Tuesday January 1st 2008 - links
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From
hyperpower to new world disorder ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18985.htm
A quote...."01/01/08 "Toronto Star " -- -- "We seek your leadership.
But if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the
rest of us. Please get out of our way." - Kevin Conrad, delegate from
Papua New Guinea, at the Bali summit on climate change earlier this
month, to a U.S. delegation that tried to thwart reforms agreed to by
the other 185 nations present. - It became more apparent than ever this
year that the U.S. is no longer the world's lone superpower. Instead,
there are five superpowers that will define the world for at least the
next half-century: the U.S., China, India, Russia and a united Europe."
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How
Britain became party to a crime that may have killed a million people
--- http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2233736,00.html
A quote...."It has become fashionable to scoff at these rules and to
dismiss those who support them as pedants and prigs, but they are all
that stand between us and the greatest crimes in history. The
International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg ruled that "to initiate a
war of aggression ... is not only an international crime; it is the
supreme international crime". The tribunal's charter placed "planning,
preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression" at the top of
the list of war crimes."
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It Will Happen Every Single Time <<<
Anglo-American
Ambitions behind the Assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the
Destabilization of Pakistan
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7699
Must Read - A
quote...."It has been known for months that the Bush-Cheney
administration and its allies have been manuevering to strengthen their
political control of Pakistan, paving the way for the expansion and
deepening of the “war on terrorism” across the region. The
assassination of Benazir Bhutto does not change this agenda. In fact,
it simplifies Bush-Cheney’s options."
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Blowback from an
Unholy Alliance - The U.S. and Pakistan After 9/11
--- http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp12292007.html
Must Read - Some
quotes...."In Afghanistan, the Taliban was told that Washington would
not distinguish between terrorists and the regimes that harbor them.
The Taliban was of course one of the fundamentalist Islamist groups
emerging from the long U.S. effort (1979-93) to topple the
Soviet-supported secular regime. The Taliban in power from 1996 had
netted some aid from a Washington deeply interested in Afghan oil
pipeline construction, and also received aid and diplomatic support
from Pakistan. Pakistan's CIA (the Inter-Service Intelligence or ISI)
had helped create the Taliban in order (as Benazir Bhutto later
explained) to secure the trade route into Central Asia." --
"Maybe Musharraf will now cancel the election. Maybe he will hold it,
arranging to win big. Either way, Washington analysts agree his
position is weakened by the assassination. Pakistan, more or less
stable as of 2001, has in the interval been knocked off balance by U.S.
action in the region. Told it must be for or against the U.S., it was
obliged to obey, with grim results."
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Pakistan
'could be another Somalia' ---
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article3298383.ece
A quote...."Asif Zardari, husband of murdered Pakistani opposition
leader Benazir Bhutto, has called for President Pervez Musharraf to
resign and warned that the country could turn into another Somalia. -
He also poured scorn on the government's claim that al-Qa'ida was
behind the attack on Ms Bhutto. Instead he blamed "the establishment,
which is bigger than Musharraf himself"."I don't think we're as yet a
threat to Al-Qa'ida. We weren't in government. Why aren't they killing
off the existing structure of the government? Why would they come after
us?" he said. "There are definitely some in-house games going on, which
either nobody is aware of or are scared to unearth," he said, speaking
from his wife's home in her ancestral village of Naudero, where he and
the children continued to mourn her loss yesterday."
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Regarding the three articles shown above.....The one country in the
entire Middle East that hasn't yet been occupied by the US,
ALSO doesn't
have US bases on it's soil, doesn't allow "
aid" or "
help" to be
given to it by the US, doesn't do "
business" with
the US and doesn't allow the US to sponsor "freedom
fighters", "terrorists", "bad boys", or other assorted groups within
its borders....it therefore
happens
to be
the
one country in the Middle East not yet torn apart by an orgy of
sectarian bloodshed, destruction or civil war.
That country is called Iran.
Get the point folks? Is everybody out there finally getting the
message?
If you still don't understand....why don't you go look at a map and
think
about it for a while?
ALL
the countries in the Middle East will sooner of later look like Iraq,
this has
ALWAYS
been the US's intention; it is
The
Method ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
--- the US elites use. They cannot abide any viable Middle
Eastern "nation state" with oil and/or a geopolitical position that is
not beholden to them. That is a demonstrable fact.
