MPG'S
DAILY RAPSHEET AND BLOTTER ON THE "GREAT GAME" -
links page
@ www.reficultnias.org
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Editor's note : From now on each daily blog 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
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Sunday December 2nd 2007 - links
page
Venezuela:
Not What You Think ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18816.htm
A quote...." 12/01/07 "MRZine" - -- -In the case of Hugo Chavez and the
Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution, the mainstream media and politicians
in the United States have elevated their game of demonizing all who
oppose US foreign policy and business interests to a higher level of
absurdity than usual. According to the mainstream media, the only
newsworthy stories in Venezuela are one sided diatribes lifted from the
discredited, opposition-owned media in Venezuela. For example, we read
about Chavez shutting down opposition TV stations. We hear that Chavez
is rewriting the Venezuelan Constitution so he can be President for
life. Chavez is a dictator, QED."
Coup
D’Etat Rumblings in Venezuela ---
http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=468#more-468
A quote...."The Bush administration tried and failed three prior times
to oust Hugo Chavez since its first aborted two-day coup attempt in
April, 2002. Through FOIA requests, lawyer, activist and author Eva
Golinger uncovered top secret CIA documents of US involvement that
included an intricate financing scheme involving the quasi-governmental
agency, National Endowment of Democracy (NED), and US Agency for
International Development (USAID). The documents also showed the White
House, State Department and National Security Agency had full knowledge
of the scheme, had to have approved it, and there’s little doubt of CIA
involvement as it’s always part of this kind of dirty business. What’s
worrying now is what went on then may be happening again in what looks
like a prelude to a fourth made-in-Washington attempt to oust the
Venezuelan leader that must be monitored closely as events develop."
Pro-Constitutional
Reform Closes Campaign with Massive Rally in Venezuela
--- http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/2942
A quote...."Caracas, December 1, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com) - In a
hard-hitting speech Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told over 500,000
supporters at the final campaign rally in favor of the proposed
constitutional reform on Friday, "If the ‘yes' vote wins on Sunday and
the Venezuelan oligarchy, playing the [U.S.] empire's game, comes with
their little stories of fraud," he will suspend all oil shipments to
the U.S immediately. "The U.S. will not receive one drop of oil," he
declared. Chavez also warned private media against promoting violence
and destabilization after the referendum."
Venezuelan
Government Uncovers Video of Opposition Destabilization Plan
--- http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/2937
A quote...."Caracas, November 30, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)-
Venezuelan Telecommunications Minister Jesse Chacon presented a video
revealing the opposition strategy of destabilization for Sunday's
referendum at a press conference on Thursday. In the video, opposition
leaders call on their supporters to reject the results of the
referendum and to take part in nation-wide protests to overturn the
constitutional reform. Two opposition leaders are being investigated
for inciting violence and calling on supporters to break the law."
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Editor’s note:
Understand this editor is highly suspicious of
any leader who
attempts
to gather more power unto himself. On the other hand the
ceaseless attempts to undermine Venezuela's sovereignty by the United
States government makes Chavez's desires completely understandable.
Hopefully Chavez will be able to tell the difference between legitimate
opposition and disagreements by others with his party's policies, while
keeping political mechanisms in place to allow these views to be
expressed, versus the foreign inspired quislings and traitors
attempting to destroy the country of Venezuela from within and change
it from the free nation it has now become into a satrapy of the US
power elites.
This is a
very
serious issue, for those who casually think it isn't, or who
are against Chavez for ideological reasons (this editor has a few
problems with the ideology); just remember the price to be paid by any
country which chooses to deal with the US elites can be horrific.
As a direct result of
deliberate US policies hundreds of
thousands of people died in Guatemala and Honduras, tens of thousands
in Nicaragua and Chile and of course over a million (so far) in Iraq.
And most people in the US don’t care. They simply….don’t…..care.
This is what happens when any people or any nation is foolish enough to
allow US elites into their country, in the end, after many thousands
have died and the countries so infected have been utterly devastated,
sometimes for decades, the US will simply leave and move on to another
victim while the only thing the people in the affected countries will
have left to themselves is tombstones, tears, bitter rage, tragic and
horrifying memories….and lost opportunities for their children.
This is what the US power elites do to weaker countries. They
have a stellar sixty year record of doing so. They've done it
every single time without fail….and Chavez knows this. - mpg
Saturday December 1st 2007 -
links page
The
Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act: A Tutorial in Orwellian Newspeak
--- http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/01/5551/
A quote...."
