Tuesday November 11th 2008 - links page

NSA Domestic Surveillance Began 7 Months Before 9/11, Convicted Qwest CEO Claims
  ---  http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/nsa-asked-for-p.html
Jason Leopold | Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11558.htm
Alt
  ---  http://www.truthout.org/article/jason-leopold-bush-authorized-domestic-spying-before-911
How Cheney Used the NSA for Domestic Spying Prior to 9/11
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/leopold01202006.html
Warrantless wiretapping in place before 9/11 - TH
  ---  http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/13/warrantless-wiretapping-in-place-before-911/
Warrantless wiretapping in place before 9/11 - RINF
  ---  http://rinf.com/alt-news/911-truth/warrantless-wiretapping-in-place-before-911/1472/
STRIP TELECOM IMMUNITY for actions taken before 9/11 in the Sen. version of the FISA bill
  ---  http://www.blogfororegon.com/2008/06/strip_telecom_immunity_actions_taken_91101_senate_version_fisa_bill
Feds may have sought surveillance before 9/11
  ---  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003946755_qwest13.html
Wiretapping before 9/11: AT&T, NSA, Verizon, Level 3
  ---  http://riskman.typepad.com/peerflow/2007/11/wiretapping-bef.html
Judge orders Justice to produce wiretap memos
  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/02/judge-orders-justice-to-p_n_140091.html
The USA PATRIOT Act Was Planned Before 9/11
  ---  http://www.globalissues.org/article/342/the-usa-patriot-act-was-planned-before-911
BEFORE 9/11
  ---  http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2006/12/before-911.html
The Patriot Act was written BEFORE 9-11
  ---  http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-patriot-act-was-written-before-9-11/
Constitutional scholar: 9/11 'highly convenient' in allowing Bush to expand power
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Jonathan_Turley_911_was_highly_convenient_1016.html
Two Years Before 9/11, Candidate Bush was Already Talking Privately About Attacking Iraq
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1028-01.htm
Secret US plans for Iraq's oil
  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm
Richard Clarke: 'Bush planned the Iraq war before 9/11
  ---  http://www.nuclearfreenz.org.nz/before9-11.htm
Clarke's vindication
  ---  http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/feature/2004/04/20/woodward_clarke/index.html
Former CIA Director Says White House Focused on the Idea [of Iraq War] Long Before 9/11
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042700550.html
EXPOSED: Bush Planned on Invading Iraq Before 9/11-Part 1 - (YuTb - 6m59s - 09/12/07)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky2t_tDsZrk
EXPOSED: Bush Planned on Invading Iraq Before 9/11-Part 2 -  (YuTb - 6m35s - 09/12/07)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-D1jCZ31Uw&feature=related
O'Neill: Iraq planning came before 9/11
  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-01-11-oneill-iraq_x.htm
IRAQ WAR WAS PLANNED IN 1998 – FOUR YEARS BEFORE 9/11
  ---  http://www.moderateindependent.com/v1i16iraqwar.htm

Monday November 10th 2008 - links page

Conned again  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3989.shtml
Must Read - A quote...."If the change President-elect Obama has promised includes a halt to America’s wars of aggression and an end to the rip-off of taxpayers by powerful financial interests, what explains Obama’s choice of foreign and economic policy advisors? Indeed, Obama’s selection of Rahm Israel Emanuel as White House chief of staff is a signal that change ended with Obama’s election. The only thing different about the new administration will be the faces." -- bold by website editor -- also posted at CounterPunch  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts11102008.html
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Not So Fast: Aides Warn Obama’s Quick Closure of Gitmo Will Be Anything But - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2008/11/10/not-so-fast-aides-warn-obamas-quick-closure-of-gitmo-will-be-anything-but/
The betrayals and broken promises are coming thick and fast now.  The voters in this country are such fools, they keep on voting again and again for the lying scoundrels in the DemoRepub party and they keep expecting a different outcome each time.  They never seem to learn or even remember what happened the last time. One would think they eventually would....but they never ever do. - mpg -- A quote...."Though newspapers have been reporting all day that President-elect Barack Obama intends to move swiftly to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay as soon as he takes office, sending detainees to face criminal trials in the US, his aides are suggesting that the incoming administration isn’t close to any such decision."
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[To] Pres-Elect Obama, No to Anti-Freedom War-Hawk Jane Harmen!!
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Pres-Elect-Obama-NO-ANTI-by-Linda-Milazzo-081110-626.html
It's extremely sad to see the people's hopes trampled into the dust so quickly, so brazenly, so shamelessly, without even the courtesy of a fig leaf, or any pretense, to hide the fact that Obama and his minions were Neo-Romans all along.  He didn't even make the attempt to conceal his intentions till after his inauguration. Not of course due to his fondness for the truth, most likely it was done simply from the arrogance of a newly crowned emperor. - mpg -- A quote.... "According to the local Los Angeles newspaper, The Daily Breeze, California Congresswoman, Jane [the Bimbo from RAND]
  ---  http://www.truthnews.us/?p=941  --- Harman, a blue dog conservative democrat, is up for a high level intelligence position in the Obama administration. The positions being considered are CIA Director, Director of National Intelligence, and Secretary of Homeland Security. If this speculation becomes fact, and Harman is appointed overseer of the freedoms of the American people, the people's freedoms are toast. Conservative Democrat Harman consistently legislates AGAINST participatory democracy and against personal freedom." -- bold/underline by website editor
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Obama's Foreign Policy: No Sharp Break From Bush - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=13749
A quote...."While much of the world and many of his U.S. supporters are expecting a sharp break with his predecessor's foreign policy after President-elect Barack Obama takes office Jan. 20, they may be surprised by the degree of continuity between the two administrations. -- That continuity – which would be made more concrete if, as expected, Pentagon chief Robert Gates   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/gates-robert-weblist-mpg-111006  ---  is asked to remain at his post – has less to do with Obama's hesitation in following through on his more sweeping campaign promises than with the fact that President George W. Bush, has quietly – if grudgingly – moved key U.S. policies in directions that are largely compatible with Obama's own intentions." -- bold by website editor
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Obama’s Change Orgy  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21193.htm
A quote...."November 10, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" - - After Obama’s presidential victory a euphoric feeling swept the streets of most of the States. Thousands of people gathered in the Grant Park in Chicago, thousands others went into the streets of their cities celebrating this occasion. They called it a historic election, a nonviolent revolution, a dream comes true, a breakthrough and a victory over racism. Obama was called a hero, a savior, and some even called him a messiah. Obama’s call for change has become an orgy that tantalizes peoples’ feelings and hopes."
also posted at CounterCurrents  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/akleh101108.htm
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Who Made Obama? By Khalil Bendib  ---  http://www.bendib.com/newones/2008/november/small/11-8-Who-Made-Obama-Two.jpg
Cartoon. - mpg
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"War and the Future of the Dollar" by Lew Rockwel - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/rockwell-fff.php
Must View Videos - (these videos have a nifty auto-load feture) A quote...."On June 6, 2008, Lew Rockwell delivered the following speech, "War and the Future of the Dollar," to the second Future of Freedom Foundation conference, "Restoring the Republic," held in Reston, Virginia." -- For more on this issue see....Some Tentative Laws - July 20th, 2008 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/sometentativelaws-blog-mpg-072008
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Crossing the Rubicon, Revisited  - link posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2008-11-10.asp
A quote..."In July 2003, I wrote an article entitled “Crossing the Rubicon,”  ---  http://www.fff.org/comment/com0307h.asp  ---   which addressed what the federal government was doing to a man named Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar who was residing in the United States. Two years later, in March 2005, I published a follow-up article on the al-Marri case: “Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri: Charge Him or Release Him.”
  ---  http://www.fff.org/comment/com0503h.asp
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Iran extends an early friendly hand  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JK08Ak02.html
A quote...."In a gesture of goodwill toward the next United States administration, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has sent a letter to president-elect Barack Obama, congratulating his victory, praising the American people and raising the expectation of significant change in the US's foreign policy."
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Brazil doesn’t recognise unilateral sanctions on Iran’  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/180741
One of dozens of countries that are ignoring the dictats of the NRE's oligarchical elites. - mpg -- A quote...."TEHRAN: Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim has said that his country does not approve of the imposition of unilateral sanctions on Iran by the United States and the European Union. “Brazil does not recognize unilateral sanctions imposed on Iran, whether by the United States or the European Union,” Amorim told the ISNA news agency in an interview published on Sunday. Brazil, as the largest country in South America, “does not accept any pressure in its relations with other countries, especially Iran,” he added."
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Documents linking Iran to nuclear weapons push may have been fabricated
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/IAEA_suspects_fraud_in_evidence_for_1109.html
Must Read - (for the outrage) -- This doesn't actually surprise anyone....does it? - mpg -- A quote...."The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has obtained evidence suggesting that documents which have been described as technical studies for a secret Iranian nuclear weapons-related research program may have been fabricated. -- The documents in question were acquired [fabricated] by U.S. intelligence in 2004 from a still unknown source [someone they hired, like Ahmed Chalabi perhaps?] -- most of them in the form of electronic files allegedly stolen from a laptop computer belonging to an Iranian researcher. The US has based much of its push for sanctions against Iran on these documents." -- For more on this issue see....Fake Intel / Propaganda
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206
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The  IAEA clearly hopes that the Obama administration will end the previous administration's attempts to undermine it
  ---  http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2008/11/08133545/IAEA-expects-better-US-coop-u.html  ---  and will stop the Washington habit of using forged documents as a basis for aggressive military responses to nuclear programs and instead will opt for diplomacy. -- *Juan Cole*, from his blog....Informed Comment  ---  http://www.juancole.com/
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Iran test-fires newly-designed missile  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=74970&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Iran has successfully test-fired a new domestically-designed and -manufactured missile in line with enhancing its combat capabilities."
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The Case for U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5658
Must Read - A quote...."