What happened to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon,
and the Palestinians will happen
EVERY SINGLE
TIME to any nation that allows the US onto its territory or
whose officials do "
business"
with the US elites
It will eventually even happen to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Gulf
states as soon as the US is done "
helping" the
other countries in the Middle East. – mpg
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For more on this see....
The
US's New Map of the Middle East
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/newmemap-peters-nwa-cached-092507
See also....
Divide and
rule
--- http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m37133&s1=h1
See also....
The
Plan --
according to U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.) YouTube - 1.37 min
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXS3vW47mOE
See also....
US
Support of Terror
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306
See also....
US
Sponsored Civil Wars
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussponsoredcivilwars-weblist-mpg-101107
See also....
Iraqi
politicians blast vote in U.S. Senate on partition
---
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/01/MNL4SH9N7.DTL
See also....
[US]
Senate Endorses Plan to Divide Iraq
---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/26/AR2007092601506.html
See also....
Kuwait's
ruler rejects any partition of Iraq
---
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=
---
2007-10-04T091435Z_01_L04504616_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-KUWAIT.xml
See also....
Al-Maliki
rejects Senate proposal to partition Iraq
---
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/333678_iraq29.html
See also....
Iraq's
Shiites and Sunnis reject US partition idea
---
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/140838-Iraq%27s+Shiites+and+Sunnis+reject+US+partition+idea
See also....
US
Senate votes to divide Iraq
---
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22490525-2703,00.html
See also....
US
support Death Sqds
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/usdeathsquads-weblist-cmplt-111406
See also....
False
Flag Ops - Al-Askari Mosque Bombing
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#AL-ASKARI_MOSQUE
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Report:
Bhutto was no more US friend ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=37137§ionid=351020401
A quote...."Benazir Bhutto had distanced herself from a US-brokered
deal between her and the Pakistani President before her death, reports
say. - The Washington Post reported that former Pakistani PM Bhutto had
sent a written complaint to a senior State Department official saying
that her camp no longer viewed the backstage US move as a good-will
effort towards democracy. "
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Pakistan
Government Backtracks on Cause of Bhutto's Death ---
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/152268
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's Caretaker Interior
Minister Hamid Nawaz Khan at a news briefing Monday apologized for
comments made by his ministry's spokesman claiming that former prime
minister Benazir Bhutto died of a skull fracture after hitting her head
against a sunroof hatch during a suicide attack, the Hindustan Times
reports. "
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Pakistan:
The Beginning of the Storm ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18983.htm
A quote...." At GrandeStrategy, we believe that the fundamental battle
taking place in Pakistan is between the secular and western-based
educated pro-American elites, against the Islam-championing hard core
religious types. The former we shall here on refer to as the Secular
Pakistanis, while the latter we shall represent as the Islamist
Pakistanis, merely to ease the writing of this article, not to imply
any deeper meaning, as to what "Islamists" are or what represents
"Secular".
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Lockheed
to supply 18 F-16s to Pakistan ---
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc04/idUSN3159264420071231
A quote...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp LMT.N> was
awarded a $498.2 million contract to supply F-16 aircraft to Pakistan,
the Pentagon said on Monday, as Pakistani officials mulled whether to
go ahead with a January 8 election after the assassination of
opposition leader Benazir Bhutto."
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Musharraf's
Watergate? -Physicians Coerced by Military; Nawaz: Musharraf Must Go
---
http://www.juancole.com/2008/01/musharrafs-watergate-physicians-coerced.html
A quote...."An attorney for the physicians who put out the story that
Ms. Bhutto died of a concussion went to CNN on Monday and said that his
clients were pressured by the military. They appear not to have
actually agreed with the concussion story, and felt coerced but could
not speak out because they had been threatened with being fired if they
did."
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Doctors
Cite Pressure to Keep Silent On Bhutto ---
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/31/AR2007123102493_pf.html
A quote...."RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Dec. 31 -- Pakistani authorities have
pressured the medical personnel who tried to save Benazir Bhutto's life
to remain silent about what happened in her final hour and have removed
records of her treatment from the facility, according to doctors."
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Pakistan
gov't accused of cover-up - Al-Qaida denies involvement in slaying
despite official accusations
---
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7702
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Islamic militants said Saturday they
had no link to Benazir Bhutto's assassination, dismissing government
claims that a leader of pro-Taliban forces in Pakistan carried out the
suicide attack on the opposition leader."
