Sunday December 9th 2007 - links
page
An
Alleged "Two Party System" ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18856.htm
Must Read - A quote...."
12/08/07 "ICH" --- -- The definition of insanity is doing the same
thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
-- We must be clear about the following bitter
realities: -- 1. "Every 10 minutes an Iraqi civilian
is injured or killed in a war that George Bush says will not end until
he leaves office. Every 10 hours an American soldier is killed in a war
that George Bush says will not end until he leaves office. Every 10
days $2 billion is removed from the U.S. Treasury and placed in the
accounts of Halliburton, Blackwater and all other war profiteers that
are getting rich off the misery of Iraqis and Americans by a government
that will continue to remove those amounts or more every ten days as
long as George Bush is President of the United States" (from Sally B.
Davidson at Veterans for Peace, NY)."
What
is Peace? ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/08/5699/
A quote...."I believe there is always an undeclared war on poor people
all over the world and the establishment’s goal is to use any means
violent, covert, or criminal to make the poor, poorer; the rich,
richer; and to eliminate an educated, healthy, and vibrant middle class
that is a threat to the fascist-elite way of life but essential for
true freedom and democracy."
Hostile questions
baffle US army official ---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/150207
Editor's Special Note: -
Some quotes...."Commander of US Central Command Admiral William J
Fallon told the GDN that the strongly-worded questions posed by Arab
delegates to US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates on whether the large
US military presence in the Gulf is in the region's best interests
overlooked the important role played by his country." -- "I
just reject out of hand the premise of some of the comments we heard -
we are a force for peace in the world and
we engage here for the purpose of trying to make this a better world,
and I think the record pretty much speaks for itself." - italics
by website author.
To all the peoples throughout the world and everyone reading this
blog....Please pay close attention to the quote shown above.
After over a million Iraqi dead and over five million Iraqi refugees
caused by the US's invasion and occupation of Iraq and subsequent
actions taken, the record
does speak for
itself....and to Admiral Fallon it makes the US a "
force for peace" and a "
better world."
Many people will say Admiral Fallon is lying, he's just being a shill
for US propaganda or he's simply spouting the Neocon line, the
horrible and chilling fact is, he's not, he truly believes what he
says,
he and many others like him truly believe when they kill millions of
people....they're actually "helping them". Admiral Fallon and
others of his ilk could stand on a pile of dead and dying children
covered in blood and gore in a city they totally leveled to the ground
and say they "helped them"....and truly, sickeningly, revoltingly,
BELIEVE IT!
Understand when you deal with these people, when you have converse or
commerce with them or they're backers, the MIOC elites and America's
corporations, understand quite clearly what you're dealing with,
delusional sociopaths who firmly believe when they destroy your
societies and kill millions of you....that they're doing you a "
favor". – mpg
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CIA
photos 'show UK Guantanamo detainee was tortured' ---
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3239372.ece
Some quotes...."Lawyers for a British resident who the US government
refuses to release from Guantanamo Bay have identified the existence of
photographs taken by CIA agents that they say show their client
suffered horrific injuries under torture."
Smoking Laptop
Follies ---
http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=12025
Must Read - A
quote...."Well, there's some semi-good news. Our courageous National
Intelligence Council has just judged [.pdf] "with a high degree of
confidence" that Iranian authorities had already halted, way back in
2003, what the NIC inexplicably still characterizes as a covert
"nuclear weapons program." Some details of that alleged program,
obtained from the hard-drive of a laptop computer, allegedly stolen in
Iran in 2004, had been supplied to us a few months later, apparently by
the same wonderful folks who had earlier supplied us the "intelligence"
on Iraq, obtained by them from "Curveball."
Wash. Post
and NY Times ignored Hadley's claim and denial that Bush was told to
"stand down" upon learning of Iran intel
--- http://mediamatters.org/items/200712060008
A
quote...."Summary: The New York Times and The Washington Post have
reported on the White House's statements regarding President Bush's
knowledge of the new intelligence that Iran halted its nuclear program
in late 2003 -- and the administration's subsequent "clarif[ication]"
and "revis[ion]" of some of those statements -- but neither paper has
noted National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley's inconsistent
statements regarding whether intelligence officials told Bush to "stand
down" upon learning the "new information" on Iran's nuclear weapons
program."
The
Media Is A Two-Sided Sword That Carves Our Fate, But We Are The
Millions... ---
http://www.countercurrents.org/guarisco081207.htm
A quote...."Ah yes, once again, Father Time is steadily moving his hand
further into the 21st century in what we truly hope are better days
ahead. And just as time itself is perpetual motion, the circus
performers are a never-ending matrix too. So what if the 'Corporate
Media Mouthpiece' with all its elephant clamoring, found its way into
the middle of our living rooms. Simply ignore it, or turn it off! To
hell with the constant bastion of bellowing consortium that fouls the
airways attempting to keep us dumb-downed and compliant! True enough,
the media does hold the sharpest two-sided sword ever forged by man.
And yes, its many thrusts continue to split hairs with uncanny ability,
affecting virtually every head in our society. But our time is coming,
and their sword has lost its edge -- at least on one side -- and there
are so few of them, and we are many."
Waxman,
Mukasey and Ten Million Missing Emails ---
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120507J.shtml
A quote...."A government watchdog group now says at least ten million
White House emails, which may contain information about the leak of
Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA status, have been destroyed by the
Bush administration."
It
WAS
five million, now it appears ten million emails have gone
missing....will it never end? - mpg
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Cave
Dwellers: More Democratic Deceit on War and Torture
---
http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Cave_Dwellers%3A_More_Democratic_Deceit_on_War_and_Torture/
Some quotes...."The Washington Post reports that Congressional
Democrats are preparing to sign off on a spending bill that will, once
again, pour tens of billions of dollars into the ongoing war crime in
Iraq." -- "Just as I was finishing up the piece above,
fresh confirmation came -- via the Post again -- of the knowing
collusion of the Democratic leadership in the worst crimes of the Bush
Administration. In this case, it is the foul torture regimen personally
instituted by George W. Bush and his top minions, including physical
abuses used by Nazi Germany in its torture chambers and psychological
torments devised by the KGB and North Korea.
