MPG'S DAILY RAPSHEET AND BLOTTER  ON THE "GREAT GAME"  --  12-31-09  to 01-06-10 -- links page

@ www.reficultnias.org
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ===

Editor's note : From now on each weekly blog page will have several items culled from the past called  "9/11 - From The History File" : It's for those who didn't know, and also for those who forgot....or are trying to forget.

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. - mpg

As of 08-08-08 a new category of war warning will be included, the above warnings will have the prefix (WWIII) added to them to indicate the possible outbreak of greater hostilities. - mpg
========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Wednesday January 6th 2010

The Prestige – Part 3:The Prestige
Must Read - A quote...."In 1996, a self-proclaimed terrorist and thief fled the reach of Osama bin Laden and ran right into the outstretched arms of the FBI, where he probably couldn’t have felt more at home.  He had stolen money from bin Laden, some one hundred thousand dollars it is said, and so the FBI offered him shelter, money, and new life.  For three years the American tax-payers shelled out nearly one million U.S. dollars to protect the thief in hiding. It was then, under the tutelage of FBI agent Jack Cloonan, that the very mythology of Al Qaeda was born. It was then that the craft of the first part of the Grand Illusion took shape."

The Lie of Law: Courts Bow to State's Raw Power
Must Read - A quote...."It is often forgotten how "legal" the Nazi regime in Germany really was. It did not take power in a violent revolution, but entered government through the entirely "legal" procedures of the time. The "legal" vote of the "legally" elected Reichstag gave Adolf Hitler the powers to rule by decree, thus imparting strict "legality" to the actions of his government.  --  Indeed, there were several cases when those who felt the government had overstepped the bounds of law in a particular instance actually took the Nazi regime to court, and won. Why? Because the government was bound by "the rule of law." And the fact is, almost the entire pre-Nazi judicial system of the German state remained intact and operational throughout Hitler's reign. The "rule of law" carried on.  --  Of course, as the Nazi regime plowed forward with its racist, militarist, imperialist agenda, this "rule of law" became increasingly elastic, countenancing a range of actions and policies that would have been considered heinous atrocities only a few years before. This trend was greatly accelerated after the Regime -- claiming "self-defense" following an alleged "invasion" by a small band of raiders -- launched a war which soon engulfed the world." -- also posted at OpEdNews
Liberty Has Been Lost
Must Read - A quote...."January 06, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- I had just finished reading the uncensored edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s book, In The First Circle (Harper Perennial, 2009), when I came across Chris Hedges article, “One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists”. In Hedges’ description of the US government’s treatment of American citizen Syed Fahad Hashmi, I recognized the Stalinist legal system as portrayed by Solzhenitsyn." -- also posted at DProgram

The Coming Fury Of An Angry America
Must Read - Some quotes...."In the summer of 1914, America was an outlier in a world of teetering monarchies, festering colonial empires, and rancid landed aristocracies. While the rest of the world fed its gold and its young to the insatiable maw of industrial war, Americans were building a dream from limitless resources and the economic opportunities of a conflict that left America unspoiled and prosperous. By the close of hostilities in 1945, with the capital of the planet spent and exhausted, America burst from the ruins to begin the greatest run of prosperity and innovation of all time. The American middle class exploded, living the dream so thoughtfully given to them over a generation of global war."  ---  "In 1971, American imports exceeded exports for the first time in modern history, by 2.6 billion dollars. At a time when a billion was a lot, America began paying to simply exist. Gross Public Debt had grown from 43 billion in 1940, to 381 billion by 1970. Within a single generation - the age of narcissism, the computer age, the age of globalization - the baby boomers of the American middle class had tilted the entire planets resources towards an unsustainable consumer culture. No longer living the dream, those alive just moments before Lehman Brothers listed over, rolled under, and disappeared below the waves of history, were fighting simply to keep the stuff they had." -- also posted at ICH

The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint
Must Read - A quote...."On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled explosives. Since then reports have been broadcast from CNN, the New York Times and other sources that he was "suspected" of having been trained in Yemen for his terror mission. What the world has been subjected to since is the emergence of a new target for the US ‘War on Terror,’ namely a desolate state on the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen. A closer look at the background suggests the Pentagon and US intelligence have a hidden agenda in Yemen."

“Obama Has Kept the Machine Set on Kill”–Journalist and Activist Allan Nairn Reviews Obama’s First Year in Office -- A quote...."In an extended interview, award-winning journalist and activist Allan Nairn looks back over the Obama administration’s foreign policy and national security decisions over the last twelve months. “I think Obama should be remembered as a great man because of the blow he struck against white racism,” Nairn says. “But once he became president…Obama became a murderer and a terrorist, because the US has a machine that spans the globe, that has the capacity to kill, and Obama has kept it set on kill. He could have flipped the switch and turned it off…but he chose not to do so.” He continues, “In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.” [includes rush transcript]  --  ||  Real Video Stream  ||  Real Audio Stream  ||  MP3 Download  ||  More…  || 

CIA takes revenge with missile strikes in Pakistan
A quote...."In an apparent campaign of revenge at least 20 people have died in drone missile attacks in Pakistan since the December 30 suicide bombing that killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian intelligence agent. -- The most deadly of the strikes by the CIA’s Predator drone aircraft took place Wednesday in the Datta Khel region of North Waziristan, near the Afghanistan border."

In al-Qaida fight, Yemen wants limited U.S. role
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."SAN'A, Yemen - As Yemen becomes the new front in the fight against terror, its leaders want this to be clear: They do not intend for their country to become another Iraq or Afghanistan with thousands of U.S. troops on the ground." - bold by website editor - also posted at WarInIraq - OK!!  FINALLY the Muslims are beginning to learn about the "Great Game" and how it's REALLY "played"....better late than never, well not really, but it helps a little. - mpg

Yemen official tells AP US troops not wanted
Related Article - A quote...."SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- As Yemen becomes the new front in the war on terror, its leaders want this to be clear: It does not intend to become another Iraq or Afghanistan with thousands of U.S. troops on the ground."

Mass arrests reported in Sunni areas in Iraq
A quote...."Iraqi security forces have launched a wide campaign in Sunni Muslim-dominated neighborhoods of Baghdad and towns and cities to the north and west of the capital. -- The campaign is said to be the widest by the government in years and has led to an exodus of people to the Kurdish north. -- The campaign comes as the country gears for national elections in March."

More on Exile...
A quote...."I received a very powerful, candid  and touching email from an Iraqi fellow. He wrote it after reading my post Hearts in Exile. I would like to share it with you and with his permission..." -- For more on about this issue see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg

US-Led Forces Accused of Executing Schoolchildren in Afghanistan
A quote...."In Afghanistan, hundreds have taken to the streets of Kabul and elsewhere to protest the US killing of civilians. The incident that has sparked the most outrage took place in eastern Kunar on December 27th, when ten Afghans, eight of them schoolchildren, were killed. According to the Times of London, US-led troops dragged innocent children from their beds and shot them during a nighttime raid. Afghan government investigators said the eight students were aged from eleven to seventeen, all but one of them from the same family. [includes rush transcript]" --
  ||  Real Video Stream  ||  Real Audio Stream  ||  MP3 Download  ||  More…  || 

Three Children Killed Daily in Afghanistan
A quote...."Kabul, Jan 6 (Prensa Latina) At least three children are killed in Afghanistan every day in attacks, bombings and armed clashes between insurgents and US/NATO occupying forces, the non-governmental organization Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) denounced on Wednesday."

Blackwater and the Khost Bombing: Is the CIA Deceiving Congress?
Special Note - A quote...."A leading member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has told The Nation that she will launch an investigation into why two Blackwater contractors were among the dead in the December 30 suicide bombing at the CIA station at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan. "The Intelligence Committees and the public were led to believe that the CIA was phasing out its contracts with Blackwater and now we find out that there is this ongoing presence," said Illinois Democrat Jan Schakowsky, chair of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, in an interview. "Is the CIA once again deceiving us about the relationship with Blackwater?"  -- also posted at CommonDreams

Mystery Surrounds Contractors' Role at CIA Base
Related Article - A quote...."Two of the seven CIA personnel killed in last week's suicide bombing in Afghanistan worked as contractors for the company formerly known as Blackwater, but what role Dane Paresi and Jeremy Wise played at the CIA's forward base in Khost remains unknown. The base collected intelligence used in the CIA's drone attacks across the border in Pakistan, but CIA director Leon Panetta has said that the former Blackwater, now known as Xe Services, is no longer involved in the drone program."

Iraq forms committee to decide about joint oil fields with Iran
A quote...."Iraq has set up a committee which is to draw up a road map on how to develop oil fields the country shares with neighboring Iran, Oil Ministry Undersecretary Abdulkarim al-Aibi said. --  Aibi said the committee will soon travel to Tehran to meet with Iranian officials."

Iraq to import Iranian gas to feed power plants
A quote...."An Iraqi delegation is to head for Tehran early next year to sign a deal for the import of Iranian gas, an electricity ministry statement said. --  The statement said the delegation would seek striking a long-term contract to supply gas-driven power plants with fuel particularly in southern and central Iraq. --  Iraqi power plants are running at below capacity due to fuel shortages. Output in southern provinces has declined to 1711 megawatts from 1850 this month."

Russia, China, Iran redraw energy map
Must Read - Oil/Gas Geo-Politics - A quote...."The inauguration of the Dauletabad-Sarakhs-Khangiran pipeline on Wednesday connecting Iran's northern Caspian region with Turkmenistan's vast gas field may go unnoticed amid the Western media cacophony that it is "apocalypse now" for the Islamic regime in Tehran. -- The event sends strong messages for regional security. Within the space of three weeks, Turkmenistan has committed its entire gas exports to China, Russia and Iran. It has no urgent need of the pipelines that the United States and the European Union have been advancing. Are we hearing the faint notes of a Russia-China-Iran symphony?"

China tightens grip on Kazakh gas
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbayev, were liberal with their profuse eulogies such as a "milestone in Sino-Kazakh relations" and "an epoch-making event" after their talks in Astana on December 12. -- Hu had every reason to describe his official visit to Kazakhstan as a success. The two leaders signed three important documents relating to cooperation in the development of renewable energy resources, a joint memorandum on financing the second section of a gas pipeline from Kazakhstan to China and a credit agreement for the reconstruction of Atyrau oil refinery in West Kazakhstan."

China, ASEAN mark establishment of free trade area
A quote...."China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held a ceremony on Thursday to mark the establishment of a free trade area involving eleven states and a population of 1.9 billion. -- The free trade area was officially established on January 1 and boasts some $4.5 trillion in trade volume. -- Trade between China and the six founding ASEAN members - Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore - is now duty-free for over 7 thousand products."

Bolivia: Indigenous Role in New Constitution Extolled
A quote...."Potosí, Bolivia, Jan 6 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Evo Morales highlighted the presence of indigenous delegates recognized by the new Bolivian Constitution, after 183 years of republic life in Bolivia, in an activity celebrated in the department of Potosí Wednesday."

HONDURAS:  Entrenched Corruption Stymies Hope - Article also posted at UDW
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, Jan 4 (IPS) - Corruption in Honduras has taken root at every level of the state, which is helpless to combat it because of the lack of credibility of most of its institutions, the erosion of social capital and the public perception that the problem is here to stay." -- Hideous Hillary must be delighted with all her good works, way to go Hillary, for more on this issue see....Hideous Hillary's New Honduran Death Squads

El Salvador - Hitmen Assassinate Prominent Woman Activist in Cabañas; Pro-Mining Violence Continues @ UDW
A quote...."Six days after heavily armed men took the life of a respected anti-mining activist in Cabañas, El Salvador, another prominent community leader has been assassinated. On December 26 at 3:30 pm Dora “Alicia” Sorto Rodriguez, 32, was killed as she returned from doing laundry at the river near her home in Cantón Trinidad, in the municipality of Sensuntepeque, Cabañas. “Alicia,” as she was known to friends, was eight months pregnant and carried her 3-year-old son in her arms as she was shot dead. The child was shot in the foot and is receiving medical care."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More on the US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco

Obama Flubs His First Bay Of Pigs Moment As Terror Moles Escape Purge
Must Read - A quote...."Washington DC , January 5, 2010 — Obama’s speech this afternoon was an incongruous performance. On the one hand, he angrily detailed a catastrophic breakdown in US intelligence procedures leading to the near-massacre of hundreds of airline passengers in the skies over Detroit on Christmas Day. On the other hand, there was no purge of the corrupt, complicit, and incompetent officials who had made this incident possible. No firings were announced. No heads rolled. The rogue network or invisible government of treasonous and subversive moles inside the US government which is behind the Detroit incident, and so many other incidents, remained untouched once again."

Bomb Plot with a Yemeni Connection: A Christmas Gift for US War Plans
A quote...."Washington's blame game over the lapse of security that enabled a young Nigerian man to nearly set off explosives as an aircraft prepared to land in Detroit raises suspicions over how and why the incident happened."

Breaking The Will Of The People: The Real Purpose Of Body Scanners
Related Article - A quote...."The clamor to ramp up airport security with invasive naked body imaging scanners has nothing to do with ensuring the safety of travelers. Rather it is part of an ongoing incremental push to break the will of the people and encourage mass subservience and meek obedience."

For more on this sort of issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The backfiring of the surveillance state
Special Note - A quote...."Every debate over expanded government surveillance power is invariably framed as one of "security v. privacy and civil liberties" -- as though it's a given that increasing the Government's surveillance authorities will "make us safer."  But it has long been clear that the opposite is true.  As numerous experts (such as Rep. Rush Holt) have attempted, with futility, to explain, expanding the scope of raw intelligence data collected by our national security agencies invariably impedes rather than bolsters efforts to detect terrorist plots.  This is true for two reasons:  (1) eliminating strict content limits on what can be surveilled (along with enforcement safeguards, such as judicial warrants) means that government agents spend substantial time scrutinizing and sorting through communications and other information that have nothing to do with terrorism; and (2) increasing the quantity of what is collected makes it more difficult to find information relevant to actual terrorism plots." -- also posted at CommonDreams

US helping terrorists in southeast Iran: Report
A quote...."The US is helping the Pakistan-based Jundallah militants to enter Iran through the Persian Gulf and carry out terrorist acts in the country, a report said Wednesday." -- For more on this issue see....US Support of Terror - MEK -PKK -Others

'Flaws' in key Lockerbie evidence
A quote...."An investigation by BBC's Newsnight has cast doubts on the key piece of evidence which convicted the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More On The Palestinian Situation....

Viva Palestina Starts Entry To Gaza
Special Note - A quote...."The Viva Palestina Convoy, and after facing ongoing Egyptian rejection and violent attacks by the Egyptian security forces, started on Wednesday evening to roll into the besieged Gaza Strip."

Bold Unarmed Palestinian Girl Stands Up Against Armed Israelis - Alt - (YouTube - 2 min 36 sec - Jan 20, 2009)
Video - From the history file - A quote (from IrvingAveBully)...."As Israeli troops shoot and bomb their way into Gaza, an unarmed Palestinian lady stands her ground and questions the militants actions. Observe how the Israelis are in full military gear and rifles while the Palestinians have regular clothes and rocks. For the record i am not Jewish Nor Muslim, but i refuse to be ignorant to atrocities such as this. LEAVE PALESTINE ALONE! LEAVE IRAQ ALONE! Greed will be the demise of the Human Race." -- Editor's note, it appears the video is from a (Japanese?) news service and whether the girl is Palestinian is unknown, normally if she'd been Palestinian the IOF would have just gunned her down, normally.  Of course the camera crew discouraged the soldiers from doing so, this time. - mpg

Guardian investigation uncovers EVIDENCE of Israeli war crimes in Gaza
Contains Videos - Alt/Vid#1 - AltVid/#2 - Alt/Vid#3 - A quote...."Remembering the one year anniversary of the violent, out of control Israeli attack against Gaza, "Operation Eat Lead." Except here in the 'United States of Israel,' the American MSM was yapping 24/7 about the latest CIA/MOSSAD false-flag, the 'Christmas Crotch Bomber.' -- Scare the hell out of people, kill a few or kill a few thousand, whatever it takes to distract the world from the Israeli WAR CRIMES committed by that out of control state against Gaza. -- Even if that means launching another MOSSAD/CIA 9/11 type of false-flag, only this time it will be radioactive"

VIVA PALESTINA~THE BOYS ON PRESSTV
Contains Video - Action Update -  Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 -- A quote...."Well, we're just back from the celebration, I'm sure the weather is great in Gaza as it's snowing and freezing in Ireland! We had to laugh as the first interviews we saw were three of our five guys on PressTV! First the Ambulance arrived driven by Eanna who had a few words as it passed (video below) then JJ gave a nice interview (video below) then Eddie gave a great interview but we dont have it yet cos the fellow that has it still at the pub celebrating LOL, Hope to have that up soon. So Ireland was well represented today!! Thanks to everyone for all your great comments and good wishes for the lads. We had a scary time last night, but today things are as they should be. They are in Gaza and delivering the aid and ambulance now. You've read their words on the blog, now you can hear them, here's the two short videos:"

VIVA PALESTINA: Tears and joy as convoy rolls into Gaza 7Jan10  January 6, 2010
Contains Videos - Action Update -  Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 -- A quote...."British MP George Galloway interviewed by Aljazeera in Rafah, Gaza." - Alt/Vid#1 & "Viva Palestina convoy Rafah crossing interviews." - Alt/Vid#2

Turks protest Egypt's [Mubarak - The Butt Kising Lackey of Israel - and His] attack on Viva Palestina
Action Update - A quote...."Thousands of angry protesters in Turkey have staged a demonstration in the city of Istanbul to condemn the Egyptian police crackdown on a Gaza-bound aid convoy."

