Wednesday December 15th 2010 - links page

Tuesday December 14th 2010 - links page

New David Duke Video: Who Taught America To Torture? (One Guess!)
  ---  http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-david-duke-video-who-taught-america.html 
Must View Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLAfSIm62Jc  ---  (YuTb - 15min 32sec - December 09, 2010) - Source:  drdduke  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/drdduke  ---  Editor's note:  To blame "Jews" or Zionists historically for torture would seem be missing the mark, after all, the Fascists down throughout history have committed much more torture and seem to enjoy torturing even more than their mirror image "left-wing" communist counterparts.  On the other hand blaming Zionists, their control of finance and media in this country and the creeping Israelifacation of this nation's entire security apparatus during the last thirty years on behalf of Israel's goals and heinous methods (as in torture), seems MUCH closer to the mark, in fact it seem to be spot-on. - mpg -- A quote...."America is a failing empire that is continuing its wars around the planet for very evil reasons.  The war in Iraq is for the criminal state of Israel, while the war in Afghanistan is for the Rothschild Heroin/Opium drug lords in Europe.    The actions of American soldiers during these wars has become a severe question of morality, due to the sharp increase of American soldiers committing acts of torture against civilians, and their captured enemy combatants.   It is astonishing that America used to pride itself on having one of the most "civilized" armies on the face of the Earth, and torture was almost totally unheard of.   The question then becomes.... What the hell has happened?"
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Anti-Semitic Musing 005: Virtually All Jews Are Indeed Zionists  ---  http://ww3zionism.blogspot.com/2010/12/anti-semitic-musing-005-virtually-all.html 
A quote...."It's not all jews.” That's the inevitable refrain that will be heard from jewish sycophants in discussions of the latest zionist crimes against humanity that are so horrific that they get peoples' attention despite the best efforts of our jewish mainstream media. What jewish sycophants mean when they utter this well worn refrain is that the majority of jews are not zionists. But this is a conditioned notion not based on empirical evidence. -- Those that utter this refrain just assume that it's true without the least thought that it may not be. In fact it isn't true. In fact the very opposite is true. Most [therefore not "all" - mpg] jews  are zionists, i.e., they believe in the need for and support the concept of a jewish [apartheid] state." - Topix ||  It's Pronounced "The Jewish Community" - 03-15-10 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/itsprononuncedthejewishcommunity-mpg-reficultnias-031510 
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CHRISTMAS STORY- MARY AND JOSEPH IN PALESTINE 2010
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/12/christmas-story-mary-and-joseph-in-palestine-2010/ 
A quote...."Times were tough for Joseph and Mary.  The real estate bubble crashed.  Unemployment soared among construction workers.  There was no work, not even for a skilled carpenter. -- The settlements were still being built, financed mostly by Jewish money from America, contributions from Wall Street speculators and owners of gambling dens. -- “Good thing”, Joseph thought, “we have a few sheep and olive trees and Mary keeps some chickens.   But Joseph worried, “cheese and olives are not enough to feed a growing boy.  Mary is due to deliver our son any day”. His dreams foretold of a sturdy son working alongside of him…multiplying loaves and fish."
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Church leaders from Palestine tell the Irish…  No such thing as justice in the Holy Land  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m72889&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."We are not here as politicians, they said. We come as representatives of the various churches in Jerusalem. - But the trio from the Holy Land showed they were more than a match for western politicians who fancy they know all about the Middle East. - Archbishop Theodosius Hanna (Greek Orthodox Church), Monsignor Manuel Musallam (Latin Catholic) and Mr Constantine Dabbagh (Executive Director of the Middle East Council of Churches) are courageous human rights defenders and spiritual leaders from Palestine. They have just completed a tour of Ireland to raise awareness of the situation in their homeland under Israeli military occupation and the plight of the dwindling Christian community there. - "We need only one thing, to be protected by the world against the crimes of Israel," was their central message" - bold by website editor - also posted at MyCatBird'sSeat
  ---  http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/12/no-such-thing-as-justice-in-the-holy-land/ 
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Obama ‘Pleased’ With Afghan War  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/12/14/obama-pleased-with-afghan-war/ 
A quote...."Reiterating comments from yesterday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs insisted that no policy changes will be announced on Thursday and that the public version of the Afghan War report won’t include any surprises."
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Hersh: Children sodomized at Abu Ghraib.... - Obama's pleased with this too no doubt. - mpg
  ---  http://eddieleaks.org/2009/05/14/hersh-children-sodomized-at-abu-ghraib-on-tape/ 
A quote...."Donald Rumsfeld testified on the Hill about Abu Ghraib in May, there was talk of more photos and video in the Pentagon’s custody more horrific than anything made public so far. “If these are released to the public, obviously it’s going to make matters worse,” Rumsfeld said. Since then, the Washington Post has disclosed some new details and images of abuse at the prison. But if Seymour Hersh is right, it all gets much worse." - Topix ||  US - Torture & Sex Perv.  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ustorture&sexualperversion-weblist-mpg-031309 
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Birth of the Official Neoliberal Party of America  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/birth-of-the-official-neoliberal-party-of-america/ 
Special Note - A quote...."For years now I have been writing about how the neoliberals have been hijacking one party or the other, turning the United States into a Milton Friedman economic experiment like Chile in 1973. Reagan and the Bush clan hijacked the republican party and perverted the conservative movement while Obama and the Clintons did the same to the democrats and the liberals with their “New Dems” and DLC."
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Newt Gringo Wants Your Brown Babies  ---  http://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/newt-gringo-wants-your-brown-babies/ 
Related Article - A quote...."The war-profiteering plutocratic elites want to be assured that—in the face of growing opposition from Americans on both the “left” and the “right”—budgetbusting internationalist policies promoting U.S. military adventurism in the Middle East and across the globe—in the name of what is now being touted as American “national greatness”—will be preserved. -- In fact, the “national greatness” concept is just a patriotic-sounding cover name for what many call the New World Order.” - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/12/14/newt-gringo-wants-your-brown-babies ---  Don't be fooled folks, hold onto your wallets real tight and don't vote for these turkeys....mpg
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More on the Wikileaks Cointelpro Fiasco....

You Ain’t Gonna Stop What’s Comin. That’s Vanity
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/objectivity-is-out-the-window-when-it-comes-to-wikileaks/ 
A quote...."Personally, I think we would have been just fine without Wikileaks trying to tell us that North Korea has been shipping nukes to Iran, Pakistan is killing soldiers in Afghanistan, Iran was shipping arms to Iraq insurgents, all the Muslim countries in the Middle East want us to invade Iran, and only 115,000 people were killed in the Iraq war (mainly by other Iraqis). -- That’s just me though. If this is the stand Glenn wants to take, so be it."
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Who is Behind Wikileaks?  ---  http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22389 
Special Note - (An EXTENSIVE analysis by Michel Chossudovsky at Global Research) -- A quote...."World bankers, by pulling a few simple levers that control the flow of money, can make or break entire economies. By controlling press releases of economic strategies that shape national trends, the power elite are able to not only tighten their stranglehold on this nation's economic structure, but can extend that control world wide. Those possessing such power would logically want to remain in the background, invisible to the average citizen." -- *Aldous Huxley* - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/who-is-behind-wikileaks/ 
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On Wikileaks Strategy: Too Many Hors D’oeuvres?  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/14/on-wikileaks-strategy-too-many-hors-doeuvres/
A quote...."As I have said before I am not ready to analyze or talk about Wikileaks’ recent exposé. It’s still too early, and so far too little with too insignificant implications has been released. I am still waiting for the highly revealing, explosive, and or severely implicating cables; if any. What I want to do, however, is to briefly discuss Wikileaks’ strategy in releasing the documents, so far, and to get your two cents on it. In fact, I want to briefly discuss the exact reason why I haven’t even begun delving into this so far released material. My major concerns and questions regarding Wikileaks’ strategy are as follows:"
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Cass Sunstein, Wikileaks And The Public Right To Know
  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/219703-Cass-Sunstein-Wikileaks-And-The-Public-Right-To-Know 
A quote...."Is it a conspiracy too far to suggest that Wikileaks, through no fault of Assange, [Not true, he was bought and paid  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/08/gordon-duff-busted-wikileaks-working-for-israel/  ---  for by Israel]  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/08/wikileaks-struck-a-deal-with-israel-over-cable-leaks/  ---  has been the victim of Cass Sunstein and the Obama administration's plot to 'cognitively infiltrate online social networks' to 'bolster the Government's messaging (on the grounds that those who don't believe government sources will be more inclined to listen to 'those who appear independent while secretly acting on behalf of the Government')? Am I being a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist to ponder (publicly) whether or not the leaking of documents that expose US government spying at the UN etc. is, to the US government, worth the price in embarrassment if it directs public awareness to relatively safe conspiracies and thereby prevents a real grass-roots and therefore out of control (from the elite's perspective) rebellion based on the public's awareness of much more serious government crimes? -- Maybe it is, and time will tell. But I can still ponder such things and still support and even expand on the principle on which Wikileaks (for example) was founded: the fundamental right of we the people to know everything that our leaders do 'in our name'. After all, time and time again the best laid plans of the Devil turn to dust when those who are pure in heart grow stronger and wiser as a consequence. If Wikileaks inspires others to step forward with truth, then it will be as in Faust, where the Devil's evil has once again caused a good he did not intend." - also posted at WikiHoax
  ---  http://wikihoax.com/index.php/articles/15-gordon-duff/387-cass-sunstein-wikileaks-and-the-public-right-to-know

