MPG'S DAILY RAPSHEET AND BLOTTER  ON THE "GREAT GAME"  --  12-23-11 to 12-29-11 -- links page

@ www.reficultnias.org
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Editor's note - War Update, War Alert, War Warning, Red War Warning and War Imminent - refer to articles regarding the upcoming war with Iran.  In the order they appear as shown above, they  represent less serious to more serious possible threats of war. -- Other issues such as world war (WW), false flags, privacy issues, etc. will also be categorized in the order as shown above. - mpg
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Thursday December 29th 2011 - links page 

No posts. - mpg 

Wednesday December 28th 2011 - links page 

A military base 'on the brink'  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-military-stress-20111226,0,399102,full.story 
Must Read - A quote...."Reporting from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.— Mary Coghill Kirkland said she asked her son, 21-year-old Army Spc. Derrick Kirkland, what was wrong as soon as he came back from his first deployment to Iraq in 2008. - He had a ready answer: "Mom, I'm a murderer." 
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Col. Craig Roberts: FBI Confiscated OKC Bombing Footage, Refuses To Turn it Over!
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/3/08m6NTyC_AQ 
AJVideo - CraigRoberts(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08m6NTyC_AQ  ---  CraigRoberts(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsLNZE4rjRE  ---  (AJYuTb - 11/15min - Dec 28, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Aaron Dykes Interviews Col. Craig Roberts about what really happened on the day of okc bombing, and how the FBI confiscated all video footage of that days event, and still refuse to this day, to turn over this key evidence." 
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Sopa Would DESTROY Jobs and the Economy … So Why are Unions Supporting It?
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/sopa-would-destroy-jobs-and-the-economy-so-why-is-the-afl-cio-supporting-it.html 
A quote...."The promoters of the Stop Online Privacy Act (Sopa) are pretending that it would save jobs and help the economy. - But it would actually destroy jobs and hurt the economy. - No one is going to invest in the next Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Reddit, or YouTube if they know that websites can be shut down after a single unsubstantiated copyright complaint." - bold by website editor - Good point! - mpg 
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EPIC Sues DHS Over Covert Surveillance of Facebook and Twitter  ---  http://epic.org/2011/12/epic-sues-dhs-over-covert-surv.html 
A quote...."EPIC has filed a Freedom of information Act lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security to force disclosure of the details of the agency's social network monitoring program. In news reports and a Federal Register notice, the DHS has stated that it will routinely monitor the public postings of users on Twitter and Facebook." 
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Obama Year Three: Continuing His Rogue Agenda  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/12/obama-year-three-continuing-his-rogue.html 
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."In 2011, Obama continued the destructive pattern he followed in years one and two. Throughout his tenure, he's done what supporters thought impossible. -- Across the board on domestic and foreign issues, he governed to the right of George Bush. He's waged multiple imperial wars, plans others, looted the nation's wealth, wrecked the economy, consigned growing millions to impoverishment without jobs, and institutionalized tyranny to target dissenters challenging political corruption, corporate crooks, or abuse of power lawlessness....." 
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Ex-Goldman Sachs Analyst: "Major War" Coming End Of 2012  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/150168 
Video - From the History File - Mar 11, 2011 - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_sQG_2ymf4  ---  (YuTb - 3min26sec - 03/11/11) - Source:  wakeup2nwo  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/wakeup2nwo  ---  A quote...."When cycle forecaster Charles Nenner told the Fox Business network yesterday that the Dow Jones was set to collapse to the 5,000 level on the back of a "major war" that will shake the globe at the end of 2012, hosts David Asman and Elizabeth MacDonald sat in stunned silence." 
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Perhaps, than again perhaps he's just making his "book". --  It's true that the parasites try to stage their wars every ten years, approximately on the "twos" of each decade,  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407  ---  (as a market timing mechanism).  However, in the past, after the parasites have instigated a large, expensive, protracted  war, they've usually staged a pause in the subsequent decadedal war cycle, as they did after their war in Vietnam during the '72 to '82 period. -- Primarily to consolidate their gains and reduce the stresses and strains on the economic system, especially when they've badly miscalculated and pushed things to far.  As they amply demonstrated when their unbridled criminality and world wide murder spree in Vietnam and elsewhere caused the collapse of Bretton Woods  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system  ---  and the US-NRE's "gold standard" in 1973.  --  It should also be noted that continuing to double down during these war cycles violates the "fifth law of wartime currency expansion"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/sometentativelaws-blog-mpg-072008  ---   and will lead to more instability and the increasing unpredictability of the financial system as a whole. --  But as Webster Tarpley often times states when he refers to our uber-parasites.... "they're completely insane".  They certainly are. - mpg 
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Porter Stansberry: The Corruption of America  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/1/dzKoaltsWWY 
AJVideo - PorterStansberry(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKoaltsWWY  ---  PorterStansberry(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFnyj69CdZU  ---  (AJYuTb - 11/15min - Dec 28, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."The numbers tell us America is in decline... if not outright collapse." 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens.... 

Financial Troubles For Many Nations In The New Year
  ---  http://theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/Financial_Troubles_For_Many_Nations_In_The_New_Year 
A quote...."2012 is going to be quite a year with falling economies in the UK, Europe, the US, China, Japan and the remainder of Asia.  --  Latin America, and Mexico by comparison should fare fairly well overall. England is in a death spiral. Europe is next, the US is not far behind and China and Japan will soon join the disjoined group. We are about to witness the end of the period that developed since the end of WWII. That is economically, financially, socially and politically. The transition into the future is going to be borne out of chaos.  --  If you have any doubt just look at the recent legislation passed in the US allowing the president to pick up and incarcerate, torture or murder dissidents." - also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28381 
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Update On The "Non-Printing" ECB's Parabolically Rising Balance Sheet
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/update-non-printing-ecbs-parabolically-rising-balance-sheet 
A quote...."While the surge in the ECB's balance sheet has been discussed to death on these pages, with a particular emphasis on what we believe the key correlation driver-cum-pissing contest of 2012 will be - namely the relative size of the ECB vs Fed balance sheets - it is often best to see things for oneself. Such as the fact that the balance sheet of the European Central Bank, which has been accused of not printing, has grown at the fastest non-pre apocalypse pace in history for a modern central bank (the only exception is the Fed...." 
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How Draghi Rigged the System - The $600 Billion Ripoff  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/28/the-600-billion-ripoff/ 
A quote...."European Central Bank president Mario Draghi is either a liar or a fool.  Either way, he should be canned immediately before he dumps more money into an EU banking system sinkhole. - What’s all the fuss about? Here’s a clip from Bloomberg that explains what’s going on...." 
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Sudan asks to deal with China in yuan and pounds: central bank  ---  http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/12/28/185093.html 
A quote...."We have submitted an official request to China to deal with them in Sudanese pounds and Chinese yuan, and it is possible that after a short while we could exit finally from the dollar,” Central Bank Governor Mohamed Kheir al-Zubeir told reporters. - “The dollar has become weak and is deteriorating.”" 
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Brazil economy 'overtakes Britain'  - Easy to do when all Britain has are Banksters ruining their economy. 
  ---  http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/12/20111226221733333507.html 
Contains Video - A quote...."Brazil has overtaken the UK as the world's sixth largest economy, according to a London-based research group. - The shift is part of a larger trend in which emerging economies are outdoing some European countries, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said on Monday in its latest World Economic League Table." 
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Second recession looms in Spain  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/dec2011/spai-d29.shtml 
A quote...."Economy Minister Luis de Guindos warned on Monday that Spain’s economy had suffered a “relapse” at the end of this year, and that the renewed weakness would continue into 2012." 
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Currency Wars Update  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/currency-wars-update 
Some quotes...."Ultimately, the currency war is won by the government that can debase its currency at the fastest rate while still boosting employment creation and manufacturing capacity in its domestic economy." --- "While all governments are simultaneously in the process of debasing currencies against one another by increasing respective money supplies, they cannot debase the value of real assets as they do not and cannot control and manipulate its supply. As a result, the global economy is bound to see continued increases of commodity prices across the board in nearly each and every currency denomination. It is set to result in a global price inflationary environment if the currency wars continue, which we expect will." - Assuming the Depression doesn't get substantially worse, which is beginning to look like a strong possibility. - mpg 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Dr. Webster Tarpley: US-UK Ruling Elite Targets Russia, Syria, Iran, Pakistan
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/4/NDTGIDiHXrE 
Must View AJVideo - WebsterTarpley(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDTGIDiHXrE  ---  WebsterTarpley(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzj7zPASqa8  ---  (AJYuTb - 11/15min - Dec 28, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex interviews Dr. Webster Tarpley in this christmas Day Special broadcast for radio listeners. Alex and Webster break down what will happen to the middle east in the months to come and will america start something with Russia." 
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Free Syrian Army Commanded by Military Governor of Tripoli
  ---  http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2011/12/free-syrian-army-commanded-by-military-governor-of-tripoli/ 
Related Article - A quote...."In the wake of the “Arab Spring” and NATO interventions, both official and secret, Qatar seeks to impose Islamist leaders wherever possible. This strategy has led it not only to fund the Muslim Brotherhood and to hand Al-Jazeera over to them, but also to support Al Qaeda mercenaries, who will henceforth oversee the Free Syrian Army. However, this new scenario raises serious concerns in Israel and among the supporters of the “clash of civilizations.”" 
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Qatar builds Sunni intervention force of Libyan, Iraqi terrorists against Assad  ---  http://www.debka.com/article/21602/ 
Related Article - Israel (a member of the "Trinity of Evil")  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810  ---  fully supports these measures to further the PNAC Protocols,  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409  ---  and Debka is a well known Mossad mouth piece, so it's VERY curious as to why Debka would post this article.  Maybe members of the Israeli government are getting worried that this could be getting out of hand?  Maybe they're right to worry. - mpg  
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Destination - Islamic Emirates: Syria insurgents spark religious war
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfbzDZmtSL4&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=13&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfbzDZmtSL4  ---  (RTYuTb - 10min04sec - Dec 28, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."RT talks to a French journalist Thierry Meyssan, who's been reporting from the country throughout the conflict, and shares now his first-hand impressions, on what's really happening there." 
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Escobar: Syrian rag-tag bands & tanks to face investigation
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZxeGFOmal4&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=8&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZxeGFOmal4  ---  (RTYuTb - 5min42sec - Dec 28, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Thousands of people have rallied in the Syrian city of Homs, emboldened by the Arab League observers' visit to the country. But journalist Pepe Escobar says the monitors will have to investigate both the official and the opposition armies." 
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Spoiling for a Fight with Syria and Iran  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/spoiling-for-a-fight-with-syria-and-iran/ 
A quote...."Syria remains the region’s only independent secular state. Washington aims to replace its regime with a client one. - Libya’s model was replicated. Months of externally generated violence followed. So far it’s short of war. For how long is uncertain. Obama can’t wait to wage another one to keep ravaging the world one country at a time." - also posted at ThePeoplesVoice  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/12/28/spoiling-for-a-fight-with-syria-and-iran 
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Breaking News. SYRIA: Arab League Head of Mission Refutes Western Media Propaganda
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28379 
A quote...."The head of the Arab League monitoring group in Syria, Sudan's General Mustafa Dabi, has made "contradictory statements" on the human rights situation in Syria, which no doubt will eventually be erased from the record as not in keeping with the official propaganda line." 
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Syria releases more prisoners  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/218174.html 
A quote...."Syria has released 755 prisoners, who were involved in acts of violence against the government, as part of an Arab League initiative to end months of unrest in the country." 
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Tariq Ali: Arab League pathetic, works as West's NGO
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhwRzcDMwb8&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=3&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhwRzcDMwb8  ---  (RTYuTb - 5min09sec - Dec 28, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."The head of the Arab League observer mission in Syria has described the situation in the restive city of Homs as "reassuring so far". The flashpoint city was the monitors' first stop to investigate the government's response to the anti-regime unrest. Their arrival was met by a massive demonstration, with tens of thousands demanding international protection. RT talks to author and Middle East expert Tariq Ali who's in London." 
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Should Syria help US figure out OWS?  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyJtcVVgUrI&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=4&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyJtcVVgUrI  ---  (RTYuTb - 3min50sec - Dec 28, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."The ongoing situation in Syria looks set to dominate those talks in Moscow. In the latest development, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Syria's third-largest city of Homs, demanding international protection. It happened after the Arab League's monitoring team visited the area. The observers mission is to assess the situation in the country, and ensure President Assad's compliance with a regional plan to end the bloodshed. RT talks to James Corbett, editor of the independent news website Corbett Report.com based in Japan." 
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US removes Mullah Omer from most wanted terrorist list  ---  http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-135362.html 
A quote...."Islamabad, Dec 28 : Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar has been removed from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation’s list of “most wanted terrorists”." 
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Karzai: Afghan gov't will accept Taliban office in Qatar  ---  http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20111227/afghanistan-on-taliban-office-in-qatar-111227/ 
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai says he will accept Taliban insurgents opening a representative office in the Gulf state of Qatar for the purpose of holding peace talks, although Saudi Arabia or Turkey would be preferable venues." 
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Afghanistan to Disband Irregular Police Force Set Up Under NATO  ---  http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11361/1199548-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml 
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai has taken steps to disband a little-known, irregular police force financed by the American military with members in at least four northern provinces. Some members of the force are former militiamen and thugs known as much for extorting money from ordinary citizens as for intimidating insurgents and upholding the law." 
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Start a war to avoid a war? 'No assault on Iran acceptable'
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZfUwQIkZkc&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=2&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZfUwQIkZkc  ---  (RTYuTb - 23min35sec - Dec 28, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."The Arab Spring, Iran's nuclear programme and the ongoing Middle East turmoil are just three things that put the world in a spin during 2011 - and got tempers flaring at the UN's most-powerful body. Next, RT hears how reacting to these major events will pan out in 2012, with a man at the heart of it all - Russia's Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin." 
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Death Squads Target Suspected US Drone ‘Informants’ in Pakistan
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/12/28/death-squads-target-suspected-us-drone-informants-in-pakistan/ 
A quote...."Pakistani tribesmen have long had to deal with US drones inaccurately targeting homes in civilian areas, but the process has gotten more dangerous recently, as a US drone strike is invariably met with members of a death squad arriving in town to capture suspected informants." 
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Turkish airstrikes kill 30 Kurds  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/218274.html 
A quote...."At least 30 people have been killed in Turkish airstrikes by F-16 warplanes on a Kurdish village in the southeast of Turkey near the Iraqi border, Press TV reports." 
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Wall Street Journal "Determines" Russian Election a "Fraud"  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/12/wall-street-journal-determines-russian.html 
Rupert Murdoch owner of the Wall Street Journal is a Jewish, Zionist, "made-member" of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium who was caught less than six months ago using his publishing empire in Britain for a massive Mossad spying and blackmail operation (the "phone-hacking" scandal). Everything his publishing empire spews out is designed solely to serve the interests of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium, including all this crap about Russia's recent election. - mpg - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/12/29/wall-street-journal-determines-russian-election-a-fraud-tony-cartalucci/  ---  for more on this issue see....Regarding the Russian Election  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/mpgrapsheet-blogpg-mpg-012707#EXITPOLLS 
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Bulava approved for service  ---  http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20111228/170540223.html 
A quote...."The testing of the Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is completed and the missile will now be put into operational service, President Dmitry Medvedev said. The convoluted history of the project, which has been alternately criticized and praised, is finally reaching its intended destination." 
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Soyuz 2.1a with six Globalstar satellites launched from Baikonur  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20111228/170539565.html 
A quote...."The rocket carrier Soyuz 2.1a with Fregat booster and six American Globalstar-2 satellites has been launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (Roscosmos) said." 
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Ahmadinejad to tour LatAm nations  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/218276.html 
A quote...."Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to go on a four-nation tour of Latin America in the second week of January, says the presidential office director general for international affairs." 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