Gaza Freedom March marches in Cairo against blockade
Action Update - A quote...."The international delegation of the Gaza Freedom March originally planned to arrive in Gaza on 29 December 2009 to join a march against the Israeli blockade together with residents of Gaza two days later. Instead, most of its delegates remained in Cairo, having been blocked from going to the Rafah border by the Egyptian government, and instead marched against the Egyptian blockade on Gaza."

ISRAEL, GAZA: Holocaust survivor explains why she became Palestinian rights activist
Action Update - A quote...."Hedy Epstein is what some might see as a contradiction in terms: a survivor of the Holocaust and also a staunch advocate for the Palestinian people. Born in 1924 in Freiburg, Germany, Epstein was 14 when she escaped from Nazi persecution via the Kinderstransport to England. Since her 1948 arrival in the U.S., Epstein has been an advocate for peace and human rights. " -- also posted at Uruknet

1000 Protestors Demand Freedom for Gaza
Action Update - A quote...."Around 1000 people gathered on New Year’s Eve by Erez crossing on the Israeli side of border with Gaza to protest against the ongoing siege imposed by Israel on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. As part of the Gaza Freedom March initiative, the demonstration began at around 11.00 am with protestors waving banners and chanting for the removal of the blockade on Gaza, as well as expressing solidarity with its residents."

European organizations, Turkish masses protest Egyptian assault
Action Update - A quote...."LONDON, (PIC)-- An alliance of solidarity with the Palestinian people in Europe has called for demonstrations in front of the Egyptian embassies in a number of European capitals to protest the Egyptian security authorities' assault on members of the international aid convoy Lifeline-3 in El-Arish on Tuesday night." -- also posted at WarInIraq & AlethoNews

Egypt Police [Mubarak's Goons] Injure 35 Palestinians
A quote...."Egyptian forces injured at least 35 Palestinians on Wednesday when they clashed with protesters who staged rallies against Cairo's steeling its border with the blockaded Gaza Strip. "

Remembering Arafa Abd El Dayem and the emergency workers, today, everyday
A quote...."On this day [4 January] one year ago, 4 Palestinian paramedics were assassinated by Israeli forces.  By the end of the Israeli massacre of Gaza, 16 emergency workers had been killed by Israeli soldiers, all while performing their duties, all in contravention of international law and the Geneva Conventions.  Another 57 were injured by Israeli attacks. At least 16 ambulances were damaged with at least nine completely destroyed." -- also posted at Uruknet

IOF troops deliver demolition orders for 28 Palestinian homes
A quote...."NABLUS, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) delivered demolition notifications to owners of 28 houses in Akraba village, Nablus district, ono Wednesday and asked them to evacuate them within 48 hours."

Boycotting the Occupation
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because it'll save lives. - mpg -- A quote...."...all it takes is to think of the horrors of Gaza, of the separation wall that separates Palestinians from each other and from their beloved Jerusalem or of the daily injustices meted out by the Israeli occupation, to turn away from that green Starbucks logo or to put down that tube of lipstick that is tainted with the color of oppression."  -- For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website. - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Road to Healthcare is Paved with Bad Intentions
More on the non-health no-care bill -- A quote...."It isn't health care being produced in this process, but rather, health carelessness. -- Still unconvinced? Soon we will have the final proof in hand by way of an impending faux healthcare bill, now in conference committee while awaiting a guaranteed presidential signature no matter what it winds up including or omitting. A public option to keep the private insurers honest, as contained in the House version of the bill? Not likely. A requirement that all Americans carry private insurance anyway, backed by the government's enforcement authority, as dictated by the Senate's version? Quite likely. -- Welcome to America, the new and improved "company town." -- Once this precedent is set, what other mandates will follow? How about no more public schools coupled with compulsory education. Or perhaps the elimination of public airwaves but a requirement that everyone be plugged in anyway....."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

2009: The Year of the Great Vampire Squid
A quote....For years, it was hard for many of us to fathom the psychopathic nature of our financial elites, or to expand the meaning of Matt Tabbi’s marvelous description of Goldman Sachs, the great vampire squid. Squid seems a fitting name for the financial cartel that drives what I have traditionally called the Tapeworm. -- There were some who saw the danger immediately and tried to warn us, like Sir James Goldsmith. There were some, like myself, who tried to prevent the housing bubble and find alternatives to investing our life savings in it. -- While those efforts did not stop the squid, they certainly made it clear that the squid take down of the planet was, indeed, part of a plan. That’s all documented now."

Public Pensions Face $2 Trillion Deficit
Special Note - A quote...."Even in a world of massive deficits and rising national debt, not many problems come in packages that are in the trillions of dollars. The deficit facing U.S. public pension funds will grow to $2 trillion, according to an interview that the chairman of New Jersey's pension fund, Orin Kramer, gave to the FT. "Estimates of aggregate funding requirement of the US pension system have ranged between $400bn and $500 bn, but Mr Kramer's analysis concluded that public funds would need to find more than $2,000bn to meet future pension obligations." -- Even if Mr. Kramer is over estimating the problem, the question remains as to whether the problem can be solved so that state and municipal employees are paid their full retirement benefits. The answer is that it can't, and that these people will get much less than they were promised. Like many other Americans, they will face a shortfall in the money they have for their golden years." -- also posted at BLN

And not ONE tear will be shed by this website editor.  The MORONS in this country keep voting for the DemoRepubs, keep allowing themselves to be blown up in false flag events, keep allowing their parasitic elites to launch wars and occupations all over the planet, gave twenty-four TRILLION dollars worth of back-stops, guarantees and payouts to the filthy rich Banksters who promptly rewarded themselves with buco-tax-payer-bucks, are going to give TRILLIONS more out of their own pocket to the pharmaceutical and insurance scammers while allowing them to make money from their early demise, and are going to give more than a TRILLION dollars (if you count it all up) to the military industrial complex every year.  That doesn’t leave very much for their pensions....and you know what, that's just to bad, tough sh-t for them, if the Neo-Romans in this country are that STUPID, they deserve what they're gonna get -- NOTHING!! – mpg

PARAGUAY:  Public Health Care Free of Charge
A quote...."ASUNCIÓN, Jan 6 (IPS) - "Did you have to pay for anything?" is the obligatory question these days in the waiting room at the Mother and Child Hospital in Fernando de la Mora, on the outskirts of the Paraguayan capital, where people still have doubts that the public health services are free of charge, as the government had announced."

Booming economy, government programs help Brazil expand its middle class
A quote...."RIO DE JANEIRO -- Teresiña Lopes Vieira da Silva peddles spices and peppers from a street stall, but hers is no fly-by-night business. -- She sells to restaurants in Rio's swankiest districts and sees her success reflected in the two houses she has bought. Instead of scraping by, she has joined the middle class in an increasingly affluent Brazil, her accomplishment made possible by government loans and a booming economy."

Economy USA 2010: From the Scandalous Past to the Uncertain Future
Quote of the Day...."America is more communist than China is right now. You can see that this is welfare of the rich, it is socialism for the rich -- it's just bailing out financial institutions. This is madness; this is insanity; they have more than doubled the American national debt in one weekend for a bunch of crooks and incompetents."   --  *Jim Rogers*, American investor

British fury after Iceland blocks £2.3bn repayment - Hip Hip Hooray!! - Go Iceland! - Go Iceland! - mpg
A quote...."Iceland's president stunned his nation yesterday by refusing to sign off on a plan to repay £2.3bn owed to the British taxpayer, reigniting a major diplomatic row with London and leaving Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling mortally embarrassed at the latest twist in the saga of Reykjavik's banking meltdown."

The EU Will Not Bail Out Greece: ECB Official
A quote...."The European Union would not help bail out Greece if that country's public debt problem continued to worsen, European Central Bank Executive Board member Juergen Stark was reported as saying on Wednesday."
Tuesday January 5th 2010 - links page

The Prestige – Part 2:The Turn  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/the-prestige-part-2the-turn/
Must Read - A quote....“But, you know, this guy (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab), looking at it in some respects, looking at it in retrospect, probably did us a favor.”  Thomas Kean, Co-Chair of the 9/11 Commission Report" -- "It’s fitting, isn’t it? It’s fitting that one of the leading architects of the most elaborate cover-up in American history comes out the other day and offers up this quote right in time for my second part of the The Prestige. You can’t ask for better timing than that."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The illogic of the American intervention in Yemen  ---  http://com-senfromyem.blogspot.com/2009/12/illogic-of-american-intervention-in.html
Must Read - A quote...."Has US policy in the Middle East witnessed any significant changes from its stale and fumbling ways, which many said characterized the erratic policies of the Bush Administration? The keen observer would be inclined to suggest that, if anything, the Obama Administration may be under greater pressure to fall into misguidance and ill conceived purposes, since it apparently lacks clearly defined ideological foundations to guide it in the formulation of its foreign policies."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Yemen: Pentagon's War On The Arabian Peninsula
  ---  http://www.defence.pk/forums/u-s-foreign-affairs/41739-yemen-battleground-proxy-war-between-united-states-saudi.html
Must Read - From the history file - (12-17-2009) -- A quote...."It is perhaps impossible to determine the exact moment at which a U.S.- supported self-professed holy warrior - trained to perpetrate acts of urban terrorism and to shoot down civilian airliners - ceases to be a freedom fighter and becomes a terrorist. But a safe assumption is that it occurs when he is no longer of use to Washington. A terrorist who serves American interests is a freedom fighter; a freedom fighter who doesn't is a terrorist. -- Yemenis are the latest to learn the Pentagon's and the White House's law of the jungle. Along with Iraq and Afghanistan which counterinsurgency specialist Stanley McChrystal used to perfect his techniques, Yemen is joining the ranks of other nations where the Pentagon is engaged in that variety of warfare, fraught with civilian massacres and other forms of so-called collateral damage: Colombia, Mali, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia and Uganda."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Caspian Sea Geopolitics: Nabucco will be the most expensive pipeline ever built  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16783
Must Read - Oil/Gas Geo-Political Analysis -- A quote...."Inside Beltwayistan, a number of Bushevik oil patch zombies still roam the recession-blasted landscape mindlessly chanting their Caspian mantra, “Happiness is multiple pipelines” - with the caveat that they flow westwards and bypass both Russia and Iran . They’ve now added a new word to their vocabulary, “Nabucco,” and worse, have bitten a number of Obama administration officials and visiting European politicians, who have joined their shuffling ranks. -- Their thinking remains somewhat clouded by primordial memories of Bush’s “fuzzy math,” as the statistics about Nabucco are contradictory, to say the least. State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic (SOCAR) vice president Elshad Nasirov is now threatening to start selling Azerbaijan ’s natural gas, currently Nabucco’s sole projected provider of throughput, to Asian countries if Europe further postpones Nabucco’s construction." -- also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-myth-nabucco-greed-delusion-and-geopolitics
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

CIA Killings Spell Defeat in Afghanistan  ---  http://mindbodypolitic.com/2010/01/05/doug-valentine-cia-killings-spells-defeat-in-afghanistan/
Must Read - This is one hard nosed, in-your-face and accurate article, bravo. - mpg -- A quote...."Why, everyone wonders, did a Jordanian suicide bomber target the CIA, knowing that the wrath of the biggest, baddest, bloodthirstiest Gang on Planet Earth is going to start dropping bombs and slitting throats until its lust for death and suffering is satisfied? -- Over the course of its sixty year reign of terror, in which it has overthrown countless governments, started countless wars costing countless lives, and otherwise subverted and sabotaged friends and foes alike, the CIA has lost less than 100 officers. -- On a good day, one CIA drone, and one CIA hit team, kills 100 innocent women and children, and nobody bats an eye. -- Why would the terrorists suddenly deviate from the norm – the sacred accommodation – and throw the whole game into chaos? -- Why?"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

CIA reportedly ordered Blackwater to murder 9/11 suspect  ---  http://rawstory.com/2009/01/cia-reportedly-ordered-murder-911-suspect-hamburg/
It's really quite simple, he knew WAY too much about the US-NRE's parasitic class and their direct involvement with the Saudi Royals and 9/11....he had to be eliminated. - mpg -- A quote...."In 2004, the CIA sent a team from the private security firm Blackwater, now Xe, to Hamburg to kill an alleged al Qaeda financier who was investigated for years by German authorities on suspicion of links to al Qaeda, according to a little-highlighted element in a Vanity Fair article to be published this month."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Civilian trials and the so-called rule of law  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2010/01/05/rule_of_law
A quote...."How can anyone possibly argue simultaneously that (a) the "rule of law" requires civilian trials and (b) the Obama administration is following the "rule of law," when: (c) the Obama administration is explicitly denying civilian trials to numerous terrorism suspects whenever it feels like doing so?  If someone actually believes that "the rule of law" requires civilian trials for terrorism suspects, then it cannot be rationally argued that the Obama administration is upholding the "rule of law," since providing civilian trials -- which the "rule of law" supposedly requires -- is a policy they are explicitly rejecting. - also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/05-12
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More on the US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco

Witness: I Saw a Second Man Arrested in Detroit  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/scott/2010/01/05/haskell-interview/
Listen to the Interview  ---  http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/12/31/kurt-haskell/
Audio Interview - A quote...."Scott Horton interviews Kurt Haskell, January 06, 2010 -- Scott Horton: It’s New Year’s Eve 2009. We’re going to start off the first hour though with our first guest today, Kurt Haskell; he is, I guess, becoming semi-famous here as the guy that saw something that is something seemingly quite important that is apparently being left out of the typical narrative of the attempted bombing of the airplane over Detroit on Christmas day. His name is Kurt Haskell and he’s a lawyer, I believe, in Detroit, is that right Kurt? Welcome to the show…"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Creatures from the Black Lagoon of the Reptile Mind.  ---  http://factsnotfairies.blogspot.com/2010/01/creatures-from-black-lagoon-of-reptile.html
A quote...."The reason they came up with an underwear bomber is the same reason they came up with a shoe bomber. First they wanted to get into your shoes and then they wanted to get into your underwear. After that they want to get into your body. But job one, day one, they want to get into your head. These are stages of humiliation designed to strip you of your dignity,"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Holocaust survivor abused by Israeli security  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC37pFQ8tyg
Related Video - Welcome to the New Roman Empire folks. - mpg -- A quote...."To see the complete video (#213) and our other videos please visit us at http://www.thestruggle.org/ -- Hedy was victimized yet again in an attack probably from a Zionist thug 6/17/09 in St Louis. She was theatened after going on Fox News and speaking out against the recent attack on Gaza."