For more regarding the articles shown above see....No Subtlety Whatsoever - 12-01-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/nosubtletywhatsoever-mpg-reficultnias-120110
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FBI Entraps Another Useful “Homegrown” Idiot to Push the Fake War On Terror
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/fbi-entraps-another-useful-homegrown-idiot-to-push-the-fake-war-on-terror/ 
A quote...."Scary Muslims donning turbans and satellite phones have not attacked the United States since September 11, 2001, when a gaggle of cave dwellers magically commandeered the laws of physics and made NORAD stand down. -- Instead, the government and the military-industrial-intelligence complex has engaged in a series of small attacks and would-be attacks in order to keep the global war on manufactured terror chugging along. -- Last week we were subjected to yet another phony baloney FBI orchestrated entrapment of a clueless Muslim." - Topix ||  The F.B.I.'s Constant Gardening  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/thefbisconstantgardening-mpg-weblist-121310 
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Iceland may ban MasterCard, Visa over WikiLeaks censorship
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/iceland-may-ban-mastercard-visa-over-wikileaks-censorship.html 
Despite the fact Jullian Assange is a blatant Zionist stooge, this website editor fully supports this move.  What Visa and MasterCard did without the due process of law, was political retaliation on behalf of a corrupt political class of parasites running a vicious pseudo-empire, and if allowed to stand....would set a very bad precedent for everyone, everywhere. - mpg -- A quote...."Credit card companies that prevented card-holders from donating money to the secrets outlet WikiLeaks could have their operating licenses taken away in Iceland, according to members of the Icelandic Parliamentary General Committee."
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IF AMERICANS KNEW: Standing Up for Helen Thomas
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/14/if-americans-knew-standing-up-for-helen-thomas/
A quote...."Veteran journalist Helen Thomas is under attack again. The ADL took away her job; now it wants to take away her honorary degrees. Let’s turn the tables on them!" - also posted at MyCatBird'sSeat  ---  http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/12/if-americans-knew-standing-up-for-helen-thomas/ 
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Exclusive: I ‘wined and dined’ NYT and WSJ for favorable coverage, health insurance whistleblower says
  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/exclusive-wined-dined-nyt-wsj-favorable-coverage-health-insurance-whistleblower/ 
Presstitutes Exposed - The NYT (again) & WSJ, no surprise of course. - mpg -- A quote...."A former health insurance insider turned whistleblower says that he was not only surprised at how “easy” it was to manipulate members of the news media over the years, but also reveals that he routinely “wined and dined” reporters from major news outlets – including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal – in return for favorable coverage."
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Apple’s Success and Peak Empire  ---  http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/a-clear-indication-of-the-decline/ 
Must Read - A quote...."Even before Edward Gibbon published his famous treatise in the late 1700s, historians have frequently debated the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire. -- Some, like Gibbon, argued that Roman society’s moral decline was the root cause, while others such as Toynbee suggested that the mere concept of the empire was doomed from its inception due to institutional decay. -- Whatever the reason, one thing is certain: it happened gradually, with each successive generation of Romans becoming accustomed (willingly or forcibly) to the new normal of their inflationary police state."
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Richard Holbrooke: Long-time operative for US imperialism  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/dec2010/holb-d15.shtml 
Special Note - A quote...."There is no reason to pull any punches in regard to Richard C. Holbrooke, the long-time US diplomat who died Monday night in Washington. He was a bully and a liar for the most rapacious and militaristic power in the world, a man steeped in the commission and cover-up of bloody crimes. He devoted his life to defending the worldwide interests of American corporations and banks, and became personally wealthy as a consequence."
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On Deathbed, Globalist Holbrooke Called for End of Afghan War
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/on-deathbed-globalist-holbrooke-called-for-end-of-afghan-war.html 
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVIQsclootk  ---  Related Article - A quote...."Richard Holbrooke, Obama’s point man on Pakistan and Afghanistan, has died following a second round of surgery to treat a heart condition. Officialdom and the corporate media are in mourning. Praise for the one-worlder gluts the media."
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Afghanistan / Graveyard of Imperial Empires Will Soon Include U.S.  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/15/67224/ 
A quote...."Like a moth to the flame, the United states continues to defy the first law of holes in Afghanistan ~ stop digging. Obama’s war, or better said occupation, continues to take America down the road of moral and financial disintegration and eventually  to the graveyard of Imperial Empires" -- *Allen L Roland*
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USA lures another country into Afghan trap  ---  http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/14-12-2010/116191-usa_kazakhstan-0/ 
A quote...."Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic, will now send its military men to Afghanistan. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at USA's Manas airbase on the outskirts of Bishkek that Kazakhstan had agreed to add its military advisers and field engineers to the international forces in Afghanistan."
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Bomb Attack Kills Dozens in Southeastern Iran  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8909240131 
Another Saudi-Royal-CIA sponsored Baluchistan separatist attack - mpg - A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- A relatively strong bomb rocked an area near Imam Hossein Mosque in the Southeastern city of Chabahar, in Sistan and Balouchestan province on Wednesday, killing dozens of people mourning the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hossein (PBUH), the grandson of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)."
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Minister's Sacking Shores Up Ahmadinejad's Power Base  ---  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53861 
A quote...."    While Iran gears up for a second round of nuclear talks with Western countries next month, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's abrupt dismissal of his foreign minister on Monday indicates a new power struggle with moderate conservatives that could alter the tone and face of Iran's foreign policy machinery in the years to come."
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More on the Egyptian election sham.....