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Ohio
Guard call-up said to be largest since WW II - posted at
BuzzFlash ---
http://www.buzzflash.com/
---
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071231/NEWS24/712310371/-1/NEWS
War Alert - A
quote...."COLUMBUS - The U.S. military is giving the Ohio
National Guard its biggest call-up since World War II this week,
sending about 1,600 troops to Kuwait, with some of them going on to
Iraq."
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Iran
hit by gas cuts after Turkmenistan halts supplies
---
http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2007/12/31/iran_hit_by_gas_cuts_after_turkmenistan_halts_supplies/afp/
A quote...."TEHRAN (AFP) A dozen Iranian cities suffered gas cuts on
Monday amid freezing winter temperatures after Turkmenistan completely
halted the export of gas to its southern neighbour, energy officials
said."
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Russian-Indian
BrahMos JV buys plant to double missile production ---
http://en.rian.ru/world/20071231/95020449.html
A quote...."NEW DELHI, December 31 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian-Indian
joint venture BrahMos has bought a manufacturing plant in south India
to double production of its supersonic cruise missiles, a company
spokesman said on Monday."
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Chavez
Pardons Accused Coup Backers ---
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7188839,00.html
Special Note - A
quote...."CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez granted
amnesty Monday to many opponents accused of supporting a failed 2002
coup that briefly drove him from power. - Chavez said he signed an
amnesty decree that would also pardon many others accused of attempts
to overthrow his government in recent years. It was not immediately
clear how many accused opponents would be affected by the amnesty, or
how many of them were in prison. - ``It's a matter of turning the
page,'' Chavez said in a telephone call to state television on New
Year's Eve. ``We would like a country that moves toward peace.''
OH MY GAWD! That dastardly, Dictator Hugo Chavez went and did
something awful.....he pardoned all those guys who tried to overthrow
him. Just how low and despicable can you get? – mpg
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Turkey
and Indonesia Muslim Success Stories - Economic Upturn in Egypt -
http://www.juancole.com/2008/01/turkey-and-indonesia-muslim-success.html
A quote...."
One
explanation for Egypt's growth in the past half-decade is that the Gulf
oil states are at last investing in local economies. The United
States has made it unpleasant for Saudis and Qataris to come to the US,
and investors like to be able to visit the places they park big
capital. So, some of them are investing in Egypt, which has cheap
labor, an increasing literacy rate, and expanding rates of internet
use." - bold/italics by website author.
The Muslims could have had their "European Union" thirty years ago if
they weren't so stupid, and if their elites weren't so busy cozening up
to some of the racketeers in the Western nations. - mpg
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STRATCOM
Global Strike Command To Further National Guard Cooperation
--- http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=5135
A quote...."The Louisiana National Guard is ready, willing and able to
support Air Force Cyber Command at Barksdale Air Force Base, the
state's top military leader says. - And the ranking general at the base
says talks are under way to expand cooperation between units there and
the state's uniformed services."
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U.S. and Britain:
“Endemic Surveillance Societies” ---
http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1475
A quote...."According to Privacy International, a human rights group an
watchdog on surveillance and privacy, Britain and the United States are
in the lowest category when it comes to privacy and government
snooping. “Greece, Romania and Canada had the best privacy records of
47 countries surveyed by Privacy International, which is based in
London. Malaysia, Russia and China were ranked worst,” reports the
Associated Press."
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Are
You Scheduled for Political-Termination? HR 1955 & S.1959
--- http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/24/18468748.php
A quote...."Starting February 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) will put into effect “Advance Passenger Information System
(APIS).” U.S. Citizens will need permission from the United States
Government to travel on air and sea vessels from or through the U.S.
That includes foreign visitors."
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If
People Thought 2007 Was Bad... ---
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1785
A quote...."Few would doubt that 2007 was the worst year in the history
of the United States. It was the year that oh-so-many long-lost
Republican-created disaster chickens came home to roost. There will be
more returning in 2008 and it won't get any better. And guess what?
Democrats will be blamed for everything."
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Death
By Election ---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_071231_death_by_election.htm
A quote...."There must be a Star Trek episode (if there's not, there
should be) in which all the best minds in the leftist political
opposition on some planet are diverted into an obsession with a virtual
reality game, leaving all the right-wingers free to drive the planet
into inevitable war and destruction. A game is a harmless thing when
not put to such use. Elections are a fundamental pillar of democracy
when not put to such use. That makes the case I want to argue all the
more difficult. My thesis is that, if we do not change our thinking,
elections are going to be the death of U.S. democracy."
