MPG'S
DAILY
RAPSHEET
AND BLOTTER ON THE "GREAT GAME" --
11-05-09 to 11-11-09 -- links page
@ www.reficultnias.org
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Editor's note : From now on each weekly blog page will have
several items
culled from the past called "9/11 - From The History
File" : It's for those who didn't know, and also for those who
forgot....or are trying to forget.
Editor's note - War Update, War Alert, War Warning, Red War Warning
and War
Imminent
- refer to articles
regarding the upcoming war with Iran. In the order they appear as
shown above, they represent less serious to more serious possible
threats of war. - mpg
As of 08-08-08 a new category of war warning will be included, the
above warnings will have the prefix (WWIII) added to them to indicate
the
possible outbreak of greater hostilities. - mpg
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Wednesday November 11th 2009 -
links page
Alan
Sabrosky
–
War
With
Iran?
America's
Titanic
Rushes
The
Iceberg
---
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2009/11/11/war-with-iran-americas-titanic-rushes-the-iceberg/
Must Read - A
quote...."A very strange thing must have happened to Admiral Michael
Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), on his way to
his recent talk at Washington's National Press Club. He oddly asserted
that Iran was indeed an "existential threat" to Israel (nice of the
Israelis to have provided that sound bite), that he was open to a US
attack on Iran (which is no threat whatsoever to the US) to forestall
that supposed danger to Israel, and that the attack "would also be
incredibly destabilizing." --- In reality, only the
anticipation of potentially catastrophic consequences is accurate.
Regardless of what Arab governments do, the Arab street may explode.
Iraq - whose population, police and armed forces are largely Shi'a, and
which now has good ties with Shi'a Iran - could easily turn on the
Americans in their midst, with gruesome consequences. Oil prices would
skyrocket. And that is just for openers. --- As for
"existential threats," Israel certainly knows something about them,
because that is precisely what Israel itself poses to Palestinians. But
the idea that an Iran which might someday acquire a handful of crude
nuclear weapons would somehow threaten the existence of Israel with its
massive nuclear arsenal and American-designed air force surpasses
lunacy. The Israelis know this. What
they want is for the US to remove their only surviving competitor in
the region at America's own expense." - bold by website editor -
also posted at OhBummer ---
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/war-with-iran-americas-titanic-rushes.html
& WarInIraq ---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/210491 --- For more on this issue see....A
Fist
Full
of
Dollars
-
10-02-09
-
mpg
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/afistfullofdollars-mpg-reficultnias-100209
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What
is Israel's Role in the Destabilization of Pakistan?
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59954&hd=&size=1&l=e
Must Read - A
quote...."When waging war "by way of deception," the motto of the
Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role
by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to
believe. Thus the force-multiplier effect when staged crises are
reinforced with pre-staged intelligence. In combination, the two often
prove persuasive." -- See also....It
Will
Happen
Every
Single
Time
-
01-01-08
-
mpg
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-122407-010108#EVERY_TIME
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America,
Israel’s
Lackey ---
http://www.sameoldchange.com/2009/11/12/america-israel%E2%80%99s-lackey/
Special Note - Quote of the Day...."On
November
10
Obama’s
White
House
chief
of
staff,
Rahm
Israel
Emanuel,
surrendered
for
his
boss
at
the
annual
conference
of
the
United
Jewish
Communities.
The
ongoing
Israeli
settlements,
he
said,
should
not
be
a
“distraction”
to
a
peace
agreement.
--
Allegedly,
the
US
is
a
superpower
and
Israel
is
a
client state whose very existence depends
entirely on US military and economic aid and diplomatic
protection. Yet, in the real world it works the other way.
Israel is the superpower and the US is its client state." -- Regarding Kucinich's speech see....Kucinich:
"Almost As Serious As Committing War Crimes Is Covering Up War Crimes"
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tscCJznwIsA
--- posted
11-04-09
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UPDATED~SO
CALLED
"ARMS
BOAT"
MYSTERY ---
http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/11/so-called-arms-boat-mystery.html
Special Note -- A
quote...."This is really annoying, as Presstv had a live report on this
morning and so far nothing online about this yet. This morning around
10AM Irish Time, they reported that Lloyds of London insured the so
called "Arms Boat" that the Zionists said was filled with "weapons"
destined for Hezbollah from Iran, via Syria. And a few things are
emerging."
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Master
and
Pupil:
Sowing
Tyranny
in
Iraq,
Spreading
Slaughter
in
Afghanistan
---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1875-master-and-pupil-sowing-tyranny-in-iraq-spreading-slaughter-in-afghanistan.html
Press Censorship Alert -
A
quote...."Here's the kind of freedom and liberation you get in exchange
for a million dead bodies: Iraqi court rules Guardian defamed Nouri
al-Maliki.-- What exactly did the Guardian do to merit this judgment --
which, perhaps not incidentally, directs them to put more than $100,000
in Nouri al-Maliki's pocket? Something which, admittedly, is quite
shocking in our day: reporting."
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Afghan
Red
Crescent
angry
after
NATO-led
forces
storm
compound
---
http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-43864520091111?feedType=RSS&feedName=southAsiaNews
A quote...."NEW DELHI (Reuters AlertNet) - The Afghan Red Crescent
Society (ARCS) expressed anger on Tuesday at NATO-led troops who used
explosives to storm a Red Crescent compound and temporarily detain two
aid workers."
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Taliban
expands
control
of
Nuristan ---
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/11/2009111152756126460.html
Contains Video - A
quote...."Taliban fighters are expanding their control of Afghanistan's
Nuristan province, an area they claim to have recaptured from US
troops. -- A video obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera purports to show
Taliban fighters in the Kamdesh district."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59949&hd=&size=1&l=e
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How the US
Funds the Taliban ---
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/roston
A quote...."On October 29, 2001, while the Taliban's rule over
Afghanistan was under assault, the regime's ambassador in Islamabad
gave a chaotic press conference in front of several dozen reporters
sitting on the grass. On the Taliban diplomat's right sat his
interpreter, Ahmad Rateb Popal, a man with an imposing presence. Like
the ambassador, Popal wore a black turban, and he had a huge bushy
beard. He had a black patch over his right eye socket, a prosthetic
left arm and a deformed right hand, the result of injuries from an
explosives mishap during an old operation against the Soviets in Kabul."
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Pivotal
Kirkuk
&
Israeli
Presence ---
http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2009/11/pivotal-kirkuk-israeli-presence.html
Special Note - A
quote...."This is a rushed translation of an important article on
Kirkuk written by Wajdi Anwar Mardan. -- Title : Did you know that the
Israeli command and operation center for target assassinations is based
in Kirkuk and do the Iraqis know why the Israeli rush for property
acquisitions in Kirkuk?" -- also
posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59948&hd=&size=1&l=e
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The
West’s
Threat
to
Iran
and
the
IAEA ---
http://www.paltelegraph.com/diaries/featured-articles/2827-the-wests-threat-to-iran-and-the-iaea
A quote...."Iran, November 12, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) - No matter which
way you turn now days you continue to see the constant barrage of
intimidation and big boy tactics from the well developed countries
especially the G3.5 who held their notorious press conference in
Pittsburgh when Obama, Brown and Sarkosy made very strong threats
towards Iran... "
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The
'myth'
of a counter-revolution in Iran ---
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KK12Ak01.html
Special Note - Analysis -
A quote...."The crisis sparked by an allegedly rigged election has more
than ever exposed the reformists as confused ideologues who for
material, political and ideological reasons are unable to definitively
break with the ruling establishment. While objectionable at so many
levels, the main purpose of the show trials currently underway in
Tehran is to expose the hypocrisy and deceit at the heart of the reform
movement. -- But it is the street protesters who have hammered the last
proverbial nail into the coffin of the reform movement. The deeply
subversive slogans of the protesters - such as "freedom, Independence,
Iranian Republic", which perverts the standard revolutionary slogan of
"Freedom, Independence, Islamic Republic" - highlight a considerable
gap between the aspirations of an embryonic grassroots movement and the
reformists. -- The immediate effect of the reformists' political demise
is the projection of disaffection and opposition feelings onto the
streets. But a more profound effect is the collapse of factional
politics in the Islamic Republic."
also
posted
at Khilafah
---
http://khilafah.com/index.php/news-watch/middle-east/8064-the-myth-of-a-counter-revolution-in-iran
For more on this issue see....Iran,
Just
RELAX!!
–
Of
Course
It
Was
A
US-NRE
PSYOP!
-
06-26-09
-
mpg
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/iranjustrelax-ofcourseitwasausnrepsyop-mpg-reficultnias-062609
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Spokesman
of
Iranian
consulate
killed
in
Pakistan:
police ---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/12/content_12440750.htm
A quote...."PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Gunmen shot dead
the spokesman for the Iranian consulate in the northwestern Pakistani
city of Peshawar on Thursday, police and witnesses said."
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Yemen
seeks
US
help
to
quash
Houthis ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=111001§ionid=351020206
Ouuuuu goody!! Another
chance for the US-NRE to go "help"
some
more
Muslims
and
occupy
another
country!! Isn't that
great? - mpg -- A quote...."The United States has signed a
military agreement with
Yemen to help the embattled Sana'a government with its armed offensive
on Houthi fighters in the north. - The agreement was signed in Sana'a
on Tuesday after two days of talks, the second round of such
negotiations, state-run Saba news agency reported." -- also posted at OhBummer
---
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/yemen-seeks-us-help-to-quash-houthis.html
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Lebanon
sentences
4
Israeli
spies
to
death ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=111060§ionid=351020203
Special Note - A
quote...."A Lebanese Military court has sentenced to death four people
on charges of spying for Israel and conspiring with the regime to wage
a war on the country." -- These
people were charged with helping to give Israel target information to
hit key infrastructure, command and control facilities during
Israel's invasion of Lebanon on July 12th, 2006. An invasion
which saw thirty four days of continuous and deliberate aerial
bombardment of roads, bridges, power plants, water treatment
facilities, apartment complexes, ports, airports and which finally
culminated during the last seventy two hours of the campaign with the
indiscriminate, unnecessary and vindictive shelling of the population
centers of South Lebanon with over three million cluster
bomblets. Bomblets which are still killing Lebanese civilians to
this very day – mpg
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Influence
of
Egypt['s
dictator]
and
[the]
Saudi
[Royal
Family
of]
Arabia
Fades
---
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/world/middleeast/11saudi.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
About time!! - mpg -- A
quote...."RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Even before Mahmoud Abbas announced
that he would not seek re-election as the Palestinian president,
throwing the Palestinian Authority into chaos, America’s closest Arab
allies, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, had begun to despair over Washington’s
Middle East missteps, government officials and political experts said."
-- "Washington's missteps"??
Both these non-democratic governments were in on Washington's and
Israel's plans of mayhem and murder from the get-go, they have no one
else but themselves to blame for any perceived set-backs
regarding the PNAC
protocols ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409
---
and their place in them. -
mpg
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Georgia
mulls
re-conquest
of
Abkhazia
and
S
Ossetia ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16043
A quote...."Russia has worrisome facts saying Georgia hasn't already
left the force agenda and still gathers force to lay military
groundwork closer to the borders of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, RIA
Novosti news agency reported Monday citing Deputy Foreign Minister
Grigori Karasin. The diplomat added the issue will be touched upon at
the Geneva talks on November 11. He said that the Russian side will
strive for adoption of the legally binding non-use of force document.
"It's all hampered by the unwillingness of a number of participants,
and in the first line, Georgians, to recognize Abkhazia and South
Ossetia as possible parties for this agreement", he said."
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Air
France
gets
Europe's
first
A380
superjumbo ---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/12/content_12438955.htm
Photo Gallery - A
quote...."An Airbus A380 of Air France prepares to land at Orly airport
outside Paris on Nov. 11, 2009. Air France on Friday became the first
European airline to take delivery of the new Airbus A380 superjumbo
passenger jet, which it says will make it great savings in tough
economic times.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)" -- For
more
on
this
issue
see....Boeing's
Nightmareliner
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-082709-090209#NIGHTMARELINER
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Suspected
Hemorrhagic
Pneumonia
Outbreak
Hits
Ukraine ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59966&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."Western Ukraine was hit by a severe epidemic of
unidentified influenza, tentatively diagnosed by doctors as viral
pneumonia. The number of dead has climbed dramatically. Doctors advise
Western Ukrainians to stay home and use preventive medicine."
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From
EFF's
Secret
Files:
Anatomy
of
a
Bogus
Subpoena ---
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/effs-secret-files-anatomy-bogus-subpoena
Police State Alert - A
quote...."Can the U.S. government secretly subpoena the IP address of
every
visitor to a political website? No, but that didn't stop it from
trying.
In a report
---
http://www.eff.org/wp/anatomy-bogus-subpoena-indymedia
---
released
today,
EFF
Senior
Staff
Attorney
Kevin
Bankston
tells
the
story
of
a
bogus
federal
subpoena
---
http://www.eff.org/files/subpoena.pdf
---
issued
to
independent
news site Indymedia.us,
---
http://www.indymedia.us/
---
and
how
the
site
fought
back
with
EFF’s
help.
Declan
McCullagh
at
CBSNews.com
---
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/taking_liberties/entry5595506.shtml
---
also
has
the
story.
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MSM:
Declassified
FBI
File
Alleges
an
Israeli
Intelligence
Agent
Worked
at
AIPAC
---
http://dprogram.net/2009/11/10/msm-declassified-fbi-file-alleges-an-israeli-intelligence-agent-worked-at-aipac/
Psssssssst! They're all Israeli intelligence
agents. - mpg -- A quote...."An August 13, 1984 secret
communication from the FBI Washington Field Office (WFO) to the FBI
director states, “WFO files disclose that AIPAC is a powerful
pro-Israel lobbying group staffed by U.S. citizens. WFO files contain
an unsubstantiated allegation that a member of the Israeli
Intelligence Service was a staff member of AIPAC."
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Thank
you,
Italia,
for
convicting
23
US
CIA
agents ---
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5255.shtml
A quote...."PHILADELPHIA, Pa -- Thank you, Italia, for your conviction
of 23 CIA agents exposing Perpetrators as Perpetrators. -- Once again,
Italia demonstrates that the rule of law still exists in the world. The
very same laws that are the legacy of all Western culture and society
handed down from c.149BC Roman Empire SPQR “The Senate and the People
of Rome.” -- Though the CIA agents convicted in absentia may not have
to serve any prison time, the ruling could set a precedent that no
government is above basic human rights and laws. -- The American
government up to this conviction demonstrated that no law in existence
applies to America’s imperial arrogant leadership." -- For more on this issue see....Fun
&
Torture
-
It's
a
Pleasure.
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/funandtorture-blog-mpg-020307.html
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Anti-War
Soldier Arrested: Protest Now ---
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/47676
Action Alert - A
quote...."Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, the soldier who faces desertion
charges for refusing to return to Afghanistan, has been arrested and
charged with five further offences for leading Stop the War's
demonstration in London on 24 October and for expressing his opposition
to the media in defiance of orders."
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UK
to
hold
DNA
of
innocent
people
‘for
6
years’ ---
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/uk-hold-dna-innocent-people-for-6-years/
A quote...."LONDON — The DNA of innocent people arrested then cleared
without charge will be held by the government for no more than six
years, the Home Office said on Wednesday."
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
What
Goldstone
says
about
the
US ---
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/11/2009111174626931966.html
A quote...."Opponents of the Goldstone report might well be hoping that
after its lopsided condemnation in the US House of Representatives and
successful relegation back to the UN's Human Rights Commission, the
report will become little more than an historical footnote in a
decades-long conflict."
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UN
official
calls
for
punishing
Israel ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=111066§ionid=351020202
A quote...."The United Nations' top human rights official has called
for taking punitive measures against Israel over committing war crimes
in the Gaza Strip. -- High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay
told the Security Council on Wednesday that Israel was responsible for
the killing of more than 1,000 civilians in Gaza and attacks on
schools, mosques and UN facilities, Ynet reported."
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[Israeli]
Settlers
'stone'
school
children ---
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/11/2009111091058657517.html
A quote...."Twaneh School in Hebron has seen some improvements since
former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair paid it a visit as UN Middle East
envoy last year. -- The track leading from the school to the new main
road joining Jerusalem to Israeli settlements on the south eastern
slopes of Palestine is now paved. There are two new school rooms being
built where pupils will be taught up to Grade 9, rather than having to
leave after Grade 4. They now have a playground. -- But for the 32
children who live in Tuba and Magher Al Abeed, Palestinian villages
encircled by three Israeli settlements, getting to school remains
problematic." -- also posted at
Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59950&hd=&size=1&l=e
---
& PalestineChron
---
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=9d177cd9b2a6de65f298dd503c3a051f&mode=details#9d177cd9b2a6de65f298dd503c3a051f
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IOF
troops
severely
beat
two
children ---
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7Dc8GX7
jG86Kgv9TxICB7P9vG83je2UZ2nTZ3GJzOpzNjpxb8cDl57Sk0OuHuJmb%2fGj24e8zF%2ftUfOGZx%2bGIs9L07zqObCIQz5ropCVBogBM%3d
A quote...."AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on
Wednesday severely beat up two Palestinian children in the Old City of
Al-Khalil without any apparent justification, locals reported. -- They
said that Hazem and Husam Sharbati were hospitalized following the
savage assault."
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Abbas’s
militias
kidnap
five
citizens
and
summon
many
others
in
W.
Bank
---
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7jFg6Vt3IDFGVGDhs8rzjLJtP0Zb1YpuHxIj
gutVwpOaS7VExWFvkpnMu%2b2pNdI4Bm%2fAVWVO1MU%2ffjl0R%2fL6xhHz1eC9lXvEpdBHwSQkfY1A%3d
A quote...."NABLUS, (PIC)-- Mahmoud Abbas’s militias during the last
two days kidnapped five Palestinian citizens thought to be affiliated
with Hamas and issued tens of summonses against others in Nablus,
Al-Khalil and Bethlehem."
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Played,
Betrayed,
Health
Care
Delayed:
House
Passes
Bailout
For
Private
Insurance
Companies.