Israel's Used Cars  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/chutspah.jpg 
Cartoon 
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Complaint filed over secret donors to "friends of Israel"  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/blog/david/complaint-filed-over-secret-donors-friends-israel 
A quote...."Last week I wrote about how Labor Friends of Israel (LFI) – a lobby group within Britain’s largest opposition party – appears to be breaking a law on political donations. I am happy to report that the UK’s Electoral Commission has now received a formal request to investigate the LFI and similar organizations affiliated to the country’s ruling coalition." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/complaint-filed-over-secret-donors-to-friends-of-israel/ 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Israeli navy attacks international observers, injures Palestinian, on monitoring boat in Gaza waters
  ---  http://www.cpsgaza.org/2011/12/israeli-navy-attacks-international.html 
A quote...."At 10:55 am, an Israeli naval warship attacked the international observers and Palestinian captain of the Civil Peace Service Gaza (CPSGAZA) boat Oliva, injuring its captain in an apparent attempt to capsize it. -- The two international observers, both Italian citizens, are available for media questions or interviews." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/israeli-navy-attacks-international-observers-injures-palestinian-on-monitoring-boat-in-gaza-waters/ 
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Gaza: Remembering Cast Lead  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28382 
A quote...."December 27 marks the third anniversary of Israel's lawless war on Gaza. Without provocation, three weeks of terror bombing and invasion devastated the Strip. - Missiles, bombs, shells, and illegal weapons were used against defenseless people. Mass slaughter and destruction followed. - Brazen crimes of war and against humanity were committed. Responsible officials remain unaccountable. Security Council no-fly zone protection wasn't ordered. International leaders shared culpability through silence. They still do. Washington was complicit by supplying Israel with weapons, munitions, and encouragement. - Cast Lead’s one of history's great crimes." - Source:  SteveLendman  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/12/gaza-remembering-cast-lead.html 
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30090.htm 
& Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84337&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Tuesday December 27th 2011 - links page 

War as a Lifestyle [& As A Neo-Roman Social Fashion Statement!!]  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer246.html 
Quote of the Day...."Whenever I watch the Republican presidential debates, my mind is drawn to that important children’s book, The Emperor’s New Clothes. The six sock-puppets who have thus far managed to survive the musical-chairs comedy ballet wow Mr. and Mrs. Boobus with their visions of a violent, intrusive, policed, and war-loving America that equals, if not exceeds, what Barack Obama has been able to generate. It was but four years ago that John McCain choreographed his campaign around the lyrics "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran." That so few people were repulsed by such psychopathic utterances is but one of many symptoms of a society in moral, spiritual, and intellectual collapse. The domestic police-state so passively accepted by most Americans – and insisted upon by the voices of the political establishment – reminds me of the comment made by the Prince of Wales in the 1934 film, The Scarlet Pimpernel: "if a country goes mad, it has the right to commit every horror within its own walls."" 
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Two Important Works On War Revisionism  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/12/28/244-two-important-works-on-war-revisionism/ 
Audio - (Mp3 - 32min52sec - Dec 28,2011) - Source:  LewRockwellShow  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/podcast-archive/  ---  Related: DowloadMp3  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/wp-content/uploads/244_Denson.mp3  ---  A quote...."John Denson, editor of "The Costs of War"  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=0MJCDZBbxJcC&dq=%22The+Costs+of+War%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s  ---  [GoglPrcSrch]*,  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=0MJCDZBbxJcC&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_r  ---  talks to Lew Rockwell about "Nothing Less Than War"  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=LL2xKWcAkp0C&dq=%22Nothing+Less+Than+War%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s  ---  [GoglPrcSrch]*  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=LL2xKWcAkp0C&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_r  ---  and "Freedom Betrayed"  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=E6HepXzMLiwC&dq=%22Freedom+Betrayed%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s  ---  [GoglPrcSrch]*."  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=E6HepXzMLiwC&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_r  ---  *links added 
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Why did the 9/11 Commission Refuse to Listen to NYFD Firefighters Who Were at the WTC Scene?
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-did-911-commission-refuse-to-listen.html 
Contains Videos - A quote...."NYFD Asst. Commissioner Stephen Gregory: I thought that I saw...low level flashes...I saw flash-flash-flash, and then it looked like the building came down. You know like when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That's what I thought I saw." 
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A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995  ---  http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20111226080847624 
A quote...."The 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City was a direct blow to the heart of America. One hundred sixty-eight people were killed, including nineteen children. For those watching the nightly news, terrorism had come home. For years following the bombing, countless victims' family members, survivors, rescuers and ordinary Americans have questioned the official accounts about that fateful day." 
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Montanans Launch Recall of Senators Who Approved NDAA Military Detention. Merry Christmas, US Senate
  ---  http://www.salem-news.com/articles/december252011/ndaa-recall.php 
S-1867 / NDAA - A quote...."(HELENA) - Moving quickly on Christmas Day after the US Senate voted 86 - 14 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 (NDAA) which allows for the indefinite military detention of American citizens without charge or trial, Montanans have announced the launch of recall campaigns against Senators Max Baucus and Jonathan Tester, who voted for the bill." - Hip Hip Hooray!! 
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NDAA 2012 torture of Americans, or arrest the 1%’s criminals: your choice
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/ndaa-2012-torture-of-americans-or-arrest-the-1s-criminals-your-choice.html 
S-1867 / NDAA - A quote...."I appreciate my colleagues at Activist Post  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/how-govt-will-justify-torture-of-us.html  ---    posting my friend Billy Vegas’ PuppetGov  ---  http://www.puppetgov.com/category/puppetgov-videos/  ----  video, Obama and the War Criminals. The video powerfully shows damning testimony of US government “leadership” admitting they can torture any person they dictate as a “terrorist.” - Art and academic/professional documentation synergize for the 99% to declare the “emperor has no clothes” obvious facts of the 1%’s crimes."
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Government censors document revealing plans to wage war on Americans
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/government-censors-document-revealing-plans-to-wage-war-on-americans/ 
S-1867 / NDAA - Documents - (A Prison Planet  ---  http://infowars.net/  ---  Scoop!!) -- A quote...."Within an hour of posting a critical FEMA document sourced publicly on a government website that discloses plans to hire contract employees under a continuity of government plan, that document was removed and replaced by the following cryptic warning against posting ‘classified’ documents:" 
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Congress, Obama Codify Indefinite Detention  ---  http://www.fff.org/comment/com1112cc.asp 
S-1867 / NDAA - A quote...."In yet another reversal of his professed commitment to the rule of law, President Obama says he will sign the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which formalizes his authority to imprison terrorism suspects indefinitely without charge or trial. -- Where is the “progressive” outrage?" - Indeed, where is it?   We have arrived at this point because all those hypocritical, cowardly, lying, treasonous, "Liberal" scum out there have done absolutely NOTHING while promise after promise, constitutional provision after constitutional provision, has been totally trashed by the Obama administration during the last three years.  They are worse than useless, they're collaborators in this nation's destruction. - mpg 
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TSA Responsible For Over 9,000 Unannounced Checkpoints In Last Year
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/tsa-responsible-for-over-9000-unannounced-checkpoints-in-last-year/ 
Related Article - A quote...."The TSA has been responsible for over 9,000 unannounced “security checkpoints” over the last year alone, as the federal agency’s VIPR program expands to become a literal occupying army in the name of safety." 
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ELRON - VOXEO - The Israeli Defense Firm That Tallies The Iowa Caucus  ---  http://www.rense.com/general79/sis.htm 
2012 Election Cycle - Vote Fraud Alert - A quote...."The Iowa caucus is only a few days away and the nation's attention will be directed to the results, which signify the beginning of the U.S. presidential race. But does anyone watch who tallies the results of the Iowa caucus?" 
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/12/27/the-israeli-defense-firm-that-tallies-the-iowa-caucus-christopher-bollyn/ 
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Iowa GOP moving vote-count to 'undisclosed location': to prevent a Ron Paul victory.
  ---  http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/iowa-gop-moving-vote-count-to-undisclosed-location-to-prevent-a?xg_source=activity 
2012 Election Cycle - Vote Fraud Alert - A quote...."Threats to disrupt the Iowa Republican caucuses next week have prompted state GOP officials to move the vote tabulation to an "undisclosed location," POLITICO has learned. -- The state party has not yet told the campaigns exactly where the returns will be added up, only that it will be off-site from the Iowa GOP's Des Moines headquarters." 
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Mainstream media: dumbing it down  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjgSdi7l1C8 
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 7min22sec - Dec 27, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Between corporate sponsorship and pretty big paychecks, are news anchors and their networks really offering up a fair take on what's at stake? Georgetown University's Chris Chambers talks to us about how the mainstream media sneaks slants into their broadcast and brings a bias to the big stories." 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens.... 