For more on this sort of issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#LAPBOMBER
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More on the US-NRE's & the Saudi Royals' False Flag War in Yemen

FACTBOX-Roots of Yemen's conflict with northern rebels  ---  http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE5BQ08B.htm
Special Note - A quote...."Dec 27 (Reuters) - The leader of Yemen's Shi'ite rebels may have died after being severely wounded by government forces in the north of the country, a Yemeni government website and media said on Sunday. -- Yemen's conflict with the rebels has intensified since August, when the army launched Operation Scorched Earth to try to crush an intermittent revolt that first erupted in 2004. -- The rebels, known as the Houthis after the family name of their leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, are fighting government troops in the north, complaining of social, religious and economic discrimination. -- Here is some background about the Houthi rebels:"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Houthis welcome president’s conditions yet lay their own  ---  http://www.yementimes.com/defaultdet.aspx?SUB_ID=33328
A quote...."SA’ADA, JAN. 3 — Abdul Malek Al- Houthi, leader of the Houthi insurgants in Sa’ada north of Yemen welcomed on Saturday President Saleh’s call for national dialogue which was initiated by the president last month. The dialogue invitation was an attempt to reach agreements on national issues with opposition and other stakeholders."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Thousands Expected to die in 2010 in Fight against Al-Qaeda  ---  http://www.yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=1&SubID=1749
A quote...."It seems that the government of Yemen is addictive to war. This week, the government has been trying to stop the ongoing war in Sa’ada and start peace negotiations with Houthis. Houthis agreed to the conditions the government put on the table. -- With the Houthi war maybe nearing to an end, the government is finding other ways to keep Yemeni blood dripping. The open war it announced against Al-Qaeda was hailed internationally but angered many in Yemen. -- The anger does not come because Yemenis support Al-Qaeda, but rather because Yemenis feel that hundreds of innocent civilians will be killed by Yemeni and U.S. airstrikes on Al-Qaeda targets under the slogan of hunting Al-Qaeda members."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Houthis say they are defending their people's civil rights, which the gov't undermined under pressure from Saudi-backed Wahhabi extremists.
  ---  http://groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy/browse_thread/thread/77a838cc2217d250/27f2e4efe051f0a4?#27f2e4efe051f0a4
A quote...."The Houthis, however, say they are defending their people's civil rights, which the government has undermined under pressure from Saudi-backed Wahhabi extremists. Shias, who form the clear majority in the north, make up approximately half of Yemen's overall population. -- As Sana'a does not allow independent media into the conflict zone, there are no clear estimates available as to how many people have been killed in the Shia province of Sa'ada since 2004 or in the recent wave of violence."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Ahmed Al-Bahri - Expert in Houthi Affairs  ---  http://www.yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=1723&MainCat=4
Interview - Interviewed by Hakim Almasmari -- A quote...."How were Houthis able to reach the power they have now?  --  The government in the beginning supported the Believing Youth group, and left them for a long time to buy weapons and gather followers, so they were able to reached their current power. Also, the government’s mistakes made thousands go against it. -- Were Houthis collecting weapons by the government’s fund? -- Houthis were buying weapons through governmental and nongovernmental fund, this is widely known. The Yemeni government supported the Houthi movement against the Salafi stream, in the begining."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

IRAN:  New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story  ---  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49889
Propaganda Exposed Alert - Special Note - A quote...."WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (IPS) - New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a "nuclear trigger" mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian nuclear weapons programme." -- also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/05/new-revelations-tear-holes-in-nuclear-trigger-story/
& CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/05-8
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

MSM: China rules out new U.N. sanctions on Iran for now  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/05/msm-china-rules-out-new-u-n-sanctions-on-iran-for-now/
A quote...."(Reuters) – China’s U.N. ambassador on Tuesday dashed Western hopes for a swift agreement on a fourth round of U.N. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, saying the issue requires more “time and patience.”
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Turkmenistan, Iran set to open new gas pipeline  ---  http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9D1KIG00.htm
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived Tuesday in energy-rich Turkmenistan to attend this week's opening of a new pipeline that will ensure a sharp increase in natural gas deliveries from the Central Asian nation."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

IRGC prepares for major drill amid war speculations - More getting ready for Israel's and the US-NRE's Blitz.
  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115461&sectionid=351020101
War Update - A quote...."Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced plans to hold a major defense exercise in the Strait of Hormuz in late January. -- "The sensitive conditions of the Middle East region have multiplied the need for us to be ready to defend the country," commander of the IRGC Navy, Rear Admiral Morteza Saffari said on Tuesday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Salvador Option Fomenting Civil War In Pakistan  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali050110.htm
A quote...."It was a bloody beginning of the year 2010 in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. More than one hundred people were killed and another 22 injured in a car bomb attack on the packed volleyball ground in Laki Marwat."
also posted at Uruknet   ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m61851&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  For more on this issue see....It Will Happen Every Single Time - 01-01-08 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-122407-010108#EVERY_TIME
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Obama adds 675 million Muslims to the ultimate US Terrorism List
  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/01/05/obama-adds-675-million-muslims-to-the-ul
A quote...."Lebanon reacts: “Would it be simpler just to put the whole world on?” -- For more on what you can do as a world citizen to appose the New Roman Empire, see....An Individual Commitment - 11-03-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/anindividualcommitment-mpg-reficultnias-110309
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Left to Fend for Themselves - Killing Organizers in Honduras  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/shansky01052010.html
Special Note - A quote...."The bodies of slain activists are piling up in Honduras. While it's being kept quiet in most Honduran and international media, the rage is building among a dedicated network of friends spreading the word quickly with the tragic announcement of each compañero/a. -- Now that the world heard from mainstream news outlets such as the New York Times of a “clean and fair” election on Nov. 29 (orchestrated by the US-supported junta currently in power), the violence has increased even faster than feared. -- The specific targets of these killings have been those perceived as the biggest threats to the coup establishment. The bravest, and thus the most vulnerable: Members of the Popular Resistance against the coup. Their friends and family." -- Hillary must be so pleased and perhaps even "excited" by her new death squads.....for more on this see Hideous Hillary's New Death Squads
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/archives/archfile-mnpg-110209-010210.html#HHNDS
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Bolivia refuses to be U.S. slave: VP - But why?  Neo-Romans in this country just love being slaves. - mpg
  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/05/content_12757492.htm
A quote...."LA PAZ, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Bolivian government said on Monday that it refuses to blindly cater to the economic or political desires of the United States." -- also posted at Mathaba  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=622524
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Bolivian Second Term Ratified  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151253&Itemid=1
A quote...."La Paz, Jan 5 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Evo Morales and Vice President Alvaro Garcia will be confirmed as top authorities for a second term on Tuesday, after being re-elected in the December 6 elections."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

U.S. Venezuelan Relations: Imperialism and Revolution  ---  http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_58012.shtml
A quote...."Within this imperial matrix, Venezuela was of special importance as the most important provider of petroleum.  This was especially true in times of heightened US and Israeli induced political hostility and military warfare in the Middle East, with the onset of the US invasion of Iraq and sanctions against Iran, Sudan and other Muslim oil suppliers." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/u-s-venezuelan-relations-imperialism-and-revolution/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Chilcot Inquiry: Britain’s 9/11 Commission  ---  http://www.911blogger.com/node/22319
Special Note - A quote...."Perhaps Philip Zelikow was one of the few people who was not surprised by his appointment as executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, better known as the 9/11 Commission. After all, the Professor of History at the University of Virginia had shown uncanny prescience in foreseeing an event such as 9/11 itself." -- also posted at Uruknet
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m61846&hd=&size=1&l=e
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

New discoveries about 911 insider trading  ---  http://www.911blogger.com/node/22311
Special Note - A quote...."The French webTv "La Télé Libre" will soon broadcast an exclusive documentary about 911 insider trading. -- Watch the trailer of this report."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More Israeli Mossad Connections to 9/11  ---  http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/january2010/050110Mossad.htm
Special Note - A quote...."When viewed from a certain angle, Hangar 17 in JFK airport has a prominent, unfaded billboard that says “ Tower Air ”. Tower Airlines was an * Israeli * airline that went bankrupt in 2000 . None other than Hangar 17 housed Tower Air’s then brand-new corporate headquarters. -- Why does 9/11 evidentiary material that would provide clues such as the absence or presence of Super Thermite or other explosive material in the dust from the blasts sit for "safekeeping" in the former Executive Headquarters of a ten-year-defunct Israeli front organization that contracted heavily for the U.S. Defense Department and still has an unfaded sign hanging on the building?" -- also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/05/more-israeli-mossad-connections-to-911/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Kevin Fenton: Disconnecting The Dots: How 9/11 Was Allowed To Happen    ---  http://www.911blogger.com/node/22305
[GoglBkSrch]  ---  http://books.google.com/books?id=pGjsQgAACAAJ&sitesec=buy&source=gbs_buy_s&cad=0
New Book Alert - A quote...."Questioning actions taken by American intelligence agencies prior to 9/11, this investigation charges that the CIA and NSA repeatedly and deliberately withheld information from the FBI, thereby allowing hijackers to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Pinpointing a CIA deputy unit chief, Tom Wilshire, and his manager, Richard Blee, as being primarily responsible for many of the intelligence failures, this account analyzes the circumstances in which critical intelligence information was kept from FBI investigators in the wider context of the CIA’s operations against al-Qaeda, concluding that the information was intentionally omitted in order to allow an al-Qaeda attack to go forward against the United States."

For more regarding the four articles shown abvoe see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More On The Palestinian Situation....

Occupation 101  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24327.htm
Alt  ---   http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2451908450811690589&hl=en#  ---  (Google Vid - 1hr 27min 59sec - 2 years ago)
Must View Video - From the history file - 2 years ago -- A quote...."A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions. -- The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Road to Gaza Parts 1-6  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/video-the-road-to-gaza  ---  (YouTube - aprox 10 min each - November 29, 2009)
Alt/Vid#1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qecGd1qiUo
Alt/Vid#2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EihqQIl46hI
Alt/Vid#3  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpaN5GK53xQ
Alt/Vid#4  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOrZuXt5PMU
Alt/Vid#5  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_diugj6xMIc
Alt/Vid#6  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYrUtYu_HRQ
Must View Videos - A quote...."In March 2009, two activists Patrick Ward and Stewart Halforty from the London Stop the War Movement travelled to the Gaza Strip in Palestine with the intention of documenting the effects of the recent attack on Gaza by Israel. Taking only basic equipment they crossed the border into Gaza where the full horror of the attacks became apparent. This film remarkably shot in under 48 hours features interviews with the Samoudi family who lost 48 members of their family after Israel ordered them into a residential house which was then shelled. The lads also traveled to Gaza city and interviewed Dr Abu Shaban who is the Head of Burns and Plastic Surgery at the Shifa Hospital which saw the arrival of thousands of casualties during the attack. He gives a compelling insight into Israel’s actions during the attack on Gaza and raises the question that banned and experimental weapons were tested on the Gazan civilian population."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Christian Peacemakers deported from Israel  ---  http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57539
A quote...."Two members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams have been refused entry into Israel, and deported by Israeli authorities."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Candlelight demonstration remembers the martyrs of Nablus and Gaza  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/01/10408?utm_source=feedburner&
utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."A demonstration was held in the northern West Bank city of Nablus last night to mark the anniversary of the 3-week assault launched on Gaza one year ago that left over 1,400 Palestinians dead, and to mourn the assassination of 3 men by Israeli soldiers in Nablus last week."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Fishing Under Fire Report 2009  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/01/10376?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&
utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."Since the declaration of the “ceasefire”(18/1/2009), till the end of the year:"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Arrest warrants keep Israeli team away from UK  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115397&sectionid=351020202
Special Note - Isn't it just completely awful when you can't incinerate with utter impunity, men, women and children, using white phosphorous whenever you want to?  That there's these pesky, little, ridiculous laws which could actually put you in legal jepardy for doing so.  It's like having an itch you can't scratch. - mpg -- A quote...."The incident provoke anger among Israeli officials who cried that the British legal system's acceptance of pro-Palestinian group's lawsuits was threatening to "undermine relations" [Oh My Gawd!! How terrible!] between London and Tel Aviv. -- "Should we not get the appropriate securities [Wa'da they mean....junk bonds, credit default swaps, what?] and if the British law remains unchanged, Israeli officers and seniors [What, they want senior discounts now too?  Burn three kids alive for the price of one?] will not be able to travel to Britain, [What a tragedy that would be, it'll be the end of Britain if the world's newest Mini-Nazis can't travel there.] which would undermine the good relations," [guess that means no more hugs and kisses] Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon said Tuesday." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/214581
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Criminals Running Again From the Law - Anyone notice a theme here?  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/criminals-running-again-from-law.html
Related Article - Well, the cowardly War criminals are running from the law again. Israel, the “only” democracy in the Middle East, well, then there is Palestine, but they don’t like to talk about THAT democratic election, Never mind, back to the criminals. They have cancelled a visit to Britain for fear of arrest. Because this “so called” democracy in fact does not respect the law at all, and prefers to break it every chance they get. And then arm twist, bribe and pay off countries and governments to protect them from the Law everyone else has to abide by. Hence, Israel’s current answer is not to abide by the law, but change it for the protection of criminals."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Viva Palestina are faced with 2,000 riot police in the port of Al-Arish!
  ---  http://www.creative-i.info/2010/01/05/viva-palestina-are-faced-with-2000-riot-police-in-the-port-of-al-arish/
A quote...."To all friends of Palestine -- Our situation is now at a crisis point! Riot has broken out in the port of Al- Arish. -- This late afternoon we were negotiating with a senior official from Cairo who left negotiations some two hours ago and did not return. Our negotiations with the official was regarding taking our aid vehicles into Gaza. -- He left two hours ago and did not come back. Egyptian authorities called over 2,000 riot police who then moved towards our camp at the port. -- We have now blocked the entrance to the port and we are now faced with riot police and water cannons and are determined to defend our vehicles and aid."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Irish4Palestine on the al Arish Mossad/Egyptian police inspired Thug-O-Thon
#10 Viva Palestina Update, Last One I Hope - videos
  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/10-viva-palestina-update-last-one-i.html
#9 Update on Convoy Attack
  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/9-update-on-convoy-attack.html
#8 Update Viva Palestina Attack
  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/8-update-viva-palestina-attack.html
#7 Latest on Attack of Convoy People Hurt and Missing
  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/7-latest-on-attack-of-convoy-people.html
#6 Urgent!!! Convoy Under Attack
  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/6-urgent-convoy-under-attack.html
#5 Update Viva Palestina Trouble at al Arish
  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/5-update-viva-palestina-trouble-at-al.html
#4 Update Viva Palestina More Problems
  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/4-update-viva-palestina-more-problems.html
#3 viva Palestina Update 5 January
  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/3-viva-palestina-update-5-january.html
#2 Updated Viva Palestina~Derry to Gaza Update 5 January
  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/2-viva-palestinaderry-to-gaza-update-5.html
#1 Viva Palestina Update 5th January
  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/1-viva-palestina-update-5th-january.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Egyptian reactions I  ---  http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/gazadelegation/2010/01/egyptian-reactions-i
A quote...."While their government did everything it could to block our efforts to join our sisters and brothers in Gaza and to spread falsehoods about the nature of the Gaza Freedom March and its participants, the response we got from ordinary Egyptians was overwhelmingly positive."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Peter Schiff On CNBC   ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/05/video-peter-schiff-on-cnbc/
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Rim3h1Lzg  ---  (YouTube 7 min 04 sec - January 05, 2010)
Must View Video - A vigorous discussion, Shiff defends his views quite ably. - mpg -- For more on this sort of issue see....Which Flation Will Get Us?
  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north753.html  ---  and Price Deflation, Black-Scholes & The Fed - 12-01-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/pricedeflationblackscholesandthefed-mpg-reficultnias-120109
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

US Avoids Technical Default By Three Days  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-avoids-technical-default-three-days
A quote...."On December 24, the Senate passed a vote by a razor thin margin (with not a vote to spare) to raise the Federal debt ceiling from $12,104 billion to $12,394 billion. The actual debt ceiling increase took effect on December 28. And as the chart below shows, the Treasury's cash flow projections were spot on: 3 days later, and the debt subject to limit surged to $12,254, a jump of over $200 billion in 2 days,  ---  http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/govt.htm  ---  and a whopping $150 billion over the old debt ceiling. Three days is all the buffer the administration's reckless spending spree has afforded this country to avoid bankruptcy. Had one more Democratic vote dissented from the stopgap measure, the US would now be in technical default. There is just $140 billion left before the revised debt ceiling is breached. We hope for the country's sake that Bill refunding in January is massive, because as we already pointed out, on January 7th we expect another ~$130 of new Treasuries to be announced for auction by January 15th."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Robert Rubin: All Hell Could Break Loose Because of the Huge Government Debt
  ---  http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/01/robert-rubin-all-hell-could-break-loose.html
A quote...."The ultimate insider, Robert Rubin, who is a former secretary of the Treasury (1995–99) and now serves as co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a fellow of the Harvard Corporation, in a Newseek opinion piece had this to say:"
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6917-0-13-13--.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Goldman's offshore deals deepened global financial crisis  ---  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/81465.html?storylink=omni_popular
A quote...."NEW YORK — When financial titan Goldman Sachs joined some of its Wall Street rivals in late 2005 in secretly packaging a new breed of offshore securities, it gave prospective investors little hint that many of the deals were so risky that they could end up losing hundreds of millions of dollars on them."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