---
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/played-betrayed-health-care-delayed-house-passes-bailout-private-insurance-companies
Regarding
the Health Care Rip-Off -- A quote...."Now we know what
the Obama administration means by “health care reform”. They mean
guranteeing the rights of insurance and drug companies to their
profits. They mean making health insurance like car insurance, with
everyone compelled by law to purchase it from a private vendor, except
for the very poorest among us, who will be offered a “public option” so
limited and expensive as to discredit the word “public” when used in
assocation with health care at all."
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Mishkin's
Bubblenomics
and
the
Crash
of
'08 ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23947.htm
Special Note - A
quote...."November 11, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- The Fed's
monetary stimulus is driving the market higher. What started as a
trickle has turned into a torrent buoying stocks and commodities on a
river of liquidity. Oil has more than doubled in the last 8 months
while stock indexes have gained 50 percent or more in the same period.
Even the shunned homebuilders and battered financials have staged a
comeback. Meanwhile, consumer credit continues to shrivel and the
"real" rate of unemployment climbs inexorably towards 20 percent.
Overpriced equities with bloated P/E ratios of (average) 19 continue to
produce record profits for breathless speculators, while the productive
economy languishes in a Depression. The Fed's zero-rate policy and
easing programs have created another bubble, further widening the chasm
between the investor class and the working rabble."
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Of
Bailouts and Swaps - The Crafting of a Loophole - posted at CounterPunch
---
http://www.easycartsecure.com/CounterPunch/Donations.html
--- http://www.counterpunch.org/andrew11112009.html
Special Note - A
quote...."Who’s winning? Over lunch across town from Capitol
Hill, I recently asked that question of a very smart attorney
endowed with deep experience in keeping Washington safe for Wall
Street. In answer, he pointed to this seven-line paragraph buried
in a 26-page amendment to “HR 3795, Over-The-Counter Derivatives
Markets Act of 2009,” passed in a voice vote by the House Agriculture
Committee the night before. Following the vote, the committee had
issued a press release hailing their vote for “strengthening”
regulation. -- On the contrary, said my friend, “I guarantee you
that not a single member, and almost certainly no one else, apart from
the traders on Wall Street and the lobbyist who inserted it on their
behalf, understood the significance of this paragraph. It
means that nothing will change.”
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Perfect
Inverse
Correlation
Between
the
Dollar
and
the
Dow ---
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/11/perfect-inverse-correlation-between.html
Must View Charts - A
quote...."Karl Denninger - who is always worth reading - shares 2
stunning charts which show the inverse correlation between the dollar
and the Dow:"
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China
Will
Allow
Yuan
Gains
to
Slow
Inflation,
Riverfront
Says ---
http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/china-will-allow-yuan-gains-to-slow.html
Related Article - Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- China may resume the crawling
peg as early as next week -- China will allow for faster appreciation
of the yuan against the dollar next year as it seeks to curb
accelerating inflation, according to Riverfront Investment Group and
RBC Capital Markets."
From Bloomberg
---
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601089&sid=aP7bOQlTB.F0
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Barrick
shuts
hedge
book
as
world
gold
supply
runs
out
---
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/mining/6546579/Barrick-shuts-hedge-book-as-world-gold-supply-runs-out.html
Related Article - A quote...."Global gold production is in terminal
decline despite record prices and Herculean efforts by mining companies
to discover fresh sources of ore in remote spots, according to the
world's top producer Barrick Gold." -- also
posted
at BLN
---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6288-0-13-13--.html ---
Obviously they ARE
self-interested, so keep that in mind. - mpg
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Ten
US
states face budget disaster ---
http://wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/stat-n12.shtml
A quote...."Two reports made public Wednesday underscore the colossal
dimensions of the social and financial crisis in the United States. One
study warns that California and nine other US states face near-term
budget crises that will force mass layoffs of public employees and cuts
in schools and other services. The other forecasts that as many as one
million jobs will be at risk when the full impact of the economic
crisis hits state governments early next year."
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S&P's
Chief
Economist
Confirms
the
Importance
of
Age
Demographics
---
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/11/s-chief-economist-confirms-importance.html
Charts - A quote...."As I
have previously
noted, ---
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/other-economic-crisis.html
--- Japan's population is rapidly aging, and the U.S. age
pyramid - while not as bad - is not nearly as young as that of Brazil
or India's:"
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Tuesday November 10th 2009 -
links page
A
Year
With
Obama
–
and
US
Foreign
Relations
Have
Only
Worsened
---
http://original.antiwar.com/pfaff/2009/11/10/a-year-with-obama/
Special Note - A
quote...."Who would have thought a year ago that most of the issues of
conflict in America’s foreign relations would be made worse during the
first year following Barack Obama’s election as U.S. president? "
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Why
Most
Counterinsurgency
Wars
Fail ---
http://original.antiwar.com/eland/2009/11/10/why-most-counterinsurgency-wars-fail/
Special Note - A
quote...."In recent history, very few counterinsurgency wars have ended
in success. Guerrillas are often outgunned by a wealthier invading
power, but they do have two powerful advantages. One is that they are
fighting on their home turf, which they usually know much better than
the invader. Guerrilla warfare at the strategic level is defensive,
even though at the tactical level, raiding insurgents are many times on
the offense. As a result of being on the strategic defense, the second
advantage is that the attacking power will find it difficult to
overcome the "foreign invader" label among the population of the
invaded country. Thus, because winning the support of the local
population is the most important – and difficult – objective in any
counterinsurgency war, most such campaigns end in failure. "
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Denying
responsibility
for
the
wars
one
cheers
on ---
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/11/10/brooks/index.html
A quote...."David Brooks' column today perfectly illustrates what lies
at the core of our political discourse: namely, self-loving
tribalistic blindness laced with a pathological refusal to accept
responsibility for one's actions. Brooks claims there is a unique
evil that one finds in the "fringes of the Muslim world":" --
also posted at ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23934.htm
& AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/denying-responsibility-for-wars-one.html
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Talking
Blues:
Gitmo
Gets
Harsher
Under
"Progressive"
Rule
---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1874-talking-blues-gitmo-gets-harsher-under-qprogressiveq-rule.html
A quote...."Talk is cheap; actions speak volumes. And it seems Barack
Obama is compiling quite a volume for himself at America's flagship
concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay. As Andrew Wander reports,
conditions for prisoners at Gitmo have grown worse since Obama took
office: Guantanamo conditions 'deteriorate'." --
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59932&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Guantanamo
conditions
'deteriorate' ---
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/11/200911591532756392.html
A quote...."While no-one is alleging a return to the early days of the
prison, when detainees were subjected to "enhanced interrogation"
techniques that are today widely regarded as torture, prisoners say
day-to-day life at Guantanamo has become harder under the Obama
administration."
also posted at CommonDreams
---
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/10-0
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Blackwater
Attempted to Bribe Iraqi Officials ---
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091123/scahill
A quote...."In the aftermath of the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in
Baghdad by operatives working for Blackwater, top company officials
including then-president Gary Jackson "authorized secret payments of
about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their
criticism and buy their support,"
according
to
the
New
York
Times. ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/world/middleeast/11blackwater.%20html?emc=na
---
Seventeen
Iraqis
were
killed
and
more
than
twenty
others
wounded
in
the
shooting,
prompting
the
Iraqi
government
to
announce
it
would
ban
the
company
from
Iraq
with
officials
vowing
to
prosecute
the
shooters.
Blackwater,
however,
remains
in
Iraq
to
this
day."
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========== ====
US
firm
Blackwater
aimed
to
bribe
Iraq
officials
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/November/middleeast_November342.xml§ion=middleeast&col=
Related Article - A quote...."WASHINGTON - Executives at US security
firm Blackwater approved secret payments of about one million dollars
to Iraqi officials to “silence their criticism” after company guards
killed 17 civilians in Baghdad in 2007, the New York Times said
Tuesday." --
also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/210397
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The
plunder of Iraq’s oil ---
http://wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/pers-n11.shtml
A quote...."The awarding of development rights over the huge West Qurna
oilfield in southern Iraq to Exxon-Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell last
Thursday once again underscores the criminal character of the
continuing US-led occupation. As the direct result of the Iraq war,
major American and other transnational energy conglomerates are now
gaining control over some the largest oilfields in the world." --
For more on this issue see....US-NRE
"Investments"
Are
Just
Reparations
-
11-06-09
-
mpg ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/usnreinvestmentsarejustreparations-mpg-reficultnias-110609
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Prominent
member
of
Awakening
movement
arrested
in
Iraq
---
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-iraq-arrest10-2009nov10,0,1867342.story
A quote...."Paramilitary leader Mustafa Kamal Shibeeb, a Sunni who
hopes to become a lawmaker, had escaped arrest with the help of U.S.
and Iraqi forces. An Interior Ministry unit detains him on murder
charges." --
also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/210371
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Why
Afghans Oppose the Escalation - Leave Afghanistan to the Afghans
---
http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick11092009.html
A quote...."The US is poised to send tens of thousands more soldiers to
the country. The nature of the conflict is changing. What should be a
war in which the Afghan government fights the Taliban has become one
which is being fought primarily by the American and British armies. To
more and more Afghans this looks like imperial occupation."
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Gorbachev
Says
Obama Should Start Afghan Withdrawal ---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/210372
A quote...."Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Former Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev, drawing on his experience of military failure in Afghanistan
in the 1980s, said the U.S. can’t win the conflict there and should
begin pulling out its soldiers."
From Bloomberg
---
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aP_6NUKjFaSM
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Taliban
fighters
display
‘US
weapons’:
video ---
http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/taliban-fighters-display-us-weapons.html
Video -
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uj6sRlzgik ---
(YouTube -
1min 50 sec - November 09, 2009)
A quote...."Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive footage showing the
Taliban in Afghanistan displaying what appears to be US weapons. The
fighters say they seized the arms cache from two US outposts in eastern
Nuristan province. Days after the alleged assault, the US military
pulled out its troops from the area. Al Jazerera's Jonah Hull reports."
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Karzai
hits
back
against
critics ---
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/11/2009119232159638965.html
A quote...."Afghanistan's president has come out fighting against calls
by the US to crack down on corruption, arguing that his government is
not solely to blame and saying that the West is in his country only for
its own ends."
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[Ahmadinejad:]
'We
will
clasp
any
hand
extended
sincerely' ---
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=110956§ionid=351020101
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged the US
administration to make real changes by ending its support for Israel.
-- “US President Barack Obama should make a big choice in order to
realize his change motto,” Ahmadinejad said in Istanbul on Monday, IRNA
reported." --
also posted at OhBummer
---
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/we-will-clasp-any-hand-extended.html
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Iran
and Saudi Arabia drawn to Yemen ---
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KK11Ak01.html
A quote...."A new front on the war against radical Islam is on fire.
While one immediately thinks of Afghanistan or Iraq, the flashpoint now
is Yemen, which has become a haven for al-Qaeda fighters from
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq and has also come under attack from
Iran-backed Houthi rebels. A new element of this equation is the entry
of Saudi Arabia, pitting it against Iran." --
also posted at WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/210404
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Mottaki
warns regional countries not to interfere in Yemen conflict
--- http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=207645
A quote...."TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki said
here on Tuesday that instability in any regional country will affect
security in the entire region and regional countries should not
interfere in Yemen’s internal affairs."
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Al-Qaida
in
Yemen
warns
against
Iran ---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/11/content_12427631.htm
Special Note -
HEY! al-Qaida is on the US-NRE's
"side"....as it has been all along! It's really something to see
just how abysmally STUPID Amerikans (a.k.a. Neo-Roman Slaves) really
are, you wouldn't think a people could actually be that stupid and
continue to function, but somehow they do. - mpg -- A
quote...."In an audio recording posted on an Islamist website, Mohamed
bin Abdul Rahman al-Rashid, one of the Saudi most wanted suspected
terrorist, said "Shiite Iran poses an extreme danger to Sunnis of Yemen
and Saudi Arabia than Jews or Christians."
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Qaeda
militant
incites
Sunnis
against
Shiites,
Iran ---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091110/wl_mideast_afp/qaedaunrestreligioniran_20091110111848
Special Note -
Looks like the CIA has given al Qaeda its
new marching orders. WAKE-UP Amerika!! - mpg --A quote...."DUBAI
(AFP) – A commander of an Al-Qaeda-linked group warned Islam's majority
Sunnis that the Shiites and Iran pose a greater "danger" to their
religion than Jews or Christians, a US monitoring group said on
Tuesday."
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Hezbollah
back
in
the
Lebanon
fray ---
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KK11Ak02.html
Special Note - Possible Israeli
Temper Tamtrum -- A quote...."DAMASCUS - Observers of the Middle
East scene who were banking on a gradual reduction of Hezbollah's
influence in Lebanon were in for a big surprise on Monday.
After five months of political bickering,
Hezbollah got its way in the formation of a cabinet, headed by
the parliamentary majority leader, Saad Hariri. -- Those eager to write
Hezbollah off from the political scene had their hopes raised in June,
when the party and its allies failed to secure a majority in
parliamentary elections. The Hezbollah-led opposition effectively
maintained the status quo, winning 57 of the 128 seats in parliament. -
bold by website editor
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France
fears
Israel
does
not
desire
peace
deal ---
http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20091110/760/twl-france-fears-israel-does-not-desire.html
Special Note -
The French are finally waking up. - mpg
-- A quote...."France fears that Israel no longer desires a Middle East
peace deal, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Tuesday,
adding that Paris remained deeply opposed to Jewish settlement building
in the West Bank." --
For more on
this issue see....A
Mortal
Threat
–
Europe’s
New
Frankenstein
Monster
-
01-26-09
-
mpg
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/amortalthreat-europesnewfrankenstein-mpg-reficultnias-012609
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Germany's
sovereignty
restricted
by
US
and
allies? ---
http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/germanys-sovereignty-restricted-by-us.html
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGjkQAa9I34
--- (YouTube -
3 min 39 sec - November 07, 2009)
RT Video - A
quote...."The former head of the West German Military Intelligence has
issued a book revealing secret details of a 1949 US-German treaty,
alleging America and its allies have been deliberately suppressing the
nations sovereignty."
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Austria
and Slovenia to join South Stream ---
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20091110/156787969.html
A quote...."MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Oleg Mityayev) -
Russia's ambitious plans to diversify its natural gas supply routes to
Europe are taking shape. At the end of last week, Sweden and Finland
gave the approval required for construction on the Nord Stream gas
pipeline to Germany through the Baltic Sea to begin." --
See also related article....Northern
Europe greenlights Nord Stream ---
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20091106/156738096.html ---
posted 11-08-09
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Early
warning for future gas wars ---
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20091110/156777202.html
A quote...."MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Oleg Mityaev) -
On the eve of the November 18 summit between Russia and the European
Union in Stockholm, the Russian Energy Ministry prepared and sent to
the European Commission a memorandum outlining the creation of an early
warning system for energy affairs. -- The memorandum calls for joint
actions if Russian energy supplies to Europe are suspended, including
if the interruption is caused by transit countries. Apart from
improving energy dialogue with the EU, this document is designed to
prevent Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko from unleashing yet
another gas war with Russia."
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Ecuador
requests
meeting
with
Obama
on
U.S.-Colombia
military
deal ---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/11/content_12432209.htm
A quote...."QUITO, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Ecuadorian Defense Minister
Javier Ponce requested on Tuesday a meeting with U.S. President Barack
Obama on the U.S. military cooperation agreement signed with Colombia."
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========== ====
Key
oil
figures
were
distorted
by
US
pressure,
says
whistleblower
---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/09/peak-oil-international-energy-agency
A quote...."The world is much closer to running out of oil than
official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the
International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately
underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying."
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Do
not
be
alarmed
by
Black
Hawk
helicopters
swooping
over
the
Valley
---
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/11/black-hawk-helicopters-are-in-training-exercises-in-valley.html
As that little girl once said in the movie
Poltergeist...."They're here".
-
mpg -- A quote...."If you're in the San Fernando Valley in the
coming days and are startled by a couple of loud military helicopters
swooping around high-rise buildings, don't worry. -- Los Angeles police
said the Black Hawk helicopters will be part of a flight training
mission taking place after 5 p.m. Sunday and Monday in central and west
Valley areas. -- "We wanted to let people know so nobody gets spooked
and freaked out about it," said Officer Steve Scallon." -
also posted at BLN
---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6258-0-0-0--.html
---
& RogueGov
---
http://www.roguegovernment.com/Do_not_be_alarmed_by_Black_Hawk_helicopters_swooping_over_the_Valley_/18022/0/20/20/Y/M.html
---
Now why would the local
peasents
get "spooked and freaked out about" the military swooping over their
heads in
helicopters. One wonders is THIS how our parasitic class in this
country intend to get around the Posse
Comitatus Act? ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act ---
mpg
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Justice
Dept.
Demands
News
Site
Server
Logs ---
http://www.infowars.com/justice-dept-demands-news-site-server-logs/
Police State Alert - Censorship
Alert - A quote...."Declan McCullagh reports for CBS News that
the Department of Justice sent a formal request to Indymedia ordering
it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. A grand
jury subpoena required the independent news website “not to disclose
the existence of this request” unless authorized by the Justice
Department. The subpoena and gag order represent a new level of
government intrusion into the operation of a free press in this
country."
also posted at OhBummer
---
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/justice-dept-demands-news-site-server.html
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Congressman
Brad
Sherman
admits
explosives
found
in
dust
of
World
Trade
Center
--- http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6272-0-20-20--.html
A quote...."I have written an article for your knowledge and
distribution as you deem fit about my dealings with Congressman’s Brad
Sherman’s office. This is an issue of national importance as it
relates to our national security. If you watch the short video’s
below then read the PDF documents in the order listed you will get a
very clear picture of what is going on."
For more on this issue see....9/11-WTC7
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-wtc7-weblist-mpg-082308
& 9/11-WTC-1&2
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911WTC1&2-weblist-mpg-030709
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ACLU
Lawsuit Charges American Citizen Illegally Detained And Mistreated By
U.S. Officials ---
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/47629
A quote...."WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union today filed
a lawsuit on behalf of a New Jersey man who was illegally detained and
mistreated by U.S. officials in Kenya and Ethiopia. After fleeing
hostilities in Somalia in 2006, Amir Meshal was arrested, secretly
imprisoned in inhumane conditions and subjected to harsh interrogations
by U.S. officials over 30 times in three different countries before
ultimately being released four months later without charge."
