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Iraq Occupation Facts  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m38327&s1=h1
A quote...."FACTS: There are 8 Million Iraqis in need of emergency aid. 43% of Iraqis suffer from absolute poverty. Child malnutrition 19% in 2003 and 28% in 2007. 92% of Iraqi children suffer from Learning problems because of the situation. - According to the UNAMI report for the 1st April untill 30th June 2007 states: 47% of IDPs are not receiving their food rations. This is in contrast to a distribution rate of 96% before the war in 2003.At least 40% of the educated and experienced Iraqi workers have left the country. 70% of Displaced Iraqis are women."

Suffer the Children  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18734.htm
A quote...."11/16/07 "ICR" No. 237, 16-Nov-07 -- Child mortality in Iraq has spiralled because of the tense security situation, deteriorating health services and lack of medical supplies, say experts. - According to a report released in May 2007 by aid agency Save the Children, Iraq's child mortality rate has increased by a staggering 150 per cent since 1990, more than any other country.�

Regarding the two articles shown above see....
The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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U.S. accused of taking sides in Shiite factional fighting  ---  http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2007-11-9%5Ckurd6.htm
A quote...."The U.S. is providing logistic and intelligence assistance to a rival Shiite faction to weaken the Sadr Movement, a movement's senior official said. - Bahaa al-Araji said the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, a leading ally of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, was working to undermine the movement and to provoke its military wing. - The Mahdi Army, the movement's military arm, has vowed to suspend military operations targeting U.S. and Iraqi troops as well as other militia factions. - But Araji said the movement, led by Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr may not be able to keep its promise with the U.S. siding with one of its major rivals."

China deals blow to Western efforts to punish Iran  - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1671722820071116?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
A quote...."LONDON (Reuters) - China has dealt a blow to Western efforts to increase diplomatic pressure on Iran over its nuclear program by dropping out of a meeting to discuss tougher sanctions against Tehran."

Farhi: IAEA Finds Iran did not Divert Material to Weapons  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2007/11/farhi-iaea-finds-iran-did-not-divert.html
A quote...."The IAEA is clearly frustrated with Iran for a) continuing to enrich uranium (the Iranians say it is for fuel and international law allows them to do this), and for not being 100% transparent about their energy research program. But it finds no evidence that Iran even has a weapons program, and finds a consistency between Iranian statements and IAEA findings.

Iran warns U.S. against damaging Iran-IAEA cooperation  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/17/content_7096476.htm
A quote...."TEHRAN, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Iran on Saturday warned the United States and some of its allies against damaging "productive cooperation" between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the official IRNA news agency reported."

Israel Says Head of IAEA Should be Fired  ---  http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/2007/11/10/israel-says-head-of-iaea-should-be-fired/
A quote...."The right-wing American and Israeli administrations are similar in many ways. For example, if someone presents facts that they don't like, leaders of both countries will work to replace that person with someone who will say what they want them to say. Such is the case with the head of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, who has honestly stated that there is no evidence suggesting that Iran intends to build nuclear weapons. Because this fact invalidates Israel's rationale for a war with Iran, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz called Thursday for Mohamed ElBaradei to be removed from office."

Russia readies nuclear fuel bound for Iran  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1616835820071116
A quote...."MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday gave the clearest indication yet that it was ready to send uranium to fuel Iran's first atomic power station, upping the stakes in a diplomatic crisis surrounding Tehran's nuclear program. - Russia's state-run nuclear fuel producer said inspectors from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog would later this month start sealing nuclear fuel bound for the Bushehr plant, a major step to shipping the fuel to the Bushehr plant in Iran."

IAEA Again Verifies Iranian Compliance  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=11923
A quote...."Hallelujah! The International Atomic Energy Agency has, once again, verified "the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran." It seems the Iranians continue to provide the IAEA access to all "special nuclear materials"  “as proscribed by the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons“ and all relevant nuclear material accountancy reports, as well as access to all activities involving said materials.  --  So, let the dancing in the streets commence!

But wait a minute.....
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Seizure of Iranians Failed to Validate Bush Line  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40104
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (IPS) - The George W. Bush administration's campaign to seize and detain Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officials in Iraq, presented by Bush himself last January as a move to break up an alleged Iranian arms smuggling operation in Iraq, appears to have run its course without having been able to link a single Iranian to any such operation. - Despite administration rhetoric suggesting that the U.S. military had solid intelligence on which to base a campaign to break up Iranian-sponsored networks supplying armour-piercing weapons, what is now known about the kidnapping operations indicates that the actual purpose was to obtain some evidence from interrogations that would support the administration's line that the IRGC's elite Quds Force is involved in assisting Shiite forces militarily."

For more on this see....
Fake Intel - IED's & EFP's  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IEDS__EFPS
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Russia's Ilyushin Finance to supply Tu-204 planes to Iran  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071116/88447536.html
A quote...."MOSCOW, November 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Ilyushin Finance plans to sign a preliminary contract with Iran Airtour at the Dubai Air Show on Monday to supply Iran with 30 Tu-204-100 aircraft, a source close to negotiations said on Friday."

Two Years After Murtha's Call: Another 1,800 American Troops Dead
  ---  http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003674427
A quote...." (November 17, 2007) -- Two years ago today, I wrote in this space that perhaps a kind of "Cronkite moment" had arrived in what already seemed like a long war in Iraq. The hawkish Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) had suddenly, that day, come out with a call to start rapidly removing U.S. troops from the war zone. I wondered if editorialists and pundits would finally embrace that notion, rather than continue to lag behind the views of the American public. - They didn't, Congress also failed to act, and where are we two years later? We have even more troops in Iraq now -- and far fewer Iraqis there, as the mass exodus and ethnic cleansing has, if you will pardon the expression, "surged." While rampant violence has declined lately, there has been little or no political progress in that country."