Dennis
Kucinich: A peace-seeking idealist to the core ---
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=48498
A quote...."The congressman from Ohio makes his second run for the
White House, wanting healthcare for all Americans and peace for the
world."
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KUCINICH
BACKS OBAMA IN IOWA - posted at
BuzzFlash
--- http://www.buzzflash.com/
---
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?pid=264482
A quote...."Barack Obama got a boost among progressive Democrats in
Iowa today when Dennis Kucinich announced that he was asking his
supporters to back Obama in the second round of voting at the caucus."
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Nader
Throws Support to Edwards, Blasts Clinton ---
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/01/6100/
A quote...."MUSCATINE, Iowa — Ralph Nader unleashed on Hillary Rodham
Clinton Monday - criticizing her for being soft on defense spending and
a chum of big business - and expressed his strong support for John
Edwards."
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The
Enablers Of Facism, The Mainstream News Media ---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_william__071230_the_enablers_of_faci.htm
A quote...."
The most recent event, which to me is the straw that is
breaking the camel’s back, is that Faux News has refused to
allow Ron Paul to participate in a Presidential debate (LINK)
---
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/press-releases/94/has-fox-news-excluded-ron-paul
--- that sounds the death knell for fair elections in America,
and now
corporatism (fascism), by and through the MSM, are now choosing who
will be our candidates for President by marginalizing anyone they see
as a threat to their unbridled efforts to corrupt our democratic
republic."
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Paul:
Fox News is 'scared of me' ---
http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/primarysource/2007/12/paul_fox_news_i.html
A quote...."PLAISTOW, N.H. -- Ron Paul said the decision to exclude him
from a debate on Fox News Sunday the weekend before the New Hampshire
Primary is proof that the network "is scared" of him."
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Now
we are human commodities ---
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18977.htm
A quote...."12/30/07 "ICH" ----- The corporation, it turns out, is an
invention of the British Crown through the creation of the East India
Company by Queen Elizabeth I in 1600, which, being the original,
transnational corporation, set today’s precedence for big businesses.
The East India Company, "found India rich and left it poor," says
author Nick Robin. The corporate structure of the East India Company
was deemed necessary to allow the British to exploit their colonies in
such a way that the owner of the enterprise was, for the first time,
separated from responsibility for how the enterprise behaved."
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Wartime
Origins of Modern Income-Tax Withholding ---
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2092
A quote...."Wars have always been the most important occasions for the
introduction of new forms of taxation. At the outset of a war the state
suddenly needs greatly increased revenues to pay for personnel and
matériel to prosecute the war. Although governments typically
increase the rates of existing explicit taxes and raise the rate of the
hidden “inflation tax” by abruptly augmenting the money stock, these
measures often prove insufficient, and other means must be devised to
extract resources from the public quickly. One way to capture more
revenue is to reduce tax evasion by seizing the people’s earnings
before the earners ever lay hands on them. This procedure has come to
be known as tax withholding at the source, or simply withholding."
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Gold
heads for largest yearly rise in 30 years ---
http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSL2759373620071231
A quote...."It has jumped more than 30 percent this year as a slide in
the dollar, record high oil prices, credit market turmoil, falling U.S.
interest rates and geopolitical tension helped to increase its
safe-haven appeal."
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Mortgage
crisis takes a bite out of states and cities ---
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-budget31dec31,1,526527.story?track=rss
A quote...."DENVER -- Dozens of states, counties and cities across the
nation will enter the new year facing deep and unexpected budget holes
as the widening mortgage crisis cuts sharply into tax revenue. -
Elected officials, scrambling to adjust, are trimming money for public
schools, reducing grants to help the homeless, even asking police to
dry-clean their uniforms less often."
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Top
economist says America could plunge into recession ---
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article3111659.ece
A quote...."Losses arising from America’s housing recession could
triple over the next few years and they represent the greatest threat
to growth in the United States, one of the world’s leading economists
has told The Times. - Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale
University, predicted that there was a very real possibility that the
US would be plunged into a Japan-style slump, with house prices
declining for years."
This is not rocket science folks. Houses were converted into
tradable "instruments" (CDO's CMO's, whatever) whose speculative value
were less transparent than derivatives. These instruments,
already questionable because of the way they were created and how they
were traded, were based on underlying assets, the mortgages and the
borrowers’ ability to pay them back, which in turn were artificially
inflated by a speculative housing boom that had doubled prices in five
years.