Democratic
complicity in Bush's torture regimen ---
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/index.html
Related Article - A quote...."The Washington Post reports today that
the Bush administration, beginning in 2002, repeatedly briefed leading
Congressional Democrats on the Senate and House Intelligence Committees
-- including, at various times, Jay Rockefeller, Nancy Pelosi, and Jane
Harman -- regarding the CIA's "enhanced interrogation methods,"
including details about waterboarding and other torture measures. With
one exception (Harman, who vaguely claims to have sent a letter to the
CIA), these lawmakers not only failed to object to these policies, but
affirmatively supported them."
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Fear
grips Basra and Najaf in wake of murder of 40 women ---
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2007-12-08%5Ckurd.htm
A quote...."More than 40 women have been brutally murdered and their
bodies dumped in the streets of the southern cities of Basra and Najaf,
police and eyewitnesses say. - The killings come as religious and
sectarian factions who wield immense power in southern cities have
begun applying strict Islamic jurisdiction by force."
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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US
Deploys Pakistani Insurgents against Al-Qaeda ---
http://www.juancole.com/2007/12/usg-open-source-center-translates.html
Special Note - A
quote...."Excerpt from article, "Waziristan, a base for movement of
Taleban, Al-Qa'idah", by independent Afghan newspaper Cheragh on 6
December
As insurgents
in the Pakistani tribal areas
increase their attacks
on the Pakistani
government, there have been various discussions about the
relations between the White House and the extremist groups. In line
with this, a number of experts believe that
the White House has
been secretly provoking these groups to fight Al-Qa'idah. This
comes at a time when there have been close relations between Al-Qa'idah
and the insurgents in the tribal areas for some time... (ellipses as
published) - bold/italics by website author
For more on this issue see....
US
Support of Terror - MEK - PKK - Others
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#MEK-PKK-OTHERS
See also....
The
US's New Map of the Middle East
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/newmemap-peters-nwa-cached-092507
See also....
Parable
of the Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/selflickingicecreamcone-werther-cp-cached-010807
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Conspiracy
is an Absolute Fact ---
http://crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/2007/12/conspiracy-is-absolute-fact.html
A
quote...."Crimes of the State -- I hear a lot of nonsense
on the Internet -- much disinformation, [1] plain old vanilla
misinformation, and grotesque ignorance up the wazoo. --
Ignorance of specific facts and incidents is excusable, but an entirely
fraudulent view of modern history? -- You can't quite be
sure if your fellow travellers have any inkling of their own nation's
history, of their own government's substantiated, well-documented, and
even admitted-to series of wrongdoings -- crimes, conspiracies.
-- Thus, you inevitably run into the cult of wild-eyed
hyper-emotional flag-wavers who bring along their own lexicon of rude,
arrogant and sometimes vulgar slurs. I'm referring to the
"conspiradroid," "whack job," "nutcase," "moonbat," variety.
-- Why do these people seek solace in ignorance? I can understand
that the alternative is scary, even terrifying. But hiding your head
under the pillow does not make reality just disappear. Sorry,
children. -- Conspiracy is one of the most often prosecuted
charges in the United States. It is simply defined as two or more
people agreeing to commit any criminal act."
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9/11 - From The History
File...Judicial
Watch Releases New FBI Documents: Osama bin Laden May Have
---
http://www.judicialwatch.org/6322.shtml
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Ground
Zero Logic - Proof that 9/11 Was An Inside Job
---
http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=6988&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
A quote...."No matter how uncomfortable this topic may seem to many of
you, I will ask you to take just a couple of minutes and review the
following material - I welcome any logical, cogent arguments that might
refute this evidence and line of reasoning - conversely, if you agree
with it, I truly believe you have some difficult questions to ask
yourself."
See also....
NIST
Admits Total Collapse Of Twin Towers Unexplainable ---
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/161007_nist_admits.htm
See also....
NIST: "We
are Unable to Provide a Full Explanation of the Total Collapse"
--- http://www.911blogger.com/node/12002
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“Lone
Gunman” Kills Cult Members in Colorado ---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4966
A quote...."A gunman walked into a training center dormitory for young
Christian missionaries early Sunday and opened fire, killing two of the
center’s staff members and wounding two others,” reports the Guardian.
“The shooting happened at about 12:30 a.m. at the Youth With a Mission
center, police spokeswoman Susan Medina said. About 45 people were
evacuated from the dormitory in this Denver suburb.” - At this time,
there are few details, as the gunman escaped without a trace. However,
his target has a few rather odd associations."
Inquisitor
stands firm against the neocon tide - posted at
BuzzFlash ---
http://www.buzzflash.com/
---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2221315,00.html
A quote...."It's not every day that a secular American Jew gets to see
the very spot where it is prophesied that his unclean blood will one
day flow, so Craig Unger counts himself fortunate, or at least edified,
for having lived the experience."
Gulf
countries speak out against military option in Iran ---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071208/wl_mideast_afp/gulfusirannuclearpolitics
A quote...."We want the military factor (of Iran's nuclear programme)
to be eliminated," the secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation
Council (GCC) Abdulrahman al-Attiyah told AFP on Saturday. - "What we
care for in the GCC is finding solutions that enhance security and
stability ... and believe in dialogue as a way to solve the crisis,"
between the West and Iran, he said."
ANALYSIS-Britain's
Iraq war is ending. Who won? ---
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL09434372
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has
all but called an end to Britain's Iraq war, but as Britain's largest
overseas campaign in more than 50 years comes to a close there is
little sense of victory. -
In less than two weeks British troops will hand over security
responsibility for Basra, the last province they control in southern
Iraq, to Iraqi troops. - Nearly five years after then-Prime Minister
Tony Blair sent 46,000 British troops to help the United States topple
Saddam Hussein, Britain is keeping in place a force of just several
thousand, confined to a single air base near Basra city."
The
USA Loses Credibility in the Effort Against Nuclear Proliferation
--- http://www.watchingamerica.com/oglobo000053.shtml
A quote...."The United States has a tradition of losing credibility in
nuclear disputes, and the about-face in the cause of Iran isn’t close
to being the most eloquent example. One can say, without
exaggeration, that some of the nuclear policies of the last three
decades were motivated by a notable insecurity promulgated by American
governments."
