more than $8 billion to Pakistani military dictator Zia al-Huq, who dramatically increased the size of the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) to help support Afghan mujahedeen in their battle against the Soviets and their puppet government. Their goal, according to the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was "to radicalize the influence of religious factions within Afghanistan." The ISI helped channel this American money, and billions more from oil-rich American allies, from the Gulf region to extremists within the Afghan resistance movement. ---  Extremist Education - The Reagan administration sensed the most hard-line elements of the resistance were less likely to reach negotiated settlements, but the goal was to cripple the Soviet Union, not free the Afghan people. Recognizing the historically strong role of Islam in Afghan society, they tried to exploit it to advance U.S. policy goals. Religious studies along militaristic lines were given more importance than conventional education in the school system for Afghan refugees in Pakistan. The number of religious schools (madrassas) educating Afghans rose from 2,500 in 1980 at the start of Afghan resistance to over 39,000. The United States encouraged the Saudis to recruit Wahhabist ideologues to come join the resistance and teach in refugee institutes." - bold by website editor - posted 02-19-09
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CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR - make that Charlie Wilson's Whopper  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_l_rGyltwo  ---  (YuTb  8m27s Dec. 20, 2007)
Video - From the History File -- December 20, 2007 -- A quote...."In this short by documentary filmmaker, Melissa Roddy, she counters mis-information presented in the movie CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR. The film includes interviews with first-hand participants in events surrounding the 1980s war against the Soviet Union, including Senator Gordon Humphrey (R-NH, Ret.); former Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Edmund McWilliams; Prof. Tom Johnson of the U.S. Naval Post Graduate School and CIA Chief of Station to Pakistan Milt Bearden" -- posted 01-06-08
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Afghanistan poll thrown into chaos as Karzai’s rival says: I won’t stand  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6898396.ece
A quote...."President Karzai’s opponent withdrew from Afghanistan’s presidential election yesterday, conceding defeat six days before a planned run-off but threatening to undermine the legitimacy of a new government."
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Sacked UN official Peter Galbraith accuses Karzai of running second poll fraud
  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6897618.ece
A quote...."The American who was sacked as the deputy head of the UN mission in Afghanistan after alleging a cover-up of election fraud accused President Karzai yesterday of masterminding another massive operation to steal next week’s run-off contest." -- also posted at AmericanEveryman
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/sacked-un-official-peter-galbraith-accuses-karzai-of-running-second-poll-fraud/
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Report reveals Afghan election fraud  ---  http://www.theage.com.au/world/report-reveals-afghan-election-fraud-20091101-hrmn.html
A quote...."ON ELECTION day, just 36 voters entered the polling booth, only a few kilometres from the sprawling fortified base that is home to close to 1000 Australian soldiers at Tarin Kowt, capital of Afghanistan's Oruzgan province. -- At the end of the day, the booth's votes were counted - all 2252 of them."
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"British nuclear expert's 17th floor UN death plunge 'was not suicide'