So it should come as no surprise that if you double a financial
"instrument's" value (what used to be called real estate and houses
before Wall Street got there hands on them) way above and beyond its
normal mean....that instrument will eventually revert back to its mean.
The last housing market decline which occurred in 1982 took eight years
to recover, this "perverted" market will take a lot longer to recover,
or the fall in prices will be a lot steeper, or both. – mpg
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Interview
with New York Times Bestselling Author Steve Alten ---
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20071228152432241
Author Interview -
911Truth.org interviews Steve Alten, author of "The Shell Game" - A
quote...."New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten is releasing a
novel January 22nd which addresses the 9/11 stand down, the injection
of false radar blips into air traffic controllers' screens, PNAC, the
9/11 Commission whitewash, the Anthrax attacks, and related issues. -
Written in the exciting, cloak-and-dagger style of Tom Clancy, the
novel -- The Shell Game -- has a shot at educating a large segment of
the American public who would otherwise remain in the dark about some
aspects of 9/11."
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Sunday December 30th 2007 - links
page
No posts - mpg
Saturday December 29th 2007 -
links page
No posts - mpg
Friday December 28th 2007 - links
page
How
to Erode and Destroy Democracy-- a Dozen Tested Strategies
---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_071228_how_to_erode_and_des.htm
A quote...."How to Kill Democracy - tips to fascists, dictators,
corporatists, militarists, imperialists, neocons, right wingers,
theocrats, theofascists and terrorists."
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Benazir
Bhutto said Osama bin Laden was dead ---
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/december2007/281207_said.htm
A quote...."And right on cue, shortly after former Pakistani premier
Bhutto's own slaying, two key al-Qaeda news items appear. First,
"senior US officials" are checking into an al-Qaeda claim of
responsibility for the assassination, and—lo and behold—"Osama" himself
will soon release a message regarding Iraq."
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Connivance
of establishment in Bhutto killing: Pakistani journo
--- http://in.news.yahoo.com/071227/43/6ox5i.html
A quote...."New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) The security and defence
establishment in Pakistan are to blame for the assassination of former
prime minister Benazir Bhutto, said senior Pakistani journalist Aroosa
Alam Thursday."
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False
Flag Watch: Was Bhutto Set-Up by the Musharraf Regime?
--- http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=5344
A quote..."The "facts" about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto are
shifting faster than sands in the desert right now. From shot to death
to no bullet wounds, from blown up to no shrapnel wounds, from heavy
police protection to police abandoning their posts, the facts are in
flux. But the truth is out there! We have to uncover it, world! Demand
the truth! Don't let this one sink into the swamp to"
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The
lone gunman, err, suicide bomber, err sunroof? ---
http://www.atlargely.com/2007/12/the-lone-gunmen.html
A quote...."Okay, so we first have al Qaeda both being blamed and
taking the credit for Benazir Bhutto's assassination yesterday. Good
thing too, because today we learn that after a long, exhaustive
investigation (as only a Musharref government could do in a mere 24
hours), Bhutto was not assassinated by al Qaeda."
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Benazir Bhutto
killed in a sniper attack, five bullets were fired on her (Updated)
--- http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/151902
A quote...."Rawalpindi, Dec.27 (ANI): Former Pakistani Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto, 54, was shot at and killed by at least two snipers
before a suicide bomb attack on the periphery of her carcade. - Police
confirmed that the snipers fired five bullets from AK-47 assault
rifles. Two of the bullets hit Benazir in the neck, while a third hit
her forehead. No one was near her car when the shots were fired at her.
Two of her key political aides, including PPP leader and spokesperson
Sherry Rehman and her security aide, were also grievously injured in
the attack."
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Police
abandoned security posts before Bhutto assassination
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Police_abandoned_security_posts_before_Bhutto_1228.html
A quote...."Police abandoned their security posts shortly before
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's assassination Thursday,
according to a journalist present at the time, and unanswerable
questions remain about the cause of her death, because an autopsy was
never performed."
Gee, from these articles one would guess some of Pakistan's authorities
bizarrely decided to copy what the Neocons' progenitors (the MIOC
elites) committed in Texas more then four decades ago, for some reason
they went with an exact replay of the JFK assassination, from having
Bhutto ride in the open, to messing up her autopsy (i.e. not having
one....well at least they didn't lose her brain), to canceling some of
her security detail, to having multiple shooters....it's hilarious, the
whole thing is truly hilarious.
Why is it that nobody learns from the MIOC elites' mistakes? – mpg
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Iraq's
other Kurdish rebel group [P-Jak] ---
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7148405.stm
A quote...."While the US wants the Iraqi government to comply with
Turkey's demands and drive PKK fighters from the Kandil mountains,
where they have been launching attacks on Turkish military targets, the
P-Jak continues to operate against Iran from the Iraqi side of the
border, and the Iranian government alleges it does so with American
financial support."
For more on this see....
US
Support of Terror - MEK - PKK - Others
---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306#MEK-PKK-OTHERS
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IRAQ:
Saddam Provided More Food Than the U.S. ---
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40613
Special Note - A
quote...."Iraq's food rations system was introduced by the Saddam
Hussein government in 1991 in response to the UN economic sanctions.
Families were allotted basic foodstuffs monthly because the Iraqi Dinar
and the economy collapsed. - The sanctions, imposed after Saddam
Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait, were described as "genocidal"
by Denis Halliday, then UN humanitarian coordinator in Iraq. Halliday
quit his post in protest against the U.S.-backed sanctions. - The
sanctions killed half a million Iraqi children, and as many adults,
according to the UN. They brought malnutrition, disease, and lack of
medicines. Iraqis became nearly completely reliant on food rations for
survival. The programme has continued into the U.S.-led occupation. -
But now the U.S.-backed Iraqi government has announced it will halve
the essential items in the ration because of "insufficient funds and
spiralling inflation."
You have to understand, after US sanctions killed over half a million
Iraqi children, US authorities have now decided it's not
enough....they've decided to reduce the food rations even
further. This is all in an effort to "
help" the Iraqis
by starving them.
Anybody else out there want the US's "
help".....anyone?
- mpg
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Despite
Aid, Malnutrition in Darfur Rises ---
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/world/africa/27darfur.html
Related article - A quote...."NAIROBI, Kenya — Child malnutrition rates
have increased sharply in Darfur, even though it is home to the world’s
largest aid operation, according to a new United Nations report."
Ahh, another country receiving the US's "
help".
Isn't it just wonderful? - mpg
For more on this see....
The
Plan --
according to U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.) YouTube - 1.37 min
--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXS3vW47mOE
See also....
The
Method - 05-07-07 - mpg ---
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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Hamas in
the crosshairs ---
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/877/re92.htm
A quote...."Throughout the year, the US and Israel tried to collapse
the Hamas government, an objective sure to survive on the policy agenda
of 2008"
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Paul:
Neocons fanning Iran war flame ---
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=36659§ionid=351020101
War Alert - A
quote...."Presidential hopeful Ron Paul says neocons are trying to
invent an excuse to justify bombing Iran 'under unbelievable
conditions'. - In a Thursday phone interview with MSNBC's Morning Joe,
Paul said White House politicians are itching to take military action
against the Islamic Republic."
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The
West takes notice as Russia and Iran get closer ---
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20071228/94506867.html
A quote...."MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Pyotr Goncharov)
- The West appears amazed to see Russian-Iranian strategic partnership
surviving and even strengthening."
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Nejabat
says Iran petrochemical projects will triple in 10 years
--- http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=612025
A quote...."ASSALUYEH, Bushehr Province, Dec. 26 (MNA) – The National
Petrochemical Company (NPC) Managing Director Gholamhossein Nejabat
here Wednesday said Iran’s petrochemical projects will have a 300
percent growth in 10 years."
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Iran,
Bahrain sign MOU ---
http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=612026
A quote...."TEHRAN, Dec. 26 (MNA) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr
Mottaki and his Bahraini counterpart Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin
Mohamed Al Khalifa signed a memorandum of understanding at the first
Iran-Bahrain Joint High Committee meeting."
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Bill
Kristol To Become New York Times Columnist In 2008 ---
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/28/bill-kristol-to-become-e_n_78635.html
A quote...."The Huffington Post has learned that, in a move bound to
create controversy, the New York Times is set to announce that Bill
Kristol will become a weekly columnist in 2008. Kristol, a prominent
neo-conservative who recently departed Time magazine in what was
reported as a "mutual" decision, has close ties to the White House and
is a well-known proponent of the war in Iraq. Kristol also is a regular
contributor to Fox"
Just in time to rev-up a war against Iran, the New York Times truly
shows it's colors with this move. - mpg
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Navy
JAG Resigns Over Torture Issue ---
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,158983,00.html
A quote...."It was with sadness that I signed my name this grey morning
to a letter resigning my commission in the U.S. Navy," wrote Gig
Harbor, Wash., resident and attorney-at-law Andrew Williams in a letter
to The Peninsula Gateway last week. "There was a time when I served
with pride ... Sadly, no more."