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Our Debt
to Italy ---
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/47620
A quote...."The United States of America owes much of the hope it has
right now of remaining what John Adams called "a nation of laws, not
men" to Italian law enforcement. Were it not for the fact that Italian
prosecutors, unlike their American counterparts, answer to the law
rather than a president, the enforcement of laws against a massive
crime spree by U.S. officials (and their Italian accomplices) would not
have begun." --
For more
on this issue see....Fun
&
Torture
-
It's
a
Pleasure. ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/funandtorture-blog-mpg-020307.html
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Center for
American Progress Backs Removing Habeas Corpus from U.S. Constitution
---
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/47624
Full quote...."There's no other way to read this report backing the
continued lawless imprisonment of those locked up in Guantanamo without
charge or trial and proposing that they be transferred to Bagram, thus
allowing the pseudo-victory of closing Guantanamo while imprisoning
people in another prison that comes under far less scrutiny. --
Progress you can believe in?"
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U.S.
Court
Allows
Human
Rights
Suit
Against
Former
Bolivian
President
and
Minister
of
Defense
to
Proceed
---
http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/u.s.-court-allows-human-rights-suit-against-former-bolivian-president-and-mi
A quote...."Cases Brought Under the Alien Tort Statute Allege Crimes
Against Humanity and Extrajudicial Killing of Bolivian Citizens in 2003
" --
Now if only the courts would
allow this nation's officials to be sued for their crimes against
humanity, this decision would be seen in a much more positive light. -
mpg
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Every
phone
call,
email
and
internet
click
stored
by
'[Britain's]
state
spying'
databases
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6533107/Every-phone-call-email-and-internet-click-stored-by-state-spying-databases.html
Something "we the people" can
look forward to happening soon in this country. - mpg --A
quote...."All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be
required by law to keep a record of every customer's personal
communications, showing who they are contacting, when, where and which
websites they are visiting. -- Despite widespread opposition over
Britain's growing surveillance society, 653 public bodies will be given
access to the confidential information, including police, local
councils, the Financial Services Authority, the Ambulance Service, fire
authorities and even prison governors."
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The
Pentagon's
Troubled Soldiers.....
Reaction
to
Fort
Hood:
Stupidity
Beyond
Belief ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16007
A quote...."Note: I wrote this article Monday night and feel it was a
normal response to a horrendous event. Already, however, anomalies with
the official story are coming out. How many shooters were there? How
could a lone gunman have such a free hand in attacking a huge facility
full of combat veterans? Was Hasan “set-up” to take the blame? We may
never know. But something strange is surely going on."
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========== ====
US Admits No
Evidence of Hasan Ties With Militants ---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/210320
A quote...."The scramble to piece today a plausible story of Army
psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s insidious ties to global
terrorism has not, officials are conceding, yielded any actual evidence
to that effect. This has not, of course, stopped speculation."
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========== ====
The official Fort
Hood story is collapsing ---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/210302
A quote...."Two US privates John Smith and John Henry had been seeing a
military psychiatrist major Hasan at Fort hood for a few weeks. Both
privates said they were completely against the war of oppression in the
middle east and would refuse to report for active duty if ordered to do
so. So the army put them both in therapy with Dr. Hasan. After more
than five weeks of therapy both Christian privates were called to go to
Afghanistan. Both privates warned they would not go and they would
defend themselves with force if the army tried to force them to fight
in a war they believed was morally wrong. Yesterday fellow soldiers
tried to surprise the two conscientious objectors but the privates were
prepared and killed 12 soldiers who tried to force their way into the
privates' barracks at Fort Hood."
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A
Little
More
Information
on
Maj.
Nidal
Malik
Hasan:He’s
Not
Very
Extreme
for
Your
Average
Extremist
---
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/a-little-more-information-on-maj-nidal-malik-hasannot-very-extreme-for-your-average-extremist/
A quote...."The intercepted communications between Ft. Hood shooting
suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and the controversial Anwar al-Awlaki, a
former imam at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, was
not suspect in any way, according to “official sources”. In fact,
according to a CNN report, the two emails both pertained to research
that Maj. Hasan was conducting on behalf of his position with Walter
Reed Medical Center."
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========== ====
Questions
that
need
to
be
ASKED
and
ANSWERED
about
the
Ft.
Hood
shootings
---
http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2009/11/questions-that-need-to-be-asked-and.html
Several discrepancies regarding
the Fort Hood shootings. - mpg
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Ft.
Hood:
Official
story
full
of
holes
---
http://www.examiner.com/x-23316-Madison-Independent-Examiner%7Ey2009m11d10-Ft-Hood-Official-story-full-of-holes
A quote...."One of the ironies in dealing with the plethora of
information that is available through print, television and electronic
media is that it often does not add up and at times is contradictory.
The more information there is, the more inconsistencies that can be
found. That does not make any topic a conspiracy theory, it just makes
it what it is...questionable. A good example is what allegedly happened
at Ft. Hood last week."
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Marine
reservist
accused
of
attacking
Greek
priest ---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091110/ap_on_re_us/us_priest_attacked
A quote...."TAMPA, Fla. – A Marine reservist was charged with attacking
a Greek Orthodox priest he said he thought was a terrorist. -- Jasen D.
Bruce allegedly hit 29-year-old Alexios Marakis over the head with a
tire iron and chased him for three blocks Monday evening before Tampa
police officers intervened."
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Marine
arrested
for
fellow marine's death at Camp Lejeune ---
http://www.wmbfnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=11463304
A quote...."Camp Lejeune, NC (WMBF) – A North Carolina Marine has been
arrested following the death of a fellow marine at Camp Lejeune. --
Officials say that Private Jonathan Law was taken into military custody
after a body was found in the woods on the base early Friday morning.
While authorities would not say how the marine died, they did say that
a gun was not used. -- Law is in the hospital in serious condition for
self-inflicted wounds."
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Vet
jailed
after
arrested
with
gun
at
VA
hospital
---
http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=61117439&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281
A quote...."Authorities say an Army veteran remains jailed after he was
arrested with a loaded handgun outside an Illinois Veterans Affairs
hospital where he warned a nurse he was armed and was "going to fill
that place with lead."
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Palestinians
Fight
Back
--
The
Risen
People ---
http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/11/palestinians-fight-back-risen-people.html
Special Note - A
quote...."This is an interesting turn of events in deed, if they are
true. The PNA claim they have been working on a plan to declare
independence for a Palestinian state contained within the 1967 borders.
This move, if both true and successful, could pose serious consequences
for Israel. As of now, Palestine is not a recognized state within the
UN, and as such cannot avail itself of all the legal remedies of a
recognised state. However, should this new tactic be successful, Israel
will be slapped with a new situation that will make it's prior
"problems" look like child's play."
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========== ====
Israeli Confessions
(Never Before Campaign) ---
http://www.creative-i.info/?p=12069
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6edg7OjLyw
--- (YouTube - 4 min
17 sec - November 03, 2009)
Video - A quote...."If
one wants to know why and how the conflict started in Palestine more
than 60 years ago, the "confessions" of Israeli and Zionist leaders
should make it very clear. -- 700,000 Palestinians (more than half of
the Palestinian population at the time) were expelled in 1948. -- More
than 600 towns and villages were ethnically cleansed. -- Thousands were
killed and maimed. -- ... the crimes continue to this date, and so does
the unjustified condoning attitude of "civilized" governments."
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Mr.
Netanyahu, Tear Down This Wall ---
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/10-1
A quote...."On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall,
Western leaders are full of self-congratulation. But their paeans to
universal freedom ring hollow, when they bear large responsibility for
another wall constricting human freedom: the apartheid wall dividing
the Palestinian West Bank. -- Israeli authorities refer to it as a
"separation barrier," but that's misleading. The wall doesn't separate
pre-1967 Israel from the West Bank. If that's all it did, it would be
an entirely different political object. Instead, the wall cuts deep
into the Palestinian West Bank, separating Palestinians from each other
and from their land, and signaling to the Palestinians that Israel
intends to annex territory that Palestinians want for an independent
Palestinian state. The fact that Western countries that support the
Israeli government - above all the United States - say nothing about
the West Bank wall signals to Palestinians that Western support for
Palestinian statehood is merely rhetorical."
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========== ====
Israeli
Jews and the one-state solution ---
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10883.shtml
A quote...."One of the most commonly voiced objections to a one-state
solution for Palestine/Israel stems from the accurate observation that
the vast majority of Israeli Jews reject it, and fear being "swamped"
by a Palestinian majority. Across the political spectrum, Israeli Jews
insist on maintaining a separate Jewish-majority state. -- But with the
total collapse of the Obama Administration's peace efforts, and
relentless Israeli colonization of the occupied West Bank, the reality
is dawning rapidly that the two-state solution is no more than a slogan
that has no chance of being implemented or altering the reality of a de
facto binational state in Palestine/Israel."
-- also posted at AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/israeli-jews-and-one-state-solution.html
& WarInIraq
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/210388
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No
one
will
miss
Mahmoud
Abbas:
Hamas
official ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110962§ionid=351020202
That is TOTALLY untrue, many members of the
Israeli Lukid party and also many US-NRE's Neocons will miss him
dearly, he was their best and most loyal friend. - mpg -- A
quote...."A prominent
leader of the Hamas movement has stated that no one will be sorry about
the departure of Mahmoud Abbas from the political stage because he
achieved nothing for the Palestinian people."
also posted at WarInIraq ---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/210399 ---
& PalestineChron
---
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=7dc0c433de09107c0281e0ea58f17f05&mode=details#7dc0c433de09107c0281e0ea58f17f05
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Netanyahu
&
Clinton
Make
Freudian
Slip
--
And
Abbas
becomes
the
“Shah
of
Palestine”
---
http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/11/freudian-slips-and-new-shah-of.html
A quote...."Yes, Irish4palestine is today coining the phrase "The Shah
of Palestine" when referring to Abbas. If you want to know how much of
an important American/Israeli puppet-agent the “I’m stepping down, but
not going away ever” Abbas is, just check the “love fest” coming from
Netanyahu and Clinton."
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========== ====
A
Line
In
The
Sand ---
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15541
A quote...."Mahmoud Abbas is fed up. The day before yesterday he
withdrew his candidacy for the coming presidential election in the
Palestinian Authority. -- I understand him. -- He feels betrayed. And
the traitor is Barack Obama." --
For
more on that issue see....No
Leadership
From
Obama.
-
Oh
Contraire!
-
12-28-08
-
mpg ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/noleadershipfromobama-ohcontraire-mpg-reficultnias-122808
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Israel
to bulldoze Jerusalem women's organization ---
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=238502
A quote...."Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israeli municipality staff delivered a
notice to demolish the Women's Society office in the Old City of
Jerusalem, accusing the organization of 100 square meters of unlicensed
construction."
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West
Bank
land
belongs
to
Jews,
says
Israeli
army
judge -
IT
DOES NOT!!! - mpg
---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/26/west-bank-jews-army-judge
A quote...."Major Adrian Agassi did not make the connection between the
Bible, the land and the Jews when, fresh out of university, he left
England for Israel in search of his roots. He was not even a practising
Jew."
also posted at PJB
---
http://buchanan.org/blog/west-bank-land-belongs-to-jews-says-israeli-army-judge-2957
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French
union joins Israel boycott ---
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=239036
Action Update - A
quote...."Bethlehem – Ma’an – A French labor union has decided to join
the international movement to apply Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions
(BDS) on Israel, according to a statement." --
For
more on how to Boycott Divest &
Sanction the state of Israel, see the upper-left-corner of the "Front
Page" ---
of this website - mpg
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More on the
US-NRE's Honduran Coup....
National
Front
of
Resistance
Against
the
Coup:
The
elections
will
not
be
recognized,
the
struggle
continues
---
http://hondurasresists.blogspot.com/2009/11/national-front-of-resistance-against.html
A quote...." Since the midnight deadline of Thursday November 5th
passed without the restitution of legitimate president Manual Zelaya,
we declare we will actively not recognize the electoral process of 29
November of this year. -- Elections which are imposed by a de facto
regime that represses and violates the human and political rights of
the citizenry would only validate nationally and internationally the
oligarchical dictatorship and secure the continuation of a system which
marginalizes and exploits popular sectors in order to guarantee the
privileges of a few."
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========== ====
The
Power
of
Nonviolent
Action
in
Honduras ---
http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/the-power-of-nonviolent-action-in-honduras
Special Note - A
quote...."The massive nonviolent movement that put pressure on the coup
government may be only the first chapter of an important and prolonged
struggle for justice in one of Latin America’s poorest and most
inequitable countries."
also
posted at CommonDreams
---
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/10-9
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==========
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==========
==========
====
Honduras:
Crisis
without
Solution
at
Sight ---
http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=136400&Itemid=1
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Nov 10 (Prensa Latina) The crisis in Honduras
threatens to worsen on Tuesday, due to the facto regime's decision to
bring the electoral."
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========== ====
OAS
to
Examine
Honduras
Coup
Crisis ---
http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=136360&Itemid=1
A quote...."Washington, Nov 10 (Prensa Latina) The Organization of
American States (OAS) is assessing Tuesday the crisis in Honduras,
following the failure of the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord designed
precisely to put an end to the political turmoil caused by for the coup
d'etat."
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========== ====
Honduran
Elections
Delegitimized,
Says
Daily ---
http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=136458&Itemid=1
A quote...."Tegucigalpa, Nov 10 (Prensa Latina) The de facto government
in Honduras continues preparations for general elections on November
29, though Latin American governments have highlighted the lack of
legitimacy of the process organized by the putschists."
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Hoodwinked:
Former
Economic
Hit
Man
John
Perkins
Reveals
Why
the
World
Financial
Markets
Imploded—and
How
to
Remake
Them
---
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/10/hoodwinked_former_economic_hit_man_john
A quote...."John Perkins
calls himself a former economic hit man. He has seen the signs of
today’s financial meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiasco, the
collapse of the banking industry, the rising unemployment rate—these
are all familiar to him. Perkins was on the front lines of monitoring
and helping create these very events that were once just confined to
the Third World. From 1971 to 1981, he worked for the international
consulting firm of Chas T. Main, where he was a self-described
“economic hit man.” He is the author of the New York Times bestseller "
Confessions of
An Economic Hit Man [2006]" ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=WtEsAAAACAAJ&dq ---
[GoglBkSrch] ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=WtEsAAAACAAJ&sitesec=buy&
source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0 --- and "
The Secret
History of the American Empire" ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=8qnLQAbyUWEC&dq ---
[GoglBkSrch]* ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=8qnLQAbyUWEC&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0
---
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[includes
rush
transcript]"
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Statistics:
Wealth
in
America
(and
in
Congress) ---
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/11/statistics-wealth-in-america-and-in.html
A quote...."A report by University of California, Berkeley economics
professor Emmanuel Saez concludes that income inequality in the United
States is at an all-time high, surpassing even levels seen during the
Great Depression."
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Senator
Dodd's
Bill:
Trying
to
Prop
Up
a
Broken
System ---
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/11/senator-dodds-bill-trying-to-save.html
A quote...."I posted an 11-page summary of Senator Dodd's financial
reform bill earlier today. -- After receiving input from one of the top
experts on credit rating agencies and various other smart people, I
have now formed an opinion about Dodd's bill. -- Specifically, Dodd's
bill - while sounding good - is really an all-out attempt to save the
current, broken system."
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The
U.S.
Lunatic
Asylum
(i.e.,
Economy)
Is
Facing
Approximately
$15
Trillion
In
Roll
Risk
By
2012
---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-lunatic-asylum-ie-economy-facing-approximately-15-trillion-roll-risk-2012
A quote...."Zero Hedge recently highlighted the developing risk in the
government's outstanding Treasury portfolio, where nearly 40% of all
issues mature within the year. As such the roll risk for the US
government is massive, and even the smallest unexpected macro blip
would make the rolling/refinancing of roughly $5 trillion in debt very
problematic. Yet the US government is not alone in this quandary of how
to keep T-Bill interest rates at record lows: an earlier report by
Moody's demonstrates that the banking system is in far, far worse
shape: "we note that average maturities of new debt issuances rated by
Moody’s – which we use as an indicator of general trends -- fell from
7.2 years to 4.7 years globally over the last five years.
This is the shortest average maturity for
new debt at any given point during the 30 years of bank funding history
covered by our analysis."
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Monday November 9th 2009 - links
page
Paid
Lying
-
What
Passes
For
Major
Media Journalism
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59910&hd=&size=1&l=e
A
quote...."Today's major media journalism is biased, irresponsible,
sensationalist reporting that distorts, exaggerates or misstates the
truth. It's misinformation or agitprop disinformation masquerading as
fact to boost circulation, readership, viewers, or listeners, and on
vital issues lie about or suppress uncomfortable truths to provide
unqualified support for state and/or corporate interests - to the
detriment of the greater good that's always sacrificed for profits and
imperial aims." --
For more on this
issue see....US
Fake
Intel
/
Propaganda ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206
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Swedish
Member
Of
Parliament:
Leading
Politicians
Support
9/11
Truth
Movement
---
http://dprogram.net/2009/11/09/swedish-member-of-parliament-leading-politicians-support-911-truth-movement/
A quote...."A Swedish Member of Parliament has pledged support for a
new investigation into the events of 9/11, adding that prominent
political figures support the view that elements of the U.S. government
were involved in staging the attacks." --
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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At
Supreme Court: Can prosecutors be sued for framing defendants?