Egypt – Pawn in a Losing Game?  ---  http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=27537 
Special Note - A quote...."The Middle East is turbulent. In the midst of war, threats of war and oppression, the Egyptian election took place and it was marred by voter intimidation, fraud, and a series of violent incidents. At any other time, the US would step in, invade, takeover, dictate, and impose freedom and democracy, except this time, the country was not an enemy of the state (the US ) but its closest ally in the region, Egypt . -- Mubarak, along with his nation, is spiraling downwards towards collapse with a 9.4 percent unemployment rate, high inflation, and a stagnant government pretending to be democratic. If this happens it would be dangerous for both Egypt and US interests."
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Egypt Election Dispute  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaLiuE5FiFw 
PRSTVVideo - (PRSTVYuTb - 2min 33sec - December 14, 2010) - PressTVGlobalNews  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/PressTVGlobalNews  ---  A quote...."Opposition groups and international monitors continue to dispute the results of Egypt's recent parliamentary elections. -- Press TV's May Kamel reports from Cairo."
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Opposition Unites To Protest Egypt's New Parliament
  ---  http://www.npr.org/2010/12/14/132046150/Opposition-Joins-To-Protest-Egypt-s-New-Parliament 
A quote...."Egypt's controversial new parliament convened Monday, and it was filled almost entirely with members of the ruling party. Many in the Arab nation expect the parliament to rubber stamp anything President Mubarak and his party want. But it is also prompting opponents of his regime to join forces as they rarely have before."
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Russian Armed Forces on High Alert Over North Korea  ---  http://www.670kboi.com/rssItem.asp?feedid=113&itemid=29609277 
A quote...."(MOSCOW) -- Russia announced Tuesday that its armed forces in the east are on high alert.  This comes in light of what it calls an "inadequate situation" on the Korean peninsula as tensions have increased in recent weeks between the North and South."
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Putin, Pahor discuss cooperation, South Stream  ---  http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/12/15/36856527.html 
A quote...."Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with his Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor on Tuesday to discuss a raft of economic cooperation issues , including the successful implementation of the mutual agreements as part of the South Stream project. -- The 900 km South Stream pipeline is being built with an eye to diversifying routes of Russian gas supplies to Europe."
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Russia to supply 80 Mi-17V-5 helicopters to India  ---  http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/12/14/36848008.html 
A quote...."A contract for the supply to India of 80 Russian Mi-17V-5 military transport helicopters and spare parts to them will exceed $1.345 billion."
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Russia's Soyuz soon to be only lifeline to space  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/239410 
A quote...."BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan – As a Soyuz spacecraft slowly rolls to its launchpad on the icy cold steppes of Kazakhstan, even the most seasoned space fan cannot help but be spellbound by the sight." -- Source:  AP  ---  http://cgiproxy6.appspot.com
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Chinese premier arrives in India for visit  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-12/15/c_13650281.htm 
A quote...."NEW DELHI, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao started his official visit to India here Wednesday in a bid to boost political mutual trust and understanding while cementing cooperation in economy and trade between the two neighboring countries."
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China has high expectations for Premier Wen's upcoming visit to India  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-12/13/c_13647220.htm 
A quote...."BEIJING, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- China voiced its high expectations for Premier Wen Jiabao's upcoming visit to India Monday, saying the visit will be a "significant event" that boosts bilateral relations."
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Riots break out in Rome  ---  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1214/breaking45.html 
A quote...."Protesters set fire to cars, threw paint and smoke bombs at the Italian parliament and clashed with riot police today in Rome's worst violence for years after prime minister Silvio Berlusconi survived a confidence vote. -- Via del Corso, the main street stretching through the historic centre, near Mr Berlusconi's office and home to some of the capital's smartest shops, was a battle scene of smoke, teargas and bloodied faces."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/Riots-break-out-in-Rome/11915/0/35/35/Y/M.html 
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S Korea to resume live artillery drills  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/155344.html 
A quote...."South Korea is holding live artillery exercises for a second week, despite warnings from North Korea that the military drills could spark a “nuclear war.”
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Japan to continue paying $2 billion for US troops - http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C12%5C15%5Cstory_15-12-2010_pg4_8 
Unbelievable, and here this website editor thought the Japanese people were smart. - mpg -- A quote...."TOKYO: Japan’s government agreed on Tuesday to continue contributing $2.2 billion a year toward the cost of stationing American troops in the country. -- Under the agreement with the US, Japan’s share will remain at the current 188 billion yen ($2.2 billion) through March 2016. The current pact expires next March. Japan had sought a cut in its payment during months of negotiations on the renewal because of economic woes. But officials agreed on no reduction after tensions on the Korean peninsula [WOW, what a coincidence!] and worries over China’s growing military [as outlined in all those recent articles, ditto] might [have] highlighted the US military’s role as a deterrent for security threats." [Even if the US-NRE helped to create them!]
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/239482 
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Rabbis' Decree Reveals Anti-Arab Bias  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/121410b.html 
A quote...."On Dec. 7, some 50 Israeli rabbis issued a "decree" forbidding their Jewish fellow citizens from "renting or selling homes or land to Arabs and other non-Jews." The "decree" was soon endorsed by an additional 250 Israeli rabbis."
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Bedouin Community Wells Destroyed Near Hebron  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/60171 
A quote...."The Israeli Civil Administration officials destroyed five wells and several sheds, on Tuesday, in a small Bedouin community in the south Hebron hills, locals reported." - For more on this type of issue see....Israel's Scorched Earth
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israelsscorchedearth-weblist-mpg-022510
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Palestine Campaigners Claim BDS Success as Edinburgh Council Rejects Veolia  ---  http://www.alternativenews.org/ 
english/index.php/topics/economy-of-the-occupation/3086-palestine-campaigners-claim-bds-success-as-edinburgh-council-rejects-veolia-
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel! Because if the world can't get together to boycott and attempt to halt one tiny, little, state, occupied by just five million Jews, from openly flouting international law and engaging in policies of ethnic cleansing....when WILL the world act?!?! - mpg -- A quote...."A pro-Palestinian pressure group claimed success last week after Edinburgh Council rejected an attempt by a controversial firm to take over a range of public services in the city." -- For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/  ---  of this website. - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/palestine-campaigners-claim-bds-success-as-edinburgh-council-rejects-veolia/ 
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Japanese Retailer MUJI Cancels Planed Israel Branch Opening
  ---  http://josephdana.com/2010/12/japanese-retailer-muji-cancels-planed-israel-branch-opening/ 
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel! Because eventually, painfully, Israel WILL be MADE to comply with internationl law. - mpg -- A quote...."The ultra hip international Japanese retailer MUJI has cancelled its planed Israel store amidst growing criticism and protests in Japan. This is the first major Japanese BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) victory. According to the Japanese daily, The Mainichi Daily News:" - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m72902&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/  ---  of this website. - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/palestine-campaigners-claim-bds-success-as-edinburgh-council-rejects-veolia/ 
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Tears of Gaza  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/tears-of-gaza/ 
Contains Must View Videos - TOGTrailer  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc0hFLMa9gQ  ---  TOGTrailer#2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIqEwdzMjuI  ---  A quote...."While the rest of the world is ready to recognize Palestine and set her borders, again, officially, the U.S. and Israel grab as much land as possible hoping that they can steal as much of the water and land as they can before the humanity of the rest of the world catches up with them."
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Two more leftwing activists summoned to a meeting with Israel’s General Security Service  ---  http://www.promisedlandblog.com/?p=3617 
A quote...."Two Israeli activists that take part in protests in the West Bank have been summoned to informal investigations by Israel’s General Security Service, the Shabak (formally Shin Beit). According to the two, they received phone calls inviting them for what was described as “a talk” with a GSS investigator named Rona." - also posted at AlethoNews 
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/two-more-leftwing-activists-summoned-to-a-meeting-with-israel%E2%80%99s-general-security-service/ 
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Two Palestinians Injured Near Gaza Border  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/60175 
A quote...."Two men were injured on Tuesday by Israeli firing in the northern Gaza strip, local medical sources said."
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Israeli Forces Arrest 31 in West Bank and Demolish 2 Houses in Jerusalem  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/60170 
A quote...."Israeli troops arrested 31 people in overnight raids across the West Bank. Meanwhile, troops demolished two Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, on Tuesday morning, local sources announced."
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Haniyeh: Hamas will win elections  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=342060 
OH GAWD, those dumb Palestinians actually still believe in true democracy, despite all that's been done to them!!  When will they ever learn?!?  Guess Israel and the US-NRE will just have to bomb them all over again. - mpg -- A quote...."GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- Given fair conditions, Hamas would win another landslide victory in all Palestinian areas Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Tuesday, "Hamas will get the West Bank and Gaza with more votes than before." -- Speaking during a celebration marking the 23rd anniversary of the founding of Hamas, Haniyeh referenced a decision by the Supreme Court in Ramallah, which found that the PA decision to cancel local elections in the West Bank was illegal. The court said a new date for elections must be set immanently."
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Keiser Report №103: Markets, Finance FUBAR!  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/6/bruMQTTuf2g 
MKVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bruMQTTuf2g  ---  (MKRTYuTb - 25min 49sec - December 14, 2010)  - Source:  Russia Today  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."This time, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, examine Jamie Dimon's sore spots and the Department of Justice's PR stunts and ask whether or not Americans are plunging deeper into debt. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser talks to Michael W. Hudson, author of The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America -- and Spawned a Global Crisis."
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Water, Meet Blood - JP Morgan Admits To, Reduces Massive Silver Short Position, Proves Millions Of Conspiracy Theorists Correct
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/jp-morgan-admits-defeat-cuts-silver-short-position-proves-millions-conspiracy-theorists-abso 
Related Article - A quote...."In the latest example that virtually every conspiracy theory is almost always inevitably proven to be fact, the Financial Times reports that JP Morgan, the firm targeted by thousands of "tin foil hat" wearing, conspiratorially-oriented "gold bugs", has cut back on its US silver futures. "JPMorgan has quietly reduced a large position in the US silver futures market which had been at the centre of a controversy about its impact on global prices for the precious metal." And in what can only be considered an unprecedented victory for all those who have over the past year agitated to putting JP Morgan out of business, most recently spearheded by the likes of Mike Krieger and Max Keiser, by forcing a massive short squeeze on its commodities trading desk...." - also posted at RogueGov  ---  http://www.roguegovernment.com/JP_Morgan_Admits_To%2C_Red
uces_Massive_Silver_Short_Position%2C_Proves_Millions_Of_Conspiracy_Theorists_Correct_/24023/0/8/8/Y/M.html 
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Lies, Lies, Lies: The New Foundation of the Financial System  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner443.html 
Special Note - A quote...."Lies, lies, lies…  The first lie was the biggest whopper of all – that you could get rich by spending money rather than saving it. -- The second was that the stock market would make you rich. All you had to do was to buy a well-balanced portfolio and hold for the long run. -- When that one ran into a wall, along came the lie that you couldn’t lose money in real estate."
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Ron Paul, America’s unlikely hero  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/12/14/ron-paul-americas-unlikely-hero/ 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6q5ChjBN4w  ---  (RTYuTb - 5min 31sec - December 14, 2010) - Source:  RTAmerica  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RTAmerica  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Ron Paul, the greatest critic of the fed is about to take control of House panel that oversees the Fed. What changes, if any, will he be able to bring about? Will the Fed finally get the oversight it so badly needs? Radio host Adam Kokesh believes this is just the beginning for Ron Paul and that he will make a run for President in 2012."
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Doomsday for the US Dollar: Post Mortem for the World's "Reserve Currency"  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22402 
A quote...."Paul Volcker is worried about the future of the dollar and for good reason. The Fed has initiated a program (Quantitative Easing) that presages an end to Bretton Woods 2 and replaces it with different system altogether. Naturally, that's made trading partners pretty nervous. Despite the unfairness of the present system--where export-dependent countries recycle capital to US markets to sustain demand---most nations would rather stick with the "devil they know", then venture into the unknown.  But US allies weren't consulted on the matter.  The Fed unilaterally decided that the only way to fight deflation and high unemployment in the US, was by weakening the dollar and making US exports more competitive. Hence--QE2.  -- But that means that the US will be battling for the same export market as everyone else, which will inevitably shrink global demand for goods and services.  This is a major change in the Fed's policy and there's a good chance it will backfire."
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10 Signs That Confidence In U.S. Treasuries Is Dying And That Financial Armageddon May Be Approaching
  ---  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/10-signs-that-confidence-in-u-s-treasuries-is-dying-and-that-financial-armageddon-may-be-approaching
A quote...."Selling government debt is a gigantic confidence game.  For decades, investors all over the globe have gobbled up massive amounts of U.S. debt at incredibly low interest rates because they believed that it was a certainly that they would be paid back and be able to make a little bit of profit on top of it.  Unfortunately, things have changed.  Confidence is U.S. Treasuries is dying, and if confidence in U.S. government debt completely collapses at some point we could literally be looking at financial Armageddon." - also posted at TheIntelHub
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2010/12/14/10-signs-that-confidence-in-u-s-treasuries-is-dying-and-that-financial-armageddon-may-be-approaching/ 
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US Treasury Bloodbath Is Back: 30 Year Passes 4.50%, As 10 Year Prepares To Take Out 3.40%
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-treasury-bloodbath-back-30-year-passes-450-10-year-prepares-take-out-340 
Related Article - Chart - A quote...."Not much to say here: QE3 is in the works, as once the equity rally fizzles, mortgages are at 5.5%, and Americans realize that home prices just dropped by 15%, there will be a lot of very confused stares."
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Renminbi: The People's Global Reserve Currency
  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/Renminbi%3A-The-People%27s-Global-Reserve-Currency/11913/0/13/13/Y/M.html 
A quote...."So new is the trade in offshore Chinese currency bonds that it has yet to gain a proper name. For want of anything else, it is often dubbed the “dim sum” market, in culinary recognition of its Hong Kong home base. -- In spite of its infancy, interest in the market is growing quickly."
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Moody's may shift U.S. rating outlook on tax package  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BC32L20101213 
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - Moody's warned on Monday that it could move a step closer to cutting the U.S. Aaa rating if President Barack Obama's tax and unemployment benefit package becomes law."
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California lists 99,000 foreclosures for sale on the MLS but 372,000 homes are active in the foreclosure process.
  ---  http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/welcome-to-the-united-states-of-foreclosures-california-half-million-dollar-foreclosures-reo-socal-maps/ 
A quote...."Getting lost in the numbers is an easy thing especially with the magnitude of numbers being tossed out by Wall Street and our government.  I think many in the country have just become apathetic to “billions” or “trillions” of dollars being thrown around as if this was a common part of daily dialogue.  When California had its first budget fiasco with the housing market imploding a few years back a few billion dollars captivated the attention of the state for months on end.  Today, even the prospect of a $28 billion deficit hardly seems to garner any attention."
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U.S. retail sales in November rise 0.8%  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-retail-sales-climb-08-in-november-2010-12-14 
Good news, BUT....A quote...."The biggest increase in sales last month for U.S. retailers occurred at gas stations as fuel prices rose and Americans began to drive more during the holiday season. Gas sales jumped 4% in November, marking the biggest increase in one year." - bold by website editor  - Now don't you feel better? - mpg
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British household debts reach a record high
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-household-debts-reach-a-record-high-2158987.html 
A quote...."More than half of households are struggling to repay credit cards and loans, a Bank of England survey suggested today. -- A total of 51% of respondents reported that their unsecured debts were a "burden" - a record high for the annual study. -- Illustrating the financial pressures faced by millions, one in two households also said they had seen their disposable income fall over the past year. -- More than a quarter - or 28% - said their monthly earnings had fallen by more than £100 during that time, with just 14% saying it had gone up."
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Monday December 13th 2010