Keiser Report: Parasites With Bailouts (E228)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVVQy7gQ-oM&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=4&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVVQy7gQ-oM  ---  (RTYuTb - 25min46sec - Dec 27, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Producer:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."This week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert present their bah-humbug special, taking a closer look at claims that the top 1% have more 'skin' in the game. They'll also question the intentions of the 'well-meaning' people who drive Kenyans off their land, and could be doing more harm than good with malaria vaccines. They also talk to independent journalist, Thomas C. Mountain, about charity in Africa and China's investments." 
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A Run On The Global Banking System—How Close Are We?  ---  http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2011/12/run-on-global-banking-systemhow-close.html 
Must Read - (One of the most concise, clear, coherent and simple explanations of the MF Global rip-off this website editor has ever seen. - mpg) -- A quote...."Nine weeks after its bankruptcy, the general public still hasn’t quite realized the implications of the MF Global scandal. -- My own sense is, this is the first tremor of the earthquake that’s coming to the global financial system. And how the central banks and financial regulators treated the “Systemically Important Financial Institutions” that had exposure to MF Global—to the detriment of the ordinary, blameless customer who got royally ripped off in its bankruptcy—is both the template of how the next financial crisis will be handled, and an accelerator that will make the next crisis happen that much sooner." 
also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-run-global-banking-system-how-close-are-we 
& ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30085.htm 
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Gerald Celente: Money Junkies and The Coming "Bank Holiday"  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/4/Xxhb_j3OAqM 
Related AJVideo - GeraldCelente(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxhb_j3OAqM  ---  GeraldCelente(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSSWZ7mlPZk  ---  AJYuTb - 13min - Dec 27, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."On the Tuesday edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with noted trends forecaster Gerald Celente on the latest concerning the MF Global heist. Celente also covers the top 12 trends of 2012. Celente is on the record for accurately forecasting and naming the current "Great Recession" and for forecasting the 1987 Stock Market Crash, the Dot-com bust, Gold Bull Run to Begin, 2001 Recession, the Real Estate bubble, the "Panic of '08", Tax Revolts, and the coming "Greatest Depression." He is the publisher of the Trends Journal." - It's becoming increasingly clear after listening to what has happened to BOTH Gerald Celente and Alex Jones, that it may be time for everyone to get their money out of their bank accounts as quickly as possible. - mpg 
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Obama Nominates Carlyle Group Partner to The Federal Reserve
  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/obama-nominates-carlyle-group-partner.html 
WTF Alert!!  Oh My Gawd, does it EVER stop!?!? It's just one big club, and we're NOT in it! - mpg -- A quote...."While on vacation in Hawaii, Obama tapped Jerome Powell to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. - Powel served as the undersecretary for finance under the president George H. W. Bush and was a partner of The Carlyle Group. The Carlyle Group is a massive private equity firm and one of the largest defense contractors in the world." 
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AMerica Maxes Out Its Credit Card Again - Treasury To Raise Debt Limit By Another $1.2 Trillion On Dec 30
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-hits-credit-ceiling-again-treasury-raise-debt-limit-another-12-trillion-december-30 
A quote...."....in a few days, the US debt ceiling will be raised from $15.194 trillion to $16.394 trillion. As a reminder, US GDP was just revised down to $15.176 trillion." 
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The Empire Smokes Crack  ---  http://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/the-empire-smokes-crack/ 
Related Article - A quote...."Such is the insane life of an addict, caught in a vicious circle that compels them to do the same things over and over while expecting different results. -- The same could be said for the addicts who have seized control of our nation’s monetary system.  If we were to produce a PSA to appeal to them, we’d probably have to change the lines to something like, “We print dollars…so we can pay for the budget…which puts us further in debt…so we print more dollars…so we can pay for the budget…which puts us further in debt…so we print more dollars…”" 
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Abysmal Spanish Housing Market Gets Even Worse In October
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/abysmal-spanish-housing-market-gets-even-worse-october 
A quote...."If there is anything that the European banks' negative response to the LTRO's invitation to use "free money" and relever even as Europe faces a perfect storm of deleveraging in 2012 (a topic beaten to death by us here previously) is that the problem at the root of the European financial crisis is not a liquidity one - it is, and has always been one of solvency, or, said otherwise, a problem when bank assets do not generate enough cash flow to satisfy cash outflows from bank liabilities, period, the end. Everything else is irrelevant." 
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ECB Deposits Jump 10% More To Record EUR452BN  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ecb-deposits-jump-10-more-record-eur452bn 
A quote...."While we assume there is some year-end 'management' involved here (and some will argue that putting the LTRO-carry-trade to work takes time), the sheer velocity and scale of the ramp in deposits suggests this is not a game-theoretically optimal use of this new-found cash (neg-carry-trade) but instead a clear message that banks will delever and remain risk averse no matter what the central banks 'suggest' is appropriate." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

The Los Angeles Times Selling Old Canned News  ---  http://www.moonofalabama.org/2011/12/the-los-angeles-times-selling-old-canned-news.html 
Zio-Agit-Prop Exposed - (This time it's the LAT) - Perhaps they should vet their writers before they hire them?  Or maybe they did. - mpg  -- A quote...."The LA Times seems to believe that such news deserves publishing even weeks beyond it sales date. The editors probably kept it canned so they could publish something over the holidays without having to leave their homes. - The story itself is, by the way, fishy. It is clearly written to hype the success in Libya and to plant grueling tales about Syria." 
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Syrian NGOs Working Directly With British Government  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/12/syrian-ngos-working-directly-with.html 
A quote...."It is quite clear that the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" based in London and receiving the entirety of their reports via "phone" & YouTube videos from Syria, is working in coordination with both US-funded NGOs and the British Foreign Minister. Considering that Hague similarly coddled Libyan opposition leaders in London while playing a key role in promoting the NATO attack on Libya and the subsequent installation of a BP oilman as "prime minister," Abdelrahman's consorting signifies a verbatim repeat of the now openly fraudulent and genocidal NATO campaign in Libya."
also posted GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28374 
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Head of Syria monitors says 'nothing frightening' in Homs  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=448397 
A quote...."(Reuters) -- The head of an Arab League mission investigating if Syria is keeping its promise to implement a peace plan said some parts of the flaspoint city of Homs were in poor condition but that delegates saw nothing frightening." 
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Al-Qaida figures said infiltrating Libya
  ---  http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/12/26/Al-Qaida-figures-said-infiltrating-Libya/UPI-72201324888200/ 
Yeaaaaahhhhh!  For the last year!  Sponsored by the US-NRE, Britain, and the decrepit, degenerate, "aristocracy" (what a sick joke) on the Arabian Peninsula! - mpg - A quote...."TRIPOLI, Libya, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Several senior al-Qaida figures have made their way to Libya, raising fears North Africa could become a new mujahedin center, non-government sources said. - The unnamed figures, originally from North Africa, are "very experienced," a source close to Islamist groups in North Africa told the British newspaper The Guardian." - OH PLEASE!!  -- "Made their way to Libya"? SURE, about A YEAR AGO, on US-NRE supplied aircraft, with unlimited US-NRE tax-payer sponsored expense accounts, al-CIA'da minders, British special force advisers, a Washington DC inspired Madison Ave. advertising campaign, tons of propaganda, and billions worth of weapons! UPI is pathetic, they're a year late and a dollar short.  When are people gonna wake-up? When are people going to grow up! - mpg 
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Libya’s NTC Has Yet to Deal With Militias  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/12/27/libyas-ntc-has-yet-to-deal-with-militias/ 
Maybe because the NTC is composed of the militias? (wide eyed, supercilious, blinking expression, with eye brows raised high....) - mpg -- A quote...."The interim government in Libya has so far failed to deal with the issue of disparate groups of militias that remain organized in independent and defiant brigades throughout the country and who are now demanding top roles in government." 
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3 US-led soldiers die in Afghan blast  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/218102.html 
A quote...."A roadside bomb explosion has killed at least three soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in eastern Afghanistan, officials say." 
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Afghanistan Warns NATO to Disband Local Militias  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/12/27/afghanistan-warns-nato-to-disband-local-militias/ 
Translation: "We don't want the US-NRE's inspired 'El Salvador Option' in our country" - mpg -- A quote...."The Afghan government has ordered NATO to disband its local militias and end the “Critical Infrastructure Protection” CIP program, with the Interior Ministry saying it was creating parallel structures that undermine the central government’s authority." 
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Oil prices extend gains http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Oil-prices-climb-back-above-US101-pd20111227-PXRSU?opendocument&src=rss 
War Alert - A quote...."The price of crude oil climbed above $US101 a barrel in light holiday trading on growing US consumer confidence and tension in the Middle East." 
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Justifying War with Iran  ---  http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/12/26/justifying-war-with-iran/ 
A quote...."A growing body of evidence points to a concerted campaign to prepare Americans and the world for war against Iran. This is not idle speculation. It fits a pattern that repeatedly preceded previous hostilities." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30084.htm 
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Iran begins trial of CIA operative  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Iran-begins-trial-CIA-operative 
A quote...."An Iranian court has begun the trial of the CIA- trained operative who was arrested by Iran's intelligence agents last week on charges of espionage for the US. According to the indictment which was read out at court, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati has been charged with attempting to infiltrate Iran's intelligence apparatus to implicate the Islamic Republic in sponsoring terrorism. The indictment added that the defendant had been hired by CIA in May 2009 to carry out espionage missions in Iran." 
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Iran signs fuel deal with Afghanistan  ---  http://www.thefrontierpost.com/?p=97256 
A quote...."TEHRAN (NNI): Iran’s Petroleum Ministry and Afghanistan’s Ministry of Industries and Commerce signed an agreement for Iran’s one million tons annual exports of oil products to Afghanistan." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84301&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Iraq’s tragic encounter with US imperialism  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/dec2011/pers-d27.shtml 
A quote...."The withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq after nearly nine years of military occupation has been accompanied by a surge in sectarian tensions and violence that threatens to escalate into civil war. Following the explosions that ravaged Baghdad last week, there have been further attacks on government buildings in the capital and bombings and killings in the volatile cities of Fallujah, Mosul and Kirkuk." 
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[Egypt's] Tahrir doctors: The military treated us like prisoners of war  ---  http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/570141 
A quote...."The military police burnt our first aid kits,” said Dr. Mona Mina at a press conference on Sunday, adding that they were treating the doctors as if they were prisoners of war. “They must respect the international conventions that Egypt has signed in this regard.” 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84309&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Putin : Protesters Are Receiving Their Funding From The West
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/27/putin-protesters-are-receiving-their-funding-from-the-west/ 
A quote...."(WMR)  ---  http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/  ---  has learned from an eastern European intelligence source that the CIA. Britain’s MI-6, and George Soros, who actually fronts for the Rothschild family, has been funneling money to Russian protest movements through the Republic of Georgia." 
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Russia test-fires two nuclear missiles - http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-12-24/europe/30554385_1_nuclear-capable-test-fires-multiple-warheads 
A quote...."MOSCOW: The Russian military has successfully test-launched two intercontinental nuclear-capable missiles, the defence ministry said. - The Bulava missiles were fired from a submarine in the White Sea on Russia's northwest coast and the test "went as planned," Lieutenant Colonel Igor Konashenkov told Russian news agency Ria Novosti." 
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Russian nuclear sub 'ready' for India transfer  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20111228/170531468.html 
A quote...."Russia’s Nerpa nuclear submarine has finished sea trials and is now ready to be leased to the Indian navy in the next few days, an engineer said on Wednesday." 
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'Brazil world's fifth economy by 2015'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/218098.html 
A quote...."Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega says his country will overtake France to become the world's fifth-largest economy before 2015." 
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The Rise of CELAC - A New Force in Latin America  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/27/a-new-force-in-latin-america/ 
A quote...."Although most Americans have not heard about it, a historic step toward changing this hemisphere was taken three weeks ago.  A new organization for the region was formed, and everyone was invited except the U.S. and Canada. The new organization is called the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)." 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