Turks Favor Invasion  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2007/11/turks-favor-invasion.html
A quote...."from a Reuters article - The number of people saying Turkey should conduct a cross-border military operation against militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) stood at 81 percent, up sharply from 46 percent in the last poll in July.'

Turkish tanks advancing near borders with Iraq - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/english/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=60404&NrIssue=2&NrSection=1
A quote...."Duhuk, Nov 16, (VOI) “Turkish tanks were seen advancing towards the Iraqi borders on a background of Turkish threats to raid northern Iraq to hunt down fighters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) holed up in mountainous areas on the Iraqi side of the joint frontiers, border guards and witnesses in Duhuk said on Friday."

Nigeria: Militants Bomb Shell's Oil Pipeline in Delta - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://allafrica.com/stories/200711160362.html
A quote...."MILITANTS in the early hours of yesterday blew up with explosives a crude oil delivery pipeline, belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Delta State amidst fears that the execution of the multi-billion dollars Escravos Gas-to-Liquid project of the American oil giant, Chevron Nigeria Limited, may be truncated following a fresh threat by the people of oil-rich Ugborodo community, Warri South West local government area."

China, RF reach agreement on setting gas prices  ---  http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12081821&PageNum=0
A quote...."BEIJING, November 17 (Itar-Tass) - China National Petroleum Corporation and Russia’s Gazprom have reached agreement on setting gas prices, Gazprom deputy board chairman Alexander Medvedev said on Saturday."

Demonstrators protest against U.S. radar base in Prague  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/18/content_7097299.htm
A quote...."PRAGUE, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Several hundred people rallied Saturday in the city center of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, to voice disagreement with the planned stationing of a U.S. radar base in the country."

Chavez launches initiative to back OPEC, Iran  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/147871
A quote...."Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pursued an ambitious diplomatic mission Saturday aimed at persuading OPEC nations to maintain oil prices at their current level, defending Iran's nuclear program, and stepping up efforts to get Colombian rebels to release hostages. - Chavez wants the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries summit in Saudi Arabia this week to take on a stronger "political and geopolitical" role and return to its stance of the 1970s when it tightened the screws on consumer nations."

Accused Terrorist May Yet Face Justice  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40103
A quote...."Thursday's hearing on suspected terrorist Luis Posada Carriles -- an extremist anti-Casto Cuban exile -- marks the first congressional foray into a drama where the Justice Department has severely bungled attempts to hold and prosecute a man described by the committee chairman as having "a reputation as a notorious terrorist" with "a well-documented history of violence." - "What was significant about this hearing is that is signals the exercise of congressional oversight of the scandalous situation that the Bush administration has created with Luis Posada," Peter Kornbluh, director of the National Security Archive's Cuba programme, told IPS."
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To a Fascist, ALL Americans are Terrorists  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/november2007/161107Terrorists.htm

According to the wannabe-fascists:

• The majority of Americans who question the White House's "endless war" strategy are giving aid and comfort to the enemy  ---  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=Ngl&q= criticize%2Biraq%2B%22giving%2Baid%2Band%2Bcomfort%2Bto%2Bthe%2Benemy%22&btnG=Search
  

• The many millions of Americans who support presidential candidate Ron Paul are terrorists  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8M2JBIoqo
  

• The vast majority   ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/141006poll.htm  ---  of Americans who question the government's version of 9/11 are also terrorists  ---  http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/11/who-are-terrorists-911-truth-activists.html
  

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Pound Poised for Biggest Weekly Drop Against Dollar Since 2005
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a7BATeMPNwO8&refer=uk
A quote...."Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The pound headed for its biggest weekly drop against the euro in more than two years as signs economic growth is slowing fueled speculation the Bank of England will cut its key interest rate as early as next month."

France: Rank-and-file workers force continuation of rail strike  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/nov2007/fran-n17.shtml
& German train drivers intensify their strike  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/nov2007/germ-n17.shtml
It appears the European elite's recent adoption of Neo-Liberal-Capitalism as an economic plan doesn't sit to well with the rank and file. - mpg

Atlanta May Have to Drink the Dregs  ---  http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jHzTY3PWCbYfqU152QYeQ04K5uqwD8SV18V00
A quote...."ATLANTA (AP) ”With drought tightening its grip on the Southeast, the Atlanta area's reservoirs are almost down to the dregs ”the dirtier, more bacteria-laden water close to the bottom” and "it's going to require more aggressive and more expensive purification."

Climate changes now "irreversible," U.N. report warns  ---  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004019443_climate17.html
A quote...."The United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning panel on climate change approved the final installment of its landmark report on global warming Friday, concluding that even the best efforts at reducing carbon-dioxide levels will not be enough. The world, the report says, also must focus on adapting to "abrupt and irreversible" climate changes."

Friday November 16th 2007 - links page

Basra attacks down 90% since British troops left
  ---  http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/world-news/middle-east/basra-attacks-down-90-since-british-troops-left-1221511.html
A quote...."The British army says violence in Basra has fallen by 90% since it withdrew from the southern Iraqi city earlier this year. Around 500 British soldiers left one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in the heart of the city in early September and stopped conducting regular foot patrols." - bold/italics by website author.

So another one of the utterly fraudulent and pathetically lame excuses for staying in Iraq -  "we're there to provide stability"  -  bites the dust leaving the only really true excuse left....Iraq's oil. - mpg
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Mahathir: US wants Iran's oil  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/147798
Complete quote...."Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says the US and Britain seek a war on Iran to gain control over its oil resources.

The US and Britain lied about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and used it as an excuse to invade the country, Mahathir said in a statement.

Now, they are using the same tactic against Iran, he said.

A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency showed there is no evidence that Tehran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program but the 'war mongering nations are once again claiming otherwise and demanding this to be an excuse for war', said the former prime minister.

"Clearly they are lying again,"he added.
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Iran wants Western "apology" after IAEA report  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSDAH63257320071116?rpc=401&
A quote...."TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran called on its Western foes on Friday to apologize to the Islamic Republic after the release of a U.N. nuclear agency report which Tehran said showed it had been telling the truth about its atomic plans, according to state media."