"In recent history, two concepts of justice have stood out. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., believed in a kind of justice that could only be achieved when systematic oppression had been eliminated from the world. Along the way, people would have to be held accountable for their crimes. Those who had done wrong would have to admit that they had done wrong and pay some appropriate restitution for their crimes, as happened decades later in South Africa's truth and reconciliation commissions. But justice was forever intertwined with a changing of the human spirit for Dr. King. It was the societal uplifting of love over hate, of human dignity over human debasement. It was a coming to terms with our violent history and affirming values of love and compassion over those of hate and retribution." -- Also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21187.htm
& CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/10-3
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Workmen or militants? Row over 14 killings by U.S. Army  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/33076
A quote...."The U.S. military says it’s killed 14 militants in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province - but the province authorities say those killed were construction workers. The shootout happened as gunmen opened fire after U.S. troops stopped their vehicle."
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Canada won’t extend Afghan commitment  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/180739
A quote...."TORONTO: Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said on Sunday that a stepped-up emphasis by US President-elect Barack Obama on fighting terrorism in Afghanistan won’t change Canada’s plans to pull its military out of that country in 2011."
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No British troops for Obama 'surge'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=74929&sectionid=351020601
A quote...."The head of the UK armed forces has said the remaining 4,100 British troops serving in Iraq should not be redeployed to Afghanistan." 
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Patrick Cockburn: The US can quit Iraq, or it can stay. But it can't do both
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-the-us-can-quit-iraq-or-it-can-stay-but-it-cant-do-both-1009598.html
A quote...."If it ever comes to court it should be one of the more interesting libel cases of the decade. The Iraqi National Intelligence Service is threatening to sue Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi politician, for asking who pays for it. -- "It is somewhat curious," says Mr Chalabi, "that the intelligence service of a country which is sovereign – that no one really knows who is funding it." -- In fact there are very few Iraqis who do not believe they have a very clear idea of who funds Iraq's secret police. Its director is General Mohammed Abdullah Shahwani, who once led a failed coup against Saddam Hussein, and was handpicked by the CIA to run the new security organisation soon after the invasion of 2003. He is believed to have been answering to them ever since." - Hah, and Chalabi would sure be the one to know, after having been on the CIA's payroll for years. Not to mention helping them cook up all that bogus “intelligence” for the Neocons allowing them to "convince" the NRE to go ahead with its invasion of Iraq. - mpg
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Iraq to U.S.: Pact changes not enough  ---  http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/1270595,iraq-pact-troops-111008.article
A quote...."BAGHDAD — Iraq’s government spokesman said Monday the U.S. offers of changes to a draft security agreement were ‘‘not enough’’ and asked Washington to offer new amendments if it wants the pact to win parliamentary approval."
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Romania hints at Iraq pull-out  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=74796&sectionid=351020201
A quote...."The Romanian defense minister says that the country's 500 soldiers in Iraq might leave the war-torn country by the end of the year."
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China, Iraq sign oil service deal  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/11/content_10338134.htm
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- China and Iraq signed Monday an oil deal that would allow China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to help develop al-Ahdab oil field in eastern Iraq's Wasit province. -- Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani signed the 2.9 billion U.S. dollars deal with CNPC President Jiang Jiemin in a ceremony held in his ministry."
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How China is Beating the United States in the Global Oil Game  ---  http://www.moneymorning.com/2008/10/16/iraq-oil-deal/
A quote...."Iraq recently signed its first oil deal in 35 years with a foreign company. -- And – quite surprisingly to many observers – the company wasn’t one of ours. -- Not surprisingly, the U.S. news media barely acknowledged the deal – even though the agreement was major news throughout the rest of the world." - bold by website editor -- Well of course not, after having helped kill over a million Iraqis (in the NRE's most recent invasion), displacing five million more, spending five trillion dollars (by the time it's all said and done that is) while wrecking the NRE's own economy.... people might get a tad upset if it was all for naught. - mpg
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Czech mayors oppose U.S. missile shield plans  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20081110/118227718.html
A quote...."MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Mayors of 15 Czech cities are to ask U.S. president-elect Barack Obama to abandon the Bush administration's plans to place a missile defense radar in the Czech Republic, a member of the European parliament said on Monday."
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EU overrides Lithuania to re-start talks on Russia deal territories (Georgia's sted Russia's) graf 5 (2nd Roundup)
  ---  http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1442194.php/EU_overrides_Lithuania_
  ---  to_re-start_talks_on_Russia_deal_territories__Georgias_sted_Russias__graf_5__2nd_Roundup__
A quote...."Brussels - European Union foreign ministers sidelined Lithuanian objections Monday and decided to re-start talks on a strategic treaty with Russia which it froze after Russia's August war with Georgia."
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Lebanon leader says Russia will sell it tanks: reports  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/180705
A quote...."A Russian T-90S tank takes part in military exercises in 2006. Lebanese politician Saad Hariri has said Moscow is willing to sell Beirut military hardware at "advantageous prices". Hariri told the Interfax news agency that the Lebanese army needs "tanks and artillery equipment". (AFP Denis Sinyakov)"
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Egyptian prime minister arrives in Russia on four-day visit  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081110/118214286.html
A quote...."CAIRO, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - A high-level delegation from Egypt, led by Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, will arrive in Russia on Monday as part of a four-day visit to the country to discuss bilateral cooperation."
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It Became Necessary to Destroy Tolerance in Order to Save it! By Khalil Bendib
  ---  http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZxKAf8oOwtI/SRhshnj7lGI/AAAAAAAAQ6o/d8uPaxEzRxs/s1600-h/bendib.bmp
Cartoon. - mpg
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Palestinian village turning into ‘ghetto’  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m48672&s1=h1
A quote...."NILIN, WEST BANK // The sun is sinking fast behind the trees of an olive grove on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Nilin. After a day of confrontations between the Israeli army and the Palestinian villagers over Israel’s building of its separation wall on Nilin’s land, the soldiers appear finally to have gone."
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We are Sick of the American-Israeli Interference  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m48668&s1=h1
One really angry Palestinian - mpg -- A quote...."I am writing this article after I escaped from the criminal action of Israelis on November 1, 2008, who came to Vienna to watch and to harass me. I wonder if the mission of these criminals to terrorize me in exile was coordinated between the Israelis and the Palestinian "security" team, just like what is happening in Palestine now."
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Project for No American Century  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/11/project-for-no-american-century.html
A quote...."The Project for a New American Century cut America's stability short by almost a century. -- If the "New Pearl Harbor" that PNAC had so lustily recommended hadn't been allowed to "accidentally" happen, if its call for taking out Saddam and using preemptive war hadn't been carried out, the U.S. would still be solvent, and we wouldn't have created enemies all over the globe."
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Any Evidence of the Harmful Consequences of DU is to Be Silenced  ---  http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=646
