Friday February 3rd 2012 - links page

The Answer is B – 9/11 Footage – Ryan Dawson  ---  http://dprogram.net/2012/02/03/the-answer-is-b-911-footage-ryan-dawson/
Ry2SVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcoAwnshhy8  ---  (Ry2sYuTb - 2min25sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  Rys2sense  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/Rys2sense  ---  A quote...."(Rys2Sense) – February 2nd, 2012 – Look at the debris blown up and sideways in archs – then look at B7 from 3 angles, that didn’t burn down it was demolished, the top collapsed before the rest of it and the fires were on the opposite a lower corner." - Regarding Ryan Dawson's comment "Flight 93 never made it, but they blew it [WTC7] up anyway", see...."9/11 Shock Opera… Act 4 – Building 7 and Flight 93: The Grand Finale that Wasn’t"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/shockopera911-act4building7andflight93-screighton-ae-cached-072209  ---  For additional close-ups and slow-mos of WTCs 1, 2 & 7's controlled demolition see videos shown below....
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WTC 1 - Super Slow Motion  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC0ZBSDBZCY
(YuTb - 1min15sec - May 15, 2009) - Source:  femr2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/femr2
WTC 1 Demolition - Super Slow Motion.mp4  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgnC-uUIERY
(YuTb - 1min23sec - May 12, 2010) - Source:  inzidejob  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgnC-uUIERY
WTC 7 More proof of WTC 7 lie  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owyqt-8RnKI
(YuTb - 2min22sec - Aug 3, 2009) - Source:  realjoeplummer  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/realjoeplummer
WTC 7 The Third Tower 1/2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOel-LyJ_E
(YuTb - 8 min 56 sec - October 09, 2007) - Source: 11septembervideos  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/11septembervideos
WTC 7 The Third Tower 2/2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ePuE0tvp4
(YuTb - 6 min 48 sec - October 09, 2007) - Source: 11septembervideos  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/11septembervideos
WTC 7 - The Evidence - Read notes  ---  http://current.com/community/89041487_world-trade-center-building-7-the-evidence-read-the-notes.htm
(CurrrentTV - 10 min - June 22, 2008)
WTC 7: The Smoking Gun of 9/11  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwSc7NPn8Ok
(YuTb - 9min59sec - Sep 26, 2007) - Source:  IraPopuli  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/IraPopuli
WTC 7 Collaps - Previously Unreleased Footage of WTC 7  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsJQKpnkZ10&feature=related
(YuTb - 1min42sec - Nov 2, 2008) - Src roeschux  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/roeschuxxx
WTC 7 Slo-Mo Smoking Gun.wmv  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMluDuHyoYo
(YuTb - 25sec - Sep 18, 2011) - Source:  TERRY72763  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TERRY72763
WTC 7 Window Shot - Slow Motion  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlyFlDSscRQ
(YuTb - 1min50sec - Jan 23, 2011) - Source:  kevin604bc  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/kevin604bc
WTC 7 Close up S. Side  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD_nV88trrM
(YuTb - 44sec - Sep 25, 2011) - Source:  vengencefrom1979  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/vengencefrom1979
WTC 7 South Side Enhanced  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfhA_XsYUbk
(YuTb - 46sec - Nov 7, 2010) - Source:  femr2   ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/femr2
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Interview with John Perkins, former Economic Hitman, about 2012, government corruption, and more
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2012/02/03/interview-with-john-perkins-former-economic-hitman-about-2012-government-corruption-and-more/
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc1tREsZMW8  ---  (YuTb - 53min 23sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  TheHealthRanger  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHealthRanger  ---  A quote...."(NaturalNewsTV) – Jonathan Landsman from NaturalHealth365.com and Mike Adams interview New York Times best selling author, John Perkins. Discussed is the state of the global economy, the changing atmosphere of world politics, and what John believes is in store for us in 2012."
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The Warmongering Post: Iran, Israel, Ignatius, and the Intended Consequences of Propaganda
  ---  http://www.wideasleepinamerica.com/2012/02/warmongering-post-iran-israel-ignatius.html
A quote...."When reading reports like the one Ignatius has filed here, it should always be remembered that what is being so nonchalantly discussed as a point of perturbation for a beleaguered Leon Panetta is, without doubt, the willful and active commission of a war crime. Not only that, but - in the words of the Nuremberg Tribunal - initiating a war of aggression, as Israel would undoubtedly be doing by unilaterally and illegally bombing Iran, is "the supreme international crime." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/the-warmongering-post-iran-israel-ignatius-and-the-intended-consequences-of-propaganda/
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Israel Puts Global Facilities On High Alert Following Warning Of Rising Iran Strike Threat
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/israel-puts-global-facilities-high-alert-following-warning-rising-iran-strike-threat
War Warning - (This is the third "war warning" since this latest round of war-mongering against Iran started. - mpg) -- A quote...."....the confluence of real events continues to indicate that something is brewing in the middle east. Only this time it is not the US adding another aircraft carrier to the three already situated by the Straits of Hormuz.  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/third-aircraft-carrier-group-coming-iran  ---  This time the smoke and fire come from Israel. ABC reports that "Israeli facilities in North America -- and around the world -- are on high alert, according to an internal security document obtained by ABC News that predicted the threat from Iran against Jewish targets will increase." -- Here's the first & second "war warnings" which are related, (one's an article, the other's a video of the article)....(#1)  US to send old warship to Persian Gulf   ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/153770  ---  (#2)  2-minute video: USS Enterprise false flag target for US War Criminals to attack Iran?  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/2-minute-video-uss-enterprise-false-flag-target-for-us-war-criminals-to-attack-iran.html  ---  Video - Alt  --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uf-6HrH_fE  ---  (YuTb - 2min37sec - Jan 23, 2012) - Source:  TruthSeekingElf  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TruthSeekingElf  ---  Watch the Oil markets, watch shorting of specific industries or sectors.  This  will usually give indications of an upcoming false-flag attack and/or attack on Iran. - mpg
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US Citizens Prepped For False Flag Blamed on Iran  ---  http://dprogram.net/2012/02/03/us-citizens-prepped-for-false-flag-blamed-on-iran/
AJVideo - False Flag Alert - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX98oncpqLs  ---  (AJYuTb - 10min57sec - Feb 2, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."...it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be. -- Of course, it would be very difficult for the United States to goad Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the world recognizing this game, which would then undermine it. (One method that would have some possibility of success would be to ratchet up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran would retaliate overtly, or even semi-overtly, which could then be portrayed as an unprovoked act of Iranian aggression.) " -- *Which Path to Persia?* report, pages 84-85."- US foreign policy makers and the Fortune 500 funded Brookings Institution
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A Tale of Two Translations - What Iran says versus what the American Media says Iran says.  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/155491
Lost in Translation - (The Truth) -- A quote...."Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Muslim nations must not trust the US and Zionists, because they are not concerned about Muslim interests."
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Iran is the root of all evil  ---  http://politics.salon.com/2012/02/03/iran_is_the_root_of_all_evil/singleton/
The Same Tired Old Play-Book -- A quote...."Is there anything those Persian Monsters aren’t guilty of? The worst part of all this may be the fact that National Security officials don’t even have enough respect for the American public and media to create a new propaganda script; like some budget-strapped studio executives eager to push a worthless sequel to the market, they instead just lazily haul out the last script that was used with only the most cosmetic changes...." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30430.htm
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Iran : Fact Checking the Media  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30437.htm
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6k1VTmOPyE  ---  A quote...."February 03, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - By Dennis Kucinich  ---  During an interview last month on CBS' Face the Nation, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta set the record straight on Iran: "Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No." But if you read recent news reports lately, you'd think otherwise."
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Report From Iran -- How Hollywood Spreads Propaganda  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30432.htm
A quote...."As the psyops operations and media propaganda intensifies, you might think war is imminent and that Iran is doing what countries under threat do in these circumstances, such as mobilizing their people and preparing for a bombing onslaught. -- Think again. While I have been told that military targets have been or are being moved around, the atmosphere in Tehran is relaxed with more talk of a cultural battlefield than a military one. There’s a commemoration under way of the 33rd anniversary of the Iranian revolution and an international conference on “Hollywoodism and Cinema” as an extension of an annual Fajr film festival -- And that’s what I am doing here, as a guest participant in an event that sees Hollywood as a bigger enemy than the Pentagon."
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Less than One-Fifth of All Americans Favor Military or Covert Action Against Iran
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/less-than-one-fifth-of-all-americans-favor-military-or-covert-action-against-iran-less-than-half-of-israelis-want-to-attack-iran-and-65-want-the-entire-middle-east-including-israel-to-be-a-n.html
SO? -- All that matters is how much the one percent will make off this war, and will this war further the PNAC Protocols  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409  ---  and Israel's Middle East ambitions. The opinions of the Neo-Roman, peasant-goyum slaves in this country don't count at all, nor do those of the cannon-fodder in uniform. It's that simple. - mpg
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Amnesty International Closes Online Poll, Hides Human Rights Hero Winner
  ---  http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/amnesty-international-closes-online-poll-hides-human-rights-hero-?xg_source=activity
A quote...."Online voting for Human Rights Hero 2011 closed one month early, and result censored, after Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi took clear lead along with Nabeel Rajab*  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabeel_Rajab  ---  of Bahrain and Michael Jackson. Image: Hijacked as a money-making business forgetful of western crimes and state-terrorism, true human rights defenders have re-branded Amnesty" - *link added
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Congress Calls for Accelerated Use of Drones in U.S.
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Congress_Calls_for_Accelerated_Use_of_Drones_in_U.S./17747/0/38/38/Y/M.html
A quote...."A House-Senate conference report this week called on the Administration to accelerate the use of civilian unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or “drones,” in U.S. airspace. -- The pending authorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration directs the Secretary of Transporation to develop within nine months “a comprehensive plan to safely accelerate the integration of civil unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system.”"
Source:  SecrecyNews  ---  http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/02/faa_drones.html
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'US Muslims live under Nazi-style oppression'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/224746.html
A quote...."The oppression of Muslims in the United States has become similar to the mistreatment Jews experienced in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, a US-based Imam tells Press TV."
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Cameron (the famous movie-maker) Fleeing America To Escape Collapse?  ---  http://www.infowars.com/cameron-fleeing-america-to-escape-collapse/
A quote...."If you think that Hollywood director James Cameron’s decision to leave America and move his entire family to a farm in New Zealand is simply to provide his kids with a “strong work ethic,” as Cameron claims, then think again. -- “Cameron has successfully applied to buy 1,067 hectares (2,636 acres) of farmland in New Zealand. In an application filed with the New Zealand Overseas Investment Office, Cameron says he and his family “intend to reside indefinitely in New Zealand and are acquiring the property to reside on and operate as a working farm,” reports the Associated Press."
also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2012/02/03/cameron-fleeing-america-to-escape-collapse/
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Christians Feed Their Own To The Lions – Chuck Baldwin  ---  http://dprogram.net/2012/02/03/christians-feed-their-own-to-the-lions-chuck-baldwin/
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."(BaldwinLive) – We’ve all heard about how Christians were thrown to the lions during the reign of the Caesars. But it is very doubtful that Christians were feeding one another to the lions. Alas, it appears that should this kind of Christian persecution become vogue in America, many Christians would doubtless join with these modern-day Caesars and gladly feed their own to the lions."
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Diminishment of Sovereignty  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/11/y4qnZNJS6xk
AJVideo - BobChapman&AJTakeCalls(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4qnZNJS6xk  ---  BobChapman&AJTakeCalls(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A93b9ccJ3IA  ---  BobChapman&AJTakeCalls(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mueZqt7L4fM  ---  (AJYuTb - 4/15min - Feb 3, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex also talks with regular Friday guest Bob Chapman, publisher of the International Forecaster, and confronts the latest news, including serious developments on the Iran front over the last 24 hours that indicate an attack against the Islamic nation is received a green light. Alex also takes your calls."
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Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - February 3 2012  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/307452712
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Feb 3rd, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

[US] On Brink of Default  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/1560-on-brink-of-default.html
A quote...."Washington is facing another crisis. For the second time in the last six months, the United States has found itself on the verge of default. If the Republican majority in Congress votes against the government’s request for raising the debt limit, the state will be stripped of funds and will have to suspend many payments. Moreover, this will inflict serious damage on the US economic ratings and the dollar."
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Counterfeit Value Derivatives: Follow the Bouncing Ball  ---  http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb12/counterfeit-derivatives-Zeus02-12.html
A quote...."Here is how the counterfeit value derivative con works. It’s a game of “I pretend, you pretend, we all pretend, and the taxpayer will pay in the end”."
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The Banks Want to Dump Millions of Risky Mortgages Onto FHA - Obama’s Refinancing Swindle
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/03/obamas-refinancing-swindle/
A quote...."The FHA is already leveraged at 100-to-1 and the banks want to add even more debt. And they want to do it in the most deceptive way possible, by creating an off-balance sheet investment vehicle where the red ink can be hidden from public view. -- To be eligible for Obama’s refi-program, borrowers will need a credit score (FICO) above 580,(which is extremely low), they’ll have to be employed, and they’ll have to be current on their mortgage payments. (for the last 6 months) In other words, lending standards are being eased so the banks can dump as many high-risk mortgages on the FHA as possible. Obama breezily refers to these abysmal lending standards as “cutting through the red tape.”"
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Kiss The Foreclosure Settlement Goodbye: Bank of America, Wells & JP Morgan Are Sued Over Use Of MERS
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/kiss-foreclosure-settlement-goodbye-bank-america-wells-and-jp-morgan-are-sued-over-use-mers
A quote...."A little over a year since the day that the world first learned about robosigning and the broader problem of fraudclosure, which is merely the functional equivalent of infinite rehypothecation of an underlying asset between a daisy-chain of lien holders, we get the first legal incursion into this farce. From Bloomberg we learn that:

• Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, Sued ny New York Over MERS
• NY AG Suit Cites Fraudulent Foreclosure Filings

"In other words, kiss that foreclosure settlement goodbye. In the meantime, the  electronic momos keep taking BAC ever higher even as this news confirms that the bank is about to suffer a multi-billion impairment shortly."
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Interview - Why Soros Bought $2 Billion In Italian bonds  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/interview-why-soros-bought-2-billion-in-italian-bonds.html
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmRBpeGgX-M  ---  (YuTb - 2min55sec - Jan. 25, 2012) - Source:  ReutersTV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ReutersTV  ---  He could be right, of course that means by definition the Italian market, and the EU will contract.  Since many countries in the EU can't afford to pay back what they've already borrowed and since a contraction will only make their financial situation even worse, George Soros is probably relying on even more ECB bail-out money to be pumped into the EU's member states to keep them afloat. One wonders how he knows that would, or even could, happen? What's chilling, if you listen real closely, is that he's suggesting "heck yeah, buy 10 year Italian bonds at 6% yield because if Italy defaults it's the end of the EU anyway and that means game over for everyone....so why not go all in?"  That's not a very reassuring message. - mpg
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Europe Celebrates Its Latest Recession With Record High Gas Prices
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/europe-celebrates-its-latest-recession-record-high-gas-prices
Chart - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2012/01/20120202_gas.png  ---  A quote...."Just when you thought it was safe (well not really) to dip your toe back in the ocean of European equities on the back of the LTRO-enthused hope that credit contraction will cease and growth will return, we note another (perhaps more instantaneous) drag on the economic fortitude of the long-suffering people of the EU."
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Euro Zone Retail Sales Decrease  ---  http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=474495&Itemid=1
A quote...."Brussels, Feb 3 (Prensa Latina) The retail sales in the euro zone fell under 0.4 percent in December 2011, mainly due to high unemployment, the Statistics Office of the European Community (EROSTAT) reported on Friday. -- That result disappointed analysts, who have predicted a rise of 0.4 percent."
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Greece Draws The Line As Unity Government Leaders Refuse To Cede To Further Troika Austerity Demands
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/greece-draws-line-unity-government-leaders-refuse-cede-further-troika-austerity-demands
A quote...."It appears that Greece will not even have to wait until the dreaded March 20 funding D-Day. As was earlier reported, Greek PM Lucas Papademos may resign if he is unable to persuade his coalition unity government to agree to further Troika demands for additional austerity. It now appears that there will be no agreement, and thus the primary demand from the Troika for further cash disbursement will not be met." - Which means Greece defaults? - mpg
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A Special Section on the BS....'Scuse This Website Editor....The BLS January Unemployment Report....

Contrary to Govmt Claims of 243,000 Jobs Created, Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs Were Actually LOST In Jan
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/contrary-to-government-claims-of-243000-jobs-created-almost-1-million-jobs-were-actually-lost-in-january.html
Special Note - Multiple Charts - A quote...."While everyone is popping the champagne corks over the fact that the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that 243,000 jobs were created in January, the facts are slightly different."
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Record 1.2 Million People Fall Out Of Labor Force In One Month, Labor Force Participation Rate Tumbles To Fresh 30 Year Low
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Record_1.2_Million_People_Fall_Out_Of_Labor_Force_In_O
ne_Month%2C_Labor_Force_Participation_Rate_Tumbles_To_Fresh_30_Year_Low_/17752/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Charts - (click  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2012/01/People%20Not%20In%20Labor%20Force.jpg  ---  to  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2012/01/Participation%20Rate.jpg  ---  enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2012/01/20120202_notinlabor.png  ---  A quote...."A month ago, we joked when we said that for Obama to get the unemployment rate to negative by election time, all he has to do is to crush the labor force participation rate to about 55%. Looks like the good folks at the BLS heard us: it appears that the people not in the labor force exploded by an unprecedented record 1.2 million. No, that’s not a typo: 1.2 million people dropped out of the labor force in one month!" - bold by website editor - Source:  ZeroHedge
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/record-12-million-people-fall-out-labor-force-one-month-labor-force-participation-rate-tumbles-
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TrimTabs Explains Why Today's "Very, Very Suspicious" NFP Number Is Really Down 2.9 Million In Past 2 Months
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/trimtabs-explains-why-todays-very-very-suspicious-nfp-number-really-down-29-million-past-2-mont
A quote...."We have examined the nuance of the euphoric jobs data this morning from every angle and by now there should be plenty of 'information' for investors to make their own minds up on its credibility. However, the avuncular CEO of TrimTabs, who despite channeling Lewis Black lately, likely knows this data a little better than the average Jim on the street having collected tax witholdings data for the past 14 years, is modestly apoplectic at the adjustments. In one of his more colorful episodes, and rightfully so, Charles Biderman notes that "Either there is something massively changed in the income tax collection world, or there is something very, very suspicious about today’s BLS hugely positive number," adding, "Actual jobs, not seasonally adjusted, are down 2.9 million over the past two months."
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Final Nail In Today's NFP Tragicomedy: Record Surge In Part-Time Workers
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/final-nail-todays-nfp-tragicomedy-record-surge-part-time-workers
Chart - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2012/01/Part%20Time%20Workers.jpg  ---  A quote...."It appears the record surge in people not in the labor force is not the only outlier in today's data. For the other one we go to the Household Data Survey (Table 9), and specifically the breakdown between Full Time and Part Time Workers (defined as those "who usually work less than 35 hours per week"). We won't spend too much time on it, as it is self-explanatory. In January, the number of Part Time workers rose by 699K, the most ever, from 27,040K to 27,739K, the third highest number in the history of this series. How about Full time jobs? They went from 113,765 to 113,845. An 80K increase."
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More On The International Situation....

New thinking in India’s Iran policy  ---  http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2012/02/02/new-thinking-in-indias-iran-policy/
A quote...."Finally, India is getting its act together in its Iran policy. The ‘breaking news’ that India proposes to robustly explore expanding its trade  ---  http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/12796216/exclusive-india-delegation-to-go-to-iran-to-boost-oil-exports/  ---  with Iran signals a new approach to stepping up oil imports from Iran while at the same time rectifying the imbalance in trade, which heavily favours Iran traditionally, and to make this happen within a paradigm that resolves the current problem over the payment mechanism." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/new-thinking-in-indias-iran-policy/
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China intensifies criticism of sanctions on Iran  ---  http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL4E8D28YC20120203
A quote...."BEIJING Feb 3 (Reuters) - A top Chinese newspaper stepped up Beijing's opposition to a Western push for tighter sanctions against Iran, warning on Friday that tensions over Tehran's nuclear programme are hurting energy markets and could stifle the global economic recovery."
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Baghdad says US Iran sanctions a problem for Iraq
  ---  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gCt74e58ibVpi66co8P0ZoZYy3fw?docId=CNG.c3ec565502bf571e4d37efad1f9dcf96.1f1
A quote...."BAGHDAD — American sanctions on Iran pose difficulties for Iraq because of its close economic ties with the Islamic republic, so Baghdad plans to seek a waiver from the US, the government spokesman told AFP."
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Iran against West: Air Defense Chance of Success
  ---  http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2012/02/04/iran-against-west-air-defense-chance-of-success.html
Weapons Tactics Note -- A quote...."There are two possible options on the table in case Israel and the West attack Iran. One envisages a missile strike launched by Tel Aviv followed by an adequate Iranian response. Then Nato steps in playing its favorite role of a “peacekeeper”. The other presupposes a clash between the US 5th operational Fleet and Iranian Navy in the Hormuz Strait. In both cases it’s missiles and aircraft that will strike Iran. It means air defense will bare brunt of the burden repelling the attack. "
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Int’l conference on ‘Divine Faiths’ kicks off in Isfahan
  ---  http://www.irna.ir/News/General/Int%E2%80%99l-conference-on-%E2%80%98Divine-Faiths%E2%80%99-kicks-off-in-Isfahan/30794109
A quote...."Isfahan, Feb 2, IRNA – The International Conference on Divine Faiths began in this central ancient city with the participation of foreign and domestic representatives from the religions of Islam, Armenian Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrian."
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HR Group Slams Observers' Withdrawal from Syria  ---  http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=472895&Itemid=1
A quote...."Damascus, Jan 30 (Prensa Latina) The Syrian Human Rights Network (SHRN) criticized the Arab League (AL) for suspending the mission of observers, only because it showed objectivity and neutrality." - also posted at GlobalRsrch
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29060
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Exposed: The Arab [Monarchies] agenda in Syria  ---  http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NB04Ak01.html
A quote...."Here's a crash course on the "democratic" machinations of the Arab League - rather the GCC League, as real power in this pan-Arab organization is wielded by two of the six Persian Gulf monarchies composing the Gulf Cooperation Council, also known as Gulf Counter-revolution Club; Qatar and the House of Saud."
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SYRIA: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating a Pretext for a US-NATO "Humanitarian Intervention"
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24591
A quote...."There is evidence of gross media manipulation and falsification from the outset of the protest movement in southern Syria on March 17th. -- The Western media has presented the events in Syria as part of the broader Arab pro-democracy protest movement, spreading spontaneously from Tunisia, to Egypt, and from Libya to Syria."
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Libya: Diplomat Dies in Militia Custody  ---  http://www.hrw.org/node/104964
Amerika's "free-dumb and da'mockery" in action. - mpg -- A quote...."(Tripoli) – A Libyan diplomat who served as ambassador to France died less than 24 hours after he was detained by a Tripoli-based militia from the town of Zintan, Human Rights Watch said today. Dr. Omar Brebesh, who was detained on January 19, 2012, appears to have died from torture. -- A preliminary autopsy report viewed by Human Rights Watch said the cause of death included multiple bodily injuries and fractured ribs. Photos of Brebesh’s body, seen by Human Rights Watch, show welts, cuts, and the apparent removal of toenails, indicating that he was tortured prior to death." -- Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power and Susan Rice are to blame for this. - mpg
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Graveyard of Empires  ---  http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis279.html
Special Note - A quote...."The US will continue strikes by drones, warplanes, and attacks by special forces from a small number of fortress bases. Pakistan will be cajoled or bribed by Washington to keep its forces active against Pashtun tribal fighters. Washington and London will keep issuing cheery claims about the success of the Afghan War. -- But the hard truth cannot be avoided. All the concentrated military-technological might of the United States and its allies has been defeated by fierce Pashtun tribesmen whose primary weapons are courage, patience and legendary determination to drive out foreign invaders."
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Taliban eat into Afghanistan's core  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/NB04Df05.html
A quote...."ISLAMABAD - As the United States steps up efforts to engage the Taliban and al-Qaeda in a peace process for Afghanistan, elements of the Taliban have initiated their own plan focusing on regaining the power they lost in 2001 following the US-led invasion. -- This involves hijacking the efforts and finances that the US is investing in training and equipping the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the Afghan National Police (ANP). -- Well-placed sources in the Taliban who are based in the Pakistan tribal region on the border with Afghanistan have told Asia Times Online on the condition of anonymity that massive numbers from both the ANA and the ANP will switch and join the Taliban on the eve of the scheduled withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan."
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Pro-Putin Rally Lambasts ‘Orange Trash’  ---  http://en.rian.ru/society/20120204/171136414.html
A quote...."Speakers at the pro-government rally in Moscow on Saturday lambasted the opposition, which held a parallel protest event elsewhere in the city, for plotting a revolution in the interests of Western powers. -- “We say no to the destruction of Russia. We say no to Orange arrogance. We say no to the American government…let’s take out the Orange trash,” political analyst Sergei Kurginyan said at the rally by Moscow’s Poklonnaya Gora memorial, which he co-organized."
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Russian Strategic Subs to Resume Routine World Patrols  ---  http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20120204/171127327.html
A quote...."Russian strategic nuclear submarines will resume routine extended patrols in international waters around the world in June 2012, Russian Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said. -- “On June 1 or a bit later we will resume constant patrolling of the world’s oceans by strategic nuclear submarines,” Vysotsky said at a meeting with naval personnel on Friday."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

World court upholds German immunity in Nazi cases  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/155444
A quote...."Which makes sense when you realize that the Nazis are dead and gone, their government is gone, and the people and government of Germany today had nothing to do with the events of the middle of the last century. Trying to sue Germany for what the Nazis did is like trying to sue Italy for what the Romans did."
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Espionage gang made illegal recordings of staff at TÜBİTAK
  ---  http://www.todayszaman.com/news-270207-espionage-gang-made-illegal-recordings-of-staff-at-tubitak.html
A quote...."An espionage gang that used blackmail to extort intelligence on Turkey's security projects installed secret cameras all over a facility of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and illegally videotaped most of the agency's employees for blackmail purposes." - a comment shown below....

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More On The Palestinian Situation....

13 hurt in Nabi Saleh demo  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457589
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces injured 13 people in the village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, during a Friday demonstration against Israeli land confiscation, witnesses said." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/13-injured-in-nabi-saleh-demonstration/
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30 years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatilla Lebanese politicians still block Palestinian rights
  ---  http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/02/30-years-after-the-massacre-at-sabra-shatilla-lebanese-politicians-still-block-palestinian-rights/
A quote...."We all know it is not just American and Lebanese politicians who use Palestinian refugees as political footballs during electoral campaigns. But they are currently the two most egregious apart from most Zionist politicians in temporarily occupied Palestine."
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Israeli settlers [goons] beat Palestinian shepherd  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62954
A quote...."A group of Israeli settlers [goons] from the Mehola settlement [squatter camp] in the Jordan Valley, in the northeastern part of the West Bank, approached a Palestinian shepherd who was tending his sheep and beat him with sticks and clubs on Friday."
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IOF soldiers [thugs] unleash hounds at Palestinian teen, beat two children
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7e2TftY40q1SmLxgQJ2HvHAMduGhl1%2b
HOU7Dsg5AENBJWzgmlToX1RZmwalxDrT0Hw5pkL2ZKWi8B%2bum%2fO92CbYk8%2ftsMAYCYwqzq7YBJBL4%3d
A quote...."AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian teen in Tabaqa village, south of Al-Khalil, after unleashing trained hounds at him, local sources said."
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61 year old Palestinian woman in intensive care after settler [vicious thugs] attack
  ---  http://palsolidarity.org/2012/02/61-year-old-palestinian-woman-in-intensive-care-after-settler-attack/
A quote...."When your land is occupied by those who harbor hatred towards you emanating from a belief that they are inherently superior to you, each day brings with it a genuine threat to the security of your life and the lives of your loved ones."
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[Palestinian] Villagers foil settlers’ [jealous, Jewish, vandals] attempt to burn mosque
  ---  http://palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7SeVNwp0yoaqJi3Ze
UQJz98Btn06yZCUbgNNBbh96WXIyS6bL6MypPkka%2b%2fDZTlywtFmDEhb4HTD65XxLjczU%2bZLITS20vbsvKyX%2bKfAXu0w%3d
A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- [Jealous] Jewish [vandals] settlers attacked Nabi Saleh village, to the north west of Ramallah, before dawn Saturday and tried to burn a mosque in it, local sources said. -- They said that the settlers [vandals] tried to reach Tamim Al-Dari mosque in the center of the village but young men spotted them and threw stones at them."
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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (26 Jan. – 01 Feb. 2012)
  ---  http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8116:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-26-jan-01-feb-2012&catid=131:new
It never stops.  What's that famous quote, it's like being out on the highway during a Texas hail storm and there's nowhere to take shelter for as far as the eye can see....forever. - mpg

• A Palestinian civilian was wounded by IOF in Gaza City.
• IOF partially damaged a Palestinian house in Gaza City.
• IOF have continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
• 4 Palestinian civilians, including two cameramen, were wounded.
• Dozens of demonstrators, including and Israeli media worker, sustained bruises or suffered from tear gas inhalation.
• IOF conducted 56 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the Gaza Strip.   
• IOF arrested 12 Palestinians, including 3 children, in the West Bank.
• IOF arrested two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
• IOF raided Hayat Nablus Tourist Resort and confiscated equipment.
• IOF have continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.
• IOF arrested 4 fishermen and confiscated their boat.
• Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• Israeli soldiers arrested 4 Palestinian civilians, including two children, at various checkpoints in the West Bank.
• Israel has continued efforts to create a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem.
• IOF demolished 2 houses and displaced 13 Palestinians.
• IOF closed a charity and a sports club.
• IOF prevented Rasem Ubeidat, a writer and journalist, from having access to the West Bank.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• IOF distributed demolition notices in the north and south of the West Bank.
• A Palestinian women sustained wounds in the head and hemorrhage in the brain as she was attacked by Israeli settlers.

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Thursday February 2nd 2012 - links page 

Wednesday February 1st 2012 - links page 

War is always by Deception - (Newest version of Ryan Dawson's masterpiece- mpg)
  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/911-disinfo-damaging-official-story
Must View Ry2SVideo - Alt -    ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoB80Yk9NYg  ---  (Ry2SYuTb - 3hr5min55sec - Dec 22, 2011) - Source:  Rys2sense  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/Rys2sense  ---  A quote...."Audio re-done,New clips, massive editing, info on tower access, enjoy and spread...." - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html    
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Disarming the 911 Kook Movement  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/911-disinfo-damaging-official-story
Must View Ry2SVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kccd1EvObNI  ---  (Ry2SYuTb - 29min06sec - Jan 31, 2012) - Source:  Rys2sense  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/Rys2sense  ---  A quote...."The official conspiracy theory from the government was bad enough without crazies making it even worse. There is a reason attention and promotion is given to the most retarded elements of 911 truth. It's a way of poisoning the well." 
Topix ||  9/11-NORAD  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911norad-weblist-mpg-091308 
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Flight 93 my 2 cents  ---  http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=28291 
Contains Videos - A quote...."Flight 77 hit the pentagon. There is no reason not to hit it with the plane that they need to hit it with and many reasons why not to use anything else. As for how the plane was hijacked, the hijackers were there only in so far as to explain to the public what happened to the planes, and someone to blame it on. They all sucked at flying, who knows if they really even knew what was gonna happen (left hand not knowing what the right is doing) they could have been told it was a drill, there were war games like that going on. The real piloting was by remote control. And commercial 757s could easily be outfitted for that (SPC). They have to have a hijacker though because they can't very well explain away a plane just changing course by itself and ramming into building in key financial targets for a massive cover up. To hit either tower which were barely wider than a plane, or to hit the pentagon is a massive feat for even the best pilots. No way they could risk a miss. Those planes were guided, well minus one." - Topix ||  9/11-NORAD  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911norad-weblist-mpg-091308 
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Challenge – Is America the New Axis of Evil  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/02/challenge-is-america-new-axis-of-evil.html    
Contains Videos - FinalWordon9/11  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNGPFVOYmhg    
TheRealTruthofWars  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_RvhvGZVkk    
ColAnthonyShaffer&AbelDngr  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7suTyXGybU    
GRivera&WTC7  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP0Hs-v-uJ0    
NDAABill  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2r1JSR8EC8    
RonPaul&Wikileaks  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn44sXhLwAM    
BBCDeadInTheWater  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujoc1DYjuPE    
NYTCaughtLyingREIran&IAEA  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOCH1ECkyio  ---  A quote.... "Though a GOP “insider,” I have always worked to represent reason and human values, or so I tell myself.  In our government, military and intelligence services, people of courage and good will have been worn down, bullied, they look away.  Some were indoctrinated to the “right,” seeing the intellectual dishonesty and ineffectiveness of the left, now exposed as “controlled opposition.” - All opposition is controlled opposition.  Real Americans wait by their door for when “their time” comes, and that time is closer than ever. - Once we used to fight over 9/11 as a “conspiracy theory.”  So many went to defend America, believing 9/11.  This will break your heart.  Please accept my apology in advance...." - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/02/challenge-is-america-new-axis-of-evil.html 
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Why Do We Believe What We Believe?  ---  http://penumbralreport.com/2012/01/31/why-do-we-believe-what-we-believe/ 
A quote...."we find ourselves locked in a two-party system where the status quo is maintained even though that status quo doesn’t work for the vast majority of us.  It is doubtful that much will be different regardless of the outcome of the current election cycle here in the United States.  At the margins perhaps there will be some small differences in policy between an Obama administration and a Romney administration just as there were some small differences at the margins between the Bush administration and the current one.  But, the influence of Wall Street will continue unabated, just as we will have continued military misadventures abroad, an expansion of the bi-partisan surveillance state, a continuation of the failed policy called the Drug War, continuing and growing deficits, and a continuation of the [deteriorating] standard of living for most American even though nearly all of us agree that these are not the things we want." 
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Convincing_Us_Into_Believing_We_Have_Choice/17713/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
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Iran: This Is What Propaganda Looks Like  ---  http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/02/01/iran-this-is-what-propaganda-looks-like/ 
Propaganda Alert - (war with Iran) -- A quote...."Alarmist corporate media coverage of the "threat" from Iran is everywhere, thanks to a Senate appearance yesterday by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. -- But Clapper said very little in his remarks that would justify the propagandistic coverage we're seeing.  His main point was that Iran could launch attacks if it felt threatened. It is hard to see how this is particularly surprising. Clapper pointed to the alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington D.C. as evidence that Iran seems more eager to assert itself, perhaps even inside the United States. But there were many people who raised serious questions about that rather implausible scenario (which involved hiring a Mexican drug gang to carry out the assassination)." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/iran-this-is-what-propaganda-looks-like/ 
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War Plan Iran: Endemic US/Israeli Double-Think Is Now "Normal Discourse"  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29012 
Propaganda Alert - (war with Iran) -- A quote...."Thanks to a subservient mainstream media, we are now fed a constant diet of preposterous double-think from American political leaders and their Israeli minions with regard to Iran and its alleged threat to world security. In this inadvertently valuable service, the pliant uncritical mainstream media is giving full vent to the most outrageous drivel dressed up as serious discourse." 
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American intelligence agencies, media stoke war drive against Iran  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2012/feb2012/clap-f02.shtml 
Propaganda Alert - (war with Iran) -- A quote...."Provocative testimony by US officials at a January 31 US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing has become the focus of a media campaign, accusing Iran of posing a terrorist threat to the United States." 
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New York Times-Style Journalism -- Whoring in the gutter as usual, what a disgusting spectacle....mpg 
  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-york-times-style-journalism.html 
Presstitute Exposed - (The NYT as always....) -- A quote...."Like other major media scoundrels, New York Times writers, op-ed commentators and editorials fail the test. They're biased, shameless and irresponsible, especially on issues of war and peace. -- Times tradition dates from 1896 when Ochs-Sulzberger family members took control. Thereafter, it's played the lead print role distorting, censoring, and suppressing truth and full disclosure. -- Its shameful record includes...." 
- also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/new-york-times-style-journalism/
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Columnist Calls for Internet 'Quality Control' to Quash Dissent  ---  http://lewrockwell.com/tennant/tennant43.1.html 
Web Under Threat - A quote...."Do you think anthropogenic global warming is a hoax? Are you unconvinced that your ancestors had more in common with Cheetah than with Tarzan? Have you any doubts about the official version of how 9/11 went down? Then you, according to Evgeny Morozov, are part of a “kooky” “fringe movement” whose growth must be checked by forcing you to read “authoritative” content whenever you go looking for information on such topics on the Internet." 
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Hawaii Lawmaker Acknowledges Defeat On Bill To Monitor All Web Users - Hip Hip Hooray!! 
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/hawaii-lawmaker-acknowledges-defeat-on-bill-to-monitor-all-web-users.html
A quote...."A Hawaii politician who proposed legislation requiring Internet providers to keep records of every website their customers visit has finally acknowledged that the bill is dead in the water." 
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ACLU Sues for Records on Assassination of US Citizens - Hip Hip Hooray!!
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/01/aclu-sues-for-records-on-assassination-of-us-citizens/ 
A quote...."The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit today in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, complaining that the Obama Administration failed to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests relating to the assassinations of three US citizens in Yemen." 
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Your cell phone is a government issued tracking device  ---  http://www.oldthinkernews.com/?p=2511 
A quote...."Mobile phones have become a major part of our modern civilization. These hand-held computers have reached a level of sophistication that allows us to instantly communicate through text, voice and video. This same technology is also being used to amass a situational awareness and sensory system that will track you and the world around you. You and your cell phone are nodes in a grid of sensors that paints a virtual picture of the world." 
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Your_cell_phone_is_a_government_issued_tracking_device/17702/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
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Under the Jackboot of an American Secretary General, INTERPOL Now Tracking Dissidents
  ---  http://indepthafrica.com/global-issues/under-the-jackboot-of-an-american-secretary-general-interpol-now-tracking-dissidents-2/#.Tyo6HoFTBkg 
A quote...."Welcome to the new INTERPOL – the International Criminal Police Organization — a carbon copy of the INTERPOL that was briefly headquartered in Berlin under the Nazi regime. Today, INTERPOL, an international law enforcement agency composed of 190 members nations, INTERPOL, headquartered in Lyon, France, is under the control of Secretary General Ron K. Noble, a former Undersecretary for Enforcement of the U.S. Treasury Department. Under Noble, INTERPOL is tracking political dissidents while leaving gangsters and other criminals, especially those wanted by Russia, remain at large." - also posted at SCF  ---  http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2012/02/01/american-secretary-general-interpol-tracking-dissidents.html
& BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Under_the_Jackboot_of_an_American_Secretary_General%2C_INTERPOL_Now_Tracking_Dissidents/17701/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
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The Assange Case Means That We Are All Suspects Now  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29021 
A quote...."This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies.  This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain." 
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In The Assange Case We Are All Suspects Now  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30410.htm 
Related Article - A quote..."February 01, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- This month's Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. -- This is Assange's final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain." 
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4 punished for blowing whistle on Dover AFB body handling
  ---  http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020112_dover_whistleblowers/4-punished-blowing-whistle-dover-afb-body-handling/ 
A quote...."Four civilian employees at the Port Mortuary at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base were illegally punished after blowing the whistle on the mortuary’s mishandling of dead troops’ remains, the Office of Special Counsel said in a report sent to Air Force officials on Monday, according to the Associated Press. -- Between 2004 and 2006, Dover Air Force Base workers dumped the remains of 274 troops in a Virginia landfill without notifying the soldiers' families." - Topix ||  M.I.C. Product™ - 11-10-10 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/micproducttm-mpg-reficultnias-111010 
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Arizona Election Fraud: Pima County Continues to Delay Forensic Exam of RTA Ballots
  ---  http://fatallyflawedelections.blogspot.com/2012/02/arizona-election-fraud-pima-county.html 
2012 Election Cycle - (vote fraud) -- A quote...."Editor's Note:  This crucial court case is currently experiencing a media blackout among local Tucson Press.  This includes the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Weekly.  This case is a textbook example of a battle waged by the growth lobby against the will of the population.   The reason why the county is using such extreme measures to stop this trial is that the plaintiff, the Libertarian Party, may conduct discovery which includes a forensic exam of the RTA ballots to demonstrate to the courts that the 2006 RTA election calling for a two billion dollar twenty-year sales tax hike was rigged.   This is the prerequisite for the courts to grant prospective relief for rigged elections." - also posted at WRH
  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/arizona-election-fraud-pima-county-continues-delay-forensic-exam-rta-ballots 
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Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - February 1 2012  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/307258384 
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Feb 1st, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...   

Our Counterfeit Economy  ---  http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb12/counterfeit-economy02-12.html 
Must Read - A quote...."Yesterday we looked at counterfeiting and money printing and discovered they are one in the same: (Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit Policy.)  ---  http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan12/counterfeit-policy01-12.html  ---  If we apply the same analysis to the U.S. economy, we have to conclude the entire U.S. economy is also counterfeit. -- The analysis is not as complicated as store-bought economists would have you think. Much of what passes for "economics and finance" is simply distraction, a sophisticated version of bread and circuses." 
also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-our-counterfeit-economy 
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Why Non-Farm Payrolls Will Be Weak  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/why-non-farm-payrolls-will-be-weak 
Chart - (click to view)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2012/01/20120201_NFP.png  ---  A quote...."Following today's sizable miss and significant revision to the ADP data it is perhaps worth taking a step back and looking at some independent research on the adjustments and seasonality issues in forecasting jobs around this time of year...." 
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Obama is selling all the houses the banks stole via robosigning to the 1% !!!
  ---  http://occupytvstations.com/blog/obama-is-selling-all-the-houses-the-banks-stole-via-robosigning-to-the-1percent 
A quote...."The Bank Settlement is not looking at the MBS end of the equation, which is even more explosive than the robo-signers, who were hired with the intent to make the loans sour as fast as possible. Why? Because it made the banksters rich. -- When the loans when bad, the Mortgage Backed Securities lost value, but Credit Default Swaps allowed the banskters to buy insurance on family homes. It’s like buying fire insurance on your neighbor’s house, which creates a huge incentive for arson. -- And so the banks hired 20,000 robo-signers to ignite all those home loans. The result...." 
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US Adds $120 Billion In Debt Since Debt Ceiling Hike On Friday, $310 Billion More On Deck In Next 2 Months
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-adds-120-billion-debt-debt-ceiling-hike-friday-310-billion-more-deck-next-two-months 
A quote...."Remember when the US hiked its debt ceiling on Friday courtesy of a formulaic 52 affirmative votes in the Senate, giving the Treasury $1.2 trillion in dry debt powder to attempt to grow the economy one more time according to the algorithmic fantasies of voodoo priests with pieces of Ivy League parchment on their walls? Well, two days later, the dry powder is less than $1.1 trillion. In other words, in the past two days, total US debt increased by $120 billion...." - bold by website editor 
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Rothschild Bank & Goldman Sachs ~ Both On The LIST Of Bondholders Getting US Taxpayer Billions In Ireland
  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/rothschild-bank-and-goldman-sachs-are-both-on-the-list-of-bo.html 
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4kZd4Roies  ---  A quote...."Guess what, Ireland.  Brian Lenihan and Brian Cowen just sold you down the IMF river.  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/ireland-agrees-to-imf-eu-us-taxpayer-bailout-bank-bondholder.html  ---  Why?  To bail out bank bondholders and giant European banks.  Of course!  That's what governments are for these days, apparently.  And they'll tell you that the bailout policy is all for you own good.   And for little old ladies and pensioners and orphans.  Just don't tell that to the cancer patients.  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/in-ireland-cancer-patients-lose-out-to-bank-bondholders.html  ---  Yep, another nation made IMF debt slaves  ---  http://dailybail.com/home/cead-mile-failte-to-the-imf-irish-imf-revolution.html  ---  on behalf of the international banking cartels.  And Goldman Sachs and Rothschild & Compagnie  ---  http://www.rothschild-cie.fr/  ---   are on the list." 
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What Real Journalism Looks Like - Vincent Browne v The European Central Bank  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30415.htm 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAf7J4a_T1g  ---  (YuTb - 5min40sec - Jan 19, 2012) - Source:  MrMonty0  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MrMonty0  ---  A quote..."Vincent Browne takes on Klaus Masuch over the issue of the Irish people having to foot the bill for unguaranteed bondholders." 
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Max Keiser 'Goldman Sachs cooked Greece books'  ---  http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=17578 
PRSTVideo - Alt#1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4kZJB2glzM  ---  Alt#2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B90u1HaOdfU  ---  (PRSTVYuTb - 9min17sec - Jan 30, 2012) - Source:  ZyPhReX  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/ZyPhReX  ---  A quote.... Greece is being pressured to give all control of the Greek budget to the European Union, which it says threatens its national sovereignty." 
Topix ||  Israel is NOT a "Nation-State", Nor Does It Plan To Be One - 01-13-12 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/israelisnotanationstatenordoesitplantobeone-mpg-reficultnias-011312 
||  A Quadruple Whammy - 12-16-10 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/aquadruplewhammy-mpg-reficultnias-121610 
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Greece Warns It Will Soon Be In "Condition Of Absolute Poverty"
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/greece-warns-it-will-soon-be-condition-absolute-poverty 
A quote..."And while the bankers (on both sides of the table) haggle about how to best leech Greece even dryer (with a solution due any hour, day, week now), the actual people are starting to wave the white flag of surrender. Because the opportunity cost of every additional coupon payment is having a direct, immediate and increasingly more dire impact on virtually every aspect of the economy." 
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750,000 Brits to be long-term unemployed  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/224362.html 
A quote...."An extra 750,000 British people are to join the ranks of the long-term unemployed over the next four years due to the ongoing economic crisis, reveals new forecasts." 
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Vicious Cycles Persist As Global Lending Standards Tighten
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/vicious-cycles-persist-global-lending-standards-tighten 
A quote...."One of the major factors in the Central Banks of the world having stepped up the pace of flushing the world with increasing amounts of freshly digitized cash is writ large in the contraction in credit availability to the real economy (even to shipbuilders). Anecdotal examples of this constrained credit are everywhere but much more clearly and unequivocally in tightening lending standards in all of the major economies." 
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News.... 

Finding Power in Solidarity - Occupy Oakland After the Crackdown
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/01/occupy-oakland-after-the-crackdown/ 
A quote...."The night of January 28th in Oakland left me feeling angry.  I felt anger toward police for brutalizing people in the streets, illegally kettling protesters, and collectively punishing the entire march with indiscriminate use of chemical weapons and projectiles.  I felt angry about protest organizers and march leaders employing completely ineffective and non-strategic tactics for realizing our goal of opening a functioning community center which would cooperatively feed, educate, and provide support for anyone who asks and about the secretive process by which a building was chosen for reopening through embarassingly fantastic hopes of what might be possible through such tactics.   I was embittered at the fact that at the end of the day hundreds of people were violently subdued, arrested, and thrown into Santa Rita jail and that we were unsuccessful in what we had set out to do that morning, our momentum squandered." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Petrodollar pumping US policy on Iran, backfire looms  ---  http://rt.com/news/iran-attack-us-allegations-243/ 
A quote...."As tensions between the US and Iran heat up, author Michael T. Winter believes the main reason behind America’s harsh stance is Tehran’s move to seek an alternative to the dollar as an oil currency. -- ­Economic sanctions, spearheaded by the US and, less willingly, the EU could have a disastrous effect on both of their respective economies.  If Iran cannot sell their oil to Europe, there are plenty of customers waiting in the wings, and if they come bearing not petrodollars, but gold and sovereign currencies, then all the better for Iran.  These sanctions, if enforced, will in effect place a serious dent in the power of the petrodollar." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30409.htm 
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War on an 'If': 'Iran threat a tool of regime change'
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVkY5ePLlDY&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=14&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVkY5ePLlDY  ---  (RTYuTb - 2min02sec - Feb 1, 2012) -- A quote...."Inspectors from the UN's nuclear watchdog say Iran seems committed to resolving all nuclear issues. The statement comes after a three-day visit by the IAEA, which Tehran's called "constructive". Experts have been attempting to verify the peaceful nature of Iran's atomic programme." - Topix  ||  Who the Heck do They Think They're Fooling? - 09-15-08 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/whotheheckdotheythinktheyrefooling-mpg-blog-091508 
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Slain Iranian scientist's wife seeks UN action over murders  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/224272.html 
A quote...."The [wife] of an assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist has criticized the United Nations for failing to adopt measures to stop terrorist attacks against Iranian scientists." 
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Former US Policymakers Promote War on Iran  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2012/02/former-us-policymakers-promote-war-on_02.html 
Special Note - (Because warmongers are named and their organization is identified - mpg) -- A quote...."In 2007, former Senators Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, and George Mitchell established their Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) imperial project front group. -- Among other issues addressed, warmaking's prioritized." 
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What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update  ---  http://orientalreview.org/2012/01/24/what-is-really-going-on-in-syria-insider-update/ 
A quote....:The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important components of the Middle Eastern and international policies. Using Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO, Israel, Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine the Syrian regime."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30412.htm 
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Moscow won’t support a “raw” resolution or arms embargo on Syria  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/155167 
A quote...."Russia and China are being the "adults in the room" at the UN on this issue. - This is one of the reasons the US is doing everything in its power to destabilize Putin in the next round of Russian elections, and have someone in power more sympathetic to the geopolitical outcomes it wants to see happen. - But here is what I see potentially coming with Syria; without any UN mandate, NATO and the US, which have been doing their best to foment unrest in Syria, will find a way to bring the Assad government down, at an horrendous cost in money and blood." -- *Michael Rivero* 
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Man in Afghan army uniform kills NATO soldier  ---  http://en.trend.az/regions/world/afghanistan/1986613.html 
A quote...."A man in Afghan army uniform shot dead a NATO soldier in restive southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, NATO-led forces confirmed on Wednesday. "An individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon against an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service member in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing one service member," the NATO-led ISAF said in a press release, Xinhua reported." 
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Taliban vows to retake Afghanistan: report  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/01/us-afghanistan-idUSTRE8100E520120201 
A quote...."(Reuters) - The Taliban, backed by Pakistan, remains confident despite a decade of NATO efforts that it will retake control of Afghanistan, NATO said in a new classified report that raises more questions about Afghanistan's future as foreign forces withdraw." 
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Rival Libya militias battle in Tripoli  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16841848 
A quote...."Rival Libyan militia groups have fought a gun battle in the capital, Tripoli, officials say. -- Exchanges of fire were heard and plumes of smoke seen coming from a district known as Tariq Al Shat in central Tripoli, eyewitnesses said." 
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Venezuela Announces “Irrevocable” Withdrawal from World Bank’s Arbitration Body  ---  http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6773 
A quote...."Mérida, 26th January 2012 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government has announced Venezuela’s “irrevocable” withdrawal from the World Bank affiliated arbitration body the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)." - also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2012/02/01/venezuela-announces-irrevocable-withdrawal-from-world-banks-arbitration-body/ 
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Gorbachev Russia’s Most Unpopular Leader - Survey  ---  http://en.rian.ru/society/20120202/171088106.html 
A quote...."MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti) – Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are Russia’s most unpopular leaders of the past century, according to a survey by Russia’s state-run VTsIOM pollster published on Thursday." 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 
 
The BBC censors its own report on Tunisia's Jews saying "No" to [emigrating to] Israel!  ---  http://www.redress.cc/global/ahart20120202 
Israeli Presstitute Alert - (The BBC....again) -- A quote...."Alan Hart views an instance where, as a result either of pro-Zionist bias, Israeli pressure or cowardice, BBC television censored a report by one of its own correspondents, originally broadcast on BBC World Service radio, cutting out from an audio clip a passage in which a Tunisian Jew stated that it would be crazy of him to emigrate to Israel." - also posted at Veteran'sToday
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/02/01/the-bbc-censors-its-own-report-on-tunisias-jews-saying-no-to-israel/ 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Israel detains Palestinian politicians in an attempt to foil reconciliation attempts  ---  http://www.palestinemonitor.org/?p=3814 
A quote...."On Sunday, 23 January, an Israeli Military Court placed Dr. Aziz Dweik, the elected head of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), in six months administrative detention without a trial and without officially filing any charges against him." 
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Elderly Woman Seriously Injured After Being Attacked By Settlers [Jewish Israeli Thugs]  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62943 
A quote...."Palestinian medical sources reported Wednesday that a Palestinian woman was seriously injured after a number of fundamentalist Israeli settlers [thugs] hurled stones at a vehicle on the Yitzhar-Nablus road, in the northern part of the West Bank." 
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[Israeli] Army Kidnapped 320 Palestinians In January  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62941 
A quote...."Israeli soldiers kidnapped more than 320 Palestinians in several parts of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and occupied East Jerusalem during the month of January, a Palestinian researcher stated." 
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HRW Issues Report Criticising Israel High Court  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62939 
A quote...."Human Rights Watch has denounced on Tuesday recent judgements by the Israeli High Court in a report titled “Israel: High Court Rulings Undermine Human Rights”." 
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Khader Adnan Mohammad Musa: Israeli Prisoner of Conscience  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m85334&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."In 1948, brute force established Israel. In 1967, militarized occupation of one-fifth of former Palestine followed. -- An entire people suffer. Collective punishment is official policy. So are torture, violence, land theft, apartheid, injustice, and other forms of state-sponsored terror. -- They include imprisoning Palestinians for wanting to live free on their own land in their own country. As a result, since June 1967, over 750,000 Palestinians have been imprisoned." - Source:  SteveLendman  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2012/02/khader-adnan-mohammad-musa-israeli.html 
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Israel closes organizations, destroys dwellings in campaign against Palestinian life in East Jerusalem
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m85314&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."Israeli police shut down two Palestinian organizations in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, the Ma'an News Agency reports. - The closing of the soccer club and charity because of alleged "connections" to Hamas are part of an increasingly enforced policy of shutting down Palestinian civil society in occupied East Jerusalem." 
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World Bank Chief says Israeli Constraints Stifle Economy  ---  http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18878 
He was obviously only speaking about Palestine, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip -- but from this website editor's perspective, those vicious, biting, gnawing, nasty, little mini-Nazis, their Bankster minions, and their PNAC Protocols are stifling the whole world's economy. - mpg -- A quote...."RAMALLAH, February 1, 2012 (WAFA) – World Bank Group President Robert Zoellick said Wednesday that Israel must ease restrictions imposed on the Palestinian people in order to help boost the economy." 
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Palestinians need high calibre leaders urgently  ---  http://www.redress.cc/palestine/slittlewood20120202 
A quote...."Stuart Littlewood singles out Palestinian “President” Mahmoud Abbas’s recent visit to Britain as another example of his administration’s public relations incompetence and argues: “If Palestinians are to retain worldwide sympathy and support, build additional strength and galvanize the whole movement into action against the corrupt political class, they will have to find leaders of a much higher calibre – and fast.”" 
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Tuesday January 31st 2012 

According to Sun Tzu's 'Art of War' Americans Have Lost: "There is no instance of a country ever having benefited from prolonged warfare."
  ---  http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1701/247/According_to_Sun_Tzus_Art_of_War_Americans_Have_Lost:_There_is_no_instance_of_a_country_ever_having_benefited_from_prolonged_warfare..html 
Well....no COUNTRY has benefited from endless warfare, but Empires LOVE IT, at least till their currency goes "poof". - mpg -- A quote...."Since "all war is deception" we're not even supposed to guess who's on who's side in these wars that take so long to win. - Oh, we know what the military industrial financial complex tells us, but since it seems that we are losing some kind of war here at home what with all these people losing their jobs, homes, savings, dignity and so on, I though I'd do some research:" 
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9/11 – Urban Renewal With a Twist?  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/31/911-urban-renewal-with-a-twist/ 
Special Note - A quote...."The so-called “twin towers” were flagship structures in NY Port Authority’s new World Trade Center in which seven other smaller ones were constructed. Building 7, which eventually achieved notoriety due to its obvious demolition late in the day on 9/11, was roughly half the height of the twin towers. The Port Authority’s 1964 cost estimate for the project was $350 million. By September 1965 it had risen to $525 million. By December 1966 it was $575 million. There was no stopping this highly touted project to construct the world’s tallest buildings, despite serious financial reservations. Bid at $750 million, the final construction cost was $1.2 billion. -- By the time it was complete, commercial office space was no longer in great demand. The buildings were
topped off but some say that they were never fully occupied. To save money, interior construction, such as floors, would be constructed as leases were signed. To hide financial reality, occupancy percentages were calculated on constructed areas only, it is clamed. -- The twin towers were a financial boondoggle." 
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Forbidden Knowledge - History of the Khazar Empire [Lecture by Jack Otto]  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVomYbbb3L0 
Video - (YuTb - 1hr - Mar 16, 2011) - Source:  TheInfoWarehouse2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheInfoWarehouse2 
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BFP Exclusive: U.S. Transit Hub-Base in Kyrgyzstan for Afghan Heroin
  ---  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/01/30/bfp-exclusive-u-s-transit-hub-base-in-kyrgyzstan-for-afghan-heroin/#more-11581 
A quote...."Today Turkish Weekly ran an investigative piece on the newly appointed chief of police in Osh-Kyrgyzstan. The new police chief Suyun Omurzakov, who used to be a deputy minister of interior, has been known as a highly influential drug lord, a leader of organized criminal groups, and he was the subject of a criminal investigation in the past:" - also posted at Veteran'sToday  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/30/us-cia-heroin-transit-base-proven/  ---  Topix ||  US Support - Drug Trade  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportdrugtrade-weblist-mpg-101010 
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'US DU weapons: high kill, low cost'  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/us-du-weapons-high-kill-low-cost.html 
A quote...."Depleted uranium is radioactive and extremely destructive to humans - with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. In other words, it takes 4.5 billion years for one kilogram of depleted uranium to reduce to a half a kilogram - the US has forever contaminated the Middle East." - A prominent professor says that despite the deadly effects of depleted uranium on humans, the US has chosen to use this weapon because of its low manufacturing costs." 
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US Intel Director Prepares Public for False Flag Event
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/US_Intel_Director_Prepares_Public_for_False_Flag_Event_/17681/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
A quote...."Considering the the Gulf of Token incident was a deliberate fabrication to escalate the Vietnam War, one many members in Congress are shown to have acknowledged and debated even at the time, or the more recent Iraqi WMD hoax, there is certainly a historical precedence to create such provocations when targeted nations refuse to provide them." 
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Mossad chief holds secret U.S. meetings on Iran nuclear threat, Senate panel reveals  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/154963 
False Flag Alert - A quote...."Folks, please wake up and smell the humus: the US and English-speaking people of the world are getting "groomed" for a false flag attack against some US assets somewhere (possibly the Persian Gulf) to be blamed on Iran as the justification for a military attack against it. -- It is painfully obvious that Haaretz' editorial staff believes that Americans are dumb enough to really believe that Iran would do such a thing. -- Please remember: Iran hasn't started a war in over 200 years, and definitely since it became an Islamic Republic in 1979. -- Also, Iran's leadership may be many things, but stupid isn't one of them. They full well know the kind of retaliation such an attack would bring from the US government. -- So, thank you, Haaretz: thinking Americans aren't buying this one at all!!" -- *Michael Rivero* 
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Chiquita Cocaine & Zionist Death Squads  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2012/01/31/chiquita-cocaine-zionist-death-squads/ 
A quote...."(Excerpted from Chapter 11: Noriega of Panama: Big Oil & Their Bankers…) -- In 1954 CIA Director Allen Dulles rescued BP by launching Operation Ajax against Iran’s democratically-elected Mohamed Mossadegh. That same year Dulles came to the aid of United Fruit Company in Guatemala, where nationalist Jacobo Arbenz was elected President on a platform promising land reform. - When Arbenz targeted United Fruit’s 550,000 acre banana plantations for expropriation, Dulles turned to his old employer Sullivan & Cromwell to plot the overthrow of Arbenz....." 
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British Army Exercise to Put Down Insurrection  ---  http://www.infowars.com/british-army-exercise-to-put-down-insurrection/ 
British Police State - A quote...."On Saturday, The Telegraph  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9046668/UK-riots-paratroopers-are-trained-in-riot-control.html  ---  carried an article explaining how hundreds of soldiers from the third battalion of the Parachute Regiment are learning how to put down insurrection. So-called “public order training” will be critical during Britain’s upcoming version of panem et circenses – the 2012 Olympics – as the Greatest Depression deepens." - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2012/01/30/british-army-exercise-to-put-down-insurrection/ 
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Leon Panetta’s explicitly authoritarian decree  ---  http://www.salon.com/2012/01/30/leon_panettas_explicitly_authoritarian_decree/singleton/ 
Police State - A quote...."CBS News‘ Scott Pelley appears to be one of the very few American journalists bothered by, or even interested in, the fact that President Obama has asserted and exercised the power to target U.S. citizens for execution-by-CIA without a shred of due process and far from any battlefield." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m85288&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Why does the military seem to be preparing for urban warfare in the United States?
  ---  http://endthelie.com/2012/01/27/why-does-the-military-seem-to-be-preparing-for-urban-warfare-in-the-united-states/#axzz1l7A0tJSB 
Police State - A quote...."Recently I published an article covering the January 22-26 multi-agency exercises being conducted in the Los Angeles area.  ---  http://endthelie.com/2012/01/25/lapd-joining-in-multi-agency-tactical-exercises-in-los-angeles/  ---  As I outlined in the article, this is in fact part of a broader trend of joint military-police drills (which often include other agencies, hence the “multi-agency” label) that have been occurring across the United States. - It seems hard to ignore the fact that the armed forces of the United States are training for urban warfare, not urban warfare in the Middle East, but instead here in our own nation." - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/militarized-drills-continue-stadiums_31.html
& IntelHub  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2012/01/29/why-does-the-military-seem-to-be-preparing-for-urban-warfare-in-the-united-states/ 
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Air America: Under the Eye of the Imperial Panopticon
  ---  http://chris-floyd.com/articles/2211-air-america-under-the-eye-of-the-imperial-panopticon.html 
A quote...."One unanticipated benefit of the relentless drive to turn every nook and cranny of the American war machine into a cash cow for private profit is the fact that so much of the nitty-gritty operational work is now put out for bids. And this can give us an occasional glimpse -- through the weeds of contract arcana -- of what our poobahs and satraps are really up to on the far-flung fields of empire." - also posted at Uruknet
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m85269&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Beyond SOPA: The Past, Present and Future of Internet Censorship
  ---  http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2012/01/beyond-sopa-past-present-and-future-internet-censorship 
Special Note - GRVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8uO9bw1TNw  ---  (GRYuTb - 11min08sec - January 29, 2012) - Source:  GlobalResearchTV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/GlobalResearchTV  ---  A quote...."In recent weeks the general public has mobilized to face US legislative threats to Internet freedoms. Far from a conclusive victory, however, the death of SOPA and PIPA only highlight the latest in a series of measures that are seeking to create a legal framework for government-administered Internet censorship." 
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Big Brother Internet – Gerald Celente  ---  http://dprogram.net/2012/01/30/big-brother-internet-gerald-celente/ 
Related Article - A quote...."(TrendsResearch) – Do you remember the Safe-Cyber instructions they taught you in the mandatory Computer Ed class (operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology)? First you fire up your Secured Computing Device (SCD) and its hardware token authenticator."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30396.htm 
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War for Total Control by Adrian Salbuchi  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/war-for-total-control-by-adrian.html 
Related Article - A quote...."The Global Power Elite know full well what they are doing whilst most people don't, and they will do everything in their power to keep it that way. Here, then, are two global armies pitted against each other. "In this corner..." a tiny but extremely powerful elite controlling a huge machine to their benefit and our enslavement. "In that corner...", gigantic masses of mostly unaware people using that same machine but without understanding it, nor realising what it's really being used for." 
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A Crazy Republican Attack that Obama Himself Agrees With
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/a-crazy-republican-attack-that-obama-himself-agrees-with.html 
2012 Election Cycle -- A quote...."Imagine if a bunch of the craziest war-hungry Republicans in the House filmed themselves in a nutty bat-guano video packed with lies addressed to the President of the United States. And then imagine President Barack Obama almost immediately agreeing with them. I can think of two ways in which such a series of events could go unnoticed, as it just has."  ---  http://rootsaction.org/featured-actions/360-we-want-real-cuts-to-the-military- 
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Harold Simmons gives Karl Rove's Crossroads groups $7 million
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Harold-Simmons-gives-Karl-Roves-Crossroads-groups-7-million 
2012 Election Cycle -- A quote...."31 Jan 2012 The Karl Rove-linked juggernaut Crossroads groups raised $51 million last year – including a whopping $7 million from Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons – but that's still a far cry from the $300 million the two-pronged outfit intends to spend boosting Republicans and attacking Democrats in the run-up to Election Day. The bulk of Crossroads’ 2011 haul – $33 million – went into a secret money group called Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (Crossroads GPS) that does not disclose its donors. The other group, a super PAC called American Crossroads, filed a report with the Federal Election Commission showing that it pulled in $18 million last year." - Here's an interesting quote from Wikipedia.... 
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It's Natural for Criminals to Support Criminals  ---  http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/its-natural-for-criminals-to-support-criminals/
2012 Election Cycle -- A quote...."The phrase ‘Birds of a feather flock together’ never had more of a meaning as in the case of the Adelson’s support of Netanyahu and Gingrich. The following should not come as any great surprise to too many people; The casino company owned by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been under federal investigation for the last year for alleged bribery of foreign officials, ABC News reported over the weekend."  
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Michael Rivero Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - January 31 2012  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/307164551 
Must Listen MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Jan 31st, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...     

Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit Policy  ---  http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan12/counterfeit-policy01-12.html 
Must Read - A quote...."Counterfeiting is illegal because it is the false creation of value. The counterfeiter takes low-value paper and turns it into high-value money, which is fundamentally a claim on the real productive value of the economy that issues the currency and recognizes it as a proxy means of exchanging that productive value. -- Counterfeiting is illegal because the counterfeiter creates no additional value--he creates only the proxy for value. Creating real value--adding meaningful goods or services to the economy--is tedious, hard work. How much easier to simply transform near-worthless paper into a claim on actual goods and services." - also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-counterfeit-money-counterfeit-policy 
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Keiser Report: Starving the Economy (E243)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgV3ab4uvjU&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=7&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgV3ab4uvjU  ---  (RTYuTb - 25min40sec - Jan 21, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Producer:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  Related:  MaxKeiserCom  ---  http://maxkeiser.com/  ---  (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss banking zombies and clowns and their magical thinking on zero rates while starving the economy of interest income. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland about the silver, gold, backwardation, manipulation and more." 
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The American Economy is "Dead": The Illusion of Economic Recovery  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29000 
A quote...."Last Friday (January 27) the US Bureau of Economic Analysis announced its advance estimate that in the last quarter of 2011 the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.8% in real inflation-adjusted terms, an increase from the annual rate of growth in the third quarter. -- Good news, right? -- Wrong. If you want to know what is really happening, you must turn to John Williams at www.shadowstats.com.  ---  http://www.shadowstats.com  ---  What the presstitute media did not tell us is that almost the entire gain In GDP growth was due to “involuntary inventory build-up,” that is, more goods were produced than were sold. -- Net of the unsold goods, the annualized real growth rate was eight-tenths of one percent." - Source:  PaulCraigRoberts  ---  http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/01/31/economics-lesson-1/  ---  also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30397.htm 
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U.S. house prices slide 1.3% in November - Case-Shiller index shows 32.9% drop from peak
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-house-prices-slide-13-in-november-2012-01-31 
A quote...."WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — U.S. house prices dropped sharply in November to mark the third straight drop, according to a closely followed index released Tuesday. " 
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Art Cashin Explains Why Several Hundred Thousand [US] Jobs Are About To "Vaporize"
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/art-cashin-explains-why-several-hundred-thousand-jobs-are-about-vaporize 
A quote...."Two days ago we learned that when MF Global goes bankrupt, billions in cash can just "vaporize" (no, really - see here,  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/3-months-after-mf-global-bankruptcy-we-find-12-billion-or-more-client-money-has-vaporized  ---  and of course, in the passive voice. can't say something like Jon Corzine vaporized $1.2+ billion in client money now can we). Next we have Art Cashin explain why it is that the US economy is about to see several hundred thousand jobs "vaporize" as well. Perhaps "vaporize" should be the motto of the current Administration: confidence "vaporized", hope "vaporized", and "evaporation" you can believe in, as it condenses on the teleprompter... 
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Entering the Debt Dimension  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/entering-debt-dimension 
A quote...."We ended last week’s newsletter explaining why we were not betting on an announcement for more quantitative easing by the Fed, although “consensus” economists claimed to be. We argued that additional QE was unlikely, citing our friends (Bruce Krasting, Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner, and Jon Hilsenrath - with his direct line to Bernanke). This week, those expecting easing were disappointed; there was no mention of launching any new program for large-scale asset purchases." 
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European Bailout Infographic: Presenting The Truckloads Of Cash Needed To Rescue The Insolvent PIIGS
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/european-bailout-inforgraphic-presenting-truckloads-cash-needed-rescue-insolvent-piigs 
InfoGraphic -- A quote...."...No, literally truckloads. Our friends at demonocracy.info have been kind enough to put together an infographic that explains the European bailout in simple, visual terms, that even the most innocent of FTL truckers can grasp without much exertion, for the simple reason that it shows all the bailouts amounts in terms of trucks of cash." 
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FAIL: Euro zone jobless hits highest level since birth of euro
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/FAIL%3A_Euro_zone_jobless_hits_highest_level_since_birth_of_euro/17682/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
A quote...."Euro zone unemployment has risen to its highest level since before the euro was introduced, data showed on Tuesday, a day after EU leaders promised to focus on creating millions of new jobs to try to kickstart Europe’s floundering economy." - Source:  Reuters
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/31/us-eurozone-unemployment-idUSTRE80U0K920120131 
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Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold?
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Why_Are_the_Chinese_Buying_Record_Quantities_of_Gold%3F/17676/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
Gold Bug Alert - A quote...."This month, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department reported that China imported 102,779 kilograms of gold from Hong Kong in November, an increase from October’s 86,299 kilograms.  Beijing does not release gold trade figures, so for this and other reasons the Hong Kong numbers are considered the best indication of China’s gold imports." - Source: Forbes
  ---  http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2012/01/29/why-are-the-chinese-buying-record-quantities-of-gold/ 
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News.... 

Occupy Unmoved: Washington OWS protesters to defy evictions
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8qq2MwmUc0&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=9&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8qq2MwmUc0  ---  (RTYuTb - 2min20sec - Jan 31, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Anti-corporate protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement in Washington are gearing up for tough police action. They have passed a deadline set up by local authorities to remove camping equipment from the city squares. But RT's Liz Wahl discovered the activists are remaining loyal to the cause." 
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Sicily Pitchfork Movement in Revolt – Western Media Blackout  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/31/sicily-pitchfork-movement-in-revolt-western-media-blackout/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sicily-pitchfork-movement-in-revolt-western-media-blackout 
A quote...."On January 16th, middle class Sicilians began a popular uprising appropriately called the ‘Pitchfork Movement’…’Movimento Dei Forconi’. - There are shades of the Occupy movement within it, but the core is not dissatisfied unemployed youth with no property or businesses to lose. - They are middle aged and older. They know that what they have left has been targeted by their own elites to bear the economic pain." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Torture in Libya: The ugly reality of imperialist “liberation”  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2012/feb2012/pers-f01.shtml 
A quote...."1 February 2012 -- Multiple reports of widespread torture in the detention centers run by the new imperialist-backed Libyan regime and NATO’s “rebels” give the lie to all those who justified last year’s war in the name of human rights and “liberation.”" 
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UN Report: NATO’s Libya War Armed al-Qaeda
  ---  http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/africa-mainmenu-27/10694-un-report-natos-libya-war-armed-al-qaeda 
A quote...."The Western-backed overthrow of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi likely provided huge stocks of heavy weapons to terrorist groups and criminal organizations operating in the Sahel region of North Africa, the United Nations confirmed January 26 in a report. Among the groups benefiting from the arms are al-Qaeda and the deadly Islamic terror organization Boko Haram, which is currently on a killing spree in Nigeria." - For more on this issue see the quote and article posted below.... 
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'Assad, you'll die like Gaddafi': Rebels want off with Syria head
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imtHkuMLeYk&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=3&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imtHkuMLeYk  ---  (RTYuTb - 5min53sec - Jan 31, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Syria's opposition have made a chilling pledge to the country's leader. They have vowed President Bashar Al Assad and his family will be killed like Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi, saying he's lost the chance of a peaceful exit. Fierce battles between government forces and rebel fighters are raging on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. RT's Sara Firth is in the city now." 
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'Saudi-funded jihad targets Syria as last secular Arab state'
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FodpDvJRu4&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=4&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FodpDvJRu4  ---  (RTYuTb - 5min35sec - Jan 31, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."The dust has still not settled in the suburbs of Damascus, which in recent days has seen some of the fiercest fighting, claiming scores of lives. And as the unrest runs high, Moscow has offered itself as a stage for dialogue between the regime and the opposition, who are currently rejecting talks with President Assad. The idea of the Syrian opposition dancing to the foreign drum is shared by John R. Bradley, author of the book 'After the Arab Spring'. He says NATO members are committed to toppling the regime to make Iran their next target."  
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'Syria resolution - proxy war against Iran'
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1k9Rj3_XG0&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=1&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1k9Rj3_XG0  ---  (RTYuTb - 5min35sec - Feb 1, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday   ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."The UN Security Council has agreed it wants to avoid military intervention in Syria - but differences remain over the way ahead. The U.S. - as well as its European and Arab allies - want President Assad out of power. For its part, Russia says the UN shouldn't be used as a platform for excessive interference in Syrian affairs. Neil Clark, a journalist and contributor to the Guardian, believes that Russia's stance on Syria has much more international support than one may assume."  
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Fuel on the Fire: Who's behind bloodshed in Syria?
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXuwytuFWaM&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=5&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXuwytuFWaM  ---  (RTYuTb - 3min57sec - Feb 1, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Syrian troops are said to be pushing further into the Damascus suburbs, after seizing control over key checkpoints and moving the frontline away from the capital. And as the unrest runs high, Moscow has offered itself as a stage for dialogue between the regime and the opposition, who are currently rejecting talks with President Assad. But as RT's Sara Firth reports there are concerns outside players, determined to throw fuel on the fire, are behind the refusal." 
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Open Intervention In Syria Seems Unlikely  ---  http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/01/open-intervention-in-syria-seems-unlikely.html 
A quote...."Russia is likely  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120131/171053410.html  ---  to veto the "western" UN draft resolution  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/31/un-security-council-draft-resolution-syria  ---  on Syria as it does not reflect the situation on the ground and is obviously an instrument to impose regime change if needed by war. -- Unlike the draft resolution the report by the Arab League observer mission clearly tells of (pdf) brutal rebel attacks on the government and on civilian...." 
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Currency Warfare: What are the Real Targets of the E.U. Oil Embargo against Iran?
  ---  http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2012/01/31/currency-warfare-what-are-the-real-targets-of-the-e.u.-oil-embargo-against-iran.html 
A quote...."Who is the European Union’s so-called “oil embargo on Iran” really aimed at? This is an important geo-strategic question. Aside from rejecting the new E.U. measures against Iran as counter-productive, Tehran has warned the member states of the European Union that the E.U. oil embargo against Iran will hurt them and their economies far more than Iran. Tehran has thus warned the leaders of the E.U. countries that the new sanctions are foolish and against their national and bloc interests, but is this correct? At the end of the day, who will benefit from the chain of events that are being set into motion?" 
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28973 
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Iran, perceiving threat from West, willing to attack on U.S. soil, U.S. intelligence report finds  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/154971 
A quote...."Translation: "We're gonna blow up something fairly useless but of huge symbolic value, like the Super Bowl, the Golden Gate Bridge, or that badly cracked Washington Monument, and blame Iran for it to get this war rolling! " -- Official White Horse Souse" -- *Michael Rivero* 
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Karzai 'to hold peace talks with Taliban in Saudi Arabia'  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Karzai-hold-peace-talks-Taliban-Saudi-Arabia 
A quote...."30 Jan 2012 The Afghan government will hold talks with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia, opening up an alternative avenue to peace negotiations between the insurgent group and the United States, according to reports. The Taliban, which was ousted from power after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks [inside job] on the United States, has previously refused to talk to the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, branding him as an American stooge. The Saudi-brokered meetings are due to take place in coming weeks ahead of talks in Qatar, where the Taliban is opening an office for the purpose of holding discussions with the Americans aimed at ending the decade-long war, the BBC reported." 
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One million dead  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/154955 
A quote...."OVER A million Iraqis are dead from America's war. -- That sentence is a cognitive litmus test. Some people's immediate reaction is, "That can't be right," because the United States couldn't do that. Or because crimes on that scale don't still happen. Or because they do happen, but only in horrible places that the United States hasn't rescued." - Topix ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Iraq Deaths   ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IRAQDEATHS 
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Why We Should Be Furious The Haditha Massacre Marines Got No Jail Time
  ---  http://roqayah.com/2012/01/26/why-we-should-be-furious-the-haditha-massacre-marines-got-no-jail-time/ 
A quote...."Orwellian-style agitprop; this best describes the latest article written by James Joyner for The Atlantic on the Haditha massacre, which refers to the event in which 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines in 2005 in the city of Haditha, in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m85295&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Pakistan slams illegal US drone strikes  ---  http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/114831 
A quote...."Islamabad reiterated its opposition on Monday to Washington's illegal drone assassination campaign in Pakistan, branding it "unlawful, counterproductive and unacceptable."  
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Huge Israeli Drone That Can Reach Iran Crashes  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Huge-Israeli-Drone-Can-Reach-Iran-Crashes 
A quote...."[What a shame! - CLG] 30 Jan 2012 The Israeli military says a drone that can fly as far as Iran has crashed in central Israel on a routine experimental flight. The military says there were no injuries in Sunday's crash, and it was investigating the incident. The Heron TP drone is also known locally as the Eitan. It is the largest unmanned aircraft in Israel's military arsenal." 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

Israel Lawlessly Indicts MK Sa’id Naffa  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/31/israel-lawlessly-indicts-mk-said-naffa/ 
A quote...."Israel reveals its rogue credentials daily. In mid-July 2010, its Knesset stripped MK Hanin Zoabi of key parliamentary rights and privileges for participating in the May 2010 Freedom Flotilla bringing vital aid to Gaza. -- Since then, she’s been vilified, threatened, and may be prevented from standing for reelection. Hard-liners call her a “traitor.” -- Arab MKs are accustomed to marginalization, threats, abuse, and lawless actions against them." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Silwan Residents Get More Demolition Orders  ---  http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18869 
A quote...."JERUSALEM, February 1, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities Wednesday handed several Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan notices to demolish their houses under the pretext of building without permit, according to a local activist." 
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Gaza Farmer Shot by Israeli Military  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62928 
A quote...."The Ma'an News Agency has reported that the unnamed farmer was shot whilst working his land east of Gaza City and was transported to Shifa hospital in Gaza City for treatment for his injuries. -- The State of Israel has imposed a buffer zone on the Gaza Strip since their withdrawal of military personel and the civilian settler population in 2005, which they treat as a live fire zone." 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m85291&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Protesters attacked, injured during commemoration for Palestinian teen murdered by Israeli settlers
  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora/protesters-attacked-injured-during-commemoration-palestinian-teen-murdered-israeli 
A quote...."Earlier today, protesters were attacked and four were injured by Israeli soldiers during a peaceful demonstration to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the killing of Yousef Ikhlayl, a 17-year-old boy shot by Israeli settlers on 28 January, 2011, while he was farming with his father on their land in Beit Ommar. " - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m85296&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Detention of Palestinian political prisoners
  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/resources/fact-sheets/3321-detention-of-palestinian-political-prisoners 
A quote...."As candidates prepared for elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in 2006, the Israeli authorities began a campaign of detention and imprisonment to thwart the growing move towards democracy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The Israeli authorities began to arrest members of Hamas: 450 were detained in 2005 to prevent their participation in the election the following year; many were held in administrative detention, without trial or charge. Despite this the elections took place and a number of the candidates in prison were elected to the PLC." 
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BDS update: Peaceful blitzkreig and Israeli counterattacks  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m85297&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."The Third Annual BDS Conference opened 17 December at Hebron’s Children’s Happiness Centre, "to expand Palestinian civil society’s active implementation of BDS that is deeply rooted in the Palestinian struggle." European BNC coordinator Michael Deas affirmed, "BDS is now the main framework for solidarity. We are very close to closing the European market to Israel."" 
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More on The Economic Issues.... 

California To Run Out Of Cash In One Month, Controller Warns
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/california-run-out-cash-one-month-controller-warns 
A quote...."If anyone is tired of the daily European soap opera with surrealistic tragicomic overtones, they can simply shift their gaze to the 8th largest economy in the world: the insolvent state of California, whose controller just told legislators [the state] has just over a month worth of cash left." 
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Dead Market Exhibit A: January Volume  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/dead-market-exhibit-january-volume 
Mrkt Tech Note - Chart - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2012/01/20120131_EOD6.png  ---  A quote...."Presented with little comment except to say that the total lack of volume (and massive concentration of what volume there is at the close) is hardly reflective of a market that is anything other than broken and dying. Last January (2011) the average number of stocks traded on the NYSE per day was 891mm shares vs 661mm for this January (a 26% drop YoY!) and this is down an incredible 59% from January 2008." 
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Consumer Spending in U.S. Stalls  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Consumer_Spending_in_U.S._Stalls/17678/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
A quote...."Consumer spending stalled in December as Americans took advantage of a jump in incomes to restore depleted savings, indicating households remain focused on repairing finances." - Source:  Bloomberg
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-30/consumer-spending-in-u-s-stalled-in-december-as-americans-boosted-savings.html 
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China manufacturing data show cooling growth
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-manufacturing-data-show-contradiction-2012-01-31?link=MW_popular 
A quote...."HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Chinese manufacturing remained sluggish in January, with rival readings of factory activity hovering near levels that indicate activity is neither expanding nor contracting, a result which analysts saw as suggesting cooling economic growth." - What some would call a "soft landing" - mpg 
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No posts....mpg

Saturday January 28th 2012

We are chaos
Must Read - A quote...."They had to ask? Isn't that the whole name of the liberation game - to break successful regimes down into utter chaos, first by demonizing them, then by pitting neighbour against neighbour? Ordo Ab Chao? Where is the order in Afghanistan after 10 years (Suicide bomber kills 4), Iraq after 8 years (Suicide bomber kills 29 in Baghdad)? Where will it be if Iran -  "a cradle of civilization" (VIDEO) - is the next target? -- Erasing history; cultural genocide; architecture turned to rubble and streets to rivers of blood; murdering the souls of the surviving children. All orchestrated by the so-called democratic, civilized countries where minds are so disconnected from current reality that outrage is reserved for those who fail to commemorate a genocide that took place 60 years ago." - Topix ||  The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ||
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Profile of a Rogue State
Quote of the Day...."America’s unmatched globally. However, pound for pound, based on size, its policies, and regional threat, Israel stands out. - Daily, its crimes against humanity continue."

A ‘Hollywood ending’ for America
Music Video - Alt - This website editor would love to see really good, well practiced,  "flash-mobs" perform this video in front of as many Israeli Embassys, AIPAC conventions, or other self-congratulatory gatherings of the "Jewish Community" as possible! - mpg -  (YuTb - 2min57sec - May 24, 2008) - Source:  YoSabina -- A quote...."In these films, the femme fatale—French for “deadly woman”—usually enlists the help of some hapless bloke to help advance her hidden agenda. To this end, she will use her feminine wiles to ensnare him, and then ultimately employ lying and coercion to control and manipulate him further, until she has finally achieved her objective. - The conclusions are often the same. After helping the woman with her schemes, the man is usually discarded, and left alone to answer for her crimes. By the time he finds out that he has been betrayed, the woman has already left—and has moved on to her next victim—leaving him a broke and ruined man. - Sound familiar? It should. It’s the story of America, and how one ‘special relationship’ with a foreign nation brought it to the edge of ruin."

U.S. Jewish leaders visit Pollard in prison, call for speedy release
A quote...."Memo to Richard Stone and Malcolm Hoenlein: this man was a vile traitor to his country, and I shall be thoroughly disgusted if President Obama ever entertains even the most remote possibility of a commutation of his sentence. - You are very fortunate he was not executed for his crimes, so let us leave it at that, shall we?!?" -- *Michael Rivero*

GOP Front Runners [Who Cheated at the Polls] Unite Behind Israel
A quote...."Memo the alleged "frontrunners" in the Republican race for President; we, the American People, are waiting for you to unite behind US, and not behind a foreign government, thank you very much!" -- *Michael Rivero*

Billionaire Gingrich backer Adelson regrets he served in US instead of Israeli military
A quote...."Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who along with his wife, has donated $10 million dollars in recent weeks to Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, has said that he wishes he had served in the Israeli army instead of the US military and that he wants his son to grow up to “be a sniper for the IDF.” - also posted at AlethoNews

More US scrap metal headed for Persian Gulf
False Flag Alert - War Alert - A quote...."Further to our earlier discussion about the US having found a way to dispose of its scrap metal and at the same time create a pretext (with the help of Israel?) for WWIII, here is the latest news report (bolding mine):"
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Why does the military seem to be preparing for urban warfare in the United States?
A quote...."Recently, I published an article covering the January 22-26 multi-agency exercises being conducted in the Los Angeles area. -- As I outlined in the article, this is in fact part of a broader trend of joint military-police drills (which often include other agencies, hence the “multi-agency” label) that have been occurring across the United States. -- It seems hard to ignore the fact that the armed forces of the United States are training for urban warfare, not urban warfare in the Middle East, but instead here in our own nation."

Who Told Giuliani the WTC was Going to Collapse on 9/11?
From the History File - A quote..."No steel framed building had collapsed through fire prior to 9/11, so how was it known that the World Trade Center was going to collapse? There was no factual or historical basis for this prediction. - When was Giuliani warned?"

Gerald Celente - Talk Radio Europe - 24 January 2012
Video - (YuTb - 25min45sec - Jan 28, 2012) - Source:  GeraldCelente - Related:  TrendsJournal

Keiser Report: State Of The Banana (E242)
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 25min46sec - Jan 21, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV - Related:  MaxKeiserCom -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the State of the Banana Republic, the blowout at Apple with its profits 'trapped' overseas and the gloomy State of the Stiff Upper Lip as UK family debts soar by nearly 50%. And, finally, Max and Stacy examine a proposal that bankers, like Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein and JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon, should compete like strippers on the open job market."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...

Chris Martenson Interviews John Mauldin: "It's Time to Make the Hard Decisions"
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 38min34sec - Jan 27, 2012) - Source:  ChrisMartensondotcom -- A quote...."Back in the 1930's, Irving Fisher introduced a concept called the 'debt supercycle.' Simply put, it posits that when there is a buildup of too much debt within an economy, there reaches a point where there simply is no other available solution but to let it rewind. - We are at that point in our economy, as are most other major economies around the world, claims John Maudlin."

If The Economy Is Improving….
A quote...."Everywhere you turn these days, someone is proclaiming that the economy is improving.  Barack Obama is endlessly touting the "improvement" in the economy, the mainstream media is constantly talking about "the economic recovery" and an increasing number of Americans seem to be buying into this line of thinking.  A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that 37 percent of Americans believe that the economy will improve over the next year, while only 17 percent of Americans believe that it will get worse.  But is the economy actually improving?  Not really." - also posted at DProgram

[US] 2011 Annual GDP: 1.7% - That's the final, pathetic growth number for 2011.
A quote...."Real GDP increased 1.7 percent in 2011 (that is, from the 2010 annual level to the 2011 annual level), compared with an increase of 3.0 percent in 2010."

Q4 GDP Misses Estimates, Inventory Stockpiling Accounts For 1.9% Of 2.8% Q4 US Economic Growth
A quote...."The US economy grew at a 2.8% annualized pace in the supposedly blistering fourth quarter, yet the number was a disappointment not only in that it missed estimates of 3.0% (and far higher whisper numbers) but when one looks at the components, where a whopping 1.94% of the upside was attributable to a rise in inventories as restocking took place. And as everyone knows in this day and age a spike in inventories only leads to sub-cost dumping a few months later. In other words, the economy grew at a 0.8% pace ex inventories."

Friday Tragedy: The US Debt Limit Explained
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 3min09sec - Nov 4, 2011) - Source:  debtlimitusa -- A quote...."Ordinarily this space would be reserved for Friday humor, but unfortunately, this is nothing short of a tragedy, especially since as of today the US debt target is $16.394 trillion, a number which will be breached before the end of the year, and possibly before the presidential election in November. As a reminder, in 2011, the US economy grew by 1.7%. It almost, but not quite, offset the growth of US debt held by the public, which grew at a brisk 11.3% pace in the past year..."

INFLATION 2012 Real Estate Down, Gas & Groceries Up
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 5min29sec - Jan 28, 2012) - Source:  TheOrcOfZork

Fitch downgrades credit ratings of five EU nations
A quote...."27 Jan 2012 Fitch Ratings Friday downgraded the sovereign credit ratings of five euro currency countries - Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Belgium and Cyprus, contending they lack financing flexibility in the face of the regional debt crisis. Italy, the euro area's third-largest economy, was cut two levels to A- from A. The rating on Spain was also lowered two notches, to A from AA-. Ratings on Belgium, Slovenian and Cyprus were also lowered, while Ireland's rating was maintained."

Cost Of Second Greek Bailout Raised To €145 Billion
A quote...."When the first revision of the second Greek bailout to the tidy round number of €130 billion was announced, we scoffed, mockingly. Because a country which then had a 7% budget deficit, and now has a deficit that will be well in the double digits, and not to mention a banking system that is now hollow following tens of billions in deposit withdrawals as month after month the Greek bank run gets worse, would obviously need much more liquidity (but banish the thought that it is a solvency crisis...) Sure enough, earlier today Der Spiegel broke the news that the second bailout, which has yet to be re-ratified, and absent Greece meeting demands to cede fiscal sovereignty, is likely a non-starter, would be increased to €145 billion "citing an unidentified
official from the so-called troika.""

Greece Politely Declines German Annexation Demands
A quote...."Following yesterday's frankly stunning news that the Troika politely requests that Greece hand over its first fiscal, then pretty much all other, sovereignty to "Europe", here is the Greek just as polite response to the Troika's foray into outright colonialism...."

Strikes, protests halt Italian transport
A quote...."A nationwide strike across Italy has paralyzed the country's public transportation system as workers protest against the government's proposed austerity measures, Press TV reports."
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

Jan 28th: Oakland Police Fire Tear Gas, Flash Bang Grenades & Rubber Bullets at Occupy Oakland Protesters
Contains Videos - A quote...."Oakland police in riot gear fired smoke, tear gas, flash bang grenades and rubber bullets at Occupy Oakland protesters trying to take a vacant building this afternoon."

Mass arrests at Occupy Oakland protest
Related Article - A quote...."28 Jan 2012 Police arrested hundreds of Occupy protesters for failing to disperse Saturday night. Police Sgt. Christopher Bolton said the arrests came after protesters marched through downtown Oakland a little before 8 p.m. Saturday, with some of them entering a YMCA building. Meanwhile, about 100 police officers surrounded City Hall while others were swept the inside of the building to see if any protesters broke in. More help from other police agencies was also on the way, with busloads of Alameda County sheriff's deputies arriving in the downtown area late Saturday."

The Original 99% Movement - Top Military Man Invokes the Occupy Movement in 1933
A quote...."Smedley Butler was one of the most highly-decorated military men of all time. He is also the guy who – literally – stopped a coup against FDR. See this, this and this. -- General Butler addressed the Bonus Army in Washington D.C. in 1933, as they “occupied” D.C. to demand compensation for their service to the country...."

Canada’s Harper outlines class war agenda at Davos forum
Stephen Harper is a bought and paid for lickspittle, craven, crawling, lackey of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and a traitor to the Canadian people.  He was DIRECTLY implicated in an Israeli false-flag attempt during the 2010 Canadian winter Olympics which resulted in the ONLY  "False Flag Red Warning and Red War Warning" EVER to be posted to this website since it was established May 26, 2006. He and his cronies who participated should be investigated, arrested, tried, and if found guilty....they should be hung by their necks until they are dead. - mpg
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More On The International Situation....

The Iranian oil embargo blowback
Special Note - A quote...."If the sorry parade of European poodles - or what analyst Chris Floyd delightfully dubbed Europuppies - had any understanding of Persian culture, they would have known that blowback for their declaration of economic war in the form of an Iranian oil embargo would be nothing short of heavy metal."

Greek parties condemn Iran oil ban
Related Article - A quote..."The coalition of left parties in Greece has denounced the European Union's decision to ban oil imports from Iran as being in line with the US and Israeli warmongering policies in the Middle East."

Iran Turns Embargo Tables: To Pass Law Halting All Crude Exports To Europe
Related Article - A quote..."In what is likely a long overdue move, Iran has finally decided to give Europe a harsh lesson in game theory. Instead of letting Euro-area politicians score brownie points at its expense by threatening to halt imports and cut off the Iranian economy, the Iranian government will instead propose a bill calling for an immediate halt to oil deliveries to Europe. The move, with most reports citing the Iranian news agency Mehr, has come about in response to the EU agreement to impose sanctions against Iran, which were announced earlier this week. And why not? After all if Europe is indeed serious, sooner or later Iran will be cut off but in the meantime experience significant policy uncertainty, which is precisely what the flipflops on the ground need. The one thing that Europe, however is forgetting, is that all that whopping 0.8 Mb/d in imports will simply find a new buyer.Quickly."

Iran finalizes bill to ban EU oil exports
Related Article - A quote...."An Iranian lawmaker says the Majlis (parliament) Energy Committee has finalized a draft bill to stop the country's oil exports to EU member states in reaction to the bloc's recent decision to ban oil imports from Iran."

Iran sanctions: India exploring Russia payment route
A quote...."With the US and the EU imposing fresh sanctions against Iran, India is exploring all possibilities to keep the Iranian oil flowing as it is critical to its energy security. One of the options being discussed is firming up an arrangement with Russia’s Gazprombank for paying to Iranian oil."

We've been here before – and it suits Israel that we never forget 'Nuclear Iran'
A quote...."Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in journalism – and rarely more so than in the case of Iran. Iran, the dark revolutionary Islamist menace. Shia Iran, protector and manipulator of World Terror, of Syria and Lebanon and Hamas and Hezbollah. Ahmadinejad, the Mad Caliph. And, of course, Nuclear Iran, preparing to destroy Israel in a mushroom cloud of anti-Semitic hatred, ready to close the Strait of Hormuz – the moment the West's (or Israel's) forces attack."
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NATO’s grisly crimes in Libya
A quote..."While Charles Ray - the US envoy here - portrays himself as the face of the free world, a champion of human rights and democracy and has been vociferous about his country's role in the Libyan invasion, it turns out that just like Vietnam and other illegal wars before it, Libya is turning into a major embarrassment for Uncle Sam. -- A report released last week by human rights groups in the Middle East presents extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in Libya by the United States, NATO and their proxy "rebel" forces during last year's invasion, that culminated in the murder of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Drone attacks' adding to insurgency: Gilani
A quote...."DAVOS: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Saturday said that US drone strikes were only fueling insurgency in Pakistan. -- In an interaction with the media here on the fringes of the ongoing annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Gilani said Pakistan was against the “illegal and counter productive” drone strikes along the areas bordering Afghanistan. He said Pakistan has conveyed its concerns to the United States of American in this regard and wishes to settle all issues, as a responsible country, and discuss everything diplomatically."

Former ‘Sons of Iraq’ targeted by insurgents after U.S. pullout
It should be remembered while reading this article that there was NO al-CIA'da in Iraq UNTIL the US-NRE invaded and smashed the secular Bathist regime of Saddam Hussiien. In fact, it has been and STILL is deliberate US-NRE policy to play off the factions in Iraq against each other until there's no effective government left.  This is per the PNAC Protocols.  - Topix || US Sponsored Civil Wars - Iraq

France announcement on Afghan pullout shows alliance divisions
A quote...."The announcement by French President Nicolas Sarkozy that his troops would sharply accelerate their departure from Afghanistan cast a harsh light on potential cracks in the U.S.-led military coalition in the country."
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'Assad should tell West to go to hell'
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 10min09sec - Jan 28, 2012)  - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The Arab League has frozen its monitoring mission in Syria, because of the escalation of violence there. More than a hundred people are thought to have been killed in clashes between Syrian security forces and opposition groups in the past two days. The UN Security Council remains split on how to end the crisis. Russia has given a resound "no" to a new resolution on Syria, drafted by the EU and Arab states, that warns of further action if Damascus fails to comply."

The Syrian Death Numbers Are All Made Up
Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."It seems that some folks at The Nation somehow made up the number killed by adding the "as of January 7" date times thousand and the number 384 the UN got from somewhere. Then they put that into the headline and the opening graph thus reporting a fantasy number some of their readers may well believe. -- Lets take a look at the MSNBC version of the story about those children in Syria which at least got the number right which the UNICEF's Rima Salah used...."

Russia to promote its own Syria resolution at U.N.
A quote...."MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will continue to promote its own draft resolution on Syria in the U.N. Security Council, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday. -- The remarks indicated that a Western-Arab draft resolution supporting a plan for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step aside will be a tough sell for Russia, a veto-wielding council member, but he did not rule out a compromise."

Saudi Arabia[n Royals] to recognize Syrian National Council: report
A quote...."KUWAIT CITY: Saudi Arabia will recognize the Syrian National Council as the "official representative" of the Syrian people, a senior member of the opposition group said in remarks published on Friday." - Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other -  (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||
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Nation of 65 Million Gets Lesson on Globalist Agenda
Special Note - Charts -- A quote...."January 28, 2012 - Media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul of ASTV, a popular news and media outlet in Thailand, gave a 2-hour talk on Friday night (in Thai) regarding the corporate-funded Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USAID, Human Rights Watch (HRW), and Amnesty International amongst others and their role in destabilizing nation states around the world and in particular their unfolding plot in Thailand itself." - also posted at BLN

Assah - Egypt is Not Yet a Failed Revolution
M108Video - Alt - (M108YuTb - 10min17sec - Jan 28, 2012) - Source: 108morris108 -- A quote...."This lady is a big thorn in the sides of our corrupting elite. All video from outside the Egyptian embassy in London. It seeems, from what she is saying that she is there absolutely every day. -- The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) won the elections in Egypt, and stopped demonstrating in the streets for civilian rule. There are more and more people saying the MB is under the control of Mi6 (or similar) -- More than Ten thousands Civilians in Military prisons, women have to ungergo 27 virginity tests."

Filipinos protest military ties with US
A quote...."People in the Philippines have gathered in front of the US Embassy in the capital city, Manila, to protest the expansion of military ties with Washington, demanding the withdrawal of American troops."

The Geopolitical Stakes in Nigeria—Part I: The Curious Role of the IMF
A quote...."Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and its largest oil producer, is from all evidence being systematically thrown into chaos and a state of civil war. The recent surprise decision by the government of Goodluck Jonathan to abruptly lift subsidies on imported gasoline and other fuel has a far more sinister background than mere corruption and the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) is playing a key role. China appears to be the likely loser along with Nigeria’s population." - bold by website editor - Topix ||  Africa - the Next Target - 02-28-08 - mpg  ||  The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ||

The Fruit that Did Not Fall
A quote...."January 26, 2012 "Information Clearing House" ---Cuba found itself forced to fight for its existence against an expansionist power located a few miles off its coast that had declared the annexation of our island and that believed our destiny was to fall into their lap like a piece of ripe fruit. We were condemned to cease to exist as a nation."

African Union opens Chinese-funded HQ in Ethiopia
A quote...."The entire $200m (£127m) project was funded by China as a gift to the AU, as Beijing continues to strengthen its influence in Africa. - In front of African leaders a huge golden key was handed over and the 100m high building was officially opened. - The tower overlooks a vast conference centre where African heads of state are expected to meet for years to come."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Demanding justice for Yousef, a quiet boy killed by Israeli settlers
A quote...."On 28 January 2011 at 6:30am, Yousef Ikhlayl, 17, went with his father Fakhri to their farmland on the outskirts of the West Bank village Beit Ommar, where they prepared the land around their grapevines. At approximately 7am, two groups of Israelis from the illegal settlements Bat Ayn and Kiryat Arba were taking a “hike” in the privately-owned Palestinian agricultural land belonging to the residents of Beit Ommar (“Palestinian killed in clashes with settlers near Hebron,” The Jerusalem Post, 29 January 2011)." - also posted at AlethoNews

Group says Israel must remove West Bank landmines
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The founder of humanitarian organization Roots of Peace said Friday that the group has demanded that Israel works to remove landmines from the Palestinian territories." - also posted at AlethoNews

Minister of Detainees Calls for Boycott of Military Courts
A quote...."Palestinian Minister of Detainees in the West Bank, Issa Qaraqe’, called for the boycotting of all Israeli military courts for their repeated rulings that confine thousands of detainees under administrative orders without filing any official indictments against them." - also posted at AlethoNews

Family miraculously survive IOF shelling
A quote...."GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced into eastern Gaza city at a late hour on Friday night and fired a shell that slammed into a Palestinian home and destroyed its kitchen shortly after the family left it."

Israeli soldiers drive tractor over worker’s legs to stop Palestinians from building a house on their (occupied) lands
A quote...."Today is the Sabbath, and I pray with all my heart that all American Zionists see the pictures below and tell me how an ideology of Jewish separatism that has deprived several million Palestinians of any rights can be justified in today's world."

Friday January 27th 2012 - links page

No posts. - mpg

Thursday January 26th 2012 - links page 

"To be brutally honest, most members of the "Jewish Community", especially those in Israel, absolutely despise and hate "nation-states" and the whole concept of the nation-state structure.  It's why they created the PNAC protocols  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409  ---  in the first place, it's why they've had their psychotic, moronic, satanic, Golem destroy [almost] every "nation state" in the Middle East...." -- *Israel is NOT a "Nation-State", Nor Does It Plan To Be One - 01-13-12 - mpg*  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/israelisnotanationstatenordoesitplantobeone-mpg-reficultnias-011312  

"Free" markets are "free" because they have discernible, easily understood, transparent and enforceable rules where both the buyer and the seller can negotiate the price of a given transaction at a given time.  NONE of which has existed in this country for many years!  If the underlying means to effectuate transactions such as the currency, along with the entire market itself, is massively distorted by the creation of valueless artificial financial instruments...it is not "free" in any meaningful sense of the word." -- *Try Predatory Lenders - It Fits Better - 02-21-09 - mpg*  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/trypredatorylenders-itfitsbetter-mpg-reficultnias-022109    

"Regulations are different than rules. Glass-Steagaal  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act  ---  was a RULE.  The Banksters PAID their representitutes to have it removed so they could "financialize" the mortgage market, along with just about everything else in this society they could lay their hands on." -- *Peter Schiff - A Closet Member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium? - 10-21-11 - mpg*  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/peterschiffaclosetmemberoftheaipacisraeliconsortium-mpg-reficultnias-102111    

"VOA: Anyone who’s fighting against the United States is actually some sort of a weird terrorist even if they are defending their own country."    
"RR: Right. That could be Serbian women in northern Kosovo, who are…"    
"VOA: Sure, terrorists!"    
"RR: Yeah, they are “terrorists” for opposing NATO actions to deprive them of what’s left of their homeland. It can be Libyans defending their country against bombings."    
"VOA: They all are terrorists."    
"RR: Evidently anyone with any shred of dignity, self-respect and national pride would be referred to as terrorists."    

"This time no one dropped a bomb on us ... We set the stage, we committed the crime with our own hands, we are destroying our own lands, and we are destroying our own lives."  

Wednesday January 25th 2012 - links page 

"Israel reportedly assisted in the assassination of John F. Kennedy because of his refusal to allow Israel to obtain materials needed to build nuclear weapons from the United States." -- *Michael Rivero* 

 "Education is not the same as training. Plato made the distinction between techne (skill) and episteme (knowledge). Becoming an educated person goes beyond the acquisition of a technical skill. It requires an understanding of one’s place in the world—cultural as well as natural—in pursuit of a productive and meaningful life. And it requires historical perspective so that one does not just live, as Edmund Burke said, like 'the flies of a summer,' born one day and gone the next, but as part of that 'social contract' that binds our generation to those who have come before and to those who are yet to be born." 

[The] Trinity of Evil [Israel, the US-NRE, and the Saudi Royals] probably began to see how a mutually beneficial Faustian bargain could be struck as early as the 1970s.  After the US-NRE went off the gold standard and it's currency was about to become worthless, after Israel proved its military powers during the 1973 war, the Saudi Royals realized they would have to make some sort of accommodation.  And so they agreed to recycle their petro-dollars through the US-NRE's and Britain's banks probably for a guarantee that they would not be attacked by Israel."    

"Concurrently around the same time, all three countries began to rapidly radicalize elements of their populations.  Israel of course begin to foment a philosophy of lebensraum  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum  ---  that would make even the Nazis blush while members of the Jewish Community in the US-NRE began to vigorously promote the US-NRE's strange faux-Christian, Zionist supporting (or even worshiping) “Armageddon” cult while of course the Saudi Royals massively increased their support for radical Islam everywhere, but specifically in what is now called the "arch of instability""    

"These plans were actually written down more than thirty years ago, they were to be the blueprints of the US-NRE's "long war" their "thirty years war" of  full spectrum dominance across the globe." -- quoted from....*One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg*  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810     

"Are they [the Iranians] trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they’re trying to develop a nuclear capability. And that’s what concerns us."    

"These are the very same Banksters (Goldman Sachs), who ten years ago helped Greece finagle their books to illegally get into the EU, the very country that first "started" this crises and which, by the way, also happens to be the very country that is now supposed to "trigger" the EU's domino like downfall when it finally goes bankrupt/leaves the EU." -- quoted from....*Israel is NOT a "Nation-State", Nor Does It Plan To Be One - 01-13-12 - mpg*  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/israelisnotanationstatenordoesitplantobeone-mpg-reficultnias-011312  

"Israel is an ever expanding criminal enclave of gang-banging, terrorist supporting, empire building, nation-state destroying, war mongering, financial parasites living by the shores of the Mediterranean Sea who've refused to; establish a constitution, abide by ANY international laws or coherent set of internationally recognized principals, or the laws of other nation-states, set their own borders, or even try to establish peace with their neighbors. -- They have no intention of EVER doing so."  -- quoted from....*Israel is NOT a "Nation-State", Nor Does It Plan To Be One - 01-13-12 - mpg*  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/israelisnotanationstatenordoesitplantobeone-mpg-reficultnias-011312 

Tuesday January 24th 2012 - links page 

"Very difficult to win back your audience after a ridiculous statement like that.  What?  Does that belief help them cling on to their day-to-day reality?  Does it give them purpose or hope?  Basically, it sounds to me like making excuses for why we shouldn't get rid of the Fed!  Because their intentions were good, honest! --  Ridiculous.  It is a cartel, and they care only to maintain or increase their power and control, so as to benefit and perpetuate the cartel....."  -- *Herd Redirectio...", Tue, 01/24/2012 - 13:34 
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"Yeah let's check our assumptions here. What if the Fed was simply trying to (a) devalue the dollar in order to devalue the debt [At a 20% real inflation rate, the real value of the federal debt can be chopped roughly in half over 3.5 years] and (b) transfer real wealth from savers to the insolvent [aka banks] via a siphon that has a 20% inflation rate on one side of the hose, and a 0% savings account interest rate and 1% bond interest rate on the other side of the hose, and (c) transfer wealth from the working poor to the insolvent [aka banks] via a 30% credit card interest rate. - Seems like their plan is working just fine to me." -- *Buckaroo Banzai* , Tue, 01/24/2012  
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"How long, oh Lord, must we toil in the vineyard of a Fed with “good intentions”? - By now, those individuals who decline to identify the private central bankers’ intentions to spearhead policies to enrich themselves are part of our problem. - Those who exist in an occupied country fight either on our side or on the other. “Inaction and neutral thoughts fight for the other side.”  Count the facts and avoid imagination. -  Conclusion: the Fed is just another gang of tyrants." -- *JR*, Tue, 01/24/2012 - 13:45  
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"All due respect Mr Tchir, but the Fed couldn't give a flying f@@k about anyone apart from somebody with access to the odd billion or two. Give it up, they are not here for our benefit. They are indeed for the banks and owned by the banks, end of story, no amount of clever analysis will change this, you cannot over analyze the damn right obvious!" -- *Ezyjet Pilot*, Tue, 01/24/2012 - 13:29 
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Reasons for abolishing the Federal Reserve:

1. It is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
2. It is a cartel operating against the public interest.
3. It is the supreme instrument of usury.
4. It generates our most unfair tax.
5. It encourages war.
6. It destabilizes the economy.
7. It is an instrument of totalitarianism.

(from "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin) -- *moroots*, Tue, 01/24/2012 - 13:42  

"To maintain power, Mikheil Saakashvili may involved in a war against Iran, says ex-Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze. -- "I do not rule out that Saakashvili to keep his seat can turn to a military campaign against Iran that would be a disaster for our country," he said, stressing that the issue could be the subject of future negotiations between Saakashvili and U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on January 30. -- "An anti-Iranian campaign should not be conducted on the territory of Georgia," said Shevardnadze." 

Monday January 23rd 2012

No posts. - mpg

Sunday January 22nd 2012

US to send old warship to Persian Gulf
False Flag Warning - War Warning - (These are the first "Warnings" in a very long time. - mpg) -- A quote...."With the collapse of the oil embargo to force Iran into a confrontation over the Straight of Hormuz, the US and Israel are looking for another way to get the long-sought war with Iran started, and more to the point, need to make it look like Iran is starting hostilities in order to make it politically more difficult for Russia and China to support Iran. -- Now, recall that Israel has a past history of attacking US warships and framing others to trick the US into attacks on Israel's enemies, with the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty (initially blamed on Egypt) as the most well-known example. -- So here we have the USS Enterprise, the oldest carrier in the fleet, on her last legs, scheduled to be decommissioned next year ...." -- *Michael Rivero*  - Related Article - "Is Israel Planning ‘Pearl Harbor’ False Flag Attack in the Persian Gulf?" - Alt

'Zionists buying out US politicians'‎
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."Press TV has conducted an interview with Jeff Gates, author of "Guilt By Association," from Los Angeles, to further discuss the issue. The following is a transcription of the interview."

Gingrich’s Major Backer Arch-Zionist Sheldon Adelson
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."Gingrich’s faltering presidential campaign was completely resuscitated by a 5 million donation from Las Vegas casino king and super-Zionist  Sheldon Adelson.  (According to Wikipedia, Adelson is currently the 8th wealthiest American and 16th wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of $23.3 billion.) Rising from the ashes, Gingrich now has won the South Carolina primary and has a  decent  chance of becoming the Republican presidential nominee." - Related Article ||  The Main Purveyors of Islamophobia  ||

Obama for President of Israel?
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."In a week when a pro-Israel media venue, the Atlanta Jewish Times, contemplated the pros and cons of a Mossad assassination of the U.S. president, Barack Obama, the Obama election campaign has chosen to reiterate the forty-fourth president’s unambiguous allegiance to Israel in the form of a toe-curling video. - Viewers of this perplexing video would be forgiven for thinking that Obama was reliant on votes from Israeli citizens and was thus including them as potential supporters in his campaign for the upcoming November 2012 presidential election."

Iowa vote fraud official
2012 Election Cycle - (vote fraud) -- A quote...."It’s official, or is it? Once again the establishment is showing it’s cards in an obvious attempt to defraud Ron Paul from the nomination, as Iowa GOP ‘officials’ purposely disrupt and permanently invalidate the 2012 Iowa Caucus."

Witnesses Document Potential Vote Fraud in S.C. Primaries
2012 Election Cycle - (vote fraud) -- A quote...."After Newt Gingrich’s stunning victory in the South Carolina Republican primaries on Saturday, there are now questions surrounding the vote counting process that took place Saturday night."

Giffords to Quit Congress a Year After Being Shot
A quote...."22 Jan 2012 U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, shot in the head more than a year ago at a constituent event, said she will resign from Congress this week. Giffords, a Democrat, said today in a statement that she needs time to focus on her recovery from the injuries and leaving now "is best for Arizona." Giffords, 41, was among 19 people shot on Jan. 8, 2011, during a meeting in Tucson, Arizona. Six people died. She was elected in 2006 and would have stood for election to a fourth term in November."