Political language has to consist largely of euphemisms
. . . and sheer cloudy vagueness.”
- George Orwell -
H.R 1955: the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism
Prevention Act of 2007 ---
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1955
recently passed by the House-a companion
bill is in the Senate-is barely one sentence old before its Orwellian
moment : -- It begins, “AN ACT - To prevent homegrown terrorism,
and for other purposes.” -- Those whose pulse did not
quicken at “other purposes” have probably not read George Orwell’s
essay, “Politics and the English Language,”
---
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00069X7VY?tag=commondreams-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=
---
as1&creativeASIN=B00069X7VY&adid=0GZ503559B2A386SRACC&
or they voted
for the other George both times.
More on Jane Harman's "Neo-Roman Security Act" brought to you
by the RAND Corporation. The stupid bimbo couldn't even come up
with her own ideas. Doesn't she have any pride, doesn't she want
to be more than just a mouthpiece for the MIOC elites? Guess not.
- mpg
See also....The
U.S. Congress Legislates Genocide Of The Mind ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18740.htm
See also....Civil
Libertarians Warn of 'Patriot Act Lite' ---
http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1185
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Emergency
Responders Face Deep Aid Cuts ---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-7118437,00.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration
intends to slash counterterrorism funding for police, firefighters and
rescue departments across the country by more than half next year,
according to budget documents obtained by The Associated Press. -
bold/italics by website author
To the twenty to thirty percent of Neo-Romans who make up this nation’s
population and who still support the so-called "War On Terror"....you
haven't been lying to the rest of us have you? After all we're
supposed to be spending this money to "protect" us from the "evil
terrorists" aren't we? You haven't been "
pretending" all this time....have
you?
This wasn't all just a pretext to go murder over a million Iraqis, make
over five million of them into refugees, while ruining this nation’s
reputation, destroying this nation’s constitution and emptying this
nation’s treasury all in an effort to steal the Iraqis’ oil and occupy
their country....was it?
One would hope not, because that would make you just as evil as all
those "Americans" who "somehow" “fortuitously” dropped the ball on 9/11
allowing these very same people in charge of our security to make
hundreds of billions of dollars in profits from the ensuing world wide
chaos, death and destruction.
Such people deserve to burn in hell forever....
forever. - mpg
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Naomi
Klein outlines 'The Shock Doctrine' with MSNBC's Olbermann
---
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Namoi_Klein_joins_Keith_Olbermann_to_1130.html
A quote....""There is a word for what happens when you invade a
country, especially on a false pretense, and then you grab its assets,"
says Klein. "It's called looting, right? And it's illegal. And Iraqis
responded as if their country was being looted. Not as if it was being
restructured, or developed, or reconstructed, or any of the cleansed
words that were used to describe it."
"It was a corporate takeover with guns," responds Olbermann.
"Yes, armed robbery, yes."
For more on this see....
The
Method - 05-07-07 - mpg ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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Iraqi
Returnees: Surge success, failure, problem? ---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rowan_wo_071201_iraqi_returnees_3a_sur.htm
A quote...."After a number of reports
like this
one ---
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-dustup12nov12,0,2750640.story?coll=la-home-commentary
announcing that Iraqi refugees returning from Syria are a clear
sign of the "success" of Bush's surge, we get
Iraq
Lacks Plan on the Return of Refugees, Military Says.
---
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/world/middleeast/30refugees.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
First we spin
one way, then we spin the other.
Iraq
Sunni Arab leader says under house arrest ---
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL0667667620071201
A quote...."BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political
bloc walked out of parliament on Saturday and its leader said he had
been placed under house arrest after his son and dozens of members of
his entourage were detained."
Hey
Bubba, Where You Going With That Oil? ---
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112907R.shtml
War Warning - A
quote...."According to the report, the US Military Sealift Command
appears to be moving at least double the ordinary volume of liquid
fuels for aviation and shipping into the Gulf. Ambrogi says that, "In
the past ... fuel movements have provided advance clues of U.S.
intentions." The report was based on information that came from an
anonymous oil industry insider."
United
States of Oceania: Bushies Making Stalin Prouder by the Moment -
Detainee Not Allowed to Know Identity of Witnesses
---
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/morenews.php?id=3573
A quote...."Defense lawyers preparing for the war crimes trial
of a 21-year-old Guantánamo detainee have been ordered by a
military judge not to tell their client — or anyone else — the identity
of witnesses against him, newly released documents show."