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Code
Pink's Benjamin Gets in FBI’s Face Over “Criminal Database”
--- http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=24584
Video - A quote...."A few
weeks after being denied entrance into Canada because she was on the
FBI International Criminal Database, Medea Benjamin got the opportunity
to ask questions about her situation during a Senate Intelligence
hearing on October 23rd, 2007."
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Why
I'm Supporting Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul ---
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_george_w_071226_why_i_m_supporting_d.htm
A quote...."With the U.S. drifting from almost-fascism to full-scale,
velvet-gloves-come-off-fascism, it is vital that Kucinich and Paul
sound the alarm bells to as many Americans as possible in public
debate. For this reason, and whatever party one belongs to, I
think it is vital to give our support to both Kucinich and Paul.
They are the only real truthtellers running for president. And we
should give both of them the best possible chance to get their message
across."
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World
food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns ---
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=24590
A quote...."ROME: In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world
food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to
historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United
Nations warned Monday."
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Speaking
the Obvious: Decline of Dollar Set to Undermine America's Place On
International Stage
---
http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/morenews.php?id=3764
A quote...."Mr Leverett also points to what he says has been a series
of unwritten but explicit understandings between the US and the oil
producing countries of the Gulf that underpin the dollar’s role as the
world’s leading currency by denominating oil contracts in dollars and
linking local currencies to dollars in return for security
guarantees. -- Many economists play down such agreements –
the dollar price of oil should not be affected by what currency it is
priced in, determined as it is by supply and demand. But the way the US
has pursued and cultivated such understandings for decades – Mr
Leverett says from the 1940s on – highlights their significance for US
policymakers."
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EXIT
2007: DENIALS & TONTARIA ---
http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/willie/2007/1226.html
A quote...."Wall Street is in deep sneakers. They are busy putting a
positive spin on 2007, which in mid-year unleashed the beginning of an
unstoppable nightmare. The first cracks were revealed in gory fashion
in the form of subprime mortgages blasting fissures through the entire
bank and bond system. The next cracks will blossom into a mindboggling
series of shocks next year. The US Federal Reserve planted millions of
seeds, led by Alan Appleseed Greenspan, during almost two years of
ridiculously irresponsible low interest rates so as to assure a doomed
outcome. One should never entrust US-based lending institutions to
create mortgage products, to approve of loans, to work (collude) with
appraisers, the end result of which is massive creation of new debt
destined to implode."
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U.S.
new-home sales fall 9% to 647,000
---
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/us-new-home-sales-off-9/story.aspx?guid=
---
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A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Sales of new U.S. homes fell by
a greater-than-expected 9% in November to a seasonally adjusted annual
rate of 647,000, the Commerce Department reported Friday."
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Realty
reality: Housing prices are headed way down ---
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-oe-housingdenial28dec28,1,7942735.story
A quote...."In 2002, the median price of a single-family home in Los
Angeles was
$270,000 and the median homeowner's income was $65,000. With a $50,000
down payment, the annual cost of that house (taxes, insurance and
payment on a 30-year fixed-rate conventional mortgage) would add up to
about 33% of the median household's income -- just under the 35% mark
that the Federal Housing Administration calls the upper limit of
"affordable."
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Dollar
Posts Biggest Weekly Decline Since April 2006 on Housing
---
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=arW0gCe.kJiw&refer=japan
A quote...."Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar fell against the euro and
posted the biggest weekly decline versus the currency since April 2006
after a Commerce Department report showed sales of new homes fell to a
12-year low last month."
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Soaring
inflation sparks social unrest in China ---
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/chin-d28.shtml
A quote...."China’s annual inflation rate surged to an 11-year high of
6.9 percent in November, provoking protests by working people over
rising food, fuel and housing costs and growing nervousness in Beijing
over the prospects of further unrest."
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Japan
logs fastest inflation since 1998 ---
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Japan_logs_fastest_inflation_since__12282007.html
A quote...."Japan on Friday reported its fastest rise in core consumer
prices in almost a decade as sky-rocketing energy costs help to lift
Asia's largest economy out of years of deflation."
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