Africa says "no"
to Europe on new trade deals ---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/150187
A quote...."LISBON (Reuters) - Most African leaders on Sunday rejected
new trade deals demanded by the European Union, dealing a blow to
efforts to forge a new economic partnership at the first EU-Africa
summit in seven years."
Iraq's hardline
Baathists prefer to stay in the shadows ---
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m39048&s1=h1
A quote...."BAGHDAD (AFP) — Hardline Baathists, the remnants of Saddam
Hussein's regime, prefer to remain in the shadows in Baghdad's Sunni
neighbourhoods, fearing that a new law to bring them back into public
life will instead serve as their death warrants."
Israeli
Democracy: Arabs Need Not Apply ---
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m39046&s1=h1
A quote...."From 1948 until 1966, Palestinians inside Israel were
subject to military law, while Jews lived under civilian law. During
that time, 66 percent of Arab-owned land was confiscated. In 1947, Jews
owned 6.7 percent while Palestinians held the rest. Today, Israeli
Palestinians, 20 percent of the population, own 2.5 percent of the
land."
Venezuela and
Belarus Strengthen Strategic Alliance ---
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/2979
A quote...."Mérida, December 9, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com) -
President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, made an official visit to
Venezuela this weekend, where he signed several biliateral agreements
to provide Venezuela with industry and technology from Belarus and the
two countries formed a joint company to extract oil from Venezuela's
Orinoco River Delta."
Brazil’s
vision of Mercosur includes all of South America ---
http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=12109&formato=HTML
A quote...."Changes in Argentina are an opportunity for closer
political links and economic ties with Brazil while the two leading
South American countries work in the construction of a Mercosur
extending from the Caribbean to Patagonia, said Brazil’s Foreign
Affairs minister Celso Amorim."
Bolivian
assembly approves new draft constitution ---
http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=12107&formato=HTML
A quote...."A special Bolivian constituent assembly approved this
weekend a new draft constitution, despite a boycott by the main
opposition party. Bolivians will now have a chance to vote on the
changes in a national referendum next year."
Fears
of US slowdown seem to be affecting Japanese economy
---
http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=12097&formato=HTML
A quote...."Japan revealed Friday that its economy grew by much less
than previously thought in the third quarter of 2007 amid a housing
slump and slower investment by firms in new factories and equipment."
Iran,
China set to sign major oil deal: minister ---
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iran_China_set_to_sign_major_oil_de_12092007.html
A quote...."Iran and China's Sinopec could, as early as Sunday, sign a
final multi-billion dollar agreement for the development of the
Yadavaran onshore oil field, the Iranian oil minister said."
Gazprom,
Shell, Sonatrach and Polski win first gas contracts: Libya
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Gazprom_Shell_Sonatrach_and_Polski__12092007.html
A quote...."Libya on Sunday awarded four potentially lucrative gas
exploration contracts to fuel giants Shell, Gazprom, Sonatrach and
Polski, the first ever given to foreign firms as relations warm between
Tripoli and the West."
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Where
Was Jeb? - posted
at
BuzzFlash ---
http://www.buzzflash.com/
---
http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/11/30/florida-bush-lehman-biz-beltway-cx_mb_1130florida.html
A quote...."A government money market debacle unfolding in Florida is
raising questions about former governor and presidential brother Jeb
Bush's possible involvement in the mess."
Traders
See 50% Odds Fed Will Cut Rate by Half Point (Update2)
---
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a8OH7oLksMJs&refer=us
A quote...."Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Odds the Federal Reserve will cut
interest rates by half a point next week surpassed 50 percent for the
first time, according to trading in futures contracts, reflecting
concern banks face more losses on securities tied to subprime loans."
Mortgage
Industry Insider Says the Mortgage Mess is Far Far Worse than You
Suppose
---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__071208_mortgage_industry_in.htm
A quote...."
Straight Talk on the Mortgage Mess
from a Mortgage Industry Insider, as featured at
MarketWatch,
12:11:23 PM, December 6th, 2007.
---
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/greenberg/2007/12/straight-talk-on-the-mortgage-mess-from-an-insider/
--- Even before this mortgage mess started, this insider
with 20 years
experience in the mortgage industry kept saying that this is going to
get real bad. He kept saying this was
beyond sub-prime, beyond low FICO scores, beyond Alt-A, and beyond the
imagination of most pundits, politicians and the press. When
he was asked why somebody from inside the industry would be so
emphatically sounding the alarm, he simply replied, “Somebody’s got to
warn people."
Fed
expected to lower rates despite raging inflation
---
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/fed-expected-lower-rates-despite/story.aspx?guid=
---
%7BAE638EE7%2DD62D%2D41BD%2DACB8%2D5581CDFE1300%7D&dist=SecMostRead
Special Note - A
quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- In a glorious bit of timing, the
Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates on Tuesday for a
third straight meeting, just days before government data are released
showing some of the highest inflation rates in decades. -
That's all you need to know about the Fed's balance of risks:
Policymakers are much more worried about the illiquid credit markets
and the possible hit that the credit squeeze could have on the economy
than they are about the risks of inflation breaking out."
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The
Assassination of Hugo Chavez, A New Greg Palast DVD ---
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/861
DVD Review - A
quote...."BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt) - The inimitable Greg
Palast, the intrepid investigative reporter mainstream American media
won't touch, because they are in his sights too. In this DVD, he goes
South of the Border to provide the real scoop on why the populist
pro-democracy tilt of our neighbors to the South is so threatening to
corporate America, which means our current government. - Actually this
consists of three of Greg's greatest hits on the role of oil, the Bush
Administration, the World Bank and the IMF, and U.S. interference in
government affairs in Venezuela, Ecuador and Mexico."
Psychotropic
Drug Prescriptions [in Britain] to Children Skyrocket 400 Percent in
Ten Years ---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4955
A quote...."Prescriptions of psychiatric drugs in the United Kingdom to
children under the age of 16 have more than quadrupled since the
mid-1990s, according to figures recorded by the government. In the
mid-'90s, general practitioners wrote 146,000 such prescriptions, while
in the most recent fiscal year they wrote 613,000."