Abercrombie: Bush Doesn't Have Authority to Attack Iran  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111607R.shtml
A quote...."A key House Democrat on defense issues says Congress should clarify that President Bush does not have the authority to attack Iran."

OPEC Summit Delegates: OPEC Not To Blame For Record Prices, Prices May Hit $150  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/147769
A quote...."Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AHN) - Speakers at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries summit have said that OPEC is not to blame for the surge in oil prices; rather, they maintained that the record prices were a result of short-term supply disruptions and the decline in the dollar."

Army Desertion Rate Highest Since 1980  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-7083004,00.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) - Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003."

120 US war veteran suicides a week  ---  http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22762457-5005961,00.html
A quote...."THE US military is experiencing a "suicide epidemic" with veterans killing themselves at the rate of 120 a week, according to an investigation by US television network CBS. - At least 6256 US veterans committed suicide in 2005 - an average of 17 a day - the network reported, with veterans overall more than twice as likely to take their own lives as the rest of the general population."

To be swallowed by the yawning chasm between the evil soul shriveling lie of what is said by many in this country...and what is actually done by many in this country.  A contradiction that many people simply find impossible to live with.“ mpg
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So, George W. Bush sees himself as the great defender of the U.S. Constitution.  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/111607.html
A quote...."In a Nov. 15 speech to the right-wing Federalist Society, the President embraced the Constitution's checks and balances as a vital protection against tyranny. And he demanded that federal judges act as fair referees, not political or ideological partisans. - To many Americans who have been aghast at Bush's six-plus years of trampling the Constitution, such pronouncements might represent a textbook case of cognitive dissonance,� a psychological term describing the uncomfortable tension when one's stated principles are at odds with one's actions."

On the other hand there are creatures among us who have no problem living with the contradictions between what they say....and what they do. - mpg
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Special Relationship: Bush Family Friends Flay Rape Victim
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Special_Relationship%3A_Bush_Family_Friends_Flay_Rape_Victim/#jc_writeComment
A quote...."The ever-estimable Buzzflash asks the pertinent question: Will Laura Bush, renowned campaigner on behalf of the oppressed women of Islam, take up the cudgels for the "Girl from Qatif": a 19-year-old woman who was gang-raped “and has now been sentenced by a Saudi court to six months in jail – and 200 lashes “for the "crime" of being in the car of a man who was not her relative?"

A Review of America’s ‘Investment’ in El Salvador  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/16/5269/
A quote...."On November 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, their cook and her daughter were murdered execution-style by the right-wing Salvadoran military government. The priests were killed for teaching their students ideas about liberating themselves from the oppression of the rich families that owned most of the country's wealth. The cook and her daughter were killed because they were on the premises and potential witnesses to the crime."

Bush's Irrational Exuberance  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/11/15/BL2007111501197.html
A quote...."....those who say that Bush has already started pulling troops out are jumping the gun: "The latest news of declining violence comes as the U.S. troop contingent in Iraq has reached an all-time high. This week, the U.S. troop number will hit 175,000 -- the largest presence so far in the 4 1/2 -year war -- as units that are rotating in and out overlap briefly. But those numbers are scheduled to come down rapidly over the next several months, which will place an increasing burden on Iraqi security forces and an Iraqi government that has yet to demonstrate it is up to the challenge, senior military officials said."

The Palestinian path to peace does not go via Annapolis  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2212000,00.html
A quote...."World opinion is still on the side of the people of the occupied territories. But as long as they are divided, talks are futile  -- 
(for more on being "devided"
see US Sponsored Civil Wars- Palestine ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussponsoredcivilwars-weblist-mpg-101107#PALESTINE - mpg)
As the United States-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian meeting in Annapolis, Maryland, approaches, the key question is what follows when it fails. Fiasco is looming, so what do the Palestinians do next? In their decades-long bid for justice, they have already tried everything."

Benazir vs. Musharraf is Punch vs. Judy  ---  http://tonykaron.com/2007/11/13/benazir-vs-musharraf-is-punch-vs-judy/
A quote...."Shlent was the marvelous onomatopoeic term we used in my student activist days, as verb or noun, to describe the stage managing of an event or process in a manner that allowed its appearance to camouflage a power play. (The sound shlent to me always evoked heavy pieces falling smoothly into place.) And I can think of no better term to describe the bogus showdown we're being sold involving Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. In fact, appearances aside (although they camouflage very little), it's plain that Bhutto and Musharraf are still involved in an elaborate U.S.-brokered negotiation process  to divide the spoils of power in what might be called Pakistan's Team America."

Turkey preparing for cross-border strike in Iraq: general  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4793
A quote...."Turkey is preparing for a military strike against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, a senior general said Thursday, but gave no details on the timing or scale of such an operation."

Brazil eyes nuclear sub to defend oil  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Brazil_eyes_nuclear_sub_to_defend_o_11162007.html
A quote...."This month's discovery of a monster offshore oil reserve justifies Brazil's plan to build a nuclear submarine because it would be used to protect the find, the defense minister said."

What country does Brazil think would come and attack them for their oil?  Perhaps the same country that has already attacked, and is threatening to attack, several countries in the Middle East....hmmmmmm? - mpg
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Russia abandons key Cold War arms treaty  ---  http://fe73.news.sp1.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071116/wl_afp/russianatomilitarytreatycfe5thleadwrap
A quote...."MOSCOW (AFP) - The Russian senate voted Friday to suspend compliance with a key Cold War treaty limiting conventional military forces across Europe, drawing renewed Western criticism."