Israeli Group Claims Responsibility for Iraqi Bombings – Sort Of
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/27/israeli-group-claims-responsibility-for-iraqi-bombings-sort-of/ 
The Rita Katz Noise Machine - A quote...."The recent round of bombings in Iraq, according to an Israeli source credited with endless false reports, phony bin Laden tapes and videos and numerous other obfuscations yesterday claimed Al Qaeda was responsible for the recent bombings in Iraq." 
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How the Zionist Media Steals from Gentiles  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/26/how-the-jewish-media-steals-from-gentiles/ 
A quote...."Once you compile a list of the names of the producers, editors and reporters, economic and investment experts, and other individuals positioned as experts by the media, you will notice a common theme; control of the media, Hollywood, Wall Street, the banking system, corporate America, the educational system, legal system and so forth by a group that comprises only 2% of the population....." 
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Netanyahu Rejects Peace  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/27/netanyahu-rejects-peace/ 
A quote...."No wonder Edward Said once called the occupation an “atrocity” and the peace process “a disheartening bloody impasse…..to reduce the Palestinian actuality to nil, to efface Palestinians as a people with legitimate rights, to render them alien in their own land.” -- Israeli repression reached new extremes under Netanyahu. His government is Israel’s worst ever. He exceeds the worst of Ariel Sharon and previous hard-line leaders." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Another BDS success: Joker cancels Tel Aviv show
  ---  http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/component/content/article/28-news/4010-another-bds-success-joker-cancels-tel-aviv-show 
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel!  Because it's the right thing to do, and because  it's easy to do. (All you have to do is look at the label and NOT buy their products, now WHAT could be more simple than that?) -- AND, it's working!!  - mpg -- A quote...."After the Boycott Divestment Sanctions campaign opened his eyes to the harsh reality of the occupation, British dubstep artist Joker cancelled his Tel Aviv show. The small but significant victory for BDS shows the inroads the movement is making around the globe." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/another-bds-success-joker-cancels-tel-aviv-show/  ---  For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/  ---  of this website. 
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Confronting intimidation, working for justice in Palestine
  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/content/confronting-intimidation-working-justice-palestine/10746 
A quote...."If we had a wish list for 2012 as Palestinians and friends of Palestine, one of the top items ought to be our hope that we can translate the dramatic shift in recent years in world public opinion into political action against Israeli policies on the ground. - We know why this has not yet materialized: the political, intellectual and cultural elites of the West cower whenever they even contemplate acting according to their own consciences as well as the wishes of their societies." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84295&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Palestinians seek pay for Gaza War losses  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNu_I6hhybY 
RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 2min54sec - Dec 27, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."The 2008 Gaza War left 1,500 Palestinians dead after Israeli troops stormed the state during a few days that December. Palestinians shares their stories about how they fought for compensation to try to cope with the losses they suffered during wartime." 
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70,000 Palestinian Jerusalemites to be re-classified as West Bank citizens  ---  http://silwanic.net/?p=23183 
This is completely illegal - mpg - A quote...."Jerusalem mayor Nir Barakat has announced that the city Municipality will now classify 70,000 citizens of Jerusalem as non-residents, furthering the right wing Israeli campaign to achieve a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem. Seventy thousand Palestinian residents already cut off from the rest of Jerusalem by Israel’s Apartheid Wall will now be cast out on paper as well, with their affairs turned over from the Municipality to the Israeli military’s West Bank civil administration." 
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The Wall of Hate  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30083.htm 
Related Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Niwmrp3KO5o  ---  (YuTb - 8min56sec - Dec 24, 2011) - Source:  WeHateZionism  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/WeHateZionism  ---  A quote...."Israel's unquenchable thirst for Palestinian land and resources is painfully demonstrated in this shocking documentary. -- Occupation is a fluid term that can be easily manipulated by the powerful and occupying powers. When the occupied are portrayed as violent and the occupier as victim, then democracy and justice have to be redefined." 
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Palestinian Killed, 11 Wounded, As Army Bombards Gaza  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62735 
A quote...."Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one Palestinian was killed and eleven others were wounded in two Israeli Air Strikes in one hour, which targeted Gaza City" 
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Addameer Calls Attention to the 443 Gazans Detained in Israeli Prisons  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62734 
A quote...."Ramallah, 27 December 2011 – On the third anniversary of Israel’s offensive on the Gaza Strip (27 December 2008–18 January 2009), Addameer reiterates its unequivocal condemnation of the Israeli policy that has denied residents from Gaza detained in Israeli prisons family visits for over four years." 
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Open Letter from Gaza: Three Years after the Massacre  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84308&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."We will never forget the hurt of 3 years ago, the criminal onslaught that we lived through, the blood of over 1400 murdered men, women and hundreds of children running through the streets of Gaza, between the rubble, soaking our beds and etched on our minds. We will never forget. For they are still dead, and thousands more are still maimed." 
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3 Years After Operation Cast Lead Justice has been Comprehensively Denied; PCHR Release 23 Narratives Documenting the Experience of Victims
  ---  http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7979:3-years-after-operation-cast-lead-justice-has-been-comprehensively-denied-pchr-release-23-narratives-documenting-the-experience-of-victims-&catid=36:pchrpressreleases&Itemid=194 
A quote....."In total, 1,419 Palestinians were killed during Operation Cast Lead, 1,167 (82.2%) of whom were civilians. A further 5,300 were injured. Israeli forces directly targeted and attacked private homes and civilian institutions, including hospitals and schools. Exacerbating the effects of the continuing illegal closure, the offensive had a devastating impact on the overall economy of the Gaza Strip. Civilian workshops and factories were directly targeted and agricultural land was razed, destroying farms, fields and irrigation systems that formed the basis of farmersʹ livelihoods. As reconstruction is virtually impossible due to the illegal closure, the hardship brought about by this destruction has only increased in the last three years." 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84304&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Gaza will not kneel  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2011/12/gaza-will-not-kneel/ 
A quote...."Twenty-three consecutive days of horrendous attacks on the Gaza Strip by the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) left more than 1500 Palestinians dead and many more injured.  Most of the victims were women, children and elderly people." 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

U.S. home prices drop in October: Case-Shiller  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-home-prices-drop-in-october-case-shiller-2011-12-27 
A quote...."The S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city composite index fell 1.2% in October to moves its 12-month drop to 3.4%. After five straight months of gains starting in April, prices have started to cool. The gauge isn’t seasonally adjusted, and there is generally greater interest in buying homes during the spring and summer." 
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Natural News Headlines – December 25-26th, 2011 - A DProgram Round-Up
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/12/27/natural-news-headlines-december-25-26th-2011/ 
Natural News  ---  http://www.naturalnews.com/  ---  is a compendium of what our corporate monsters are doing to us, and what you can do to protect yourself and even stop them. - mpg 
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Dow's Deadly Harvest: The Return of Agent Orange  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/dows-deadly-harvest-return-of-agent.html 
A quote...."Whether you are aware of it or not, your food, air and water are the battle ground upon which a titanic struggle between the multinational biotech corporations Monsanto and Dow AgroScience is now playing out. As a result, your health and environment (and that of all future generations) are at profound risk of irreparable harm." 
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Monday December 26th 2011 - links page 