US home sales plummet, personal bankruptcies soar  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hous-j06.shtml
A quote...."An important measure of future home sales fell far more sharply in November than economists had expected. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) index on pending home sales—contracts agreed upon but not finalized—dropped by 16 percent in November, more than three times what economists interviewed by the Dow Jones Newswires had anticipated."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

US Pending Home Sales Plunge the Most on Record
  ---  http://www.dailyfx.com/forex/market_alert/2010-01-05-1539-US_Pending_Home_Sales_Plunge.html
Chart - A quote...."A housing market recovery is one of the essential platforms to a broader recovery for the battered US economy; and for the most part, data has been supportive of a slow but steady recovery in the economic sector arguably responsible for the world’s credit crisis. However, the November reading of the pending home sales report delivered a shock by tumbling 16 percent."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

AP: 2009 bankruptcies total 1.4 million, up 32 pct  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100104/ap_on_bi_ge/us_bankruptcy_boom
A quote...."RALEIGH, N.C. – U.S. consumers and businesses are filing for bankruptcy at a pace that made 2009 the seventh-worst year on record, with more than 1.4 million petitions submitted, an Associated Press tally showed Monday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

December Rolling Tax Witholdings Collapse To Multi-Year Low
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/december-rolling-tax-witholdings-collapse-multi-year-low
A quote...."The rolling twelve month individual tax witholdings in December dropped to a new multi-year low of $1.298 trillion (an 8.2% decline from last December). Yet this was nothing compared to the company tax witholdings. We thought November was bad at $99.2 billion. December came in at a stunning $92.8 billion, 61.5% lower then the LTM December 2008 number. Record financial profits, record bonuses, and the Treasury and US taxpayers are none the wiser."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

PIMCO Sees UK Rating Downgrade Probability At 80%, Gilts Higher By 100 Bps
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/pimco-sees-uk-rating-downgrade-probability-80-gilts-higher-100-bps
A quote...."The end of QE will be a big problem in the US. Yet what happens in the UK, where the BOE is openly monetizing, once their free liquidity ends, could be a watershed event. Couple this with the likelihood of a downgrade, and the UK's fiscal and monetary future in 2010 is looking quite shaky. Today PIMCO's Scott Mather told Dow Jones his expectation for a rating downgrade of the island nation: "It's just a question of when on the current trajectory, not if. Based on what we know today about the debt trajectory and about the inability to adjust that, I think it's greater than a 50% likelihood for sure. Call it more like 80%."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Spanish inflation, joblessness rise in Dec  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C01%5C06%5Cstory_6-1-2010_pg5_38
This is commonly called "stagflation", Neo-Romans in this country are going to see "hyper-stagflation" at some point in the not to distant future.  Something never ever seen before except once in Weimar Germany.  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic  ---  mpg -- A quote...."MADRID: Spanish consumer prices rose by a more than expected 0.9 percent year-on-year in December, boosted by the base effects of an energy price rally over the last year, but a weak economy meant unemployment also rose."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Monday January 4th 2010 - links page

The Prestige – Part 1:The Pledge  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/the-prestige-part-1the-pledge/
Must Read - A quote...."At the start of the previous decade, the story began to take shape; the Pledge had begun.  The history of The New American Century   ---  was about to be dominated by a fanatical and illusive band of traveling demons;  ---  http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&
site=willyloman.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cfr.org%2Fpublication%2F9126  ---   al Qaeda.  They hated us for our freedom we were told; they struck at us from hiding; they were and are an ever shifting, ever-changing enemy of our ideology, hell-bent on creating terror where-ever they go, simply for terror’s sake.  Even the most outspoken critic of US foreign policy dares not undermine the foundations of the Pledge.  Like a magician who picks a ringer out of the audience, like David Blaine and his obviously well-rehearsed gags with a “random” member of the crowd, the real audience must take the Pledge at his word else the entire illusion crumbles like a house of cards. " -- For more on this sort of issue see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Blowback On the Border: The Purpose of the Terror War System
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1895-blowback-on-the-border-the-purpose-of-the-terror-war-system.html
Must Read - A quote...."The Terror War is not an event, or a campaign, or even a crusade; it is a system. Its purpose is not to eliminate "terrorism" (however this infinitely elastic term is defined) but to perpetuate itself, to do what it does: make war. This system can be immensely rewarding, in many different ways, for those who operate or assist it, whether in government, media, academia, or business. This too is a self-sustaining dynamic, a feedback loop that gives money, power and attention to those who serve the system; this elevated position then allows them to accrue even more money, power and attention, until in the end -- as we can plainly see today -- any alternative voices and viewpoints are relegated to the margins. They are "unserious." They are unimportant. They are not allowed to penetrate or alter the operations of the system." - bold/underline by website editor
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Understanding the 'Unserious Empire'  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski240.html
Must Read - A quote...."To explain not one, but two decades of American war, conducted aggressively since the collapse of the USSR by four different American presidents, two Republicans and two Democrats, punctuated for the mass public with spikes of "war" activity and intelligence alarms, the most workable perspective is gained by simply following the money. Some argue that Iraq and Afghanistan weren’t about oil and gas because they weren’t about owning real estate and doing the hard work of getting oil out of the ground, or actually building wealth through transportation links and pipeline construction. Instead, our wars and ongoing occupations have produced corruption and waste rather than real capital development and human productivity in the distant warzones. Regular people who work honestly for a living, who understand wealth creation on a human scale – and consequently are not overly interested in debt/equity swaps  ---  http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/debtequityswap.asp?  ---  and credit default insurance  --- 
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8634  ---  used by politically connected banks and investment firms – regular people don’t intuitively see how waste, corruption and chaos can be a good thing.  ---   Murder, too, for that matter – it’s all good and useful if it creates demand for government subsidy of, and government spending on, things our war-fighting, intelligence, security and nation-building industries produce." - bold/underline by website editor
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The US and China: - One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24310.htm
Must Read - A quote...."January 03, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power.  Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building. - One Day's Read of the Financial Times" - also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/03/the-us-and-china-one-side-is-losing-the-other-is-winning-james-petras/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Australian Soldiers Kill Afghan Children   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24324.htm
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P82rmAvM0Ro  ---  (YouTube - 8 in 46 sec - January 02, 2010)
Video - A quote...."5 Afghan children killed by the Australian soldiers."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Pictures of War You Aren’t Supposed to See
  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_pictures_of_war_you_arent_supposed_to_see_20100104/
A quote...."War is brutal and impersonal. It mocks the fantasy of individual heroism and the absurdity of utopian goals like democracy. In an instant, industrial warfare can kill dozens, even hundreds of people, who never see their attackers. The power of these industrial weapons is indiscriminate and staggering. They can take down apartment blocks in seconds, burying and crushing everyone inside. They can demolish villages and send tanks, planes and ships up in fiery blasts. The wounds, for those who survive, result in terrible burns, blindness, amputation and lifelong pain and trauma. No one returns the same from such warfare. And once these weapons are employed all talk of human rights is a farce."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24321.htm
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Yemen dismisses Al Qaeda threat as 'exaggerated'  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-yemen-embassy4-2010jan04,0,3742615.story
A quote...."Reporting from Beirut - Yemeni officials on Sunday dismissed the threat posed by Al Qaeda in their country as "exaggerated" and downplayed the possibility of cooperating closely with the United States in fighting Islamic militants, even as the U.S. and Britain temporarily closed their diplomatic outposts in Yemen because of unspecified Al Qaeda threats." -- also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24318.htm
& Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m61820&hd=&size=1&l=e
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Yemen rules out US intervention  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/01/2010149572402958.html
A quote...."Yemen's foreign minister has ruled out direct US military intervention to tackle the [Saudi Royal & CIA sponsored] al-Qaeda group operating in his country." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m61794&hd=&size=1&l=e  ---  Yemen is a country?  It has a foreign minister?  That's news to most Neo-Romans living in this country!  "Who cares", they'll say, "let's go bomb them anyway". - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Sixteen Yemenis killed in Saudi air raids: rebels  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iVSSOn2jJhFcGy9s_3GLeA9OyFgg
A quote...."SANAA — Saudi Arabia has carried out a series of lethal air raids across the border with Yemen, killing 16 civilians and wounding 19 others, Yemen's Shiite rebels said on Monday. -- In one of 25 raids launched on Monday, six civilians were killed and six others were wounded, women and children among them, according to a statement issued by the rebels, who Riyadh has been battling since early November."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More on the US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco

The Strange Case of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab  ---  http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/
Special Note - A quote...."Despite some $40 billion dollars spent by the American people on airline security since 2001, allegedly to thwart attacks on the Heimat, the botched attempt by Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day was foiled, not by a bloated counterterrorist bureaucracy, but by the passengers themselves. -- Talk about validating that old Wobbly slogan: Direct action gets the goods! -- And yet, the closer one looks at the available evidence surrounding the strange case of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the more sinister alleged "intelligence failures" become. As this story unfolds it is becoming abundantly clear that U.S. security officials had far more information on the would-be lap bomber than we've been told." -- also posted at GlobalRsrch ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16780
& Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m61791&hd=&size=1&l=e
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Questions mount over attempt to bomb Detroit-bound jetliner  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/bomb-j04.shtml
Special Note - A quote...."The official discussion repeats the same rhetorical trope employed to cover up the role of US intelligence agencies before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—that they failed to “connect the dots.” This metaphor suggests a highly abstruse process in which many small details, each seemingly innocent in itself, are correlated through sophisticated analysis by experts familiar with the patterns of terrorist operations. -- No such operation was required to detect the Northwest Airlines bomb plot. The facts listed above were a series of fire alarms, each sufficient in itself to give the alert. To stop Abdulmuttalab from boarding the US-bound jetliner was a routine police matter, one that would ordinarily be executed without difficulty by the government of any middle-sized country, let alone by the most powerful military/intelligence apparatus on the planet."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

MI5 told US about Detroit bomber's terror links 'a year ago'
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6933707/MI5-told-US-about-Detroit-bombers-terror-links-a-year-ago.html
Article   ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/05/msm-mi5-told-us-about-detroit-bombers-terror-links-a-year-ago/#more-27569
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/04/please-support-our-efforts/
Special Note - A quote...."Britain told American intelligence agents more than a year ago that the Detroit bomber had links to extremists, according to Downing Street."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

9/11 Commission Chairman: Plane Bomber “Did Us A Favor”  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/911-commission-chairman-plane-bomber-did-us-a-favor.html
Special Note - A quote...."9/11 Commission whitewash chief Thomas Kean told CNN yesterday that the Christmas Day plane bomber “did us a favor,” by allowing Obama to expand the so-called war on terror into Yemen, a startling reminder that the highly suspicious Flight 253 attack served to fulfil pre-determined U.S. geopolitical objectives." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/911-commission-chairman-plane-bomber-%E2%80%9Cdid-us-a-favor%E2%80%9D/
& BLN   ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6907-0-21-21--.html  ---  Yeah, and AIPAC/PNACkers said the exact same thing on 9/11....go figure. - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Given Everything That's Happened, Shouldn't We At Least ASK?
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/01/former-national-security-advisor-war-on.html
Special Note - A quote....""Given that Cheney is apparently at least partly responsible for creating the terror problem in Yemen ...   --- 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amb-marc-ginsberg/dick-cheneys-role-in-al-q_b_410614.html  ---  And that one of the most highly decorated soldiers of all time says  ---  http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/03/war-is-racket.html  ---  that "war is a racket" ...   Given that FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, constitutional law expert professor Jonathan Turley, Time Magazine, Keith Olbermann and the Washington Post have all said  --- 
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/constitutional-expert-government-was.html  ---  that U.S. government officials "were trying to create an atmosphere of fear in which the American people would give them more power"...  And that "truth is the first casualty of war"...   --- 
http://www.google.com/search?q=truth+casualty+war&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a  ---    And that fear of terrorism makes people stupid ...    ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/11/investor-psychology-fear-turns-people.html  ---  Isn't it worth at least ASKING whether we can rule out false flag terrorism"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Kurt Haskell on Alex Jones TV (Sun. Edtn.) – FBI Still Protecting Plane Bombers Accomplice!
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/04/video-kurt-haskell-on-alex-jones-tv-sunday-edition-fbi-still-protecting-plane-bombers-accomplice/
posted at DProgam  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/04/please-support-our-efforts/
Must View Video - Alt/Vid#1   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDdF3xkD6SI
Alt/Vid#2   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deDF93mUP-A  ---  (InfoWars YouTube - aprox 10 min each - January 03, 2010) -- More on the lap bomber from an eye witness.  Here's his blog.  ---  mpg

For more on this sort of issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#LAPBOMBER
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Are US Forces Executing Kids in Afghanistan? Americans Don't Even Know to Ask  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m61819&hd=&size=1&l=e
Photos - A quote...."The Taliban suicide attack that killed a group of CIA agents in Afghanistan on a base that was directing US drone aircraft used to attack Taliban leaders was big news in the US over the past week, with the airwaves and front pages filled with sympathetic stories referring to the fact that the female station chief, who was among those killed, was the "mother of three children." -- But the apparent mass murder of Afghan school children, including one as young as 11 years old, by US-led forces (most likely either special forces or mercenary contractors working for the Pentagon or the CIA), was pretty much blacked out in the American media. Especially blacked out was word from UN investigators that the students had not just been killed but executed, many of them after having first been rousted from their bedroom and handcuffed."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Who Was the CIA Suicide Bomber in Afghanistan?
  ---  http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2010/01/04/who-was-the-cia-suicide-bomber-in-afghanistan?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&
utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KawtherSalamTheDailyLifeOfKawtherSalam+%28Kawther+Salam+%C2%BB+The+Daily+Life+of+Kawther+Salam%29
A quote....."Mohammad Al-Najjar from Jordan reported in the Arabic edition of Al-Jazeera about the identity of the suicide-bomber in Afghanistan who killed himself and seven CIA elements, and wounded another six.
The answers to these questions can be found in the report of Mr. Mohammad Al-Najjar from Jordan.
also posted at Uruknet   ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m61807&hd=&size=1&l=e
& WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/214544
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Eighth man killed in CIA attack in Afghanistan a Jordanian spy  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6974936.ece
A quote...."The eighth man killed in a suicide bomb attack on a secret CIA base in Afghanistan last week was a captain in the Jordanian spy service known as the General Intelligence Department (GID)."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Germany knows nothing of alleged CIA murder plot  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6034IX20100104  ---
More on the CIA's cover-up of 9/11 - mpg -- A quote...."BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government said on Monday it knew nothing about a magazine report that the CIA had planned a secret operation to kill a German-Syrian in Hamburg linked to the September 11 attacks on U.S. targets." -- For more on this sort of issue see....9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909  ---   specifically regarding what happened to Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi.
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/04/video-33-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true-what-every-person-should-know%E2%80%A6/
posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/04/please-support-our-efforts/
Must Read & Must View Videos..... Alt videos shown below....
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

MK-Ultra/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doh1X_gXyw0
Op-Northwoods/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IygchZRJVXM
Cointelpro/Vid  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3729458480013375211#
BCCI-Scandal/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak9ug_9yD7g
BCCI&CIA/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVXroOSAqMU
BCCI&1stAmrcn/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVT-7OBe8eo
IranContra-CBS/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Zo29RssOg
IranContra-ABC/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5wp9Ew4d_Q
IranContra-CBS#2/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q28NagfegJY
Gulf-ofTonkin/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weKmluVfrLE
WH-CoupFDR/Vid(1of3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXGUgFXoRu4
WH-CoupFDR/Vid(2of3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGPb6ulVEK0
WH-CoupFDR/Vid(3of3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mav69K2zkgw
Op-Ajax/Vid(1of2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi-JiM0Ox_8
Op-Ajax/Vid(2of2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdeoktnv8ko
Op-Gladio/Vid(3of3)  ---  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=3409375633223151728#
NewWorldOrder/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdVKZi7u9jA
Kennedy-Assassination/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHNQdL9eImM
MenaBarrySeal-Assassination/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGrHy198STk
IranContra-Confirm/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9bClEwPNas
IranContra-BarrySeal/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiczqeT_RDg
TrilateralComm-CBS/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xrS_CSae6o
TrilateralComm-CBS/Vid#2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHmX97IorxI
ContinuityofGovnt/Vid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64yw9jQOCi0
ContinuityofGovnt/Vid#2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQl_HTrlgro
Freedom2Fascism/Vid  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173
TheMoneyMasters/Vid  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-515319560256183936#
MonopolyMen/Vid  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7065177340464808778#

