Wednesday December 29th 2010 - links page

America Has Gone Away  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts289.html 
Must Read - A quote...."Anyone who doesn’t believe that the US is an incipient fascist state needs only to consult the latest assault on civil liberty by Fox News (sic). Instead of informing citizens, Fox News (sic) informs on citizens. Jason Ditz reports (antiwar.com Dec. 28) that Fox News (sic) "no longer content to simply shill for a growing police state," turned in a grandmother to the Department of Homeland Security for making "anti-American comments."
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22558 
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Underneath the Happy Talk, Is This As Bad as the Great Depression?
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/12/underneath-happy-talk-is-this-as-bad-as.html 
Must Read - Charts - A quote...."The following experts have - at some point during the last 2 years - said that the economic crisis could be worse than the Great Depression...." - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/12/29/underneath-the-happy-talk-is-this-as-bad-as-the-great-depression/ 
& GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22542 
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Time to Audit the Remic Trusts  ---  http://www.benzinga.com/life/politics/10/12/729908/time-to-audit-the-remic-trusts# 
Must Read - A quote...."As I have written, when we peel back the layers of the real estate “onion” what we find is layer after layer of fraud. From the mortgage brokers to the appraisers and lenders, from the securitizers to the ratings agencies and accountants, from the trustees to the servicers, and from MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registry System) through to the foreclosures, what we find is a massive criminal conspiracy—probably the worst in human history. I realize that is a harsh claim but I cannot find any other words that fit. -- In the old days, we used to hang horse thieves. The justification was that a man's horse was necessary to his way of life, and in some cases, to his very survival. There can be little doubt that a home is equally important to maintenance of a middle class living standard today for most Americans." 
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Home foreclosures jump in 3rd quarter  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/home-foreclosures-jump-in-3rd-quarter.html 
Related Article - A quote...."Newly initiated foreclosures increased to 382,000 in the third quarter, a 31.2 percent jump over the previous quarter and a 3.7 percent rise from a year ago, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision said in their quarterly mortgage report. -- The number of foreclosures in process increased to 1.2 million, a 4.5 percent increase from the second quarter and a 10.1 percent increase from a year ago, according to the regulators." 
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The Western World’s Murder of Logic and Reason  ---  http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=16912 
Special Note - A quote...."Does anyone still not know that 9/11 was done by Mossad and the CIA, along with various parties in certain government agencies and sundry? Most of us are not hackers and we don’t deal with secret cables leaked by whistleblowers ‘or’ deliberately leaked after being sanitized in order to give the appearance of veracity. You would think that someone who is involved in intelligence information would have the intelligence and information to work out the obvious. I did it years ago, though the details are still fleshing themselves out, the names of the ones behind the attacks haven’t changed and aren’t likely to. -- I measure a person’s truthfulness and intelligence according to the way they define what happened on 9/11. Let me make a very clear and unequivocal statement. Everything changed because of 9/11. All the so-called secrets that Assange possesses are influenced by 9/11. Every war since 9/11 has come about, one way or another, because of 9/11. The whole concept of terrorist has been set and sold according to 9/11. 9/11 is the Big Kahuna, period." 
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Important Article From Christopher Bollyn: Who Destroyed The 9-11 Evidence?
  ---  http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2010/12/important-article-from-christopher.html 
A quote...."Almost 9 and 1/2 years after the Israeli Mossad attack on the World Trade Center Complex, the perpetrators of this heinous crime have still escaped true justice.    Most Americans are still under the illusion that the attack was carried out by "19 A-rabs using box cutters" who are part of the totally fraudulent and fictional group called "Al Qaeda"!...." 
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Obscene, threatening comments posted at anti-TSA website traced to Homeland Security servers
  ---  http://www.naturalnews.com/030860_TSA_Homeland_Security.html 
US-NRE Cointelpro Exposed! - A quote...."(NaturalNews) Officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seem to now be going on the offensive against those who oppose its new invasive and unconstitutional airport security protocols being carried out by agents of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA). According to George Donnelly, owner of WeWontFly.com, government workers appear to be posting hateful messages on his anti-TSA blog under the guise of anonymity." - also posted at BLN  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/Obscene%2C-Threatening-Comments-Posted-at-Anti-TSA-We
bsite-Traced-to-Homeland-Security-Servers-/12084/0/32/32/Y/M.html 
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Media Hit Job of the Year: Punishing White House Correspondent Helen Thomas for Criticizing Israel
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22559 
AIPAC/Israeli Censorship Exposed! - A quote...."Our Media Experienced A Few Highs and Many Lows in 2010; None As Disgraceful As The Vitriol Against Helen Thomas -- In 1960, I co-founded a student magazine at Cornell University called Dialogue. I was a wannabe journalist, fixated on emulating the courageous media personalities of the times from Edward R. Murrow to a distinctive figure I came to admire at Presidential press conferences, a wire service reporter named Helen Thomas. -- In recent years, my faith in the power of dialogue in politics has been severely tested---as, no doubt has hers—in an age where diatribes and calculated demonization chills debate and exchanges of opposing views. -- Once you are labeled and stereotyped, especially if you are denounced as an anti-Semite, you are relegated to the fringes, pronounced a hater beyond redemption, even beyond explanation." 
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Pearl Harbor Treason? Special Two-Hour Debate on the KB Show  ---  http://noliesradio.org/archives/26277 
Audio - From the History File - December 7, 2010 - Some quotes...."First Hour: Thomas Kimmel has taken up the fight to clear the name of his grandfather, Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Fleet at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941." -- "2nd Hour: Webster Tarpley takes exception and defends FDR. “Adm. Kimmel was not the main villain – he was just a garden variety peacetime bungler." 
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US, Europe concealed organ trafficking by Kosovo Liberation Army  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/dec2010/koso-d29.shtml 
A quote...."The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has been implicated in war crimes involving torture and the illicit trade in human organs, including those removed from Serb civilians taken captive and killed during and after NATO’s 1999 war against Yugoslavia." 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m73373&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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The Piper Report Dec 29, 2010  ---  http://michaelcollinspiper.podbean.com/2010/12/23/the-piper-report-dec-29-2010/ 
Audio - A quote...."Alex Jones--Honest truth seeker or judas goat? Mike Piper debuts his new program asking the question all need to ask these days--'Who IS the enemy within?'" 
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Thugs in a pod: Corrupt and murderous Judeophile left-liberals in U.S. stick up for corrupt and murderous Jewish oligarchs in Russia
  ---  http://www.judeofascism.com/2010/12/thugs-in-pod-corrupt-and-murderous.html 
Must Read - A quote...."The US media is reporting critically on the conviction yesterday in Moscow of Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky on charges of embezzlement and money laundering. Khodorovsky had earlier been convicted of fraud and tax evasion in 2005 and has been in jail ever since. The conviction prompted commentary from no less than Hillary Clinton who said it “raises serious questions about selective prosecution” while the White House saw “…due process violations and what appears to be an abusive use of the legal system for improper ends.” -- First off, where does the Bush/Obama US get the right to criticize a trial in any country? Guantanamo, Patriot Act, Military Commissions, and state secrets privilege come to mind immediately. Obama and Clinton should be apologizing for what we do…" 
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The Khodorkovsky saga-Western Style Transparency Part 1  ---  http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2010/12/khodorkovsky-saga-western-style.html 
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."Yesterday I covered the Khodorkovsky saga, a little. But, this sordid tale is worthy of some extra information. -- So here it is -- First, if you didn't come away with the idea that Khodorkovsky is a front man for the Rothschild's banker clan, you really weren't paying attention to yesterday's post. Go back and re-read that post." 
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Western double standards: the cases of Khodorkovsky and Guantanamo  ---  http://www.redress.cc/global/yridley20101230 
Related Article - A quote...."Yvonne Ridley highlights Western hypocrisy and double standards in criticizing a Russian court for convicting tax dodger, money launderer and thief Mikhail Khodorkovsky, while harbouring or condoning the kidnap and illegal detention of Muslims in Guantanamo concentration camp."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27150.htm 
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Spoils of Oil: Mapping Khodorkovsky's Scheme  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/4/lbo_Vp6t6PE 
RTVideo - Related Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbo_Vp6t6PE  ---  (RTYuTb - 3min 13sec - December 29, 2010) - Source: RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Three days before New Year, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky is still waiting to find out just how many more he will spend behind bars. The former oil tycoon and once Russia's richest man still hasn't heard the sentence, he and his partner Platon Lebedev will serve after being found guilty of embezzlement. RT's Natalia Novikova is outside the court for us with the latest." 
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US war addiction needle hits on health & kids  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/8/POryoNXz_w0 
Must View RTVideo - Related Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POryoNXz_w0  ---  (RTYuTb - 3min 48sec - December 29, 2010) - Source: RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."The U.S. federal debt has hit its highest level in over sixty years. But while the public sector is certain to suffer major cuts, the military budget continues to get rubber stamp approval. RT's Jihan Hafiz finds out how necessary wars are for America or whether they are just an addiction." - For more on the M.I.C and its revolving doors, see the article shown below.... 
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Allan Nairn: As U.S. Loses Its Global Economic Edge, Its "One Clear Comparative Advantage is in Killing, and It’s Using It"
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/29/allan_nairn_as_us_loses_its 
A quote...."As 2010 draws to a close, what is the role of the United States in the world today? From the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the cuts to social programs here at home, where is there emerging hope for change around the world? We spend the hour with award-winning investigative journalist and activist Allan Nairn. "You vote for Democrat, you vote for Republican, you get the same thing on state murder, on preventable death. But we here have the right to rebel. We have to use it." [includes rush transcript] 
||  Real Video Stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2010/dec/video/dnB20101229a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=00:09:05 
||  Real Audio Stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2010/dec/audio/dn20101229.ra&proto=rtsp&start=00:09:05 
||  MP3 Download  ||  ---  http://traffic.libsyn.com/democracynow/dn2010-1229-1.mp3 