---
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1103/p02s18-usju.html
A quote...."Washington - The US Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to
consider an unusual question: Do Americans who have been framed by
unscrupulous prosecutors for crimes they did not commit have a right to
sue the prosecutors when the fraud is finally exposed? --
According to the Obama administration, the
answer is no." - bold by website editor --
also posted at OhBummer
---
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/at-supreme-court-can-prosecutors-be.html
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Rights
Groups:
Obama’s
Terrorism
Courts
‘Fatally
Flawed’ ---
http://original.antiwar.com/fisher/2009/11/09/rights-groups-obamas-terrorism-courts/
A quote...."Human rights advocates and legal scholars are voicing sharp
criticism of President Barack Obama’s revisions to the George W. Bush
administration’s Military Commissions Act of 2006, characterizing them
as unnecessary and saying the new law will lead to further delays and
create a system of "second-class justice." -- One powerful advocacy
group, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), called on the Obama
administration to "abandon the fatally flawed military commissions
system and, where evidence of terrorism crimes exists, try the
Guantánamo detainees in federal courts." --
For more on why Obama won't try many of
the defendants in federal court see....9/11-Iraq-Torture
Fables
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909
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Galloway War Crimes
Speech part1
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXpp6V4Oho8
Vid#2 ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Ip8Ow6hNQ&feature=related
Vid#3
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HK7vZclPWQ&feature=related
---
(YouTube
-
aprox
10m
-
November
03,
2009)
Must View Videos - 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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========== ====
Let's
Criminalize
War!
--
Speech
at
War
Crimes
Conf
&
Exhibition ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15996
AltVid#1
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t42aZyjGLxA
AltVid#2
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP77cgb6VgE ---
(YuTb
10m 11/03/09)
Videos -
Special Note - A quote...."Speech by
Cynthia McKinney from the USA 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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Soldier
'too
afraid
to
tell
truth'
on
Baha
Mousa
---
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/soldier-too-afraid-to-tell-truth-on-baha-mousa-1817719.html
A quote...."A former British soldier has described for the first time
how he saw two fellow servicemen beating and kicking a helpless Iraqi
prisoner, shortly before he died. -- The death of Baha Mousa, a hotel
receptionist, has for years cast a shadow over the reputation of the
British army, producing the first case in which a British soldier,
Corporal Donald Payne, confessed to a war crime."
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British
troops
will
have
to
stay
in
Afghanistan
for
another
five
years
---
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/09/british-troops-will-have-to-stay-in-afghanistan-for-another-five-years-warns-head-of-the-armed-
forces-115875-21807934/
A quote...."British troops will have to stay in Afghanistan for another
five years, the head of the armed forces, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock
Stirrup, warned yesterday." --
also
posted at
WarInIraq
---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/210227
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Breaking:
Obama
sending
40,000
troops
to
Afghanistan
---
http://www.examiner.com/x-4383-Portland-Progressive-Examiner%7Ey2009m11d9-Breaking-Obama-sending-40000-troops-to-Afghanistan
A quote...."CBS is reporting President Obama has decided to send 40,000
more troops to Afghanistan. The decision indicates one direction of the
Obama administration's foreign policy - a large, long term force in
Afghanistan."
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Obama
Pied
Piper
of
Washington
by
~Latuff2 ---
http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/Obama-Pied-Piper-of-Washington-142828965
Cartoon -
Click on the image to enlarge. - mpg
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The
Pentagon's
Troubled Soldiers.....
Fort
Hood
suspect
reached
out
to
imam ---
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/11/ap_forthood_imam_110909/
A quote...."WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort
Hood massacre apparently acted alone and without outside direction in
the attack, investigative officials said Monday night."
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US
army
base
plagued
by
suicides
---
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/08-Nov-2009/US-army-base-plagued-by-suicides
A quote...."WASHINGTON - Suicides are a serious problem at the huge
Texas military base in Fort Hood, Texas, where an Arab-American officer
went on a spree on Thursday, records show."
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US
marine
slain
by
fellow
soldier
at
N
Carolina
base ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110851§ionid=3510203
A quote...."A US marine has been killed by a fellow soldier in Camp
Lejeune, military investigators at the Marine base in North Carolina
have found."
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Soldier
Found
With
Explosives
Released
From
Jail ---
http://www.newschannel5.com/global/story.asp?s=11447712
A quote...."NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An Army Special Forces soldier who
admitted to police that he was stockpiling military-grade explosives
outside his home near Fort Campbell was released from jail Thursday
into the custody of his wife. -- He has yet to enter a plea, but his
attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Sumter Camp, said Sgt. 1st
Class Timothy Ryan Richards insists he has not committed a crime."
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Police
in
North
Little
Rock
arrest
former
soldier
in
shooting
death
of
fiancee ---
http://www.kfor.com/news/sns-ap-ar--fianceekilled,0,7314781.story
A quote...."NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former soldier has been
arrested in North Little Rock in the shooting death of his fiancee —
who was a high school English teacher."
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Saudi
[Royals]
uses
white
phosphorous,
expands
war
in
Yemen ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110880§ionid=351020206
The Saudi Royals & the
Israelis....like two peas in a pod. - mpg -- A quote...."Yemeni
fighters have accused Saudi Arabia of expanding the scope of its
cross-border attacks into civilian areas far from the conflict zone. --
Speaking to Iran's Arabic-language news channel al-Alam, Houthi
fighters' spokesman Mohammad Abdessalam said on Monday that Saudi
fighter jets are pounding villages kilometers inside Yemeni territory
-- which are away from the conflict zone -- with the internationally
banned white phosphorous bombs."
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Saudi
[Royal]
authorities
close
two
more
Shia
mosques ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110843§ionid=351020206
The Israelis attempt to close
the al-Aqsa mosque & the Saudi Royals close several Shia mosques,
as stated above, like two peas in a pod. - mpg -- A
quote...."The number of Shia mosques closed in Saudi Arabia has reached
nine after authorities sealed shut two more mosques in the Kingdom's
Eastern Province. -- According to the Rasid News Network, security
forces closed the only Ismaili mosque in Ras Tanura and have been
preventing Shia citizens from performing daily prayers since last
Friday."
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Colour-Coded
Revolutions
and
the
Origins
of
World
War
III ---
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/marshall4.1.1.html
Must Read - A
quote...."Following US geo-strategy in what Brzezinski termed the
“global Balkans,” the US government has worked closely with major NGOs
to “promote democracy” and “freedom” in former Soviet republics,
playing a role behind the scenes in fomenting what are termed “colour
revolutions,” which install US and Western-friendly puppet leaders to
advance the interests of the West, both economically and strategically."
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Japanese
protest
against
US
base ---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8349083.stm
A quote...."Thousands of people have protested on the southern Japanese
island of Okinawa demanding the removal of a US military base there."
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Japanese
FM
Rules
Out
Base
Deal
During
Obama
Visit ---
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/11/08/japanese-fm-rules-out-base-deal-during-obama-visit/
A quote...."Though the rising dispute over US military bases in Okinawa
has been a hot subject for Japanese foreign policy, Foreign Minister
Katsuya Okada says that his government will not finalize any deals
during President Obama’s visit later this week." --
The Japanese should just keep raising the
rent. Eventually one of two things will happen, either they'll
become obscenely rich, or the US-NRE will leave. It's possible
that even both
events will occur. - mpg
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Ortega
Decries
Danger
of
US
Bases
in
Colombia ---
http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135994&Itemid=1
A quote...."Managua, Nov 9 (Prensa Latina) President of Nicaragua
Daniel Ortega denounced on Monday the danger that the US military bases
in Colombia represent for his country's sovereignty and all Latin
America's"
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
West
Bank
rabbi:
Jews
can
kill
Gentiles
who
threaten
Israel ---
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1126890
A quote...."Just weeks after the arrest of alleged Jewish terrorist,
Yaakov Teitel, a West Bank rabbi on Monday released a book giving Jews
permission to kill Gentiles who threaten Israel. -- Rabbi Yitzhak
Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement,
wrote in his book "The King's Torah"
that
even
babies
and
children
can
be
killed
if
they
pose
a
threat
to
the
nation." - bold by website editor -
also posted at AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/west-bank-rabbi-jews-can-kill-gentiles.html
---
In the Palestinians' case
of
course, they threaten Israel simply by existing. It reminds this
website editor of that old Richard Pryor joke wherein he once asked a
prisoner who was sentenced to life without the possibility of
parole...."Why, exactly, did
you go and kill all those poor people living in that house?” The
prisoner's reply....."Because they was there!!"
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Israel
Says
“Arbeit
Macht
Frei”
as
they
Set
Up
“Work
Camps”
for
Palestinians…
oh,
I
mean
“illegal
migrant
workers”
---
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/israel-says-arbeit-macht-frei-as-they-set-up-work-camps-for-palestinians/
Special Note - A quote...."From
the
leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz -- The government is considering
establishing work camps in the south of the country, where illegal
migrant workers will receive shelter, food and medical care, Army Radio
reported Wednesday. In exchange, illegal migrants would perform manual
labor outside the camps (for private corporations?), but would not earn
a salary. -- They would stay at the camp until their asylum claims are
decided, which could take months or
years."
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Palestinians
tear
down
chunk
of
wall ---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/mideastconflictwestbankbarrier
A quote...."RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) – Palestinians tore down a chunk
of Israel's West Bank separation barrier on Monday in a protest staged
to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall came
down."
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Berlin
and
Israel
walls
by
~Latuff2 ---
http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/Berlin-and-Israel-walls-143071870
Cartoon -
Click on the image to enlarge - mpg
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The
Berlin
Wall
20
Years
Later
by
~Latuff2 ---
http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/The-Berlin-Wall-20-Years-Later-142956462
Cartoon -
Click on the image to enlarge. - mpg
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More on the
US-NRE's Honduran Coup....
Ousted
Honduran
President
Manuel
Zelaya:
Talks
Are
Off
with
Coup
Government
After
Deal
Collapses
---
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/9/ousted_honduran_president_manuel_zelaya_talks
A quote...."An American-mediated accord to end the four-month political
crisis in the country appears to be in shambles just a week after it
was signed. On Friday, ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who remains in
the Brazilian embassy, declared the deal was over. Meanwhile, coup
president Roberto Micheletti said he would install a national unity
government without the participation of Zelaya. We speak to President
Zelaya from the Brazilian embassy. [includes rush transcript]"
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Why
Progressives Should Back a Filibuster of the Health Care Bill
--- http://www.counterpunch.org/murphy11092009.html
Special Note -
Regarding
the Health Care Rip-Off -- A quote...."On Saturday,
November 8 the Democrat Congress gave us a corporate driven healthcare
bill which amounts to nothing more than a de facto bailout of the
healthcare insurance companies. The carnival conducted by the
Democrats, masquerading as a debate around healthcare, demonstrates
conclusively how craven are Barack Obama and the Congressional
Democrats. -- We have witnessed cynicism in other administrations but
the Obama administration has as raised cynicism to a veritable science.
Imagine promising the poor and desperate people of this country
healthcare reform and passing legislation which will not only hurt the
working class but strengthen the very forces which oppose real reform –
the healthcare insurance companies! -- The darling of the Democrats,
Alan Grayson, voted in lockstep with most of the other so-called
progressive Democrats to destroy any possibility for meaningful
healthcare reform for the next 40 years."
also posted at
OhBummer
---
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-progressives-should-back-filibuster.html
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Congress
Pulls
the
Trigger ---
http://welcomebacktopottersville.blogspot.com/2009/11/congress-pulls-trigger.html
Regarding
the Health Care Rip-Off -- A quote...."How many times in
the movies have we seen henchmen and
accomplices spring the bad guy from prison or do him some other favor
only to see the bad guy turn around and shoot his naïve benefactor
in
the back? Last Saturday night, the people that we elected to Congress,
did it again and this time we can’t blame the Republican Party. -- In
the dead of Saturday night, the House passed their version of a health
reform bill that, frankly, makes Max Baucus’ first health care proposal
look like a bleeding heart liberal/socialist piece of legislation by
conspicuous relief."
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Guest
Post:
If
You
Thought
The
Housing
Meltdown
Was
Bad... ---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-if-you-thought-housing-meltdown-was-bad
A quote...."This is how bad conduits are: A 3% default rate last
year jumped to 6% in 2009 and is expected to double again, to 12%, in
2010. An entity that takes a 12% hit to its portfolio - and this
includes countless banks, pension and annuity funds, international
investors, and others - is in deep, deep trouble."
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U.S.
Joblessness
May
Reach
13
Percent,
Rosenberg
Says
(Update3) ---
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHmxIMR1DFq0
A quote...."Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. unemployment rate may rise
to a post-World War II high of 13 percent in the aftermath of the
recession, said David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff &
Associates Inc. in Toronto."
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Report:
237
millionaires
in
Congress ---
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29235.html
Related Article - A quote...."Talk about bad timing. -- As Washington
reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for
Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of
members of Congress. -- Among the highlights:
Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires.
That’s 44 percent of the body – compared to about 1 percent of
Americans overall."
also posted at BLN
---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6259-0-13-13--.html
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Top
bailed-out
banks
to
pay
$30
billion
in
bonuses ---
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/top-bailedout-banks-pay-30-billion-bonuses/
Related Article - A quote...."Three of the largest Wall Street firms --
which together received $45,000,000,000 in taxpayer bailouts -- are on
track to hand out $29,700,000,000 in bonuses this year." -
also posted at BLN ---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6249-0-24-24--.html
& OhBummer
---
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/top-bailed-out-banks-to-pay-30-billion.html
---
For more on this issue
see....Having Fun With Your Tax Dollars
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html
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China
Calls
on
U.S.
to
Control
[the]
Deficit -
They
are! They're increasing it as
fast as they can!! - mpg
---
http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/china-calls-on-us-to-control-deficit.html
A quote...."Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged the
U.S. to limit the size of its deficit to ensure the stability of the
dollar, Reuters reported. -- America should play a responsible role in
contributing to a global recovery, Wen was quoted as saying yesterday
at a briefing in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. It should keep the deficit at
an appropriate size, the premier said."
From Bloomberg
---
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601089&sid=azGt6Ojd_dR4
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The
Cost
Of
The
60%
Market
Move;
The
Benefits
Of
Free
Liquidity ---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/cost-60-market-move-benefits-free-liquidity
A quote...."There is now no question that the sole, undisputed factor
driving credit and equity markets is the dollar destructive collusion
between the Fed and the major global central banks. As long as the Fed
is dead set on inflation, and is willing to throw trillions of free
liquidity at any problematic flare up, and is happy to keep interest
rates at 0%, liquidity-addicted equities will likely push higher until
such time that the incremental hopium "hit" does nothing, and markets
overdose, ending up not just in the critical condition reminiscent of
fall 2008, but outright death. Until then, expect to see your daily
dose of market buoyancy from whatever algo is currently the dominant
momentum platform gunning the market ever higher, even past all
disconnect with traditional correlations such as FX, credit and
commodities. If the Fed wills it, so it shall be. Alas, while the Bank
of England was apparently an easy target, when it comes to massive
financial fraud and malfeasance, the Fed is untouchable."
Sunday November 8th 2009 - links
page
Lies,
War, and Empire ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23923.htm
AltVid#1 ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZTrY3TQpzw
AltVid#2
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaTPDFsDdIk ---
(YuTb
- aprox #1/57min #2/30 min - June 25, 2007)
Must View Videos - Analysis -
Paradigms -
From
the
History
File -
June
17, 2007 -
Outstanding lecture
-
mpg -- A quote...."Parenti
speaks about lies, dissent, and how we arrive at the truth of our
situation and still retain our sanity. He raises the question whether
the Iraq war was not a failure but a success for some parts of the
empire - and why. -- "Lies, War, and Empire" given May 12, 2007 at
Antioch University in Seattle."
also
posted
at DProgram
---
http://dprogram.net/2009/11/08/video-lies-war-and-empire/
---
For more on this type of
issue
see....Many
Still
Believe
That
Saddam
Hussein
Was
Behind
9/11,
and
Now
We
Have
Some
Idea
Why ---
posted
11-07-09 ---
http://www.alternet.org/media/143731/many_still_believe_that_saddam_hussein_was_behind_9_11%2C_and_now_we_have_some_idea_why?page=entire
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11/9
and 9/11: And we thought we were free ---
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5243.shtml
Must Read - A
quote...."Seventy-one years ago today, on 11/9/38, the horrifying event
that the Nazi party called Kristallnacht occurred. -- It could be said,
that the events of 11/9/38 were the official start of Adolf Hitler’s
overt and “endless war” against the Jews, but the methods used to
justify that war were not an aberration. Rather, the Night of the
Shattering Glass, which saw many synagogues destroyed, all the plate
glass windows of a thousand Jewish businesses in Germany shattered and
the first 26,000 Jewish men, of many millions more to come, sent off to
concentration camps, was simply another example of an all-too-common
historical reality that has been going on ever since the first tyrant
orchestrated the first false flag operation, allowing him to
“innocently” and patriotically declare the first “retaliatory” war. And
then, by repeatedly using cunning propaganda techniques, that tyrant
could plausibly deny responsibility for the coming violence because the
enemy was, after all, the one who drew “first blood.” --
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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Rising
Military
Expenditure:
The
Coming
U.S.
Budget
Attack ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15964
Special Note - A
quote...."The United States is moving backwards…fast. State budget cuts
are decimating essential health and social services; public education
is being destroyed; the social safety net is in tatters. To make
matters worse, all of this is occurring when the loss of jobs stands at
a twenty-six year high with no end in sight. -- But this is only phase
one. The federal government intends to balance its books too, at the
expense of society’s neediest. Instead of governors presiding over
painful cuts, the President will be doing the gutting. And although his
proposed budget isn’t due until February, the President’s spokespeople
are priming the media to play a major propaganda role in what will be a
colossal blow against working and poor people."
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The
Crazy October Surprise Debunking ---
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/110609.html
Special Historical Note -
A quote...."Patently absurd reasoning in someone’s argument can often
tell you about the strength of the underlying facts. If an argument is
deceptive on its face, you might suspect the supporting facts are
pretty fragile, too."
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Breaking
The
Australian
Silence ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15970
A quote...."I am a seventh generation Australian. My great-great
grandfather landed not far from here, on November 8th, 1821. He wore
leg irons, each weighing four pounds. His name was Francis McCarty. He
was an Irishman, convicted of the crime of insurrection and “uttering
unlawful oaths”. -- In October of the same year, an 18 year old
girl called Mary Palmer stood in the dock at Middlesex Gaol and was
sentenced to be transported to New South Wales for the term of her
natural life. Her crime was stealing in order to live. Only the fact
that she was pregnant saved her from the gallows. She was my
great-great grandmother. She was sent from the ship to the Female
Factory at Parramatta, a notorious prison where every third Monday,
male convicts were brought for a “courting day” -- a rather desperate
measure of social engineering. Mary and Francis met that way and were
married on October 21st, 1823."