No Act of Rebellion Is Wasted
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."We may feel, in the face of the ruthless corporate destruction of our nation, our culture, and our ecosystem, powerless and weak. But we are not. We have a power that terrifies the corporate state. Any act of rebellion, no matter how few people show up or how heavily it is censored by a media that caters to the needs and profits of corporations, chips away at corporate power. Any act of rebellion keeps alive the embers for larger movements that follow us. It passes on another narrative. It will, as the rot of the state consumes itself, attract wider and wider numbers. Perhaps this will not happen in our lifetimes. But if we persist, we will keep this possibility alive. If we do not, it will die.  -- All energy directed toward reforming political and state structures is useless. All efforts to push through a “progressive” agenda within the corridors of power are naïve. Trust in the reformation of our corporate state reflects a failure to recognize that those who govern, including Barack Obama, are as deaf to public demands and suffering as those in the old Communist regimes. We cannot rely on any systems of power, including the pillars of the liberal establishment—the press, liberal religious institutions, universities, labor, culture and the Democratic Party. They have been weakened to the point of anemia or work directly for the corporations that dominate our existence. We can rely now on only ourselves, on each other." - also posted at TruthOut & TheUglyTruth

Moving the goal posts for Israel
Must Read - A quote...."MPs will vote today on the Police Reform Bill, which contains a plethora of proposals concerning election of police commissioners, setting up a police reserve force, alcohol licensing, drugs enforcement and banning permanent protests in Parliament Square. -- But this massive Bill also contains one clause which has been inserted at the request of a foreign government. -- Clause 151 would give the Director of Public Prosecutions a veto over whether an arrest warrant could be issued for war crime suspects. -- This would essentially allow the government of the day a political veto over what is a legal question. -- War crimes are closely defined under international law and all legal administrations have a responsibility to apply the law strictly and impartially. -- Yet Israel believes that different rules should apply to itself or that conduct which would be a war crime in any other circumstance should not be viewed as such when committed by the zionist state. " - also posted at AlethoNews - For more on this issue see article and comment shown below....


Manufactured Fear – 15 minutes that will change your life
Video - (YuTb - 15min 01sec - December 10, 2010) - Source:  killuminatiAFF -- A quote...."A history of false flag attacks used to manipulate the minds of the people!" - Topix ||  US-False Flag Ops  ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda  ||

[Swedish] Military staffer knew about attacks: report
A quote...."A Swedish Armed Forces (Försvarsmakten) employee warned an acquaintance to stay clear of an area in central Stockholm on Saturday where, several hours later, two explosions went off in what is being called a terrorist attack."

Swedish Military Had Prior Knowledge Of Suicide Blast
Related Article - A quote...."The Swedish military had prior knowledge of the suicide blast which hit a busy shopping street in central Stockholm on Saturday, suggesting the attack was allowed to go ahead in order to bolster the flagging global war on terror."

UK mosque denounced Stockholm bomber for militancy
Related Article - A quote...."A man linked to two bomb blasts in the Swedish capital at the weekend had stormed out of a mosque in England several years ago and never returned after its leader challenged him over his radical ideas. --  Taymour Abdulwahab, a Swedish national of Middle Eastern origin who died in one of the blasts he is believed to have triggered, attended an Islamic Center in the town of Luton, southern England, and also studied at the local university. --  British police were searching a house in the town where he lived with his wife and children as part of an investigation into the bombings that injured two people in a busy shopping district in Stockholm on Saturday."