||  More…  ||  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/29/stream 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m73390&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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The Muslim Holocaust: The legacy of American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6739.shtml 
A quote...."American mass media have covered up the most important fact in the ongoing wars -- the number of people slaughtered. From the initial invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq major media have served as cheerleaders for the bloodshed, spreading the lies that led us to war. -- As an old combat vet still shocked by what I saw 45 years ago in Vietnam, where we slaughtered more millions in war based on lies, I decided to look into what is happening in the current wars, discovering that as many as 7 million innocents may have been slaughtered in Afghanistan and Iraq." 
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US drone attacks are no laughing matter, Mr Obama  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/28/us-drone-attacks-no-laughing-matter 
A quote...."Speaking at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in May, Barack Obama spotted teen pop band the Jonas Brothers in the audience. "Sasha and Malia are huge fans, but, boys, don't get any ideas," deadpanned the president, referring to his daughters. "Two words for you: predator drones. You will never see it coming." The crowd laughed, Obama smiled, the dinner continued. Few questioned the wisdom of making such a tasteless joke; of the US commander-in-chief showing such casual disregard for the countless lives lost abroad through US drone attacks."
also posted at -  Uruknet  ---  http://uruknet.com/?p=m73354&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  For more Amerikan presidential humor on this type of issue see these videos....George Bush Looks For WMD  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5662853583740403796# 
&  George W. Bush jokes about WMD  ---  http://www.depresident.com/george-w-bush-jokes-about-wmd/ 
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Rockets hit US Bagram base in Kabul  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157818.html 
A quote...."Militants have fired at least two rockets into Bagram Air Field in Kabul, the main US base in war-ravaged Afghanistan." 
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The US Government Can't Account For Billions Spent In Afghanistan
  ---  http://www.businessinsider.com/us-cant-account-for-billions-spent-in-afghanistan-2010-12 
A quote...."KANDAHAR CITY -- In its bid to win the hearts and minds of Afghanistan’s teeming population, the United States has spent more than $55 billion to rebuild and bolster the war-ravaged country." 
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Top 10 US lies about Afghanistan  ---  http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/157639.html 
A quote...."The notion that the United States is in Afghanistan to fight al-Qaeda is among many of the 'lies' fed to the public by American politicians through mainstream media, a prominent author says. -- Juan R. I. Cole, author and Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, has compiled a list enumerating ten of the big lies about the U.S.-led occupation of Afghanistan."  - also posted at WarInIraq 
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An Election Gone Wrong Fuels Tension in Kabul  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/world/asia/30pashtun.html?_r=1&ref=world 
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan — The inauguration of a new Parliament in just weeks threatens to worsen ethnic tensions and instability and to drive an important part of President Hamid Karzai’s political base into the arms of the insurgency, Afghans and foreign officials warn." 
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Pakistan deep in political turmoil  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157777.html 
A quote...."The Pakistani president faces political turmoil as he steps up efforts to prevent his ruling coalition from collapse after two major allies left the government." 
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'Sanctions against Iran are ridiculous'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157754.html 
Video Interview - Alt - A quote...."While Americans grow more disheartened with the US economy, the Republican and Democratic parties follow what's best for Israel in foreign affairs." 
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Ahmadinejad: Iran is now a nuclear state  ---  http://presstv.com/detail/157537.html 
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has downplayed sanction resolutions against the Islamic Republic, saying Iran has now become a nuclear country." 
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Another Iraqi N. Scientist Assassinated by Mossad  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8910081133 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq's young nuclear scientist, Mohammad al-Fouz, was gunned down in the country's capital city of Baghdad by Israeli spy agency (Mossad). -- Fouz, a genius university student, had discovered a new formula for producing peaceful nuclear energy and had been awarded by several international scientific festivals. -- He had released his new uranium enrichment formula in a number of western journals. -- A member of Fouz's family told FNA reporter in Baghdad that the young scientist was targeted by unknown gunmen in New Baghdad neighborhood when he was on his way back home." 
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Iranian DM Warns Int'l Community about Fate of Abducted Ex-Official  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8910081646 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said that the recent media report on the death of former Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Ali Reza Asgari in Israeli prisons is yet another case testing the international community's reaction to the wild crimes committed by the Israeli regime." 
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Iranian Legislators Discuss Case of Kidnapped Ex-Official  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8910081640 
Related Article - A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Members of the Iranian parliament's Human Rights Commission on Wednesday studied the latest reports and information on the fate of the former Iranian deputy defense minister, Ali-Reza Asgari, who was kidnapped by Israeli Mossad and other western spy agencies in late 2006." 
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No US troops in Iraq after 2011 - Maliki   ---  http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/12/29/38164871.html  ---  Define "troops", define "no", and define "US"....mpg
Full quote...."Not a single US soldier will remain in Iraq after 2011, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said on Tuesday. -- “The last American soldier will leave the country in keeping with an earlier reached agreement,” al-Maliki said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. The new government has all it needs to respond to any security threat that might arise down the road, the PM emphasized. -- Russia believes that the US troop withdrawal will help normalize the situation in the region." - also posted at SCF  ---  http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/12/29/no-us-troops-in-iraq-after-2011-maliki.html 
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Police open fire as protests spread in Tunisia  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/dec2010/tuni-d30.shtml 
A quote...."Demonstrators demanding jobs clashed with security forces as protests spread across Tunisia. A social eruption on such a scale is virtually unprecedented in this highly repressive and tightly controlled North African country." 
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Russian missile maker to build two plants, expand exports  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20101229/161984184.html 
A quote...."Russia's Almaz-Antei conglomerate will receive a government loan to build two new production facilities to expand the export of missile defense systems, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Wednesday. -- The conglomerate's core products are the S-300 and S-400 missile defense systems, most of which are procured by the Russian military, he said, adding that exports were limited." 
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Police kill militant, defuse bombs in Dagestan  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20101230/161992562.html 
A quote...."Police have defused three bombs after killing a militant in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a spokesman said on Thursday." 
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Hungary's tough new laws worry other EU countries
  ---  http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_HUNGARY_POWER_POLITICS?SITE=DCSAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT 
A quote...."BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- For decades Hungary was one of Eastern Europe's most democratic nations, leading former Soviet countries in adopting the political and economic norms of the free world." 
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Military tensions remain high on Korean peninsula  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/dec2010/kore-d30.shtml  
A quote...."With strong backing from Washington, the South Korean government is continuing a series of provocative military drills that threaten to lead to conflict with North Korea. Following live-fire exercises last week in Yeonpyeong and in Pocheon, the South Korean military began another five-day naval live-fire drill in 23 locations on Monday." 
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Gbago camp claims US coup plot in Ivory Coast  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C12%5C30%5Cstory_30-12-2010_pg4_5 
A quote...."LONDON: Ivory Coast interior minister Emile Guirieoulou alleged in a press conference that US nationals were involved in a plot to overthrow Laurent Gbagbo. Gbagbo’s interior minister, Emile Guirieoulou, alleged that 10 Americans who flew in, purportedly to investigate grenade damage to the US embassy, were involved in a plot to overthrow the embattled leader, reported the guardian newspaper." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/240263 
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US Drones [Going] To Honduras AA.FF.  ---  http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2010/december/28/centralamerica10122802.htm 
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA - Honduras Air Force will fly drones similar to those the US has used at the war in Afghanistan which are fitted with cameras and landscape censors. -- Soto Cano base (Palmerola), also home to 600 US soldiers, will fly the unmanned plane which The Herald claims will be used in anti-drug and natural disaster operations." 
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Chavez Says He's Ready for U.S. to Expel Venezuela Ambassador, Break Ties
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-29/chavez-says-he-s-ready-for-u-s-to-expel-venezuelan-ambassador-break-ties.html  
A quote...."President Hugo Chavez said he’s ready for the U.S. to expel his ambassador and break off diplomatic ties in retaliation for Venezuela’s five-month refusal to welcome the Obama administration’s choice to be its next envoy to Caracas." 
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Evo Morales is Determined to Serve the People  ---  http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=250852&Itemid=1 
A quote...."south-america-bolivia-evo-morales29 de diciembre de 2010, 10:39La Paz, Dec 28 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Evo Morales reaffirmed his determination to continue following the course set by the people who elected him, "to serve the country and not to benefit from power, or to serve other interests," he said." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Jihad: Arab impotence, international collusion encourages Israeli aggression
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s78r%2bdLteYzd4L7wwI3%2fC
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A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- The Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine has said that the Gaza Strip was under "aggression by installment" on the part of the Israeli occupation forces. -- Jihad leader Sheikh Khader Habib told Al-Alam satellite channel on Wednesday night that if the "Zionist enemy" goes too far in its daily attacks and crimes then the resistance will take appropriate decisions." 
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Israeli army: leave Khirbet Tana or else  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1654 