A quote...."An Interview with Doug Rokke, PhD., Major, former director of the US Depleted Uranium Project -- Current Concerns: Dr Rokke, you worked in the US military as a Director of the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Project and you are an Environmental Specialist in Health and Environmental Effects of War. Could you tell us about the situation of the Veterans since 1991?...."
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Court: Lawsuit over missing White House e-mails must continue  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Court_Lawsuit_over_missing_White_House_1110.html
A quote...."A judge on Monday dismissed the White House's attempt to scuttle a lawsuit stemming from the Bush administration's failure to archive at least 5 million internal e-mails, as required by federal law." -- Another honest judge, this website editor didn't know there were any left. - mpg
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Bush is less popular than Nixon in final days  ---  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15478.html
A quote...."With 71 days left in office, President Bush is less popular than President Nixon was at the time of his resignation, according to data released Monday by CNN and Opinion Research Corporation. - The new poll, taken Thursday through Sunday, showed an approval rating of 24 percent and a disapproval rating of 76 percent" -- One question occurred to this website editor while reading this article, just how stupid do you have to be, to be part of that 24 percent?  The one percent (Bush's base) one can understand, after all he's done quite well for them, even ten percent is understandable, those who serve the wealthiest one percent and who've received a few crumbs....but 24 percent?  Exactly what would the wealthy elites have to do to those who are part of that 24 percent figure before they realize they're not the wealthy elites....that instead they're a bunch of losers? - mpg
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The Financial Abyss  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild101108.htm
A quote...."The present and future stages of global financial unraveling seem to be essentially as follows. (1) With the bursting of the credit bubble (massive over-borrowing), the real-estate market collapses, the banks collapse, and the stock market collapses. (2) Therefore credit dries up everywhere. Businesses cannot operate without credit. (3) Businesses stop making and selling products, so there is high unemployment everywhere. (4) The final result is that without adequate income from employment, people must live on their savings (or pensions or welfare), or try to live off the land, separating themselves from the global economy. - bold/underline by website editor -- And when the peasants have sold all their stocks, bonds, houses and other investments and have reached rock bottom, (in about one to two years) the wealthy elites will come in, scoop everything up at pennies on the dollar (using the peasants generous donations supplied by the Federal Reserve and US Treasury) and we'll all live happily ever after. - mpg
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Fed refuses to identify recipients of $2 trillion in U.S. taxpayer loans  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aatlky_cH.tY
A quote...."Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Disclose 10 Nov 2008 The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would comply with congressional demands for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system. Two months later, as the Fed lends far more than that in separate rescue programs that didn't require approval by Congress, Americans have no idea where their money is going or what securities the banks are pledging in return." -- Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Centralization of power continues in the United States at taxpayer expense: American Express is now a bank  ---  http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1886
Special Note - A quote...."As was previously stated, the rules of the game have changed, liquidity has disappeared from the markets, and financial institutions are in the process of becoming centralized. - How exactly is this centralization occurring? By taking money from the many and giving it to the few, the way it has always been done, but now that the current economic system is on the verge of collapse the process is in hyperdrive."
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Congress Covered Up Illegal Tax Break for Banks  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/11/congress-covered-up-illegal-tax-break.html
A quote...."Congress tried to cover up the fact that the Treasury department illegally amended the tax laws to give big banks a write-off when they use bailout money to buy competitors."
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'Some congressional staff members have privately concluded that the notice was illegal.' A Quiet Windfall For U.S. Banks
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/09/AR2008110902155.html  ---  With Attention on Bailout Debate, Treasury Made Change to Tax Policy 10 Nov 2008 The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as Congress battled over the Bush administration's request for a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry. In the midst of this late-September drama, the Treasury Department issued a five-sentence notice that attracted almost no public attention. But corporate tax lawyers quickly realized the enormous implications of the document: Administration officials had just given American banks a windfall of as much as $140 billion. The sweeping change to two decades of tax policy escaped the notice of lawmakers for several days, as they remained consumed with the controversial bailout bill. When they found out, some legislators were furious. Some congressional staff members have privately concluded that the notice was illegal. But they have worried that saying so publicly could unravel several recent bank mergers made possible by the change and send the economy into an even deeper tailspin." -- Paragraph quoted form CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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AIG, U.S. May Expand Bailout to $150 Billion, Cut Interest Rate  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aAlWe7pNn734
A quote...."Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) – American International Group Inc., the insurer bailed out by the U.S., may get an expanded government rescue package valued at more than $150 billion that includes lower interest rates and more time to repay the debt." -- For more on this issue see....AIG, Goldman Sachs, Paulson And Buffet  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-092408-093008#AIG
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Fannie Mae's Future Looks Pretty Grim—Downright Scary  ---  http://www.cnbc.com/id/27647296
A quote...."Nothing like starting off a new week with a $29 billion net loss for the nation’s largest mortgage investor. Fannie Mae [FNM  0.72    -0.02  (-2.7%)    ] is currently under government guard, with the conservatorship instituted in September, but it still apparently can’t keep its balance sheet from joining the ranks of other massive mortgage meltdowns that seem to be par for today’s course."
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Fannie Mae Loses $29 Billion on Write-Downs  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/business/economy/11fannie.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Folks, this is just the start, you can go ahead and add a zero to that figure...maybe even two. - mpg -- A quote...."All the profits, and then some, that Fannie Mae reaped as home prices soared in recent years vanished in a mere three months, the mortgage giant said on Monday, leaving many analysts wondering where the red ink will end."
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Fitch Downgrades Credit Ratings of 10 Countries  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/11/fitch-downgrades-credit-ratings-of-10.html
A quote...."Fitch downgraded the credit ratings of 10 countries today, including Russia, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa, Chile, Malayasia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Kazakhstan. As stated in a press release:...."
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Layoffs mount, economic crisis deepens in the US  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/econ-n11.shtml
A quote...."Monday brought a number of fresh indications—including mass layoffs, bankruptcies and negative labor market data—that the US is entering a deep economic crisis."
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GM Plunges as Deutsche Says It May Become Worthless (Update4)
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aC_omfYdjeJw&refer=home
A quote...."Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. plummeted to its lowest level in 59 years after a Deutsche Bank AG analyst downgraded the shares, saying they may be worthless in a year."
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Starbucks 4Q Profit Drops 97%  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=12740
A quote...."Fewer U.S. customers and venti-sized costs for closing poorly performing stores led to lower sales and profit in the fourth quarter at Starbucks Corp., the company said Monday."
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Sunday November 9th 2008 - links page