This
country is going straight to hell in a hand basket.
It's rolling down hill and picking up speed every day and the Dems
ain't doing anything to stop it....absolutely nada....zilch. What
a pack of weasels. - mpg
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US
says it has right to kidnap British citizens ---
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2982640.ece
Special Note : A
quote...."AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British
citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States. - A senior
lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in
London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American
law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it."
This
is EXACTLY
what
happens when you go down that long slippery slope of tyranny.
What are the British going to say now...."we didn't know it could
happen to us", "see here old chap, that sort of thing just isn't done
to English gentleman".
What?....they
thought they were immune, that the US
would only "do it" to the wogs, gooks, towel
heads and other associated yellow, red and brown people out there? - mpg
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Or
did the British think they weren't "un-people" to
America's power elites just like everyone else? - see article below
The
Man Behind the Curtain ---
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/144631-The-Man-Behind-the-Curtain
A quote...."The principal victims of British policies are Unpeople -
those whose lives are deemed worthless, expendable in the pursuit of
power and commercial gain. They are the modern equivalent of the
'savages' of colonial days, who could be mown down by the British guns
in virtual secrecy, or else in circumstances where the perpetrators
were hailed as the upholders of civilization."
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Iraqi
prisoners’ file a bargain chip in U.S. hands ---
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2007-11-9%5Clad4.htm
A quote...."Politicians call for the release of Iraqi prisoners
languishing in U.S. and government jails. Mosque preachers demand the
same in their Friday sermons. Even government officials make similar
requests, though in a different language, when the case of Iraqis
crammed in U.S. and government prisons is brought to attention. -
Nonetheless, years pass and nothing happens. There are prisoners who
have no idea about why they are incarcerated. The lucky ones are those
who were covered by a pardon and freed after at least two years in
prison without trial.
Shifting
Policy or a Face-saving Gimmick, Somalia Cannot be Ignored
--- http://muckrakerreport.com/id556.html
A quote...."November 29, 2007 -- By all standards, the situation
unfolding in Somalia is horrifically grim, and according to the UN, it
is the worst crisis in Africa; worse than the crisis in Darfur that
outraged the world’s conscience in an unprecedented way. - However,
unlike Darfur, Washington has a role in the creation of this massive
humanitarian crisis and therefore must have a role in rectifying it."
Old Friends
Of Tehran --- http://www.newsweek.com/id/73241
A quote...."President George W. Bush's charm offensive is paying off.
After a slew of cozy visits in recent weeks with European leaders about
the latest round of U.S. economic sanctions against Iran, European
governments are taking a harder line in the hopes of quelling the
threat of invasion. Already, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, Siemens,
Dresdner and HSBC have backed out of Iran. -- So much the
better for their emerging market rivals. Hundreds of Chinese and
Russian companies are working in Iran; few are expected to leave soon.
In fact, the latest round of U.S. sanctions may have the opposite of
their intended effect, driving Iranian business further into the hands
of aggressively mercantilist Chinese and Russian firms in search of
lucrative contracts once dominated by the West. In sectors like oil
production, telecommunications, aerospace and automotives, the absence
of Western mainstays is creating new opportunities for these emerging
powers in one of the world's fastest-growing (half of Iran's population
is under the age of 20) and most strategic markets."
Evo Morales versus the Oligarchy - The Battle in Bolivia
--- http://www.counterpunch.org/burbach12012007.html
A quote...."While international attention is focusing on President Hugo
Chavez and the Sunday referendum on the Venezuelan constitution, a
conflict that is just as profound is shaking Bolivia. Evo Morales, the
first Indian president of the country, is forcing a showdown with the
oligarchy and the right wing political parties that have stymied
efforts to draft a new constitution to transform the nation. He
declares, "Dead or alive I will have a new constitution for the country
by December 14," the mandated date for the specially elected
Constituent Assembly to present a constitution for the country to vote
on by popular referendum.
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Rudy locks up the
Republican nomination. ---
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=5039
A
quote...."There's nothing more Republican than being confronted with
hard evidence of corruption and at first lying about it, then
dismissing it as inconsequential. Rudy has proved himself to be the
only true Republican in the bunch."