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1224377/British-nuclear-experts-17th-floor-UN-death-plunge-suicide.html  ---  Under a year ago, an American died at the IAEA in strikingly similar circumstances, his body being found at the bottom of a stairwell. -- 01 Nov 2009 A British nuclear expert who fell from the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide and may have been hurled to his death, says a doctor who carried out a second post-mortem examination. Timothy Hampton, a scientist involved in monitoring nuclear activity, was found dead last week at the bottom of a stairwell in Vienna. An initial autopsy concluded that there were ‘no suspicious circumstances’. But.. a doctor who undertook a second post-mortem examination on behalf of the family believes she has found evidence that Mr Hampton did not die by his own hands. Professor Kathrin Yen, of the Ludwig Institute in Graz, Austria, which specialises in traumatology research, said... one possible theory was that Mr Hampton was carried to the 17th floor from his workplace on the sixth floor and thrown to his death." -- Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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250,000 displaced in Pakistan's Waziristan offensive  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110194&sectionid=351020401
A quote...."Pakistan's military offensive against pro-Taliban militants in a northwestern tribal area has forced nearly 250,000 civilians to flee their homes." -- also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/250000-displaced-in-pakistans.html
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OIC calls for UNSC emergency meeting on Al-Aqsa  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110190&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has called for an urgent meeting on Israel's frequent violations against the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the occupied East Jerusalem Al-Quds."
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Israel derailing peace efforts, Jordan and Egypt say  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110216&sectionid=351020202
A quote...."Israel is "derailing" peace efforts by building settlements and jeopardizing the identity of Jerusalem Al-Quds and holy places, the leaders of Jordan and Egyptian say."
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Obama Quietly Backing Congressional Moves on Iran Sanctions
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/30/obama-quietly-backing-congressional-moves-on-iran-sanctions/
A quote...."Though officials in the Obama Administration have been publicly neutral about the new round of sanctions against Iran moving its may through the House and Senate, the administration is quietly supporting the efforts, despite the deleterious affect they may have on negotiations."
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Réalité EU: Front group for the Washington based Israel Project? -- A Spinwatch Investigation:
  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/realite-eu-front-group-for-washington.html
A quote...."Spinwatch  ---  http://www.spinwatch.org/  ---  has uncovered evidence that an apparently London based organisation offering expertise on Iran to journalists and politicians is a covert propaganda operation run by a pro-Israel organisation in the United States."
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Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food  ---  http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1737/1/
A quote...."Worldwide, industrial mono-culture farming has displaced traditional food production and farmers, wreaking havoc on food prices and food sovereignty. This is particularly true for the global south, where land has been concentrated for crops destined for biodiesel and animal feed. In response, peasants and small farmers organized actions in more than 53 countries on October 15 for International Food Day as an initiative of Via Campesina, one of the largest independent social movement organizations, representing nearly 150 million people globally."
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15876
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Venezuela Busts Colombian Infiltration  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=133799&Itemid=1
A quote...."Caracas, Nov 1 (Prensa Latina) The recent murder of 10 people in the border with Colombia with the characteristics of a military operation keeps the Venezuelan bordering zone in tension affected by irregular groups'' action."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