Afghanistan: The Promise and the Reality - Reckless Soldiers, Slappers and Smack  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21183.htm
Must Read - A quote...."November 09, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" --  The day after US war planes bombed an Afghan wedding party killing more than 30 women and children, I drove from Pakistan’s troubled tribal areas to the border crossing. -- Feeling rather sensitive towards my own security as a white westerner who could easily be mistaken for an American, I decided to throw on an all-enveloping burka and make my way across in the anonymity this garment gives women travelers."
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Little shop of horrors: the new Middle East  ---  http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=97524
Must Read - A quote...."I once asked one of my Palestinian friends what he thought the United States should do to help the peoples of the Middle East. He was incredulous: "Haven't you done enough?" In retrospect that pained reply seems the perfect answer to my presumption: I'm from America and I'm here to help. - Sadly, the self-congratulation attendant on Barack Obama's election has seemingly revived this tradition of selfless altruism. As a former Clinton administration official told me several weeks ago: "We're going back into the Middle East, but this time we're going to get it right." That it did not occur to this official that we aren't exactly "out" of the Middle East is a testament to American optimism - and amnesia. "Really," he added, "our capacity for doing good is limitless."  --  Spare me." -- 'Fraid not, in the end, when all is said and done.....it will turn out NO ONE was spared. - mpg
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Iran diplomats suffer US torture: Witness  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=75012
Special Note - A quote...."A spokesman for the Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says he has witnessed the torture and abuse of Iranian diplomats by US forces. - “During my detention by US forces, I was held in confinement along with three Iranian diplomats and witnessed their torture by Americans,” Ahmed al-Sheibani told Fars News Agency. - According to al-Sheibani, one Iranian diplomat named Mousa, was severely beaten and had his arm broken by American forces using torture methods. The face of a second diplomat, whose name was Abbas, was badly bruised after receiving a heavy blow to his eye."
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The Machine Grinds On  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21180.htm
A quote...."November 09, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" -- The machine grinds on relentlessly. Now it’s: give Obama a chance. This means: Public, go back to sleep. In the meantime Obama and the state machinery work at feverish pace."
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What Would Lex Luthor Do?  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21185.htm
A quote...."   November 09, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" --  I half-seriously offered to mail a Cuban cigar to anyone who asked, if, contrary to my strong belief, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney actually went quietly into that goodnight in January. Just days after the election of Barack Obama, I’m not yet planning a trip to the Cigar Emporium. A lot can happen between election day and January 20th. -- In order to try to predict the next mad lurch of bizarro American current affairs, I found it useful to ask a simple question: what would Lex Luthor do?"
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Who are the Architects of Economic Collapse? - Will an Obama Administration Reverse the Tide?
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10860
Absolutely!!  He'll do so in about one to two years at the bottom of this planned ten year economic cycle
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407 ---  by starting another war,
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207.html  ---  most probably with Iran. Until than he’ll move his lips a lot, give a few crumbs to the peasants while they endure a severe recession (at best) and do absolutely nothing about fundamentally changing the system. - mpg -- A quote...."Ironically, the Wall Street banks --which are the recipients of the bailout money-- are also the brokers and underwriters of the US public debt. Although the banks hold only a portion of the public debt, they transact and trade in US dollar denominated public debt instruments Worldwide.- In a bitter twist, the banks are the recipients of  a 700+ billion dollar handout and at the same time they act as creditors of the US government.- We are dealing with an absurd circular relationship: To finance the bailout, Washington must borrow from the banks, which are the recipients of the bailout. - The US administration is financing its own indebtedness."
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The New Trough  ---  http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/24012700/the_new_trough
A quote...."The Wall Street bailout looks a lot like Iraq — a "free-fraud zone" where private contractors cash in on the mess they helped create" - Also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/09-6
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Obama to use executive orders for immediate impact
  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081109/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama;_ylt=Aq9xU3KhcvXoT7uhorbY_7qs0NUE
Dictatorship Alert - Special Note - Using your "executive powers" to nullify Bush's signing statements is one thing, promulgating your own is something completely different altogether.  To all Americans reading this blog, this website editor will try to put this whole situation to you as delicately as possible while describing your collective and joint responsibilities for it.....folks, you've all f-cked up again. - mpg -- A quote...."WASHINGTON – President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas. -- John Podesta, Obama's transition chief, said Sunday Obama is reviewing President Bush's executive orders on those issues and others as he works to undo policies enacted during eight years of Republican rule. He said the president can use such orders to move quickly on his own."
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See If They Censor This Too -- Obama [is] Already Breaking Promises -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDyZ55Qzt9o -- (YuTb - 8m 23s - 11/08/08)
Video - Special Note - There are many, many, Americans who are not fooled by the New Roman Empire and its mass-infotainment-media....this is one of them. He basically hits all the talking points about the Empire and Obama's role in it. - mpg -- A quote...."Obama already breaking promises and a bit about Israel.- The last video was blocked for no reason. - well now [at] 1am they have unblocked the first video. I guess they just block it and unblock it back and forth to slow down the hits. It was also embarrassing for youtube when I went to liveleak."
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Diminished Expectations: Obama Team Curbing Talks of the 100 Day Plan
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/diminished-expectations-obama-team-curbing-talks-of-the-100-day-plan/
A quote...."Take heed Obama-trolls, if you want to “give him time” before we start scrutinizing the president-elect’s actions, that is exactly what he is going to take; time. The question is; how much can we afford? -- MSNBC, the “All Obama, All the Time” Network, is reporting that the Obama camp is looking for more time before they even start bring us “Change”. Do they expect we can wait? “Yes We Can” (or so they tell us)."
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Obama's Change Leaves By The Back Door  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/eley071108.htm
A quote...."Three days after Barack Obama's election victory, the initial moves by the president-elect to prepare his administration already show that his policies will be determined not by popular expectations, but by the domestic and foreign policy interests of the American financial and corporate elite. -- Obama and Democratic congressional leaders are well aware that these policies—further measures to secure the social interests and personal wealth of the financial aristocracy at public expense and the continued use of military violence in the Middle East and Central Asia—clash with the will of the electorate, which sought to reverse these policies by sweeping the Republicans out of power. That is why the Democrats are seeking to dampen expectations of a serious change of course." -- bold by website editor
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A View From Europe - Our Obama Problem  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/bricmont11072008.html
A quote...."There are two factors to take into account in order to judge an election : what voters express by their vote and what the elected candidate is likely to do. In the case of the US presidential election, it would have been very depressing if the US population had elected McCain, after eight years of Bush. In fact, it is somewhat surprising that he still managed to get 48% of the popular vote, and that the Republican candidate did so well in states like Louisiana (remember Katrina ?). In that sense, the Left should welcome the Obama victory, not so much because he is “African-American”, but because people who vote for him probably express a desire for change, and, in general, for progressive change : less war, a more balanced economic policy, and a more friendly attitude with respect to the environment.  --  But the question of what the candidate will do is an entirely different matter."
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Obama Stifles Hope of Change on Iran Relations - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2008/11/09/obama-stifles-hope-of-change-on-iran-relations/
A quote...."....any hopes for major changes in the American stance toward Iran died pretty quickly when Obama publicly condemned the Iranian government, accusing them of developing a nuclear weapon and vowing an international effort against them, which he would not elaborate on until he takes over the White House in January."
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Iran Calls on Obama to Change Path  ---  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8708191502
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran criticized United States President-elect Barack Obama for saying that it is unacceptable for Tehran to develop nuclear technology.  --  Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Mr. Obama's comment showed a pursuit of the "same wrong American policies". -- bold by website editor
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The Russian Question -- What's Obama's answer? - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13742
A quote...."The Obama-oids aren't talking too much about foreign policy these days, although that was their candidate's ticket to the White House. Iraq was the winning issue that gave Obama's primary campaign the oomph it needed to oust the putative front-runner from her perch as the anointed one, but it fails to evoke the interest it once did on account of the rapid deterioration of the economy. It doesn't matter that the costs of the Iraq and Afghan wars amount to at least three more bank bailouts – and you can throw in what's left of the American auto industry for good measure."
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Obama's Council On Foreign Relations Crew -- Out With the Old Regime, In With the Old Regime
  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/november2008/071108CFR.htm
A quote...."Meet some of president elect Obama's leading foreign and domestic policy advisors and likely administration members, every one of them a prominent member of the Council On Foreign Relations. -- Will these people bring about "change" or will they continue to hold up the same entrenched system forged by the corporate elite for decades?"
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Gordon Brown to help Barack Obama lobby EU over troops  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5114848.ece
A quote...."Gordon Brown is to lobby European leaders on behalf of Barack Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan. -- Obama has repeatedly called on Europe to “share the burden” in the conflict and it is expected to be the central theme of his first visit after his inauguration next year." - bold by website editor
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Council on Foreign Relations president predicts coups, genocide and terrorism to test Obama  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-2208-0-20-20--.html
False Flag Warning - Gulf of Tonkin Redux Warning - A quote...."Echoing Vice President-Elect Joe Biden's promise of a generated crisis and Colin Powell's revelation of a crisis that will happen on January 21 or 22, we now have the president of the Council on Foreign Relations and Biderberger Richard Haas similar predictions of doom and gloom scheduled for President-Elect Obama." --  For more on this issue see....They're Going to do "It" Again
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-102208-102808#DOITAGAIN
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Warnings from world leaders all within 72 hours  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/180638
False Flag Warning - Gulf of Tonkin Redux Warning - War Warning - (Website Editor's Note: this is the first War Warning classification issued due these particular series of "official warnings") --  A quote...."Warnings from world leaders all within 72 hours - Senator Biden Warnings?"Australian PM Kevin Rudd - “Nuke strike would make 9/11 insignificant” and other weird warnings" - "Over the last 72 hours there has been a strange melange of cryptic messages leaked from world political leaders about what could be in store for America over the next few months. - These predictions of impending doom come from England, France, Australia and the United States." -- For more on why these warnings are coming from the underlined countries shown above, see....White Man's Burden - 12-20-06 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/whitemansburden-blog-mpg-122006.html