Another "victory" for the MIOC elites of this country....perpetual war. - mpg
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Countdown: Thicker Than Blackwater - (YouTube - 5 min 53 sec -  Added:  November 14, 2007)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y1pL9LZndQ&feature=related
Video - A quote...."Keith [Olbermann] gives his report on the House Oversight Committee hearing in which it was revealed that the State Department's Inspector Howard "Cookie" Krongard had a serious conflict of interest with his brother's ties to Blackwater and that he's on their advisory board. Howard Krongard is charged with oversight of Blackwater in Iraq. Richard Wolffe weighs in."
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SPECIAL REPORT: Turning The Police State Apparatus Against Dissenters  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/november2007/161107terror_hell.htm
A quote...."Second major phase of the coordinated destruction of freedom in America targets those who refuse to go along with it - A sustained media propaganda campaign in support of the move to swing the apparatus of tyranny away from phantom Muslim terrorists and towards the American people is in full operation and may pave the way for further attacks on US soil to be blamed on dissenting Americans who speak out against the war and the rise of the domestic police state."

Freedom Is Not Free - And Americans Are Poised To Lose Everything, Part 1  ---  http://justanothercoverup.com/?p=315
Related article - A quote...."Preface: After writing for over three years, I consider this to be the most important Op-Ed I have ever written; forget who I am and please concentrate on the facts and the evidence contained herein - and then form your own opinion. I am only the messenger, but the facts speak for themselves, and our nation faces a grave crisis that the majority of the population doesn't even know exists.

USNORTHCOM General Would Deploy Troops On U.S. Soil During Domestic Emergency  ---  http://www.thought-criminal.org/article/node/971
A quote...."COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. “The commander of USNORTHCOM says he's prepared to obey any order from the president to deploy U.S. troops on American soil in response to a domestic emergency."

Regarding the three articles shown above, see also.... Thirty Five Acts to Restore Americans' Rights 11-10-06 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/seventeenacts-blog-mpg-111006
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Ron Paul and the Defeat of the Liberventionists  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory150.html
A quote...."For the last six years, I have stood in horror, seeing the freedom movement divided over the issues of war and peace a division that has always afflicted the movement but which became particularly apparent and germane in the wake of 9/11."

If Kucinich launches Impeachment hearings, will this make him a front running presidential candidate?
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_w__chris_071116_if_kucinich_launches.htm
A quote...."Millions of Americans (not just so called "dems") will be infinitely grateful to Dennis Kucinich if impeachment hearings FINALLY get airborne.  And it seems reasonable to assume that most of them will not forget him in the primaries and (God willing) as a presidential candidate."

Gonzales Defense Fund Set Up  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/14/AR2007111402318.html
A quote...."Supporters of former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales have created a trust fund to help pay for his legal expenses, which are mounting in the face of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into whether Gonzales committed perjury or improperly tampered with a congressional witness."

Playing 'chicken' with the markets  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/IK17Dj03.html
Must Read - A quote...."Any parent knows that sometimes you have to tell a child something more than once to get your point across. If you're dealing with a teenager who has been allowed to have his or her own way for too long, you may have to repeat the message that things have changed, that there are new expectations, a few times before it sinks in. - That's what US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is doing with the markets these days - trying to send the message that he's instituting new rules of conduct, of proper behavior, for both the Fed and the markets."

How Dry We Are - A Question No One Wants to Raise About Drought  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174863
A quote...."Georgia's on my mind. Atlanta, Georgia. It's a city in trouble in a state in trouble in a region in trouble. Water trouble. Trouble big enough that the state government's moving fast. Just this week, backed up by a choir singing "Amazing Grace," accompanied by three protestant ministers, and 20 demonstrators from the Atlanta Freethought Society, Georgia's Baptist Governor Sonny Perdue led a crowd of hundreds in prayers for rain."

Thursday November 15th 2007 - links page

Muqtada moves to stop a Sunni 'surge'  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IK16Ak03.html
A quote...."DAMASCUS - The world is seemingly too busy these days to mind the day-to-day news coming out of Iraq - much to the pleasure of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. With the spotlight off him, Maliki gave an interview to the Saudi television channel al-Arabiyya, in which he asserted that "There is no civil war in Iraq." He added, "We don't have a militia problem in Iraq anymore." He wrapped up by noting that Iran does not have a decision-making influence on the Prime Minister's Office in Baghdad. - Maliki knew that he was, to put it politely, not telling the truth. In addition to spreading false public relations about his administration's effectiveness in combating terrorism, the Iraqi premier was also doing something very important. He was reconciling with the Mahdi Army of Muqtada al-Sadr."
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Double Bluff: The Democrats' Pro-War Anti-War Bill
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Double_Bluff%3A_The_Democrats%27_Pro-War_Anti-War_Bill/
A quote...."There has been much throwing about of brains on the Democrat's "bold" new proposal to "end" the onging war crime in Iraq. Anyone who still believes that these Reid-Pelosi Democrats are going to do anything to kill “or even pinch “the militarist goose whose golden eggs of loot and dominion are fattening the bipartisan plutocracy is, to put it mildly, a rock-bottom fool."

Stop the Lies, Stop the Funding, Stop the Genocide: STOP IT
  ---  http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/11/stop-lies-stop-funding-stop-genocide.html
Must Read - Related Article - A quote...."The time has arrived to prove to you a conclusion I have intended to discuss for some time. The conclusion will undoubtedly dismay some of you greatly. As a very wise philosopher once observed, or certainly should have observed: Tough."

Meet Abu Abed: the US's new ally against al-Qaida  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2208821,00.html
A quote...."With summary beatings and imprisonments, he has the methods of a mafia don. But he and others like him are crucial to American strategy "

Not winning but drowning  ---  http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/lawrence_korb/2007/11/not_winning_but_drowning.html
A quote...."Here's the good news: US forces have a had a few good months in Iraq. The bad news: America is still losing the war"

IRAQ: Exposing the Corporate Agenda  ---  http://ww4report.com/node/4611
A quote...."Antonia Juhasz, a fellow at Oil Change International, spoke at All Souls Church, a venerable Unitarian-Universalist institution on Manhattan's Upper East Side, on June 6, 2007, upon the release of the paperback edition of her book The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time "
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Nuclear report vindicates Iran: Ahmadinejad  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL1592289920071115
A quote...."TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Thursday it had been vindicated in a report by the U.N. atomic watchdog and there would be no legal basis for further discussion at the U.N. Security Council of its nuclear plans. -
"We welcome this, that the International Atomic Energy Agency has found its role and with the publication of (IAEA chief Mohamed) ElBaradei's report the world will see that the Iranian nation has been right and the resistance of our nation has been correct," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said."