For more on this see....
THX-1138
--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX_1138
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The risk
in nanotechnology ---
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=24435
A quote...."WAVING a packet of carbon nanotubes accusingly at the
assembled American politicians during a hearing last month in Congress,
Andrew Maynard was determined to make a point. The nanotechnology
expert at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in
Washington, DC, had bought the tiny tubes on the internet. They had
arrived in the post along with a safety sheet describing them as
graphite and thus requiring no special precautions beyond those needed
for a nuisance dust."
Saturday December 8th 2007 -
links page
Good
Times, Bad Times 1: The Hysteroidal Cycle ---
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/144752-Good-Times-Bad-Times-1-The-Hysteroidal-Cycle
Must Read - A
quote...."Some observers have suggested that societies and countries,
like the individuals that make them up, pass in cycles from good times
to bad times and back again. They have called this pattern of change
the hysteroidal cycle, from the psychological definition of hysteria: a
psychological state of uncontrollable fear or exaggerated excitability.
Here it is being used to describe "fear of truth" or fear of thinking
about unpleasant things so as to not "rock the boat" of current
contentment."
The
Origins of America's World Wide Image Problem in Bush's Embrace of the
'Science of Lying'
---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_len_hart_071208_the_origins_of_ameri.htm
A quote...."Successful lying has become a science. Highly paid
consultants taught Bush officials the new science of effective lying at
the outset of Bush's new regime. The cost, however, will be picked up
by US taxpayers; it is no coincidence that new studies show US prestige
declining as the world learns the truth about Bush's hidden agenda.
-- Typically, the US responds with promises of more spin and PR,
more ludicrous attempts to put a smiley face on torture, lies, and
aggressive war. The US will try to spread the guilt around and
"reframe" the issue.
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Inquiry
Sought On CIA Tapes ---
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=47141
A quote...."CIA officials said the agency never turned over the
videotapes to the Sept. 11 commission because the panel did not
specifically request them. But several members and staffers, including
the panel's Republican co-chairman, disputed that claim yesterday and
said the CIA's failure to disclose the tapes was in defiance of
commission demands."
Rockefeller,
Harman: We Kinda Sorta Knew About CIA's Torture Tapes
--- http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004847.php
Related article - And they kinda sorta didn't do anything about
it. Does
THAT
sound familiar to anyone? - mpg
The
CIA tapes continued... ---
http://www.atlargely.com/2007/12/the-cia-tapes-c.html
Related article - A quote...."But if there is a cover up, it is likely
to conceal evidence that might cause "diplomatic problems" with our two
friends - Pakistan and Saudia Arabia. The Bush administration has
proved over and over, that friends like ISI and the House of Saud are
much more important than our own national security. I tend to call this
treason, others have often called it "diplomacy." I will let you
decided if giving aid and comfort to the very people who were behind
the attacks on this country is a matter of diplomacy or a matter of
treason."
Which
lie should we believe? CIA admits it destroyed evidence it said didn't
exist. ---
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20071208163121510
Related article - A quote...."Writing in TIME magazine, former CIA
agent and occasional "conspiracy theory" debunker, Robert Baer,
concedes that 9/11 skeptics seem all the more credible after the CIA
admits destruction of key evidence. Full-time debunker Gerald Posner
also sees a cover-up."
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Whitewash
---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/not_sh_george_w_071206_whitewash.htm
A quote...."You might reasonably assume that the 9/11 Commission and
other government agencies investigated September 11th, and concluded
based upon the evidence that Osama Bin Laden and his group of
terrorists were solely responsible for that atrocity. - Unfortunately,
a quick look at the government's investigations reveals that -- not
only has there never been a real investigation -- but the behavior of
government representatives in willfully obstructing all attempts at
investigation comprises evidence of guilt. Specifically, in all
criminal trials, evasiveness, obstruction, and destruction of evidence
all constitute strong circumstantial evidence that the accused is
guilty or, at the very least, not to be believed. -- 9/11
is no different."
Hill
Close To Deal on War Funds - Democrats Would Drop Iraq Timeline - [
Again !!]
---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120702550.html?hpid=topnews
This
headline hopefully doesn't surprise anyone? If it does, you must
have stumbled onto this blog by accident....after
just returning to earth from your
ten year trip to Mars.
Actually that probably isn't far enough, or long enough. You'd
have to just be getting back from your thirty year interstellar journey
not to
know about the
DemoRepubs and
their unrelenting mendacity. -
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Hill
Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002 ---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120801664.html?hpid=topnews
A quote...."In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret
for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital
information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more
than an hour, the bipartisan group,
which included current
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.),
was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the
harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their
prisoners talk." - bold/italics by website author
Politics,
like biology, is evolving and progressives are at the cutting edge.
---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_w__chris_071208_politics_2c_like_biolo.htm
A quote...."Establishment politics is an appendix that burst in the
American body politic. The 2006 Democratic Congress may well be a
tipping point in American social evolution. These DLC "Democrats"
are indistinguishable from the most carnivorous fascist pugs. A very
few exceptions prove the rule, but dems are cheek to jowl with the pugs
at the hog trough provided by America's Dictatorship of the Rich for
their obedient political puppets."
Amen brother....amen. - mpg
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White
House & Press Spinning Iran’s Centrifuges ---
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/120707.html
A quote...."Those who know about the centrifuges used to refine uranium
tell me they must spin at an almost unrivaled velocity-almost
unrivaled, because Bush administration statements are being spun at
equivalent speed by White House and corporate media spiders. Without
Spinmeister Karl Rove and former spokesman Tony Snow, it is amateur
hour at the White House. And the theater would be as funny as The Daily
Show, were the subject not so serious."
Two
Strikes ---
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese419.html
A quote...."Well, it should be two strikes and you're out for the
foam-at-the-mouth warmongers. It should come as no surprise that the
same people who ranted and raved for war with Iraq were also ranting
and raving for war with Iran."