A quote...."Last week, the Israeli army ordered the inhabitants of a small shepherd village near Nablus to vacate the premises because their homes were to be demolished. The village was destroyed, but Khirbet Tana’s men are still there, every day welcoming PA officials and NGO and international organisations’ workers coming to assess the rebuilding costs. They sleep in the mosque - the only structure that was left standing - and in makeshift tents, leaving their fate, in their own words, ‟in the hands of God.” 
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Israeli Courts Used As Instruments of Political Coercion  ---  http://www.kadaitcha.com/2010/12/30/israeli-courts-instruments-of-political-coercion/ 
A quote...."Two recent ‘show trials’ provide clear evidence that the course of justice is being perverted in Israel, with coercion applied purposefully to intimidate those who challenge zionist brutality, land theft and ethnic cleansing." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m73391&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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About 90 percent of Palestinian prisoners deprived of meeting with lawyers
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s73%2brOlVU8s4Y
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This is what the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium, and their lackeys in Congress, want to do to this country, and they're well on their way to succeeding. - mpg -- A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- A study issued by the Israeli public committee against torture and the Palestinian prisoner society revealed that the Shin Bet security apparatus prevents 70 to 90 percent of Palestinian detainees from having access to an attorney." - bold by website editor 
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The Ugly Truth Podcast Dec 29, 2010  ---  http://theuglytruth.podbean.com/2010/12/29/the-ugly-truth-podcast-dec-29-2010/ 
Audio - A quote...."Freedom of speech? NOT IN SEATTLE AND NOT WHEN IT COMES TO ISRAEL. We are joined by pro-Palestinian rights activist Edward Mast of http://stop30billion-seattle.org  ---  http://stop30billion-seattle.org  ---  and the recent censorship campaign waged by you-know-who against his group in wanting to let the people of Seattle know that their tax money is going to support Israel and her racist, apartheid system against the Palestinians." 
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Israel Hardens Repression as Palestinian Recognition Increases  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/12/israel-hardens-repression-as.html 
A quote...."On December 24, Ecuador became the fifth Latin American country to recognize "the Palestine state as free and independent within its borders since 1967." An accompanying statement said:  "Sadly, the Middle East continues to face wars and violent events that have led to the death of many innocent people, a situation contrary to the humane and pacifist position established by the Ecuadorian Constitution. This recognition is meant to reinforce the valid and legitimate wish of the Palestin(ian) people to have their own free and independent state." Having it is "fundamental to achieve the peaceful co-existence of the nations in the region through dialogue and mediation." 
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Witnesses: Settlers [Jewish squatters] torch tent in Hebron village  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=346515 
A quote...."HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Settlers [Jewish squatters] attacked a Palestinian village in the south Hebron hills overnight on Tuesday setting fire to a tent, local peace groups reported. -- Residents of the illegal Suseya settlement [squatter town] threw flaming bottles at a tent in Susiya village, witnesses told Christian Peacemaker Teams and Operation Dove, who maintain a presence in the area." 
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Israelis replace parts of Jerusalem Old City walls with Jewish symbols
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s740h4qM6m4u9bsllo7UQQ5H
A74lp7hd1wciaAQq0W0aDQTQhqrdIGQuOYQXHjM0Ykgda9Lc9J7JQ6uk%2b7Pkw%2bKr9DpGOb15ZakdyounF5bog%3d 
Just think of when the Taliban blew up that Buddha, now if they'd replaced the Buddha with Saudi Royal Wahhabist inspired script, and said they were "restoring" the Buddha's shrine when they did so....they'd be just as smart as the Israelis. - mpg -- A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israel in an alleged project to restore and maintain Jerusalem's city walls has replaced some of the structure's original features with stones marked with Jewish biblical symbols, one of them depicting the alleged temple, and another a six-pointed star, the Aqsa heritage foundation in Jerusalem said in a press release Wednesday." 
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Brief Report on: On-going Displacement: Gaza’s Displaced Two Years after the War, Gaza December 27th 2010
  ---  http://www.mezan.org/en/details.php?id=11208&ddname=castlead2&id_dept=22&id2=9&p=center 
A quote...."Two years after Israel’s aggression on the Gaza Strip (Operation Cast Lead), tens of thousands of Gaza residents continue to live a life of displacement. While the United Nations (UN) agencies and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have had the willingness and resources to support the re-construction of the houses Israel destroyed during the war, Israel continues to restrict the entry of construction materials, denying the victims from meaningful relief and from their right to adequate housing." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m73393&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Gaza farmers pack strawberries and hope for export  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11694.shtml 
 posted at ElectronicIntifada  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2162.shtml 
A quote...."On a Wednesday afternoon, farmers bearing cartons of strawberries lined up in front of the office of a local agricultural organization in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya." 
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Ruling Kleptocracy: $1 earned = $10 debt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/3/GtaG9l-huVw 
MKVideo Trailer - Alt  ---  (MKRTYuTb - 1min 26sec - December 29, 2010) - Source: RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. Watch full episode 108 of Keiser Report on Thursday." 
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In Money-Changers We Trust  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/in_money-changers_we_trust_20101228/ 
A quote...."Two years into the Obama presidency and the economic data is still looking grim. Don’t be fooled by the gyrations of the stock market, where optimism is mostly a reflection of the ability of financial corporations—thanks to massive government largesse—to survive the mess they created. The basics are dismal: Unemployment is unacceptably high, the December consumer confidence index is down and housing prices have fallen for four months in a row. The number of Americans living in poverty has never been higher, and a majority in a Washington Post poll said they were worried about making their next mortgage or rent payment." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m73388&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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New York suit charges Lehman auditor Ernst & Young with collusion in fraud  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22508 
A quote...."New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a civil suit Tuesday in the state’s Supreme Court charging the giant accounting firm Ernst & Young with complicity in massive fraud committed by Lehman Brothers in the months leading up to the investment bank’s September 2008 collapse." 
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ROBERT SHILLER: If House Prices Keep Falling This Fast, The Economy Is Screwed
  ---  http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-shiller-if-house-prices-keep-falling-this-fast-the-economy-is-screwed-2010-12 
A quote...."Housing guru Robert Shiller says the decline in October's Case-Shiller house-price index was much worse than expected (over 10% annualized). -- He also says that if house prices keep falling this fast, the economy will face "serious reasons to worry" (which, for Professor Shiller, is an apocalyptic statement). -- 6 of the 20 cities in the index have now hit new lows, below the lows reached in 2009 before the "recovery" in house prices.  In several cities, prices are back to where they were 10 yeas ago." 
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'US middle class to get poor in 5 years'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157817.html  
A quote...."The entire middle class Americans will fall under the poverty line in five years, as the gap between the rich and the poor is widening in the United States, says an investigative journalist." 
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In Last 2010 POMO, Fed Buys Back $2.4 Billion Of Just Auctioned Off 2 Year Bond, $5.4 Billion In Total
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/last-2010-pomo-fed-buys-back-24-billion-just-auctioned-2-year-bond-54-billion-total 
A quote...."And like that, Brian Sack's market manipulation for 2010 is over. Then again, with practically no trading days left, and no volume to speak of, it was to be expected. Of today's $5.4 billion POMO, which brings the Fed's Treasury holdings ever higher in the trillion club, $2.4 billion went to buy back the PV6 which were auctioned off barely a month ago. This means that 15% of the Primary Dealer allottment of that particular auction ($16.4 billion) has already been sold back to the Fed at a decent profit. And so the shell game continues." 
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Fed Can’t Prop Up Stock Market Forever  ---  http://usawatchdog.com/fed-can%E2%80%99t-prop-up-stock-market-forever/?
utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+UsaWatchdog+%28Greg+Hunter%E2%80%99s+USAWatchdog%29 
Oh yes they can!!  What they can't do is prop up the stock market, bond market AND the USD at the same time. - mpg -- A quote...."Pumping money into the stock market to get stocks to go up is not the same as hiring people and making products so share prices grow.  With the stubbornly high unemployment rate of 9.8% (or more than 22% according to Shadowstats.com),  ---  http://usawatchdog.com/fed-can%E2%80%99t-prop-up-stock-market-forever/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+UsaWatchdog+%28Greg+Hunter%E2%80%99s+USAWatchdog%29  ---  this is just one of the dismal facts of this economy.   Other gloomy indicators are the million plus foreclosures this year and next.  The auto industry just had its fourth month of decline in new orders.  The FDIC has shut down 157 banks so far this year, and all the banks look solvent only because of rule changes that amount to government sanctioned accounting fraud.  You cannot have the banks, housing and auto sales all tanking at the same time and expect the party to last." 
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2010 worst year for bank failures since 1992  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/28/AR2010122803649.html 
A quote...."More banks failed in the United States this year than in any year since 1992, during the savings-and-loan crisis, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp." 
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NYSE November Margin Debt Rises To Fresh Post-Lehman High
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/nyse-november-margin-debt-rises-fresh-post-lehman-high 
Mrkt Tech Note - A quote...."After we recently disclosed that surging NYSE margin debt is the latest indication of record euphoria (which presumably was sufficiently interesting that it made Alan Abelson's latest column), after it hit a post-Lehman high of $269 billion, we are happy to announce that as we expected, November margin credit grew by another $5 billion to $274 billion, which implies that investors continue to purchase stocks increasingly on margin, i.e., on credit, which is fantastic when stocks levitate, but leads to a circular sell off when sell offs generate collateral calls, forcing more sell offs, etc. And looking at net cash, it was flat M/M at ($34) billion meaning that there was no incremental real cash going into cash accounts, and the entire November outperformance was achieved as net cash remained flat...." - Another indication of a near-term market top. - mpg - For more on that issue see related article shown below.... 
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2011: A Brave New Dystopia
Must Read - A quote...."The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right. Would we be, as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive surveillance and security state that used crude and violent forms of control? Or would we be, as Huxley envisioned, entranced by entertainment and spectacle, captivated by technology and seduced by profligate consumption to embrace our own oppression? It turns out Orwell and Huxley were both right. Huxley saw the first stage of our enslavement. Orwell saw the second." - also posted at DProgram