This article's
pretty good. - mpg
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Rice ‘Planted’
Question With ‘Friendly Journalist’ To ‘Help Erase’ Pre-Iraq War Legacy
--- http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/30/rice-plants/
A quote...."In 2003, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice
helped push America into war with Iraq. She disregarded at least two
CIA memos and a personal phone call from CIA Director George Tenet
stating that the evidence behind Iraq’s uranium acquisition was weak.
She infamously said, “[W]e don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom
cloud.”
For more on this
sort of activity, see....Fake
Intel ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206
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CNN
polls show people want RON PAUL to lead rEVOLution ---
http://infowars.net/articles/november2007/301107CNN.htm
A quote...."After 30,000+ votes, Ron Paul BLOWS away EVERYONE in CNN's
post-debate polls. Look at these numbers!"
CNN Hit For
Planted Questions ---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4904
A quote...."....things spiraled downward for CNN yesterday as bloggers
— a more natural audience for a debate co-hosted by YouTube — held each
questioner under a magnifying glass and found anti-Republican links
ranging from the Council on American-Islamic Relations to a
pro-Democratic labor union. The network defended its choice of
questioners and noted that it drew 5 million viewers — the most-watched
primary debate ever. - Reports flew on the Internet that at least nine
of the 34 questions posed via YouTube videos — on topics ranging from
corn subsidies to Social Security reform — came from voters who have
ties to Democrats or a vested interest in asking the Republicans to go
on record."
WOW! Bloggers
are a tough audience - there's alot of really smart people out there. -
mpg
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TIME
Magazine isn't Exactly Shackled to the Truth ---
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1753
A quote...."Only recently, TIME magazine performed an outrageous
hit-piece on Congressional Democrats and their plan to restore
Constitutional protections to the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance
Act (FISA). According to TIME's Joe Klein, a longtime and big-time
Neoconservative supporter, Democrats were essentially intending to
provide terrorists with the same protections afforded innocent and law
abiding U.S. citizens. When Salon's Glenn Greenwald called TIME on
their ridiculous, false, misleading, and scandalous claim the editor
was reluctant to admit fault and to print a retraction. All things
considered, it is safe to say that TIME isn't exactly shackled to
telling and reporting the truth."
U.S.
Government, Banks Near a Plan to Freeze Subprime Rates
--- http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4906
A quote...."This Wall Street Journal front page story reads like news
from some banana republic! You’ve got millions of slobs who took out
toxic waste, impossible to pay back loans and the largest banks in the
land engaged in a Mexican standoff."
It's beginning to
look like Japan. The banks will carry these "non-performing"
loans on their books for years. They should be considered
non-performing because with the large increases in inflation expected
to hit this economy soon, even if the loans are paid back (a big if
since this economy is expected to go into it's normal once a decade
business cycle induced recession), they'll still lose money because the
lower rates will not make up the difference caused by the Fed's
deliberately engineered bout of inflation (remember the wealthy elites
like inflation....they positively despise deflation). – mpg
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Friday November 30th 2007 - links
page
Iran: Why does Bush invoke the
threat of World War III?
Part
1: Iran’s strategic position ---
http://wsws.org/articles/2007/nov2007/iran-n30.shtml
Part
2: Eurasian geopolitics and US threats against Iran ---
http://wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/iran-d01.shtml
A quote from Part 1:...."On October 17, George Bush made a
remarkable statement concerning the mounting tensions between the US
and Iran: “If you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems
like you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from having the
knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.” Bush has since repeated
and defended this comment. It testifies to the superficiality of media
commentary that this declaration has not been subjected to critical
analysis."
A quote from Part 2:...."US strategists have warned that they would do
all in their power to prevent the emergence of a strategic competitor
on the Eurasian landmass. In his 1998 book The Grand Chessboard, former
Carter administration National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski
warned: “It is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable
of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America.”
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A
Change Ain't Gonna Come: Democrats Openly Embrace Aggression and Torture
---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/A_Change_Ain%27t_Gonna_
---
Come%3A_Democrats_Openly_Embrace_Aggression_and_Torture/
A quote...."
It was a remarkable display even by
the hideous standards that
the Democrats have already set for themselves. ---
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/22/Democrats/index.html
Over the past week,
the party's leaders have put forward not one but two architects
of Bush Regime war crimes as standard-bearers for Democratic policies
and principles. In so doing, they have aligned themselves as completely
and publicly as possible with the Hitlerian war crime of military
aggression in Iraq and the Stalinist filth of deliberate, calculated
and brutal torture, as exemplified by (but in no way limited to) the
sickening atrocities at Abu Ghraib."