The
Battle For Basra & Iraq’s Oil ---
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/6/the_battle_for_basra_iraqs_oil
A quote...."With over 80 percent of the country’s known oil reserves,
Basra holds
the key to Iraq’s economy. Without its revenues the central government
in Baghdad would collapse. The struggle for power in Basra is central
to the larger battle for control in the new Shiite dominated Iraq. This
is a report from Basra by independent filmmaker Rick Rowley of Big
Noise films. [includes rush transcript]"
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South
America set to launch new bank today to rival IMF ---
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=14786
A quote...."Latin American leaders on Sunday inaugurate the Bank of the
South, the brainchild of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who hopes
it will help wean the region off institutions like the IMF. - Six South
American presidents are scheduled to gather in Buenos Aires on Sunday
to formally launch the bank, which will be headquartered in Caracas. -
The creation of the regional bank comes amid a widespread perception in
South America that adjustment policies imposed by multinational credit
agencies have failed. - The bank, which will start operations in 2008
with an initial capital of seven billion dollars, is designed to
support regional development and integration projects."
Hip Hip
Hooray.....Finally the
people of South America are standing on their own two feet and throwing
off the shackles of those loan sharking, blood sucking, Banksters.
An open note to all of South America however, the IMF, the World Bank
and the US elites who manage them will do anything to sabotage this
effort, every trick in the book will be used, every dirty ploy will be
tried....
so watch
out.
Hire people that weren't trained by Western financial institutions, but
hire good, qualified, experienced people who have a verifiable history
of incorruptibility. Establish air tight, iron clad, rules and
procedures that follow the highest international standards of "good
practice" for banks.
Don't loan money to a given project based solely on "political or
ideological" grounds. Always consider whether the project is
economically viable or the concept is feasible. "Charity" is
not an option; nothing hurts a
community’s self-confidence or trust in governing institutions more
than a failed project. And finally don't buy any financial
instruments or products, or deal with in any way shape or form, any US
financial institution or bank....
EVER!
Or you'll be sorry you did.(an you'll be a heck'of a lot poorer) – mpg
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Why
US Is The Only 'Superpower' ---
http://www.countercurrents.org/raghuram071207.htm
A quote...."In a controversial book, John Perkins narrates a real life
tale. His personal journey from the member of international community
of highly paid professionals who are employed to cheat poor countries
around the globe to maintain US monopoly. Eventually he calls himself
as a former economic hit man and deconstructs international intrigue
and corruption, the sinister mechanics of imperial manipulations and
control."
See also....
Confessions of an Economic Hit
Man
Part
I, ---
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3968544393356669182&q=john+perkins
Part
II, ---
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3848716298990404813&q=john+perkins
Part
III ---
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7969424888680179897&q=john+perkins
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Russian
Warships to Dock in Syria - Russian military build-up in Mediterranean
starts; linked to Iran?
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7564
A quote...."In an effort to expand its military presence in the
international arena and reestablish a naval presence in the Middle
East, Russia has dispatched a naval fleet to the region, including a
guided missile cruiser, two anti-submarine ships and 47 fighter planes.
The fleet will dock at the Syrian port of Tartus where Russia maintains
a technical base. At the same port, Iranian ships are also docked."
Central
Asian Gas Hike May Hit European Consumers ---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7572
A quote...."All three Central Asian gas-rich states – Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan and Kazakstan – have announced gas price hikes for their
main customer, the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, in a move which may
have severe knock-on effects for Europe."
Banksters Gone
Wild - Wall Street's Bad Boys and Their Washington Enablers
--- http://www.counterpunch.org/martens12072007.html
Must Read - A
quote...."Imagine you moved in next door to a mischievous child. Over
the years, you watched the parents scold ever so lightly as the deviant
behavior grew from stealing loose change to petty larceny to bank
robbery. You knew for sure the child would eventually get caught and
end up in prison; but you didn't count on one thing: the parents used
their political clout with each ratcheting up of the crimes to avoid
prosecution, effectively turning the overseers of the public interest
into criminal enablers. As the enablers "fixed" the outcome of each
crime, they also sealed the records from public view and historical
perspective. -- That scenario typifies how criminal
behavior has exploded on Wall Street and why President Bush, Congress
and the regulators are stumbling around in the dark looking for cures
for a financial crisis that they can neither understand nor contain:
they're enablers in denial. Nothing more dramatically illustrates the
criminal contagion than the fact that
for the second time in
13 years, Orange County, California has found Wall Street toxic
sludge threatening its public funds. - bold/italics by website author
CFR:
Considering the PetroEuro ---
http://www.thought-criminal.org/article/node/1040
A quote...."Easily missed amid the rising outcry over oil prices is the
fact that they have only been skyrocketing in dollar terms. Priced in
euros—or yen, or pounds sterling—the cost of a barrel of oil has risen
much less over the past decade. At recent meetings of OPEC, the
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, ministers disputed
whether oil should be sold in euros instead of dollars"
Iran
drops dollar from oil deals: report ---
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jGC7KSKjsKYUTGAF1oR04-yOpBgg
War Warning - A
quote...."TEHRAN (AFP) — Major crude producer Iran has completely
stopped carrying out its oil transactions in dollars, Oil Minister
Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Saturday, labelling the greenback an
"unreliable" currency."
Liberty
Dollar Fights Back ---
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4961
A quote...."Liberty Dollar, the firm that got raided by the FBI before
Thanksgiving for trying to start a precious-metals-based currency to
compete with the greenback, now says it's back in business."
Crimes
Against Humanity': ---
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-06-2007/0004717958&EDATE=
Book Review - A
quote...."RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- In his
new book, "Crimes Against Humanity: A Shocking History of U.S. Crimes
Since 1776" (published by AuthorHouse - http://www.authorhouse.com),
Chaitanya Dave fearlessly goes where few dare to tread. Dave presents
indisputable, in depth, factual accounts of numerous invasions,
assassinations, subversions, coups and sabotage perpetrated by the
United States on foreign governments, and he reveals the actual
motivations behind these crimes, unlike what is reported in the
compliant media.