America in Decline: Why Germans Think We're Insane - posted at Alternet
Must Read - A quote...."The European Union has a larger economy and more people than America does. Though it spends less -- right around 9 percent of GNP on medical, whereas we in the U.S. spend close to between 15 to 16 percent of GNP on medical -- the EU pretty much insures 100 percent of its population."

Written on the Body: The Progressive Torture of Bradley Manning
Must Read - A quote...."Tonight, in the tenth year of the 21st century, the government of the United States is torturing a young man -- one of its own soldiers -- whom it has incarcerated but not indicted. He has been held in solitary confinement for months on end, subjected to techniques of sleep deprivation taken from the Soviet gulag, denied almost all human contact except from interrogators, constantly harassed by guards to whom he must answer every few minutes -- all in an attempt to break his mind, destroy his will, degrade his humanity and force him to "confess" to a broader "conspiracy" against state power."
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What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – December 27th, 2010
Must Listen Video - Alt - (JustInTV - 2hrs - December 27th, 2010) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV  - Michael Rivero eviscerates the carbonistas and warm-ongers, trashes the Banksters and hammers away at the Middle East's Mini-Nazis (Israelis). - mpg

Freefall and Building 7 on 9/11
A quote...."Galileo was the first to describe the amazing fact that, apart from air resistance, all objects fall at the same “rate.” If you have not experienced this fact directly, try dropping a large rock and a pebble side-by- side. The rate we are referring to is not a “speed,” because for a falling object the speed is constantly changing. The rate we are talking about is actually the “rate of increase of speed,” how quickly the speed builds up, called acceleration. The acceleration achieved by all falling bodies, apart from air resistance, is called the “acceleration of gravity.” - Source: NorCalTruth.org

A Plane Hit the Pentagon, baby steps for the parrots of loose change etc
Video - Alt - December 21, 2010) - Source:  Rys2sense -- A quote...."Dear retards, go argue about it here if you like, I'm not getting into comment wars with the mob. this is where you can take it http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons... -- All these people with their theories. It's commonsense. The plan was to blame al Qaeda for [the] hijacked airliners and crashing them into buildings.  The purpose of hitting that part of the Pentagon was to destroy financial records. Thus they crashed a PLANE into that part of the building. There is no reason at all to pretend to crash a plane and secretly land it somewhere else and fire a missile instead. -- There were parts of the plane found and bodies were identified by DNA. The building's columns [were] all bent [in] the same direction. This is not a difficult issue. They rammed a [expletive deleted] plane into the building same as WTC 1 and 2...." - Website Editor's Note: The author is a bit disparaging of many 9/11 skeptics, perhaps a bit too much, however, as pointed out by many website editors, including this one.....


TSA News 12-28-10
More on the TSA's goon squads. - mpg

US police fatalities rise %37 in 2010
Millions of mercenaries and vets without mercy or pity or a shred of moral decency who have done things in the Middle East that would make a billy goat puke coming back here to do "business" in the US-NRE. Along with tens of thousands of cops (many of whom are former mercenaries and vets themselves) who get their jollys tasering children or the elderly or beating up people in wheel chairs or shooting students in the back. Both groups are begining to meet each other on the streets in the "course of their business" with the expected results. Or as Shakespeare once said...."a plague on both your houses".

Obama Year Two: Continued Betrayal and Failure (Part II)
One HECK of a long list.....mpg - A quote...."

• Lessons from the Gulf
• Targeted Assassinations
• Targeting Net Neutrality and Privacy
• High Court Injustice
• Targeting Whisleblowers, Endangering Truth
• Political Prisoners in America....and more....

With Indefinite Detention and Transfer Bans, Obama and the Senate Plumb New Depths on Guantánamo
A quote...."With just two weeks to go before the ninth anniversary of the opening of the "War on Terror" prison at Guantánamo, almost everyone in a position of authority in the US has failed to resolve, in a satisfactory manner, the bitter legacy left by the Bush administration. In fact, to judge by two recent developments, anything resembling progress on Guantánamo is now at its lowest ebb since June 27, 2004, the day before the Supreme Court granted the prisoners habeas corpus rights, shattering the secrecy required to sustain Guantánamo as a prison beyond the law, where coercive interrogations, torture and human experimentation could all take place."

US refuses cooperation with Poland’s CIA ‘black site’ probe
A quote...."The U.S. Department of Justice has rejected a request from prosecutors in Warsaw for assistance in the investigation into the alleged CIA prisons in Poland, where captives claim they were tortured."

Doctors insist on inquest into Kelly's death
A quote...."A group of doctors calling for an inquest into the death of government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly today said they believed they had presented Attorney General Dominic Grieve with an "unanswerable" case. -- Mr Grieve has been considering the doctors' case - set out in a petition known as a "memorial" - since September and is expected to announce early in 2011 whether he will ask the High Court to order an inquest."

David Rovics - The Next Attack [is coming.....]
Music Video - (found on Rys2Sense) - (YuTb - 2min - January 14, 2009)  - Source:  Bigglers789 - Producer:  DavidRovics - PlayList:  YuTb - A quote...."David Rovics plays his song "The Next Attack" to a time lapsed video of a sunset and graffiti artist."
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More on the Wikileaks Cointelpro Fiasco....

Who is Behind Wikileaks?
Must Read - A quote...."What this examination of the Wikileaks project also suggests is that the mechanics of New World Order propaganda, particularly with regard to its military agenda, has become increasingly sophisticated. -- It no longer relies on the outright suppression of the facts regarding US-NATO war crimes. Nor does it require that the reputation of government officials at the highest levels, including the Secretary of State, be protected. New World Order politicians are in a sense "disposable". They can be replaced. What must be protected and sustained are the interests of the economic elites, which control the political apparatus from behind the scenes. -- In the case of Wikileaks, the facts are contained in a data bank; many of those facts, particularly those pertaining to foreign governments serve US foreign policy interests. Other facts tend, on the other hand to discredit the US administration. With regard to financial information, the release of data pertaining to a particular bank instigated via Wikileaks by a rival financial institution, could potentially be used to trigger the collapse or bankrutpcy of the targeted financial institution. -- All the Wiki-facts are selectively redacted, they are then "analyzed" and interpreted by a media which serves the economic elites."

Wikileaks:  It's Impact on World Media
A quote...."(WMR) - The selective release of around a quarter million US State Department cables, some of them redacted after screening by corporate media entities such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde, among others, comes at a time when there are calls by governments, including officials of the Obama administration, to restrict information content on the Internet. - In fact, the release of the State Department cables may have served as a digital “9/11,” an event that has spurred on the agenda of neo-conservatives who continue to exercise influence outside and within the Obama administration to bring about total government control of the flow of information in cyberspace." - Source:  OpinionMaker

For more regarding the articles shown above see....No Subtlety Whatsoever - 12-01-10 - mpg
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Iran to launch 'reconnaissance' satellite
A quote...."Tehran (AFP) Dec 25, 2010 - Iran will launch a reconnaissance satellite dubbed the "Fajr" in the next few months, Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said in a report Saturday by the official IRNA news agency." - also posted at WarInIraq

Egypt's a failed state: ElBaradei
A quote...."Major Egyptian opposition leader and former UN nuclear regulatory chief Mohamed ElBaradei had undermined the country's ruling system as a 'failed state.' "

'China constructing first aircraft carrier'
A quote...."China is reportedly building game-changing aircraft carriers that can pave the way for ending the dominance of the United States at sea, reports say."

Khodorkovsky, Lebedev 'lied' to shareholders
A quote...."Jailed ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky "lied" to the shareholders of his oil firm Yukos, a judge said on Wednesday, two days after a Moscow court found him guilty of embezzlement in a politically tinged trial."

Ex-tycoon Khodorkovsky found guilty in second trial
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 7min 24sec - December 27, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been found guilty of stealing oil and laundering the proceeds. It's among the verdicts being delivered during his second trial in Moscow. The former head of the oil giant Yukos is already in prison for tax evasion and fraud."

Two community radio reporters to be tried for “disobeying the authorities”
Press Intimidation Alert - A quote...."Reporters Without Borders condemns a decision by a judge in the southern town of Amapala to try community radio reporters Elia Xiomara Hernández and Elba Yolibeth Rubio on charges of disobeying the authorities and “taking part in demonstrations that obstruct public services.” The trial is to take place on 11 January."