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Obama
Fails to Reset Foreign Policy ---
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/110609a.html
A quote...."....the Obama administration is copying too many aspects of
the Bush administration's cover-up of abuses committed in the name of
fighting terrorism, including blanket claims of national security to
stop lawsuits; resisting orders to release photographs of torture and
abuse, and threats to stop intelligence-sharing with Britain if a High
Court panel declassified intelligence documents relating to torture
allegations. -- There are numerous situations where the Obama
administration has been halting in its efforts to arrange for genuine
change in the international arena."
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Obama
Regime:
Toss
NSA
Warrantless
Wiretapping
Lawsuit ---
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-regime-toss-nsa-warrantless.html
A quote...."President Barack Obama instructed Justice Department
attorneys to argue last week in San Francisco before Federal District
Judge Vaughn Walker, that he must toss out the Electronic Frontier
Foundation's Shubert v. Bush lawsuit challenging the secret state's
driftnet surveillance of Americans' electronic communications."
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Obama
likely
to
send
34,000
new
troops
to
Afghanistan
---
http://www.examiner.com/x-15870-Populist-Examiner%7Ey2009m11d8-Obama-likely-to-send-34000-new-troops-to-Afghanistan
A quote...."After weeks of debate over how many, if any, more American
troops should be sent to Afghanistan, administration and military
officials say President Obama is leaning toward sending about
34-thousand soldiers."
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Soldiers
not
surprised
by
Fort
Hood
massacre -
link
posted at AntiWar
---
http://antiwar.com/donate/
---
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/fort_hood_shootings/Soldiers_not_surprised_by_Fort_Hood_massacre.html
A quote...."FORT HOOD — When a lone gunman armed with two handguns
fired into scores of soldiers last week at Fort Hood, killing 13 and
wounding more than 30, the nation reacted in shock. -- Many veterans of
the Iraq war, however, did not. -- “It’s sad to say, but basically it
doesn’t surprise us. In a way, it was like it’s waiting to happen. I
guess that’s the biggest thing,” Spc. Travis McRae said Saturday."
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African-Americans
slam
Obama
in
White
House
protest ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59860&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."Decrying Barack Obama as "white power in black face,"
hundreds of African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to
protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he
bring US troops home."
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How to End
Wars --- http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/47544
A quote...."The peace movement was defunded and demobilized by the
absurd belief that an election alone would make a difference, and now
there is widespread desire to tell everyone that it didn't. Certainly,
it didn't. We have a larger military budget, bases in more nations, and
more troops and mercenaries on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq
combined now than before the election. We need to understand that this
was entirely predictable and predicted. Those who expected something
from an election alone need to be clear that such [an] expectation
was entirely - not just partially -
misguided. Disappointment with a president needs to be replaced with
acknowledgement of strategic error. The latter generates less despair
and allows clearer thinking about strategy going forward." - bold by
website editor
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IRAQ:
Food
insecurity
on
the
rise,
says
official ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59865&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."BAGHDAD, 8 November 2009 (IRIN) - More and more people in
Iraq are being affected by food insecurity, a senior official has said."
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Iraqi
Parliament
Passes
Electoral
Law;
Obama
hails
move
toward
Indpendence;
Kurdistan
wins
on
Kirkuk
---
http://www.juancole.com/2009/11/iraqi-parliament-passes-electoral-law.html
A quote...."Al-Zaman reports in Arabic that the Iraqi parliament
approved the electoral law to govern the elections scheduled for early
next year. The vote was 141 in favor out of what Al-Zaman said were 175
attending (the Iraqi parliament has 275 seats, so a simple majority is
138). AFP estimated attending MPs at 195."
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NATO
Poised
to
Abandon
Northern
Helmand
Province -
posted
at AntiWar
--- http://antiwar.com/donate/
---
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/11/08/nato-poised-to-abandon-northern-helmand-province/
Why stop there? If they
just keep on going, they'll be back in Europe in no time at
all....where they belong. - mpg -- A quote...."In the face of an
ever-growing insurgency across Afghanistan, NATO is reportedly eying a
new “tactical pullout” which would have its forces abandon the northern
portion of the Helmand Province, including the key town of Musa Qala."
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Friendly
Fire ---
http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick11062009.html
A quote...."Afghan leaders have long been notorious for concealing
their true loyalties and changing sides. But the potential political
consequences are very serious. The US and British strategy to build up
the Afghan security forces to as many as 400,000 may prove impossible
because the state is too weak and too poor and commands the loyalty of
too few Afghans. -- The reputation of Afghans for always defeating
their enemies is based in part on the speed with which they join the
winner. The Taliban advances in the 1990s were notable less for
military victories than local warlords defecting to them after
receiving a large bribe. -- In the US war to overthrow the Taliban in
2001, the same process went into reverse as the CIA bought off the same
warlords who then sent their men home without a fight." --
It really is their country, the US-NRE
should just leave. - mpg
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Pakistan
rejects
nuke
takeover
---
http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/b7d387ff1bcc49c49df8a9bb7201537c/08-11-2009-09-07/Pakistan_rejects_nuke_takeover
A quote...."Islamabad - Pakistan on Sunday angrily rejected a media
report that raised fears of a militant takeover of the Taliban-hit
nation's nuclear weapons and suggested that the US had a hand in
protecting the arsenal."
also
posted at
Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59872&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Anti-Taliban
Mayor,
14
Others
Killed
in
Pakistan
Suicide
Attack -
posted at AntiWar
---
http://antiwar.com/donate/
---
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/11/08/anti-taliban-mayor-11-others-killed-in-pakistan-suicide-attack/
A quote...."A suicide bomber attacked a livestock marketplace in the
Peshawar suburb of Adezai, killing 15 people and wounding 42 others.
Most of the casualties appear to have been civilians, shopping for food
for the upcoming celebration of Eid al-Adha (Nov 27)."
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========== ====
Ahmadinejad
meets
Gul
and
Erdogan
in
Istanbul ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110791§ionid=351020101
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has held meetings
with Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul."
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========== ====
Consensus
reached
on
over
70%
of
Caspian
Sea
legal
regime ---
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=207478
A quote...."TEHRAN -- The Caspian Sea littoral states have agreed on 70
to 75 percent of the content of a convention on the legal status of the
sea, according to the Iranian deputy foreign minister for European
affairs."
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========== ====
Ahmadinejad
proposes
joint
Islamic
fund ---
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=207471
A quote...."TEHRAN – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put forward a
proposal for the establishment of a joint foreign currency fund by the
Organization of Islamic Countries’ (OIC) member states."
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Iranian
president
to
visit
Venezuela
to
boost
bilateral
ties ---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/09/content_12416296.htm
A quote...."CARACAS, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez announced on Sunday that his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad would pay an official visit to the country before the end
of 2009 to boost bilateral ties."
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========== ====
Japanese
protest
against
US
military
base ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110741§ionid=351020406
A quote...."Thousands of Japanese citizens have protested against the
presence of a large US military base in the southern island of Okinawa
ahead of President Barack Obama's visit on Friday." --
also posted at OhBummer
---
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/japanese-protest-against-us-military.html
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Germans
press
for
removal
of
US
nuclear
weapons
in
Europe ---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/06/germany-removal-us-nuclear-weapons
A quote...."Pressure is growing within Nato for the removal of the
remaining US nuclear weapons on European soil, and for a new doctrine
for the alliance that would depend less on nuclear deterrence."
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========== ====
The
fall
of
the
Berlin
Wall ---
http://wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/pers-n09.shtml
A quote...."The contradiction between official enthusiasm and public
discontent speaks volumes about the real significance of the events of
November 1989. The efforts of the media to glorify them as the
beginning of a new epoch of democracy, freedom and peace grow all the
louder the more obvious it becomes that they were nothing of the kind.
There are few events in recent history that have been as thoroughly
mystified as the end of the GDR."
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========== ====
Northern
Europe
greenlights
Nord
Stream ---
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20091106/156738096.html
A quote...."MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Oleg Mityayev) -
November 5 was a major milestone in Nord Stream AG history. Both Sweden
and Finland authorized the construction of this seabed gas pipeline in
their waters. - There are now no serious obstacles in meeting the
deadline to bring the pipeline on line by 2011. The plans to diversify
Russia's gas supplies to Europe are beginning to take shape. - The
1,200 kilometer long Nord Stream gas pipeline on the Baltic seabed will
link the Russian town of Vyborg with the German town of Greifswald. The
first trunkline, with a projected capacity of 27.5 billion cubic meters
of gas annually, is due to be completed by late 2011"
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Vietnam
Forecasts
6.5%
Growth
in
2010 ---
http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135783&Itemid=1
A quote...."Hanoi, Nov 8 (Prensa Latina) Vietnam National Assembly
announced a 6.5 percent growth and reducing poverty under ten percent
among its 2010 economic goals."
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U.S.
State
Department:
Israel
is
not
a
tolerant
society ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15968
Obviously the headline shown
above is a typo....it's probably some human rights group with a
perverse sense of humor that decided to take the name "U.S. State
Department". It's the only possible explanation. -
mpg --
A quote...."Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant
pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State
Department. -- Despite boasting religious freedom and protection of all
holy sites, Israel falls short in tolerance toward minorities, equal
treatment of ethnic groups, openness toward various streams within
society, and respect for holy and other sites. -- The comprehensive
report, written by the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human
Rights and Labor, says Israel discriminates against groups including
Muslims, Jehova's Witnesses, Reform Jews, Christians, women and
Bedouin."
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Hezbollah
gears
up
for
new
war ---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/08/hezbollah-rearms-against-israel
War Alert - A
quote...."Fighters rearm and reinforce positions in valleys amid fears
that Israel is about to launch attack on Islamic group."
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Chavez
tells
troops
to
ready
for
war
with
Colombia ---
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-11-08-chavez-war-warning_N.htm
War Alert - Related
Article - A
quote...."CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez on Sunday
ordered Venezuela's military to prepare for a possible armed conflict
with Colombia, saying his country's soldiers should be ready if the
United States attempts to provoke a war between the South American
neighbors."
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========== ====
Chavez:
US
provoking
all-out
war
in
S.
America ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110803§ionid=351020704
Related Article - A quote...."President Hugo Chavez has threatened an
all-out war in South America should the US want to provoke Colombia to
launch an armed conflict in the region."
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========== ====
Killing
of
Venezuelan
troops
exacerbates
Colombia-Venezuela
tensions
---
http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/11/06/en_ing_esp_killing-of-venezuela_06A3013731.shtml
Related Article - A quote...."Venezuelan officials claimed that a plot
involving Bogotá and Washington is under way to destabilize
Venezuela
by igniting violence on the border with Colombia and in major towns in
Venezuela."
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Fatah
considers reverting to popular warfare ---
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3801496,00.html
War Alert - Special Note -
Caution - The Palestinian
people do not have the resources to engage in warfare with
Israel....period! That said, all peoples have the right to defend
themselves, obviously the Palestinians could attack IOF soldiers when
they attack Palestinian farmers or fisherman, or assassinate Israel's
civilian leadership when they assassinate the Palestinian's leadership,
however the Israelis are 1)
Currently waiting for this. 2)
Are
currently
attempting
a
series
of
increasingly
provocative
actions
in
anticipation
of
this,
and
3)
Will
respond
with
overwhelming
force
against
civilian
population
centers,
especially
the homes and offices of Hamas and Fatah along with
all centers of civilian control (police, fire depts. schools, govmt.
offices, hospitals etc.) as they did in their prior actions in Gaza and
Lebanon. – mpg -- A quote...."Following Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas' announcement that he would not run for another term, a
senior Fatah official told Ynet that if serious progress was not made
soon in peace talks, the organization would consider reverting to
popular warfare."
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========== ====
Hamas
rejects Mofaz call to talk as 'Zionist vulgarity' ---
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126655.html
War Alert - Caution -
Hamas is being stupid, engaging in
negotiations is just fine and is not "recognition" of anything,
certainly not a "Jewish" state. As Carl von
Clausewitz ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz ---
said...."Der Krieg ist
eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln", (War is
merely a continuation of politics). The converse of course is
also true, negotiations, i.e. "politics", is merely a continuation of
war. If a nation state fails to negotiate, they deny themselves
fifty percent of their capabilities to alter or improve their
situation. Being stubborn and stupid while over-estimating your
capabilities is very romantic to some people; it will also get a lot of
innocent people killed. The Jews of Israel care only about their
plans for territorial expansion, they
have
no
problem
murdering
woman
and
children.
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/thegazainvasion-mpg-weblist-122708
---
The Palestinians are
defending their homes and lands, that's a moral advantage, something
which means absolutely nothing to the Israelis or most of the
population of the US-NRE and it will not stop the weapons that the
US-NRE gave to Isreal from raining down upon the Palestinians towns and
villages. - mpg -- A quote...."The Hamas rulers of the Gaza
Strip said Sunday that they would never negotiate with the "Zionist
enemy", hours after Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz presented a plan to hold
talks with the group and establish a Palestinian state in 60 percent of
the West Bank within one year."
also
posted
at
Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59869&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Top
Israeli
lawmaker
wants
talks
with
Hamas ---
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=238291
Related Article - A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an - In the wake of
President Mahmoud Abbas' planned retirement from politics, Israeli
Knesset Member Shaul Mofaz (Kadima) on Sunday said his government
should begin planning for a potential Hamas victory."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59867&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Mofaz
blames
Netanyahu,
offers
new
illusive
peace
plan ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110779§ionid=351020202
Related Article - A quote...."A prominent Israeli lawmaker describes
Benjamin Netanyahu as a prime minister without an effective plan on the
'peace process.' -- Shaul Mofaz, deputy opposition leader in the
Israeli Knesset and a former 'military commander, presented another
controversial 'peace plan' on Sunday after consulting with President
Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Ehud Barak."
also posted at AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/mofaz-blames-netanyahu-offers-new.html
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========== ====
ISRAEL'S
SO
CALLED
"LEFT"
PARTY
HAS
A
PLAN ---
http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/11/israels-so-called-left-party-has-plan.html
Special Note - The Mofaz Plan
-- A quote...."Curious about this "plan to withdraw from Palestine?"
So, do you want to see what "liberal" is in Israel? "Think Swiss
Cheese" no, make that "A tiny wee slice of swiss cheese" see here:"
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Israel:
60
years
of
Ethnic
Cleansing
and
Mass
Murder ---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59859&hd=&size=1&l=e
Video - A
quote...."Zionist massacres, 1948-2009. This is what Israel thinks of
peace..."
also posted at AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/video-israel-60-years-of-ethnic.html
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Turkey
PM: Israel war crimes worse than Sudan ---
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126694.html
A quote...."Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday
accused Israel of committing greater crimes against Palestinians during
its war in the Gaza Strip than those for which Sudanese leader Omar
al-Bashir had been indicted."
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Six
Questions
for
Desmond
Travers
on
the
Goldstone
Report ---
http://buchanan.org/blog/six-questions-for-desmond-travers-on-the-goldstone-report-2913
Short Interview - A
quote...."Desmond Travers was one of the four members of the United
Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, which produced the
controversial Goldstone Report. Travers is a retired Colonel of the
Army of the Irish Defence Forces. His last appointment was as
Commandant of its Military College. He also served in command of troops
with various UN and EU peace support missions. I recently spoke to
Travers by phone about the report. This interview has been edited for
length and clarity."
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Anna
Baltzer:
Life
in
Occupied
Palestine
(3
Parts) ---
http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2009/11/essential-dissent-anna-baltzer-life-in.html
AltVid#1 ---
http://blip.tv/play/gbs5gayzJAI
AltVid#2 ---
http://blip.tv/play/gbs5gazAVgI
AltVid#3 ---
http://blip.tv/play/gbs5gay4VgI
Videos - A
quote...."Essential Dissent: Anna Baltzer: Life in Occupied Palestine -
Eyewitness Stories & Photos (1):"
From EssentialDessent
---
http://essentialdissent.blogspot.com/2009/11/anna-baltzer-life-in-occupied-palestine.html
==========
==========
==========
==========
==========
==========
==========
====
Life in hell along the Gaza-Israel
border --- http://ow.ly/Asek
A quote...."Gaza – Ma’an –
Residents of the Gaza Strip’s borders live
in a state of fear, particularly those who own agricultural lands near
the eastern borders and cannot access them from fear of being shot by
Israeli forces present in the area."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59852&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israeli
settlers
attack
Palestinian
homes
in
Al-Khalil
---
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7wunzNIqRefjXoY0sQNUqBJ9s7ploGNMNKN%2fDLhh5Gs6eF9PdKJ5
1qeOVWBDfYrYAH1b3poNuH4lsg008Wu1Ezz%2f7i0g0sNOmlunDZGGr1Mk%3d
A quote...."AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- A group of savage Israeli settlers from
Ramat Yishai settlement outpost attacked Sunday morning Palestinian
homes in the city of Al-Khalil, south of the West Bank, and tried to
take over a commercial building."
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British activists
blockade Carmel Agrexco ---
http://palsolidarity.org/2009/11/9237
Action Update - A
quote...."At about 6 o’clock this morning a group of London students
and international activists, including members of the International
Solidarity Movement (ISM), blocked the two gates leading to the depot.
The activists seek to raise awareness of the UK’s continued role in the
purchase of goods produced in Israel’s illegal settlements in the West
Bank as well as Carmel Agrexco’s role in the sustenance of Israel’s
illegal expansionist activities in Palestine." --
Why just Israeli goods, why not US-NRE
goods too? -- For more on that issue see....An
Individual
Commitment
-
11-03-09
-
mpg ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/anindividualcommitment-mpg-reficultnias-110309
---
For
more on how to Boycott Divest &
Sanction the state of Israel, see the upper-left-corner of the "Front
Page" ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/ ---
of this website - mpg
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More on the
US-NRE's Honduran Coup....
Honduran
Political
Accord
Unravels ---
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/110709a.html
Alt
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbHjdSje0gU ---
(YouTube -
11 min 33 sec - November 05, 2009)
Real News Video -
Special Note - A quote...."The
supposed settlement of the Honduran political crisis has collapsed as
the coup makers made clear that they have no intention of allowing
ousted President Manuel Zelaya to resume his office in the weeks before
a new election."