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See also...MPs seek to censor the media [in Britain] - For now, soon the New Roman Empire will adopt these rules.
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mps-seek-to-censor-the-media-1006607.html
A quote...."Britain's security agencies and police would be given unprecedented and legally binding powers to ban the media from reporting matters of national security, under proposals being discussed in Whitehall." -- It's just more White Man's Burden. - mpg
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The Facts Speak For Themselves  ---  http://visibility911.com/jongold/?p=676
50 Facts on 9/11 -- A quote...."Before I begin, I would like to say that theorizing about what happened on 9/11, when you’re not being given answers to your questions about that day by the people who SHOULD be able to do so, is PERFECTLY normal. As is suspecting that the reason these answers aren’t being given is “sinister” in nature. As Ray McGovern said, “for people to dismiss these questioners as “conspiratorial advocates”, or “conspiratorial theorists”… that’s completely out of line because the… The questions remain because the President who should be able to answer them, WILL NOT.” When you think about everything this Administration has done in almost 8 years, the idea that they might not be giving us the answers we seek because of something “sinister” is not crazy. In fact, it’s the most logical conclusion one can come to at this point. After seven plus years of obfuscation, spin, lies, and cover-ups regarding the 9/11 attacks, it is unavoidable to think that criminal complicity is the reason why."
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Ft. Dix informant downplays FBI income  ---  http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1226035678320550.xml&coll=1
A quote...."His family lives poorly, he says, but lawyer notes he bought SUV. -- For a day and a half, the man who helped the FBI infiltrate an alleged South Jersey terrorist cell had endured questions about his finances, drug use and business ventures, as well as his mission as an undercover informant. - Most of that time, Mahmoud Omar responded with brief, narrow and occasionally evasive answers. But when a defense attorney asked him yesterday about the roughly $240,000 he will collect for his work on the case, Omar was ready."
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General’s death in July ruled a suicide  ---  http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/11/airforce_tinsley_suicide_110608/
A quote...."The July 27 death of Brig. Gen. Thomas Tinsley by self-inflicted gunshot wound seems likely to remain shrouded in mystery. A three-month Air Force Office of Special Investigations inquiry, which concluded in early November, determined that Tinsley intentionally shot himself once in the chest with a large-caliber handgun, but investigators were unable to turn up a motive. Investigators found no suicide note, history of mental illness or evidence of financial or criminal trouble that might lead someone to take his own life." -- For more on this issue see....False Flag Ops - Barksdale
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#BARKSDALE
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Orin Kerr and the responsibility of elites for the last eight years  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/09/kerr/index.html
A quote...."One more time:  what makes Kerr (and others like him) an apologist for radical and lawless Bush policies is that he has defended such policies -- not all of them, as I stated explicitly from the start, but many of the worst ones, including, as but one illustrative example, the Bush administration's reprehensible, ongoing detention of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, based on the broader theory that the President has the authority to order even U.S. citizens (and legal residents) on U.S. soil imprisoned as "enemy combatants" indefinitely without charging them with crimes and without having to prove them guilty in courts of law."
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Bush’s Last Bullet: Why the US Attacked Syria  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21184.htm
A quote...."November 09, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" --- The sovereignty of an independent, stable country that has carried out many constructive moves in recent months and weeks, which could have surely contributed to the stabilization of the Middle East, has been violated, its borders breached and its civilians killed. -- But when the country targeted is Syria, an Arab country, and the perpetrator is the US military, then, somehow things are not as appalling as they may seem."
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Anti-U.S. sentiment grows in Syria after raid  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/180652
A quote...."(11-09) 16:43 PST Abu Kamal, Syria — The U.S. incursion into Syria late last month put this eastern border town near Iraq on the world stage and many of its residents on edge. -- "At the beginning of the war, we were scared. Then we got used to it. Now we're scared again - and angry," said Yusef Tara, who spoke to a reporter near the site of the Oct. 26 U.S. commando raid against an alleged al-Qaida in Iraq hideout that Damascus says killed eight civilians."
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Student to Israeli President: "I will not shake hands with a murderer of children"  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/180617
Full quote...."On November 2nd, Hebrew University student Ali Bahar was detained for three hours after refusing to shake hands with Israeli president Shimon Peres. Peres was visiting the university as part of a public relations tour. - When the President approached Bahar to shake his hand, the student refused, stating QUOTE "I will not shake hands with a murderer of children." - Bahar was referring to the Israeli military occupation of Palestinian land, which has cost the lives of one thousand and fifty Palestinian children since 2000. In the same time period, one hundred twenty three Israeli children have been killed by Palestinian fighters. - Immediately following his encounter with the Israeli President, Bahar was detained by university security personnel and his student ID was confiscated."
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Nuclear smackdown in New Europe  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21181.htm
A quote...."November 09, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" ---  "US president-elect Barack Obama has told Polish President Lech Kaczynski he will go ahead with plans to build a missile defense shield in eastern Europe despite threats from Russia, Warsaw said on Saturday" AFP Warsaw "
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Nicaraguan pilots, soldiers to train in Russia  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/180585
Full quote...."MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaragua says it will send 14 soldiers and airmen to Russia for six years of training. The cooperation agreement was announced on Friday, on the eve of a meeting between leftist President Daniel Ortega and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin. Officials say the military personnel will be trained as helicopter and airplane pilots, tank commanders and military engineers. Nicaragua was a close Russian ally under Ortega in the 1980s, when Nicaragua fought U.S.-backed Contra rebels. The two countries have strengthened relations again since Ortega regained the presidency in 2006 elections. In September, Nicaragua aligned with Russia in becoming the first country to formally recognize the independence of the two breakaway Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia."
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Pakistan Urges Start on IPI Gas Pipeline Project  ---  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8708191516
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari called for an early start of a multi-billion-dollar pipeline project which is due to take Iran's rich gas reserves to the energy-hungry Pakistan and India."
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Venezuela and Russia Initiate Gas Exploration and Expand Strategic Alliance  ---  http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3936
A quote...."Mérida, November 7, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- On Friday, the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and the Russian company Gazprom began drilling for gas in the Gulf of Venezuela. Government officials from both energy giants further concretized an alliance with cooperation agreements in a wide variety of areas, including nuclear energy, gold mining, and flights between the two countries."
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China, Russia call for more regional co-op  ---  http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6529870.html
A quote...."A senior Chinese leader called Beijing on Friday for beefed-up cooperation between northeast China and Russia's Far East. In a meeting with Alex Safonov, the Russian president's representative in the Far East, Vice Premier Li Keqiang said regional cooperation had been the new highlight of bilateral ties. "Northeast China and Russia's Fast East region should make good use of the favors of nature and grasp the opportunity for cooperation," Li said."
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BRIC nations join forces for finance reform  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-2210-0-9-9--.html
A quote...."Reuters -- The "BRIC" nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China, meeting ahead of broader talks this weekend, for the first time forged a joint position that called for reform of institutions like the International Monetary Fund to reflect the growing importance of developing economies. -- "Emerging countries are ready to shoulder the financial consequences of a bigger participation at the IMF," Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega told a news conference in Sao Paulo. "There is no point in us increasing our participation if the big countries keep their veto powers."
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Russian Nuke Sub Accident Claims 20 Lives  ---  http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/russian-nuke-su.html
According to Russia Today   ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/33032  ---  "The victims were suffocated to death by a gas released after the fire extinguisher system was turned on by mistake." which means they use a Halon or CO2 or some such oxygen depriving system. - mpg -- A quote...."An accident on board a Russian nuclear submarine has claimed at least 20 lives, the worst submarine disaster in nearly a decade. -- According to Russian news reports, the ship in question is the K-152 Nerpa, an Akula-class attack submarine. The accident occurred during sea trials in the Pacific Ocean; Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reports the incident was caused by the "unsanctioned activation" of the boat's fire-extinguishing system. The sub returned to Bolshoi Kamen, a port in Russia's Far East, the BBC adds."
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IMF update underlines speed of slide into global recession  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/imfu-n10.shtml
A quote...."The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sharply revised its estimates for global growth downwards last Thursday, predicting a simultaneous recession in the US, Japan and major European economies for the first time since the institution was established in 1945. The IMF cut its previous projection of 3 percent for the world growth rate in 2009 to 2.2 percent, with an overall contraction in the advanced economies of 0.3 percent." -- bold by website editor
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Treasury Prepares to Broaden Bailout Plan  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-2194-0-13-13--.html
A quote...."In New Zealand, this would be called a, “Lolly Scramble.”  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolly_Scramble_%28disambiguation%29  ---  [def. - Lolly Scramble, a phrase commonly heard in New Zealand (and Tasmania, Australia) referring to a children’s party game in which candies are scattered on the floor and children scramble to get their share. Yes but in this case they're very spoiled, pampered, selfish, rich children....and "we the people" are not invited to their party even though it's our money that's paying for it.] - The Treasury Department is preparing to open its $700 billion bailout package to companies outside the traditional banking sector, the Washington Post reported on Friday."
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China Unveils 4 Trillion Yuan Spending as World Faces Recession - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=augL9_cumtA4&refer=home
A quote...." Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- China pledged a 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus plan to prop up growth in the fourth-largest economy as the world heads toward a recession. -- The funds, equivalent to almost a fifth of China's gross domestic product last year, will be used by the end of 2010...."
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Australia: Labor government forced to revise economic forecasts as global crisis deepens.  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/econ-n10.shtml
A quote...."Reacting to a raft of damning surveys showing the impact of the global economic and financial crisis on the broader Australian economy, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) last week cut the cash rate by a larger than expected 75 basis points, from 6 percent to 5.25 percent—the second major cut in as many months. In October, the RBA slashed the cash rate by a huge 100 basis points."
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Saturday November 8th 2008 - links page