1967 BORDERS? WHAT 1967 BORDERS!  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/11/1967-borders-what-1967-borders.html
Special Note - "Throw away those keys you ethnically cleansed Palestinians, remain in your tents all you displaced Palestinians, enjoy living for generations to come in your refugee camps all you uprooted Palestinians, and to all of you living in East Jerusalem, you will be leaving soon, so pack your bags. Such is the new message to Palestinians from the Obama Administration. -- Clinton praises her Masters:"

    “She said Israel has made "unprecedented" concessions on settlement building”

"The U-turn to the Dark Side is now complete. Obama sent his lackey Clinton to the Middle East for an “Arse Kissing Fest” with Netanyahu. Yes folks the Illegal, let me repeat that word “Illegal” settlements have become a “non issue” for America, they are off the table, wave bye, toodleooski, sayonara, see ya."
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Waging War on Students  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15522
A quote...."If there's one thing the Israelis are good at it's making war on women and children. -- They killed 952 Palestinian children in their homeland between 2000 and the start of the Gaza blitzkrieg in December 2008 (according to B'Tselem statistics). They murdered at least 350 more during their Cast Lead onslaught and have kept Gaza under daily attack ever since. So the brave Israelis must have eliminated nearly 1400 youngsters by now. Would anyone care to guess how many they left bleeding, maimed and crippled?"
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Israel’s Unspoken Nuclear Leverage  ---  http://politicaltheatrics.org/2009/11/02/israels-unspoken-nuclear-leverage/
A quote...."Much is made of Israel’s political power in the west and particularly in the US. There have been private complaints about it for decades. Only recently has it become possible to speak about it in public. Still the iron fist inside the chain-mail glove is only for private discussion."
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South Africans 'fought in Gaza war'  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/video-south-africans-fought-in-gaza-war.html
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlyV-tUr3sw  ---  (YouTube - 3 min 43 sec - November 01, 2009)
Video - A quote...."Efforts to prosecute those who may have committed war crimes in Israel's war on Gaza have spread beyond the Middle East. -- Lawyers say the docket contains evidence that South Africans took part in the fighting. -- "We've identified about 75 South Africans who we believe served in the IDF at one point or the other," Boda says. -- "We believe that there is prima facae evidence against all of them. We have informants from South African police stations, whose identity we are currently protecting for their safety, who have pinpointed which of their fellow South African police force reservists went to Gaza to fight in the war. We have pictorial evidence as well."
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Too Hot to Handle: The New Yorker Magazine Censors the Word ‘Censored’ in Report Criticizing Israel  ---  http://usmediaandisrael.com/?p=274
Censorship Alert - A quote...."Censored NY Times Cartoon,” the true story behind how the New York Times reneged on running a cartoon critical of Israel, was scheduled to appear in the special November 2 cartoon edition of the New Yorker. Three days before the magazine went to press, the New Yorker staff–by order of the Editor–stated that the ad could not be published with the word “censored.” Ironically, this only validates the message of my original cartoon below. Was this censorship by the NY Times? You decide." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-yorker-magazine-censors-word.html
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Youtube is covering up the Israeli Hatred for the world
  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/diaries/articles-with-videos/1397-youtube-is-covering-up-the-israeli-hatred-for-this-world
Censorship Alert - A quote...."London, July 16, (Pal telegraph) - Youtube which is owned by google is again cooperating with the Israeli government by hiding an important video that exposes the mindset of the Israeli youth, not only those youth are racist but they are very ill-informed creatures."
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Palestinian Child Prisoners - Video and UK Speaking Tour   ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/palestinian-child-prisoners-video-and.html
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6o2xvjJ4d0  ---  (YouTube - 5 min 3 sec - Oct 30, 2009)
Video - Event Alert - [RAMALLAH, 31 October 2009] – On Monday, 2 November 2009, DCI-Palestine will accompany Mohammad and his mother Somaya on a four-day speaking tour of the UK to highlight the plight of Palestinian child prisoners."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/209561
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Sussex Students Vote to Boycott Israel  ---  http://www.bilin-ffj.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=208&Itemid=1
Action Update - A quote...."Date 30/10/09 Sussex Students’ Union first in UK to boycott Israeli goods FOLLOWING a landmark referendum, students at Sussex University have voted to boycott Israeli goods. The decision will become part of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, which calls upon Israel to respect international law and end the occupation of Palestine. The referendum received messages of support and thanks from Jewish and Israeli academics and non-governmental organizations that oppose Israel’s policy of occupation in Palestine. Author and scholar Norman G. Finkelstein described the referendum result as ‘a victory, not for Palestinians but for truth and justice’.
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