Israel indicts Arab Knesset member for Syria visit  ---  http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/israel-indicts-arab-knesset-member-syria-visit?
utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AlAkhbarEnglish+%28Al+Akhbar+English%29 
A Great Idea -- WOW!  What a fantastic idea, to indict a member of your own legislature simply for visiting a foreign country!  This website has constantly railed at our Zionist AIPAC/Israeli Consortium controlled Congress, and their treasonous activities such as writing a letter,  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/signatoriestoaipacslettersofbetrayal-aipac-041410  ---  and signing it, pledging their loyalty to Israel over and above that of this nation's own executive branch. Or being caught on tape pledging to interfere in the investigation of Israeli spys,  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/04/28/calamity-jane-harman-shoots-herself-in-the-foot/  ---  as Jane Harmon  ---  http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?2306534-Gonzales-snuffs-Sen-Jane-Harmon-Israeli-SPY-investigation  ---  was.  And let's not forget covering up Israel's direct involvement  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911theisraeliconnection-weblist-mpg-051610  ---  with the events that occurred on 9/11. But NEVER did this website editor think you could actually indict members of you own legislature "on charges of visiting an enemy country and meeting foreign agents."  WOW!  Thanks Israel!!  Now we know what to do with all the traitors in our Congress you bring over every year for an all expense paid vacation to your country!!  ---  http://warisacrime.org/content/congressional-junkets-israel  ---  mpg  
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Sayanim — Israeli Operatives in the U.S.  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/26/sayanim-%E2%80%94-israeli-operatives-in-the-u-s/ 
A quote...."Americans know that something fundamental is amiss. They sense—rightly—that they are being misled no matter which political party does the leading. - A long misinformed public lacks the tools to grasp how they are being deceived. Without those tools, Americans will continue to be frustrated at being played for the fool. - When the “con” is clearly seen, “the mark” (that’s us) will see that all roads lead to the same duplicitous source: Israel and its operatives." 
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Middle East Brutality, Libya Atrocities & More: Infowars Nightly News
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/0/ETAaHb_eb30 
AJVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETAaHb_eb30  ---  (YuTb - 9min27sedc - Dec 24, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Tonight's Friday, December 23, 2011 edition of the Infowars Nightly News focuses on new requests from Homeland Security for Congressional funding to massively expand TSA Checkpoints. It has been revealed that the existing 25 VIPR teams ran more than 9,300 unannounced highway checkpoints under its current budget of $110 million. Now, DHS wants to add 12 teams to the existing 25 and tack on an additional $24 million to fund its power-hungry police state. This is all above and beyond the numerous airport checkpoints run by TSA." 
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OKC Officer Terry Yeakey's Death was an Inside Job: OKC Witness Speaks Out
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/4/C0wKGTq0ocs 
AJVideoOKC(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0wKGTq0ocs  ---  OKC(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOeBzn9aqJU  ---  OKC(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufc8VZ_wKVY  ---  (YuTb -  15min - Dec 24, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."In a groundbreaking interview, Infowars Nighly News host Rob Dew speaks with Don Browning, a K9 unit police officer for OKC, and Holland Van den Nieuwenhof, writer & producer for already classic exposé A Noble Lie. Browning, who found many living and dead in the Murrah rubble, discusses how he received thinly-veiled threats from the feds after he began asking questions about the inconsistencies he witnessed in part of a continuing series of interviews re-examining the official lies of the Oklahoma City Bombing, which paved the way for 9/11 and false flag events yet to come." 
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The Greatest Gift for All  ---  http://www.infowars.com/the-greatest-gift-for-all/ 
A quote...."Christmas is a time of traditions. If you have found time in the rush before Christmas to decorate a tree, you are sharing in a relatively new tradition. Although the Christmas tree has ancient roots, at the beginning of the 20th century only 1 in 5 American families put up a tree. It was 1920 before the Christmas tree became the hallmark of the season. Calvin Coolidge was the first President to light a national Christmas tree on the White House lawn."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/12/25/the-greatest-gift-for-all-paul-craig-roberts-2/ 
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A Bottomless Pit of Evil: Alex Jones Friday Editon 1/3  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/9/m3U0IZ_wwTQ 
AJVideo - BottomlessPit(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3U0IZ_wwTQ  ---  BottomlessPit(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfE-LFqcKC4  ---  BottomlessPit(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxbapRa8v3g  ---  (YuTb -  15min - Dec 23, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex breaks down the latest news as the mega-banking elite switches into overdrive to implement their world government totalitarian system." 
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"Alex makes three important points in video number (2/3)1)  Everybody participating in this increasing tyranny are trying to justify their cowardice by saying things like "I'm just doing my job", "I'm just following orders", as AJ points out, "we've all heard that before". 2)  Many of these cowards are practicing Orwellian linguistics and logical inversion (war is peace, killing people is helping them, etc) to avoid confronting the fact they're participating in this growing evil. Refusing to call murders, thefts and unconstitutional acts what they really are. and, 3) Most importantly, many people in the enforcement agencies of this government have committed crimes during their careers, some minor, some major.  Crimes that are known to the uber-evil in charge of many of these enforcement agencies. Crimes that are later used to blackmail those who committed them into committing further, much more serious crimes in an ever descending, self-reinforcing, rapidly accelerating, spiral into the depths of utter depravity, corruption and governmental terrorism." - mpg 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens.... 

Gerald Celente on Lanigan & Malone  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/12/25/gerald-celente-on-lanigan-malone/ 
GCVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJW-75AZQQ4  ---  (GCYuTb - 12min54sec - Dec 23, 2011) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/GeraldCelenteChannel 
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And Now, A Present: "Are The Brokers Broken?" - A Reprise  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/and-now-present-are-brokers-broken-reprise 
A quote...."Often times we are asked "why does Zero Hedge prefer to provide information in piecemeal increments and isolated snapshots (of irregularity) rather than write comprehensive articles (or even a book) that explain, from beginning to end why everything is broken - the end?" There are two answers - a short and a long one. The short answer is that finance, more so than any other field, changes so rapidly that the nuances are always and constantly on the margin, which in turn is stable only for the period of time that it is observed, and then it becomes part of "technical analysis." (Indeed, the Schrodinger wave function collapse is just as alive and well in finance as it is in the quantum arena). As such, we adhere to the paradigm describing the distinction between giving a man a fish and teaching a man to fish...." 
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China, Japan to Back Direct Trade of Currencies 
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-25/china-japan-to-promote-direct-trading-of-currencies-to-cut-company-costs.html 
Dollar Alert - A quote...."Japan and China will promote direct trading of the yen and yuan without using dollars and will encourage the development of a market for companies involved in the exchanges, the Japanese government said. - Japan will also apply to buy Chinese bonds next year, allowing the investment of renminbi that leaves China during the transactions, the Japanese government said in a statement after a meeting between Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing yesterday. Encouraging direct yen- yuan settlement should reduce currency risks and trading costs, the Japanese and Chinese governments said." 
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Draghi’s Real Goal in the Eurozone - Crush Labor and Impose Austerity  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/23/draghis-real-goal-in-the-eurozone/ 
Causing the non-virtuous cycle of an ever declining GDP, a decreasing tax base, higher interest rates, and ever increasing calls for more austerity.  Meanwhile in the real economy you have less personal income per worker for increasing output, (productivity) which results in more industrial over-capacity, (what causes the downward slope of the "business cycle") declining prices, (ditto), which either leads to more ineffective government spending (either by printing which destroys the currency and those who save [which Germany has refused to do] or by taking on more debt which makes the problem that much more difficult to deal with) on behalf of Bankster bailouts and their bonuses with occasionally a bit left over for the "little guy", which does absolutely nothing to stem the economic slide, or, even worse, no government spending or even actual austerity measures which leads to an even more rapid contraction of the economy.  Now go back to the top of this paragraph and just repeat this process till the INEVITABLE economic implosion occurs. In this website editor's humble opinion, this is a really stupid way to run any economy. - mpg  
Topix || The End-Stage Process of Mature Fiat-Currency-Capitalism - 11-30-11 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theendstageprocessofmaturefiatcurrencycapitalism-mpg-reficultnias-113011 
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News.... 

A Christmas Message From America's Rich
  ---  http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/a-christmas-message-from-americas-rich-20111222#ixzz1hUHgQKlP 
Special Note - A quote...."It seems America’s bankers are tired of all the abuse. They’ve decided to speak out. -- True, they’re doing it from behind the ropeline, in front of friendly crowds at industry conferences and country clubs, meaning they don’t have to look the rest of America in the eye when they call us all imbeciles and complain that they shouldn’t have to apologize for being so successful. -- But while they haven’t yet deigned to talk to protesting America face to face, they are willing to scribble out some complaints on notes and send them downstairs on silver trays. Courtesy of a remarkable story by Max Abelson at Bloomberg, we now get to hear some of those choice comments." 
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2-minute video: O, Damn Ye Wall St. Gentlemen  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/2-minute-video-o-damn-ye-wall-st-gentlemen.html 
Music Video - (Traditional) - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CySwQPvkuc8  ---  (YuTb - 1min47sec - Dec 23, 2011) - Source:  ovaria  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ovaria  ---  A quote...."Art is in the brilliant video from ovaria;  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ovaria?feature=watch  ---  following are the independently verifiable facts that the “99%” are embezzled by the “1%” for over a trillion of our dollars every year. - How does the 1% do this? - They purchased corporate media to cover their assets, that’s how. - This article  ---  http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/occupy-facts-federal-reserve-causes-unpayable-debt-unemployment-inflation-hi  ---  shows how the Federal Reserve System causes the opposite of their stated goals. This is, obviously, criminal fraud  ---  http://www.criminalfraud.com/learn.php  ---  Upon your basic economics education, I invite you to embrace the power of calling what the 1% does as CRIMES. When the 99% recognize the 1% as CRIMINALS and demand arrests and prosecutions, we’ve won. - My Open proposal for US Revolution: end unlawful wars, parasitic economics  ---  http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/open-proposal-for-us-revolution-end-unlawful-wars-parasitic-economics-1-of-4  ---  is my strongest work to explain and document these CRIMES." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Syrian Death Toll Claim: Thousands Dead, Zero Verifiable Sources
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/12/25/syrian-death-toll-claim-thousands-dead-zero-verifiable-sources/ 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEV8t3CEn_o  ---  (RTYuTb - 5min30sec - Dec 23, 2011) - Source:  GlobalRsrchTV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/GlobalResearchTV  ---  Producer: RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – The Syrian opposition says 5,000 have been killed during a nine-month crackdown, with more than 250 civilians killed in two last days alone, calling for UN protection from “acts of genocide.” But researchers say the information is tough to verify." 
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Red Lines and Ticking Clocks: U.S. War Plans Against Iran
  ---  http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2011/12/red-lines-and-ticking-clocks-us-war.html 
Quote of the Day...."Wars don't just happen. -- Before the first bomb falls disinformation specialists prepare the ground. -- Leading media outlets, foreign policy journals and a plethora of think tanks funded by elite foundations, energy and weapons' conglomerates, "right," "left" or "center" take your pick, churn out war propaganda disguised as "analysis."" - also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28358 
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Military Buildup Worldwide: The Globalization of War – Michel Chossudovsky
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/12/25/military-buildup-worldwide-the-globalization-of-war-michel-chossudovsky/ 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  (RTYuTb - 13min55sec - Dec 23, 2011) - Source: RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Producer: GlobalRsrchTV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/GlobalResearchTV  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – The world’s attention is increasingly focused on Syria and Iran as the region continues to move toward military confrontation. Less noticed, however, is that the pieces are being put into place for a truly global conflict, with military buildup taking place in every region and threatening to draw in all of the world’s major powers." 
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Fallujah Remembered By A US Marine Who Helped Destroy It In 2004
  ---  http://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/fallujah-remembered-by-a-us-marine-who-helped-destroy-it-in-2004 
A quote...."It has been seven years since the 2nd siege of Fallujah -- the American assault that left the city in ruins, killed thousands of civilians, and displaced hundreds-of-thousands more -- the assault that poisoned a generation, plaguing the people who live there with cancers and their children with birth defects. - It has been seven years and the lies that justified the assault still perpetuate false beliefs about what we did. - The American veterans who fought there still do not understand who they fought against, or what they were fighting for. - I know, because I am one of those American veterans...." 
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28338 
& CounterCurrents   ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/caputi231211.htm 
& DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/12/25/fallujah-remembered-by-a-us-marine-who-helped-destroy-it-in-2004-ross-caputi/ 
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Political Disequilibrium in Iraq: Carnage in Baghdad: New Fear, New [Old] Game  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28328 
A quote...."There is a new fear emerging in Iraq that the country will plunge even more into turmoil and political disequilibrium as the US troops cased in their colors ~ left behind a country which they helped lay bare to waste and dereliction." 
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Western Chopper Shooed Away from Army's Drill Zone  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/iran/1452-western-chopper-shooed-away-from-armys-drill-zone.html 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian warships shooed away the military chopper of a western country which was approaching the Iranian Navy's wargame zone, a senior Iranian commander stated." 
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Preparing for the next Anglo-American Oil War: Somalia is the Next Target  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28340 
A quote...."Mogadishu—Britain is apparently preparing its troops for the next oil war in Africa after Prime Minister considered Somalia as a “failed state” that has been threatening Britain’s interests and security.As the British government considered Libya’s regime change as a victory of the Nato forces, it is now looking for its next humanitarian intervention in oil-rich states in the Middle East and Africa." 
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Yearender: Obama administration's Asia pivot strategy sows more seeds of suspicion than cooperation
  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2011-12/23/c_131323762.htm 
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Obama administration ruffled a few feathers in the Asia-Pacific region in November with its high-profile trumpeting of the Pivot to Asia strategy, widely regarded as an attempt to consolidate the U.S. predominance in the region in face of a rising China."
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28357 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