Travesty of Tolerance on Display in Jerusalem - Museum lays waste to ancient Muslim cemetery
  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cook.php?articleid=13722
A quote...."Israel seems to have little time for the irony that a modern Jewish shrine to "coexistence and tolerance" is being built on the graves of the city's Muslim forefathers. - The Israeli Supreme Court's approval last week of the building of a Jewish Museum of Tolerance over an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem is the latest in a series of legal and physical assaults on Islamic holy places since Israel's founding in 1948." -- Reminds this website editor of a scene from the movie "Schindler's List" wherein the commandant of the Krakow concentration camp, Amon Göth, is motivating his troops by describing the "end of history" for the Jews in Poland while he's walking back and forth on the camp's newly paved road....paved with the headstones from a nearby Jewish cemetery. - mpg -- Posted 11-05-08
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"AIG’s executives were on Friday night locked in negotiations with the authorities over a plan that could involve a debt-for-equity swap and the government’s purchase of troubled mortgage-backed securities from the insurer."

Friday November 7th 2008 - links page

Obama: return to elite status quo  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3977.shtml
Must Read - A quote...."The election triumph of Barack Obama and the return of power to the Democrats was a cause for a split second of relief, but not elation. What the world learned is that it will not be subjected to a McCain-Palin presidency, which certainly would have ushered in horrors, violence, and insanity that likely would have dwarfed those of Bush-Cheney. But the arrival of Obama as the new imperial figurehead of the Anglo-American empire is not a victory of, or for, the people. It will not signify a dramatic upheaval, in any way, and by no means is any sort of revolution at hand.
Nor is Obama’s ascendancy about “you.” It is about “them.” This election was a necessary rotation of management, scripted at the highest levels of the Anglo-American elite." -- bold by website editor
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March 14 denies charge of funding Fatah al-Islam - Damascus parades suspects on state television
  ---  http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=97518
Must Read - (For the outrage) -- A quote...."BEIRUT: Lebanon's pro-Western political leaders were reeling on Friday after captured members of the Fatah al-Islam Islamist group said they had been funded by the Future Movement during televised "confessions" to a suicide car-bombing carried out in Damascus in September. A suspect identified as Wafa al-Abssi, the daughter of Fatah al-Islam leader Shakr al-Abssi, said on Syrian state television that the group had received money from Saad Hariri's Future Movement, which leads Lebanon's anti-Syrian parliamentary majority." -- For more on this issue see below....
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US Support of Terror
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
We Have Met the Terrorists....And They Are Us - 10-27-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/wehavemettheterrorists&theyareus-mpg-reficultnias-102708
When Will They Stop Pretending?- 10-25-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/whenwilltheystoppretending-mpg-reficultnias-102508
The True Axis of Evil - 10-10-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thetrueaxisofevil-mpg-blog-101008
The Kingdom of Leprosy - 10-07-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thekingdomofleprosy-blog-mpg-100708
Al Qaeda - Always There for the US Elites - 03-09-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/alqaedaalwaysthere4theuselites-blog-mpg-030908
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See also....
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The 'Conspiracy of Rich Men' Who Pulled Off 911 and Other GOP Atrocities
  ---  http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/11/conspiracy-of-rich-men-who-pulled-off.html
A quote...."That the Bush administration would conspire with 'rich men' in order to perpetrate the capital crime of aggressive war and mass murder is nothing new. Rome attacked and invaded Dacia for its gold. The 'empire' itself was sold by the Praetorian Guard to the Patrician Didius Julianus for Greek Drachmas --not worthless Roman sesterces. Is it so unusual that a bankrupt American empire would not attack and invade Iraq for its oil? Simply --that is what happened!"
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Lawyers for 9/11 Truth  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=10645
A quote...."An impressive, if small, group of lawyers has signed a petition calling for 9/11 truth at a new website called Lawyers for 9/11 Truth,  ---  at http://www.L911T.com.  ---  If you know any judges, law professors or attorneys open to 9/11 truth, send them that way."
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9/11 - From The History File...How Did United Flight 93 Crash? - multiple articles and cites

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MI5 & the IRA  ---  http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/content/backgrounders/2008-09-30/british-intelligence-and-the-ira/
A quote...."This report examines the role played by British intelligence and the BritishIRA Army in collusion with the IRA and other paramilitary terrorist organizations in supplying weapons and explosives, allowing bombings to go forward, and even committing murder in the name of “fighting terror.”
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Origins of Afghan War  ---  http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/content/backgrounders/2008-09-14/origins-of-the-afghan-war/
A quote...."The purpose of this report is to examine the truth behind the October 2001 NATO invasion of Afghanistan, specifically relating to the politics of oil pipelines, the US' relationship with the Taliban, and warAfghan War preparations taken against Afghanistan prior to 9/11."
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The Georgian War  ---  http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/content/backgrounders/2008-08-30/pipelines-the-georgian-war/
A quote...."This report examines the motives for the recent outbreak of war in Georgia with Russia and the roles played by western powers, specifically the United States.BTC pipeline."
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The Beat Goes On: More Atrocity as Afghanistan Braces for Obama Surge
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1642-the-beat-goes-on-yet-more-atrocity-as-afghanistan-braces-for-obama-surge.html
A quote...."While America continues its giddy, self-congratulatory celebration of "change," Afghans find themselves mired in the tragically familiar: yet another round of mourning for yet another massacre of innocent civilians in yet another blind, bludgeoning air strike by American forces. -- This time almost 40 people, including 10 women and 23 children, were ripped to shreds of bone and viscera when an American missile struck a wedding party in the remote village of Wech Bakhtu, according to Washington's own hand-picked native satrap, President Hamid Karzai."
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Bush administration delays release of prisoner abuse photos  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m48597&s1=h1
Must Read - (for the outrage) -- A quote...."The Bush administration is doing everything it can to delay compliance with a court's order that the Pentagon turn over pictures of prisoners abused in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new court filing. - A three-judge appeals court panel in September ordered the administration to turn over 87 photographs depicting abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and other sites. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the photos in 2005." -- "Although the government stopped trying to fight the full release of Abu Ghraib photos after they all were independently published in 2006, the ACLU says the Pentagon continues to keep hidden 29 additional images from at least seven different locations in Afghanistan and Iraq." -- bold by website editor

All the Neo-Romans in this country who are still living in denial of what was done in their name should all stop pretending now.  There were dozens (possibly over a hundred) of American (NRE) prisons through-out the Middle East torturing and in many cases murdering people.  But this nation's Neo-Romans will just go right on pretending, saying to the whole world "it was just a few bad apples" at Abu Ghraib....well, they can go right ahead and pretend all they want, nobody believes them anymore.