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========== ====
Honduras'
attorney
general
escapes
unharmed
after
gunmen
open
fire
on
his
convoy
---
http://www.courant.com/news/nation-world/sns-ap-lt-honduras-violence,0,4617927.story
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Gunmen ambushed a convoy
carrying Honduras' top prosecutor, but neither he nor his bodyguards
were harmed, police said Sunday. -- Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato said
Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubi was riding on a northern highway
when assailants opened fire Saturday night. Cerrato said no one was
hurt. One car was damaged."
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Berta
Cáceres:
"We
only
have
one
option.
It
is
to
struggle.
It
is
to
continue
the
resistance.
It
is
to
march
towards
the
re-founding
of
the
country."
---
http://hondurasresists.blogspot.com/2009/11/berta-caceres-we-only-have-one-option.html
A quote...."What follows is a transcription of a
speech by indigenous leader Berta Cáceres of Civil Council of
Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and National
Front of Resistance Against the Coup to a meeting of the resistance
from Gracias, Lempira on 11/1/09 - With live call during the speech
from President Manuel Zelaya."
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Saturday
Night
Special:
"Historic"
Vote
Kills
Health
Care
Reform
for
Another
Generation ---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/art
icle/1-latest-news/1872-saturday-night-special-qhistoricq-vote-kills-health-care-reform-for-another-generation.html
Must Read -
Regarding
the Health Care Rip-Off -- A quote...."Of course, the
House bill, bad as it is, will be mangled beyond all recognition in
that elitist abattoir known as the Senate, where no doubt even the few
milder-than-milquetoast ameliorations that survived the corporate
bludgeoning in the House will be cast aside. But for now, this is how,
in the words of Barack Obama, our Democratic solons "answered the call
of history": with a bill that places an onerous financial burden and
threat of punishment on those least able to bear it, while stripping
millions of the most vulnerable women in society from access to
completely legal medical procedures easily available to the
middle-class and the rich, and delivering to the corrupt, cruel and
price-gouging insurance companies "50 million new consumers, many of
them subsidized by the taxpayers," in the gushing words of Nancy
Pelosi, who shepherded the bill through the House -- and who was
responsible for stripping abortion coverage from poor women by
greenlighting the single allowed amendment to the bill."
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========== ====
Freedom
Rider:
Health
Care
Deceit ---
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/freedom-rider-health-care-deceit
Special Note -
Regarding
the Health Care Rip-Off -- A quote...."The health care
fiasco has bared the cowardly underbelly of the Democratic Party, which
is putty in the hands of President Obama and his co-conspirators in the
insurance industry. The public option” has been stripped down to a tiny
two percent of the people, while the private insurers get tens of
millions of captive, subsidized consumers. The conclusion is
inescapable: “Barack Obama and the majority of the Democrats never had
any intention of bringing reform to health care.”
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========== ====
Why
I
Voted NO ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23922.htm
Special Note -
Regarding
the Health Care Rip-Off -- A quote...."By Dennis
Kucinich -- November 08, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- We have
been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only
within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance
system which makes money not providing health care. We cannot fault the
insurance companies for being what they are. But we can fault
legislation in which the government incentivizes the perpetuation,
indeed the strengthening, of the for-profit health insurance industry,
the very source of the problem. When health insurance companies deny
care or raise premiums, co-pays and deductibles they are simply trying
to make a profit. That is our system." --
also posted at AmericanEveryman
---
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/in-his-own-words-why-kucinich-voted-no-on-h-r-3962/
& ThePeoplesVoice
---
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/11/09/why-i-voted-no
& CommonDreams
---
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/08-0
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========== ====
On
The
Edge
with
Max
Keiser
and
Stacy
Herbert ---
http://dprogram.net/2009/11/08/video-on-the-edge-with-max-keiser-and-stacy-herbert/
AltVid#1
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmKbCagPXP0
AltVid#2
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9KQ5YfOElU ---
(YuTb
- aprx3-8m - Nov. 07, 2009)
Special Note -
The Mad
Max of finanace is
back....with more on the Great Casino that has become this
nation's
economy. - mpg -- A quote...."In this episode of On The Edge
Keiser
talks about the coming collapse of the U.S. dollar and why Americans
need to start investing in gold. He also explains why India’s recent
decision to purchase of 200 tons of gold was a wise one."
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========== ====
Twilight
Zone
Economy ---
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/twilight-zone-economy.html
Special Note - A
quote...."From 1959 to 1964, Rod Serling created and directed the
ground-breaking series "The Twilight Zone" which will never be
forgotten by anyone growing up in the 1950's with a black and white TV.
The weekly episodes revealed with ironic, perplexing and totally
unexpected results, what happened to otherwise normal people whose
lives were forever changed once they were transcended into a parallel
world where different rules applied. This altered world correlates in
many ways to the US economy today as millions of people are realizing
that nothing our government says seems to be real, and the rules we
thought applied, don't any more."
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========== ====
"For
God
Sakes,
strap
on
a
pair
and
get
to
it" ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23917.htm
Special Note - A
quote...."November 08, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- This is
bad. Double-digit unemployment. In October, unemployment soared to
10.2%. 16 million people are out of work. The average work week is down
to 33 hours. Payrolls have contracted 22 months straight. The "real"
jobless rate (underemployment) is now 17.5% and rising. These are Great
Depression numbers. The country is in a Depression. So, why is there no
talk of federal work programs? Why no WPA?"
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"I've
Always
Been
Convinced
that
the
Exchange
Stabilization
Fund
is
Involved
in
Stock
[and]
Commodity
Transactions
by
Manipulating
Price"
---
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/11/ive-always-been-convinced-that-exchange.html
I'm reading Ron Paul's book "End the Fed", which is chock full of
good quotes.
This one caught my eye:
I've
always been convinced that the Exchange Stabilization Fund is involved
in stock, commodity, and currency transactions by manipulating price.
As
part of the ignored President’s Working Group on Financial Markets
(Plunge Protection Team), the Treasury, along with the Fed, SEC, and
CFTC, will continue to rescue the market any way possible.
Unfortunately, it’s more like that its powers will be used to bail out
friends at the expense of the rest of us.
For more on the Exchange Stabilization Fund, see
this,
---
http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/international-affairs/esf/
---
this
---
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Economy/idUSTRE57C50D20090813
--- and
this.
---
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Azerohedge.co
m+%22exchange+stabilization+fund%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
---
For
more
on
the
Plunge
Protection
Team,
see
this,
---
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/11/well-known-financial-analyst-says-ppt.html
---
this
---
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/09/jim-wilkinson-and-plunge-protection.html
---
and
this.
---
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-
a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=AxX&q=site%3Azerohedge.com+%22plunge+protection+team%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
---
And
don't
forget
that
the
largest
derivatives
holders
use
their
Counterparty
Risk
Management
Policy
Group
--- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-
a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=SLE&q=%22counterparty+risk+management+policy+group%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g3
---
(CRMPG)
to
literally
collude
-
exchange
secret
information
and
formulate
coordinated
mutually
beneficial
actions
-
all
with
the
government's
blessings.
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Fed
Herding
Investors
to
the
Slaughter? ---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fed-herding-investors-slaughter
Market Tech Note - A
quote...."The real question investors need to ask themselves is this:
if we truly are in the middle of a Fed-induced liquidity rally where
the fundamentals simply don’t matter, do you buy now or wait it out for
the inevitable bust?”
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Five
more
banks
fail
-
120
for
the
year ---
http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/06/news/economy/bank_failures/?postversion=2009110619
A quote...."Banks in California, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota and
Missouri were shuttered, costing the FDIC a total of $1.5 billion."
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Freddie
Mac
posts
$5
billion
loss ---
http://www.roguegovernment.com/Freddie_Mac_posts_%245_billion_loss/17994/0/8/8/Y/M.html
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - Freddie Mac, the second largest
provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, on Friday posted a loss
of $5 billion in the third quarter and predicted it would need more
government support amid a "prolonged deterioration" in housing."
From Reuters
---
http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE5A55PR20091107
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British
government
mounts
world’s
largest
bank
bailout ---
http://wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/scot-n09.shtml
A quote...."Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has just
announced the world’s biggest bailout for a single bank in a bid to
rescue the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)."
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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
Related Article - A quote...."
From
the History File --
Nov.
3,
2009 (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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RBS
Surpasses
Citigroup
as
World’s
Costliest
Banking
Bailout -
For
the momment - mpg
---
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=ahcxjNVrDXyk&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Related Article - A quote...."
From
the History File --
Nov.
3,
2009 (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. government’s plan to inject a
further 25.5 billion pounds ($42 billion) into Royal Bank of Scotland
Group Plc will make it the most expensive bank bailout in the world,
surpassing Citigroup Inc."
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RBS
[Royal
Bank
of
Scotland]
unveils
sharp
loss
despite
state
bailout
---
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.337b88badb3cffa96d6bcb36eb66e204.671&show_article=1
Related Article - A quote...."Royal Bank of Scotland posted a net loss
of 1.8 billion
pounds on Friday and said it expected a slow recovery, despite massive
state support aimed at reversing the lender's ailing fortunes."
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Saturday November 7th 2009 -
links page
No posts. - mpg
Friday November 6th 2009 - links
page
Can
You Hear Us Now? ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23913.htm
Article ---
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/24804
also posted at the Smirking Chimp
--- http://www.smirkingchimp.com/donate
Must Read - A
quote...."One year ago, the Democrats won commanding victories
resulting in control of the presidency and lopsided majorities in the
House and Senate. -- One year ago, the Republican brand was so weak
that the party was on death watch, literally capable of sliding into
the history books alongside the Whigs and the Federalists. -- One year
ago the country was enthralled with the notion of a new president who
seemed committed to solving a host of problems and, above all, offering
change from a hated predecessor and his disastrously failed politics.
-- But now, today, that promised change seems a lot more like chump
change instead. -- Now, today, the Big Hope president has virtually
nothing of import to show for nearly a year in office. -- Now, today,
that president continues to follow the policies of his horrid
predecessor on everything from civil liberties to civil rights to
economics and foreign policy. -- And now, today, he and his comrades in
Congress have squandered whatever goodwill they once had and face an
angry public turning back to the right, desperately seeking solutions
to their problems."
-- also posted at
CommonDreams
---
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/06-2
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The
Evil Empire ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23908.htm
Must Read - A
quote...."November 06, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- -The US
government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest
groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the
concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members
of the House and Senate. Voters will vent their frustrations over
their impotence on the president, which implies a future of one-term
presidents. Soon our presidents will be as ineffective as Roman
emperors in the final days of that empire." --
also posted at CounterPunch ---
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts11062009.html
& AntiWar
---
http://original.antiwar.com/roberts/2009/11/06/the-evil-empire/
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====
Many
Still
Believe
That
Saddam
Hussein
Was
Behind
9/11,
and
Now
We
Have
Some
Idea
Why
http://www.alternet.org/media/143731/many_still_believe_that_saddam_hussein_was_behind_9_11%2C_and_now_we_have_some_idea_why?page=entire
Must Read - A quote...."
Sociologists at the University of North Carolina and Northwestern
University examined an earlier case of deep commitment to the
inaccurate: the belief, among many conservatives who voted for George
W. Bush in 2004, that Saddam Hussein was at least partly responsible
for the attacks on 9/11. -- Of 49 people included in the study who
believed in such a connection, only one shed the certainty when
presented with prevailing evidence that it wasn't true. --
The rest came up with an array of
justifications for ignoring, discounting or simply disagreeing with
contrary evidence — even when it came from President Bush himself."
-
bold
by
website
editor
-
Yep, he
really did say it, for more on that issue see....Republican
Tourettes
Syndrome
(RTS)
--
08-26-06
-
mpg ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rts-blog-mpg-08262006
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TALIBAN
=
9/11??
--
Afghanistan
by
Hypnosis ---
http://www.gregpalast.com/taliban-911-afghanistan-by-hypnosis/
Article ---
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/24800
also posted at the Smirking Chimp
--- http://www.smirkingchimp.com/donate
Must Read - A
quote...."On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade
Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi Arabians,
funded by Saudi Arabians. And so, in response to the Saudis' attack,
America invaded ... Afghanistan. Like, HUH? -- And here we go again.
New York Times headline last Friday: "Pakistani Army, In Its Campaign
In Taliban Stronghold, Finds A Hint Of 9/11." -- Google it and you'll
find the Times report repeated and amplified 5,785 times more. --
Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11. -- Your eyelids are
getting heavy. Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11. -- It's the latest hit
from the same crew that brought you Saddam = 9/11 and its twin chant,
Saddam = WMD, Dick Cheney's chimerical tropes which the New York Times'
Judith Miller happily channeled to the paper's front page. -- And
they're at it again."
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========== ====
Our
terrorists ---
http://www.newint.org/features/2009/10/01/blowback-extended-version/
Must Read - A
quote...."Once
upon a time, the CIA trained, financed and supported Osama bin Laden
and his mujahidin networks in Afghanistan to repel the Soviet invasion
of Afghanistan. After the end of the Cold War, bin Laden turned against
the West and we no longer had any use for him. His persistent terrorist
attacks against us for more than a decade, culminating in 9/11,
provoked our own response, in the form of the ‘War on Terror’. This is
the official narrative. And it’s false. Not only did Western
intelligence services continue to foster Islamist extremist and
terrorist groups connected to al-Qaeda after the Cold War; they
continued to do so even after 9/11." -- also posted at
9/11Blogger
--- http://911blogger.com/node/21783
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No
more
troops,
Faulkner
tells
US ---
http://www.smh.com.au/world/no-more-troops-faulkner-tells-us-20091105-i09q.html
A quote...."Australia has made it clear to the US it is not in a
position to increase troop or training commitments in Afghanistan if
the Obama Administration decides to add to its troop levels in response
to General Stanley McChrystal's report, the Defence Minister, John
Faulkner, said in Washington." --
also
posted
at WarInIraq
---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/210040
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========== ====
UK:
Public
support
for
Afghan
strategy
plummets ---
http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/uk-public-support-for-afghan-strategy.html
A quote...."LONDON (AFP) – The public is rapidly losing confidence that
the war in Afghanistan can be won, after the killing of five soldiers
by a rogue Afghan policeman, a new poll showed Thursday. -- The YouGov
poll found 57 percent of people thought British troops were not winning
the conflict against Taliban insurgents, and "victory is not possible,"
an increase from 48 percent just two weeks ago."
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One
More
For
The
Road ---
http://www.bendib.com/newones/2009/October/small/10-12-One%20for%20the%20Road.jpg
Cartoon -
Bendib
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Obama
Signs
Largest
Military
Budget
since
World
War
II
---
http://agonist.org/psa/20091102/obama_signs_largest_military_budget_since_world_war_ii
A quote...."PSA November 2, 2009 - 4:23pm -- Earlier this week,
President Obama signed into law the
$680
billion
FY
2010 Defense Authorization Bill, the largest such
budget since the end of World War II. If you missed that aspect of the
story, you weren’t alone. Many news stories chose instead to focus on
the hate crime provisions tacked onto the bill." - bold by website
editor
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Pentagon
Expected
to
Request
More
War
Funding ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/05military.html?_r=3&ref=world
Special Note -
And a few days later.....
Sort'a endless, aint it folks, but you gets what you vote for.
Next time, don't vote for a Demo or Repub, the money you'll save WILL
be your own. - mpg -- A quote.... "WASHINGTON — Published:
November 4, 2009 -- The nation’s top military officer said Wednesday
that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months
for emergency financing
[$50 billion] to
support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though President Obama
has pledged to end the Bush administration practice of paying for the
conflicts with so-called supplemental funds that are outside the normal
Defense Department budget. -
The
financing would be on top of the $130 billion that Congress
authorized for the wars just last month." - bold by website editor
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Italy, the CIA and
Rendition --- http://www.truthout.org/1105093
A quote...."New York - The label "War on Terror" may be out of style as
a description of American counterterrorism strategy, but Wednesday in
Rome an Italian court served notice that some of its more controversial
practices - including the abduction of alleged terrorists known as
"extraordinary rendition" - would not be forgotten as quickly as some
Americans might prefer." --
For more
on this issue see....Fun
&
Torture
-
It's
a
Pleasure.
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/funandtorture-blog-mpg-020307.html
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The
Fort
Carson
Murder
Spree ---
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/30794989/the_fort_carson_murder_spree
Special Note -
(It's not just "muslims". - mpg) --
A quote...."Soldiers returning from Iraq have been charged in at least
11 murders at America's third-largest Army base. Did the military's own
negligence contribute to the slayings? "
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After
Texas
shooting
spree,
Florida
comes
next ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110622§ionid=3510203
It's catching, violence is
highly contagious, the New Roman Empire with all of it's "mores", is
spreading like the black death itself across the nation state that was
once
called America. - mpg -- A quote...."At least two people have
been killed and six others wounded by a gunman who opened fire in a
high-rise office building in Orlando, Florida."
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Controversial
private
US
security
firm,
Blackwater
is
reportedly
hiring
ex-Pakistan
security
officials
at
mind-boggling
salaries.
---
http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2009/November/6/Blackwater-hiring-38019.asp
A quote...."Controversial private US security firm, Blackwater is
reportedly hiring ex-Pakistan security officials at mind-boggling
salaries." -
also posted at BLN
---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6230-0-3-3--.html
---
& RogueGov
---
http://www.roguegovernment.com/Blackwater_hiring_ex-Pak_security_officials_on_mind-boggling_salary_packages/17991/0/18/18/Y/M.html
---
Hey wait.....aren't
“ex-Pakistan
security officials" (that's I.S.I.
---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Services_Intelligence
---
to
those who get their info from
faux-news) the exact same people the US-NRE hired to help support the
Taliban, al-Qaeda and various other separatist groups when that sort of
thing was in vogue? --
Well
whad'da'yu'know,
fancy
that,
guess
it's
time
to
have
another
one
ol'dem
dare
"fortuitous"
events
take
place,
ain't
that
right
folks.