Iranian general killed in Israeli jail?
A quote...."There have been “new and astonishing developments in the case of Prisoner X," writes Richard Silverstein on the Eurasia Review website, claiming that a source within the “inner circle” of Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has identified the prisoner as the Iranian general. -- According to Silverstein, Asgari may have been murdered, and not committed suicide as reports of the prisoner's mysterious death suggested."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Palestinian Factions In Gaza Hold A Meeting To Discuss Israeli Threats
A quote...."Palestinian factions in Gaza, except for Fateh, held a meeting on Sunday calling on Arab and international institutions to pressure Israel into halting its violations and escalations against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip."

Israeli Activist Jonathan Pollak Sentenced to 3 Months in Prison; Tells Judge “I’ll Go to prison With my Head Held High” - A quote...."Pollak was sentenced to three months imprisonment this morning at the Tel Aviv Magistrates’ Court for his participation in a 2008 bicycle in protest of the siege on Gaza. He will begin serving his sentence on Januray 11th."

Israel blocks essential medical supplies for Gaza hospitals
A quote...."Israel blocks essential medical supplies for Gaza hospitalsGAZA (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Gaza Health Ministry's maintenance and engineering authority warned of the dangers of Israel's block of chemicals used in the oxygen station at the maternity ward of Shifa hospital and spare parts for CT at the European Hospital in Khan Younis from being delivered to the ministry's institutions." - also posted at WarInIraq

Israeli army raids Hebron, erects military checkpoints
A quote...."Hebron, (Pal Telegraph) – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) erected Tuesday military checkpoints in Hebron city, in the West Bank and raided number of neighborhoods. -- Security sources said to SAFA news agency that IOF raided Al-Zahria, Ezna and Yata towns."

Israeli Settlers Set Fire to Agricultural Lands and Attack Farmers Near Nablus
A quote...."    On Monday, dozens of Israeli settlers torched agricultural lands and attacked Palestinian farmers near Madame village, south of Nablus." - also posted at Uruknet

End International Complicity, Intensify BDS
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel!  Because no state should EVER be allowed to be this arrogantly murderous AGAIN!! - A quote...."On the morning of 27 December 2008 Israeli forces initiated a 23-day military offensive against the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip killing more than 1400 and injuring over 5000 Palestinians, predominantly civilians and refugees since 1948. Two years have passed and those responsible for the atrocities committed have not yet been held accountable. The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) calls on conscientious people and organizations around the world to step up efforts to end Israel’s long record of impunity through boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) until international law and Palestinian rights are upheld." - 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, Divestment and Sanctions 2010: More powerful than the sword
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel!  Because all they care about is their money!! - mpg - A quote...."It was two years ago today, 27 December, that Israel launched its invasion of Gaza, carrying out 22 days of murder and mayhem, killing 1,400 and leaving 5,400 civilians crippled for life. Since then it has continued to besiege the 1.5 million Gazans, causing hundreds more unnecessary deaths. Its actions were deemed war crimes by the UN Goldstone Report. -- Israel remains unpunished, hiding behind the skirts of its US lobbyists, who put unremitting pressure on every single congressman, senator and the president to prevent any condemnation of its crimes." - 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.
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Keiser Report: Bank of America Sucks & Blows (E107)
MKVideo - Alt - (MKRTYuTb - 26min 46sec - December 28, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV - A quote...."This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss whether BrianMoynihanSucks.com or BrianMoynihanBlows.Com as Bank of America breaks into womans home and steals her dead husbands ashes. In the second half of the show, Max talks to journalist and author, Afshin Rattansi about a Brave New World in which airports fail to cope with an inch of snow and cabinet ministers dance like C-list celebrities on popular television shows."

Gerald Celente's Top Trends Of 2011
A quote...."KINGSTON, NY, 28 December 2010 - After the tumultuous years of the Great Recession, a battered people may wish that 2011 will bring a return to kinder, gentler times. But that is not what we are predicting: "

U.S. house prices tumble in October - Prices in six cities move to lowest levels since housing bust
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Home prices tumbled in October, according to data released Tuesday, with six cities setting new lows as the housing market remains divorced from the upturn seen in other parts of the U.S. economy."

Nearly 100 bailed-out banks may collapse all the same: analysis
A quote...."The $700-billion bank bailout, launched in the final months of the Bush administration, was meant to save US financial institutions from a systemic collapse. But an analysis of banks' earnings statements concludes that nearly 100 bailed-out banks are at risk of collapsing all the same."

2011: The Year Cities Go Bust?
Contains Video - A quote...."More than 100 American cities could go bust next year as the debt crisis that has taken down banks and countries threatens next to spark a municipal meltdown, a leading analyst has warned."

Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million
A quote...."Less than a year ago, Francis Campos-Dunn was still working at a county hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area, helping patients navigate the often-maddening bureaucracy required to draw on their health insurance. These days, she has a new set of problems to navigate: how to manage her own care without any insurance of her own, having slipped into an unfortunate but fast-growing slice of the population--Americans who have lost their jobs and now lack health coverage."

Baby Boomers' Retirements in Jeopardy
Yeah, but all those wars and torture videos are so COOL, ain't that right Amerika? - mpg -- A quote...."(CHICAGO) — Through a combination of procrastination and bad timing, many baby boomers are facing a personal finance disaster just as they're hoping to retire. Starting in January, more than 10,000 baby boomers a day will turn 65, a pattern that will continue for the next 19 years."

Ron Paul Advocates Demolition of Social Security
Related Article - A quote...."Let’s get this straight; Ron Paul is nothing more than a kinder/gentler face for the Chicago School neoliberalization program supported by the neocons on one side and the Clitonista/Obama New Dems on the other."

Treasuries Drop as Five-Year Note Sale Attracts Lowest Demand Since June
A quote...."Treasuries tumbled, pushing benchmark 10-year note yields up the most in two weeks, after the $35 billion sale of five-year securities attracted the lowest demand since June. -- U.S. debt due in more than a year was headed for the biggest monthly loss in the global government bond market as primary dealers ended up with their biggest share of an auction of the five-year maturity since July 2009. The two-year note yield increased to the highest level in six months."

Another Hole In The Bond Bubble As 30 Year Gets Reacquainted With Gravity
A quote...."Following today's ugly 5 Year auction, and hot on the heels of the 180 degree EUR reversal from this morning, coupled with the renewed surge in gold and silver, the entire bond complex is again in free fall."

NYSE Short Interest Drops To Lowest In 2010
Mrkt Tech Note - A quote...."According to the just released NYSE short interest update, the number of shares short on the NYSE group has just dropped to 2010 lows, after dropping by over 1 billion since the August highs. This has occurred pretty much in linear fashion: in the last 4 months, there has been just one two week period in which the shorts have increased." - This is an indicator of a near-term market top. - mpg
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Update: Farm Animals Get 80 Percent of Antibiotics Sold in U.S.
A quote...."Two weeks ago, I broke the news of a new FDA report that estimated for the first time the amount of antibiotics sold in the United States every year for use in agriculture: 28.8 million pounds. -- That long-awaited report didn’t answer a crucial question: What volume of antibiotics are sold in the United States each year for human use. It’s a crucial question because, in answer to concerns about antibiotic resistance arising on farms, the answer has always been that human medicine is equally culpable because it uses similar volumes of antibiotics." - also posted at DProgram