However the rest of us should keep in mind that tens of thousands of innocents, were "processed" through these prisons and that these photos represent just a tiny fraction of what really happened.  -- therefore everyone should think about what that means for the future of this country's prospects in the Middle East....

it's something everyone should consider with a great deal of trepidation. - mpg
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Brits Out Of Iraq By The Summer  ---  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081107/twl-brits-out-of-iraq-by-the-summer-3fd0ae9.html
A quote...."British troops will be out of Iraq by the middle of next year, Sky News has learned. Final negotiations are under way with the Iraqi government, and Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to make an announcement by Christmas."
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Record opium harvest in Afghanistan threatens new heroin crisis in Britain
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/nov/07/heroin-cocaine-drugs-cannabis-afghanistan
A quote...."A glut of opium on the world market, fuelled by a record Afghan harvest, threatens a new heroin crisis in Britain, the European Union's drug agency warned yesterday. The agency's annual report also confirms that the UK remains at the top of the European league table of 27 countries for cocaine abuse for the fifth year in a row. The UK accounts for 820,000 of the 4 million Europeans who have "recently used" cocaine." -- The US (NRE) enters Iraq after bombing the hell out of it, and where there were no al-Qaeda members, suddenly there are thousands of them.  The US (NRE) enters Afghanistan after bombing the hell out of it, and where there were no poppies to harvest, suddenly there are thousands of tons being harvested.  The US (NRE) enters Pakistan after bombing the hell out of it, and where there were hardly any terrorist actions, suddenly there are thousands who are dying.  Is everybody out there getting the message yet?  It is what the NRE is, it is what it does....it is ALL that it does. - mpg
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US: "It's Taliban's fault if we slaughter Afghan children"  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m48566&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan — As Afghan officials reported more civilian casualties from coalition airstrikes on Thursday, witnesses to a strike that apparently hit a wedding party on Monday said the civilian death toll could be more than double the 40 reported so far by Afghan officials."
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Trade Is Booming between Asia and Middle East  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,589024,00.html
Asia and the Middle East should just collectively click their heels together three times, each time repeating the magical mantra "De-Couple, De-Couple, De-Couple" from that sucking, dark, black, murderous, greedy, evil, voracious, vortex, of massive fiscal  mismanagement and political ill-responsibility.  And we all know which nation that is. - mpg -- A quote...."Historic bonds between the Middle East and Asia are being revitalized in a torrent of trade and investment in energy, infrastucture and manufacturing."
Also psoted at BLN  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-2190-0-13-13--.html
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Israel threatens to target Lebanese army  ---  http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=9632
It was the only thing that Israel didn't target in their last war with Lebanon -- one would guess they just want to be more thorough next time around and just destroy everything. - mpg --A quote...."Israel has threatened to target Lebanon's army and all its infrastructures should Hezbollah take charge of the interior ministry or the defense portfolio. -- Distressed by the growing role of the resistance movement in Lebanon's politics, Tel Aviv will target the country's entire military infrastructure in any future conflict with the Islamic group, The Jerusalem Post cited cabinet sources as saying on Friday. -- The decision comes as assessments in Israel suggest that Hezbollah, already enjoying a key role in the government's decisions-making process, is likely to gain at least two more cabinet posts in elections next spring, -- the Interior Ministry and the defense portfolio."
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Venezuela to continue buying Russian arms
  ---  http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/content/news/2008-11-07/venezuela-reaffirms-future-arms-purchases-from-russia/
A quote...."MEXICO November 7, 2008 (RIA Novosti) - Venezuela will continue to buy modern weaponry from Russia and other "friendly countries" in the future to boost its defense capability, a senior military officialRussian arms said. -- "We will continue buying weaponry in Russia, China and Belarus in future years to ensure the defense of our territory and oil reserves from countries like the United States," the Mexican media quoted Gen. Jesus Gonzalez, who oversees weapon procurement for the Venezuelan armed forces, as saying."
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Iran Cuts Oil Output by 200,000bpd  ---  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8708170980
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has cut oil production by 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 4.04 million bpd, in line with OPEC's Oct. 24 decision to find ways to support declining crude prices, a director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said on Friday."
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Thousands rally against Georgian leader  ---  http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=446041
A quote...."TBILISI, Nov 7 (Reuters) - More than 10,000 Georgian opposition supporters rallied on Friday against President Mikheil Saakashvili, piling pressure on his government after its crushing military defeat by Russia."
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Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/world/europe/07georgia.html?_r=3&partner=
  ---  rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
A quote...."TBILISI, Georgia — Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression."
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Georgia’s ‘Scarface’: the rise and fall of Saakashvili  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/features/news/32998
A quote...."A year after mass anti-Saakashvili protests were held in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi the struggle of the country’s opposition continues. RT sums up Georgia’s recent history and tries to take a glimpse into the country’s future."
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4 x 4 ‘bribe’ allegations over Yushchenko arms scandal  ---  http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/32935
A quote...."Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushchenko, sold weapons to Georgia with a 20% discount in exchange for two luxury Land Rover cars, according to a parliamentary inquiry. The accusations over the gifts, worth $100,000 each, were made by Valeryi Konovalyuk, the head of the inquiry committee which is attached to the Ukrainian parliament, the Rada. Yushchenko has denied the allegations."
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DNC: Dan Rather  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25T0BspJ7c  ---  (YouTube - 6 min 25 sec - Added:  September 04, 2008)
Video - A quote...."Former CBS Anchorman, Dan Rather, speaks to an audience about how corporate broadcasters have compromised journalistic integrity by satisfying stockholders, instead of public interests."