France
Suspends Commercial GMO Seed Use, Studies Safety ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/09/5698/
A quote...."PARIS - France formally suspended on Thursday the
commercial use of genetically modified (GMO) seeds in the country until
early February and ordered a biotech safety study. - The future of GMOs
has long been the subject of heated debate in France — Europe’s top
grain producer — and the country’s reluctance to use GMO crops compares
starkly with the United States, which is far more tolerant of the
technology."
Progressive Daily Beacon Sunday
Funnies
Paul
Combs: See Dear... ---
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/image.php?..%2Fcartoons%2FPaul_Combs_Slaves.jpg
David
Horsey: Don't have any ---
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/image.php?..%2Fcartoons%2FDavid_Horsey_Romney.jpg
Drew
Sheneman: Last time... ---
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/image.php?..%2Fcartoons%2FDrew_Sheneman_LastTime.jpg
John
Cole: Fact... ---
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/image.php?..%2Fcartoons%2FJohn_Cole_Fact.jpg
Rob
Rogers: Pencil... ---
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/image.php?..%2Fcartoons%2FRob_Rogers_Pencil.jpg
Bob
Gorrell: Credibility... ---
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/image.php?..%2Fcartoons%2FBob_Gorrell_Credibility.jpg
Jeff
Danziger: Insanity... ---
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/image.php?..%2Fcartoons%2FJeff_Danziger_Insanity.jpg
Kevin
Siers: Rudy's tryst... ---
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/image.php?..%2Fcartoons%2FKevin_Siers_Tryst.jpg
Charlie
Daniel: Wolf... ---
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/image.php?..%2Fcartoons%2FCharlie_Daniel_Wolf.jpg
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Friday December 7th 2007 - links
page
Keith Olbermann's
Special Comment 12/6/07 - posted at
ICH
--- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18847.htm
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79bxVgzgKkQ
Click here for
transcript --- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/150101
Must View - A
quote...."Keith Olbermann Says "You sir should not be President!"
Important Note: Besides
the usual spot-on, biting, commentary, Mr. Obermann discusses an
analysis of Bush's speeches before and after August conducted by Dan
Froomkin, strongly suggesting that
Bush either received or was briefed on the NIE report at some point
during
the month of August. – mpg
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White House Quietly
Admits Bush Lied About When He Learned That Iran Had Suspended Its
Nuclear Program --- http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5409
A quote...."The White House has quietly admitted that George Bush lied
to reporters at a news conference on Tuesday when he said he was not
informed by intelligence officials that Iran's nuclear weapons program
had been suspended in 2003."
"Missing"
evidence is familiar Bush pattern ---
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/07/cia_evidence/index.html
Special Note: - A
quote...."
In April, I
compiled
a long list ---
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/12/lost_documents/
--- of the numerous court proceedings and other investigations
which were
impeded by extremely dubious claims from the Bush administration that
key evidence was mysteriously "missing." Much of the "missing" evidence
involved precisely the type of evidence that the CIA has now been
forced here to admit it deliberately destroyed: namely, evidence
showing the conduct of its agents during interrogation of detainees."
Glen Greenwald has compiled a long list of "missing" videos, tape
recordings, documents, e-mails, etc. that the Bush administration
"somehow"
seems to have "lost".
ALL
of this activity in the "old days"
would have had these guys serving long stretches of time behind
bars....yet nowadays nobody seems to care. What the heck happened
to this country? – mpg
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Getting
Past ‘Oh!’: Why Americans Misunderestimate the Depravity of the
President They Hate
--- http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/07/5683/
Must Read - A
quote...."Bush is incompetent and Iraq is likely the greatest foreign
policy blunder in two-plus centuries of American history. But to say
that - and particularly to say that alone - does not truly do justice
to either disaster, Bush or his war. The truth about this president and
his motives for war are far, far uglier than the words ‘incompetence’
or ‘mistake’ imply."
Check out the comments - mpg
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More
Evidence of Obstruction of Justice in 9/11 Investigation
--- http://infowars.net/articles/december2007/071207Evidence.htm
Must Read - A
quote...."By now
you've heard that the CIA destroyed videotapes of interrogations of
alleged Al Qaeda members. The interesting part of this story is that
the 9/11 Commission claimed that it obtained most of its information
about the attacks from these interrogations (and then only indirectly
as reported by the military to the Commission)."
How Bush
Fosters Bad Intelligence ---
http://mattwelch.com/natpost/911commish.html
A sample
From the 9/11 History File
-
April 24th 2004 - A
quote...."LOS ANGELES -- On April 13, during only his third prime-time
press conference as president, George W. Bush was asked why he had
insisted that his forthcoming testimony to the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks upon the United States be given jointly with Dick
Cheney, the Vice-President."
"Because the 9/11 commission wants to ask us questions," he replied,
"that's why we're meeting."
"The reporter tried again: "I was asking why you're appearing together,
rather than separately, which was their request."
"Round II: "Because it's a good chance for both of us to answer
questions that the 9/11 commission is looking forward to asking us."
"Bush could have saved even more time by issuing a simple (and
accurate) "Because I said so." The biggest reason the President will be
testifying some time between now and May 18, 2004, rather than in 2002,
is that he fought tooth and nail against creating the public commission
in the first place (favoring a secretive internal review), and then
dragged his feet at every opportunity to cooperate with the body's
requests for information and access to administration officials."
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9/11 - From The History
File...9/11
Commission Primer
---
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/07/b124722.html#obstructing
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Former
Italian President: "9-11 Carried Out By Mossad And CIA"
---
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/144872-Former-Italian-President-9-11-Carried-Out-By-Mossad-And-CIA-
A quote...."The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera carried the
following article on November 30, 2007. They report that President
Emeritus of the Italian Republic Francesco Cossiga has stated that 9/11
was the work of US and Israeli intelligence. Not only that, all
Democratic leaders in Europe and America are also aware of this fact."