Monday December 27th 2010 - links page

No posts. - mpg

Friendly  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/friendly/ 
Must View Videos - Friendly  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-34Iyz7EYk  ---  (YuTb - 1min 28sec - October 13, 2010) - Source/Producer:  markfiore  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/markfiore  ---  A quote...."http://www.MarkFiore.com  ---  http://www.MarkFiore.com  ---  Snuggly the Security Bear is back! This time he's updating you on Internet privacy and other civil liberty fun. See what happens when you're perfectly safe and secure! A Mark Fiore political animation." 
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Snuggly the Security Bear: Wiretapping is about love!  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/friendly/ 
Must View Videos - Snuggly  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buNFLxo-UqE  ---  (YuTb - 1min 31sec - October 21, 2010) - Source:  TheRedacted  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRedacted  ---  Producer:  markfiore  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/markfiore  ---  A quote...."Snuggly the Security Bear is back! This time he's updating you on Internet privacy and other civil liberty fun. See what happens when you're perfectly safe and secure! A Mark Fiore political animation." 
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Murphy: ‘The FBI raids and subpoenas . . . [are] best understood as backlash aimed at silencing our successful movement'  
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/12/murphy-the-fbi-raids-and-subpoenas-are-best-understood-as-backlash-aimed-at-silencing-our-successful-movement.html 
A quote...."The following is a statement given by Maureen Murphy at a press conference on Thursday, December 23 about the government's ongoing intimidation  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2010/11/u-s-justice-department-prepares-for-the-ominous-expansion-of-law-prohibiting-material-support-for-terrorism.html  ---  of anti-war and solidarity activism  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2010/12/let-the-government-know-what-you-think-about-the-criminalization-of-peace-activism.html  ---  in the Midwest. Murphy is one of several activists with the Palestine Solidarity Group  ---  http://psgchicago.org/  ---  who have been subpoenaed, and one of several individuals across the city of Chicago and the Twin Cities who are being targeted for Palestine solidarity activism. For more information, and to get involved, see http://www.stopfbi.net/."
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/%E2%80%98the-fbi-raids-and-subpoenas-are-best-understood-
as-backlash-aimed-at-silencing-our-successful-movement%E2%80%99/ 
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Obama's Liberty Problem: Why Indefinite Detention by Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People  ---  http://www.alternet.org/story/149314
/obama%27s_liberty_problem%3A_why_indefinite_detention_by_executive_order_should_scare_the_hell_out_of_people 
A quote...."President Obama proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order is an extremely dangerous end run around Congress and the Judiciary." - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2010/12/obamas-executive-order-should-scare.html 
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'Obama's Gitmo plan unconstitutional'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/156905.html 
Contains Video - A quote...."US President Barack Obama's executive order allowing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to be held indefinitely is unconstitutional, says a US political analyst." - Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909 
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'US Gestapo polices websites'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157347.html 
Web Censorship Alert - A quote...."The US Homeland Security Department's customs enforcement division has gone on a website shutdown spree, closing down at least 76 domains in the past couple of weeks."
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Surveillance Society: Negative Aspects of Government Data Mining  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/rounds/rounds11.1.html 
With tips on how to protect yourself. - mpg -- A quote...."We already know that the government and private entities collect a vast amount of personal data about our everyday activities. Previously I commented about the dangers and intrusion of private entities maintaining transactional databases and having access to this wealth of personal information. It is also dangerous and intrusive for government entities to have access to this information without meeting the requirements for a search warrant. Critical to understanding why it is dangerous for governments to have this information is knowing how it is collected and what they are doing with it." 
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Galloway prevented from entering US  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157221.html 
Censorship Alert - A quote...."Ex-British Member of Parliament, George Galloway, has been denied a visa to enter the US to speak to the MLFA members and some non-Muslims in Kenner, Louisiana over human rights."
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'Bin Laden possibly dead; US silent'  ---  http://presstv.ir/detail/157032.html 
A quote...."A former White House spokesman has lashed out at the US government for using 'Osama bin Laden' as a pretext to continue its occupation of Afghanistan. -- "Since 2004, we have seen no new bin Laden videos," [and most, if not all of those videos were fake -mpg] wrote ex-spokesman Robert Weiner and James Lewis, a US national security analyst at Robert Weiner Associates, suggesting bin Laden may be dead. -- "We've only heard audios. One video released in 2007 could be a compilation of older videos. So why does the intelligence community continue to support the impression that he's alive?" read the article published in The Washington Times last Thursday." - Topix ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Osama bin long gone Laden  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#OSAMABINGONE  ---  See also article shown below....
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DEUTSCH-Niels Harrit-Chemiker  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHMhAyJp57w 
Video - (YuTb - 8min 56sec - December 26, 2010) - Source:  ae911truth  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ae911truth  ---  Regarding explosives and nano-thermite. With Dutch sub-titles.  For Italian sub-titles click here - NHinItailian
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/12/27/architects-and-engineers-for-911-truth-interview-professor-niels-harrit/ 
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9/11 TRUTH: Kevin Ryan Exposes Access for Demolition Crews to WTC Buildings  ---  http://www.wearechange.org/?p=5306 
Must Listen Video - Alt  ---  (YuTb - December 26, 2010) - Source:  Federaljacktube4 -- A quote...."9 years after the attacks we are finally zeroing in on the people responsible. Kevin Ryan has been kicking ass and taking names, while the pseudo-savior Julian Assange censors cables dealing with Israel and calls 9/11 Truthers "annoying". Assange staked the reputation of Wikileaks on the public never learning about Building 7. So ask yourself: Who would want to silence the biggest controversy in history? Why is Julian Assange doing this? Who is he?" - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||
   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html 
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9/11/01: Crime Scene Evidence Removal – Dump Truck Slideshow  ---  http://www.wearechange.org/?p=5254 
Video Slide Show - Alt  ---  (YuTb - December 23, 2010) - Source:  Federaljacktube4  ---  A quote...."(NIST FOIA #22)" 
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From the Pentagon to the private sector  ---  http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/12/26/defense_firms_lure_retired_generals/?page=full 
Special Note - Chart - [click here]  ---  http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Third_Party_Graphic/2010/12/26/26generals_pageA22__129334 
7034_9971.gif  ---  Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://bcove.me/ntiuhkkv  ---  A quote...."WASHINGTON — An hour after the official ceremony marking the end of his 35-year career in the Air Force, General Gregory “Speedy’’ Martin returned to his quarters to swap his dress uniform for golf attire. He was ready for his first tee time as a retired four-star general." - It also causes these generals to spew out self-aggrandizing propaganda. - mpg - also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/26  ---  For more on that issue see....The NYT Article -- Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/nytarticlethehiddenhand-weblist-mpg-042008 
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Cineaste begins The 9/11 Black Box  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157158.html 
A quote...."An Iranian filmmaker has begun shooting a political documentary entitled The 9/11 Black Box, which is about the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001." 
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Christmas Day One Year Later-The Underwear Bomber-Case Closed
  ---  http://haskellfamily.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-day-one-year-later-underwear.html 
A quote...."The above three articles when taken together definitively solve the entire underwear bomber episode. The first two represent the modus operandi of the FBI/CIA, which is if nobody get hurt, fake bombs are o.k. [Not really true, generally speaking if the agencies are involved, FBI=fake bombs, CIA=real bombs, and the FBI is generally used to clean-up the CIA's, or anybody else's, mess - mpg]  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/thenationsprivycleaners-mpg-reficultnias-042610  ---  I will discuss that aspect in a minute. When you look deeply at the third article you have to ask the question, why were all of his clothes seized? The bombing substance, allegedly PETN was all over the airplane cabin near Umar's seat. It is not like there was a lack of material to be tested. The truth is that the government seized it all so that nobody could test the real chemical composition to determine that the bomb was indeed a dud. If I would have known that I would be writing this article one year ago, I would have picked up some of the substance as I walked within inches of it" - Topix ||  US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's Lap Bomber  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#LAPBOMBER 
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TSA News 12-26-10  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/12/26/tsa-news-12-26-10/ 
Another daily rap-up from DProgram on this nation's goon squad.  - mpg 
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More on the Wikileaks Cointelpro Fiasco....

WIKIWEASEL II-The Alternative Media Crushes Wikileaks
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/25/gordon-duff-alternative-media-crushes-wikileaks/ 
Must Read - A quote...."“We know what has been released.  The genuinely sensitive material held by Wikileaks, that tying Israel to actions against America in Iraq, tying Israel to the drug trade in Afghanistan and tying Israel to terrorism in Pakistan, have yet to be seen.  Will Assange be releasing these reports in 6 months?  Why wait that long?” 
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Wikileaks Is A Massive Fraud, And Disinformation: WikiWeasel II- The Alternative Media Crushes WikiLeaks!
  ---  http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-is-massive-fraud-and_25.html 
Must Read - A quote...."More and more people are FINALLY waking up to the truth about WikiLeaks.   The facts speak for themselves when it comes to this massive fraud, especially the fact that the so called "documents" put forward by the disinformation king himself, Julian Assange, are absolute bull crap.    The ultimate goal of the entire scam is to suppress the truth being generated by real truth sites on the Internet itself! 
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WikiLeaks: The 9/11 of the Internet  ---  http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-911-of-internet.html
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfdfFd5_nBo  ---  A quote...."When America was ‘under attack’, we got the Patriot Act domestically, and never-ending war internationally – the Constitution was shredded along with international law. That was a very big response. What kind of response can we expect when the ‘international community’ is declared to be ‘under attack’, because a website has revealed a few relatively harmless secrets?"
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Julian Assange Gets Another Payday  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/julian-assange-gets-another-payday/ 
A quote...."Julian Assange is looking to hit pay-dirt once again as reports of a new book deal with a subsidiary of Random House are surfacing." 
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Wiki of the Damned  ---  http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2010/12/wiki-of-damned.html 
A quote...."Introduction: The first of two programs dealing with Wik iLeaks, this broadcast examines an intelligence connected mind control cult with which WikiLeaks kingpin Julian Assange appears to be affiliated. As well connected as it is ruthless and criminal, the Santiniketan Park Association of Anne Hamilton-Byrne conditioned children with drugs, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, torture and ritual sexual abuse in order to produce subjects who [could be] bent to the will of the group’s leader." 

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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The US national image and its contradictions  ---  http://www.redress.cc/americas/ldavidson20101227 
Must Read - A quote...."Benjamin Disraeli once labelled Britain’s government "an organized hypocrisy". That was in circa 1845. Things have not changed much and by now hypocrisy might well be seen as a common sin of democratic government. This is because in democracies straightforward honesty about behaviour that runs counter to the idealized national image is usually bad politics. -- Among today’s democracies none proves this point more than the United States. The United States, like Great Britain in the 19th century, simultaneously acts like an imperial power and cultivates a national image as the world’s prime purveyor of good government, stability and progress. However, history has taught us that a nation cannot be both of these things at once. So the folks in Washington have created for themselves an environment wherein principle and consistency are impossible." 
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Bottom of the 4th Inning of the Great Game:  Afghanistan is Now Open for Business  ---  http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/445.php 
Must Read  - A quote...."Many of the Canadian military, police, and civilian personnel who risk their lives in Afghanistan truly believe they are fighting a just war of good against evil. But America's and Britain's claims that the unsanctioned unilateral invasion of Afghanistan, which began the Global War on Terror, was justified by the terrorist attacks of 9/11 are as credible as claims the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist justified Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia to begin WWI.  -- It is time to look beyond faith in baseless beliefs to investigate facts. What interests are at stake in Afghanistan?" - also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22510 
Topix ||  War Resource 9/11  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/priorwarresource911-weblist-mpg-091106 
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NATO Attacks Official Convoy, Killing Two Afghans - Three Others Also Wounded in 'Inadvertent' Strike
  ---  http://uruknet.info/?p=m73216&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."The latest in a growing deluge of NATO attacks killing allies and civilians in Afghanistan took place today in the Faryab Province, when a NATO helicopter inexplicably attacked an official convoy heading to an event hosted by the local provincial council." - Source:  AntiWar
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/12/23/nato-attacks-official-convoy-killing-two-afghans/ 
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Obama’s Afghanistan Review: A Whitewash of a Disastrous Occupation
  ---  http://www.alternet.org/world/149321/obama%E2%80%99s_afghanistan_review%3A_a_whitewash_of_a_disastrous_occupation_/  
A quote...."Apparently nothing can happen in the U.S. war in Afghanistan that doesn’t mean good news. If violence rises, it’s because “we’re taking the fight to the enemy.”  The Pentagon must be taking a lot of fighting to whoever they’re calling the enemy – this year alone the war has killed over 2500 Afghan civilians, and almost 500 U.S. troops and more than 200 other NATO forces have died too.  Of course in those isolated areas where violence may have dropped, it’s because “our strategy is winning.”  - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m73274&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Maps show worsening Afghan security  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157360.html 
Related Article - A quote...."The report came as US President Barack Obama in his Afghan war strategy review claimed that the US-led forces made progress a year after he ordered 30,000 extra troops into Afghanistan. Obama described the strategy as "on track" and Taliban militants are losing strength. -- Countering the Obama administration's optimistic assessments of military progress, the US maps show the situation has worsened in 16 districts in the provinces of Badghis, Sari Pul, Balkh, Parwan, Baghlan, Samangan, Faryab, Laghman and Takhar. -- And the situation in the South remained virtually unchanged at "very high risk," the daily added." 
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US Allies Turned Foes, Haqqani Network Spreading in Afghanistan
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2010/12/26/us-allies-turned-foes-haqqani-network-spreading-in-afghanistan/ 
Related Article - A quote...."The Pakistan-based Haqqani Network has a long history of ties with the CIA, the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Agency, and other jihad enthusiasts dating back to the failed Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Now that we are in the midst of the failing NATO occupation of Afghanistan, the Haqqanis have found themselves an enemy, not an ally in the US, but they remain just as active." 
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For CIA drone warriors, the future is death  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LL23Df03.html 
Special Note - A quote...."Forget the iPad; the ultimate icon of fetishized commodity is the drone. Israelis do it - and sell them like hot cakes. Mexicans do it - to patrol their side of the border. Brazilians wanna do it - to patrol the Rio favelas. Saudis wanna do it. Uzbeks wanna do it. Everybody's singing: Let's do it. Let's fall in love (with the drone). -- Furthermore, abandon all hope those who enter (the doors of misperception): Afghanistan is now officially just a lowly, troop-infested sideshow to the AfPak war. The real thing is an illegal drone war against Pakistan. Viva Richard Nixon. As much as Tricky Dick annexed Cambodia to the Vietnam War, the Barack Obama administration pulled a Nixon regarding Pakistan. And the great thing is that no one needs another WikiLeaks "dump" to know this. It's out there in the open." 
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Iraq’s new cabinet holds meeting  ---  http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?234733 
A quote...."BAGHDAD: Iraq’s new cabinet held its first meeting on Wednesday, a day after a parliamentary vote ended months of political deadlock, but now must address the public’s real concerns — security and services." 
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Innocent Iraqi Dies due to Harsh Tortures  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m73257&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."Wasim Tariq al Jabbouri has died due to harsh tortures at the hands of sectarian government forces in detention centre located in Miqdadiya district of northeastern Baquba city. Government sources claimed that the body of victim was transfered to the forensic hospital for furhter investigation while the observers did not satisfy with the announcement. -- Thousands of innocent Iraqis have died at the government jails or centres due to harsh tortures under brutal methods. Over four thousand hundred Iraqis are still being held in open or secret government prisons encountering with awful human right abuses, tortures and policy." 
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Saudi future at stake?  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157252.html 
Special Note - A quote...."It is difficult for people in democracies, who elect a new chief executive every few years, to appreciate the true import of those words. But in Saudi Arabia, one of the world's few remaining absolute monarchies, a new king is in the process of being ushered into office while his predecessor remains very much alive. And despite the ambiguity of the situation, whoever eventually occupies the Saudi throne will dramatically affect not only the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), but the entire Mideast." 
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Violence in Tunisia spreads to capital  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157363.html 
A quote...."In the wake of angry protests and clashes between Tunisian security forces and residents of the town of Sidi Bouzid, the violence spreads to the country's capital, Tunis. -- The social unrest, triggered by the North African state's ailing economy and poor working conditions, intensified after Tunisian police opened fire on a teenager in Bouziane, 240km south of Tunis, on Friday." 
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East Africa: Soldiers of Fortune  ---  http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/201012270210.html 
A quote...."Nairobi — Events playing out in Somalia in the past one month almost look like a sequel to Black Hawk Down, the harrowing tale of how an ill-conceived mission by an elite team of American special forces went bad."
also posted at BLN  ---  http://blacklistednews.com/East-Africa%3A-Soldiers-of-Fortune/12043/0/3/3/Y/M.html 
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Khodorkovsky Guilty  ---  http://themoscownews.com/russia/20101227/188311859.html 
BREAKING: - 27/12/2010 12:30 -- A quote...."The Yukos two, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev have been found guilty of theft and money laundering. --  "The court has established that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev have appropriated property using their staff positions," Judge Danilkin told the courtroom. --  Only a handful of reporters were allowed into the courtroom for the verdict and Danilkin then requested even those few to leave and called off the live broadcast while the rest of the verdict was read out, AFP reported." 
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8 militants killed in Russia's North Caucasus  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101226/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_caucasus_violence 
A quote...."MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Officials say one militant leader and seven suspected militants have been killed in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region. -- Vyacheslav Gasanov, a police spokesman in the province of Dagestan said the eight men were killed in a shoot-out Sunday with police after they barricaded themselves in a house in the city of Makhachkala and refused to give up. -- One man has been identified as a militant leader who oversaw terrorist activities in the city, police said. Other men have yet to be identified." 
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Proton-M puts European COMSAT into orbit  ---  http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/12/27/proton-m-puts-european-comsat-into-orbit.html 
A quote...."The Russian Proton-M launch vehicle has put the KA-SAT European communications satellite into orbit. -- The rocket blasted off on Sunday night from the Baikonur space centre, which Russia has taken on lease from Kazakhstan. -- KA-SAT, known for its super-high channel capacity, will provide direct access to the Internet for the European and Mediterranean areas that still lack land fiber-optic communications lines. The satellite’s life service is 15 years." 
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Yugoslavia: How Holbrooke Lied His Way Into a War  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/husseini1.1.1.html 
A quote...."This article was originally published in December 2008 while Richard Holbrooke was being considered for the position he held in the Obama administration. -- Shortly before the bombing of Yugoslavia began in late March 1999, Richard Holbrooke met with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. By his own account, Holbrooke delivered the final ultimatum to Milosevic – that if Yugoslavia didn’t agree to the Rambouillet text, NATO would begin bombing." 
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Is This China’s First Stealth Fighter?  ---  http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/12/is-this-chinas-first-stealth-fighter/ 
A quote...."They could be the products of a Chinese government misinformation campaign. They could be clever Photoshop jobs by Chinese aviation fanboys. Or they could be the real thing: the first hard evidence of the long-rumored Chengdu J-20, China’s first stealth-fighter prototype." 
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Learning To Live With The Lost Boys  ---  http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/learning-to-live-with-the-lost-boys/ 
Must Read - A quote...."It is a terrible feeling when you realize you just got snookered, shanghaied, taken to the cleaners, whatever term you want to use, and all because you wanted to do the “right thing”. Oh, we wanted to save the poor little Jews from “persecution”. We wanted to shelter them from “anti-Semitism”, so let’s haul them all over to Palestine, give them guns and money to kill the people there just as their descendents did in the Old Testament. Let‘s give them control of our money, our political systems, our media and every other lever of power in our societies. -- Then, when they do what they are programmed by virtue of their religious mindset to do, we act all surprised. We get all judgmental and tell Israel that what she is doing is wrong. -- But at the end of the day, as much as we want to blame them, the fact is we must blame ourselves." - bold by website editor 
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Struggling for Peace in the Season of Christmas  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/12/26/struggling-for-peace-in-the-season-of-christmas/ 
A quote...."With over a trillion dollars budgeted for the military and defense related expenditures in 2011 we should emulate Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jesus who engaged in civil disobedience and gave their all for peace and poor people. Jesus rejected the vengeful “eye for an eye” in favor of “turning the other cheek” in universal love. After Jesus turned over the tables of the money changers in the temple he was arrested, tried and crucified. Rather than joining in the excessive commercialism symbolized by Santa, those of us who believe in what Jesus did should love all people and become activists for peace and poor people." - Source:  CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/25 
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Jesus was Palestinian and why it matters - Jehanzeb Dar  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=345198 
F.Y.I. - Yes he was, and he was a Jew too, and it should also be noted both Jews and Palestinians are "Semites" so the term "Anti-Semite" is usually used incorrectly and a-historically. - mpg -- A quote...."Because of modern alarmist reactions to the word “Palestine,” many non-Arabs and non-Muslims take offense when it is argued that Jesus was a Palestinian (peace be upon him)." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/jesus-was-palestinian-and-why-it-matters/  
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Israel To Issue Apology To Britain For Using Fake Passports To Assassinate Hamas Leader In Dubai  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/60270 
More importantly, they copied REAL passports of other people....just like they did on 9/11. (hint: it's why so many of the "hijackers" later turned up "alive".) - mpg -- A quote...."    The Daily Telegraph reported that the Israeli Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations, Mosad, intends to issue an official apology to Britain as Israeli Mosad agents entered United Arabs Emirates using several international passports, including forged British passports, to assassinate a senior Hamas leader at a hotel in Dubai." 
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Egypt: Mossad was behind internet cable cut two years ago  ---  http://www.plfpakistan.com/?p=24899 
For the Record - A quote...."Egyptian Supreme State Security disclosed investigations leading to Israeli foreign intelligence the Mossad being behind the break in an internet cable belonging to Egypt a few kilometers off Italian shores a year and a half back. -- Officials cited confessions from an Egyptian man accused of espionage in an Israeli spy network targeting Egypt." 
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Largest amount of US aid to Israel ever - $3.4 Billion – delayed; Israel may lose millions of dollars of its normal interest payments (at least temporarily); Cantor pushes plan for Israel  ---  http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2010/12/34b-in-us-military-aid-to-israel.html  ---  A quote...."Partisan infighting between Republicans and Democrats in Congress is delaying US military aid to Israel. $3 billion in US military earmarked for fiscal year 2011, which began on October 1, 2010, and more than $400 million in grants to upgrade the Iron Dome and Arrow anti-ballistic missile systems, [which are completely ineffectual and a total waste of money - mpg] has been delayed for three months, and is unlikely to reach Israel before March, six months late. The annual military aid normally arrives just after the start of the US fiscal year, subject to Congressional approval of the federal budget." 
Source:  GlobesOnline  ---  http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000610983&fid=1725 
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Israeli Foreign Ministry Plans New Hasbara Effort Against Palestinians
  ---  http://www.resistingoccupation.com/2010/12/israeli-foreign-ministry-plans-new.html 
Israeli Propaganda Alert - A quote...."Haaretz reports that the Israeli Foreign Ministry has officially launched a diplomatic campaign to dissuade the international community from recognizing an independent Palestinian state along 1967 borders and possibly catalyzing the passage of a UN Security Council resolution against settlement building." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://uruknet.info/?p=m73258&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Israeli Foreign Minister: Peace Deal is “Impossible” and “Forbidden”
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/israeli-foreign-minister-peace-is-forbidden/  
A quote...."(Many of us  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-avigdor-lieberman-is-the-worst-thing-that-could-happen-to-the-middle-east-1647370.html  ---  knew what this racist zealot  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5920555.ece  ---  was going to be about when he first got the job. And here we are, the rest of the world ready to recognize a Palestinian state,  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/as-the-rest-of-the-civilized-world-moves-to-recognize-the-palestinian-state-us-representatives-rush-to-oppose-it/  ---  a good first step to lasting peace, and the U.S. congress  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/as-the-rest-of-the-civilized-world-moves-to-recognize-the-palestinian-state-us-representatives-rush-to-oppose-it/  ---  and the racists in Israel’s government see that as “forbidden”.  Prepare to see wholesale slaughter in Gaza paid for by your tax dollars, while Obama’s “death panels” condemn poor people who are no longer healthy enough to work for WalMart.)" 
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Israeli firms operating in Iraq  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/israeli-firms-operating-in-iraq/ 
A quote...."The head of an Iraqi clerical association, Harith al-Dhari, says companies affiliated with the Israeli spy agency Mossad are freely operating all over Iraq. -- Al-Dhari, the head of the Association of Muslim Scholars, says Israeli companies are particularly concentrated in the countries northern Kurdistan region. -- “The companies are directly working with Zionist spy agencies,” said al-Dhari, Iraq’s most influential Sunni cleric and a prominent anti-American figure." - Source:  PressTV  ---  http://presstv.com/detail/157009.html 
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