–
mpg
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Iran’s
Guards
say
Pakistan released Jundullah leader ---
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=207298
A quote...."TEHRAN (Dawn) -- The deputy head of Iran's elite
Revolutionary Guards charged on Friday that Pakistan arrested and then
released the leader of Jundullah a few days before a suicide bombing
claimed by the group." --
For more
on this issue see....US
Support
of
Terror
-
Jundullah
attack
of
10/18/09 ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#JUNDULLAH101809
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House
Panel
Defies
Obama
on
PATRIOT
Act --
Guess
it'll be one'ol'dem'dare "lone
wolfs". - mpg
---
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/11/05/house-panel-defies-obama-on-patriot-act/
Related Article -- A quote...."In an act of uncharacteristic defiance
of President Obama, the House Judiciary Committee voted today 16-10 to
remove the “lone wolf” section of the USA PATRIOT Act."
--
also posted at OhBummer
---
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/house-panel-defies-obama-on-patriot-act.html
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Obama’s
Prize
tells
world
‘War
is
Peace’ ---
http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/11/04/obama-prize-tells-world-war-is-peace.html
A quote...."Last month, Barack Obama became the third U.S. president to
receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee lauded
Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international
diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” --
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59791&hd=&size=1&l=e
---
That's PEACE spelled
P-I-P-E-L-I-N-E, see article shown below. - mpg
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Afghanistan,
the
graveyard
of
empires
or
just
a
graveyard
with
a
pipeline
running
through
it?
---
http://www.creative-i.info/?p=11828
Must Read - A
quote...."Come on folks, it’s just good sense, there is no way the
Empire can actually win the war in Afghanistan. As I have stated before
it’s not about ‘winning’ but occupation. Afghanistan is basically
a stepping stone on the way to some place else and leaving an oil
pipeline behind with a friendly government in place to protect it. Ah,
but the best laid plans of mice and men etc…"
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59795&hd=&size=1&l=e
---
For more on this issue
see...War
Resource
9/11 ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/priorwarresource911-weblist-mpg-091106
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US-NRE "Investments" Are Just
Reparations
11-06-09
mpg
ExxonMobil-led
consortium
nets
'supergiant'
Iraq
oil
field --
For
now.....mpg
---
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=108342
Let's make this as abundantly
clear as possible. The parasitic class in this country, of which
ExxonMobil is a part, helped
to
set
up
and
murder ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
---
three thousand Americans
so they could go
steal Iraq's oil. In which endeavor they helped to kill
over
one
million
Iraqis, ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IRAQDEATHS
---
displace up to five
million more and caused
hundreds of billions of dollars of damages during their illegal
invasion and ongoing occupation of that country.
ExxonMobil and their shareholders should go right ahead and invest
billions, hopefully tens of billions, but they should do so with the
full knowledge that every single dollar they put into Iraq is NOT their's to keep, for two very
important reasons.
One: Any investment would
simply be reparations for the damage the US-NRE did to the Iraqi people
on behalf of ExxonMobil's
interests. ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/priorwarresource911-weblist-mpg-091106
And Two: No contract signed
under the barrel of a gun is legally binding whatsoever.
Eventually, as the US-NRE's
occupation of Iraq winds down to it's inevitable and painful
close. Any subsequent Iraqi government can, and should, consider
any contracts signed with ExxonMobil to be null and void. They
will have the legal right to seize or nationalize any and all assets in
Iraq claimed by ExxonMobil without compensation to that company or any
of its shareholders and use them on behalf of the Iraqi people. - mpg
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TUNISIA:
Online
activists
rally
to
free
fellow
blogger
Fatma
Riahi
---
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/11/tunisia-blogger-fatma-riahi-arrested-held-incommunicado.html
Censorship Alert - Action Alert
- A quote...."Lina Ben Mhenni was one of the last people to see Fatma
Riahi the day she was arrested. The two women bloggers had been in
touch online and by phone, but it wasn't until Ben Mhenni saw that
Riahi's Facebook profile and blog had been shut down that they made
urgent plans to meet for coffee on last Sunday. Riahi, a high school
drama teacher in the small seaside city of Monastir, had been ordered
to report to the Criminal Brigade in the capital, Tunis, where Ben
Mhenni lives."
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========== ====
Fighting
Continues
Along
Saudi-Yemeni
Border ---
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/11/06/clashes-continue-along-saudi-yemeni-border/
A quote...."Battles between the Saudi government and Yemeni rebels
continued along the border again today, with locals reporting that the
air strikes the Saudi Air Force launched yesterday were continuing
through the day."
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========== ====
Yemeni
rebels
say
holding
Saudi
soldiers ---
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE5A51RY20091106
A quote...."RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemen's Shi'ite rebels said they had
captured some Saudi soldiers on Friday, after Riyadh said it would
press on with its offensive until it had cleared them from its
territory."
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========== ====
[Iranian]
Speaker
Calls
on
Iraq
to
Expel
MKO ---
http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8808150764
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani
called for expulsion of members of the anti-Iran terrorist group, the
Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from Iraq."
==========
==========
==========
==========
==========
==========
==========
====
Iran
voices
support
for
Turkey's
EU
membership ---
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/07/content_12402831.htm
A quote...."ANKARA, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said the European Union (EU) should ask Turkey to become
one of its members, Turkish media reported Friday."
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========== ====
Georgian
opposition
marks
anniversary
of
dispersed
protests
---
http://www.russiatoday.com/Politics/2009-11-07/georgia-anniversary-dispersed-protests.html
Contains Video - A
quote...."Georgian opposition leaders are set to hold a demonstration
to mark the second anniversary of mass protests, which were dispersed
by President Saakashvili and led to early elections."
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========== ====
Colombia
“Hands Over Its Sovereignty” to U.S. with Military Accord, Says Chavez
---
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4914
A quote...."Mérida, November 4th 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) –
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Colombia became a “colony” when
it granted the U.S. permission to expand its military presence in
Colombian territory in an accord signed on October 30th, the details of
which became public on Tuesday."
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========== ====
Official
US Air Force Document Reveals the True Intentions Behind the
US-Colombia Military Agreement ---
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4917
Special Note -
Quote of the Day - (in bold)...."An
official document from the Department of the US Air Force reveals that
the military base in Palanquero, Colombia will provide the Pentagon
with
“…an opportunity for conducting
full spectrum operations throughout South America…” This
information contradicts the explainations offered by Colombian
President Alvaro Uribe and the US State Department regarding the
military agreement signed between the two nations this past October
30th. Both governments have publicly stated that the military agreement
refers only to counternarcotics and counterterrorism operations within
Colombian territory. President Uribe has reiterated numerous times that
the military agreement with the US will not affect Colombia’s
neighbors, despite constant concern in the region regarding the true
objetives of the agreement. But the US Air Force document, dated May
2009, confirms that the concerns of South American nations have been
right on target."
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========== ====
US
granted
access
to
all
Colombian
airports ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110463§ionid=351020703
War Alert -
(To put pressure on Iran's ally Venezula)
A quote...."A
recent military agreement between Colombia and the US, which sparked
outcry in Latin America, allows Washington access to civilian airports
as well as military bases."
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Israel
up in arms over weapons seizure ---
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KK07Ak01.html
War Alert - A
quote...."DAMASCUS - Ambassadors and diplomats from 44 countries, along
with military attaches from 27 nations, were taken to a base in central
Israel on Thursday evening to see for themselves the weapons and
ammunition seized from the ship Francop in international waters
off Cyprus on Wednesday."
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========== ====
Baradei
says
Inspectors
found
'Nothing;'
But
Israeli
Attack
Plans
not
Tabled
---
http://www.juancole.com/2009/11/baradei-say-inspectors-found-nothing.html
War Alert -
Contains Video - A
quote...."Outgoing head of the International Atomic Energy Agency,
Muhammad Elbaradei, said that UN inspectors this week discovered
"nothing to be worried about" at a new nuclear enrichment facility that
is being built in a mountain near Qom. He added, "The idea was to use
it as a bunker under the mountain to protect things. It's a hole in a
mountain."
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ISRAELI
LOBBY
TO
BE
INVESTIGATED ---
http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/11/israeli-lobby-to-be-investigated.html
Program Note - A
quote...."Dispatches the premiere investigative program in Britain is
to investigate the Jewish Lobby!! Americans and others will not know
about this investigative program, as it is televised Britain. However,
keep reading, because they are investigating the Jewish Lobby and it's
influence within Britain and British Politics, Wooo Hooo! This episode
airs on Monday the 16th at 8Pm British Time, and I won't be missing it
I can tell you and I plan on reporting here after it airs. Taken from
the
Channel
4
Dispatches* ---
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode-guide/series-42/episode-1
---
page
(more
after
this):"
-
*link
added
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Gaza
students
organize
for justice ---
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10874.shtml
Action Update - A
quote...."In order to find sustainable alternatives to the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict a new group calling itself the Justice
Makers has been formed across the law departments in Palestinian
universities. Two of the founders, Mohammed Eliwa and Yousef al-Nouri,
are both fourth-year law students from al-Azhar University in Gaza.
"The Justice Makers is about finding new ways within the international
justice system to forward our case," al-Nouri explained. "We have had
enough of this conflict and we study law because it is the only way of
regaining our rights," stated Eliwa."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59794&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Palestinians
take
down
parts
of
WB
wall ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110628§ionid=351020202
Action Update - A
quote...."Palestinian youths have tipped over a part of Israel's
separation wall in the occupied West Bank during a demonstration which
marked the fall of the Berlin Wall. -- Some 300 Palestinians and
left-wing activists attended the demonstration in the village of
Naalin, Ynet reported on Friday. -- They held banners reading "No
matter how tall, all walls fall."
-
also posted at AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/palestinians-take-down-parts-of-wb-wall.html
---
Hey, it should have
been, "The
taller walls are, they harder they fall" - mpg
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Organise
now
for
a
week
of
supermarket
boycott
actions
---
http://www.bigcampaign.org/index.php?mact=Calendar,cntnt01,default,0&cntnt01event_id=58&cntnt01display=event&cntnt01detailpage=73&
cntnt01return_id=103&cntnt01returnid=73
Action Alert - A
quote...."t is time to step up the supermarket boycott campaign which
calls for consumers to reject Israeli goods for as long as Palestinian
rights are denied by the apartheid regime. We must specially oppose the
stocking of produce from the Israeli settlements in the occupied West
Bank, which is stolen land. The excellent motion passed by the TUC
Congress gives added impetus. The settlements are illegal under
international law and goods originating there should not be on sale in
the UK. The label ‘West Bank’ is grossly misleading; some
shoppers think they are buying Palestinian produce." --
Why a week?? Don't buy Israeli or
US-NRE goods....ever! For more on that issue see....An
Individual
Commitment
-
11-03-09
-
mpg
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/anindividualcommitment-mpg-reficultnias-110309
---
For
more on how to Boycott Divest &
Sanction the state of Israel, see the upper-left-corner of the "Front
Page" ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/ ---
of this website - mpg
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Israeli
tank
fire
hits
house
in
Gaza
Strip ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110612§ionid=351020202
A quote...."Israeli tanks have shelled a house in the east of the
Hamas-run Gaza Strip, leaving at least two people wounded. -- The
attack, which came on late Friday, caused panic among Palestinian
families living in the vicinity, a Press TV correspondent reported."
also posted at AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/israeli-tank-fire-hits-house-in-gaza.html
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UN
sanctions
Goldstone
report
on
Gaza
war ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110576§ionid=351020202
A quote...."The United Nations General Assembly has voted
overwhelmingly in favor of a report, which accuses Israel of war crimes
as well as crimes against humanity during the weeks-long onslaught on
the Gaza Strip."
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Report:
US
activist
defending
Palestinian
home
from
settlers
jailed
--- http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=237878
A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies - Michigan resident 21-year-old
Ahlam Mohsen was arrested and now awaits deportation for allegedly
attacking a police officer while she was a guest in the Al-Kurd home,
as it was taken over by Israeli settlers last week, the International
Solidarity Movement reported Friday."
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Fatah
fails
to
mobilize
rallies
in
support
of
Abbas
---
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s73WR4PaNlhAxFj%2bvu%2bzHI5V
tJtyoNfgOJbqZ%2fLfy0xyrUhPGidttxJht%2fKabuVmM4Hv0ERXRmAuhOeuqVW3jD4sp%2fNotvCpQi8Tcfgm2eQM4%3d
A quote...."WEST BANK, (PIC)-- Fatah has failed to mobilize mass
rallies in support of its leader Mahmoud Abbas to urge him to change
his mind about not running for president of the PA. -- A number of
rallies took place after the Friday prayers in a number of West Bank
cities but the numbers of participants in those rallies were dismal
despite the fact that Fatah tried to utilise the numbers of people who
attend Friday prayers at various mosques to swell those numbers."
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Israeli
settlements
could
cause
one-state
solution ---
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/05/settlements/index.html
Contains Video - A
quote...."aeb Erekat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Steering Committee, said Wednesday that Palestine Authority president
Mahmoud Abbas should be frank with the Palestinian people and admit to
them that there is no possibility of a two-state solution given
continued Israeli colonization of the West Bank." --
also posted at CommonDreams
---
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/06-9
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More on the
US-NRE's Honduran Coup....
As
Honduran
Deal
Failed,
Split
Behind
Crisis
Grew ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/world/americas/07honduras.html?_r=1&ref=world
A quote...."MEXICO CITY — The collapse of an agreement that only a week
ago was celebrated in Honduras as bringing the end to a four-month
political standoff has only intensified the divisions that have long
characterized the crisis: The two sides hew to contradictory
interpretations of the agreement, the United States and the rest of the
hemisphere are at odds over how to move forward, and the president who
was ousted in a coup is holed up in the Brazilian Embassy while his
unelected successor seems stronger than ever."
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National
Resistance Against the Coup d’Etat Announces Boycott of November 29
Honduras Elections
--- http://www.narconews.com/Issue61/article3917.html
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS, NOVEMBER 6, 2009: Hundreds of people
have congregated daily outside the Honduran National Congress to
pressure its members (known as ‘Diputados,’ or Deputies) to finally
reinstate President Manuel Zelaya. The new wave of hope came after the
US State Department’s visit that many interpret as a tactic to
guarantee the November 29 elections. While US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton proclaimed a “breakthrough in negotiations in
Honduras,” things on the ground still seemed to be at a stalemate as of
Thursday afternoon, November 5, the date that, according to the accord
signed last week, should have brought – but didn’t bring – the end of
the coup regime."
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Honduras
leadership
in
limbo
as
accord
dissolves ---
http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/11/06/honduras-leadership-in-limbo-as-accord-dissolves/
A quote...."They can't both be right. Ousted Honduran President Manuel
Zelaya says a deal that could have returned him to power is defunct.
Roberto Micheletti, who took power after a coup, says the same deal has
been successfully accomplished."
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U.S.
jobless
rate
surges to 10.2 percent ---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/bs_nm/us_usa_economy
A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly
jumped to 10.2 percent last month, a 26-1/2-year high, adding to
pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment
even as signs of recovery mount."
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Wall
Street
bonuses
to rise by 40 percent ---
http://wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/bonu-n06.shtml
Related Article - A quote...."The authors of the biggest financial
catastrophe in world history—executives and traders at US investment
and commercial banks—will see their year-end bonuses rise by an average
of 40 percent compared to last year, according to a report issued
Wednesday by Johnson Associates, a Wall Street-based compensation
consulting firm." --
For more on
this issue see....Having
Fun
With
Your
Tax
Dollars
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html
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The
Great
Foreclosure
Robbery Of The 21st Century ---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6217-0-5-5--.html
A quote...."The Center for Responsible Lending estimates that there
have now been 1,000,000 foreclosures filed so far in 2009 and the group
expects the foreclosure number to double before the end of the year. --
U.S. Home Vacancies Hit 18.7 Million on Bank Seizures (Update2) [1] "
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The
billionaire
bailout
society ---
http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-11-05/billionaire-bailout-society.html?
Must View Video - A
quote...."The new financial instruments invented about 30 years ago
helped the America’s wealthiest to suck up the extra wealth created by
deregulated finance system, explains Les Leopold, author of “
The
Looting of America” ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=oS7I_Pq00IQC&pg=PP1&dq
---
[GoglBkSrch]."
---
http://books.google.com/books?id=oS7I_Pq00IQC&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0
---
*links
added
--
also posted at BLN
---
http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-11-05/billionaire-bailout-society.html?
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It's
Time
To
Fire
Tim
Geithner ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/dylan-ratigan-its-time-to-fire-tim-geithner-2009-11
Must Read - A quote...."A
year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system
is a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance CEOs pay
themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lend and
insure assets with money they don't have to customers who can't pay
back the loans. -- In those dark days between the fall of Lehman
Brothers and before the presidential election, we were often carried
through that time by the small glimmer of hope that at least we would
soon have a new leader who would hopefully fix this mess and punish
those responsible. -- Yet in the past 9 months, not only has the
administration failed to fix anything, they have actually made things
much worse for anyone who isn't a Wall Street banker. Therefore, we are
past the point where anyone in power still gets the benefit of the
doubt -- the process of taking back our country for all citizens must
begin now."
also posted at
OhBummer
---
http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/its-time-to-fire-tim-geithner.html
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Is
the
Economy
Recovering?
The
Curious
Case
of
1920
vs.
1929
---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/economy-recovering-curious-case-1920-vs-1929
Special Note - A
quote...."In order to understand the present state of the U.S. economy
you have to understand that there are two things happening at once. For
the most part they are in conflict with each other, in that one track
can negatively impact the other."
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“The
Chief
Executive
[of
Giant
Dark
Pool
Said]
the
Amount
of
Money
Devoted
to
High-frequency
Trading
Could
‘QUINTUPLE
Between
this
Year
and
Next’"
---
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/11/chief-executive-of-giant-dark-pool-said.html
A quote...."In a must-read essay, Senator Ted Kaufman reveals that -
despite all of the talk coming out of Washington - high-frequency
trading is set to explode:"
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The
Disastrous
Performance
Of
Private
Equity:
Of
The
Top
10
LBOs,
6
Are
In
Distress,
4
Have
Defaulted
---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/disastrous-performance-private-equity-top-10-lbos-6-are-distress-4-have-defaulted
Special Note -
Highly satirical -
mpg -- A quote...."One sometimes
wonders why the idiots in Washington have still not bailed out the
private equity industry. After all, for the low, low price of about
$100 billion (which is about how much keeping Fannie on life support
will cost US taxpayers in the first quarter of 2010 alone), Congress
can ensure that thousands of PE associates, VPs and MDs can once again
frequent Hustler Club, order dozens of bottles of Cristal at Lotus, and
eat sushi straight off geisha bodies at Bar Masa. In other words, a
return to those oh so difficult days of 2007. Furthermore, looking at
the track record of PE, especially as characterized by its 10 largest
deals in history, one can make the mistake that KKR, Apollo, Bain,
Carlyle and Providence are all employing exclusively government
workers: therefore the government would in essence be bailing out
itself."