The Feds Are Cultivating Their Own “Homegrown Terrorists”
A quote...."The FBI caught another homegrown terrorist this week, except like many recent plots the agency has “uncovered,” the attack was a plant, a plan concocted by the FBI itself. It’s the latest in a growing number of terrorism plots that the FBI stirs up by infiltrating communities and helping to devise attack plans. The practice raises serious questions about the government’s implementation of it’s ongoing war on terror." - also posted at AlethoNews - Topix ||  The F.B.I.'s Constant Gardening  || 

TSA News 12-13-10 & TSA News 12-11-10 & TSA News 12-10-10
DProgram's daily round-up on the TSA's goon squads.
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More on the Wikileaks Cointelpro Fiasco....

BUSTED! LATEST WIKILEAKS – ISRAEL – “PRESS” TALKINGPOINT
Special Note - A quote...."The current Wikileak “dump” has had a number of talkingpoint “dumps” in order to properly exploit pro-Israel press assets in the blogger world.  These talkingpoints expose “seeded” intelligence meant to support an attack on Iran, the primary purpose of the current Assange/Murdoch/Israel output.  Not only do members of the mainstream press receive these talking points but dozens of “alternative” or internet media sources as well.  It has become increasingly obvious that many internet news sources that describe themselves as “alternative” or even anti-Zionist are totally controlled."

“Trying to Explain the World” – How the Globalist’s PR Agents Use the Wikileaks Psyops Program
A quote...."Michel Chossudovsky over at Global Research has put up an interesting NPR transcript with some rather revealing statements about Wikileaks that were made by the New York Times chief Washington correspondent, David Sanger. Sanger is one of the New York Times reporters who have been reading and writing about the different state department memos “leaked” by Wikileaks. He was also involved in meetings with the Obama administration and others which selected and redacted the cables that would be published."

For more regarding the articles shown above see....No Subtlety Whatsoever - 12-01-10 - mpg
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UK Govt Moves Against 12-Year-Old Dissident
In the Believe It Or Not Category - (More Palestinization) -- A quote...."Pointing to the Cameron government’s growing impatience over student protests, British officials have reportedly moved against 12-year-old Nicky Wishart, henceforth known as the Notorious Nicky of Oxfordshire, threatening him with arrest for threatening the public peace. - Nicky’s crime was to complain on Facebook about an upcoming plan to close his local youth centre, because “it’s a fantastic place to go and there isn’t much else for us to do round here,” and a plan to protest in front of his local MP’s office, which in this case is Prime Minister David Cameron’s office, sparked harsh police action." - also posted at InfoWarIreland

Police-state tactics against protesters in Britain
Related Article - A quote...."The repression of students, lecturers, school pupils and others protesting against the British Conservative-Liberal Democrat government is the worst seen in decades. -- Since the first protest of more than 50,000 students in London on November 10, ever larger squads of riot police have carried out increasingly violent assaults. Beatings and mass arrests of hundreds of students have taken place. These arrests have been made during and after demonstrations held in London and in towns and cities nationwide—many resulting from intelligence operations carried out by specialised units dedicated to counter-insurgency operations."

Published for the first time, the papers which could finally force full inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly
A quote...."EXCLUSIVE:  Today, the Daily Mail publishes for the first time the legal document which could trigger a full coroner's inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. -- The document, formally known as a memorial was written by group of campaigning doctors who have been trying to secure an inquest since 2004." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

It was never suicide, says Dr Kelly's cousin as family finally breaks silence
Related Article - A quote...."A close relative of Dr David Kelly broke the family's silence yesterday to voice fears that he was murdered. -- Wendy Wearmouth said she found it 'incredibly unlikely' that he committed suicide and suggested he was assassinated. -- She said that committing suicide would have been 'totally against his whole way of being'."

In the Matter of the Death of Dr. David Kelly. DEMANDING A NEW INQUEST
Document / Declaration - Related Doc. - A quote...."It is consequently submitted that it is necessary and desirable in the interests of justice for there to be a fresh, full inquest into Dr. Kelly's death before a different Coroner.  The mernorialists therefore humbly requests that the Attorney-General exercise his power under s13 Coroners Act 1988 to apply to the High Court to seek an order to quash the inquest held by Coroner Nicholas Gardiner in 2003-4 and to order a new inquest into Dr. Kelly's death."

'US masterminded Hariri hit'
A quote...."The leader of a Lebanese political party has accused the United States of orchestrating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri."

U.S. Threatens "War on Terror" Allies Over CIA Kidnapping and Torture Programs
A quote...."As revelations of U.S. government coercive "diplomacy" continue flowing from the whistleblowing web site WikiLeaks, much to the consternation of official Washington, ruling class circles are working feverishly to downplay the seriousness of the leaks."

Europeans Accused of "Paranoia" Over Fears of U.S. Economic Espionage, Documents Reveal
A quote...."Distrust of the Swift program runs deep and its "War on Terror" pedigree is considered little more than a pretext for American spies to carry out economic espionage on behalf of U.S. multinationals. -- Alarmed over privacy breaches by American firms and criminal acts, such as the illegal U.S. transfer of prisoners on CIA "black flights," aided and abetted by European intelligence agencies, outraged public opinion forced the hand of parliamentarians, who voted overwhelmingly to suspend the program." - bold by website editor

Book review: "Spy Trade" details history of Israel lobby in the US - posted at Electronic Intifada
Book Review - A quote...."Grant F. Smith, author of the new book "Spy Trade: How Israel's Lobby Undermines America's Economy", [GoglBkprcSrch]* is staggeringly knowledgeable about the Israel lobby. Spy Trade is the latest in a series of books on the lobby published by his organization, the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy. In this volume, Smith offers a richly detailed narrative discussing the how and who of lobby activities in the United States from 1948-2009, uncovered through insistent Freedom of Information Act requests." - *links added
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israel’s War on Children - posted at CounterPunch
A quote...."In the past year, criminal investigations have been opened against more than 1,200 Palestinian minors in Jerusalem on stone-throwing charges, according to police statistics gathered by the Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). That was nearly twice the number of children arrested last year in the much larger Palestinian territory of the West Bank. - Most of the arrests have occurred in the Silwan district, close to Jerusalem’s Old City, where 350 extremist Jewish settlers have set up several heavily guarded illegal enclaves among 50,000 Palestinian residents." - also posted at AlethoNews

Knesset Approves New Law Preventing Detainees From Meeting Lawyers For Six Month
A quote...."The Legal Committee of the Israeli Knesset decided on Monday to approve a new draft submitted by the Israeli Interior Minister, Yitzhak Aharanovitch, in which he demanded that Palestinian detainees, imprisoned on nationalistic/political grounds, should not be allowed to meet their lawyers up to six months after their arrest, the Maan News Agency reported."

Governor: Israeli factories dump waste in Tulkarem
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian contractor was hired to dump chemical waste from Israeli factories in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, the governor said Sunday."

The Palestinian Journalist Block declares solidarity with the captain of Italian journalists
Israeli / Press Censorship Attempt - A quote...."Gaza,December 13, (Pal Telegraph) - The captain of Italian journalists, Anzo Ekibno, was attacked by media and pressure by the Zionist lobby and its supporters in Italy as he intended to host a press conference of “Freedom flotilla 2” as it will declare its latest preparations about its expected sailing to the Gaza Strip in spring of the next year."

Book by Gaza victim being published
A quote...."A UK publisher has started a campaign to attract funds for the publication of the photos and writings of a UK journalist who died at the hands of the Israeli military."

Dissolve the Palestinian Authority
A quote...."On September 9, 1993, Yasser Arafat, the PLO chief, signed a letter addressed to Yitzhak Rabin accepting UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 and recognizing the right of Israel to exist in peace and security. It promised to assume responsibility over all PLO elements and personnel in order to assure their compliance with Oslo agreement, prevent violations and discipline violators and declared inoperative all the articles in the Palestinian Covenant which denied Israel’s right to exist. UN Council resolution 242 that was drafted by the British ambassador to the UN was intended to have the Arab states recognize Israel and had nothing to do with the Palestinians."
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Failing to Prosecute Wall Street Fraud Is Extending Our Economic Problems
Must Read - A quote...."Bill Gross, Nouriel Roubini, Laurence Kotlikoff, Steve Keen, Michel Chossudovsky and the Wall Street Journal all say that the U.S. economy is a giant Ponzi scheme. -- Virtually all independent economists and financial experts say that rampant fraud was largely responsible for the financial crisis. See this and this. --
But many on Wall Street and in D.C. - and many investors - believe that we should just "go with the flow". They hope that we can restart our economy and make some more money if we just let things continue the way they are. -- But the assumption that a system built on fraud can continue without crashing is false. -- In fact, top economists and financial experts agree that - unless fraud is prosecuted - the economy cannot recover"

[US-NRE] Regulators exist to ‘serve the banks,’ next House finance chairman declares
A quote...."Alabama Republican Spencer Bachus, the incoming chairman of the House banking committee, suggested Congress and federal regulators should play a subservient role with banks. -- "In Washington, the view is that the banks are to be regulated, and my view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks," Bachus told The Birmingham News in an interview." - also posted at BLN

On the Chopping Block: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
A quote...."Planned is death by a thousand cuts - aka "creeping normalcy," defined as a way to make major changes seem normal if happen slowly, incrementally like boiling a frog unaware it's dinner until cooked. -- Social Security and Medicare are dinner. Yet both are insurance, not welfare, programs funded by (worker-employer) payroll tax deductions. They're contractual federal obligations to eligible recipients who qualify. You'd never know it the way both programs are publicly discussed, explaining everything but the truth. More on that below."