This
Is A Banana Republic ---
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=47049
A quote...."What defines such a republic? How about an executive that
ignores the rule of law, commits war-crimes and then destroys the
actual evidence? Today's bombshell is that the CIA has done just that
with respect to tapes made recording the torture of enemy
combatants. Read the whole story. We live in a country where the
government can detain indefinitely, torture in secret, and then
secretly destroy the tapes of torture sessions to protect its own staff:
The
Central Bank; Silent partner in the bloodletting ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18850.htm
A quote...." 12/07/07 "ICH" - The United States is not a
beacon of
hope or a light unto the world. It is a menace and a growing threat to
survival on earth. America's political and military belligerence is
just an extension of a domineering economic system which serves the
sole interests of the rich and powerful. The Central Bank plays a
critical role in this paradigm. Nation's don't go to war without the
blessing of their main financial institutions. The “big money” guys are
the silent partners in the plunder and bloodletting. - The
men who
own and oversee the US financial system; created the cancer which is
presently devouring it from the inside. Now the tumor has metastasized
and spread through the entire organism. The situation is irreversible.
The economy is on its last legs and headed for a fall. US political
leaders will have to accept a world in which America is just one of
many states of equal power and significance. Military funding will slow
to a dribble. The killing will stop. Finally."
The
surge is a sideshow. Only total US pullout can succeed
---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2223702,00.html
A quote...."When resistance leaders are given an assurance that the
Iraq occupation will end completely, real negotiations can begin "
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The
Mideast Strategic- Consensus Fantasy ---
http://www.antiwar.com/hadar/?articleid=12022
A quote...."Indeed, the notion that the United States could utilize a
perceived common strategic and ideological threat – the Soviet Union
during the Cold War, and Shi'ite Iran today – to bring together Arabs
and Jews under an American umbrella and help create the conditions for
an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement has been a central concept
shared by the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. It
also reflects the influence of the pro-Likud neoconservative ideologues
on these two conservative Republican presidents."
Gates
Urges Gulf Region to Counter Iran ---
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TCVD702&show_article=1
A quote...." MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - Defense
Secretary Robert Gates planned to tell Gulf countries Saturday they
must work together to help the U.S. counter Iranian threats, including
Tehran's ballistic missiles and meddling in Iraq. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice said the United States still wants new sanctions."
Baer
Suggests Saudis Could Stage Terror In America to Instigate Iran Attack
---
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/december2007/120707_stage_terror.htm
A quote...."Former CIA veteran Robert Baer has suggested that a
withdrawal from the possibility of striking Iran could be reversed if a
terror attack was to take place in America - and he fingered America's
ally Saudi Arabia as the most likely perpetrator of any such attack.
Baer also questioned why the U.S. and its allies continue to protect
individuals who consorted with the alleged mastermind of 9/11 before
the attacks."
For more on the three articles shown above see....
The
CONversation - 09-04-06 - mpg ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/theconversation-blog-mpg-090406
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US
reversal on Iran intel [NIE Report] reflects breaking of the ranks:
analysts
---
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_reversal_on_Iran_intel_reflects__12072007.html
A quote...."The US reversal on Iran's nuclear weapons program has
exposed a breaking of ranks within a waning administration, with US
intelligence and military professionals asserting themselves on issues
of war and peace, analysts said. - Senior US intelligence officials
said this week they were responding to new information, subjected to
more rigorous analysis than in the past, in declaring with "high
confidence" that Iran halted a covert nuclear weapons program in 2003."
Review of Iran
Intelligence to Be Sought - As Conservatives Reject New NIE, Republican
Senators to Urge Congressional Panel
--- http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m39004&s1=h1
A
quote...."Senate Republicans are planning to call for a congressional
commission to investigate the conclusions of the new National
Intelligence Estimate on Iran as well as the specific intelligence that
went into it, according to congressional sources. - The move is the
first official challenge, but it comes amid growing backlash from
conservatives and neoconservatives unhappy about the assessment that
Iran halted a clandestine nuclear weapons program four years ago."
Regarding the two articles shown above....
There's a war going on within America's governing institutions for what
remains of this nation's heart and soul. There are those who are
fighting the brave fight for America as it used to be, a nation of laws
with a constitution and a reticence for massive, openly avowed,
murderous,
wars of conquest.
Than there are the Neo-Romans fighting to establish a Pax Neo-Romana
across the length and breadth of the planet, lusting for power and
profit and willing to kill millions to get what they want.
The Neo-Romans with the complicity of the
Demo part of the
DemoRepub party, despite some
recent resistance, are currently winning this war. The just
released NIE report from the law abiding faction
still
left ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#INTELL_PROCESS
within the CIA is probably the last shot across this nation's
bow before the country finally plunges into the long dark night of
despotism
and rampant, unrestrained, militarism.
May God have mercy on us all. – mpg
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'Millions
missing' from Iraq fund - [that's Billions....with a "B"]
--- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7132310.stm
A quote...."A $5.2bn (£2.6bn) fund used to train and equip Iraqi
security forces cannot be shown to have been used properly, US military
auditors say in a new report."
The
Winter of the American Despot ---
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski195.html
A quote...." Bush and Cheney and the rest of the Pod people are really
starting to sound out of touch. They are crying about the recent
National Intelligence Estimate and how wrong it is, how biased its
creators, and how mistaken the world would be to believe a word of it.
- Too bad they didn’t have this reaction last time we got a
long-delayed and highly politicized NIE. - Neoconservatives everywhere
are getting eye tics and cocking their heads as if receiving encrypted
messages from the mother ship."
Israeli minister
'in fear of arrest' cancels UK visit ---
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m39006&s1=h1
A quote...."A senior Israeli minister has turned down an invitation to
visit Britain because of fears he could have been arrested on war
crimes charges arising from the assassination of a top Hamas military
commander five years ago."
Gaza's
medical sector suffers Israeli sanctions, restrictions
--- http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9148.shtml
A quote...."JERUSALEM/GAZA, 5 December (IRIN) - Health officials in the
Gaza Strip say they are concerned about hundreds of patients unable to
travel to Israel or other countries for vital treatment, and that local
hospitals lack essential medical equipment, drugs and fuel"
Summit’s
Goal: Perpetuate Repression of Palestinians ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/07/5682/
A quote...."After meeting their own low expectations for the Annapolis
conference amid intense skepticism, Bush administration officials
crowed with delight,” said an Associated Press story. - And well they
might. It was more symbolism than substance, but President Bush looked
almost presidential. - But all Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert really agreed on was to negotiate —
Bush called it “hard bargaining.”