How Cheney Cooked the Intelligence on Iran  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7302
A quote...."As I reported for Inter Press Service this week, Dick Cheney has been trying to pressure intelligence analysts who have not drunk the neocon kool-aid on Iran to go along with his line on the issues at stake in a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran that the White House has been holding up for more than a year. Think Progress immediately noted the parallel between the Cheney's effort to get an Iran NIE that is more to his liking and the way he pushed intelligence analysts to accept the fabrications the neocons were pushing in on Iraq in 2002."

Intel Chief Blasts 'Cherry Picked' Intel  ---  http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ipFZCOyGUt64HQ_hqTsgd2iAMVIQD8ST3LO80
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP)  ”National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell said Tuesday he would resign if administration officials mischaracterized or "cherry-picked" intelligence to support their own political agenda. - "If it were cherry-picked in an inappropriate way, then for me, that's a professional obligation to object, and I would submit my resignation," McConnell told reporters."
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OSC: Russia Seeks Political, Economic Dividends from Syria Ties  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2007/11/russia-seeks-political-osc-economic.html
A quote...."The USG Open Source Center analyzes Russia's renewed ties of patronage with Syria. The analysts look at arms sales, energy deals and port access for the Russian navy, among other dimensions of the relationship, and also trace the ways in which Russia has attempted to defend Syria in international forums."

Russia will supply a third of European gas  ---  http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20071115/88294083.html
A quote...."MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Oleg Mityayev) - At the 20th World Energy Congress in Rome on November 11-15, Russian representatives confirmed that they have chosen Europe as a priority market of energy supplies for many years ahead."

Asymmetrical Iskander missile systems  ---  http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20071115/88281798.html
A quote...."MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Pyotr Goncharov) - Russia may deliver its Iskander tactical missile systems to Belarus as an asymmetrical response to the deployment of American ABM components in Europe."

Pakistanis Growing Frustrated With U.S. - posted at AntiWar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/15/AR2007111502273_pf.html
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 15 -- Inside call centers and in high school social studies classes, at vegetable markets and in book bazaars, Pakistanis from different walks of life here say that ever since President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule two weeks ago, he's been the most unpopular figure in the country. But running a close second, many say, is his ally: President Bush."

BMD Watch: Tauscher will block Euro-bases  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/147736
A quote...."The seesaw battle between the Democratic 110th Congress and the Bush administration over whether to build an anti-ballistic missile interceptor base in Poland looks like staggering on for years to come. A key Democrat overseeing key elements of ballistic missile defense planning on Capitol Hill has come out strong against the plan. Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., the chair of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, said Thursday she would block any move to start building the base in Poland, which is intended to house 10 ground-based mid-course interceptors, or GBIs, to guard against any future Iranian or North Korean intermediate- or long-range nuclear missile attack against the United States or Western Europe. "

Leaked GITMO memo forbade ICRC visits  ---  http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/11/15/leaked_gitmo_memo_forbade_icrc_visits/1441/
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- A military manual on the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, outlines official policy to censor letters, deny Korans and prohibit Red Cross visits."

Banana King Chiquita Sued For $7.86 Billion Over Murders Of Plantation Workers  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/147641
A quote...."Bogota, Colombia (AHN) - A civil lawsuit seeks $7.86 billion on behalf of 393 victims and their relatives from Chiquita Brands International, accused of funding and arming a Colombian paramilitary organization that allegedly killed banana growers. - The lawsuit seeks damages for supporting terrorism, war crimes, wrongful death and torture with a value of $10 million in punitive and $10 million in compensatory damages for each of the victims."

Brooklyn reporter booted after asking about 'foreknowledge' of 9/11
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/911_Truthers_crash_Giuliani_coffee_shop_1115.html
Must Read - A quote...."Hicks was waiting with a question."

"Mr. Giuliani, six years ago you told Peter Jennings that 'we were told that the World Trade Center was going to collapse,'" Hicks said, quoting a remark from the former New York City mayor made during an interview with ABC News. "Where did you get your foreknowledge that the World Trade Center was going to collapse?"

"A laughing Giuliani quickly brushed past Hicks according to a video recording of the campaign stop, ignoring the question as he continued to work his way around an informal circle of supporters and press. But Hicks was not ignored by the Loveland Police Department. Two officers immediately took hold of his arms and hauled him into an adjacent parking lot."

Like cockroaches the bought and paid for sycophants of our illustrious elites can't stand the light of day, they and their presstituting lackeys NEVER talk about the DPG,   ---  http://work.colum.edu/%7Eamiller/wolfowitz1992.htm
PNAC, the   ---  http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eplatter/neo-conservatism/pnac.html
OIL the   ---  http://www.judicialwatch.org/iraqi-oil-maps.shtml
Saudi Royals   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/flights911-weblist-mpg-081906
or what really happened on
9/11  ---  http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041221155307646
....they simply don't dare.

Cowards one and all. - mpg
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9/11 - From The History File...Profile: John O'Neill
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The Threat From Terrorism Does Not Justify Slicing Away Our Freedoms  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111507F.shtml
A quote...."Britain is now one of the world's most spied-upon societies, where such ancient rights as habeas corpus are hacked to bits.  --  Smiley swirled the last of the brandy in his balloon glass and muttered: "We've given up far too many freedoms in order to be free. Now we've got to take them back." That legendary spymaster's warning about the over-intrusive, over-mighty national security states that we in the self-styled "free world" built up during the cold war was delivered in John le Carre's novel of 1990, The Secret Pilgrim. But instead of taking those freedoms back, British people have lost more of them. Across the western world, vastly more personal information is held on individuals by states and private companies; ancient liberties are curbed, people detained without trial, free speech stifled."