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Consumer
debt
drops
for
record
8th
straight
month ---
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/consumer-debt-drops-for-record-8th-straight-month-2009-11-06
Deflation Alert - A
quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Outstanding consumer debt fell at
a 7.2% annual rate in September, the eighth consecutive decline, the
Federal Reserve reported Friday. Consumer credit fell by $14.8 billion
to $2.46 trillion in September, down 4.7% compared with a year ago.
Outstanding credit can fall if consumers pay off balances, or if
lenders write off bad loans. The decline in September was led by
another huge drop in revolving debt, such as credit cards, which fell
$9.9 billion to $889 billion, or a 13.3% annual rate. Nonrevolving debt
-- such as auto loans, student loans and other personal loans -- fell
$4.9 billion to $1.57 trillion, or a 3.7% annual rate."
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Reserve
Bank
of
India’s Gold Purchase From the IMF ---
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff319.html
A quote...."This transaction has a significant meaning that goes well
beyond the dollar amounts involved, which are not that large. It means
that a major central bank has actually disposed of dollar assets and
prefers gold instead. It means that it regarded its dollar holdings as
excessive. There are more central banks in the same position. They may
do the same. China had been suggested again and again as the potential
buyer of the 403 tonnes of gold to be offered by the IMF. India’s
purchase was a surprise."
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Investor
Psychology:
Fear
Turns
People
Into
Sheep ---
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/11/investor-psychology-fear-turns-people.html
A quote...."Investors are basically rational, right? -- In fact, as
many studies have demonstrated, the answer is no. --
But instead of wading through all of the investment psychology
research, let's look at research into people's basic reasoning
abilities. Bear with me for a minute. A study in an area unrelated to
investing sheds light on people's basic thinking processes."
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Thursday November 5th 2009 --
links page
Stone
Walls
and
Steel
Bars:
America's
War
on
its
Own
Keeps
Raging
---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3-articles/1870-stone-walls-and-steel-bars-americas-war-on-its-own-keeps-raging.html
Must Read - A
quote...."The cruel and unusual punitiveness of American society is a
frequent topic on these page. (The most recent piece is here.) No
nation on earth puts as many of its people in jail -- both in real
numbers and as a percentage of the population. And few if any have
"justice" systems so savagely targeted at racial minorities. For the
past 30 years -- concurrent with the organized effort by the monied,
militarized elite to destroy any and all restraints on their predatory
appetites -- the United States has waged an unrelenting war on its
black population, and on other minority and marginalized groups as
well."
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Criminal
convictions
of
22
CIA
agents
in
Italy ---
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/11/05/renditions/index.html
Special Note - A
quote...."The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's
kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own."
also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59779&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Lithuania
votes
to
probe
hosting
CIA
torture
prison ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110533§ionid=351020606
A quote...."Parliamentarians in Lithuania have voted to launch an
investigation into allegations that the CIA operated a clandestine
prison in the Baltic state to hold 'suspected al-Qaeda terrorists.' "
-- For more on the two articles
shown
above see....Fun
&
Torture
-
It's
a
Pleasure.
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/funandtorture-blog-mpg-020307.html
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Reporters
face
violence
as
Iraq
cracks
down
on
media
dissent ---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/05/iraq-government-warn-media
A quote...."Iraqis are fearing a renewed crackdown on dissent as a
crucial national poll draws near, with several journalists claiming to
have been beaten by security forces and ministers issuing warnings
about media coverage. -- Iraq's communications minister, Faruq Abd
Al-Qadir, has introduced a $5,000 (£3,000) licence fee for all
broadcast media outlets and ordered the staff of the 58 media and
television stations operating in the country to apply for work
permits." -- also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59778&hd=&size=1&l=e
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America's
new
crusader
castles ---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/oct/29/us-embassies-crusader-castles
A quote...."After the US Congress agreed a $7.5bn aid package for
Pakistan this autumn, the Obama administration was taken aback by the
seemingly ungrateful reaction of its intended recipients. Pakistani
opposition politicians fumed about "colonialism" and "imperialism".
Military men spoke angrily of insults to national sovereignty implied
in conditions attached to the aid." -- also posted at ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23901.htm
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Bipartisan Attack on
International Humanitarian Law ---
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6549
A quote...."In a stunning blow against international law and human
rights, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a
resolution on Tuesday attacking the report of the United Nations Human
Rights Council's fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict. The report
was authored by the well-respected South African jurist Richard
Goldstone and three other noted authorities on international
humanitarian law, who had been widely praised for taking leadership in
previous investigations of war crimes in Rwanda, Darfur, the former
Yugoslavia, and elsewhere. Since this report documented apparent war
crimes by a key U.S. ally, however, Congress has taken the
unprecedented action of passing a resolution condemning it"
also posted at ICH
---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23903.htm
& Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59776&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Afghanistan:
Children
among
civilians
killed
in
NATO
strike
say
locals ---
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3956424537
A quote...."Lashkargah, 5 Nov. (AKI) - Artillery and mortar shelling by
the NATO-led international troops killed nine civilians including three
children in southern Afghanistan, locals said, quoted by Afghan news
agency Pajhwok on Thursday."
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Taliban
'welcomed
killer
with
garlands
of
flowers'
---
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/taliban-welcomed-killer-with-garlands-of-flowers-1815733.html
A quote...."The Afghan police officer who shot dead five British
soldiers in Helmand on Tuesday approached the Taliban two months ago to
offer his services and sought refuge with the insurgents after carrying
out the killings, Afghan security sources said yesterday. -- One report
claimed that Taliban militants welcomed the renegade officer, named
only as Gulbuddin, with flowers after he escaped from pursuing British
and Afghan troops in the town of Nad-e-Ali. A tribal leader said the
officer had been smuggled out of the area."
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Afghan
insurgents
make
wreckage
of
U.S.
armored
vehicles ---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091106/wl_mcclatchy/3350187
A quote...."WASHINGTON — Taliban -led insurgents in Afghanistan have
devised ways to cripple and even destroy the expensive armored vehicles
that offer U.S. forces the best protection against roadside bombs by
using increasingly large explosive charges and rocket-propelled
grenades, according to U.S. soldiers and defense officials."
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Iran
Arabic channel taken off air ---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8343137.stm
A quote...."Iran's Arabic language satellite television channel,
al-Alam, has been taken off air by two Arab-controlled satellite
companies."
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Suspect
Alive:
12
Dead
in
Ft.
Hood
Shooting ---
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/11/05/12-killed-in-fort-hood-shooting/
A quote...."In the deadliest shooting ever on a domestic American
military base, a military doctor, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, opened fire
on troops in a crowded building in the middle of Fort Hood, America’s
largest military base, killing 12 and wounding 31 others."
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========== ====
Suspect
Was
‘Mortified’
About
Deployment
to
War ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/us/06suspect.html?_r=1&hp
A quote...."WASHINGTON — Born and reared in Virginia, the son of
immigrant parents from a small Palestinian town near Jerusalem, he
joined the Army right out of high school, against his parents’ wishes.
The Army, in turn, put him through college and then medical school,
where he trained to be a psychiatrist. -- But Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan,
the 39-year-old man accused of Thursday’s mass shooting at Fort Hood,
Tex., began having second thoughts about a military career a few years
ago after other soldiers harassed him for being a Muslim, he told
relatives in Virginia. -- Yep....real
smart,
train
a
guy
how
to
use
a
gun,
give
him
one,
than
harass
and
tease
him
for
two
or
three
years
calling
him
a
"rag
head"
or
"towel
head"
or
"camel
jockey" ---
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/nidal-malik-hasan-wanted-army-family/story?id=9008184
---
or some other epithet, and
than to top it all off,
send him back
to a hell hole were the same guys that were teasing him all these years
get to blow people like him away just for the sheer pleasure of it.
Military genius at work folks, they don't call them grunts for nothing
(hint, it's the noise they make when they're trying to think). - mpg
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ElBaradei:
Inspectors
found
nothing
worrying
in
Iran ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110546§ionid=351020104
A quote...."The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief says
that UN inspectors have found "nothing to be worried about" in Iran's
latest nuclear facility."
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ElBaradei
warns
against
any
Israeli
attack
on
Iran ---
http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110474§ionid=351020104
War Alert - Special Note - Quote
of the Day...."ElBaradei said he was convinced the Iranians were
prepared at one point to stop their enrichment program but that the
previous US administration and the European powers missed an
opportunity to end the standoff by imposing conditions on Iran that
were "impossible to accept". -- Of
course! Just like they did with Saddam, repeatedly asking him to
"prove" over and over again that he "didn't possess" nuclear weapons
when most of them, certainly Bush and Blair, knew all along he didn't
have them. Obama, AIPAC, Israel and a few bought and paid for
jackals in Europe want another war in the Middle East, this one with
Iran....and they want it
to start right on time in 2010
or
2011. ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407
---
For more on this issue
see....The
True
Axis
of
Evil
-
10-10-08
-
mpg ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thetrueaxisofevil-mpg-blog-101008
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Russia
spy
chief
warns
of
new
Georgia
war:
report ---
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5A41LP20091105
A quote...."MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian military intelligence believes
Georgia might again attack South Ossetia, the pro-Moscow region over
which the two countries fought a war last year, a powerful spy chief
said on Thursday. -- Alexander Shlyakhturov, who in April took over
command of the military's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), said the
situation was strained and accused NATO countries of continuing to
supply arms to Georgia." -- 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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For
Whom
the
Bell
Tolls ---
http://buchanan.org/blog/for-whom-the-bell-tolls-2875
A quote...."For the Blue Dogs, Tuesday was a fire bell in the night. --
Virginia Republicans led by Robert McDonnell crushed the most
conservative Democrat nominee in decades, rolling up a victory that
rivaled Ronald Reagan’s rout of Walter Mondale. -- New Jersey GOP
nominee Chris Christie, whose campaign had been the despair of its
backers, won a 5-point victory over Jon Corzine, despite huge
Democratic advantages in money and voter registration, two visits by
Barack Obama and the presence on the ballot of a third-party candidate
who took votes away from Christie. -- Maine has gone Democratic in five
straight presidential elections. Yet voters overturned a gay [homosexual]
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/letsbringbackpolygamy-mpg-reficultnias-082104.html
---
marriage
state
law,
53-47,
the
31st
straight victory for traditionalists. This replicates
California’s rejection of gay marriage, 52-48, in a year Obama carried
the state by 24 points and 3 million votes." - bold by website editor
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Abbas
'not
to
seek
re-election' ---
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/2009/11/200911514136555635.html
--- Hip Hip Hooray!! - mpg
Special Note - Some
quotes...."Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has said he will
not seek re-election when elections are held in January, Palestinian
officials have said." -- "Another PLO official said Abbas, who heads
the Fatah faction in the West Bank, will give a speech later on
Thursday explaining his decision not to run." -- OH! ME! ME! ME! Let this website
editor try.....
My Fellow Palestinians
After many years of service to
the Israeli and US-NRE establishments. After carefully hiding my
traitorous nature to the Palestinian cause. After being the most
obsequious, servile, craven, crawling, butt-kissing, sniveling,
conniving, backstabbing, lowlife, toad, ever to disgrace the glorious
history of the Palestinian people, it has come to my attention that
you've all become aware of what I truly am when, during the last month,
under strict instructions from my masters in Isreal and the US-NRE, I
attempted to delay the adoption of the Goldstone report by the UN.
Since there's hardly a chance
of me safely walking down a public street for the rest of my life
without an armed escort because of what I've done, much less ever
running for elective office again, I have concluded with the greatest
regret to give up my lifetime sinecure with the Israeli and US-NRE
administrations and leave you poor slobs to their tender mercies while
I high-tail it out of here to some friendly, low tax, European country
to contemplate my ill-gotten gains.
Have a nice life folks. - mpg
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UN
endorses
Goldstone
report ---
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/11/2009115191843940640.html
A quote...."The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a
UN-sponsored report which says Israel committed war crimes during last
winter's military assault on the Gaza Strip." -- also posted at Uruknet
---
http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m59775&hd=&size=1&l=e
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"They
Hate
Us
Because
of
Our
Freedom" ---
http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/11/they-hate-us-because-of-our-freedom.html
Special Note - Article List
- A quote...."By removing the rule of law for “one” group of people, in
order to allow another “group” of people to escape the Law, makes you
an accessory to that crime. Instead of proving the American principles
of Justice and upholding the Law for “everyone.” America instead has
sent a message to Arabs and Muslims that they don’t matter. They are
2nd class lesser people whom cannot expect the law to work for them."
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Hey
Israel
--
Here's
Egg
in
Your
Face ---
http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/11/hey-israelheres-egg-in-your-face.html
Action Update - A
quote...."Israel seems to have a hard time getting the message. This is
yet another trait of Zionists, the inability to notice that people
actually hate them. Ehud Olmert's recent hasbara trip has continually
met with much the same reaction. Chicago,
---
http://mondoweiss.net/2009/10/ehud-olmert-struggles-to-give-univ-of-chicago-lecture-amid-protests.html
---
Arkansas,
---
http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2009/11/hey-israelheres-egg-in-your-face.html
---
Kentucky,
--- http://www.newstin.co.uk/tag/uk/150866473 --- San
Francisco
---
http://current.com/items/90909817_san-francisco-protest-alert-israeli-former-prime-minister-olmert-speaking-at-union-square-oct-22.htm
---
all
welcomed
the
War
Criminal
with
huge
protests.
However,
Turkey
wins
the
prize
for
originality,when
Ambassador
Gabby
Levy
arrived
at
the
university
to
speak,
he
was,
wait
for
it....
pelted
with
eggs
by
students;o)
Yea
Turkey,
you
have
my
vote
in
next
years
Euro
vision
for
that
one!!"
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Turks
protest
Israeli
ambassador
again - Remember
everybody, use ROTTEN eggs only!
- mpg
http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-4551694/aHR0cDovL3d3dy55bmV0bmV3cy5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZXMvMCw3MzQwLEwtMzgwMDg1MywwMC5odG1s
Action Update (again) --
A quote...."Turks have staged a second protest against Israel's
ambassador in as many days in a public display of anger against Israel
over the Gaza war. -- Private TV 24 channels showed dozens of
Turks shouting "murderer Israel" as Ambassador Gabby Levy visited the
mayor's office in the northern town of Gumushane as part of his Black
Sea tour on Thursday. HaberTurk television says Levy's car was pelted
with eggs Wednesday during a visit to a university in the city of
Trabzon. Police detained about 30 protesters involved. (AP)"
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Ministry:
Gaza
fisherman
shot
by
Israeli
navy ---
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=237345
A quote...."Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli naval forces shot a Palestinian
fisherman on Wednesday whilst he was fishing near Rafah, south of the
Gaza Strip. -- The Agriculture Ministry in Gaza stated that fisherman
Bilal Muhammad An-Najjar, 20, was shot in the stomach by Israeli naval
officers."
also posted at AlethoNews
---
http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/ministry-gaza-fisherman-shot-by-israeli.html
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“By
All
Relevant
Debt
Indicators,
the
US
Fiscal
Scenario
Will
Soon
Approximate
[that
of]
Countries
on
the
Verge
of
a
Sovereign
Debt
Default”
---
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/11/by-all-relevant-debt-indicators-us.html
---
A
quote...."Josh
Lipton
points
out
---
http://www.minyanville.com/articles/gold-record-high-strategists-analysts-deficit-debt-US-minyanville/index/a/25289
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research (AEI) published a paper
--- http://www.aei.org/docLib/Deficit%20Endgame.pdf
---
indicating that “by all relevant debt indicators, the US fiscal
scenario will soon approximate the economic scenario for countries on
the verge of a sovereign debt default.”
Well, the U.S. is acting
like
a
banana
republic. ---
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/03/experts-on-third-world-banana-republics.html
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A
Corporate
Black
President
-
Glen
Ford
at
Capital
University ---
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/corporate-black-president
AltVid
---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL-6XzuHoD0&feature=player_embedded
---
(YouTube
-
6
min
27
sec
-
Oct
26,
2009)
Video - Regrettably it's not the entire speech,
only a portion. – mpg -- A quote...."Glen Ford came to Columbus
to speak at Capital University on October 7 on behalf of the Citizen's
Grassroots Congress. He spoke on "The United States' first black
corporate President" and about the current economic situation with
banks failing and being bailed out." -- See article shown below....
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A
Detailed
Look
At
Goldman's
CDS
Holdings
And
How
CDS
Trading
Has
Become
The
Squid's
Multi-Billion
Cash
Cow
---
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/detailed-look-goldmans-cds-holdings-and-how-cds-trading-has-become-squids-multi-billion-cash
Charts - Related Article -- A
quote...."One of the more useful information items in Goldman's
periodic filings is granular disclosure on the firm's CDS holdings, and
specifically segregated data by maturity bucket and by spread as
pertains to "maximum payout and notional amount of written credit
derivatives." In essence, due to the firm's monopoly in CDS inventory
and, therefore, trading, this is the squid's beating heart: between
buying and selling (hopefully offsetting positions) CDS in billions of
dollars worth of notional daily, and being able to capitalize on wide
spreads, courtesy of the extinction of such traditional competitors as
Bear and Lehman, the firm will continue to make hundreds of millions in
profits every day, month and quarter, due to its newly found monopolist
exposure when it comes to trading CDS, both as principal and as agent."
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Fannie
Mae
seeks
$15B
more
in
government
aid
after
3Q
loss ---
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2009-11-05-fannie-mae_N.htm
A quote...."WASHINGTON — Fannie Mae is asking for an additional $15
billion in government aid after posting another big loss in the third
quarter as the taxpayer bill from the housing market bust keeps rising."
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