Britain's
Neo-Imperial Dreams in Afghanistan ---
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/lohdi.php?articleid=12019
A quote...."Dean Acheson, the distinguished American statesman,
famously opined in a speech at West Point in 1962, "that Great Britain
has lost an empire and has not yet found a role." Forty years later, in
2002, Tony Blair and fellow dreamers thought the tragedy of 9/11
provided them with the opportunity once again to play a determining
role on the world stage. The notion that Britain was to America as
Greece had been to Rome – implying that Britain was going to be the
"brain" and America the "brawn" – became a fashionable topic of
discourse in the British media."
ASEAN
leaders endorse integration blueprint ---
http://fairtradeweb.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/asean-leaders-endorse-integration-blueprint/
A quote...."SINGAPORE — A detailed timetable seeking to establish an
ASEAN Economic Community in eight years has hit the ground running,
with leaders of 10 Southeast Asian countries affixing their signatures
yesterday to a declaration adopting a so-called blueprint for economic
integration and an attached “strategic schedule.”
Russia
Ignores Rice's Call for Sanctions ---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7135850,00.html
A quote...."BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice said Friday the United States would continue along a two-track
strategy to deal with Iran, pressing for new sanctions and demanding
Tehran come clean about its nuclear program while offering talks to
sweeten the deal. But Russia ignored her calls to punish Iran."
COLOMBIA:
Jail the Messenger ---
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40392
A quote...."The arrest and imprisonment of two young women carrying
evidence showing that at least 17 of the 45 hostages held by the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas are still
alive could place an insurmountable roadblock in the path forged by
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, in his efforts to broker an
agreement for an exchange of hostages for imprisoned rebels."
Hugo
Chavez: The Paradoxical Neo-Conservative Defeat ---
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120507G.shtml
A quote...."Which side is disappointed after the victory of the "no"
vote to the constitutional reform Hugo Chavez advocated? With close to
51 percent and 4.5 million votes, the Venezuelan opposition has
profited from both the demobilization of Chavists who had been working
around the clock for nine years and a legalistic strategy encouraged by
Teodoro Pettkoff, former minister in the right-wing government of
Rafaël Caldera. -- Outside the country, however, a
certain number of President Chavez's detractors must be embarrassed.
Their scheme of thinking had spurred them to present the referendum as
"determined in advance" and as a stage in the "totalitarian drift" of
the "populist dictator." Have we ever seen a dictator lose an election
by 300,000 votes? On that score, many countries would like to have a
dictator like Hugo Chavez!"
PRC
denies entry to more US carriers ---
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2007/12/02/2003390750
A quote...."REJECTION: Aside from the USS `Kitty Hawk,' China
also rejected a request by the USS `Reuben James' and a cargo plane
support mission for the US consulate in Hong Kong "
U.S.
missile shield plans threaten Russia-NATO cooperation - Lavrov
--- http://en.rian.ru/world/20071207/91430795.html
A quote...."BRUSSELS, December 7 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. plans to deploy a
missile shield in Central Europe threaten Russia-NATO cooperation in
missile defense, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday. - The
U.S. plans deploy a radar in the Czech Republic and a missile defense
base in Poland. Russia has said the move would threaten its national
security."
Russia
will supply India with modern tanks. INFOgraphics ---
http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20071206/91145124.html
A quote...."Weapons exports grow from year to year. "In 2006, Russia
reached a record $5.3 billion. This year, it is planning to beat this
record and post $5.5 billion. I am sure we will meet this target and
perhaps go one better," Sergei Chemezov, general director of
Rosoboronexport, the state arms-exporting agency, said in late
November."
Ron Paul
And The War Crime Tribunals ---
http://www.rense.com/general79/warcrime.htm
A quote...."Can Ron Paul win the presidency? The answer is definitely
yes, based on a popular vote but Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000
and we still got his opponent, a psychopathic war criminal, as
president, who was solely in the race because he was himself the son of
a psychopathic war criminal (and a former president). So I'm not sure
why we have a popular vote. Most Americans do not fully understand the
Electoral College, and I'm one of them. It's the Electoral College that
elects the president."
'Homegrown
Terror' Act [HR 1955] an Attack on Internet Freedom?
--- http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=12015
A quote...."I regret that I was unavoidably out of town on October 23,
2007, when a vote was taken on HR 1955, the Violent Radicalization
& Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act. Had I been able to vote, I
would have voted against this misguided and dangerous piece of
legislation. This legislation focuses the weight of the US government
inward toward its own citizens under the guise of protecting us against
"violent radicalization."
We
[the Pentagon] "Must Fight the Net" ---
http://www.knowledgedrivenrevolution.com/Articles/200711/20071119_IOR_3_Fight_Net.htm
A quote...."
The Pentagon's
Information
Operations Roadmap
---
http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/info_ops_roadmap.pdf
is blunt about the fact that an internet, with the potential for free
speech, is in direct opposition to their goals. The internet needs to
be dealt with as if it were an enemy "weapons system"."
Official
in Blackwater probe quits - posted at
BuzzFlash ---
http://www.buzzflash.com/
---
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0732452720071207
A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State Department Inspector General
Howard Krongard, under scrutiny for his brother's link to the
Blackwater security firm, has decided to resign, U.S. officials said on
Friday. - Krongard, the State Department's top investigator, has been
accused by current and former subordinates of thwarting probes into
waste, fraud and abuse in Iraq, including alleged arms smuggling by
Blackwater."
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Florida
Just First to Face National Run on the Bank: Joe Mysak
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a6Ne4_lh1TS4&refer=home
A quote...."Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Florida officials are going to meet
today to talk about the crisis in the state's Local Government
Investment Pool. I don't know what they are going to talk about, but I
know what they had better decide."
Belgium:
a country divided...nearly ---
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20071206/91156974.html
A quote...."MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Yelena
Shesternina) - Belgium has left Ukraine far behind in the race to set a
record for life without a government." -- This ones funny.
- mpg
Clooney
and Pitt Spoof Larry Craig Stall Scene ---
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20071206_clooney_and_pitt_spoof_larry_craig_stall_scene/
Awww....just for the heck of it. - mpg