Charting America's Transformation To A Part-Time Worker Society, Following 6 Straight Months Of Full Time Job Declines - Chart - A quote...."It is surprising that over the past several years very little has been said in the popular media about the fact that America is slowly (but surely) transforming from a full-time to part-time employed society. And while much has been said about the temporary and now past impact of census hiring, and government jobs on the workforce, there are still few mentions in mainstream media that since the depression started in December 2007, America has lost 10.5 million full time jobs, offset by a 2.8 million increase in part time jobs."

INSTITUTE INDEX: Debtors' prisons rise again in the South
A quote...."The Brennan Center for Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union released reports this week documenting the growing problem of criminal justice debt and the considerable costs it's imposing on communities, taxpayers and indigent people convicted of crimes. The following figures come from those reports, titled respectively "Criminal Justice Debt: A Barrier to Reentry" and "In for a Penny: The Rise of America's New Debtor Prisons." Click on the figure to go the specific source." - also posted at AlethoNews

FLASH: Requiem For Health Care Law - Thank God!! - mpg
A quote...."In a stunning decision it appears that the individual mandate has been ruled against by a Virginia Federal Judge. -- The entirety of Obamacare has not been struck, but the mandate was ruled unconstitutional. -- Without it, the entire centroid of the plan goes down and things get extremely ugly with the remaining provisions. -- Given the diversity of opinions thus far (there are two other decisions that it is constitutional) this is now certainly headed to the Supreme Court, but with this decision it appears that enforcement of the individual mandate will be impossible until that review takes place. -- I said at the time this was under debate that the only two workable solutions were a clear free-market mandate (you can read back through my missives on this topic from the navigation functions - click the topic header top right) that prevented differential pricing and cost shifting or a pure public/government system such as what is operated in Canada." - (i.e. "single payer".  Instead what we got from that corporate shill Obama was the Insurance-Pharma Bail Out Bill. - mpg) - Topix ||  Double Indemnity - 12-21-09 - mpg  ||  The Day ObamaCare Died - American Pie Parody - video  ||

Easter Egg Out Of The BIS: US Banks Are On The Hook To The PIIGS By Over $350 Billion
A quote...."Last night, the BIS released its latest quarterly review, as always chock full of useful information. The one major item that caught our eye was the updated exposure toward the PIIGS countries by various foreign banks. And specifically the brand new category that had never been disclosed before by the BIS, namely the "other exposures" category, which per a rather closeted footnote is defined as: "other exposures consist of the positive market value of derivative contracts, guarantees extended and credit commitments." This is exposure that appears for the first time in an official BIS document. And it is sizable:"

Asia: currency union on the agenda?
A quote...."The ADB’s [Asian Development Bank's] economists accept that if there was ever any chance of the latter [a currency regime of some sort], given Asia’s widely differing political and cultural arrangements, it has probably disappeared in the wake of the European sovereign bond problem. That crisis has exposed the need for fiscal mechanisms to mirror monetary union, adding to the loss of sovereignty involved. -- However, the bank says the benefits of currency cooperation in Asia would be so large that it is worth exploring whether countries will agree to a minimalist regime of informal reference rates for the region’s exchange rates, which might help to reduce intra-regional volatility over time."

Sunday December 12th 2010

The Fix Is In: Expect Democrats to Buckle
Must Read - A quote...."The criminal class in Washington is bipartisan. On core issues, Democrats are no different from Republicans. Expect more bluster before caving like Obama, enacting his deal with the devil worth up to $1 trillion dollars. The lion's share goes to corporations and America's wealthy, middle and low income workers getting crumbs. The fix is in. It'll happen, promoted as stimulus to create jobs and revive economic growth. Not so. More on that below. -- Given the makeup of both Houses, their voting records aren't surprising. Getting reelected counts most. Under a corrupted electoral system, generous funding is needed, but wealthy and corporate donors expect lavish favors in return. They get them and much more." - also posted at AlethoNews

You know what they say about real estate....location, location, and location.  Well the same can be said about politics, economics and war....

• First rule of politics, economics and war....follow the f-cking money!
• Second rule of politics, economics and war....follow the f-cking money!
• Third rule of politics, economics and war....follow the f-cking money!
• Fourth rule....well, you get the idea by now, if not, you're too stupid to matter anyway. - mpg

Ten years since Bush v. Gore: The stolen election of 2000
Special Note - Quote of the Day...."Sunday, December 12 marks ten years since the US Supreme Court effectively decided the outcome of the 2000 presidential election, halting the counting of votes in Florida and awarding the White House to George W. Bush. The 5-4 ruling in Bush v. Gore, together with the contemptible capitulation of the Democratic Party, constituted a milestone in the decay of American democracy."

Bush v. Gore's Dark American Decade - posted at ConsortiumNews
Related Article - A quote...."Ten years ago, the United States stood at a crossroads though the dimness of the future made it hard for many to see which path led toward a brighter day and which headed toward disaster. But then, a partisan Republican majority of the U.S. Supreme Court made the choice for the nation."
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More on the Wikileaks Cointelpro Fiasco....

Tony Lawson: Sex, Lies, Iran, Israel and Wiki
Must View Video - Alt - (YuTb - 11min 02sec - December 12, 2010) - Source:  alawson911 -- A quote...."WikiLeaks has given the mainstream media yet another opportunity to vilify Iran. A typical headline, from the New York Times was: "Around the world distress over Iran." And, ironically, it is true, but not in the way the headline writer meant. Around the world there is distress over Iran, distress at the way it is being cast in the role of the Evil Doer, when all but the most ignorant observers realise that it is nuclear-armed Apartheid Israel that is the real threat to world peace, not Iran."

The Case Against Wikileaks – I
Must Read - A quote...."Let me first say that harassing Julian Assange for having published leaked government documents is completely wrong. There’s no evidence so far that anyone has been injured directly because of the leaks. National security (even as understood by mainstream statists) hasn’t been damaged. As for the embarrassment some officials might be feeling, tough. Governments routinely subject their citizens to much worse for no valid reason.  As for diplomacy, there’s none worth the name.  In high office, all we have are blackmailers, bullies, and bandits. Some outing and shaming of their public actions is in order. Exposing the crimes and blunders of the state is not only a right of citizens, but a duty."

WikiLeaks: Advancing an Israeli Agenda
Special Note - A quote...."Asked on the night of September 11, 2001 what the terrorist attacks meant for U.S.-Israel relations, Benjamin Netanyahu, the then former prime minister, tactlessly but accurately replied, “It’s very good.” And on the day after WikiLeaks’ publication of U.S. diplomatic cables, Netanyahu “strode” into a press conference at the Israeli Journalists Association, looking “undoubtedly delighted” with the group’s latest embarrassment of U.S. President Barack Obama. -- “Thanks to WikiLeaks,” Aluf Benn wrote in Haaretz, “there is now no fear Washington will exert heavy pressure on Israel to freeze settlement construction or to accelerate negotiations on a withdrawal from the territories.” Instead, also courtesy of WikiLeaks, the world’s attention had been shifted exactly where a “vindicated” Netanyahu wanted it – toward Iran’s non-existent nuclear weapons programme."

”A new WikiLeaks” revolts against Assange
Special Note - A quote...."The pressure on WikiLeaks is increasing. DN.se reveals that several key figures behind the website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational or religious documents have resigned in protest against the controversial leader Julian Assange only to launch a new service for the so-called whistleblowers. The goal: to leak sensitive information to the public."