"First, the party leadership
picked retired General
Ricardo Sanchez to give the Democratic response
--- http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/68953/?page=entire
to the president's
weekly radio address last Saturday. Then, just three days later,
frontrunning presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton singled out
Colin Powell
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/clinton-to-colin-powell-be-my-diplomat/?ex=1196830800&en=cfa9479b47fde34b&ei=5070&emc=eta1
as one of the personal emissaries she would send out
to tell the world that "bipartisan foreign policy is back."
For more on this issue see....
You
Can STILL Vote to Stop the Madness 10-07-07 - mpg ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/stopthemadness-blog-mpg-100707
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Terror
is a tactic ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18808.htm
Must Read - A
quote....Interview with Nir Rosen - 11/30/07 "ICH" -- - Question: Is
the "surge" working as Bush claims or is the sudden lull in the
violence due to other factors like demographic changes in Baghdad?
Nir Rosen: I think that even calling it a surge is misleading. A surge
is fast; this took months. It was more like an ooze. The US barely
increased the troop numbers. It mostly just forced beleaguered American
soldiers to stay longer. At the same time, the US doubled their enemies
because, now, they're not just fighting the Sunni militias but the
Shiite Mahdi army also.
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McCain's
Mangled Metaphor - Has the Third Reich reappeared in the Middle East?
--- http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11981
A quote...."If you
oppose the war, says McCain, you're – pro-Hitler. It was inevitable –
the return of Hitler, that is. The third-rate painter and homicidal
maniac always turns up when the War Party gets desperate. After five
years of war, and nothing but a reinvigorated al Qaeda and thousands of
dead and grievously wounded to show for it, there's just one way to
stanch the loss of support for our Iraqi adventure, and that is the
return of Hitler to the international scene. In John McCain's world, it
doesn't matter that we were lied into war: it doesn't matter that there
were no Iraqi links to al Qaeda; we only have to know that Saddam was a
Middle Eastern Hitler, who has now been replaced by Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, and everything falls neatly into place."
US
'declaration' a setback for Maliki ---
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IL01Ak01.html
A quote...."DAMASCUS - Sometimes, frequently nowadays, one doubts the
wisdom of decision-makers in Washington. "
Raid
on compound of top Sunni politician threatens to raise Iraq's sectarian
tension
---
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/01/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq.php
A quote...."BAGHDAD: Iraqi troops arrested the son of a leading Sunni
politician and dozens of his associates after a car bomb was discovered
near his compound and keys to the vehicle were found on one of his
bodyguards, U.S. and Iraqi officials said."
Australian
troops to leave Iraq by mid-2008 ---
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/30/woz230.xml
A quote...."Australia's 550 combat troops in Iraq will be withdrawn by
the middle of next year, the country's new Labour has announced
government."
Baghdad's
Book Market Comes Back to Life ---
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/30/487951.aspx
A quote...."Our translator’s love of books made him the natural choice
to go and check the pulse of Baghdad's legendary Al Mutanabi book
market (the area is still not safe enough for Western TV crews to
wander around). - We'd heard that the Al Mutanabi book market – the
longtime literary and creative nucleus of Baghdad until it was attacked
by a suicide car bomber in March – was coming back to life."
US
War Vets to Speak Publicly About War Crimes ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/30/5538/
A quote...."SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. war veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan
have announced they’re planning to descend on Washington, DC this March
to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in
Iraq."
Come
Together, Right Now! ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/30/5525/
A quote...."It is absolutely flabbergasting to me that our world will
be soon commemorating the 5th year since George Bush announced that the
US had commenced “Shock and Awe” against Iraq."
PJB:
Blowback From Moscow --- http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=891
Must Read - A
quote...."Our next president will likely face a Russia led by Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin, determined to stand up to a West Russians
believe played them for fools when they sought to be friends. -
Americans who think Putin has never been anything but a KGB thug will
reject accusations of any U.S. role in causing the ruination of
relations between us. - Yet the hubris of Bill Clinton and George Bush
I, and the Russophobia of those they brought with them into power, has
been a primary cause of the ruptured relationship. And the folly of
what they did is evident today, as Putin’s party, United Russia, rolls
to triumph on a torrent of abuse and invective against the West."
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Trends
of cooperation within SCO: Secretary General Bolat Nurgaliyev
--- http://www.thought-criminal.org/article/node/1020
A quote...."BEIJING. November 30. KAZINFORM /Talgat Baimukhambetov/
This November is remarkable for abundance of formal events and
occasions of multilateral and bilateral character that were held in the
framework or under the aegis of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
(SCO). - In his exclusive interview to a Kazinform
correspondent SCO Secretary General Bolat Nurgaliyev told about one of
these events, namely the session of the SCO prime ministerial council
in Tashkent."
Related Articles:
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UMA
rejection frustrates U.S. efforts to find home for AFRICOM
--- http://www.thought-criminal.org/article/node/1013
A quote...."The U.S. efforts to seek a home for the Africa Command
(AFRICOM) have suffered one more blow as the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA)
stated strong opposition Tuesday to any foreign military establishments
on the soil of African countries. - The UMA, founded in 1989 by
Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Moroccoand Tunisia, said through its
consultative committee that such foreign establishments would not bring
any benefit to the UMA or the African Union countries."
OH Thank Goodness!! Perhaps Africa will be spared the terror and
horror regarding any US attempts to "
help"
them or "
do business" with
them....or
God
forbid, bring "
freedom and
democracy" to them, US actions that have devastated so much of
the Middle
East and killed
millions
of people in that war torn region of the world. - mpg
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Outside
View: Euro thaw not what it seems
---
http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2007/11/30/outside_view_euro_thaw_not_what_it_seems/9578/
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Against the backdrop of the
warm welcome bestowed by President Bush upon German Chancellor Angela
Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy during their recent U.S.
visits, American pundits have been celebrating what they describe as a
thaw in relations with the two European allies."
The
Iran Threat ---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_soraya_071130_the_iran_threat.htm
Must Read - A
quote...."Regrettably, the history of the Middle East shows that
secular resistance to foreign exploitation has been crushed by imperial
powers. Mossadeq, a fierce nationalist, who was democratically
elected to be prime minister of Iran, was removed by a CIA-backed coup
when he nationalized Iran’s oil. Likewise, Egypt’s leader,
Nasser, a secular and fiercely nationalist leader, was called ‘Hitler
on the Nile’ for wishing to control the Suez canal. Six
months before the French and the British invaded Egypt in 1956, Britain
had drawn up secret plans to cut off the flow of the River Nile to try
to force Nasser to give up the Suez Canal[viii]."
The
Inconvenient Truth About Iran ---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mick_you_071130_the_inconvenient_tru.htm
A quote...."If you follow the news, I’m sure you have heard that Iran
is threatening to “wipe Israel off the map”? It has become a standard
line in the Bush Administration’s propaganda campaign for military
action against Iran and has been repeated in various forms by
presidential candidates from both parties, senators, representatives,
neoconservatives and war mongers around the world."
Unacceptable' to
stop Iran enriching uranium: envoy ---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/149321
A quote...."Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Friday it was
"unacceptable" to prevent Tehran from enriching uranium, insisting it
can do so under international treaty rules."
Rahmandoost:
Iran proud of not attending Annapolis Conference ---
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0711299731012000.htm
A quote...."Presidential advisor for War Veterans' Affairs and
Secretary General of the Society for Defense of the Palestinian Nation
Mojtaba Rahmandoost said on Wednesday that Iran is proud of not
participating in the Annapolis conference."
Iran
Holocaust drama is a big hit ---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7119474.stm
A quote...."The scene is wartime Paris. Swastikas adorn the Champs
Elysees. - Jackbooted Nazis are rounding up Jews for the concentration
camps, while terrified Parisians look on. - It is a familiar plot for a
television blockbuster. And this time the formula has been as popular
as ever, drawing in massive audiences week after week. - The only
difference is that this is a series made for Iranian state TV, and it
has been piling up the ratings in the country whose president once
questioned the very existence of the Holocaust."
Don't
Expect Peace ---
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=11987
A quote...." Don't bet on peace coming out of President Bush's
much-belated efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. - For
one thing, the people whom the Palestinians elected to represent them
are excluded. President Bush, hypocrite that he is, blathered about
democracy, then changed his tune when Hamas won the last election. He
cut off all aid to the Palestinians and sponsored a coup by the Fatah
faction."
Jordan's
Spy Agency: Holding Cell for the CIA - posted at
BuzzFlash ---
http://www.buzzflash.com/
---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113002484.html?hpid=topnews
A quote...."AMMAN, Jordan -- Over the past seven years, an imposing
building on the outskirts of this city has served as a secret holding
cell for the CIA. - The building is the headquarters of the General
Intelligence Department, Jordan's powerful spy and security agency.
Since 2000, at the CIA's behest, at least 12 non-Jordanian terrorism
suspects have been detained and interrogated here, according to
documents and former prisoners, human rights advocates, defense lawyers
and former U.S. officials."
China
tells more U.S. vessels to keep out ---
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/30/china.us/index.html?section=cnn_latest
A quote...."WASHINGTON (CNN) -- China has refused nine U.S. Navy ships
and one Air Force jet entry to Hong Kong in the past month, U.S.
military officials said Friday."
A
Kick in the Eye from the FCC ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/30/5537/
A quote...."A kick in the eye. That is what a proposed change to
media-ownership rules feels like. - Contrary to statements from Federal
Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin that couch the proposal
as a compromise, it is bad policy that helps only media conglomerates.
The only compromise will be from corporations figuring out how to add
more news outlets in an attempt to meet the bottom-line journalism
demanded by Wall Street."
U.S.
Special Counsel Says He Won't Provide Files ---
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=46652
A quote...."A U.S. official overseeing a probe of potential White House
misconduct declared through a spokesman yesterday that he will not give
federal investigators copies of personal files that he deleted from his
office computer."
Cash
for Peerages: How The Disease That Forced Blair From Office Has
Infected Brown
---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_lord_sti_071129_cash_for_peerages_3a_h.htm
A quote...." The same "disease" that forced Tony Blair from office has
now infected his successor Gordon Brown." - Gordon Brown
was able to take over the British Prime Minister's office due to the
over year long "Cash for Peerages" scandal. The scandal involved Tony
Blair and senior members of his Government and his Labour Party in the
taking of large sums for "donations" and "loans" for honours
(knightships and the like) and life peerages (title of baron/baroness
with the right to sit and vote in the upper chamber, the House of
Lords, of the UK Parliament). Now, only a few months after taking
office it is Mr. Brown who is deeply mired in the same sticky mess."
Thankfully the only things the wealthy elites can buy in the US (so
far) are their
bought and paid for representitutes and the legislation they pay them
to vote for. It would be utterly insufferable if they could also
buy knightships, lordships, airs, and titles while obtaining seats in
congress to lord it over the rest of us.
One wonders why the British people sit still for all this
nonsense. - mpg
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“Market
Fundamentalism” and the Tyranny of Money ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7427
Must Read - A
quote...."“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are, or should
be, the fruits of democracy. But the political democracy defined by the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution has not been achieved
because economic democracy has not been achieved. The attainment of
real economic democracy is the next task for the American people."
The author above outlines many suggestions which should be implemented
for all the right reasons....of course none of them will be implemented
by our illustrious elites for all the wrong reasons.
Their insatiable greed and lust for power. – mpg
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Booming
S. Korea, 11th largest trading country in 2007 ---
http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=12016&formato=HTML
A quote...."South Korea is expected to edge past Hong Kong to become
the 11th largest trading nation in the world this year, the Seoul
government agency Yonhap reported on Friday"
U.S.
foreclosure filings up 94% in October vs. previous October - posted
at
BuzzFlash ---
http://www.buzzflash.com/
--- http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07333/837776-84.stm
A quote...."LOS ANGELES -- U.S. foreclosure filings nearly doubled in
October from the same month last year, the latest sign many homeowners
are falling behind on mortgage payments and increasingly losing their
homes, according to a mortgage research company."
Dollar peg to
take centre stage at GCC summit ---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/149143
A quote...."Leaders of the oil-rich Gulf Arab states, holding their
annual summit next week, are faced with mounting pressure either to end
their currencies' peg to a sliding dollar or revalue. - The six-member
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will also have to decide whether to
stick to a self-imposed 2010 target date for the launch of a single
currency, which appears more and more unrealistic as inflation keeps
rising"
'Cheap
Chinese goods? Blame America' ---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/nov/29/china
A quote...."European leaders worried about the rise of the euro against
the Chinese yuan would be better advised to go to the real source of
the problem: the United States and the "excessive devaluation" of the
dollar. - That was the blunt message from China's prime minister Wen
Jiabao, speaking to EU leaders at the end of a summit in the Great Hall
of the People on Tiananmen Square, after being pressed to revalue the
Chinese currency."