A quote...."Conspiracy theory is a term that originally was a neutral descriptor for any claim of civil, criminal or political conspiracy. However, it has come almost exclusively to refer to any fringe theory which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret plot by conspirators of almost superhuman power and cunning.  To conspire means “to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or to use such means to accomplish a lawful end.”  The term “conspiracy theory” is frequently used by scholars and in popular culture to identify secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at stealing power, money, or freedom, from “the people”. -- To many, conspiracy theories are just human nature.  Not all people in this world are honest, hard working and forthcoming about their intentions.  Certainly we can all agree on this.  So how did the term “conspiracy theory” get grouped in with fiction, fantasy and folklore?"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Emirates is Top US Military Customer  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16753
A quote...."Two UAE orders for military helicopters and guided bombs capped a remarkable year for procurement in which the Emirates became the largest foreign purchaser of US defence equipment, a Pentagon agency said."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

EU lawmakers call off Iran trip  ---  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1262339393219&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Guess Obama isn't the only one who knows how to to kiss AIPAC butt. - mpg  -- A quote...."A delegation of EU legislators canceled a planned trip to Iran after US congressmen sent a letter of protest to Jerzy Buzek, president of the European Parliament, EU Parliament spokesman Thomas Dudrap confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Monday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Iran bans contact with groups involved in soft war  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115366&sectionid=351020101
A quote...."Iran has banned Iranian citizens from cooperating with 60 international institutions and a number of media outlets due to their involvement in the post-election unrest."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Canada’s Rogue Conservatives Prorogue Parliament  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16743
A quote..."This week during the year’s slowest news period, startling reports from Ottawa have revealed that the Canadian conservative Prime Minster, Stephen Harper has prorogued or postponed the opening of parliament for at least a month. With the  governor general’s blessings (who according to parliamentary procedure the authority to close down the legislature) he plans to proceed  with this scurrilous plot and thereby undermine parliamentary democracy. If all goes according to Harper’s plan, then the House of Commons which is due to resume its New Year’s session on January 23rd will not sit until March 3rd or after the winter Olympics games to be held in February in Vancouver , B.C."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Japan vows to pursue more equal ties with US  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C01%5C05%5Cstory_5-1-2010_pg4_9
Yeah, being one of the New Roman Empire's lackeys is not a lot of fun, as the British people have already found out. - mpg -- A quote...."TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledged on Monday to pursue more equal relations with the United States as Tokyo seeks to defuse a row with its close ally over where to move an American military base."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

US aid for Israel tied to arms sales: 75% of the aid must be used to buy military material made in the US
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m61800&hd=&size=1&l=e
A quote...."WASHINGTON: Just before Christmas, the US President, Barack Obama, signed into law one of his country's biggest aid pledges of the year. It was bound not for Africa or any of the many struggling countries on the World Bank's list."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More On The Palestinian Situation....

Long Live Palestine – Lowkey  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/long-live-palestine-lowkey/
Alt/Vid#1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVk-LHBJH2A
Alt/Vid#2  ---   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5Cay6GUkM  ---  (YouTube - aprox 10 min each - Dec. 31, 2009)
Must View Videos - (Outstanding Videos! - mpg ) -- A quote...."Long Live Palestine Part 2 by Lowkey (ft DAM, Shadia Mansour, Reveal, Hich-Kas, Eslam Jawaad, The Narcycist, Hasan Salaam) is available for purchase now from http://bit.ly/5SxmrV   ---  50% of all profits will be donate to Interpal, and the other 50% will be donated to Islamic Relief's Gaza Strip Appeal."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

"I hope that I die on my land"  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10984.shtml
Must Read Interview - A quote...."Fatima Mohammed Yassin, 49, is a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bilin in the occupied West Bank. In spite of Israel's occupation and construction of its wall in the West Bank, including on Bilin's farm land, Yassin and her husband continue to work their land on a daily basis. Jody McIntyre spoke to her for The Electronic Intifada." -- also posted at AltheoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/i-hope-that-i-die-on-my-land/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

When Does It Become Genocide?  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/index.php?p=m61789&hd=&size=1&l=e
Alt  ---  http://jnoubiyeh.blogspot.com/2010/01/when-does-it-become-genocide.html
Alt  ---  http://www.sunni-news.net/en/articles.aspx?selected_article_no=2649
Alt  ---  http://www.blogfrommiddleeast.com/?new=61789
Special Note - A quote...."During a visit to Ramallah a year ago while the Israeli bombardment of Gaza was underway, I shared my fears with a close Palestinian friend. "It may sound insane, but I think the Israelis’ real objective is to see them all dead." - My friend told me not to be silly, the assault was horrific, but it was not mass killing. I said that wasn’t the issue: This was a population already very vulnerable to disease, ill-health, and malnutrition after years of siege, with its infrastructure rotted, its water and food contaminated. Israel’s war would surely push the people over the brink, especially if the siege was maintained -- as it has been." -- Hmmmmm, this website editor's seen this sort of thing before.....that's right, the Native Americans experienced this sort of "special treatment". – mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Israeli forces 'deliberately let him bleed to death'  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=251745
A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an - On 4 January 2009, one year ago today, Iyad Samouni, his wife, and five children were together with about 40 other members of their extended family in the house of Asaad Samouni, a relative." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/israeli-forces-deliberately-let-him-bleed-to-death/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Israeli occupation authority continues to desecrate Mamanullah cemetery
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/israeli-occupation-authority-continues-to-desecrate-mamanullah-cemetery/
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) is still unearthing and destroying the ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, the Mamanullah (or Mamillah) graveyard, the committee for reconstruction of Muslim cemeteries in Jerusalem said."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Viva Palestina Convoy Arrives in El-Arish  ---  http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2010/01/viva-palestina-convoy-arrives-in-el.html
Alt/Vid#1   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72HfWdCgP_0
Alt/Vid#2   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0i5rg_12Rk  ---  (PressTV YouTube - Vid1/38sec - Vid2/2min 6sec - January 04, 2010)
Videos - A quote...."Press TV - 4 Jan 2010 2115GMT: Viva Palestina humanitarian aid convoy has arrived in the Egyptian port city of El-Arish to pass thought the Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip. Egypt is refusing entry to a number of vehicles."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Unbreakable in Cairo  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10986.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&
utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
A quote...."Though I have lived most of my life in and around Chicago, it has never been my complete home. My sisters and I were born as first-generation Palestinian-Americans coming from Kuwait and for this reason our lives in Chicago always felt temporary -- we were only supposed to stay until the Gulf War was over, we finished school, the occupation ended, the siege was broken, etc. The only accepted rhetoric about our presence in America was and continues to be, "This is not our home, we are from Gaza." The semantics of a Gazan home are lovely, but the only sense of Gaza I have is as fleeting as gusts of dust that blow off of old pictures. These faded images of a time and place that no longer exist leave us with nostalgia for memories we never even lived. It is the most porous of identities and I feel the gaps palpably."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

My Husband: Jailed for Protesting Israel’s Wall  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/01/10360?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&
utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
A quote...."On International Human Rights Day in last year, my husband Abdallah Abu Rahmah was in Berlin receiving a medal from the World Association for Human Rights. This year on the same day, December 10th, Abdallah was taken away at 2am by Israeli soldiers who broke into our West Bank home. Abdallah was arrested for the same reasons he received the prize – his nonviolent struggle for justice, equality and peace in Israel/Palestine."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

320 Israeli settler attacks in Nablus in 2009  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/493-320-israeli-settler-attacks-in-nablus-in-2009
A quote...."Ghassan Daghlis, head of village affairs in the West Bank district of Nablus has confirmed there were 320 attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians and their property throughout 2009. He said the past year which witnessed the highest number of attacks since records began was particularly difficult for farmers and civilians." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/index.php?p=m61798&hd=&size=1&l=e
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

PPIP May Have INCREASED the Amount of Some Toxic Assets  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/01/ppip-even-worse-than-i-thought.html
In March, I pointed out  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/03/roubini-backs-geithners-toxic-asset.html  ---  that:

PPIP [the Public-Private Investment Program] is a massive wealth transfer from taxpayers to investors and banks, and that Treasury funds are being used to sidestep Congress and their constituents - the American people...   Citigroup, Bank of America  ---  http://www.nypost.com/seven/03252009/business
/double_dippers_161157.htm  and other players are already gaming the program (and see this),  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/business/25views.ready.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q26dlbk&OP=6f2ca0dQ2FRQ7B%215RPTwmYTTQ7CQ5
CRQ5Cgg2RgvRQ5CbR5%28mQ5Ed%21mmRQ5CbQ2FQ5E%21Q7BmQ3CY%21Q7DPnQ3CQ5DQ7Cet  ---  which will create unintended consequences.

In April, I noted  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/former-head-of-structured-products-at.html  ---  that the former head of structured products at UBS said that game theory exposes PPIP as fraudulent. -- Also in April, I predicted  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/toxic-asset-plan-will-
leave-same-amount.html  ---   that the PPIP will not substantially reduce the amount of toxic assets in the system. It's turned out to be even worse ...    PPIP has actually increased the amount of some toxic assets."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Three top Wall Street banks to award $49.5 billion in year-end bonuses  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/bonu-j05.shtml
A quote...."The US media has been virtually silent on the colossal year-end bonuses for 2009 that will shortly be handed out by major American banks and financial firms. This is doubtless a deliberate response by the corporate-controlled media to popular anger over the financial gains reaped by Wall Street executives, who have been bailed out at taxpayer expense while working people have been left to face depression levels of unemployment and mounting home foreclosures, hunger and poverty." -- For more on this issue see....Having Fun With Your Tax Dollars
  ---  http://reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/havingfunwithyourtaxdollars-weblist-mpg-reficultnias-110808.html
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Coming Soon: The Bill for the Massive U.S. Debt  ---  http://moneymorning.com/2009/12/30/u.s.-debt/
Article  ---   http://dprogram.net/2010/01/04/coming-soon-the-bill-for-the-massive-u-s-debt/
also posted at DProgram   ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/04/please-support-our-efforts/
A quote...."Americans could be in for a rude awakening in coming months when they discover the true scope of the massive national debt racked up by the U.S. government. -- In fact, the $1.6 trillion deficit expected for 2010, which is above 10% of gross domestic product (GDP), is only the beginning. -- Since the current economic crisis began in late 2007, the U.S. Federal Reserve has tripled the size of its balance sheet, creating enormous amounts of new money by lending to hundreds of ailing banks and buying up more than $1 trillion of questionable asset-backed securities." -- Oh it's much more than that, and much of it's hidden from public view, and much of it's highly toxic. - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Video: USA Will Not Repay $1 Trillion Debt To China  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/04/video-usa-will-not-repay-1-trillion-debt-to-china/
posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/04/please-support-our-efforts/
Video - More Max, same message, slightly different take on China's options. - mpg - A quote from http://silversnowball.com/2030....  ---  "While all the talk is about gold bullion right now, silver is still a bargain and will be playing catch up very soon. China is dependant on buying USA's depreciating dollars so that it's own currency doesn't become more valuable- thus affecting export affordability. China is trying to hoard as much gold as it can because it knows that the US dollar is eventually going to crash. Luckily China is a huge producer of gold bullion. " posted at (YouTube   ---  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV0BK_U84II  ---  5 min 2 sec - January 04, 2010) by gausert123  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/gausert123
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

China manufacturing growth accelerates  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115375&sectionid=3510213
A quote...."China's manufacturing activity has performed at its fastest pace in more than five years for December, a survey of purchasing executives shows."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Sunday January 3rd 2010 - links page

No posts. - mpg

Saturday January 2nd 2010 - links page

The Danger of Defeatism  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/123109a.html
posted at ConsortiumNews  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/112209a.html
Must Read - A quote...."In 2004 I began speaking at rallies and forums around the country on issues of peace and justice, something I've done off-and-on ever since. -- Up through 2008, it was extremely unusual for questions from the audience to consist of pure defeatism.  In 2009, it was rare to get through a Q&A session without being asked what the point was of trying. -- And the defeatism is so contagious that it will be hard for me to make it through 2010 if people don't shut up about how doomed we are. -- If current trends continue, by 2011 the only people showing up at forums on peace and justice will all be old enough to tell my grandparents they're too young to understand how pointless it is to try. And my grandparents are dead."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The degrading effects of terrorism fears  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/02/fear/index.html
Must Read - A quote...." The citizenry has been trained to expect that our Powerful Daddies and Mommies in government will -- in that most cringe-inducing, child-like formulation -- Keep Us Safe.  Whenever the Government fails to do so, the reaction -- just as we saw this week -- is an ugly combination of petulant, adolescent rage and increasingly unhinged cries that More Be Done to ensure that nothing bad in the world ever happens.  Demands that genuinely inept government officials be held accountable are necessary and wise, but demands that political leaders ensure that we can live in womb-like Absolute Safety are delusional and destructive.  Yet this is what the citizenry screams out every time something threatening happens:  please, take more of our privacy away; monitor more of our communications; ban more of us from flying; engage in rituals to create the illusion of Strength; imprison more people without charges; take more and more control and power so you can Keep Us Safe.  ---  This is what inevitably happens to a citizenry that is fed a steady diet of fear and terror for years.  It regresses into pure childhood.  The 5-year-old laying awake in bed, frightened by monsters in the closet, who then crawls into his parents' bed to feel Protected and Safe, is the same as a citizenry planted in front of the television, petrified by endless imagery of scary Muslim monsters, who then collectively crawl to Government and demand that they take more power and control in order to keep them Protected and Safe."
also posted at CommonDreams  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/02
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Gandhi and The Dalai Lama Are Not Opposed to Guns
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/01/gandhi-and-dalai-lama-are-not-opposed.html
Must Read - Some Quotes of the Day....

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms, disarm only those who are neither inclined, nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants. They serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. -- *Thomas Jefferson*, 1764

What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms. -- *Thomas Jefferson*

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who didn't.  -- *Ben Franklin*

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. -- *Thomas Paine*

A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government. -- *George Washington*

Editor's special note on the three articles shown above:  The people's right to vote has still not yet been totally violated.  In other words the parasitic class lie for, cheat for and steal all the votes they can get their hands on but they can only change the outcome by about plus or minus five percent -- at least for now.  So if the people of this nation are dissatisfied with the present situation, if they're finally tired of all the broken promises, if they have come to realize that voting for either the Demo or Repub part of the DemoRepub party is TRULY a waste of one's vote....than they should stop.  It's just that simple.  This coming election the people of this country  should go down to the polls and vote for someone, ANYONE, other than a DemoRepub. Their future and that of their children are at stake. - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

2010: U.S. To Wage War Throughout The World  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16720
Geo-Political Analysis -- A quote...."January 1 will usher in the last year of the first decade of a new millennium and ten consecutive years of the United States conducting war in the Greater Middle East."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Obama and Afghanistan: America’s Drug-Corrupted War  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16713
Geo-Political Analysis -- It is as if Washington had emerged with only one objective from America’s failure in Vietnam: the urge to do it again and get it right. But the principal obstacle to victory in Afghanistan is the same as in Vietnam: the lack of a viable government to defend. The importance of this similarity has been stressed by Thomas H. Johnson, coordinator of anthropological research studies at the Naval Postgraduate School, and his co-author Chris Mason. In their memorable phrase, "the Vietnam War is less a metaphor for the conflict in Afghanistan than it is a template:"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Pirates and Emperors - Schoolhouse Rock  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQBWGo7pef8  ---  (YuTb - 3 min 45 sec - September 17, 2006)
Geo-Political Analysis - (simplified) - Must View Video - From the history file - September 17, 2006 -- A quote...."A political schoolhouse rock cartoon about terrorist/robbers/killers and US leaders."