The Israeli occupation the world forgot: the Golan Heights
  ---  http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/component/content/article/28-news/4006-the-israeli-occupation-the-world-forgot-the-golan-heights 
A quote...."While the mainstream media commonly refers to the West Bank and Gaza as the Occupied Palestinian Territories, it often incorrectly calls the Golan Heights part of Israel. How has the occupation impacted the Golan? And why has the world forgotten it?" 
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/the-israeli-occupation-the-world-forgot-the-golan-heights/ 
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Fanatic Rabbi Who Teaches “Goyim Slavery” Comes to US
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/20/israeli-rabbi-who-teaches-that-non-jews-are-to-serve-jews-sets-up-shop-in-us/ 
A quote...."Israeli Rabbi who teaches that “the sole purpose of non-Jews is to serve Jews” plans to tap support of Sephardic Jews in US. -- GOOD!! We should sell all those stupid moronic, drooling, knuckle-dragging, faux-Christian, Zio-worshiping, "Armageddon Cultists out there to this guy. If these faux-Americans want to be AIPAC/Israeli Consortium, Bankster slaves...LET'EM!!  Let'em grovel and service their new masters!! We should use the proceeds to reduce the national deficit. - mpg 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

IOF troops round up 7 Palestinians in West Bank  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1 
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A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up seven Palestinian citizens in the West Bank provinces of Al-Khalil, Ramallah, and Qalqilia on Monday. - The arrests followed storming of dozens of Palestinian homes in those provinces and forcing their occupants out in the cold weather while the search was in progress. - The Hebrew radio quoted an IOF spokeswoman as saying that the arrestees would be interrogated by security authorities." 
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Euromed: IOA barred travel of 4000 Palestinians in 2011
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7%2f0eEtUQo5edN1GzVVixWP9US%2f%2bnFZ7%2f%2bwqPb%2fRJ07JFjkKYctlZdJ9IaVmpusKfWQ4J017ZNFmNNPaKjrtk32zG8Ed5mg9hEwwEhndl6370%3d 
A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has banned 4000 Palestinian citizens from travel through the West Bank into Jordan in 2011, a European human rights report has said. - The Euromed for human rights said in a detailed report that the travel ban was at an average of 83 cases weekly. - The report said that in two thirds of those cases the Palestinians were subjected to humiliating treatment such as strip searches, intelligence interrogation, in addition to holding them for hours in crammed rooms." - also posted at AltheoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/euromed-israeli-occupation-authority-barred-travel-of-4000-palestinians-in-2011/ 
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Israeli forces storm 3 West Bank villages  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=447688 
A quote...."JENIN (Ma’an) – Israeli forces erected three flying checkpoints in southern Jenin in the northern West Bank before they stormed houses in the villages of Meithalun, al-Judeida and Siris on Sunday, officials said." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/israeli-forces-storm-3-west-bank-villages/ 
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Veolia Takes Severe Blow As It Fails To Win 485 Million Pound Contract In West London - Hip Hip Hooray!!
  ---  http://www.palestinecampaign.org/index7b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=4&l2_id=25&Content_ID=2312 
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel!  Because it's the right thing to do, and because  it's easy to do. (All you have to do is look at the label and NOT buy their products, now WHAT could be more simple than that?) -- AND, it's working!!  - mpg -- A quote...."Human rights campaigners are celebrating after the West London Waste Authority ('WLWA') excluded French multinational Veolia from a £485 million contract covering 1.4 million inhabitants of  the London boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond-upon-Thames, for treatment of residual domestic waste." - For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/  ---  of this website. 
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Sunday December 25th 2011 - links page 

No posts. - mpg 

Saturday December 24th 2011 - links page 

We Are The Terrorists - Truth Hurts, Lies Kill. Reality behind the Phony Wars  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30066.htm 
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI-RTSNXmtY  ---  (YuTb - 3min56sec - Nov 8, 2010) - Source:  vengencefrom1979  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/vengencefrom1979  ---  A quote...."We have an obligation to every last victim of this illegal aggression because all of this carnage has been done in our name. Since World War II, 90% of the casualties of war are unarmed civilians. 1/3 of them children. Our victims have done nothing to us. From Palestine to Afghanistan to Iraq to Somalia to wherever our next target may be, their murders are not collateral damage, they are the nature of modern warfare. They don't hate us because of our freedoms. They hate us because every day we are funding and committing crimes against humanity. The so-called "war on terror" is a cover for our military aggression to gain control of the resources of western Asia." - Related articles & videos shown below.... 
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Israel-Firsters: The Greatest Danger  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47hvENEM8yo 
Related Video - From the History File - August 19, 2008 - (YuTb - 9min 58sec - 08/19/08) - Source:  Yoryevrah  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/Yoryevrah  ---  A quote...."That Americans continue to kill and be killed in Iraq (and Afghanistan), whose agenda does this serve? Who benefits from such wars in the Gulf? Who are the cheerleaders? Dahlia Wasfi, M.D., provides answers to these questions." - Topix ||  9/11-Planning Guidance Docs - Strtgy 4 Isrl in the 80s  || - Updated!  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409#S4I80S
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Cong Prog Caucus: Dahlia Wasfi at Iraq Forum  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELjgVq6GtPA    
(YuTb 6m15s Sept 22, 2006) - Src:  Politicstv  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/Politicstv    
The War On Iraq a continuation of the 60-year Israeli Nakba  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MQNWGc2eXk    
(YuTb 9m39s 051608) - Src: snowshoefilms  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/snowshoefilms    
Rachel Corrie, American hero: Dahlia Wasfi, M.D.  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSC8Angp9s8    
(YuTb 9m07s May 06, 2008) - Src:  snowshoefilms  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/snowshoefilms    
What You Didn’t Know About The War  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsrMzfhdmkU    
(RT-YuTb 10m42s 10/22/09) - Src:  TheParadigmShift  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheParadigmShift    
World Peace Forum - Dahlia Wasfi  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBq2w0jZmD8    
(Gogl Vid - 15 min 26 sec - 15:26 - 11 months ago) - Src:  pjmora  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/pjmora    
Dr.Dahlia Wasfi - Life in Iraq Under US Occupation  ---  http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=14323457    
(MySpcVid 14m26s - Jul 28, 2007)    
CONG PROG CAUCUS: Dahlia Wasfi at Iraq Forum  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELjgVq6GtPA    
(YuTb 6m14s Sept 22, 2006) - Src:  Politicstv  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/Politicstv    
Dahlia Wasfi: Ain’t Nothin’ Green About the Green Zone  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6437050627977537160    
(Gogl Vid 33m28s 33:28 1yr)    
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'1000s GIs may face trial over torture'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/217406.html 
Contains Video - A quote...."Sat Dec 24, 2011 3:26AM GMT - It's a very deep concern that as many as 10,000 Americans may face prosecution” for involvement in subjecting Iraqi prisoners to torture and ruthless treatment during the US war with Iraq, said Gordon Duff, a senior editor of Veterans Today Journal, in an interview with our channel on Thursday." 
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Syria: Twin suicide bombs shake capital, 30 dead  ---  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/syria-twin-suicide-bombs-shake-114140459.html 
A quote...."DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Twin suicide car bomb blasts ripped through an upscale Damascus district Friday, targeting security and intelligence buildings and killing at least 30 people, Syrian authorities said." - Related articles shown below..... 
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Syrian Rebels led by NATO-Libya, Al-Qaeda Commander, Obedience, Speculators & More
  ---  http://www.infowars.com/syrian-rebels-led-by-nato-libya-al-qaeda-commander-obedience-speculators-more/    
Free Syrian Army commanded by Military Governor of Tripoli
  ---  http://www.voltairenet.org/Free-Syrian-Army-commanded-by    
Alt  ---  http://www.infowars.com/free-syria-army-now-led-by-nato-libya-al-qaeda-commander/    
Alt  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/12/natos-al-qaeda-goes-to-syria.html    
Al-Qaeda Terrorists Airlifted From Libya to Aid Syrian Opposition
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/al-qaeda-terrorists-airlifted-from-libya-to-aid-syrian-opposition.html    
How al-Qaeda Men Came to power in Libya
  ---  http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_waronterror54.htm    
Free Syrian Army commanded by Military Governor of Tripoli
  ---  http://www.americanpendulum.com/2011/12/20/free-syrian-army-commanded-by-military-governor-of-tripoli/    
Military Commander of Tripoli, Belhadj, Has Men in Libya
  ---  http://www.themoneyparty.org/main/?p=3250    
An African Base of Operations for More Terror - 10-26-11 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/anafricanbaseofoperationsformoreterror-mpg-reficultnias-102611    
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Assuming the Syrian government didn't copy the US-NRE's long history  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html  ---  of staging false flag attacks, and given al-CIA'da's already well established history in the Middle East of using suicide bombers it's doubtful it was the Syrians, it therefore appears these suicide bombings were carried out by NATO & US-NRE supported al-CIA'da elements.  In other words to all those Zio-Worshipping morons  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/justhowstupiddoyouhavetobe-mpg-reficultnias-111811  ---  out there who have supported the PNAC Protocols  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409  ---  and the "Trinity of Evil"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810  ---  including these policies in Syria....YOU, are the terrorist supporters.  According to the NDAA legislation just passed by the US-NRE's legislature, all of you can now  --  LEGALLY --   be rounded up, tortured, and imprisoned for the rest of your lives, without any recourse to the rule of law, Habeas Corpus, or Judicial review whatsoever.  Will it happen as a practical matter, probably not, however the question is, is it perfectly "legal" according to this legislation to do so, to even execute anyone who has ever supported these policies?  Yes...it is. -- Just to let all you Neocons know.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/asknotforwhomthebelltolls-mpg-reficultnias-101311  ---  Thank God the NDAA legislation is utterly illegal and unconstitutional on its face and totally unenforceable.  - mpg 
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Thud of the Jackboot  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/23/thud-of-the-jackboot/ 
A quote...."Too bad Kim Jong-il kicked the bucket last weekend. If the divine hand that laid low the North Korean leader had held off for a week or so, Kim would have been sustained by the news that President Obama is signing into law a bill that puts the United States not immeasurably far from the Democratic People’s Republic of  Korea in contempt of constitutional protections for its citizens, or constitutional restraints upon criminal behavior sanctioned by the state. -- At least the DPRK doesn’t trumpet its status as the last best sanctuary of liberty. American politicians, starting with the president, do little else."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30064.htm 
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Congress To Fund Massive Expansion Of TSA Checkpoints
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/congress-to-fund-massive-expansion-of-tsa-checkpoints.html 
A quote...."Congress is set to give the green light on funding for a massive expansion of TSA checkpoints, with the federal agency already responsible for over 9,000 such checkpoints in the last year amidst increased fears America is turning into a police state following the passage of the ‘indefinite detention’ bill."
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2012 Crackdown Coming – Charlie McGrath  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/12/23/2012-crackdown-coming-charlie-mcgrath/ 
CMcGVideo - Alt#1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/crabbydogtrix#p/a/u/1/39-EJwRbPvo  ---  Alt#2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39-EJwRbPvo  ---  (CMcGYuTb - 2min53sec - Dec 22, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/crabbydogtrix 
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Total Despotism in America with Constitutional Lawyer Bruce Fein
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/total-despotism-in-america-with-constitutional-lawyer-bruce-fein.html 
AJVideoBruceFein(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obHc6UrV_6k  ---  BruceFein(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UqpL_CsOaY  ---  (AJYuTb - 12/14min - Dec 22, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Bruce Fein, constitutional lawyer and advisor to Ron Paul, will join Alex to discuss the Texas Congressman's unprecedented bid for the presidency" not against all odds, but certainly against the system still clinging to the status quo." 
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ONLY Adherence to the Constitution qualifies ANYONE to be President - why?
  ---  http://americansjourney.blogspot.com/2011/12/only-adherence-to-constitution.html 
A quote...."Think about it - if the Devil himself ran for President - and the Devil himself abided by the Constitution - we'd be living in a helluva' lot better place than we are now - because there would be no indefinite detention, no selling guns to drug kingpins in Mexico without conquences, no torture (cruel and unusual punishment as the Devil himself is famous for) - none of this is possible when one abides by the constitution. - No more pre-emptive wars based on lies, no more anything not specifically stated as the limits on the power of the government created to serve We the People without the Rule of Law." 
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FAIL! Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann, Huntsman & Santorum FAILED to get 10k signatures to be in Virginia Primary!
  ---  http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2011/12/fail-gingrich-perry-bachmann-huntsman.html 
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."This is just too good and funny! - Gingrich, Bachmann, Huntsman, Santorum and Perry could not come up with 10,000 signatures to be in the Virginia Primary for their names to be on the ballot. - But Paul and Romney did get the 10,000 signatures needed." 
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An Independent America: Voters leaving Republican, Democratic parties in droves
  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/independent-america-voters-leaving.html 
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."A recent analysis conducted by USA Today showed that American voters are fed up with both mainstream political parties and are leaving them in droves. -- The newspaper claims that "More than 2.5 million voters have left the Democratic and Republican parties since the 2008 elections." 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens.... 