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Juicy Bits Surfacing in Rather Case: In 2004, CBS Considered Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter Ind.Panel
  ---  http://www.observer.com/2008/media/juicy-bits-surfacing-rather-case-2004-cbs-considered-matt-drudge-rush-limbaugh-ann-coulte
A quote...."This week, Dan Rather's legal team submitted a memorandum to the judge overseeing Mr. Rather's $70 million civil lawsuit against his former employers, which for the first time made public some of the thousands of documents that CBS has already turned over in the ongoing discovery process."
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Media Talk: Predicting the crash
  ---  http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2742&updaterx=2008-11-07+02%3A39%3A32
Video - A quote...."Panelists discuss criticism of the media over failure to provide warning of impending economic turmoil" - That's funny, thousands of independent websites had predicited it for years. mpg
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Obama appoints advisers including Buffett  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/180469  ---  Gee what a surprise.
A quote...."Obama appoints advisers including Buffett -- US President-elect Barack Obama has appointed a team of high-level advisers including billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt to guide his thoughts on the economy ahead of taking office on January 20. -- bold by website editor -- For more on this issue see....AIG, Goldman Sachs, Paulson And Buffet
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-092408-093008#AIG
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Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/180449  ---  Oh Look!  Another surprise.
A quote...."President-elect Barack Obama's newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot "red flags," according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com " -- bold by website editor
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Obama, Emanuel and the Promised Land - posted at Palestine Chronicle  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/fund_raisers.php?id=14
  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14358
A quote...."In the first major appointment of his administration, President-elect Barack Obama has named as his chief of staff Congressman Rahm Emanuel, an Israeli citizen and Israeli army veteran whose father, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, was a member of Menachem Begin's Irgun forces during the Nakba and named his son after "a Lehi combatant who was killed" -- i.e., a member of Yitzhak Shamir's terrorist Stern Gang, responsible for, in addition to other atrocities against Palestinians, the more famous bombing of the King David Hotel and assassination of the UN peace envoy Count Folke Bernadotte."
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Several Early Choices for New Administration Have Clinton Pedigree  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/us/politics/06obama.html?hp
A quote...."Barack Obama argued for months that victory for his opponent would be akin to a third term for President Bush. But as he embarks on his own presidency, Mr. Obama faces the challenge of building an administration that does not look like a third term for former President Bill Clinton."
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A Privacy Agenda For The New Administration  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=74827
A quote...."As new leaders prepare to move into the White House and Congress over the next few months, we'd like to call on them to restore Americans' privacy rights. Here's a little "wish list" we'd like to put forward:"
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Will Obama Administration Signal Return to Rule of Law? -- No way, no how.  He likes being a dictator. - mpg
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=74774
A quote...."President-elect Barack Obama will have a lot on his plate during his first 100 days in office. -- Foremost among the pressing issues he faces: rebuilding America's reputation in the international arena, says Philippe Sands, author of "Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values." [Mac, Powell, B&N, GoodRds, BigRBks, Strand, ChpIndago, Amzn]
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Thousands of Obamatrolls Now Wandering Aimlessly Through Life
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/thousands-of-obamatrolls-now-wondering-aimlessly-through-life/
Must View Video - Regarding the awful demise of millions of poor little Obamatrolls from what appears to be a terribly sad case of national ennui.  Honestly....it almost brought this website editor to tears. -- The Obamatrolls are classic AAViDD believer type-1 (Advanced Audio Visual Disassociative Disorder)  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/aviddbelievertype1andtype2syndrome-mpg-reficultnias-110408  ---  sufferers.  It could be years before they "wake-up" from their long painful slumber. - mpg
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Panderer-in-Chief; Obama Submits to AIPAC, Again  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/panderer-in-cheif-obama-submits-to-aipac-again/
A quote...."President elect Barack Obama’s first act of “change” upon winning the Democratic presidential nomination back in June was to don a joint US-Israeli label pin, head on over to AIPAC and prostrate himself in front of the Israeli lobby, vowing to keep military action in mind for Iran and promising to hand over another $30 billion of American taxpayers’ money in military assistance to the Zionist state."
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2008 Presidential Turnout Flat -- How Did That Happen? http://www.opednews.com/articles/2008-Presidential-Turnout-by-Michael-Collins-081107-410.html
Vote Watch 2008 - Special Note - A quote...."By 2008, we were told to expect record voter turnout for the presidential election. Now we're told that the predictions were wrong, the pictures of long lines, massive early voting, and massive registration increases all went to produce just about the same vote total as reported for 2004. -- The 2004 vote total was 122 million compared to 105 million in 2000.  We're left with this question.  With all the excitement and effort plus a huge funding advantage for Obama, how is it that the voters going to the polls were about equal in number for 2004 and 2008?" - This country is going to have to switch to some form of verifiable paper ballot system, with regular audits, and accurate randomized exit polling as a double check, before anyone should ever trust this nation's election process again. - mpg
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All Diebold Touch-Screen Systems Impounded by Judge in PA County  ---  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6643
Vote Watch 2008 -- A quote...."All 185 of the completely unverifiable Diebold touch-screen voting machines used in Northumberland County, PA's election were ordered impounded by a judge Tuesday night after complaints from both the Republican and Democratic parties. Officials from both parties had filed requested action following reports from voters that straight-party ticket votes were not showing voters the names of their selection for President on the summary screen near the end of the 100% faith-based touch-screen voting process."
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Guilty as Charged  ---  http://mises.org/story/3200
Charts - A quote...."David Henderson and Jeff Hummel have managed to ruffle quite a few Austrian feathers with their recent Cato briefing paper, and no wonder: that paper claims not only that Alan Greenspan's Fed was innocent of any role in encouraging the housing boom but that Greenspan had actually managed to do something Austrian monetary economists have long claimed to be impossible, namely, solve the monetary-central-planning problem. Greenspan, by their assessment, managed to mimic the kind of money-demand accommodating money supply growth that would occur under free banking, thereby achieving (according to their paper's executive summary) "a striking dampening of the business cycle."
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Two-Month Decline in Jobs Reaches 524,000  ---  http://www.truthout.org/110708A
A quote...."The loss of 240,000 jobs in October, coupled with a job-loss figure for September that was sharply revised upward to 284,000, brought the two-month decline to 524,000. The private sector lost 263,000 jobs in October, for a two-month total of 506,000. This is the sort of sharp decline in employment that is typical for recessions. The unemployment rate jumped to 6.5 percent in October, the highest rate since March of 1994." -- Editor's Note, the jobless rate is a lagging indicator for the stock market.  However, considering this nation has at least one and a half more years to go to reach the bottom of the current housing and business cycles. Such initial large amounts of unemployment do not bode well for the potential length and severity of this recession.- mpg
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Jobs lost in 2008: 1.2 million  ---  http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/07/news/economy/jobs_october/?postversion=2008110711
A quote...."NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The government reported more grim news about the economy Friday, saying employers cut 240,000 jobs in October - bringing the year's total job losses to nearly 1.2 million. - According to the Labor Department's monthly jobs report, the unemployment rate rose to 6.5% from 6.1% in September and higher than economists' forecast of 6.3%. It was the highest unemployment rate since March 1994."
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Consumer bankruptcies in October top 100,000  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/2008-11-04-bankruptcies_N.htm
A quote...."The sagging economy sparked 106,266 consumer bankruptcy filings in October, the first time monthly filings topped 100,000 since the bankruptcy law changed in 2005, the American Bankruptcy Institute said Tuesday."
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Pending Sales of Existing Homes in U.S. Fell 4.6% (Update1)  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=awq3yJZ0NBLk&refer=home
A quote...."Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Fewer Americans signed contracts to buy previously owned homes in September, indicating the credit crisis will inflict more damage on the housing market."
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Retail sales worst in decades; holiday view cut
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE4A550I20081106?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - Retail chains posted the worst October sales results in more than three decades as consumers cut spending sharply, stunned by a financial crisis that has derailed the U.S. economy."
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G.M. Says U.S. Cash Is Its Best Hope  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/business/08auto.html
A quote...."G.M. said Friday that its cash cushion had been dwindling by more than $2 billion a month recently and that it could run short of money by mid-2009 unless it got emergency federal assistance."
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Layoffs and plant closures ravage Canada’s auto industry  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/cana-n08.shtml
A quote...."The German-based Daimler AG medium- and heavy-duty truck maker announced last month the impending closure of its Sterling Truck assembly plant in St. Thomas, Ontario, just south of London. The shutdown will take effect next March, throwing 1,300 workers onto the province’s growing unemployment lines."
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Sweden bails out banks as economy enters recession  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/swed-n08.shtml
A quote...."On October 20, Sweden’s Alliance government announced a massive sum would be made available to bail out the banking sector. Some 1.5 trillion kronor (approx. $200 billion) was set aside to provide loans to financial institutions with liquidity problems."
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Thursday November 6th 2008 - links page

  ---  http://911research.wtc7.net/resources/web/remote.html
New Questions about remote control and 9-11
  ---  http://www.911-strike.com/remote.htm
Remote control: built-in or bolt-on?
  ---  http://www.911-strike.com/remote_bb.htm
Remote controlled Boeings on 9/11?
  ---  http://www.oilempire.us/remote.html
"Home Run" System - Hijacking Recovery Systems Alleged on 757s and 767s
  ---  http://911research.wtc7.net/planes/analysis/homerun.html
CLINTON'S FAA PLANNED GLOBAL REMOTE CONTROL OF PLANES -
  ---  http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi/noframes/read/29405
FAA Withholds Pre-9/11 ID Confirming Aircraft Serial Number Data Of 9/11 Planes -
  ---  http://www.911blogger.com/node/13149
New autopilot will make another 9/11 impossible
  ---  http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23387585-details/New%20
  ---  autopilot%20will%20make%20another%20911%20impossible/article.do
9-11 Smoking Gun? Two 911 Jetliners EXCEEDED Their Software Barriers
  ---  http://www.ratical.org/ratville//JFK/JohnJudge/linkscopy/jetliners.html
Operation 911:  NO SUICIDE PILOTS
  ---  http://www.public-action.com/911/robotplane.html
Where's the Remote Control?
  ---  http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2006/01/wheres-remote-control.html
Operation Pearl
  ---  http://911review.org/brad.com/batcave/Operation_Pearl.html
Remote Control and the 9/11/01 Attack
  ---  http://911review.com/means/remotecontrol.html
Remote controlled autopilot to prevent hijacking
  ---  http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/08/remote-controlled-autopilot-to-prevent-hijacking/
PENTAGON & CIA PRACTICED 9-11-2001
  ---  http://www.apfn.org/apfn/WTC_practiced.htm
A Dissenting Critique Of The 9/11 Commission Report
  ---  http://www.rense.com/general62/crit.htm
Petition to the Senate to Investigate Oddities Involving 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
  ---  http://www.petitiononline.com/11601TFS/petition.html

For more on this issue see....9/11 - NORAD
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911norad-weblist-mpg-091308

Wednesday November 5th 2008 - links page

They have no excuse to delay war crimes charges against Bush, Cheney and company for Iraq.
They have no excuse to delay war crimes charges for torture.
They have no excuse to delay criminal charges for spying on Americans.
They have no excuse to delay criminal charges for 9/11.

* Department of Justice
* FBI
* CIA
* Treasury (which oversees the Secret Service and - of course - the bailouts)
* NSA

Remember remember the fifth of November
The gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no of no reason why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot....