Wednesday December 2nd 2009 - links page

"Terrorists should be perceived and described as criminals, not holy warriors, and our analysis suggests that there is no battlefield solution to terrorism." In fact, starting right after 9/11 -- at the latest -- the goal has always been to create "regime change" and instability in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon and other countries."

"Three weeks after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regime in Iran, as well as in Syria and four other countries in the Middle East...."

"We’re “surging” in Afghanistan, not for the Taliban or al-Qaeda, but for the coming push into Iran… that s/b clear to anyone – given the ramp-up in language, the UN ‘censure’ (led by the US), and the saber-rattling by Israel (who were just openly critical of Obama when they said (in response to his position on no more settlements) ‘he’s no friend of Jews”) – all point to the US: moving to buttress their hegemony in that part of the world; improve their standing with Israel; and claim to be “making that region safe from the instability and nuclear ambitions of Iran” when they move to ‘regime change’ that country… they need to move troops into position on the eastern front in order to “pincer” Iran from that direction as well as from their bases in Iraq and from their carrier groups / airstrikes from the Persian Gulf… -- everyone needs to stop focusing on Afghanistan… that’s just another piece in the PNAC ‘new map of Asia’" -- *Thelonegunman*

"Gotta protect that pipeline…and the opium crop. Can’t fund the CIA black ops w/ out opium." -- *Caroway*

"Obama is nothing more than a schill for the neocons, the military industrial complex, and multi-national pharma companies. He protects Bush and Cheney at every step and now is in the midst of commiting his own war crimes. We, the American people, have been sold down the river by international banksters, PNAC, and others in the Iluminati/NWO crowd." -- *Acudoc*

"Obama has already supported Bush’s policy on illegal wiretapping and surveillance. He already supported Bush’s policy on rendition. He already supported Bush’s policy on asserting radical secrecy doctrine in order to prevent courts from ruling on illegal torture and spying. He already supported Bush’s prohibitions on showing torture photographs. And now he is supporting a surge in Afghanistan and promulgating the Bush/Cheney myth that we are in a “global war on terrorists”. -- The more things “change” the more they stay the same.It’s all absolutely insane. I was angry about it under Bush and I’m just as angry about it under Obama." -- *TheWalrus*

Tuesday December 1st 2009 - links page

Perhaps one should think of it this way, everything that has happened up to this point, everything that has culminated in the Bush administration and which has been continued without demure under the Obama administration, torture, forced confessions, illegal searches, the gutting of Habeas Corpus, the shredding of the Constitution, secret trials, secret evidence, secret prisons, rendition, an Imperial Executive an impotent legislature, endless wars, endless taxes, endless propaganda....all of it, every single bit of it, is EXACTLY what the constitution was designed and written to PREVENT!!  -- Or to put it another way, if the founding fathers were alive today, they would arrest everybody in the White House, Congress and even the Supreme Court, give them a quick trial....and than hang every one of the sons-of-bitches. -- *mpg* -- posted 10-29-09

"There are economic professors in American universities who think they are masters of the universe, but they don't have any historical knowledge. I have never believed that markets are self correcting. No historian could..."

"The idea that countries don't go bust is a joke... The debt trap may be about to spring ... for countries that have created large stimulus packages in order to stimulate their economies."

Monday November 30th 2009 - links page

Sunday November 29th 2009 - links page

Economic Hitman John Perkins: US predatory capitalism creates poverty, terrorism, and pollution  ---  http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-18425-LA-
County-Nonpartisan-Examiner%7Ey2009m11d29-John-Perkins-on-predatory-capitalism-creating-poverty-terrorism-and-pollution-by-US-policy
Videos - Alt/Vid#1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAQ8KcbQuJI
Alt/Vid#2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2nvH_o0vM8
Alt/Vid#3  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC4qTGlVpPY
Alt/Vid#4  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=969EiIfw9nM
Alt/Vid#5  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3yfOkCs8m0
Alt/Vid#6  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FocwDiN-Rc0  ---  (YuTb - 10m each - 05/20/09)
Special Note - From the History File - May 20, 2009 -- A quote...."NY Times Bestselling author of "Confessions of an Economic Hitman",  --- 
http://books.google.com/books?id=nJFFrLX-924C  ---  [GoglBkSrch]*  --- 
http://books.google.com/books?id=nJFFrLX-924C&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0  ---  John Perkins, [joins Alex Jones to discuss the globalist agenda, and] explains in excerpts from his new book, "Hoodwinked: An Economic Hitman Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded"  --- 
http://books.google.com/books?id=QsdbPgAACAAJ  ---  [GoglBkSrch]*  ---
http://books.google.com/books?id=QsdbPgAACAAJ&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0 ---  and What We Need to Do to Remake Them, that the US lives under a corporatocracy, with US policy captured to serve corporate profits rather than the public good." -*links added
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/11/30/economic-hitman-john-perkins-us-predatory-capitalism-creates-poverty-terrorism-and-pollution/
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Decline of the City (and) State  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/decline-city-and-state
A quote...."The problem with the Greeks was ultimately their love of conflict.  If anything could be said of the fall of the city-state generally it would be that more than a hundred years of effectively unending warfare (rainy season, fighting season, rainy season, fighting season, lather, rinse, repeat) finally exhausted the resources of the dominant political unit of the time."
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Killing is right and proper" (What happened at Travis AFB, yesterday)
  ---  http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/2009/11/killing-is-right-and-proper-what.html
A quote...."By Cindy Sheehan -- Yesterday, Bay Area CODEPINK and I, started our caravan to Creech AFB in Nevada with a morning peace rally at Travis AFB in Fairfield, CA. -- After we got there we were informed that we had to move off the base and were shown by MPs where we could protest. As good warriors for free speech and peace, we groused about it and we were moving forward to where we were supposed to go, when a very angry older man pulled up and started yelling at us to: “Don’t go, I want to counter protest you.” I told him, first of all, he shouldn’t be drinking so early in the morning, and secondly not to worry, that we were going anywhere, we were just moving about 100 yards away."
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Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned  ---  http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/obama-wants-computer-privacy-ruling-overturned/
A quote..."The Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrows the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. -- Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Justice Department officials are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its August ruling that federal prosecutors went too far when seizing 104 professional baseball players’ drug results when they had a warrant for just 10." - also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/Obama_Wants_Computer_Privacy_Ruling_Overturned/18281/0/4/4/Y/M.html
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Release of secret reports delayed - [by Obama]
  ---  http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/11/29/declassification_of_secret_documents_to_be_delayed/
A quote...."WASHINGTON - President Obama will maintain a lid of secrecy on millions of pages of military and intelligence documents that were scheduled to be declassified by the end of the year, according to administration officials. -- The missed deadline spells trouble for the White House’s promises to introduce an era of government openness, say advocates, who believe that releasing historical information enforces a key check on government behavior." - bold by website editor - also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/29-1  ---  Which is EXACTLY why they won't release the documents.  By the way, you notice how another Obama promise just up and vanished into thin air?  His promises are about as reliable as the US-NRE's dollars. - mpg
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Senate Report Explores 2001 Escape by bin Laden From Afghan Mountains
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/world/asia/29torabora.html?_r=2&partner=TOPIXNEWS&ei=5099
Special Note - A quote...."WASHINGTON — As President Obama vows to “finish the job” in Afghanistan by sending more troops, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has completed a detailed look back at a crucial failure early in the battle against Al Qaeda: the escape of Osama bin Laden from American forces in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora in December 2001." -- For more on this issue see....US Support of Terror - Tora Bora
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#Tora_Bora
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Senator Wants to Know if the Dead Osama will be Read Miranda Rights
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/senator-wants-to-know-if-the-dead-osama-will-be-read-miranda-rights.html
Special Note - A quote...."Osama bin Laden was a CIA asset who died in December, 2001. “Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader,” Fox News reported on December 26, 2001. “Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.” -- For more on this issue see....They Were Paid to be Guilty - 11-23-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theywerepaidtobeguilty-mpg-reficultnias-112309
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Iraq Inquiry bombshell: Secret letter to reveal new Blair war lies
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231746/Secret-letter-reveal-new-Blair-war-lies.html
Special Note - A quote...."An explosive secret letter that exposes how Tony Blair lied over the legality of the Iraq War can be revealed. -- The Chilcot Inquiry into the war will interrogate the former Prime Minister over the devastating 'smoking gun' memo, which warned him in the starkest terms the war was illegal. -- The Mail on Sunday can disclose that Attorney General Lord Goldsmith wrote the letter to Mr Blair in July 2002 - a full eight months before the war - telling him that deposing Saddam Hussein was a blatant breach of international law." - bold by website editor
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/211748
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Gordon Brown urged to lift Iraq inquiry secrecy  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/29/iraq-inquiry-secrecy-brown-manning
Special Note - A quote...."Gordon Brown is facing demands to change the rules of the Iraq inquiry this weekend amid fears that the most explosive documents explaining why Britain went to war will not be made public. -- As the inquiry enters its second week, the prime minister is under pressure to make key evidence relating to secret government discussions public, including minutes showing how the then attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, changed his mind about the legality of the war." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m60616&hd=&size=1&l=e
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A terribly polite bombshell  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article6936078.ece
Special Note - A quote...."They wander inside each morning at about 10 o’clock and sit themselves down facing the panel. In his short opening address, Chilcot expresses a wish that they will be open and candid, and sign a transcript at the end to this effect. -- They are not always open and candid, though; some of them, so far, have been closed and downright obfuscatory on certain matters, employing all those linguistic tricks and sleights of semantics that made Yes Minister such a pleasure to watch. But we have still learnt plenty, along the way, since the inquiry opened on Tuesday."
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The truth of UK's guilt over Iraq  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/27/truth-uk-guilt-iraq-chilcot
A quote...."With its troops no longer engaged in military operations inside Iraq, Great Britain has been liberated politically to conduct a postmortem of that conflict, including the sensitive issue of the primary justification used by then Prime Minister Tony Blair for going to war, namely Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, or WMD." -- also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/28
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/211787
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Ba'ath supporters launch TV Channel  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=112453&sectionid=351020201
A quote...."A group of the banned Iraqi Ba'ath Party's supporters have launched a TV station to broadcast the life story and speeches of Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein. "
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British troops will start to leave Helmand next year, says Brown - How about January 1st? - mpg
  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6936358.ece
A quote...."BRITISH troops will start pulling out of Afghanistan as early as next year, Gordon Brown announced yesterday. -- The prime minister said he would map out a detailed exit strategy from the war-torn country at an international conference to be held in London in January."
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Europe lacks means, will for Afghan war - Also, most Europeans aren't as stupid as the US-NRE's Neo-Romans
  ---  http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/November/international_November1733.xml&section=international&col=
A quote...."BRUSSELS – The United States’ partners could deploy some 5,000 extra troops under a new strategy to combat the Afghan insurgency but lack the means or the will to do much more, according to analysts. -- Plagued by economic problems, overstretched armies deployed in Iraq or the Balkans and growing military and civilian casualties, European nations are losing appetite for a fight that has dragged on for eight years."
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Good for the German Parliamentary System  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/43906.html
Full quote...."So far, three high-ranking officials have had to resign over their lies and coverup of civilian deaths in Afghanistan at the heads of the German army. Now, Germans, pull every soldier out of every foreign land and cut the military to Weimar levels, as a good first step towards zero. And get out of that US-aggression-and-occupation pact, NATO, which you never should have been forced to join by the empire. (Via Antiwar.com) -- Of course, no American official has had to resign over the starvation, shooting, and bombing murder of a million civilians in Iraq."
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"Black sites we can believe in: U.S. Secret Prison Still Operating On Bagram Air Base  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/world/asia/29bagram.html  ---  While two of the prisoners were captured before the Obama administration took office, one was captured in June of this year. 29 Nov 2009 An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still secretly holding inmates for sometimes weeks at a time and without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base. The site, known to detainees prisoners as the black jail, consists of individual windowless concrete cells, each illuminated by a single light bulb glowing 24 hours a day. In interviews, former prisoners said that their only human contact was at twice-daily interrogation sessions... While Mr. Obama signed an order to eliminate so-called black sites run by the Central Intelligence Agency in January, that order did not apply to this jail, which is run by military Special Operations forces. Military officials said as recently as this summer that the Afghanistan jail and another like it at the Balad Air Base in Iraq were being used to interrogate high-value detainees. And officials said recently that there were no plans to close the jails." - Paragraph quoted from CLG  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/
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Brazil opposes new Iran sanctions  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=112399&sectionid=351020104
A quote...."Brazil's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency says that a new round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program would be pointless."
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Iran to use own rial in int'l transactions  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=112417&sectionid=351020102
A quote...."Iran has started discussions with other countries concerning the use of its national currency in international transactions, an Iranian official says."
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US pushes through IAEA censure of Iran’s nuclear programs  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/iran-n30.shtml
A quote...."A US-backed resolution passed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Friday censured Iran for failing to halt its nuclear programs and disclose construction of a new uranium enrichment plant near the city of Qom. The IAEA resolution sets the stage for an intensifying confrontation between Iran and the US and its European allies over the coming month."
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Iran set to construct ten new enrichment plants  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=112446&sectionid=351020104
Special Note - Related Article - This is simply the Iranian leadership venting their frustration's, a few of them, still, unbelievably, after all this time, must have actually thought some of the western powers were negotiating in good faith.  That they would at least make an attempt to follow the NPT’s rules and procedures, that they would at the minimum try to appear impartial.  Obviously as it turns out, the Iranians were just being silly.  The entire world is now discovering that following the US-NRE's lead on these sorts of issues, signed documents, treaties, covenants and agreements mean absolutely NOTHING to some of the western powers, their signatures mean nothing to them.  If it hasn't become clear yet to the world community, it should be crystal clear by now....the NPT is as dead as a door nail, it's finished, it's kaput....it's over. – mpg-- A quote...."Days after a new resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog called on Iran to halt the construction of its Fordo enrichment plant, the Iranian government tasks the Atomic Energy Organization (AEO) with building ten more nuclear enrichment sites."
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Iran lawmakers urge limited cooperation with IAEA  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/iran-lawmakers-urge-limited-cooperation.html
Related Article - More Iranian venting, they're really angry about this issue. - mpg -- A quote...."Iranian lawmakers have passed a motion calling on the government to downgrade its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog in reaction to its recent resolution against the country."
also posted at WarInIraq   ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/211779
& AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/iran-lawmakers-urge-limited-cooperation.html
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Iran to move toward enriching uranium to 20% if talks fail: MP  ---  http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=208943
Related Article - More Iranian venting, but they mean it. - mpg -- A quote...."TEHRAN – Iran will take steps to enrich uranium to 20 percent under the IAEA supervision, should the talks fail to obtain fuel for the Tehran nuclear research reactor, MP Jalal Kazemi said on Sunday. "
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Majlis allocates $20 million to reveal rights violations by U.S., UK  ---  http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=208939
Related Article - The Iranians are really, really, ticked off about the whole thing. - mpg -- A quote...."TEHRAN - Iranian MPs voted on Sunday to allocate $20 million from the Foreign Exchange Reserve Fund to inform the world about the human rights violations committed by the United States and Britain across the globe."
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Russia, Iran agree on new gas, oil projects  ---  http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=208936
A quote...."TEHRAN – The Russian energy minister and officials from the Iranian Oil Ministry have agreed on a gas swap, the implementation of 15 new oil and gas projects, the construction of a oil refinery near the Caspian Sea, and the establishment a joint oil company."
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Iran's Gov't in Progress with Privatization Program  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8809090663
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Iran's Privatization Organization Qolamreza Heidari Kord Zangeneh announced that the government is continuing its privatization program and has privatized $63 billion worth of its assets in state-owned companies during the last four years."
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[Pakistan's] President gives up [Nuke] control to P.M.
  ---  http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/1109/pakistani_p_m_surrenders_control_of_nukes_e16d83a1-ec8d-4e1e-9a2d-04808521915d.html
Special Note - Geo-Political Alert - A quote...."Close In a move that complicates the AfPak strategy President Obama is expected to roll out on Tuesday, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has given up his position in the nation’s nuclear command structure to Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani. -- While Zardari’s gesture is just that, since control of the nation’s nuclear weapons in fact lies with the military, the move is a powerful symbol of the nuclear power’s political instability." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/211788
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Conflict Minerals: A Cover For US Allies and Western Mining Interests?
  ---  http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/conflict-minerals-a-cover-for-us-allies-and-western-mining-interests/
A quote...."As global awareness grows around the Congo and the silence is finally being broken on the current and historic exploitation of Black people in the heart of Africa, a myriad of Western based “prescriptions” are being proffered. Most of these prescriptions are devoid of social, political, economic and historical context and are marked by remarkable omissions. The conflict mineral approach or efforts emanating from the United States and Europe are no exception to this symptomatic approach which serves more to perpetuate the root causes of Congo’s challenges than to resolve them."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m60589&hd=&size=1&l=e
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EL SALVADOR:  Declassified Docs Shed Light on Jesuits' Murders  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49447
A quote...."SAN SALVADOR, Nov 27 (IPS) - Thousands of pages of declassified U.S. documents shedding light on the 1989 murders of six prominent Jesuit clerics, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter in El Salvador could give a new twist to the case that opened in the Spanish courts in January."
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ELECTIONS-URUGUAY:  Landslide Victory for Former Guerrilla  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49469
A quote...."MONTEVIDEO, Nov 30 (IPS) - Left-wing candidate José Mujica was elected president of Uruguay with nearly 52 percent of the vote Sunday, seven to eight percentage points ahead of his rival, the right-wing Luis Alberto Lacalle, according to projections by pollsters."
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The Danger of a Single Story  ---  http://pulsemedia.org/2009/11/29/the-danger-of-a-single-story-chimamanda-adichie/#more-16988
Alt   ---  http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html  ---  (TEDVid - 18min 49sec - Filmed Jul 2009, Posted Oct 2009)
Must View Video - A quote...."This is a superb presentation by Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie. Also see Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to write about Africa“,  ---  http://pulsemedia.org/2009/07/11/how-to-write-about-africa/  ---   and Uzodinma Iweala’s “Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Africa“.
  ---  http://fanonite.org/2007/07/18/stop-trying-to-save-africa/  ---  Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding." -- also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/danger-of-single-story.html
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The Geopolitics Of The Dubai Debt Crisis: It's Iran vs. The United States
  ---  http://www.businessinsider.com/the-geopolitics-of-the-dubai-debt-crisis-its-iran-vs-the-united-states-2009-11
Special Note - Geo-Political Analysis - A quote...."The role of Iran may be the most overlooked in the Dubai debt crisis. -- Of all the states of the United Arab Emirates federation, Dubai has maintained the closest ties to Iran. Indeed, as international pressure has built on Iran over the past decade, Dubai has prospered from those ties. It provides critical banking and trade links for Iran, often serving as the go-between for European or Asian companies and financial firms that want to do business with Iran without violating international sanctions."
also posted at Uruknet   ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m60604&hd=&size=1&l=e
& AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/geopolitics-of-dubai-debt-crisis-its.html
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Rothschild appointed to help sell Dubai World assets
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businesslatestnews/6673264/Rothschild-appointed-to-help-sell-Dubai-World-assets.html
Related Article - A quote...."Paul Reynolds, head of Rothschild's advisory operations in the Middle East, was this week asked to work for the Dubai government's chief restructuring officer alongside Aidan Birkett of Deloitte, who was appointed on Wednesday."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6484-0-27-27--.html
& AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/rothschild-appointed-to-help-sell-dubai.html
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

UN Partition of Palestine  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/un-partition-of-palestine
Must Read - A quote...."The UN General assembly voted 29 November 1947 to recommend partition of Palestine to give the Zionist movement control over 55% of Palestine and leave the Palestinians with 45% of Palestine. The Palestinian natives were then more than 2/3rd of the population and owned 93% of the land.  Jews constituted a third of the population (most of them illegal new immigrants) who had land ownership of less than 7%."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m60606&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Israeli Navy Shells Palestinian Fishing Boats  ---  http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57245
A quote...."The Israeli Navy fired several shelled at a number of Palestinian fishing boats near the Al Shudaniyya shore, north west of Gaza City. No injuries were reported in the shelling." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m60592&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Residents say settlers stormed village  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=243095
A quote...."Nablus – Ma’an – Fifteen Israeli settlers from the Yitzhar settlement near Nablus attempted to set fire to a home in the village of Burin, Palestinian sources said Saturday." - also posted at AlethoNews ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/settlers-storm-palestinian-village.html
& WarIniraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/211718
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IOF troops arrest a disabled Palestinian boy on his way to hospital
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s71YfzSgzc5kC5PR
EIjCsb0df1M8SNgXP%2btstEndMem00ir3uGCntOxYN%2b6jKPGpda0soR4VrGT4C8JMTKDW7jd%2f4Annvb1AzSFNxO2SqgFDY%3d
A quote...."KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- IOF troops arrested a 19-year-old disabled Palestinian boy Ahmad Samir Asfour, from the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on his way to a hospital in Jerusalem, according to local sources."
also posted at AlethoNews   ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/iof-troops-arrest-disabled-palestinian.html
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/211772
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Settler harassment and land theft continues in Yanoun  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2009/11/9517?utm_source
=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."Israeli settlers have annexed a further 40 dunums of what remains of the endangered Palestinian village of Yanoun, east of Nablus. Settlers from the illegal settlement Itamar were witnessed ploughing the land in question yesterday, effectively laying claim to it and furthering their annexation of Yanoun’s land, already entirely encircled by outposts of Itamar."
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Palestinians from Bir Idd continue reclaiming their land in spite of army harassment  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2009/11/9522?utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."For the last 3 weeks, ISM activists have stayed with a community of cave-dwellers in Bir Idd, south east of Hebron, on the very border to the Negev desert. The villagers, who live off raising sheep and goats as well as seasonal farming, moved in recently, after a court order gave them permission to do so following 10 years in exile. In 1999, the Israeli army forcibly evicted 700 people living in the area, destroying stone houses and blowing up caves. Until now, attempts by the villagers to reclaim their land have been quashed by violence perpetrated by settlers from the three nearby settlements of Mezadot Yehuda, Susiya and Mitzpe Yair, all of which are illegal under international law."
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Venezuela to Upgrade Palestinan Ties and Offer Aid
  ---  http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/world-news/2976-venezuela-to-upgrade-palestinan-ties-and-offer-aid
A quote...."Venezuela, November 29, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) - Venezuela plans to open an embassy in Palestinian territories and upgrade its ties to ambassadorial level, President Hugo Chavez said on Friday, to support Palestinians in their struggle against Israel."
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Palestine’s Guernica Book Release  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1186
Event Announcement - A quote...."HDIP (Health, Development, Information & Policy Institute and Palestine Monitor cordially invite you to attend the Palestine’s Guernica Book Release which marks the 1st Year Memorial of the events in Gaza from December 27th, 2008 – January 19th, 2009"
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Police tear-gas protesters during Honduran election  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=112472&sectionid=351020706
A quote...."Police fired tear gas and water cannons at supporters of deposed President Manuel Zelaya as polling was underway during the Honduran election. -- Some Zelaya supporters have sustained wounds in confrontations with the police and many others have been detained."
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A Letter to the Presidents of the Hemisphere  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24074.htm
A quote...."By Manuel Zelaya Rosales President of Honduras

November 22, 2009
Honorable Presidents Nations of América
Dear Presidents,

"I write you in my role as President of Honduras, valuing the excellent relations between our countries and in defense of the democracy violated in Honduras as consequence of the Military Coup d’Etat perpetrated June 28 of this year, when soldiers invaded my home and at gunpoint kidnapped and took me to Costa Rica....."
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Zelaya: Honduran people not to accept electoral process as valid  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/30/content_12565028.htm
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said the "winner" of the presidential elections in Honduras on Sunday is the abstention of the people."
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Indigenous leader Salvador Zúñiga: "The electoral farce is a failure. The oligarchy will never be able to hold back the deep desire for justice."
  ---  http://hondurasresists.blogspot.com/2009/11/indigenous-leader-salvador-zuniga.html
Interview - A quote...."We are here with Liberated Radio live from somewhere in Honduras. We are here talking with one of the brothers from the national leadership of the National Front of Resistance, also a leader of COPINH, the Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras...."
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Bogus Honduran Elections Today: Hypocrites Washington, Costa Rica, Panama, Perú, Colombia & Israel the only nations to recognize the illegal elections
  ---  http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_57621.shtml
A quote...."The true divides in Latin America - between justice and injustice, democracy and dictatorship, human rights and corporate rights, people's power and imperial domination - have never been more visible than today. People's movements throughout the region to revolutionize corrupt, unequal systems that have isolated and excluded the vast majority in Latin American nations, are successfully taking power democratically and building new models of economic and social justice."
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Audit the Fed: Bernanke and the Bankers Are Running Scared
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/audit-the-fed-bernanke-and-the-bankers-are-running-scared.html
Must Read - A quote...."In his Mockingbird media editorial, Bernanke “conceded the Fed had missed some of the riskiest behavior in the lead up to the crisis. But he said the Fed had helped avoid an even more damaging economic meltdown and has stepped up its policing of the financial system.” -- In fact, the Fed was specifically designed to create financial crises. It was all plotted in 1910 when minions of J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, the Rothschilds and Warburgs met on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia. In 1913, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank was created as a direct result of that secret meeting. Said Congressman Charles Lindbergh on the midnight passage of the Federal Reserve Act: “From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.”
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Trillions for Bankers, Poverty and Endless Wars for the People
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2009/11/trillions-for-bankers-poverty-and.html
Special Note - A quote...."No other topic is more important and explains better the demise of America, than the saga of the Federal Reserve. To any objective citizen the conclusion is self evident. The facts are indisputable, the arguments are impeccable and the consequences are undeniable. So why will the public avoid facing the ultimate crisis of national survival?"
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A Reader’s Guide to Bernanke’s Preemptive Attack  ---  http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=4214
Some quotes...."Bernanke says the congressional moves are a byproduct of the public frustration over the financial crisis and the government’s response, especially the bailout of large banks." -- "Odd that people would be upset, eh? Just because many of us have had our dreams of retirement destroyed and our very survival menaced by these monetary rulers of the universe. We need to take a more balanced view: even if you and I have been nearly wiped out, the kingpins at Goldman Sachs and Bank of America are doing very well. People who bought credit default swaps from AIG got their money, didn’t they (actually our money, but that’s only a detail)? So all in all, the country is in pretty good shape, on the average."
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China, Gold, and the Civilization Shift  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/evans-pritchard14.html
A quote...."Stephen Jen from the hedge fund Blue Gold Capital has a warning for those who think that gold has risen far too high, is necessarily in a speculative bubble, and must soon come clattering back down. -- Mr Jen is an expert on sovereign wealth funds from his days at Morgan Stanley. The gold story – essentially – is that the rising economic powers of Asia, the Middle East, and the commodity bloc are rejecting Western fiat currencies. China, India, and Russia have all been buying gold on a large scale over recent months."
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Bank of England made secret £62 billion loans to bankrupt banks  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/loan-n30.shtml
A quote...."Bank of England governor Mervyn King has revealed for the first time that in October 2008 the Bank had lent Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) £62 billion. These loans, issued at the height of the international banking crisis, were to prevent the collapse of not only the two banks but the entire banking sector."
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Japan Preparing To Launch Quantitative Easing; What Are Three Lost Decades Among Hyperdeflationary Friends
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/japan-preparing-launch-quantitative-easing-what-are-three-lost-decades-among-hyperdeflationa
Some quotes...."As if the newsflow from the last few days could get any more surreal, Dow Jones concludes the ticker with this stunner:" - "TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japan's top government spokesman said he expects Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa to exchange opinions on the economy and to discuss the possibility of the central bank adopting a policy of quantitative easing, local media reported Monday." - "Questions, questions, questions: Does that mean the Yen will be the carry currency of choice once again? And if so, will the dollar shorts promptly bail as they flee for the traditionally shorted Japanese currency? Will Japan now pay investors to borrow and short its currency? Is Richard Koo, well, Koo-Koo? Just how thin is the thin white line between deflation and dementia-induced hyperdeflation (and here we were thinking only the Chairman was able to come up with such brilliance)?"
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Saturday November 28th 2009 - links page

Friday November 27th 2009 - links page

Thanksgiving or the Politics of Genocide  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m60559&hd=&size=1&l=e
Alt/Vid#1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxv62SVcHxU  ---  (YuTb 11m39s 112709)  One ticked off Original American.
Alt/Vid#2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLViW3weN9k
Must View Video - A quote...."Thanksgiving and the Muslim Eid Al-Adha have coincided around the same dates. -- In Eid Al Adha we give thanks to Allah, through a ritual of animal sacrifice, the Americans give thanks to their maker, through a ritual of human sacrifice from the first day the white man landed on native American land, until the present when that same white man, (who unfortunately now includes blacks and native Americans too) landed in Iraq, continuing that exact same 200 years old methodology of arrogance, theft, rape, torture, killing crowned with lies and deception - in short genocide."
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Flight 77 Cockpit Door Never Opened?  ---  http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=18405
Must Read - (Possible remote control confirmation and/or data recorder tampering - mpg) -- A quote...."(PilotsFor911Truth.org) - Newly decoded data provided by an independent researcher and computer programmer from Australia exposes alarming evidence that the reported hijacking aboard American Airlines Flight 77 was impossible to have existed. A data parameter labeled "FLT DECK DOOR", cross checks with previously decoded data obtained by Pilots For 9/11 Truth from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) through the Freedom Of Information Act."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/11/27/911-pentagon-aircraft-hijack-impossible/
For more on this issue see....9/11-NORAD  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911norad-weblist-mpg-091308
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Richard Gage AIA on New Zealand National Television   ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/11/27/video-richard-gage-aia-on-new-zealand-national-television/
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2INIOXe_WI  ---  (YouTube - 6 min 11 sec - November 27, 2009)
Video - A quote...."This may be the first time the evidence assembled by Gage and others in the 9/11 truth movement has been presented with the gravity and respect it deserves by any mainstream news broadcaster." - For more on these issues see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
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A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/a-key-british-official-reminds-us-of-the-forgotten-anthrax-attack/
Must Read - A quote...."I hear, every so often, that “there hasn’t been an attack on our soil since 9/11″, and it always makes me cringe. Sometimes I wonder about people. The anthrax attacks were never solved. They never had to bring their “evidence” to trial or put their key witness, the lying woman who got a new house out of the deal and maybe some breast implants, on the witness stand. Everyone admits the anthrax sent to our congress and members of the press came from our own military labs, yet they claim the case is “closed”.  So closed, in fact, that no-one ever needs to mention it again. Down the memory hole it goes. Mr. Greenwald uses his popular platform to suggest we don’t simply forget about it. Good for him" - For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Anthrax
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#ANTHRAX
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Everyone Knew that Iraq Didn't Have WMDs  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/11/everyone-knew-that-iraq-didnt-have-wmds.html
Must Read - For example, Tony Blair - the British Prime Minister - knew  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6932597.ece  ---  that Saddam possessed no WMDs. If America's closest ally Britain knew, then the White House knew as well. -- And the number 2 Democrat in the Senate -who was on the Senate intelligence committee - admitted  --- 
http://web.archive.org/web/20070429045319/http://washtimes.com/national/20070427-124842-1706r.htm  ---  that the Senate intelligence committee knew before the war started that Bush's public statements about Iraqi WMDs were false. If the committee knew, then the White House knew as well. -- But we don't even have to use logic to be able to conclude that the White House knew.   -- Specifically, the former highest-ranking CIA officer in Europe says  --- 
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/23/60-minutes-cia-official-reveals-bush-cheney-rice-were-personally-told-iraq-had-no-wmd-in-fall-2002/  ---  that Bush, Cheney and Rice were personally informed that Iraq had no WMDs in Fall 2002 (and see this  ---  http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/23/cia.iraq/  ---  ).
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The Iraq War ‘Inquiry’: ‘Revelations’? What revelations?  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16296
Special Note - A quote...."I read with amazement the ‘revelations’ concerning war criminal Tony Blair’s visit to Camp Crawford in March 2002 where Bush/Blair decided that ‘regime change’ was the order of the day. But there’s nothing new about these ‘revelations’, indeed I and many others reported this meeting literally years ago."
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US imperialism, 9/11 and the Iraq war  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/pers-n28.shtml
Quote of the Day...."More than enough evidence has already been produced to indict top Bush administration leaders, including Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and Rice, on the same charge for which Nazi leaders were convicted at the 1946 Nuremberg Tribunal—deliberately waging an aggressive war."
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UK diplomat questions post of Jews [Two Zionists who support  Blair & The Iraq Occupation] on Iraq panel [of five]
  ---  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1259010973336&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
A quote...."A British diplomat has criticized the appointment of two leading Jewish academics to the UK's Iraq Inquiry panel, stating it may upset the balance of the inquiry."
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Blair - Bush Texas meeting in 2002 sealed Iraq fate
  ---  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/27/blair-bush-texas-meeting-in-2002-sealed-iraq-fate-115875-21853752/
A quote...."The former Prime Minister allegedly "signed in blood" Britain's support for an attack on Baghdad when he got together with the US president at his Texas ranch. -- And Mr Blair deliberately linked Saddam to al-Qaeda in a bid to strengthen the case to topple Saddam, despite there being no evidence, the Iraq War inquiry heard." - bold by website editor
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Iraq inquiry: war ‘not legitimate’, Sir Jeremy Greenstock tells inquiry
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/6669634/Iraq-inquiry-war-not-legitimate-Sir-Jeremy-Greenstock-tells-inquiry.html
A quote...."The Iraq war was not “legitimate” because Britain and the US failed to win international support for the 2003 invasion, Sir Jeremy Greenstock has told the official inquiry into the war."
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The Economic Crisis And What Must Be Done  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24076.htm
Must Read - A quote...."November 27, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- The United States does not control its own destiny. Rather it is controlled by an international financial elite, of which the American branch works out of big New York banks like J.P. Morgan Chase, Wall Street investment firms such as Goldman Sachs, and the Federal Reserve System. They in turn control the White House, Congress, the military, the mass media, the intelligence agencies, both political parties, the universities, etc. No one can rise to the top in any of these institutions without the elite’s stamp of approval."
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You Get What you Vote For!  ---  http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/2009/11/you-get-what-you-vote-for.html
Must Read - A quote...."By Cindy Sheehan - The so-called anti-war movement currently finds itself in somewhat of a quagmire: What to do when the man you raised money for, volunteered for, and yes, even voted for, actually fulfills one of his most repulsive campaign promises? -- First of all, I never understood why, or how, peace people could support someone who voted to pay for the wars while he was a Senator and was quite clear on the fact that he would increase violence in Afghanistan and perform a slow, painful and very incomplete withdrawal from Iraq. Principles that were proclaimed so loudly while Bush was president get shoved aside and buried now that a Democrat is president and how do you get your principles back from the dung-pile of selling out?"
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The Auld Triangle Goes Jingle Jangle  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11272009.html
Must Read - A quote...."Obama’s dipped below 50 percent in public approval, which—so the pollsters tell us—is nothing particularly unusual for a new president at this stage of the game. Next week, he’s scheduled to announce that that he’s ordering 34,000 more troops to head for Afghanistan. -- I heard someone on NPR say this was Obama’s straddle between General Stan McChrystal’s original demand for 50,000 troops and those who have been imploring Obama to nix further deployments and bring all the troops home. In other words we have a typical Obama compromise, making gestures designed to please everybody, but all the while intent upon going along with Business as Usual. Take his performance on Guantánamo. Pledge to close it down, then drag your feet, continue secret renditions of captives to other prisons like Bagram and finally engineer the forceed resignation of Gregory Craig, the White House counsel who was trying to close Guantánamo which will remain open until every remaining prisoner can be sent to replications of that hell hole somewhere else."
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What Is Totalitarianism?  ---  http://www.strike-the-root.com/92/kleen/kleen5.html
Special Note - A quote...."If the   United States   came under the control of a totalitarian regime, would we recognize it? This question is of utmost importance today, when many of us harbor fears that some time in the near future ideas such as freedom, liberty, and privacy will be alien to our society. But as we witness the regular passage of legislation designed to restrict and regulate, and the tendency of the Federal government to increase rather than decrease its power (with a handful of exceptions), we are struck by the uninterrupted routine of life in the   USA   . As the central government brings more and more of private society under its control, we continue to watch cable TV, shop at supermarkets overflowing with products, and eat at our favorite restaurants. Could it be that we have already passed that dreaded threshold and missed it?" -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24073.htm
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Three Trillion Dollars - The Hidden Cost of War  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24075.htm
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OT5uw1Fb_0  ---  (YouTube - 2 min 40 sec - September 22, 2008)
Video - A quote...."In 2003 Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is over 10 times that figure. So what's behind the ballooning dollar signs? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme's exhaustedly researched book, "The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict," breaks down the price tag, from current debts to the unseen costs we'll pay for years to come."
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IAEA censures Iran over atomic site  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/11/2009112710473030247.html
A quote...."The UN nuclear watchdog's governing body has voted overwhelmingly to censure Iran for developing a uranium enrichment site in secret, and has demanded it freeze the project immediately." -- By the way folks, you'll notice as you read this article that neither the IAEA, nor any of the countries who voted against Iran, stated Iran’s construction of the plant violated the NPT or in fact, any international laws, because it didn't.  In fact Iran is not required to inform the IAEA of the construction of enrichment facilities like this, nor any other members of the NPT, until six months  ---
  http://www.twf.org/News/Y2009/0926-IranPlant.html  ---  before the scheduled introduction of nuclear material to the facility.  Iran informed the IAEA eighteen months before their projected introduction of nuclear material to the facility, assuming all goes well with the plants construction.  In actuality it'll probably take them longer than that to get the plant ready to start processing nuclear fuel.  Again this "special treatment" of Iran at the behest of Isreal and the US-NRE is just another nail in the coffin of the NPT. –mpg
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RIGHTS:  U.S. Military Unveils New Prison in Afghanistan  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49443
A quote...."KABUL, Nov 27 (IPS) - The U.S. military has announced the opening of a new prison on Bagram Air Base. The prison, costing 60 million dollars, will hold up to 1,100 prisoners at any one time." -- also posted at CommonDreams   ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/27-0
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/211690
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Germany: Afghan Air Strike Brings Down Army Chief & Govt. Minister  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m60555&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."SCANDALS RELATING TO THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN ARE ROCKING KEY NATO COUNTRIES. Canada's role in facilitating the torture of suspects - many of them likely innocent - has become a central public issue here. In Britain the revelation that MI6 supported torture against British citizens in Pakistan has become a major issue. And, now in Germany, where anti-war sentiment is very high, the prosecution of the war is causing deep political damage."
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US headache over Afghan deserters  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KK26Df01.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (IPS) - One in every four combat soldiers quit the Afghan National Army (ANA) during the year ending in September, published data by the U.S. Defence Department and the Inspector General for Reconstruction in Afghanistan reveals."
also posted at ATimes  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KK26Df01.html
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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24067.htm
Here's why China & Russia joined in the censure, because Israel threatened WWIII. - mpg -- A quote...."The Chinese were told that Israel regards Iran's nuclear program as an "existential issue and that countries that have an existential issue don't listen to other countries," according to a senior administration official. The implication was clear: Israel could bomb Iran, leading to a crisis in the Persian Gulf region and almost inevitably problems over the very oil China needs to fuel its economic juggernaut, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. -- Earlier this week, the White House got its answer. China informed the United States that it would support a toughly worded, U.S.-backed statement criticizing the Islamic republic...."
For more on this sort of issue see....A Mortal Threat – Europe’s New Frankenstein Monster - 01-26-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/amortalthreat-europesnewfrankenstein-mpg-reficultnias-012609
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Iran: IAEA resolution puts cooperation in jeopardy  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=112310&sectionid=351020104
A quote...."Iran's envoy to the UN nuclear watchdog has warned that an IAEA resolution passed against the country's nuclear work will only introduce tension to the "spirit of cooperation."
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IAEA resolution a 'great failure' for West, says Soltaniyeh  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=112321&sectionid=3510302
Interview - A quote...."The following is a rush transcript of Press TV's exclusive interview with Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh on the UN nuclear Watchdog's Friday resolution, which calls on Tehran to immediately halt construction of the Fordo enrichment plant."
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Lebanon 'Accepts' Hezbollah's Weapons; Congress Prepares Reply  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15574
A quote...."It is the right of the Lebanese people, Army and the (Hezbollah led-) resistance to liberate the Shebaa Farms, the Kfar Shuba Hills and the northern part of the village of Ghajar as well as to defend Lebanon and its territorial waters in the face of any enemy by all available and legal means."
also posted at AlethoNews ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/lebanon-accepts-hezbollahs-weapons.html
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/211650
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Hezbollah's right to defend Lebanon acknowledged  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=35924
A quote...."BEIRUT - Lebanon's new cabinet has agreed on a policy statement that acknowledges Hezbollah's right to use its weapons to defend the country against Israeli aggression. -- Information Minister Tarek Mitri said late Wednesday after a cabinet committee set up to draft the statement met for the ninth time that an agreement had been reached." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/211639
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Pakistan's president facing military anger over his U.S. ties  ---  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/79576.html
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Suspicions by Pakistan's powerful army that the country's civilian leadership is growing too close to the United States are fueling a political crisis that analysts here believe threatens the survival of the government and could divert attention from the battle against Islamic extremists."
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Just Give it a Rest OK!!
11-27-09
mpg

Mumbai  Indian Newspaper: American Suspect Eyed In Chabad House Attack, Might Be A CIA Double Agent
  ---  http://www.vosizneias.com/43842/eid/84108273
Alt  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/americansuspecteyedinchabadhouseattack-vosizneias-cached-112709
Special Note - A quote...."Mumbai - It's a plot that could be straight out of the bluff-and-double-bluff worlds created by John le Carre and Frederick Forsyth. Only, it seems to have played out in real life, to the tragic misfortune of hundreds of innocent people. The tantalising possibility that David Coleman Headley may have been a US undercover agent who turned rogue is vexing many here as American authorities keep the US-based Lashkar jihadi out of the reach of Indian investigators. -- To make the tale even more dramatic, Headley may just have provided American intelligence agencies information that prevented a Lashkar attack on Mumbai in September. The theory -- and it's still a theory -- is that Headley was used to infiltrate the Lashkar, but gradually went astray under the influence of the very terrorists he was supposed to be spying upon." -  bold by website editor

Oh Yeah!  That's it. He went "astray", uh-huh, right, sure, absolutely, all this from the EXACT same people who brought you "Iraq's WMD's"  --- 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206  ---  .

To clue all you readers in, one of the main goals of current US-NRE policy is to pit India against Pakistan  --- 
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/11/28/indian-cold-start-doctrine  ---  and leverage those politicians and political parties in India who are willing to "play" along with the US-NRE's "great game" plans for the region, into positions of power using "attacks" like these as powerful political fodder.  Same as the parasitic class did in the US-NRE after 9/11. The end goal being not just to put pressure on Pakistan, but to get these now grateful and potentially incriminated Indian politicians (blackmail anyone?) to join with the US-NRE in its plans to confront and contain China on a long term basis.

But of course we're supposed to believe the story that, David Coleman Headley went "astray"!  The fact that his alleged actions fit PERFECTLY with the US-NRE's long-term strategy and quite ruthless objectives for the region (tactics that might remind some of the British Raj) are simply accidental and totally coincidental.

But he does remind this website editor of an FBI "double agent", Ali Mohamed.  ---  http://www.911blogger.com/node/5179  ---  Yep, here's another case of the fiendishly clever al Qaeda planting a "double agent" on the FBI, and yes, low and behold he somehow fooled them on 9/11....right.

You see here's how it works folks.  The US-NRE denies any foreknowledge about the (place attack here) after it happens.  An attack that always, just somehow, seems to help with the US-NRE's desires to go occupy countries in the Middle East who have geo-strategic locations, energy resources or in some other way would further the PNAC Protocols.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409

After it's revealed through hundreds of sources that the US-NRE not only knew about the (place attack here) for which no blame is EVER assigned, or any real investigation is EVER conducted, stories begin to leak out from the efforts of diligent reporters or whistle blowers about how US-NRE personel were actually involved with the (place attack here) along with the attackers themselves (Gosh, Gee Whiz, you don't say!) Whereupon everyone breaths a sigh of relief later on when it's revealed that the US-NRE would of course, never, ever, do such a thing, that in fact (roll your eyes) these were "double agents" that "fooled" the US-NRE (everyone now nod their heads wisely)

You know folks, at some point it it not only becomes childish, pathetic, infantile in addition to being totally ridiculous, it actually becomes boring.   How about we all just stop pretending, especially all those guys in the FBI....just STOP with the fake stories about how they "interrogated" the bin Ladens and Saudis as they were flown out of the country days after 9/11,  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/flights911-weblist-mpg-081906  ---  stop with the pitiful excuses of how they "investigated" the anthrax attacks against members of Congress  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#ANTHRAX  ---  just weeks before they were to vote on articles like the Patriot act.  Just don't bother anymore. 

Everyone in the FBI and the entire US-NRE security establishment should just publicly admit they're here to do the bidding of the wealthy parasitic class in this country and most importantly, service all of AIPAC's needs.  So they should just stop pretending, OK, because this whole shtick is becoming truly annoying.

As for those who support these policies of mayhem and murder in this country, those who are itching to do another 9/11.  As long as you announce it publicly, do what you gotta do.  Take pride in your work, be the Leona Helmsley of "terror", go out and publicly state -- "only the 'little people have to pay’ for terror" -- "only the 'little people' have to die for our games", whereas if you're rich or have the backing of the parasitic class in the US-NRE, you can literally get away with murder.

As for all those "wars" and occupations, obviously nothing is going to stop this country from breaking into  foreigner's homes, invading their countries, bombing, raping, pillaging, looting and murdering at will.  Acts of mayhem and murder for which millions of people in this country will burn in hell forever.

But this country's parasitic class should just stop it with all those "false flag" events!  They're not fooling anyone; everyone throughout the world knows what they're doing; everyone knows what they've done; 9/11, London's 7/11, Spain's Madrid, India's Mumbai, so why don't they just give it a rest, OK!!   - mpg
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Indian Cold Start doctrine  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/11/28/indian-cold-start-doctrine
A quote...."Strategic alliance with USA helps India in fulfilling its grandeur plans to become the regional and world power. In 1971, Soviet Union had helped India in achieving a false military victory and in truncating Pakistan. Indians now hope that America would help in fulfilling their dream of either reducing Pakistan into an Indian satellite or removing it from the face of world map. It is in this context that Indo-US-UK-Israeli-Afghan nexus has been formed in Kabul which is dedicated towards harming Pakistan. Both covert means and media campaign are complementing each other to achieve stated objectives."
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NATO's Eastward Expansion: Did the West Break Its Promise to Moscow?  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16289
posted at Global Research  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16176
A quote...."Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused the West of breaking promises made after the fall of the Iron Curtain, saying that NATO's expansion into Eastern Europe violated commitments made during the negotiations over German reunification. Newly discovered documents from Western archives support the Russian position."
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Russian president meets Chinese military leader on cooperation  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/27/content_12546664.htm
A quote...."MOSCOW, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commission Guo Boxiong here on Thursday to discuss prospects for bilateral military cooperation. -- Guo, during the meeting at the presidential residence, conveyed Chinese President Hu Jintao's regards to Medvedev."
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China admits it runs illegal black jails  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6662196/China-admits-it-runs-illegal-black-jails.html
Special Note - Something the US-NRE doesn't have here....yet.  But don't forget, the US-NRE DOES have the highest incarceration rate, per capita, of any nation in the entire world.  And we all know what this country's prisons are like. - mpg -- A quote...."A magazine run by the Chinese government has revealed the existence of a network of secret detention centres or "black jails" in Beijing where inmates are often beaten or tortured."
also posted at BLN ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/?news_id=6476
& RogueGov
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Latin America: The United States is Sticking with the Monroe Doctrine  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16291
posted at Global Research  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16176
Interview - A quote...."While the U.S. government is amplifying its hostile interventions in the south, André Pesant recalled the ideological origins of U.S. foreign policy in a radio episode entitled Honduras, Colombia, Cuba - the United States is Pursuing the Monroe Doctrine: All of America to the North-Americans. It is during a speech to Europeans delivered on December 2, 1823, that the Republican U.S. President James Monroe would set guidelines to be adopted by United States diplomacy in the nineteenth and early twentieth century."
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Cuba begins war games with US invasion in mind  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C11%5C28%5Cstory_28-11-2009_pg4_7
A quote...."HAVANA: Cuba began its biggest military maneuvers in five years on Thursday, saying they were needed to prepare for a possible invasion by the United States."
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Post-September 11 "Homeland Insecurity"  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10916.shtml?
utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
Book Review - A quote...."After the 11 September 2001 attacks there have been many books and articles regarding the misuse of justice and harsh treatment of Arab Americans and Muslims in the United States. Louise Cainkar's extensive research and excellent analysis is the most complete published so far. "Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11"  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=0z6FPgAACAAJ  ---  [GoglBkSrch]*  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=0z6FPgAACAAJ&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0  ---  is an ethnography which took three years to complete and benefits from more than a hundred interviews. Cainkar conducted 80 percent of the interviews personally and participated in local events in Chicago's Arab-American community. This rich source base allows her to examine the effects of national, global and local events on individuals and communities that are viewed as a potential threat to the security of the US." - *links added
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Interview with PA dissident: "I cannot just stay silent"  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10910.shtml
Interview - A quote...."Abdel Sattar Qassem, a professor and author of numerous publications on Palestinian history and Islamic thought, is well-known for his pungent critiques of Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). As a result he has been imprisoned by both the Israelis and the PA. Most recently his car was blown up as a warning from the PA. Marcy Newman spoke with Professor Qassem on behalf of The Electronic Intifada at his home in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank." -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m60558&hd=&size=1&l=e
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One year later, young [Palestinian] fisherman still trying to heal  ---  http://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/one-year-later-young-fisherman-still-trying-to-heal/
A quote...."Just as his leg was healing from a gaping bullet wound in his calf, Mohammed Musleh broke it, setting his healing back. Although the re-break happened in April, now in November his leg is still in metal braces. -- Musleh was initially wounded early in the morning of 5 October 2008 when Israeli soldiers shot at him from a distance of 100 metres."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/gaza-one-year-later-young-fisherman.html
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Where Next for Palestinians?  ---  http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15577
A quote...."Palestinian history is at one of its most serious and important junctures. The peace negotiations that commenced with the Oslo accords in 1993 are at an end. Even hardened devotees of the peace process with Israel have now given up and are adopting positions that threaten to disrupt the cozy status quo of the "peace process". The Palestinian president's announcement that he will not seek re-election, and the recent demand for UN recognition of a Palestine state on the 1967 territories are examples of this trend. It has become impossible for even the most pliant Palestinian leadership to ignore Israel's strategy of "talking and taking", its relentless colonization of the occupied territories, which doubled after the Oslo agreement and is ever more blatant and aggressive. The Palestinian maneuver, taking advantage of an assumed US frustration with Israeli intransigence on settlement building, is clearly designed to challenge the international community out of its inertia."
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More on the US-NRE's Honduran Coup....

Brazil says won't recognize new Honduran government
  ---  http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-44276220091126?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=401
A quote...."MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil will not recognize the winner of this weekend's election in Honduras as a legitimate president, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said on Thursday, setting the stage for a potential showdown with Washington."
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Zelaya slams US over supporting coup regime  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16298
 posted at Global Research  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16176
A quote...."Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya has slammed the US for supporting Sunday's presidential elections, saying that the US is supporting a coup-perpetrating regime. -- "The United States is not just supporting the elections but it is supporting the de facto regime, it is supporting the dictatorship, it is supporting the coup-perpetrating regime," Zelaya said in a telephone interview published on Thursday by the Brazilian website UOL."
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Medicare in Crisis: The Devastating Impacts of a Corporate Health Care Bill  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16297
More on the Obama Non-Care Health Bill - A quote...."Wading through the endless debate over health care has exhausted the patience of most Americans — the zigzags, obscure language, and long-winded discussion is inherently repulsive.  But now the dust is starting to settle, and the Congressional  vision for health care in the U.S. is emerging. Instead of being “progressive,” it will amount to a massive, corporate-inspired attack on American workers, the elderly, and the poor." -- also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/11/28/medicare-in-crisis-the-devastating-impacts-of-a-corporate-health-care-bill/#more-25140
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Audit the Fed? The Battle Against Obama’s Bankers Begins on Capitol Hill
  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/audit-fed-battle-against-obama%E2%80%99s-bankers-begins-capitol-hill
Special Note - A quote...."A bill has begun its journey through the U.S. House that could crystallize (and polarize) public attitudes toward the wholesale Wall Street theft of mega-trillions in national treasure. Rep. Ron Paul has gathered over 300 co-sponsors for legislation that would force an audit of the Federal Reserve – “the heretofore unaccountable engine of bankster thievery on a cosmic scale.”
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FDIC reports biggest drop for business loans on record  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2009-11-24-fdic-bank-profits_N.htm
Deflation Alert - A quote...."The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported Tuesday that U.S. bank loans fell by $210.4 billion or 2.8% during the third quarter – the biggest drop since the FDIC started keeping records in 1984. Banks booked $2.8 billion in third-quarter profits, reversing a second-quarter loss of $4.3 billion. "We need to see banks making more loans to their business customers," says FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair. "This is especially true for small businesses."
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Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hit all-time low  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/three-mortgages-hit-record-lows-2009-11-25
Deflation Alert - A quote...."Long-term mortgage rates eased for the fourth consecutive week to record levels," Nothaft said. "Interest rates for 30-year fixed mortgage loans tied an all-time record low while both 15-year fixed mortgages and 5-year ARMs broke their corresponding records."

Put the two articles shown above together folks and they become a Deflation Warning. Banks have dropped their rates to record lows, yet the loans on their books have also dropped to record lows, i.e. nobody is borrowing even with the low rates becaue they can't.  - mpg
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In guise of reform, Democrats further weaken financial regulation  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/bank-n26.shtml
A quote...."One year after the near-collapse of the US financial sector, the Democratic-controlled Congress continues to strip away even the minimal regulations to the financial system that existed prior to the 2008 meltdown. This is going on behind the scenes of a largely pro-forma debate over the number of regulatory bodies required to police the financial system, and over the role of the Federal Reserve in regulation." - also posted at AmericanEveryman
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/in-guise-of-reform-democrats-further-weaken-financial-regulation/
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[British] Recession 'is even worse than feared': Chancellor predicts steepest slump ever
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231282/Recession-worse-feared-Chancellor-predicts-steepest-slump-ever.html
A quote...."The recession is proving even deeper than feared, Alistair Darling will admit in next month's Pre-Budget report. -- The Chancellor will forecast the steepest annual slump since modern records began."
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DuBubble DuBurst  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/11/dububble-duburst.html
Special Note - A quote...."You know about Dubai's economic crisis.  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aoFe12bwzZ2M  ---  But do you know the background to - and fallout from - the crisis?"
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BUSINESS: Dubai asks to delay paying creditors
  ---  http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20091127/NEWS01/91127017/1002/BUSINESS--Dubai-asks-to-delay-paying-creditors-
A quote...."DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Debt-burdened Dubai insisted that it took into account market fallout from its appeal to delay paying creditors, but offered no specifics and did little to ease worries that dragged down global markets for a second day today."
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Dubai Woes May Escalate to ‘Major Sovereign Default,’ BofA Says  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aSDypi9pbVkw&pos=2
A quote...."Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai’s debt woes may worsen to become a “major sovereign default” that roils developing nations and cuts off capital flows to emerging markets, Bank of America Corp. said."
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Thursday November 26th 2009