The Economic Solutions Of Vampires  ---  http://www.alt-market.com/articles/438-the-economic-solutions-of-vampires 
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."Just as in nature, the economic world has its own bloodsucking vermin in the form of banking elites which are a wretched drain on the whole of the human race.  Without their vicious and predatory presence, I envision a world so rapturously above and beyond what we wallow in today that it is impossible to describe.  The disgust many feel when considering the virulent feeding habits of the common mosquito or the slithering leech does nothing to compare to the utter gut churning revulsion I feel when studying the financial habits of banks like the Federal Reserve and the “too big to fails”.  They are without a doubt the most malignant form of social cancer imaginable." - also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Economic_Solutions_Of_Vampires/17155/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
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The Perfect Heist: Why Government Theft Continues To Go Unnoticed
  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/12/perfect-heist-why-government-theft.html 
A quote...."This week, we doff our caps to the folks at the European Central Bank. They’ve pulled off the perfect heist. - The euro-feds have opened the valves…turned on the spigots…and let nearly a half trillion euros worth of liquidity flow directly into the very same banks that have proven they can’t be trusted with a penny. - But that’s how a zombie system works. The living give. The monsters get.
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U.S. Homes Lose $700 Billion in Value in 2011 -- and That's the Good News
  ---  http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/12/23/u-s-homes-lose-700-billion-in-value-in-2011-and-thats-the-go/ 
A quote...."The year-end housing news is sobering -- U.S. homes are expected to lose more than $681 billion in value in 2011. But there's an upside -- that's 35% less than the $1.1 trillion lost in 2010, according to new research from Zillow (Z), a real estate information marketplace." 
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The ECB blew away €500 billion, and the markets still fell
  ---  http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100125778/the-ecb-blew-away-e500-billion-and-the-markets-still-fell/ 
A quote...."I'm not sure people have grasped the magnitude of what has just happened. The European Central Bank firehosed €489,190,000,000 at the eurozone banking system. Five-hundred-and-twenty-three banks snatched greedily at the cheap cash. And the markets fell. - This blog has been railing for three years against the EU's bailout-and-borrow mania. I am, I realise, in danger of becoming something of a bore on the subject. But these sums are almost literally unimaginable." 
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Bob Chapman: Injured Global Economy Ponders Coming Challenges
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/11/V3ztxkzSUDE 
AJVideo - BobChapmen(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3ztxkzSUDE  ---  BobChapmen(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q983sUv_rmc  ---  (AJYuTb - 12/14min - Dec 23, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Debt repayment is a subject few want to discuss, or that few understand. We know most of the largest banks in the world are broke along with at least 6-euro zone nations. There are many others, but the most concerning are the debts of major nations, which are supposedly solvent. Needless to say the US is deeply indebted and the Super-Congress Enabling Committee couldn't even lay politics aside to cut spending increases." 
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S&P drops second downgrade clanger on Goldman Sachs
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8974509/SandP-drops-second-downgrade-clanger-on-Goldman-Sachs.html 
(a.k.a. a member of the MBS crime syndicate turns on another....will wonders never cease?) - mpg -- A quote...."Details posted on the agency’s website suggested Goldman had been downgraded from AA- to A+ but in an embarrassing admission a spokesman for the agency said there had been no change to the bank’s rating." 
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Lehman Banker, Budget Expert Picked to Steer Spain’s Economy
  ---  http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-22/lehman-banker-budget-expert-picked-to-steer-spain-s-economy.html 
A former member of a financial crime syndicate which participated with others who broke into your house, stole half your wealth, and totally trashed the place (economically speaking) and what do you do?  You put one of these members in charge of the remaining half of your wealth.  All you can do is just shake your head in utter wonder. - mpg 
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Email sent out by Roger Weigand (Trader Rog) to David Morgan (Silver-Investor) - Something Odd is happening with the Banks in Europe and exchanges Today 12/24/11.  ---  http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2011/12/email-sent-out-by-roger-weigand-trader.html  ---  Financial Alert - A quote...."Trader Tracks Situational Alert Saturday, 12-24-11 - Christmas Eve at 740am PST - Roger Wiegand -Traderrog: "We have received a report of unusual banking activity. Banking screens on 138 different currencies are show 00.000.  Some rate fluctuations are beginning to appear. There have been no answers on this activity but banks have been notified to expect a large change in currency rates. -- In our view, what is happening is a massive devaluation in probably the Euro Currency relative to the values versus individual nations. The ECB loaned over $600 Billion (produced out of thin air with no collateral) last week to European Central Bank Member Nations. We think this next step is to re-configure the values of the Euro within each member country. " 
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World banks brace for euro collapse  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/149669 
Financial Alert - A quote...."Banks around the world are preparing for the possible collapse of the euro as fears of the European debt crisis increase. - Several banks are even installing systems capable of coping with trading in old European currencies. - Meanwhile finance firms, corporations, and different governments have also turned to plans that aim at preparing them for harsh times. - Regulators have asked banks in the US and UK to provide updates on readiness levels in case of a possible euro collapse." 
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Summarizing The Global Balance Sheet's Negative Feedback Loop Of Debt
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/summarizing-global-balance-sheets-negative-feedback-loop-debt 
Charts / Graphs - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."Global governments are carrying more debt than ever and raising question as to whether or not a second — and perhaps even more dangerous credit crisis — is inevitable. The clock is ticking and every second, the world takes on more debt. In 2001, global government debt totaled $18.2 trillion. Fast-forward a decade, and the figure now totals nearly $44 trillion, an increase of 140 percent (more than 9.0% a year). The chart below depicts the countries with the highest and lowest debt levels." - Topix || The End-Stage Process of Mature Fiat-Currency-Capitalism - 11-30-11 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theendstageprocessofmaturefiatcurrencycapitalism-mpg-reficultnias-113011 
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Why I Am Hopeful  ---  http://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec11/why-im-hopeful12-11.html 
A quote...."Why am I hopeful? the Status Quo is devolving, and a better way of living lies just beyond the corrupt, wasteful, ruinous consumerist debt/financial tyranny we now inhabit." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Military Buildup Worldwide: The Globalization of War  ---  http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/12/military-buildup-worldwide-globalization-war 
GRVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSd0_GsGREI  ---  (GRYuTb - 13min55sec - Dec 23, 2011) - GlobalResearchTV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/GlobalResearchTV  ---  A quote...."The world's attention is increasingly focused on Syria and Iran as the region continues to move toward military confrontation. Less noticed, however, is that the pieces are being put into place for a truly global conflict, with military buildup taking place in every region and threatening to draw in all of the world's major powers." 
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'US targeting Russian nuclear facilities'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/217013.html 
Contains Video - A quote...."A prominent political activist says that the deployment of a US-led NATO missile system in Europe “is actually aimed at Russia's nuclear capability”, and not intended for Iran's ballistic missiles." 
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After 10 years, US blames Iran for 9/11  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/24/after-10-years-us-blames-iran-for-911/ 
A quote...."It’s of dubious legality and the finding is quite preposterous on its face. When President Ahmadinejad addressed the UN and called for a new investigation suggesting that the US and Israel were involved in 9/11, the New York Times was besieged with letters claiming that al-Qaeda was responsible. So who was it – Iran or al-Qaeda? -- Fifteen of the alleged highjackers were from Saudi Arabia – So why not Saudi Arabia? Well… they’re our friends – Let’s blame it on Saddam Hussein. Even George W. Bush would eventually admit that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Independent investigations by the Senate and The Pentagon concluded that there was no collusion between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda." 
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US Blaming Iran for 9/11: Unbelievable!  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/24/us-blaming-iran-for-911-unbelievable/ 
A quote...."The 9/11 commission report was a complete hoax. Philip Zelikow [executive director of the 9/11 Commission] was a Neo-conservative and therefore wasn’t disinterested enough to be conducting such an investigation. - And apparently his academic field of expertise was “the creation and maintenance of public myths” which is nonsensical although I must say one doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry when one hears these things." 
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U.S Threat to Attack Iran with Nukes is "Criminal"  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28337 
A quote...."The U.S. today is threatening to attack Iran “under the completely bogus pretext” that it might have a nuclear weapon, a distinguished American international legal authority says." 
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Inside Iran: Rick Steves' Travel Journal - The Most fascinating and surprising land I've ever visited  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30062.htm 
Video Travel Log - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D61uriEGsIM  ---  (YuTb - 55min53sec - Feb 23, 2011) - Source:  doostmusic  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/doostmusic  ---  A quote...."We produced the TV show to understand and humanize Iran. I've written this to share my personal experiences, lessons learned, and opinions that were shaped by my trip. And it's your chance to wander with me behind-the-scenes in this rich, perplexing society. I hope you enjoy this journal, and the TV show." 
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2011 YEAR of the DUPE: One Year into the Engineered "Arab Spring," One Step Closer to Global Hegemony
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28343 
A quote...."dupe (dp, dyp) - def. n. 
  1. An easily deceived person.    
  2. A person who functions as the tool of another person or power.    
"tr.v. duped, dup·ing, dupes To deceive (an unwary person). -- December 24, 2011 - In January of 2011, we were told that "spontaneous," "indigenous" uprising had begun sweeping North Africa and the Middle East in what was hailed as the "Arab Spring." It would be almost four months before the corporate-media would admit that the US had been behind the uprisings and that they were anything but "spontaneous," or "indigenous." In an April 2011 article published by the New York Times titled, "U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings," it was stated...." 
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Those Peaceful Suicide Bombers In Syria  ---  http://www.moonofalabama.org/2011/12/those-peaceful-suicide-bombers-in-syria.html 
A quote...."As we have written before  ---  http://www.moonofalabama.org/2011/06/more-thoughts-on-syria.html  ---  the peaceful protests involved massive violence against security force at least since mid April while the numbers of killed protesters are made up  ---  http://www.moonofalabama.org/2011/12/uns-navi-pillay-makes-up-syrian-casualties-numbers.html  ---  or from dubious sources.  ---  http://www.moonofalabama.org/2011/05/wapo-pulls-number-of-dead-from-hot-air.html  ---  The U.S. and the Saudis who finance this revolt better wake up now to what their instigation is causing. The blowback from a destabilized Syria would be huge." - Excellent!!  It means the "long war" can continue, with a whole NEW set of US-NRE & Saudi Royal supported "terrorist" cadres! - mpg 
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U.S. behind Syria attacks: Hezbollah  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/1447-us-behind-syria-attacks-hezbollah-.html 
A quote...."BEIRUT: Hezbollah accused the United States Friday of orchestrating the suicide bombings that ripped through the Syrian capital earlier in the day killing over 40 people and wounding scores more." 
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Iran Starts Massive Naval Wargames in Int'l Waters - Iran's getting ready. - mpg 
  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/iran/1448-iran-starts-massive-naval-wargames-in-intl-waters.html
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's naval forces started massive wargames in international waters in the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean on Saturday." 
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The March to War: Iran and the Strategic Encirclement of Syria and Lebanon  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28018 
A quote...."The encirclement of Syria and Lebanon has long been in the works. Since 2001, Washington and NATO have started the process of cordoning off Lebanon and Syria. The permanent NATO presence in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Syrian Accountability Act are part of this initiative. It appears that this roadmap is based on a 1996 Israeli document aimed at controlling Syria. The document’s name is A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm." - Topix ||  9/11-Planning Guidance Docs - A Clean Break  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409 
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CIA Suspends Drone Missile Strikes in Pakistan: Report - Victory for Pakistan!!! 
  ---  http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/753516/cia_suspends_drone_missile_strikes_in_pakistan:_report/
A quote...."LOS ANGELES — The US Central Intelligence Agency has suspended drone missile strikes on gatherings of low-ranking militants in Pakistan due to tensions with that country, according to The Los Angeles Times. - Citing unnamed current and former US officials, the newspaper said late Friday the undeclared halt in CIA attacks is aimed at reversing a sharp erosion of trust between the two countries." 
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Afghan soldier kills two US troops  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/217581.html 
A quote...."An Afghan soldier has opened fire on American troops, killing at least two of them and injuring five others in western Afghanistan, Press TV reports." 
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Iron Dome Defense Missiles Seized by Finland, Labeled “Fireworks” - 69 Newest Patriot Missiles Bound For Reds
  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/12/breaking-patriot-missiles-seized-sold.html 
A quote...."Finnish authorities have confirmed the seizure of 69 Patriot missiles manufactured by Raytheon Corporation today. - During a routine search of the MS Thor Liberty, a ship flagged by the Isle of Man, at the Finnish port of Kotka, authorities found 69 Patriot missiles of a type capable of intercepting ICBMs, the most modern available and America’s most sensitive military technology." 
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Turkey accuses France of genocide in Algeria  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/23/turkey-accuses-france-genocide-algeria 
A quote...."Turkish prime minister ramps up diplomatic spat, saying French killed 15% of Algeria's population during postwar occupation." 
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Preparing for the next Anglo-American Oil War: Somalia is the Next Target  ---  http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28340 
A quote...."Mogadishu—Britain is apparently preparing its troops for the next oil war in Africa after Prime Minister considered Somalia as a “failed state” that has been threatening Britain’s interests and security.As the British government considered Libya’s regime change as a victory of the Nato forces, it is now looking for its next humanitarian intervention in oil-rich states in the Middle East and Africa." 
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Egypt: Islamists consolidate gains in 2nd round of parliamentary elections  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/
world/middle-east/egypt-islamists-consolidate-gains-in-2nd-round-of-parliamentary-elections/2011/12/24/gIQA9JEMFP_print.html 
A quote...."CAIRO — Islamist parties have consolidated earlier gains in Egypt’s multistage parliamentary elections, winning nearly 70 percent of the seats determined so far, according to results announced Saturday." - bold by website editor 
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13 killed in clashes between Yemeni gov't forces, protesters  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2011-12/25/c_122478938.htm 
A quote...."SANAA, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from clashes between forces loyal to Yemeni outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh and tens of thousands of southern protesters rose to 13 while 200 others were injured, medics and officials said Saturday." 
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New Tunisian govt. sworn in  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/217569.html 
A quote...."Tunisia's first freely elected government has been sworn in, a year after the start of a popular uprising that ended the 23-year authoritarian rule of ousted President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali earlier this year." 
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Regarding the Russian Election..... 