The American Dictatorship Institute  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo134.html
A quote...." In response to Ron Paul's phenomenal fundraising successes and his widespread, national popularity, the neocon establishment has commenced a smear campaign. One such smear artist is John C. Fortier, a "research fellow" at what Lew Rockwell has called the Supreme Soviet of Neoconservatism“ the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)."

Neocon Projections  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer166.html
A quote...."For the word "projection," a dictionary could offer no better illustration of the meaning of this psychological trait than to quote a few neocons."

Regarding this issue see....

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Hillary Clinton in Arkansas - The Seeds of Corruption - posted at CounterPunch  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11152007.html
A quote...."In 1990, the National Law Journal  ran profiles of "the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in the United States". Hillary Clinton was on the list, and for years she would publicly boast that the Journal had named her one of "the nation's 100 top lawyers". Finally, the editor of the National Law Journal, Patrick Oster, wrote to Arkansas' first lady--as she still was in 1991--testily pointing out that the word "influential" is not synonymous with "top" or "best"--the latter two words used by Mrs. Clinton interchangeably."

Judiciary Committee strips telecom immunity from FISA bill.
  ---  http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/15/judiciary-committee-strips-telecom-immunity-from-fisa-bill/
Breaking News : Special Alert : A quote...."Greg Sargent reports that the version of the FISA bill that was just reported out of the Judiciary Committee does not ”repeat, does not” contain retroactive immunity for the telecom companies. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) had threatened to place a hold on any FISA bill that contained immunity. The Judiciary Committee's action today renders moot the need for such a hold."

Hip Hip Hooray !!! - mpg

For more on this see....The Last Bastion of Freedom is Falling  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/lastbastionoffreedom-essay-mpg-053006
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House votes to end CIA rendition program, ACLU says  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/House_votes_to_end_CIA_rendition_1115.html
A quote...."A little noticed prohibition in the Democrats' $50 billion Iraq funding bill that passed the House Wednesday would effectively end CIA renditions, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. - The ACLU, one of the largest nonprofit organizations fighting the Bush Administration on torture and civil liberties issues, lauded House members for passing the bill, which faces a rocky road in the Senate."

Hip Hip Hooray !!! - mpg

RIGHTS-US:  Rendition Victim Appeals Ruling Barring Suit  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40060
Related article - A quote...."NEW YORK, Nov 14 (IPS) - Maher Arar, arguably the world's best-known victim of "extraordinary rendition", went back to court last week to reverse a previous ruling barring him from suing the U.S. government for shipping him off to Syria, where he was jailed and tortured for close to a year."
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Argentine economic activity keeps advancing at over 8%  ---  http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=11901&formato=HTML
A quote...."As had been anticipated earlier in the week economic activity in Argentina expanded 9.1% in September compared to a year ago, accumulating 8.5% in the first nine months of 2007, according to a Thursday release from the Statistics and Census Institute, Indec."

My Goodness.....all those countries out there with their economies expanding at 8%, 9% even 12% per year while the US is only growing at a paltry 2.5% - 3% avg. over the last seven years.  Guess New Roman Empires can get really expensive huh?

Think about it - mpg
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A Financial System under Siege  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7333
Must read - A quote...."The overall background is the unprecedented real estate bubble that took place worldwide, from 1995 to 2005. In the United States, for example, owner-occupied home prices increased annually by an average of about 9 percent. The market value of the stock of owner-occupied homes in the U.S. rose from slightly less than $8 trillion in 1995 to slightly more than $18 trillion in 2005. It has been contracting ever since, confirming the working of the 18-year Kuznets realestate cycle,   --- 
which has gone from the top of 1987 to the 2005 top.   --  What makes this period especially dangerous is the fact that the average 54-year long inflation-disinflation-deflation Kondratieff cycle   ---  http://www.thelongwaveanalyst.ca/cycle.html
is also at play, having begun in 1949 after prices were unfrozen. World inflation then rose for twenty years, until 1980, which was followed by a period of disinflation under the Volcker Fed.   ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Volcker
The entry of China  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/2430089.stm
into the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, 2001, with its abundant labor and low wages, unleashed strong deflationary forces worldwide. This in turn led to lower inflation expectations paving the way for the Greenspan Fed   ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan
to keep interest rates abnormally low."

Fed makes biggest temporary injection since '01
  ---  http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2007-11-15T183343Z
  ---  _01_L0558347_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESS-ECONOMY-CREDIT-COL.XML&archived=False
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Thursday pumped its biggest temporary daily infusion into the U.S. banking system since just after the September 11, 2001 attacks as short-term lending rates rose on both sides of the Atlantic."

Evansville FBI acknowledges Liberty Dollar raid  ---  http://muckrakerreport.com/id550.html
A quote...."November 15, 2007  “According to Bernard von NotHaus, monetary architect of the Liberty Dollar, federal agents raided the Evansville, IN headquarters of the Liberty Dollar at approximately 8:00am this morning�. In his e-mail, Von NotHaus indicated federal agents seized gold, silver, platinum and nearly two tons of recently delivered Ron Paul Dollars.  -  The agents also took all files, computers, and froze the organization's bank accounts, according to Von NotHaus."

Wednesday November 14th 2007 - links page

Pakistan, Bush and the bomb  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IK15Df03.html
A quote...."The journey to the state of emergency just imposed on Pakistan by its self-appointed president, General Pervez Musharraf, began in Washington on September 11, 2001. On that day, it so happened, Pakistan's intelligence chief, Lieutenant General Mahmood Ahmed, was in town. He was summoned forthwith to meet with then-deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage, who gave him perhaps the earliest preview of the global George W Bush doctrine then in its formative stages, telling him, "You are either 100% with us, or 100% against us."