Concern as China clamps down on rare earth exports
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/concern-as-china-clamps-down-on-rare-earth-exports-1855387.html
Special Note - Let's go invade them!! -- Ohhh, was that a bad thing to say?  After all, the Anglo-Americans do that sort of thing so often it sort of becomes a reflex thought.  But, (sigh), China's got the bomb, lot's of them, and over a billion people too, and they're right next to Russia and Japan.  Ohh wait, (thought balloon popping) there's this WHOLE OTHER continent called Africa, and just like the Middle East they've got all those pesky little countries that are riven by tribal and religious identities and BEST OF ALL, they don't have the bomb (snicker) – mpg -- A quote...."Britain and other Western countries risk running out of supplies of certain highly sought-after rare metals that are vital to a host of green technologies, amid growing evidence that China, which has a monopoly on global production, is set to choke off exports of valuable compounds. -- Failure to secure alternative long-term sources of rare earth elements (REEs) [Africa....London's calling....]  ---  would affect the manufacturing and development of low-carbon technology, which relies on the unique properties of the 17 metals to mass-produce eco-friendly innovations such as wind turbines and low-energy lightbulbs." - bold by website editor - also posted at CommonDreams  ---  Ohhh, capital idea.  The Anglo-Americans will invade more countries killing millions of their rightful inhabitants (again), destroying vast swaths of their infrastructure (again), so they can acquire (steal) their natural resources (again), to "help" (hold on to your hats ladies and gentlemen) THE ENVIRORNMENT!!! -- Ain't Neo-Colonialism wonderful? - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Happy 2010 from Obama by ~Latuff2  ---  http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/Happy-2010-from-Obama-148578613
Cartoon - Click on the image to enlarge. - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Obama New Year's Eve by ~Latuff2  ---  http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/Obama-New-Year-s-Eve-148564826
Cartoon - Click on the image to enlarge. - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Shooting Hancuffed Children  ---  In the Middle East for now.....Africa later....mpg
   ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/Shooting-Hancuffed-Childre-by-David-Swanson-100102-54.html
A quote...."The occupied government of Afghanistan and the United Nations have both concluded that U.S.-led troops recently dragged eight sleeping children out of their beds, handcuffed some of them, and shot them all dead. While this apparently constitutes an everyday act of kindness, far less intriguing than the vicious singeing of his pubic hairs by Captain Underpants, it is at least a variation on the ordinary American technique of murdering men, women, and children by the dozens with unmanned drones."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Yes, Shooting Handcuffed Children  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/48922
Related Article - A quote...."Silly me. I thought I could comment on something that was in the news without proving that it was in the news. Maybe this will help...."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Exclusive: Secret Army squad 'abused Iraqis'
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-secret-army-squad-abused-iraqis-1854749.html
A quote...."A secret army interrogation unit accused of being responsible for the widespread abuse of Iraqi prisoners is being investigated by the Ministry of Defence. -- Fourteen fresh claims of torture against the British Army include detailed accounts of a shadowy team of military and MI5 interrogators who are alleged to have authorised the physical and sexual abuse of Iraqi detainees. -- The new allegations bring the total number of cases being investigated by the Government to 47."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Dancing With Snakes  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/dancing-with-snakes/
A quote...."No kidding.  Over the past week I have been investigating our new terror target, the people of the nation of Yemen.  Let’s not fool ourselves anymore, we aren’t going there to stop “al Qaeda” from lighting up more panty sparklers; we are going there to prop-up a failing corrupt regime who just happens to be “pro-Western”, “pro-business”, and deeply indebted to the World Bank and the IMF.  The Yemeni government is in deep trouble from all sides and they need to be bailed-out.  With all the money and resources at stake, the debauched Yemeni government is just “too big to fail”.  At least, that’s how Washington sees it. "
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More on the US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco

Crotch Bombers, Jewish Media Groups and the USA's 'War of Terror'
  ---  http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2009/12/crotch-bombers-jewish-media-groups-and.html
Special Note - Propaganda Alert - Contains Video - Our old friend Ben Venzke at the Jewish Media Group, IntelCenter, is at it again. IntelCenter is famous for finding 'al Qaeda' videos and releasing them even before the dead Bin Laden  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212851
/Has-Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-seven-years--U-S-Britain-covering-continue-war-terror.html  ---  is informed of his being on the recording. -- Now Ben finds an 'al Qaeda' web page that is not to be found in the real world and Americans get to find out which 'existential' enemy of Israel is next on the list to be bombed to hell and gone, Yemen." -- For more on this issue see....US Fake Intel / Propaganda - "al Qaeda" Videos
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#ALQAEDAVIDEOS
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

U.S. - Israeli Complicity in Terror Plots Exposed, FBI, Media Cover-Up Flight 253 Plot  ---  http://mathaba.net/news/?x=622472
Special Note - A quote...."First Posted: December 31, 2009. Last updated: January 2, 2010. -- High-level help in yet another terror plot is emerging, along with U.S. F.B.I. and D.O.J. cover-up of the facts and outright involvement. History is rife with examples of intelligence agencies setting up terror plots - sometimes with unintended victims and consequences - and the Delta 253 terror plot is the latest such plot to have gone wrong."

For more on this sort of issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#LAPBOMBER
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

French media caught red-handed: Honduras coup protest photo presented as Iranian  ---  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/01/444177.html
Special Note - Propaganda Alert - A quote...."The German daily Junge Welt reported [1] that the French public national television channel "France 2" has diffused an image of a protest in Honduras against the June 2009 military coup and portrayed it as young Iranians resisting security forces during the Ashura day protests in Tehran." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/french-media-caught-red-handed-honduras-coup-protest-photo-presented-as-iranian/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Iran opposition leaders face threat of prosecution  ---  http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2010/01/01/news/doc4b3cf789001f4522236656.txt
A quote...."The warning came a day after crowds at pro-government rallies chanted calls for the execution of the opposition leaders and a group posted an online threat that suicide squads were ready to assassinate those leaders if the judiciary did not punish them within a week. -- For a second straight day, government supporters staged a rally wearing white funeral shrouds to symbolize a willingness to die in defense of Iran’s clerical rulers. Several hundred turned out for today’s demonstration in southern Tehran outside the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, state radio reported." -- For more on this entire issue see....It's The Votes That Count - 06-28-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/itsthevotesthatcount-mpg-reficultnias-062809
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Indian consortium to invest in Iran gas field  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115227&sectionid=351020103
A quote...."An Indian Consortium led by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) is to finalize a deal to invest in the development of an Iranian gas field, an Iranian official says."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Mahathir: US preparing for attack on Iran  ---  http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=115061&sectionid=351020104
War Alert - A quote...."The former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has warned that the US is preparing to launch an attack on Iran with the help of Israel. -- "Obama is preparing for a (military) offensive on Iran with the help of his ally, the Israeli regime," IRNA quoted Mohamad as writing on his weblog."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

China, Ecuador Extoll Mutual Links  ---  http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=150717&Itemid=1
A quote...."Beijing, Dec 2 (Prensa Latina) China and Ecuador congratulated each other for their bilateral relations'' development, celebrating the 30th anniversary of those links, an occasion highlighted in messages exchanged by presidents Hu Jintao and Rafael Correa."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Ecuador prez: US extremists plot to destabilize  ---  http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CVRF080&show_article=1
Related Article - Full Quote...."QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa says right-wing extremists in the United States are conspiring against his government by attempting to destabilize the poor Andean nation. -- The leftist president contends that U.S.-based groups—although not the U.S. government—are funneling aid to parts of Ecuador's indigenous movement. -- He says plots to destabilize progressive governments no longer use direct confrontation. -- Indian protests and roadblocks in recent months have forced Correa to reconsider proposals to allow mines on Indian lands without their consent and to put water under state control. -- Ecuador's president gave no examples of the aid he denounced, however. -- Correa spoke Saturday on his weekly radio program."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Venezuela and China Consolidate “Strategic Alliance,” Expand Bilateral Trade  ---  http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/5032
Related Article - A quote...."Mérida, December 24th 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan and Chinese government officials and business leaders met in Caracas this week to discuss bilateral relations. As a result of the accords signed at the meeting, Venezuela will increase its supply of oil to China to more than 600,000 barrels per day next year, and China will increase its investments in Venezuelan agriculture, infrastructure, mining, and energy production."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Boiling Frogs Presents Mark Klein  - Podcast Show #17  ---  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/01/01/podcast-show-17/
Audio Interview - A quote...."Mark Klein provides us with his personal account of the illegal spying apparatus installed at AT&T by the National Security Agency and his battle as a whistleblower to bring it to light. He talks about the difficulties in getting a reluctant media to report the story, the incredible betrayal by the L.A. Times, his role as a witness in a lawsuit brought against AT&T by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the alarming state of our civil liberties today, the need for vigilant activism, and more."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

A Zero Hedge Premium Preview: The Dionysian Rites of Henry Kissinger's CIA and the Iranian Revolution of 2010  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/cf/v1i1
Event Note - A quote...."As you may or may not know, Zero Hedge is in the process of developing a number of premium offerings for 2010.  One of these is "Cf., The Journal of Irreverent Attacks on Conventional Wisdom, Entrenched Dogma and Sacred Cows."  For your reading pleasure, and to act as a preview of premium things to come, we attach Volume I, Issue I entitled "The Dionysian Rites of Henry Kissinger's CIA and the Iranian Revolution of 2010." -- Abstract...."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Israeli journo longs for the segregation of days past  ---  http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/israeli-journo-longs-for-the-segregation-of-days-past.html
A quote...."After publishing an op-ed from a settler comparing herself to Rosa Parks, Haaretz is back at it with one of its writers trying to explain why democracy and civil rights are too dangerous to implement in modern society (and this is the liberal Israeli newspaper). From the article "Overly democratic ways can prove deadly":"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More On The Palestinian Situation....

GAZA FREEDOM MARCH IN CANADA – Inspirational! 3Jan10
  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/video-gaza-freedom-march-in-canada-inspirational-3jan10
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS2HKkUaGSk  ---  (YuTb - 3 min 2 sec - Dec 30, 2009)
Video - Action Update - A quote...."Carleton University Students Against Israeli Apartheid protest in Toronto Canada on 27 December 2009 in solidarity with protests all around world to end the siege on Gaza still ongoing 12 months after Israel’s brutal war on a civilian population." -- 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. - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Gaza Freedom Marchers issue the ‘Cairo Declaration’ to end Israeli Apartheid  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2010/01/10257
Action Update / Alert - A quote...."Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. -- Roughly 1400 activists from 43 countries converged in Cairo on their way to Gaza to join with Palestinians marching to break Israel’s illegal siege. They were prevented from entering Gaza by the Egyptian authorities."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Reflections of war on Gaza, Aljazeera Parts 1-4  ---  http://australiansforpalestine.com/must-watch-video-reflections-of-war-on-gaza-aljazeera-parts-1-4
Alt/Vid#1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UChWtlMGBJ0
Alt/Vid#2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oe9P7E6zqA
Alt/Vid#3  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM6wm5K5WS0
Alt/Vid#4  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA-TgBVbfsc  ---  (YT 10m 021409)
AJ-Videos - From the history file - February 14, 2009 -- A quote...."Australians for Palestine Editor’s Note: do you want to understand what it felt like to be in Gaza when the bombs were falling?  Do you want to identify with the families who felt death right at their doorstep?  Watch this and think about what our silence is doing to these people still coming to grips with the brutalization of their society one year after the war. You will not be able to ignore Gaza again if you are at all human. Please pass this link on. The whole world needs to know about that war and that Israel’s savage treatment of the Palestinians is continuing with a crippling siege that denies them any chance of rebuilding their lives." -- For more on this issue see....Gaza Invasion of 12/27/08
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/thegazainvasion-mpg-weblist-122708
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Occupation indicts the director of “Jenin, Jenin” film
  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/480-the-occupation-indicts-the-director-of-jenin-jenin-film
Censorship Alert - A quote...."The Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz is expected to file charges against the director of the film “Jenin, Jenin”, Mohammed Barki, for allegedly defaming Israeli soldiers." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/the-occupation-indicts-the-director-of-%E2%80%9Cjenin-jenin%E2%80%9D-film/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

URGENT ISRAELI NAVY BLOCK VIVA PALESTINA AID CONVOY
  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/urgent-israeli-navy-to-block-viva.html
Action Update -- I just got a message from the Derry to Gaza team on the Viva Palestina convoy with the latest developments which are not very good for the Convoy or Gaza, They are hearing that Israel will be performing "military" operations in the waters, and the convoy cannot pass through. This leaves them stranded and unable to make the deadline for crossing the Rafah border which Egypt has given them. When I get more updates I'll post them, that's it for now. Here's the message...."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Gaza Freedom March Wrap Up  ---  http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/01/02/gaza-freedom-march-wrap-up/?utm_source=feedburner&
utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PalestineThinkTank+%28Palestine+Think+Tank%29
Action Update - A quote...."I'm sure its going to take me some time to process everything that has happened in Cairo with the Gaza Freedom March over the past week or so but here are some of my initial thoughts and feelings. Bear in mind, these are my own opinions and reflections and they surely are not the same as the 1300 other people who were in Cairo. So for what its worth – here it goes:"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Hamas Slams World Silence on Israeli Military Escalation
  ---  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=f34f6d1e0cfa1dc4bb71d6a4c042ce67&mode=details#f34f6d1e0cfa1dc4bb71d6a4c042ce67
A quote...."Hamas has condemned "the international community's silence” towards the Israeli-imposed blockade on the Gaza Strip. -- "This aggression reflects the barbarian Israeli policy against the Palestinians amid tightening a suffocating siege imposed on the Gaza Strip for more than three years," said Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum on Saturday, Xinhua reported."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Is the Fed Juicing the Stock Market?  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16748
Special Note - Market Tech Note - A quote...."Is the Fed manipulating the stock market?  TrimTabs CEO Charles Biderman seems to think so, and he makes a strong case for his theory in an article at zerohedge.com. -- Biderman focuses his attention on the mystery surrounding the stock market's 9-month rally and asks, "Where is the money coming from?"  After all, the market cap has increased by more than $6 trillion since March 9. That amount of money should be fairly easy to trace; right? -- Wrong." -- also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/03/is-the-fed-juicing-the-stock-market-mike-whitney/  ---  For more on this sort of issue see Standard Disclaimer
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

An Introspective Look at the Future of America - Systemic Fraud, Corruption and Financial Instability
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16749
Special Note - A quote...."As we close out 2009 and look forward into 2010 and beyond, this has been a year of near financial catastrophe and monumental change, none of which benefited America or ordinary Americans. Late in 2008 and throughout 2009, events have happened in the US which would have been labeled unfathomable just a few short years ago, and yet already these monumental changes are expected to be filed into the memory hole and Americans are expected to believe nothing has changed." -- also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/03/an-introspective-look-at-the-future-of-america-systemic-fraud-corruption-and-financial-instability/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Dave’s Top 10 Reasons to Expect the Yield Curve to Flatten  ---  http://blog.atimes.net/?p=1287
Special Note - Charts - A quote...."As I told Larry Kudlow on CNBC last night, the employment recovery will be poorer than the market appears to expect, for reasons I’ve posted on this blog during the past two weeks. The yield curve is at record steepness. I think that’s an overreaction. In fact, the steep yield curve in the present environment is NOT a harbinger of recovery — it’s a brake on recovery because it encourages banks to own Treasuries rather than risky assets (see below). Here are my top ten reasons to expect the yield curve to flatten."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

U.S. to Lose $400 Billion on Fannie, Freddie  ---  http://cryptogon.com/?p=12845  ---  The yield curve won't flatten with these (understated) losses.
A quote...."Taxpayer losses from supporting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will top $400 billion, according to Peter Wallison, a former general counsel at the Treasury who is now a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101196.html 
Special Note - Charts - The next one will make it two. - mpg -- A quote...."The past decade was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times, a sharp reversal from a long period of prosperity that is leading economists and policymakers to fundamentally rethink the underpinnings of the nation's growth. -- It was, according to a wide range of data, a lost decade for American workers. The decade began in a moment of triumphalism -- there was a current of thought among economists in 1999 that recessions were a thing of the past. By the end, there were two, bookends to a debt-driven expansion that was neither robust nor sustainable." -- From Bloomberg  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2Z5GnTAPcuo
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

'Withdrawal Tax': How to Stick It to the Big Banks That Got Bailed Out, and Make Money While You're at It. Pass It On!
  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north796.html
A quote...."The Huffington Post has come up with a nice little protest movement. Let's pull our money out of the bailed-out banks and put it in local banks that lend to locals. Who are the locals? People just like us. -- This makes sense economically. If you ever want a loan, get it from your own banker. If it's a local bank, you will be treated well. -- The FDIC insures all accounts up to $250,000. Your money is as safe in a local bank as a bailed-out mega-bank."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Yummy! Ammonia-Treated Pink Slime Now in Most U.S. Ground Beef
  ---  http://www.alternet.org/environment/144904/yummy%21_ammonia-treated_pink_slime_now_in_most_u.s._ground_beef
Health Alert - A quote...."You're not going to believe what you've been eating the last few years (thanks, Bush! thanks meat industry lobbyists!) when you eat a McDonald's burger (or the hamburger patties in kids' school lunches) or buy conventional ground meat at your supermarket...."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Friday January 1st 2010 - links page