Russian election exit polls  ---  http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/12/04/61523332.html 
Election Exit Poll Results - A quote...."According to Russia’s VTSIOM United Russia  received 48,5% at the Duma elections, Communist Party -19,8%, Just Russia - 12,8%, The Liberal Democratic party -11,42%, Yabloko - 4,17%, The Right Cause - 1,1%, The Patriots of Russia - 0,9%." - Actual election results from Wikipedia  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Russia 
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Actual Election Results  

United Russia               
Communist Party       
A Just Russia          
Liberal Dem Party         
Yabloko                         
Patriots of Russia     
Right Cause
Total     450                 
Valid ballot papers    
Invalid ballot paper
52.88%
20.46%  
14.21%    
12.45% 
0%
0%   
0%  
100%
98.43%
1.57%   
32,379,135  
12,599,507
8,695,522 
7,664,570
2,252,403
639,119
392,806  
64,623,062
64,623,062
1,033,464 

Eligible voters       109,237,780     Turnout: 60.10% 

"....articles that do not address the accuracy of Iran's [Russia's] electoral process for the purposes of this controversy, and instead essentially advocate the violent overthrow of its elected government may not be posted.  Websites posted on Reficultnias which do not address these issues in regards to this controversy may be removed. - mpg" -- *It's The Votes That Count - 06-28-09 - mpg*  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/itsthevotesthatcount-mpg-reficultnias-062809 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

Right-wing attack group caught fabricating quotes in effort to smear critics of Israel
  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/right-wing-attack-group-caught-fabricating-quotes-in-effort-to-smear-critics-of-israel.html 
A quote...."Smearing critics of Israel as anti-Semitic may have cost Josh Block a perch at a Washington think tank, but right-wing groups continue to use the slur to attack those in solidarity with Palestinians. This time, though, the right-wing Zionist group Stand With Us (SWU) was caught pushing fabricated quotes in an effort to attack an upcoming boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) conference in Pennsylvania." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/right-wing-attack-group-caught-fabricating-quotes-in-effort-to-smear-critics-of-israel/ 
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Arabic place names erased in Municipality’s campaign to Hebrew-ize Jerusalem  ---  http://silwanic.net/?p=23120 
A quote...."Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) --  The Jerusalem Municipality has ramped up its on-going campaign to alter the identity of Jerusalem and its place names, changing many Arabic street names in East Jerusalem to Hebrew ones." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/arabic-place-names-erased-in-municipalitys-campaign-to-hebrew-ize-jerusalem/  ---  for more on this sort of issue see the articles and comment shown below..... 
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Palestinians tell Gingrich to learn history after 'invented people' claim
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/10/palestinians-gingrich-history-invented-people    
Palestinians condemn Newt Gingrich for saying they are an 'invented' people  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/8948697     /US-election-2012-Palestinians-condemn-Newt-Gingrich-for-saying-they-are-an-invented-people.html    
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"Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now, the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history, and you are part of it. Six hundred years ago, when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Plague, Kasmierz the Great, so called, told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled; they took hold; they prospered in business, science, education, the arts. They came here with nothing. Nothing. And they flourished. For six centuries, there has been a Jewish Krakow. Think about that. By this evening, those six centuries are a rumor. They never happened. Today is history." -- *Amon Göth *, SS Captain of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w-P%C5%82asz%C3%B3w_concentration_camp  ---  as portrayed in the movie Schindler's List  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_List 
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Swedish research professor: Norway attack appears to be state-sponsored
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Swedish_research_professor%3A_Norway_attack_appears_to_be_state-sponsored/17153/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
A quote...."“We have discussed the right-wing extremist Israeli and Judeo-Christian side of Breivik’s network, Israel’s interest in disciplining Norway, and Israel’s celebration of bomb attacks. In this respect, Breivik’s attack appears to resemble a new king David Hotel attack: July 22nd,” he writes." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Helen Thomas: Israel should get that Hamas was chosen democratically
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/helen-thomas-israel-should-get-that-hamas-was-chosen-democratically/ 
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Noted US journalist Helen Thomas told a Hebrew newspaper that she wonders why Israel cannot absorb the idea that the Palestinian people elected Hamas Movement democratically. - “I do not know why it is difficult for Israel to believe that the Palestinian people elected Hamas,” she told Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper." - also posted at OccupiedPalestine  ---  http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/helen-thomas-israel-should-get-that-hamas-was-chosen-democratically/ 
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Eshtayya: “Palestinian Lands Are For the Palestinians, Not For Settlements”  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62723 
A quote...."Mohammad Eshtayya, member of the Central Committee of Fateh movement, headed by Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government, must understand that the Palestinian lands are for the Palestinian people, and not for the illegal Israeli settlements." 
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[IOF] Troops Attack Bil’in Weekly Protest; Dozens Injured  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62722 
A quote...."Israeli soldiers attacked on Friday the weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall and settlements, in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah." 
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Friday December 23rd 2011 - links page 

No posts. - mpg