Bush's World War Three & German TV interview: US president repeats Third World War warning
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7323
Bush is basically saying, you cause us problems in Iraq, you don't let my buddies keep the oil....we're going to kill everyone of you throughout the world, than he smirks and grins about what he just said.

He is prototypical of what the wealthy elites in this country have created....a psychopathic moron. -  mpg
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French President Frees Child Traffickers Arrested in Chad
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_keith_ha_071114_french_president_fre.htm
Must Read - A quote...."The French humanitarian� charity NGO Zoe's Ark (Lâ Arche de Zoe) involved in Chad and Darfur is under investigation by the United Nations, France and Chad for trafficking in black children in the widely under-reported L'Arche de Zoe affair.� - "Organ trafficking is the trade in kidneys and other organs”a rampant global trade ”that is driven by elite high-paying customers in industrialized nations who can afford to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a life-saving organ. Children and sometimes adults in poor countries are often trafficked for organ "donations", though most are unwilling donors who do not survive the "donation."

This is what "Liberal Capitalism " really is.....

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The Lobby  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18714.htm
A quote...." 11/14/07 "ICH" -- -- Experts in the West and ordinary people in Arab lands have understood for many years that the United States does not have an independent policy toward the Middle East.  President Jimmy Carter, a man of good will, tried to use American influence to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the source of dangerous instability in the Middle East.  However, Israel was able to block Carter's attempt, while blaming Yasser Arafat. Carter's plan would have given rise to a Palestinian state.  Israel did not want any such state, because obvious military aggression is necessary in order to steal the territory of an official state with defined borders.  It is much easier to steal land from a non-state."

Lapdog 2.0: Brown Backs Bush Deceit in March to Iran War
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Lapdog_2.0%3A_Brown_Backs_Bush_Deceit_in_March_to_Iran_War/#jc_writeComment
A quote...."Just in case anyone still thought that the ignominious departure of Tony Blair meant some kind of sea change in Britain's slavish obedience to the Bush Regime's warmongering, new  British PM Gordon Brown came out as a hardliner against Iran on Monday, declaring that the UK "will lead" the global fight to thwart Iran's nuclear program, as the Guardian reports."

Hillary's Musharraf  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18720.htm
Must Read - A quote...."You've seen all those creepy photos of George Bush rubbing up against Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, the two of them grinning and giggling like they're going to the senior prom.  So it's hard to remember that it was Hillary and Bill who brought Pervez to the dance in the first place."

Pakistan warns against nuclear weapons grab  ---  http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Pakistan_warns_against_nuclear_weapons_grab_999.html
A quote...." Pakistan warned Monday it had sufficient "retaliatory capacity" to defend its nuclear weapons, after a report the United States had made contingency plans to stop them falling into the wrong hands. - Denouncing "irresponsible conjecture," the foreign ministry said Pakistan was ready and able to defend its nuclear arsenal and there was no risk of the arms being taken. - Its reaction followed a Washington Post report that with Pakistan in the throes of a political crisis, the United States had drawn up contingency plans in case the Pakistani military risked losing control of the weapons."

Anti-American Islamic Nationalism is Behind Pakistan Crisis- posted at Antiwar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.digitalnpq.org/articles/global/219/11-08-2007/graham_e._fuller
Must Read - A quote..."But Washington's demands cut still closer to the Pakistani bone. Bush wants Pakistan to cut off cross-border contact between Pakistan and Afghanistan, to deny Pakistan as a safe haven for the Afghan Taliban. - Musharraf and his generals will pay lip service to this goal, but they will not ultimately do it. The reasons are not complex. As distasteful a symbol of primitive Islamic practice as the Taliban have been, today they represent essentially the major vehicle for Pashtun nationalism in Afghanistan, the single biggest ethnic group and much under-represented in the U.S.-backed Karzai government. More important, there are twice as many ethnic Pashtuns in Pakistan itself as there are in Afghanistan. The cross-border ties are inextricable: clan, family, history, culture, language, religion. This ethnic organism will not be sundered by the arbitrary and unpopular borders between the two countries. Pashtuns can, do and will casually ignore this artificial divide. Indeed, the Taliban as a political and ideological movement is growing more powerful within Pakistan itself."

Let's be clear about this, the PNAC'ing Neocons are practically bosom buddies of al Qaeda
 (see...US Support of Terror )   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
they need al Qaeda to serve as a never ending excuse to bomb every country (or at least those with oil) on the planet and implement their plans for dictatorship in the US.  What they can't stand is an ethnically based nationalistic movement (the Pushton/Taliban combo) that will prevent them from using Afghanistan as a launching pad for their attacks against the former Soviet 'stans surrounding the Caspian Basin and Iran. Nor can they tolerate anyone controlling what they consider to be a vital transportation corridor (the country of Afghanistan) to ship their "booty and bling" (the oil and gas) that they intend to wrest from the Caspian basin. - mpg
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How False Narrative Works  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/111407a.html
A quote...." Over the past couple of decades, the Republicans have benefited enormously from their ability to create and disseminate false narratives through the Right's large, well-financed media apparatus. - With mainstream journalists unwilling to challenge the false narratives “and thus put their careers at risk“ American voters often go to the polls believing things that are almost the opposite of the truth."