Evidence Mounts for US Complicity in Terrorism: Mutallab's father is no ordinary 'banker'
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9951
Must Read - A quote...."When nothing adds up, its time we starting looking at what we know. Our recent terrorist, now dubbed "the crotch bomber" is another dupe. He could have been working for anyone, drugged, brainwashed or simply influenced, maybe by crazy Arabs, maybe by the Mossad, maybe by the CIA. We only know the game is falling apart. -- We do know a couple of things. Dad, back in Nigeria, ran the national arms industry  ---  http://www.sunday.dailytrust.com
/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2390:mutallab-an-accomplished-banker&catid=41:latest-news&Itemid=26  ---  (DICON) in partnership with Israel, in particular, the Mossad.  ---  http://allafrica.com/stories/200809050478.html  ---  He was in daily contact with them. They run everything in Nigeria, from arms production to counter-terrorism. Though Islamic, Muttalab was a close associate of Israel. He has been misrepresented. His "banking" is a cover. Next, what do we know about the two Al Qaeda leaders Bush had released, the ones who planned this? - According to ABC news,  --- 
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/men-believed-northwest-airlines-plot-set-free/story?id=9434065  ---  the Al Qaeda leaders running the insurgency in Yemen were released from Guantanamo, although two of the highest ranking known terrorists there, without trial."
also posted at SOTT  -  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/200114-Evidence-Mounts-for-US-Complicity-in-Terrorism-Mutallab-s-father-is-no-ordinary-banker-
& DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/01/evidence-mounts-for-us-complicity-in-terrorism-mutallabs-father-is-no-ordinary-banker/
& InfoWarsIreland  ---  http://info-wars.org/2010/01/01/evidence-mounts-for-u-s-complicity-in-terrorism/
& PakistanDaily  ---  http://www.daily.pk/evidence-mounts-for-us-complicity-in-terrorism-13666/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism
  ---  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/200106-The-Underwear-Bomber-Crushing-Freedom-With-Phony-Arab-Terrorism
Must Read - A quote...."Guess who runs the security at Amsterdam Schipol airport? ICTS of course! the same Israeli owned security company that somehow managed to let the shoe bomber on his Miami flight in 2001 and several of those mythical hijackers who allegedly flew out of Boston's Logan airport on 9/11. It is also useful to remember that the shoe bomber was cleared through ICTS and El Al security at Amsterdam airport on a flight to Tel Aviv in July 2001 for what was apparently an all-expenses paid week-long trip to the Israeli city. What precisely he did there remains a mystery."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Who Let Security Fail at Schiphol? ICTS Conspiracy  ---  http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=46&contentid=6549&page=2
Must Read - A quote...."The elder Mutallab is a frequent visitor to the United States and he is married to a Yemeni woman. -- For a number of years, passengers at Schiphol flying to the United States have been subjected to intense grilling by security personnel linked to an Israeli firm. -- In fact, these procedures were in effect even prior to the 9/11 attacks and many were put into place after the Pan Am 103 bombing in December 1998."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

9/11 - From The History File...All 9/11 Airports Serviced by One Israeli Owned Company
  --- http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ICTS.html
9/11,WTC,Boston Logan Airport,SEC Christopher Cox,ICTS...
  ---  http://www.indymedia.org.nz/article/73771/911wtcboston-logan-airportsec-christophe
9/11:Boston Logan Airport,Israeli ICTS International,Marvin Bush....
  ---  http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/06/377204.shtml
The Israeli Prime Minister's Connection to 9/11
  ---  http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=5734
All 911 Airports Serviced by Same Security Firm
  ---  http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=810
What Israel Can Teach the World About Airport Security
  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-harris/what-israel-can-teach-the_b_408720.html
The Israeli Military Aircraft Company Tied to 9-11
  ---  http://www.bollyn.com/the-planes-of-9-11
9/11,Carl Levin,Senator Jane Harman International,Kuwait Securacom....
  ---  http://kenya.indymedia.org/news/2009/07/2518.php
911 Dutch Treat?
  ---  http://www.rense.com/general68/dutch.htm
The Israeli Military Aircraft Company Tied To 9-11
  ---  http://www.rense.com/general78/issr.htm
Alt  ---  http://www.rebelnews.org/component/content/article/7610
Alt  ---  http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/04/25/the_israeli_military_aircraft_company_ti_11
How 9/11 was done
  ---  http://how911wasdone.blogspot.com/

For more on this issue see....9/11-NORAD - ICTS - Updated!!
  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911norad-weblist-mpg-091308#ICTS
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Haskell Family: FBI has changed accounts 4 times; our story is the same since day one
  ---  http://info-wars.org/2010/01/02/haskell-family-fbi-has-changed-accounts-4-times-our-story-is-the-same-since-day-one/
Special Note - A quote...."COMMENT: As a customs official now confirms the 2nd man detained, confirming the Haskell’s account, the Detroit News points out that the FBI story has changed 4 times, while the Haskell’s has remained unchanged since day one:  “I just want them to look into our claims,” Lori Haskell said. “Our story has been the same since Day One because we are telling the truth. This is the FBI’s fourth story.” -- For more on the four articles shown above see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#LAPBOMBER
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Iraq bomb plotters recruited in US-run prison: police  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gpRuRNxDY0iP93_b8r2X0vMxdg-g
Special Note - A quote...."BAGHDAD — Two men on death row for masterminding an Al-Qaeda truck bombing that killed 88 people on June 20 were recruited in a US-run prison camp, a senior Iraqi police commander said on Thursday. -- Adnan Jassim Ali al-Hamdani and Hawas Falah al-Juburi were among three people sentenced on Tuesday to death by hanging for their part in the bombing in the predominantly Shiite Turkmen town of Taza in northern Iraq which also wounded 265 people, according to a police toll." -- For more on this issue see also....

Al Qaeda recruited bombers from US prison in Iraq  ---  http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?221398
US prison in Iraq a training ground for extremists: report  ---  http://rawstory.com/2009/12/prison-iraq-extremists/
US Iraq jail an 'al-Qaeda school' - video  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/2009121274712823455.html
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBWlcnkZk9A  ---  (YouTube - 2min 54sec - December 11, 2009)
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

World’s Sole Military Superpower’s 2 Million-Troop, $1 Trillion Wars  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24298.htm
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on December 10 the president of the United States appropriated for his country the title of “the world’s sole military superpower” and for himself “the Commander-in-Chief of the military of a nation in the midst of two wars.” -- This may well have been the first time that an American – and of course any – head of state in history boasted of his nation being the only uncontested military power on the planet and unquestionably the only time a Nobel Peace Prize recipient identified himself as presiding over not only a war but two wars simultaneously." - It's only "two" wars if you treat the US-NRE's occupation of both Afghanistan and Pakistan (Afpak) as one war.  But lets face facts folks, Bombs Away O-Bomb-a is HELL-BENT on starting two more occupations in both Yemen and Iran. - mpg

Regarding the six articles shown above -- Just think about it this way folks, for every dollar the US-NRE / Military Industrial Complex gives to support terrorist groups throughout the Middle East, it generates for itself about two hundred dollars in funding for the "war on terror".  That's a pretty good rate of return, and a very well designed, highly profitable business model. - mpg - posted 03-03-09
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Making "Islam" synonymous with "terrorism"  ---  http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/12/30/terrorism/index.html
Special Note - A quote...."No matter how many times you see it, the capacity for people to believe what they want to believe, rather than what is actually true, is astounding -- and those who want to depict Islam as the ultimate evil seem to grant themselves special license to live that way:"
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/01/who-are-the-real-terrorists/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

"Smart power” and “bear traps” in the Hindu Kush  ---  http://en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2689
A quote...."The US President Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet at the regional powers with his latest Afghan strategy. The constructive ambiguity in his strategy falls in the Kissingerian tradition of negotiating tactic. In a climate of deeply polarized political opinion, he is free to advance matters of vital US interests, while retaining the prerogative to revisit unresolved questions at a date of his choice."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24299.htm
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Boy watches US forces shoot father in head  ---  http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/davemarkland/2010/01/boy-watches-us-forces-shoot-father-head
Special Note - A quote...."Recent reports indicate that a new stage may have been reached in the war in Afghanistan. Secret operations of CIA and special forces appear to have stepped up their infamous night raids, which have induced fear in much of the local population. -- We saw in a blog post a few weeks ago that up to 15 civilians in Laghman  ---  http://stopwarblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/more-deaths-more-denials.html  ---  were killed in a ground forces operation apparently carried out under NATO command. NATO itself, after initial denials, appeared to acknowledge civilian casualties, but was characteristically vague about it. -- Now, according to the article below, it seems that the attack-cum-massacre was carried out at night and, according to locals, perpetrated by US special forces on the ground. (The Washington Post, however, mistakenly reported
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/29/AR2009122902866.html  ---  as late as Dec 30 that the attack was an airstrike.)" -- also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/index.php?p=m61708&hd=&size=1&l=e
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Afghan Govt Calls on NATO to Hand Over Those Responsible for Kunar Killings
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2009/12/31/afghan-govt-calls-on-nato-to-hand-over-those-responsible-for-kunar-killings/
A quote...."The Afghan National Security Council has raised the stakes in the aftermath of this week’s alleged Kunar massacre, calling for NATO to hand over the responsible parties immediately to Afghan authorities." -- also posted at AmericanEveryman
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/afghan-govt-calls-on-nato-to-hand-over-those-responsible-for-kunar-killings/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Karzai calls for US troops in Afghan custody  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115054&sectionid=351020403
Related Article - A quote...."Afghanistan has demanded that foreign troops responsible for the killing of 10 civilians be handed over to the custody of the government. -- The demand has been made via the National Security Council chaired by President Hamid Karzai on Thursday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

7 [more] civilians killed in S. Afghanistan  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/31/content_12736619.htm
A quote...."KABUL, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province said Thursday that a military operation on Taliban has claimed the lives of seven civilians in the province."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Judge Dismisses Charges Against Blackwater Guards Involved in Iraq Massacre  ---  http://www.truthout.org/123109jl01
Special Note - A quote...."A federal judge in Washington, DC on Thursday dismissed criminal charges against five Blackwater guards involved in the massacre of 14 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in September 2007, an incident that led to a public outcry over the government's increasing reliance on contractors in the battlefield."
also posted at Uurknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/index.php?p=m61663&hd=&size=1&l=e
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Fed Judge Gives Blackwater Huge New Year's Gift, Dismisses All Charges In Iraq Massacre
  ---  http://rebelreports.com/post/310249178/fed-judge-gives-blackwater-huge-new-years-gift
Related Article - A quote...."A federal judge in Washington DC has given Erik Prince’s Blackwater mercenaries a huge New Year’s gift. Judge Ricardo Urbina dismissed all charges against the five Blackwater operatives accused of gunning down 14 innocent Iraqis in Baghdad’s Nisour Square in September 2007. Judge Urbina’s order, issued late in the afternoon on New Year’s Eve is a stunning blow for the Iraqi victims’ families and sends a clear message that US-funded mercenaries are above all systems of law—US and international."
also posted at Uruknet   ---  http://www.uruknet.de/index.php?p=m61665&hd=&size=1&l=e
& AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/fed-judge-gives-blackwater-huge-new-years-gift-dismisses-all-charges-in-iraq-massacre/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Iraq Outraged Over US Clearing Blackwater  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16730
Related Article - Full quote...."Iraq has denounced a US judge for dropping all charges against five guards from US security firm Blackwater accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007. -- Human Rights Minister Wejdan Mikhail said she was "astonished". -- She has summoned the US ambassador in Baghdad for an explanation. -- The US judge dismissed the charges saying prosecutors had used statements made by the defendants under immunity. The minister says the guards had opened fire at unarmed civilians. -- The bloodbath prompted widespread outrage in Iraq. -- US private security guards have been accused of systematic abuses. Both the Iraqi and US governments have since banned Blackwater from operating in Iraq. Blackwater recently changed its name to Xe."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Iraq 'to appeal Blackwater verdict'  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/01/201011101136634433.html
Related Article - A quote...."The Iraqi government will push to appeal a US court ruling dismissing charges of murder against five security guards of the private Blackwater firm, an official has told Al Jazeera."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Iraq’s oil production down this month as Ceyhan-bound pipeline bombed – Bloomberg TV  ---  http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=124504
A quote...."BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq’s 450,000 barrel-a-day oil export pipeline north to Turkey may be offline for the rest of the week after an explosion forced its closure, according to Bloomberg TV. -- The pipeline connecting fields near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk to the Turkish oil port of Ceyhan will need three to five more days for repairs until it can start pumping again, said Mazin Abdul Jabbar, an official at the production unit of Iraq’s North Oil Co., which operates the link." -- also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/214282
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Mufti Usmani holds Blackwater responsible for blast [in Karachi pakistan]  ---  http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=216088
A quote...."Contrary to the claim and media reports by the media about Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan taking responsibility of the Ashura bomb blast, Mufti Mohammed Rafi Usmani held US agency Blackwater responsible for the gory incident that claimed more than 40 lives."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Taliban say not behind Karachi suicide blast
  ---  http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Taliban-say-not-behind-Karachi-suicide-blast/articleshow/5402216.cms
A quote...."KARACHI: The Taliban have disassociated themselves from a militant commander's claim that the group was behind the suicide attack on a Muharram procession of Pakistani Shia Muslims here that killed 43 people." - bold by website editor
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Pakistan Taliban Claims It Carried Out CIA Attack  ---  http://www.wtov9.com/news/22104700/detail.html
A quote...."The announcement was nearly impossible to verify independently because it involves covert operations in a dangerous region. It is highly unusual for the Pakistani Taliban to claim credit for an attack in Afghanistan, and the proclamation followed indications the Afghan Taliban may have been involved in the attack."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

CIA Agents assassinated in Afghanistan worked for “contractor” active in Venezuela, Cuba
  ---  http://www.chavezcode.com/2009/12/cia-agents-assassinated-in-afghanistan.html
A quote...."At least eight U.S. citizens were killed on a CIA operations base in Afghanistan this past Wednesday, December 30. A suicide bomber infiltrated Forward Operating Base Chapman located in the eastern province of Khost, which was a CIA center of operations and surveillance. Official sources in Washington have confirmed that the eight dead were all civilian employees and CIA contractors."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Obama has announced the partition of Pakistan - Webster Tarpley  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uCPx1ed-R4  ---  (RT YuTb - 4m57s - 12/31/09)
RT-Video - A quote...."A former NATO officer claims US Special Forces have conducted secret raids inside Pakistan's border regions. The operations were conducted between 2003 and 2008, but only one was ever made public." - For more on this issue see....It Will Happen Every Single Time - 01-01-08 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-122407-010108#EVERY_TIME
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Ukraine after the presidential elections: how to overcome economic crisis and social misery?  ---  http://en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=2688
A quote...."The forthcoming Ukrainian elections most likely will not bring a new face into the leadership of the country. Both, the orange and the blue elite send their best-known candidates into the electoral contest. Whoever will win the ballot is going to face problems he or she already dealt with since months and years. The unsolved economic and social difficulties accompany the young state since its declaration of independence. The outbreak of the world economic crisis in 2007/08 with its financial and industrial breakdown accelerated and deepened these problems. An Ukrainian version of the sub-prime crisis which led to an overheated real-estate-market, a general credit crunch, an enormous devaluation of the currency, a decline of production following the decline of steel-prices on the world-market and a remarkable reduction of foreign-trade do not only reflect the integration of the country into the capitalist world-system but also its peripheral position within the same."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

S. Ossetia more defense-capable now than before August 2008 – Kokoity  ---  http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?pg=3&id=139145
A quote...."TSKHINVALI. Dec 31 (Interfax) - South Ossetia is much more defense-capable now than before August 2008, South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity said at a press conference in Tskhinvali on Thursday. -- In commenting on opinions of analysts and Russian Defense Ministry specialists regarding the reality of new Georgian aggression against South Ossetia, Kokoity said he shares the opinion that there is likelihood of such aggression."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

China-ASEAN Free Trade Area Starts Operation  ---  Hip Hip Hooray - (Psssssst, don't use US-NRE dollars.) mpg
   ---  http://english.cri.cn/6826/2010/01/01/1601s539495.htm
Special Note - A quote...."China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) kicked off their free trade area (FTA) on Friday. -- The world's largest FTA embracing developing countries covers a population of 1.9 billion and involves about 4.5 trillion U.S. dollars of trade volume. -- The average tariff on goods from ASEAN countries to China is cut down to 0.1 percent from 9.8 percent."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Harper Suspends Canada's Parliament For 2 Months - More ol'dat "freedom and democracy" Canadian style.
  ---  http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017397463
A quote...."Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper suspended on Wednesday Parliament for two months. The proroguing intends to give way to the opening of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games in February and prepare the House of Commons for the Speech from the Throne on March 3 and presentation of the federal budget on March 4.
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