The Negotiation is in the Streets: A Day of Resistance and Repression  ---  http://hondurasresists.blogspot.com/2009/10/negotiation-is-in-streets-day-of.html
A quote...."Running away from tear gas clouds behind them several people carry a woman in shock around a corner to a water spigot someone has found. Her bright yellow shirt is soaked in a mix of sweat, tear gas and water. People gather around her wiping her down and washing out her eyes and their own. Suddenly we hear more shots and the footsteps of the elite cobra commando unit of the Honduran police. As we flee to the top of a hill we run into another human rights observer who reports that several people have been badly beaten and are in the hospital...."
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Ron Paul: Be Prepared for the Worst  ---  http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/ron-paul-be-prepared-for-the-worst/
Special Note - A quote...."A false recovery is under way. I am reminded of the outlook in 1930, when the experts were certain that the worst of the Depression was over and that recovery was just around the corner. The economy and stock market seemed to be recovering, and there was optimism that the recession, like many of those before it, would be over in a year or less. Instead, the interventionist policies of Hoover and Roosevelt caused the Depression to worsen, and the Dow Jones industrial average did not recover to 1929 levels until 1954. I fear that our stimulus and bailout programs have already done too much to prevent the economy from recovering in a natural manner and will result in yet another asset bubble."
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Galbraith: Administration's Sole Goal is to Restore System of 5 or 10 Years Ago, But Confidence Won't be Restored Unless Fraud is Prosecuted
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/11/galbraith-white-houses-sole-goal-is-to.html
A quote...."As I have repeatedly written,  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/fed-economist-american-banks-went.html  ---  the largest U.S. banks have repeatedly gone bankrupt due to wild speculation which was blessed by the Fed, and then the government covered up their bankruptcy."
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Congressman Watt Guts Bill to Audit the Fed  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/congressman-watt-guts-audit-fed-bill.html
Contains Video - A quote...."Ron Paul tells Bloomberg  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=atc2o1ijLRno  ---  that Congressman Watt has just more or less killed the bill to audit the fed:"
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CIT files for 5th largest U.S. bankruptcy  ---  http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/01/news/companies/cit_group/?postversion=2009110118
A quote...."NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- CIT Group Inc., one of the nation's leading funders of small and medium-sized businesses, filed for the fifth largest bankruptcy by assets in U.S. history Sunday as part of a reorganization plan that has the support of an overwhelming majority of debtholders."
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How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash  ---  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/77791.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting." -- also posted at OhBummer  ---  http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-goldman-secretly-bet-on-us-housing.html
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Quotes from the great depression  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/quotes-from-great-depression.html
A quote...."September 1929 -- "There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue." — *Andrew W. Mellon*, Secretary of the Treasury. -- and many more quotes. - mpg
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Kill the Bill  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/47434
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BNQElQPkao  ---  (YouTube - 34 sec - November 01, 2009)
Video - Special Note - Regarding the health care issue -- A quote...."You wouldn't solve homelessness by making everyone pay rent or face a fine. You don't solve health care problems by mandating everyone buy insurance and allowing the companies to raise rates by 25% "
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Ron Paul’s Solution to the Healthcare Crisis in America? “Free Markets”…
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/ron-pauls-solution-to-the-healthcare-crisis-in-america-free-markets/
Special Note - Regarding the health care issue -- A quote...."This is primarily why I don’t support either Ron Paul, or his publicist, Alex Jones… all they are doing is steering naturally occurring dissent in this country toward support of the very thing that has caused the problems in the first place; free-market neoliberal ideology. They are both a perfect example of “controlled opposition” whereas you hijack the dissent movement, and steer it back toward the very thing people are rebelling against. This Larry King interview was posted on Prison Planet. They posted the second half only, and not the first part that featured Micheal Moore talking about capitalism and the state the country is in." -- See also the articles and comments shown below....
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For more on this issue see also....

Say 'Good-bye' to the Nice Health Care Reform, Kids  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/44471
Obama Piddles Away the Public's Options  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/obama-piddles-away-publics-options
Obama's Corporate Health Care Scam  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/gatto190809.htm
Don't Get Sick!  ---  http://www.truthout.org/082709A
Death Bonds: Wall Street Teams Up With Insurance Companies to Kill People, Reap Profits  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/08-9
We're sick; the system's even sicker  ---  http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl-hiaasen/story/1218904.html
Who's Blocking Health Care Reform Now? Blue Dogs? Senate Dems? House Progressives? Or the WH Itself?
  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/whos-blocking-health-care-reform-now-blue-dogs-senate-dems-house-progressives-or-white-house
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Saturday October 31st 2009 - links page

Friday October 30th 2009 - links page

It is not wise for the Christian white
To hustle the Asian brown;
For the Christian riles
And the Asian smiles
And weareth the Christian down.

At the end of the fight
Lies a tombstone white
With the name of the late deceased;

And the epitaph drear,
A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East.

“If the Jewish people have one reservoir that will never run out, it’s lawyers. Every Western capital boasts at least five successful Jewish law firms, and most of them will be glad to represent the State of Israel.”

Thursday October 29th 2009 - links page

"Israeli settlers residing in illegal outposts in the heart of Hebron obstructed the work of Palestinian fire fighters on Wednesday night, as crews attempted to access a burning building owned by a Palestinian family."