Neocons ALWAYS accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of, or are about to be guilty of.  Just watch and see, it's their modus operandi. - mpg
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The Power Elite Playbook, Bankers & Their Bombers: Part V  ---  http://muckrakerreport.com/id549.html
A quote...."November 10, 2007 -- Much has been written about America's war in Viet Nam, another small, distant, non-threatening, resource-rich third world country. Despite devised government justifications, war is always about power and resources. Contrived circumstances provoke popular support; history is super sanitized in government-school textbooks. America's Middle East quagmire is not about terminating terrorism and the Viet Nam war was not about checking communism. Tactics, successful elsewhere, are currently perpetrated against the hapless citizens of Afghanistan and Iraq. Tomorrow, it will be the citizens of Iran. For additional background on Viet Nam, please read the previous parts of this series. The following events transpired:"

Slip Sliding Away - House Votes on Iraq War Funding Today - posted at CounterPunch  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/leys11142007.html
A quote...."If ending the Iraq war is our destination, then Pelosi, Obey, Murtha and the Democrats are slip sliding us all further away. - Today, November 14, the House will vote on H.R. 4156-the newest Iraq - Afghanistan war supplemental spending bill. In the finest tradition of democracy, the text of the bill was not publicly available until last night. - HR 4156 provides $50 billion to wage the Iraq - Afghanistan wars through September 30, 2008. It also moves backwards in setting any form of timetable for an ultimate withdrawal from Iraq. HR 4156 is a definite setback when compared to the war spending bill initially passed by the House in March 2007."

lecondel�  ---  http://agonist.org/20071112/lecondel
The long buildup to Annapolis, together with Ms. Rice's many trips to the region, have given birth to a new verb in Israeli government circles: lcondel� meaning, to come and go for meetings that produce few results. The word is based on Ms. Rice's first name."

Sunni sheik claims US killed his men  ---  http://agonist.org/20071112/lecondel
A quote...."BAGHDAD - A leader of a Sunni group formed to resist al-Qaida in Iraq claimed Wednesday that U.S. troops mistakenly killed dozens of his fighters during a 12-hour battle north of Baghdad. He said he tried repeatedly to call the Americans and tell them they were fighting "their friends."

CIA failed to turn over interrogation tapes in Moussaoui case
  ---  http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--moussaoui1113nov13,0,7243684.story
A quote...."ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Prosecutors have told a federal judge that the CIA possessed videotaped interrogations of enemy combatants despite earlier telling the judge in the trial of al-Qaida terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui that no such recordings existed."

Ukraine Implicated in CIA Renditions  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7078412,00.html
A quote...."STRASBOURG, France (AP) - An EU investigator said Wednesday he has evidence to suggest that a Ukrainian airstrip was used by CIA-operated planes involved in the U.S. extraordinary rendition program."

Dems Put War Costs at $3.5 Trillion Through 2017 -  posted at Antiwar  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/
  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=11904
A quote...."U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost U.S. taxpayers as much as $3.5 trillion through 2017 if both direct and indirect, or "hidden," costs are taken into account, according to a new report released Tuesday by Democrats in Congress. - The 27-page report, entitled "War at Any Price?" [.pdf], concluded that the total economic costs incurred to date “including "hidden" expenses, such as higher oil prices, interest on borrowing, and the long-term care of injured soldiers “are already about twice the $800 billion dollars the Bush administration has asked Congress to appropriate through 2008."

Iraq, Afghanistan wars twice as expensive as expected, report says
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Iraq_Afghanistan_wars_twice_as_expensive_1113.html
A quote...."The estimate was revealed in a Democratic staff report from Congress's Joint Economic Committee. The staff report, titled "The Hidden Costs of the Iraq War," estimates that the Iraq and Afghan wars have cost the average family more than $20,000."

Russia May Deploy Missiles in Belarus  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7076945,00.html
A quote...."MOSCOW (AP) - A senior general warned Wednesday that Russia could deploy short-range missiles to Belarus as part of efforts to counter the planned deployment of U.S. missile defense sites in Europe, Russian news reports said."

Massive attack simulation to involve every state  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4785
False Flag / Coup Alert - A quote...."Under the direction of the Department of Homeland Security, NORAD-USNORTHCOM has begun planning comprehensive, multi-year exercises aimed at involving every U.S. state in game-playing designed to simulate national emergencies."

Krongard Confirms ˜Ugly Rumor": Brother Attended Blackwater Advisory Board Meeting Yesterday
  ---  http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/14/krongard-blacwater-brother/
A quote...."During today's House Oversight Committee hearing on the performance of State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) revealed that Krongard's brother former CIA Executive Director A.B.Buzzy� Krongard sits on Blackwater USA's board. Krongard vehemently denied the allegation, calling it an ugly rumor�

Comcast hit with class-action lawsuit over traffic blocking
  ---  http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071114-comcast-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-traffic-blocking.html
A quote...."Comcast's traffic management practices have landed the cable giant in court. Yesterday, a California resident filed a lawsuit in state court accusing Comcast of breach of contract, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and violating the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act."

Russia's international reserves hit a record $455.2 bln  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071115/88179443.html
Complete quote...."MOSCOW, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves increased by $7.3 billion to a new record high of $455.2 billion in the week of November 2-9, the Central Bank of Russia said on Thursday."

Home prices to keep sliding with no bottom in sight  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN1235621120071112
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. housing market's skid is nowhere near over and could extend for another five or even 10 years, according to one of the most-watched housing economists."

Subprime Losses May Reach $400 Billion, Analysts Say (Update5)
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3fCFxLIgT2s&refer=worldwide
A quote...." Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Losses from the falling value of subprime mortgage assets may reach $300 billion to $400 billion worldwide, Deutsche Bank AG analysts said. - Wall Street's largest banks and brokers will be forced to write down as much as $130 billion because of the slump in subprime-related debt, according to a report today by New York- based credit analyst Mike Mayo,. The rest of the losses will come from smaller banks and investors in mortgage-related securities."

Carnage on Wall Street as loans go bad  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4776
A quote...."The reality is that most financial institutions have barely started to recognize the lower 'fair value' of their impaired securities"
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Fastest rise in food prices for 14 years
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=LCXXJLMSVQAJPQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/11/13/ncosts113.xml
A quote...."Food prices are increasing at their highest rate for more than a decade, official figures showed yesterday."

No posts - mpg

Monday November 12th 2007 - links page