And What Rough Beast Slouches Towards Gaza? -- Operation Cast Lead and the Dismembering of a People
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/25-1 
Must Read - Quote of the Day --  A quote...."The thirty-five year old military occupation, now the longest and most brutally sustained in modern history has taken a terrific toll in the human condition of the Palestinians at every level. In fact, short of genocide itself, I cannot think of a single one of the human rights of the people that has not been violated with a kind of refined viciousness designed to dehumanise and break their spirit and humiliate them to a degree that is, even to someone who has been carefully but helplessly aware of what has been taking place, simply stupefying. -- What has made it worse is how much of this has been wilfully shielded from witnessing eyes by propaganda about fighting for survival and against terrorism, claims that in any other instance, would defy the credulity of the most gullible intelligence.”
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The Palestinians–Following in the Footsteps of the American Revolution
  ---  http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/the-palestinians-following-in-the-footsteps-of-the-american-revolution/
Must Read - A quote...."There is something soooooo familiar about all of this. Now, let’s see, we have on one side one of the most wealthy and militarily-powerful nations in the world throwing everything they have against a ragtag group of people fighting to rid their lands of foreign occupation. A military blockade has been imposed upon the native peoples, preventing them from engaging in business they need to sustain themselves. The occupying power, demonstrating its complete disregard for human life and the fact it does not distinguish between civilian and combatants is engaged in deliberately burning down entire towns in achieving its ends."
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Gaza: Two Years after the Horror  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16509 
A quote...."This week marks the second anniversary of the horror inflicted on the people of the Gaza Strip. Nothing has changed! Gaza has returned to its pre-invasion state of siege, confronted with the usual international indifference. Two years after the Israeli assault that lasted 22 long days and dark nights, during which its brave people were left alone to face one of the strongest armies in the world, Gaza no longer makes the news. Its people die slowly, its children are malnourished, its water contaminated, and yet it is deprived even of a word of sympathy from the President the United States and the leaders of Europe." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/gaza-two-years-after-the-horror/ 
Topix ||  Gaza Invasion of 12/27/08  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/thegazainvasion-mpg-weblist-122708 
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Gaza doctor takes Israel to court  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/12/2010122692144549633.html 
Contains Video - Alt  ---  A quote...."A Palestinian doctor is filing a lawsuit against Israel for the death of his three daughters, just a day before the second anniversary of Israel's war on Gaza. -- Dr Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish's daughters were killed during the military assault when Israeli forces fired on his home. -- People heard the incident unfold as Abu al-Aish was doing a live television interview with an Israeli TV channel." 
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A Hero’s Welcome for Mavi Marmara in Turkey  ---  http://www.almanar.com.lb/newsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=167451&language=en 
A quote...."26/12/2010 A Turkish ferry which was the target of a deadly raid by Israeli commandos when it tried to deliver aid to Gaza received a rapturous welcome from thousands on Sunday as it arrived back in Istanbul." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/a-hero%E2%80%99s-welcome-for-mavi-marmara-in-turkey/ 
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Report: UK may upgrade PLO diplomats  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=345753 
A quote...."LONDON (Ma'an) -- Officials in London may support an elevation of the diplomatic status of PLO officials in Britain and raise the status of the Palestinian representative's office to a full diplomatic mission, Israel's daily news site Ynet reported Monday." 
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Israeli Army Arrests 9 French Nationals In The West Bank  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/60267 
A quote...."    The Israeli troops operating at the military checkpoint of Qalandia, north of Jerusalem arrested nine French protestors and assaulted others at the checkpoint, Sunday at noon." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/israeli-army-arrests-9-french-nationals-in-the-west-bank/ 
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Fisherman injured by Israeli fire in northern Gaza  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=345303 
A quote...."GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A Gaza fisherman was shot twice, once in each foot, and collected by medics from the northern Gaza shore on Saturday, witnesses said." - Topix ||  Israel's Scorched Earth  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/israelsscorchedearth-weblist-mpg-022510 
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First ever encyclopedia documenting the Gaza war released Sunday
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7cK0CRDoULmTdlKyB
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A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- The “creativity” studies and training foundation released Sunday the first ever electronic encyclopedia that documents Israel's late 2008 early 2009 war on the Gaza Strip to mark the war's second anniversary as it approaches."   
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No Recovery Under Rule of Bankers  ---  http://blackagendareport.com/?q=content/no-recovery-under-rule-bankers 
Contains Audio - A quote...."Wall Street’s seizure of the U.S. government has made meaningful economic recovery impossible. The financial capitalist class will not invest in productive enterprise, and prevents the government from doing so. It’s much easier to make money through systematic, multi-trillion-dollar raids on society." 
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Thursday December 23rd 2010