European Parliament to Investigate WHO and “Pandemic” Scandal  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6858-0-11-11--.html
A quote...."The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO. The Health Committee of the EU Parliament has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the inquiry. The step is a long-overdue move to public transparency of a “Golden Triangle” of drug corruption between WHO, the pharma industry and academic scientists that has permanently damaged the lives of millions and even caused death."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Murder of Antonio Ferrigno  ---  http://cryptogon.com/?p=12802
A quote...."Murdered inhabitant of Rijswijk appears to be nuclear physicist -- The 54 year old man that was found dead on thursday in his flat on the Mayor Elsenlane in Rijswijk ( near The Hague ) -- appears to be a renowed nuclear physicist. The Italian engineer Antonio Ferrigno was brutally murdered. -- A spokesperson of the Hague PD confirmed Ferrigno’s identity on monday."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Impeachment: Congress must use this tool to keep high officials in check  ---  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2010656129_guest02swanson.html
Special Note - A quote...."FOR 220 years, power has moved from Congress, courts, states and the people to the presidency, a trend that has taken giant steps during the Bush and Obama years. Presidents rewrite laws with signing statements or create them with executive orders. They make treaties with occupied governments and no Senate consent. They spend money in secret. They launch and escalate military actions at will. - They spy without warrants and imprison without charges. They grant immunity for criminal offenses."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Breaking With Obama?  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24303.htm
A quote....By Ralph Nader -- January 01, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Those long-hoping, long-enduring members of the liberal intelligentsia are starting to break away from the least-worst mindset that muted their criticisms of Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign. -- They still believe that the President is far better than his Republican counterpart would have been. Some still believe that sometime, somewhere, Obama will show his liberal stripes. But they no longer believe they should stay loyally silent in the face of the escalating war in Afghanistan, the near collapse of key provisions in the health insurance legislation, the likely anemic financial regulation bill, or the obeisance to the bailed out Wall Street gamblers. Remember this Administration more easily embraces bonuses for fat cats than adequate investment in public jobs."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Court: Feds Can Hide Alleged Spying on Gitmo Lawyers  ---  http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/gitmo-lawyer-eavesdropping/
Special Note - A quote...."A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the government’s refusal to admit or deny it has documents related to warrantless eavesdropping on Guantanamo Bay detainees and their lawyers. -- In doing so, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals accepted a little-known defense called the Glomar doctrine. The doctrine, the court ruled, allows the National Security Agency to refuse to acknowledge to the lawyers suing under the Freedom of Information Act that there are any documents responsive to allegations their clients had been or are being targeted under the Terrorist Surveillance Program adopted following the 2001 terror attacks." - For more on this issue see....9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Lawyers lose effort to force US to reveal who was targeted by anti-terrorism program
  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5glc1iA72iD3Yv-GXNjgda9ms-xWw
Related Article - A quote...."NEW YORK — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that law professors and attorneys who represent Guantanamo Bay detainees cannot force the government to reveal whether an anti-terrorism program eavesdropped on their conversations."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

War on Terror or War on Disaffected Yemenis? -- Interventions R Us  ---  http://counterpunch.org/jacobs12312009.html
Special Note - A quote...."As if the US interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan were not enough to satiate the Empire's bloodlust, the calls are increasing for an all-out war on the nation of Yemen. The reason given for this intervention is that the man who apparently wanted to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day 2009 spent some time there and may have received his instructions while he was visiting. Like the increasingly bloody occupation of Afghanistan, Washington wants the world to believe that attacking a nation that hosts organizations intent on resisting US domination will somehow end those organizations existence and make everyone safer. Left unsaid in this rather simplistic equation are the obvious facts. Over eight years of war and occupation of Afghanistan has neither stopped the desire of politically nor religiously motivated individuals to blow up airliners and other structures in their war against US cultural and economic imperialism. Nor has it broken the back of the groups in Afghanistan that also oppose the US intervention in their country. In fact, if we are to believe intelligence reports from various US agencies, these groups are not only still in existence, they have mutated politically and are at least as strong as they were before the US invasion in 2001." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24304.htm
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Threats to Yemen prove America hasn't learned the lesson of history
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-threats-to-yemen-prove-america-hasnt-learned-the-lesson-of-history-1853847.html
Special Note - A quote...."Yemen has always been a dangerous place. Wonderfully beautiful, the mountainous north of the country is guerrilla paradise. The Yemenis are exceptionally hospitable, though this has its limits. For instance, the Kazam tribe east of Aden are generous to passing strangers, but deem the laws of hospitality to lapse when the stranger leaves their tribal territory, at which time he becomes "a good back to shoot at".
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24292.htm
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

POLITICS:  U.S. Arms Feed Yemen's Gun Culture  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49860
A quote...."UNITED NATIONS, Dec 30 (IPS) - When Yemen refused to vote in support of a U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution against Iraq during the 1990-1991 Gulf War, a visibly angry U.S. delegate turned to the Yemeni diplomat and said: "That will be the last time you will ever vote against a U.S. resolution."
For more on this issue see....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Houthi fighters set for Saudi peace talks  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115098&sectionid=351020206
The Houthis could take on the Yemeni government, they could even take on the Saudi Royal family along with the Jordanians and Morroccans.  ---  http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/jordan-morocco-aid-saudis-against-houthis/  ---  They had to draw the line however on any continued resistance if they'd be forced to go up against the US-NRE, Israel and no doubt eventually even NATO.  WOW, just think of it folks, all that fire power for some tribesmen living in the hills on the Saudi border who just wanted to be left alone.  What a proud day it is for "America".- mpg -- A quote...."Yemen's Houthi fighters have expressed readiness to hold peace talks with neighboring Saudi Arabia if Riyadh halts its attacks."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Houthi Leader: Yemeni civilians targeted by design  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/214239  --- Of course, what else is new? - mpg
A quote...."Abd Al Malek Badreldin Al Houthi launches today 31/12/2009 an urgent appeal by audio message to listeners everywhere: He questions the deafening silence of the world to the savage crimes against humanity now being committed in Yemen by Saudi, Yemeni, and USA warplanes targeting innocent civilians, and killing women and children, as they bombard population centers far away from the battle fields: towns, market places, mosques..."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

EU visit to Tehran angers U.S. lawmakers
  ---  http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2009/12/31/EU-visit-to-Tehran-angers-US-lawmakers/UPI-56951262293200/
First off "US lawmakers" don't make the "laws" anymore in the New Roman Empire, as has usually been the case these little whores of the parasitic class have the laws written for them by whoever pays them the most money, organizations like AIPAC or the Wall Street Banksters for instance.  Secondly, in what is a new development, whatever "laws" these craven little boot-lickers do pass nowadays can be completely ignored or eviscerated by this nation's brand new Emperor with his brand new signing statements. Thirdly, who cares if Washington DC's most moronic twits get their panties in a twist on behalf of Isreal. – mpg -- A quote...."WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- European leaders angered U.S. lawmakers with a decision to visit Tehran as Iran claims it received a request by U.S. Sen. John Kerry to visit the country. -- An 11-member team from the European Parliament is set to visit Tehran next week, marking the first Western visit to Iran in more than a year."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Propaganda Alert: Fox News Tries to Link Iran to Crotch Bomber
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/01/propaganda-alert-fox-news-tries-to-link-iran-to-crotch-bomber/
Video - Good ol'Rupert Murdoch doing his level best to start the long planned for war with Iran. - mpg
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More on the US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco

The Old 'False-Flag Trick'  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w123.html
Must Read - Quote of the Day (in bold)...."Government is the only human enterprise that profits from failure. Once that principle is understood, many otherwise inexplicable choices made by ruling elites and their servants can be made intelligible. -- For instance, we can begin to understand the perverse persistence governments display in courting preventable catastrophes, and then capitalizing on such incidents to enhance their power to do exactly the same things that resulted in disaster. In this case, in addition to requiring the helotry to undergo unconscionable personal violations before flying, the Regime is exploiting the incident aboard Northwest Flight 253 to escalate the ongoing military assault on Yemen, thereby increasing the human misery that helps propel international terrorism. -- And so it is that the Regime – which has squandered trillions of debased dollars in the name of "fighting terrorism" (hundreds of billions to build a domestic garrison state, and even greater sums to conduct wars of aggression overseas) – will continue to do exactly the same thing following an episode that demonstrates, beyond serious dispute, that the "war on terror" has done exactly nothing to make Americans safer."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2009/12/31/the-old-false-flag-trick/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Flight 253 Passenger Kurt Haskell: 'I Was Visited by the FBI'
  ---  http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_kurt_hask.html
Must Read - A quote...." Following up on a visit from FBI officials about an eyewitness account first described to MLive.com, Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell described the visit in comment sections across MLive on Wednesday. -- Haskell and his wife, Lori, were aboard Flight 253 when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to destroy the plane. They say another man tried to help Abdulmutallab board the plane in Amsterdam." -- "Today is the second worst day of my life after 12-25-09. Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans. Let me explain....." -- *Kurt Haskell*
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Webster Tarpley on Alex Jones Tv – Underwear Bomber “Establishment Controlled Patsy!”
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2010/01/01/video-webster-tarpley-on-alex-jones-tv-underwear-bomber-establishment-controlled-patsy/
Alt/Vid#1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv8sSHphscg
Alt/Vid#2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUAZQb5c2Jg
Alt/Vid#3  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no0l6XrQddo
Alt/Vid#4  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhHxJdhtdZ0
Alt/Vid#5  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvkNcGpZuPg
Alt/Vid#6  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPVsA8o2v4E  ---  (AJ-YuTb - aprox 10min each - 12/31/09)
AJ-Videos - A quote...."Alex talks with author, journalist, lecturer, historian, and expert on false flag attacks Webster Tarpley about the underwear bomber. Tarpley is the author of several important books, including Obama: The Post Modern Coup and Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography "

For more on this sort of issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#LAPBOMBER
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

More On The Palestinian Situation....

Rattling the Cage: A taboo question for Israelis  ---  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261364551818&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Special Note - A quote...."There's a question we Israelis won't ask ourselves about the Palestinians, especially not about Gaza. The question is taboo. Not only won't anyone ask it out loud, but very, very few people will dare ask it in the privacy of their own minds." -- also posted at AmericanEveryman
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/rattling-the-cage-a-taboo-question-for-israelis/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Israeli settlers uproot trees and destroy natural water spring in northern West Bank  ---  http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57513
A quote...."Israeli settlers uprooted trees and destroy natural water spring on Thursday that belongs to the villagers of Qarawit Bani Hassan in northern West Bank." -- also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/israeli-settlers-uproot-trees-and-destroy-natural-water-spring-in-northern-west-bank/
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Israeli Warplanes, Tanks Strike Eastern, Southern Gaza Strip  ---  http://english.cri.cn/6966/2010/01/02/2001s539588.htm
A quote...."Israeli F16 warplanes and tanks had carried out late on Friday night five successive air and ground strikes on targets in eastern and southern Gaza Strip, wounding five people, medics and witnesses said. -- The witnesses said that Israeli F16 warplane fired two missiles, while tanks fired two shells that all landed at empty zones east and northeast of Gaza City, adding that five people were injured."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.de/index.php?p=m61706&hd=&size=1&l=e
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Targeting human rights defenders  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10985.shtml
A quote...."I remember the day I first met Jamal Juma'. He was speaking at a United Nations conference in 2003 about the damage being done by Israel's wall. The audience was shocked: Many had heard that Israel had started carving a wall in the West Bank in 2002, but they had no idea it could already be seen from outer space." 
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Action Updates - The Gaza Freedom March

Gaza Freedom Marchers Reject Egyptian Offer to Let Just 100 Enter Gaza  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1216
A quote..."After three days of vigils and demonstrations in downtown Cairo, Suzanne Mubarak’s offer to allow just 100 of 1,300 delegates to enter Gaza was rejected by the Gaza Freedom March."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Gaza Freedom March activists target Egypt's complicity  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10983.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&
utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifada+%28Electronic+Intifada%29
A quote..."It was another eventful day here in Cairo at the inaugural Gaza Freedom March (GFM). On Tuesday night, organizers informed the 1,362-strong delegation that only 100 of them had been selected to travel to Gaza yesterday morning, Wednesday 30 December. After several hours of heated debate with organizers over whether this was an appropriate strategy, the meeting concluded without a consensus."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

BREAKING NEWS: Protesters are being brutalized in Tahrir Square right now – 500+ protesters violently forced into pens, others barricaded in their hotels
  ---   http://australiansforpalestine.com/breaking-news-protesters-are-being-brutalized-in-tahrir-square-right-now-%E2%80%93-500-protesters-violently-forced-
into-pens-others-barricaded-in-their-hotels
December 31, 2009 -- A quote...."Members of the Gaza Freedom March are being forcibly detained in hotels around town (Lotus, Liala) as well as violently forced into pens in Tahrir Square by Egyptian police and additional security forces. Reports of police brutality are flooding a delegate legal hotline faster than the legal support team can answer the calls. The reports span from women being kicked, beaten to the ground and dragged into pens, at least one confirmed account of broken ribs, and many left bloody."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Egyptian police attack pro-Gaza activists  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/214234
A quote...."Egyptian police have attacked some 1,200 international activists who had gathered at the Rafah border crossing to protest against the Israeli-imposed blockade on the Gaza Strip." -- From PressTV  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115045&sectionid=351020502
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

French Gaza Freedom March activist killed in Cairo  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/214247
A quote...."Gaza Freedom March activists chant slogans in front of Egyptian riot police during a protest at the center of Cairo, Egypt on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. -- Organizers of the Gaza Freedom March report the death of a French citizen from injuries sustained at the hands of Egyptian security forces during a demonstration in the capital, Cairo." -- From PressTV  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115049&sectionid=351020202
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

URGENT~Viva-Palestina Needs Your Help Now  ---  http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/01/urgentviva-palestina-needs-your-help.html
Action Alert - A quote...."We have friends on both the Code Pink Gaza Freedom March (stranded and protesting in Egypt) and also on the Viva Palestina Convoy waiting for boats to go to Al Arish. Because of the volatile situation in Egypt we have devoted more time to monitoring that situation than reporting on our Irish boys from Derry. So we plan to do some catching up on the Viva Palestina convoy now because they are about to face a trying and dangerous time. More one that in a minute."
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Right and Left Agree: Mandates are the Road to Neo-Feudalism
  ---  http://firedoglake.com/2009/12/30/right-and-left-agree-mandates-are-the-road-to-neo-feudalism/
Must Read - More on Obama's health non-care disaster - Welcome, all you slaves out there, to the New Roman Empire - mpg - A quote...."There is tremendous fear rising on both the right and the left that the announced intention of Congress — to force every American to pay tribute to private corporations, with no government alternative — sets a dangerous and frightening precedent with implications far outside the scope of health care. -- If the health care bill written by the Senate is passed, middle class Americans will be mandated to pay almost as much to private insurance companies as they do to the federal government in taxes, with the IRS acting as a collection agency for penalties of 2% of your annual income for refusing to comply." - also posted at CommonDreams  ---
 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/30-9  ---  Haaa, haaaa, ha....you Obamatrolls, you're too funny for words....or tears. - mpg

For more on this issue see....Double Indemnity - 12-21-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/doubleindemnity-mpg-reficultnias-122109
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Will Americans Reclaim Our Nation in 2010 From the Thugs and Con Artists?
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/12/will-americans-reclaim-our-nation-in.html
A quote...."The giant banks are treating the American Citizen like we work for them,  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/too-big-to-fail-and-1000-
pound-man.html  ---  are holding the economy hostage,  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/96-of-credit-derivative-risk-held-by-5.html  --- and are taking our deposits and using them to speculate  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/white-house-still-defending-myths-about.html  ---  in casino style gambling. They've bought and paid for Congress and the White House. See
this,  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/29/the-cash-committee-how-wa_n_402373.html 
this  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/bought-and-paid-for.html
and  ---  this.  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/politicans-are-not-prostitutes-they-are.html
Will Americans exercise our power - see this  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/move-your-money-a-new-yea_b_406022.html
and this  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/11/take-power-to-create-credit-away-from.html  ---  or become serfs to a permanent banking royalty?"
========= ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ====

Thursday December 31st 2009

No posts. - mpg