Wikileaks Streams of Hidden Money
Special Note - A quote...."Daniel was quoted today or yesterday saying there were unidentified financial irregularities, always a hot button. Another report is that he was in charge of Wikileaks finances. Wow, what surefire appeal to those avid to believe cheating was going on and the confessor is being squeezed by the authorities (see below)."

For more regarding the articles shown above see....No Subtlety Whatsoever - 12-01-10 - mpg
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9/11 First Responder Health Care Bill Vetoed
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."(NorCalTruth) – The  airwaves are filled with blame for Republicans for not passing the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Bill, yet that is the short-sided view of a very long and unnecessarily drawn out issue. Blame is across the board for the last 9 years of delays."

The "First Responders" believed this government when they said the air was safe....now they're dying for that belief.  Millions of people believed, and continue to believe, this government's lies about 9/11 itself, tens of thousands have been injured or killed, and will continue to be injured and killed, along with millions of innocents across the globe for that belief.  It's time for the people of this nation to WAKE-UP and stop believing the lies!! - mpg
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Obama’s beginning of the end
Special Note - A quote...."After the Suez invasion, Israel’s American partisans set about building an influence network that would ensure no American president could ever force Israel to do anything against its will. -- Their brilliant success was again confirmed this week as Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel’s rightist coalition, literally spit in Obama’s face, sneeringly rejecting the president’s pleas to create a viable Palestinian state. The US Congress and rightwing media actually applauded the public humiliation of their president and vice president.  How the mighty have fallen. Obama has shown himself utterly without spine, and terrified of the Israel lobby at a time when his political fortunes are plummeting.   The White House understands that America’s vital interests in the Mideast are being increasingly undermined by Israel’s adamant refusal to allow a workable Palestinian state instead of apartheid-style Arab Bantustans." - also posted at AlethoNews

The US-NRE is a COLONY of Israel.  Why 320 million so-called Americans would allow themselves to be attacked on 9/11 -- by Israel  -- (with an assist from the Saudi Royals and elements within this nation), have their treasury stripped and looted for a bunch of too big to fail banks on Wall Street, be thrown out of their homes and out of their jobs for the same, get down on their knees in their own churches to worship little green bits of paper printed by these very same banks, all so five million Jewish Israelis can murder Palestinians with impunity completely boggles the imagination!!  If the founding fathers were alive today to see what's become of this nation they would literally puke on the willing slave-sheeple that now occupy this land.
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How Journalists Help to Promote War - and what can be done to stop it.
A quote...."DT:  Why do you think journalists who reported on the Iraq War - a number of whom you interview in the film - are now so willing to admit they did not do their jobs properly? What prevented them from realising that at the time?

John Pilger: The atmosphere has changed. No one is in any doubt now that the reasons for the invasion of Iraq were fraudulent, as are the reasons for invading Afghanistan, as were the reasons for invading Vietnam. Still, the journalists who describe in my film where it all - and they - went wrong are courageous. I asked a number of others to appear, such as Andrew Marr and Jeremy Paxman, and heard nothing back. Indeed, the more famous the name, the greater an apparent unwillingness to discuss why, as Paxman told a group of students, they were "hoodwinked"." - They weren't hoodwinked, they willingly become presstitutes of geo-political evil on a scale not seen since Nazi Germany. - mpg

Your reality or mine? Private reality, the media and the manipulation of information
A quote...."Lawrence Davidson considers the problems of private realities – the fact that ”there are people who do occasionally attain power whose private realities are fantasy driven” and the fact that “most individual realities are ... the artificial creations of a manipulated information environment brought to us by way of the government and its allied media”."

Justice Department Prepares for Ominous Expansion of "Anti-Terrorism" Law Targeting Activists
A quote...."In 1996, Congress made it a crime - then punishable by 10 years, which was later increased to 15 years - to anyone in the US who provides "material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization or attempts or conspires to do so." The present statute defines "material support or resources" as...."


You see that list shown above folks?  That's just a tiny, little, sample, which hasn't really been updated in a very long time, of the tens of thousands of cases during the last thirty years where this government has supported "terrorism". The amount of people in this nation who have actually given MONEY to "terrorist" organizations, much less supported them with so-called "advice", numbers well over a quarter of a million.  Almost ALL of them work, or had worked, for this government's military, CIA, State Department, private contractors or some other US-NRE government affiliated organization or NGO.  Neither the Supreme Court, nor the law itself, says anything about being excepted from this laws provisions because "one is following orders" or "working for the government". Maybe the stupid jerks conducting these prosecutions should THINK about what they're doing before going ahead with these cases. - mpg

Declassified Papers Show U.S. Recruited Ex-Nazis
A quote...."After World War II, American counterintelligence recruited former Gestapo officers, SS veterans and Nazi collaborators to an even greater extent than had been previously disclosed and helped many of them avoid prosecution or looked the other way when they escaped, according to thousands of newly declassified documents."
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The March to War: Was September 11 2001 the Start of World War III? - posted at GlobalRsrch
Must Read - A quote...."The tragic attacks of September 11, 2001 have resulted in almost ten years of perpetual war. [Yes, and they WERE ARRANGED for that very PURPOSE - mpg] September 11, 2001 was the first drum beats, or the opening salvos, of a much wider conflict. The deployment of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan has secured a bridgehead into the Eurasian Heartland, which is geographically positioned on or near the borders of Iran, China, India, Pakistan, Russia, and the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. -- Was Afghanistan the starting battle of a global war? The invasion of Afghanistan can be compared to the landing of the Western Allies, specifically the Americans, in North Africa as a bridgehead into Italy and Europe. At the same time NATO has been pushing from Europe towards the Eurasian Heartland, like the landing of the invading forces of the Western Allies in France." - also posted at DProgram
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Larijani Stresses Iran's Insistence on N. Rights in Talks with World Powers
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Saturday underlined that the world powers should never expect nuclear concessions from Tehran since the country's government can and will never give up even an iota of the Iranian nation's nuclear rights "

Ankara Reiterates Support for Iran's N. Rights
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkish officials on Saturday reiterated their support for Iran's civilian nuclear program, and called on the established nuclear powers to stop depriving other countries of their nuclear rights."

President Ahmadinejad invites Jordan's king Abdullah to visit Iran
A quote...."Amman - Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday received a rare message from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inviting him to visit Iran, according to a royal court statement." - also posted at WarInIraq
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Raids, arrests of Sunnis increase in Iraq
A quote...."BAGHDAD — The soldiers yanked Arkan Subhi Ahmed al-Habshi out of bed shortly before dawn, screaming and striking him with their guns, a scene that has become routine in Sunni districts of Baghdad. -- His family’s futile attempts to navigate the criminal justice system into which he disappeared after his detention in July fit a pattern that has left Sunnis across the country feeling bereft and indignant. -- “There is no evidence against him,’’ said his wife, Besma Ali, 22. “This government wants to take revenge on the people." - also posted at WarInIraq

Protesters: Expel MKO from Iraq
A quote...."The demonstrators gathered outside the group's headquarters and training center, Camp Ashraf, in the Iraqi province of Diyala and called for the expulsion of the terrorist group. -- Among the demonstrators were families of MKO members, who say their loved ones are being held inside the camp against their will. -- MKO leaders are reported to be using torture and pressure on their own dissident members, barring penitent members from leaving the organization and joining their families."
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Another massacre of civilians in Afghanistan
A quote...."A special forces unit completing an early morning raid on Saturday gunned down seven men in the village of Rohani Baba, in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktia province. Abdul Rahman Mangal, the deputy governor of Paktia, told CNN that the victims were road construction workers. A press release by the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) alleges that the men were employees of a private security company."

Bomb attack kills 7 American troops
A quote...."A car bomb attack has killed at least seven American soldiers in southern Afghanistan as foreign casualties continue to set new records in the war-ravaged country."

Hundreds protest Egypt elections result
A quote...."Hundreds of political activists and opposition leaders in Egypt have protested against the outcome of the parliamentary elections, which has been marred by widespread allegations of fraud."

Egypt’s Brotherhood calls on int’l community over fraud
Related Article - A quote...."CAIRO: Egypt’s top political opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood is taking their anger to the international rights community. They have said they will talk to international organizations over election fraud during Egypt’s recent Parliamentary elections."

Russia, Japan agree on joint LNG plant in Russian Far East
A quote...."Russia and Japan have agreed on building a joint liquefied natural gas plant in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri reported." - also posted at SCF

CSTO building rapid response capability
A quote...."Russia is member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which brings it together with the former Soviet republics of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Armenia. -- Tasked with enforcing security in its Eurasian area, the CSTO already operates a joint rapid reaction force and is close to accomplishing a project for a 35-hundred-strong peacekeeping corps. -- Speaking at a CSTO summit in Moscow Friday, President Dmitry Medvedev urged even stronger security cooperation." - also posted at SCF

The S-300P surface-to-air missile system
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The Yuan's Future Role in the Global Financial System
A quote...."The planned December 15 opening of the rouble-yuan trading in Russia is a symbolic and potentially historical event. It reflects tectonic shifts in the world's economy and politics and accordingly promises a transformation of the global financial architecture. At the moment China's contribution to the global economy far exceeds the scope of the yuan international circulation and the Chinese currency's share in national financial reserves. Consequently the financial strategies based on positive expectations concerning the coming status of the yuan will almost undoubtedly pay off. What should currently come into the spotlight is not the alleged yuan undervaluation but the potential that China's partners can unlock by partially switching to the yuan in the future."

China opens Islamabad-Kashgar first air cargo route
A quote...."BEIJING: Ahead of Chinese Premier Mr Wen Jiabao’s visit to Pakistan, Beijing has inaugurated the first air cargo route linking Islamabad with border town Kashgar in northwest Xinjiang province."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Former EU leaders call to sanction and boycott Israel - Hip Hip Hooray!!
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel! Because crime shouldn't pay! - mpg -- A quote...."Twenty-six former European Union leaders, including the EU’s former top diplomat, Javier Solana, issued a letter last week calling for boycotts and sanctions targeting Israel due to settlement construction. -- According to the letter, which was reported on the euobserver.com website and addressed to EU leaders, the Jewish state, “like any other state,” ought to be slapped with “the consequences” and “a price tag” for its construction of housing in the West Bank." - bold by website editor -- For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website.

Boycott roundup: day of action against TIAA-Cref - posted at Electronic Intifada
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel! Because enough is ENOUGH!! - mpg -- A quote...."Palestine solidarity activists are organizing a day of action today, 10 December, to encourage "people of conscience" to join the more than 18,000 who have already signed a US-wide petition urging financial holdings corporation TIAA-CREF to disinvest from construction vehicle manufacturer Caterpillar Incorporated." -- For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website.

British parliament debates Palestinian children prisoners
A quote...."I visited the family of a twelve year old boy arrested on a Sunday morning. They lived in a small room on the outskirts of Balata refugee camp bordering the city of Nablus. The mother of Salim spoke to me first reminding me how the last time I had visited her, her son Salim had been there. Of course I remembered; he'd greatly enjoyed trying out his few English words with me and had very excitedly told me how he and his mother had been to Ramallah the week before. It was Sunday evening and as I sat with Um Salim she recounted to me how she had woken in the night as Balata camp was invaded. She listened to the sound of tanks and jeeps, of sound bombs detonating at random. But then Um Salim told me how the night-terror became her terror when her front door was pushed in and soldiers were everywhere.  They were calling for Salim and Um Salim began to sob as she explained to me how a mother's worst nightmare began." - also posted at Uruknet

Hamas congratulates Sheikh Salah on his release
A quote...."DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Khaled Mishaal, the political bureau chairman of Hamas, on Sunday extended warmest congratulations to Sheikh Ra'ed Salah, the leader of the Islamic movement in 1948 occupied Palestine, for his release from Israeli jail."

Human Rights Mean Nothing in Bil’in
A quote...."International Human Rights Day became a savage irony yesterday in Palestine as peaceful protestors were tear-gassed, shot with rubber-coated steel bullets and arrested for their efforts."

Israel’s crackdown on the border area injures four more
A quote...."The Israeli Offensive Forces are cracking down on people working in the buffer zone. In the past two weeks 20 people have been shot, four of whom were children. Today the atrocities continued: this morning three people were injured in Beit Lahiya; in Khuza’a, near Khan Younis, the army shot a child of 16."

Palestine 2011: The Breaking Point
A quote...."Struggling as I have for the past decades to grasp the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and find ways to get out of this interminable and absolutely superfluous conflict, I have been two-thirds successful. After many years of activism and analysis, I think I have put my finger on the first third of the equation: What is the problem? My answer, which has withstood the test of time and today is so evident that it elicits the response... "duh" ... is that all Israeli governments are unwaveringly determined to maintain complete control of Palestine/Israel from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River, frustrating any just and workable solution based on Palestinian claims to self-determination. There will be no negotiated settlement, period."

AL: Israel trying to eject Palestinians from Jordan Valley to take over region
Related Article - A quote...."CAIRO, (PIC)-- The Arab League's Palestine and occupied Arab land sector released a report documenting the rise in restrictions Israel has placed on Palestinian residents of the Jordan Valley in what it called an attempt to pressure the locals before seizing the entire region."
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Santa Delivers Rally--and Sloppy-Drunk Complacency
Special Note - A quote...."The "recovery" is limited to the top 20% of the households, but that's good enough when coupled with euphoria-inducing statistics (new claims for unemployment dropping from 424,000 to 417,000--wow!) which don't show more people being hired, just fewer people being fired. -- As long as things aren't visibly getting worse in the statistical pulse readings, then that is "proof" the "recovery" is "real." -- Let me top off your cup, pal, because the top 10% skimmed enough bonuses to boost the overall income numbers--even if the bottom 60% saw household incomes decline, the surge in the top 10% negated that decline and made the overall number edge up."

Derivatives: The Quadrillion Dollar Financial Casino Completely Dominated By The Big International Banks
A quote...."If you took an opinion poll and asked Americans what they considered the biggest threat to the world economy to be, how many of them do you think would give "derivatives" as an answer?  But the truth is that derivatives were at the heart of the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, and whenever the next financial crisis happens derivatives will undoubtedly play a huge role once again.  So exactly what are "derivatives"?  Well, derivatives are basically financial instruments whose value depends upon or is derived from the price of something else.  A derivative has no underlying value of its own.  It is essentially a side bet.  Today, the world financial system has been turned into a giant casino where bets are made on just about anything you can possibly imagine, and the major Wall Street banks make a ton of money from it.  The system is largely unregulated (the new "Wall Street reform" law will only change this slightly) and it is totally dominated by the big international banks."

A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives
Related Article - A quote...."On the third Wednesday of every month, the nine members of an elite Wall Street society gather in Midtown Manhattan. -- The men share a common goal: to protect the interests of big banks in the vast market for derivatives, one of the most profitable — and controversial — fields in finance. They also share a common secret: The details of their meetings, even their identities, have been strictly confidential." - Source:  NYT

Secret Banking Derivative Cabal Redux, And Why HFT In CDS Has So Far Been A Failure
A summary of the article shown above....A quote...."Today, in a 3,500 word oeuvre, the NYT's Louise Story has done an expose on some of the key development in the CDS market. For those who may not have the patience of reading the whole thing, we provide an abridged summary..."

Pimco Fund Bleeds $1.9 Billion in November
A quote...."Bill Gross's Pimco Total Return Fund, the world largest bond fund and the Newport Beach, Calif.'s flagship portfolio, saw investors pull some $1.9 billion in November, the most in two years, according to mutual-fund tracker Morningstar."

Friday December 10th 2010 - links page

The memo [confirmed by two senior British officials as being authentic] also shows that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside Iraq. Faced with the possibility of not finding any before the planned invasion, Mr. Bush talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation, including a proposal to paint a United States surveillance plane in the colors of the United Nations in hopes of drawing fire .... 

Thursday December 9th 2010 - links page

"Individuals in and out of government may certainly have participated with the obviously known perpetrators of this dastardly act. Suspicions abound over the analysis presented by government. Obviously an act that has triggered three wars, Afghan, Iraqi and the continuing War on Terror, should be extensively investigated which was not done and which the government avoids addressing."

Problem, Reaction, Solution: "Portland Patsy" serves as impetus for rejoining terrorism task force.
  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2010/12/problem-reaction-solution-portland.html 
A quote...."What should you do when your government's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) contacts, trains, and unleashes a "terrorist" to try to blow up your city's Christmas tree and thousands of bystanders using an FBI-made bomb? Hand over your city's security to the FBI of course. -- In 2005, Portland became the first city in the United States to withdraw from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, (JTTF) over concerns it would threaten civil liberties. Perhaps these concerns were well founded considering the recent case of Mohamed Osman Mohamud." - bold/underline by website editor - also posted at InfoWarIreland  ---  http://info-wars.org/2010/12/08/problem-reaction-solution/  ---  Oh, so THAT's why the F.B.I. picked Portland to stage their little event.  Guess they "taught" Portland a lesson.  One truly wonders what other American cities will be next on their hit list, and for what reasons. - mpg - posted 12-08-10