Doing a Background Check on CNN
Special Note - Presstitutes Exposed - A quote...."Since CNN broadcasters seem so intent on looking back decades into promo letters and newletters put out by one of Ron Paul’s organizations,when everyone admits Ron Paul did not write the letters, lets take a look at the background of some of those affiliated with CNN. It’s as elitist as you can get, with strong ties to the CIA recruiting ground, Yale University. -- CNN is owned by Times Warner,  CEO Jeffery L. Bewkes is a director of the Council on Foreign Relations and also serves on the board of Yale University."

Gerald Celente on Trend Forecasting and the Crisis of Western Civilization
Interview - A quote...."I have a line: "Conservatives believe and liberals lie." - Arch rightwing conservatives, they actually believe their line of baloney. They say things like, "The only way we are going to make this country safe is to kill all them Muslims around the world." They actually believe that. - The liberals, on the other hand, you point out one transgression of freedom after another that Obama has committed and they will come up with a line of excuses a mile long. They're intellectually intelligent enough to know that they are lying but they don't have the courage or the self-respect to admit it." -- *Gerald Celente* - Topix ||  AViDD "believer" Type-1 and Type-2 Syndromes - 11-04-08 - mpg  ||

The Infowar is Over! Now It is Time to Take Back the Republic
A quote...."I just had to shut off another Patriot Talk Show Host. He is just like Beck, Limbaugh, Hannidy and Savage. He is a check valve diverted back to the left. An election has been stolen in South Carolina. Instead of talking about the fraud committed in the Palmetto State. He talks about useless things we have no control over unless we take control of the system by peaceful means or by force. The infowar only goes so far until real action must be taken. Even the other side gets inoculated to being exposed were people get numb of all the corruption. The infowar is over, now is the time for action. Not useless rhetoric that is a waste of airtime." -- A direct appeal to Alex Jones.  It should be remembered Alex was down there at the Texas capitol screaming at the top of his voice (till he lost it) that the entire Texas legislature were traitors to the state of Texas and to this nation, for caving in on the TSA issue. - mpg

The Formula: Inform, Organize, Action
Related Article - A quote...."Those of you who’ve been listening to our podcast series know how impatient I sometimes get when the question boils down to ‘what do we do? Where do we go from here?’ Look, I understand and agree with the general consensus out there among the intellectuals and activists: We must educate the people- We must inform. After all, isn’t it what we’ve been doing with our podcast series, investigative video reports, hard-hitting editorials, bold and eye-opening editorial cartoons, and propaganda-free real news? Right. But that doesn’t make me any less impatient and restless. I simply can’t stand the idea of spending decades to just  keep informing, meanwhile have no idea or even a certain degree of consensus on the next two important steps: organize & action. "

Disappearing Dialog, Why America Has Stopped Asking
A quote...."This week, we are trying a bit of a social experiment.  We will be listing items, most of which should appear on weekly opinion polls.  However, over the past 2 decades, such polls as we once regularly enjoyed, have disappeared...." - also posted at PoorRichard'sBlog - The first five out of twenty eight questions....

• Do you feel the two party system is part of an international conspiracy that controls the world.   (good luck with that question)
• Have you learned something about 9/11 that makes you suspect our government has lied to you?
• Does Newt Gingrich scare you, does he give you the creeps, as though he were a sociopath of malignant narcissist?
• Are you aware that the GOP platform requires the elimination of both Social Security or Medicare?  Can you retire without either of these and survive?
• Why do you think food prices have nearly doubled in the past two years?
• All that talk about debt, now thousands of trillions of dollars, if we ignore it, will it just go away?

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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...

Economic Collapse amidst a Mini-Recovery – Bob Chapman
A quote...."(InternationalForecaster) – If the entire financial system does not come down upon our heads and if we do not have another war, global growth is going nowhere in the year’s ahead. We had a mini-recovery, but it cost $1.8 trillion. We had a second recovery and that cost $1.5 trillion. We are entering a third of what is becoming yearly recoveries that will probably cost $1.3 trillion. In other worlds without these massive injections of money and credit we would probably be in a deflationary depression." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Banks and EU leaders pressure Greece for more austerity
A quote...."Over the last week, finance organisations, the banks, European heads of state and leading European Union (EU) officials applied intense pressure on Greece for more punitive austerity measures, including public sector lay-offs and privatisations. They are demanding more of the same budgetary blood-letting which has had catastrophic consequences for Greek workers over the past three years."

Hours Ahead Of Monday's Euro FinMin Meeting There Is No Greek Deal; IIF "Remains Hopeful"
Oh they'll announce a "deal", and after the markets go up, everyone will take a look at the "deal" and discover, to absolutely no one's surprise, that there's nothing there.  Wash, rinse, repeat.....forever. - mpg
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More On The International Situation....

Iran to survive US oil embargo
A quote...."Some experts regard all this as an attempt by Washington to play the Iranian oil card to economically undermine the EU which, unlike America, imports up to 40 percent of its crude oil from Iran. Vladislav Belov from the Institute of European Studies in Moscow disagrees." - bold by website editor - Topix ||  Israel is NOT a "Nation-State", Nor Does It Plan To Be One - 01-13-12 - mpg  ||

BFP Breaking News: The New Desperate Concoction for War on Iran
A quote...."The imperial establishment’s desperation to militarily go after and take over the last ‘real’ domino – Iran, has truly reached a peak, and with that desperation comes a new farfetched and fantastical scenario. Last time the script of their scenario was written based on a Saudi Diplomat actor. It was only three months ago when the puppet mainstream media jumped in with a made-up, dubious, far-reaching, murkily and vaguely-sourced story of the thwarted Iranian plot to kill the Saudi Ambassador in US. Here are a few excerpts from CNN’s fabulous-ized headline story that played around the clock for days, beating the war drums for its masters...." - also posted DProgram

The Eurasian Triple Entente: Touch Iran in a War, You Will Hear Russia and China
A quote...."Despite the areas of difference and the rivalries between Moscow and Tehran, Russian and Iranian ties are increasing. Both Russia and Iran share many commonalities. They are both major energy exporters, have deeply seated interests in the South Caucasus, oppose NATO’s missile shield, and want to keep the U.S. and E.U. from controlling the energy corridors around the Caspian Sea Basin. Moscow and Tehran also share many of the same allies, from Armenia, Tajikistan, and Belarus to Syria and Venezuela. Yet, above all things, both republics are also two of Washington’s main geo-strategic targets." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Iran says scientist's killer may have used U.N. info
A quote...."(Reuters) - Iran charged on Thursday that assassins who killed an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran last week may have used information obtained from the United Nations."

UK Government Suppresses Truth
Action Alert - (Alternative PressTV online options) -- A quote...."Press TV broke the news headlining, “Ofcom revokes Press TV’s UK license,” saying:


"After threatening it for months, it “removed the channel from the Sky platform.”" - Source:  SteveLandman

'Zionist Bicom behind UK Press TV ban'
The Brits have sold themselves for a few shekels, simply disgusting. - mpg -- Related Article - A quote...."The Zionist Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre (Bicom) has collaborated with the state-controlled British Office of Communications (Ofcom) to ban the alternative English-language channel Press TV in the UK, a political analyst says."

US aircraft carrier sails through Strait of Hormuz
A quote...."U.S. warships frequently operate in the Gulf. But when the carrier USS John Stennis departed the Gulf in late December, Iranian officials warned the U.S. not to return. On Saturday, however, Iran indicated that it viewed U.S. naval operations in the Gulf as normal."
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'It's all about pumping oil, not helping Libyans'
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 2min21sec - Jan 22, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Libya could be on the brink of civil war, according to the head of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, following a weekend of political turmoil. That's after his deputy stepped down when Jalil suspended six high-ranking council delegates from Benghazi."

'Qatar isolated, not Assad': Arab League extends Syria mission
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 7min26sec - Jan 22, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Arab League officials have decided their team of monitors will continue to work inside Syria for another month. The group also intends to increase the number of observers and they'll receive training by the UN. The mission expired this week, but violence is still flaring up in the country. In one of the latest outbreaks, 14 people were killed when a police car, transporting prisoners, was ambushed in the north-west. And RT's Sara Firth's been to the town of Zabadani, which has seen some of the fiercest battles between security forces and armed opposition groups."

Corruption in Iraq: 'Your son is being tortured. He will die if you don't pay'
Special Note - A quote...."The walls of Um Hussein's living room in Baghdad are hung with the portraits of her missing sons. There are four of them, and each picture frame is decorated with plastic roses and green ribbons as an improvised wreath for the dead."

Afghan soldier 'killed French troops over US video'
A quote...."An Afghan soldier who shot dead four French troops has said he did it because of a recent video showing US Marines urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban insurgents, security sources told AFP."

Bahraini child killed in crackdown
A quote...."An 11-year-old Bahraini boy has died from asphyxia after regime forces fired toxic tear gas to disperse an anti-government protest."

Egypt’s New Parliament to Hold First Session Monday - Junta to Retain Power Until at Least June
A quote...."Egypt’s new parliament is preparing for its first session on Monday, just two days after the final results of the multi-stage elections were released, marking the first tentative step toward civilian rule since the ouster of long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak."

Turkey Promises To Boost Military Aid To Kyrgyzstan
A quote...."Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev has made his first foreign trip since becoming president, to Turkey. And while trade and aid seemed to top the agenda, the two sides also agreed to increase military cooperation, reports 24.kg:"
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The Monsanto Monstrosity....

Monsanto’s Best-Selling Herbicide Roundup Linked to Infertility
A quote...."A recent study has found that Monsanto’s Roundup pesticide may be responsible for causing infertility. After reviewing the many already well-documented negative impacts Roundup has on the environment and living creatures, it is no surprise to add yet another item to the list."

Why GMO And Organic Can Not Co-Exist: Lateral Gene Transfer
A quote...."One of the most disturbing, though commonly overlooked properties of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is their documented ability to transfer genetic information horizontally into those who consume them. -- This process actually occurs quite commonly in nature, especially among bacteria, which do not reproduce sexually and therefore have evolved a number of mechanisms through which to transfer genetic information directly between one another directly."

Saturday January 21st 2012

"This is a completely logical request on the part of the Iranian government, which means it has the same chance getting listened to, and complied with by the West, as that of an ice cube surviving in hell, unfortunately." -- *Michael Rivero* - Topix ||  How About An Honest NPT? - 11-11-10 - mpg  ||

"Iraq dissolving into tyranny and ultimately civil war?!? Who cares?!? the American oil corporations got their development deals, right?!?" - Official White House Souse. -- *Michael Rivero*

"That's it? Arabs wearing cheap Casio wristwatches get waterboarded; this guy calls for the assassination of the President and an apology gets him off? Well, I guess we know the rules. We can all threaten to murder the President and when the SS shows up, if we say we are really sorry, nothing bad will happen to us! " -- *Michael Rivero*

Friday January 20th 2012 - links page 

"French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that France is suspending its training programs for Afghan troops after the killings, which he announced in a speech after the U.S.-led coalition said an Afghan soldier shot and killed four NATO troops. -- Sarkozy said it was "unacceptable" that Afghan troops would attack French soldiers."    

Thursday January 19th 2012 - links page 

No posts. - mpg 
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Wednesday January 18th 2012 - links page 

"The nexus of Obama's almae matres: Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard, as well as that of his parents, the University of Hawaii, in the CIA's mind control, behavioral modification, and mass hypnosis projects is deeply troubling. The fact that Obama has failed to provide a full accounting of his past academic and professional employment history, coupled with the presence of a major CIA presence within his and his parents', grandparents', and step-father's backgrounds opens up the real possibility that Obama was, to use the CIA's own term, "nurtured," for a higher calling."    

"BULL BISCUITS! -- If it were Russia, they would say Russia. When they refuse to say who the foreign power is, it's usually Israel."  -- *Michael Rivero* 

Tuesday January 17th 2012

Monday January 16th 2012

US Marine Says Iraq War Was One Long Atrocity
Special Note - A quote...."(PRESS TV)   Ex-Marine Ross Caputi says American soldiers should take “ownership” of the war in Iraq that was one long atrocity. It’s no wonder, he says, that so many returning soldiers are overwhelmed by guilt at what they have done, with a higher rate of suicides than in any previous American war. “People do not go home and want to kill themselves because they’ve been helping Iraqis,” says Ross Caputi. “They go home and want to kill themselves because they’ve committed atrocities.” Ross Caputi now campaigns for justice for the city of Fallujah, which as a Marine he helped to destroy in 2004, when thousands of civilians were killed and 200,000 driven from their homes." - Topix ||  US Fake Intel / Propaganda - Iraqi Death Toll  ||

Spanish judge reopens Guantanamo torture probe - Go get'em! - mpg
A quote...."13 Jan 2012 A Spanish judge on Friday re-launched an investigation into the alleged torture of prisoners held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, one day after a British authorities launched a probe into CIA renditions to Libya. The twin developments demonstrated that while the Obama administration has stuck to its promise [the only one kept] not to investigate whether Bush regime officials acted illegally by authorizing the use of harsh interrogation techniques torture, other countries are still interested in determining whether Bush-era anti-terror practices violated international law."

WAKE UP AMERICA! - The Real U.S. Budget Problem: Defense & War Spending Equal 94% Of All Federal Income Tax Revenues - Table - (click to enlarge) -- A quote...."I thought this kind of puts things in perspective.  In 2010, the US government collected $898 billion in federal income tax revenues.  The same year, we spent $847 billion on useless wars and national defense.  That means that 94% of all federal income tax revenue is equivalent to what we spend on the Pentagon.  Who out there thinks it was money well spent?" - And that's in REAL dollars, dollars that were earned, than taxed by the government!  Not that funny money spewing off of Bernanke's printing presses to pay for the rest of the budget. - mpg

The Enemy Expatriation Act, no different than the Nazi Nuremberg Laws
A quote...."The Enemy Expatriation Act (H.R. 3166; S. 1698), an act that the U.S. Congress is now considering, that will allow the U.S. Government to take away citizenship of anybody that is considered a hostile enemy or supporting hostility towards the U.S. Government, is similar to the Nazi Factions Nuremberg laws where Adolf Hitler took away Germans citizenship based on race, bloodtypes, and those against the Hitler regime."

The NDAA: Just one more link in the chain of tyranny
Must View GRVideo - Alt - (GRYuTb - 13min57sec - Jan 15, 2012) - Source:  GlobalResearchTV -- A quote...."With the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act into law, more Americans than ever before are wondering how the country could have descended so quickly into a police state. Far from a unique or isolated act, however, the NDAA is just the latest entry in a long list of steps toward the codification of outright martial law." - When watching this video keep in mind the offending provisions of the NDAA are repugnant to the constitution and are therefore null & void. See the quote shown below....


Economic Liberty is Just as Important as our Personal Freedoms
A quote...."I can tell the new banking laws under the Dodd/Frank is a major assault not only our right to privacy. It also attacks our economic liberty as well. The IRS along with Homeland Security now watches all our transactions in real time now if we use debit or credit cards. When we go withdraw a certain amount of our money from our own bank accounts. Now they ask what is our reason for such a large sum of money? What is our intentions for using this money. The war on drugs and terror now take away our financial privacy which is part of our economic liberties because the IRS wants to know."

British Find That Detainee Was Tortured As Part Of American Interrogation . . . Obama Administration Threatens To Cut Off Intelligence To England - (2012 Election Cycle Note) -- A quote...."While the Obama Administration continues to block any independent investigation in this country or by other countries, Britain has angered Obama officials by confirming that a suspect was tortured as part of his interrogation by the United State in Morocco. The use of other countries to torture U.S. detainees through “extraordinary renditions” is well documented. However, the Obama Administration reportedly threatened to cut off Britain from access to intelligence if the country told the truth about the torture of Binyam Mohamed." - bold by website editor - How could ANYONE defend that sick, twisted, perverted, war criminal Obama?!?! - mpg

We’ve Won a Brief Respite on Iran and SOPA -- Let’s Use the Breathing Room to Educate People Before the Next Assault - SOPA & Iran - A quote...."The European Union’s oil embargo of Iran has likely been delayed for 6 months. - SOPA – the draconian anti-piracy internet bill – has been shelved, at least for now. - Recent history shows that the folks pushing for war with Iran and Internet censorship will try again shortly. - But we’ve won a couple of months in which to ramp up our opposition to both ill-considered efforts, so that – next time the knuckleheads try – the public will be educated and the political hacks will feel the pressure."

Web Goes On Strike [& Other Options]
SOPA Protest - Action Alert - A quote...."January 18th is going to be amazing. Sites are striking in all different ways, but they are united by this: do the biggest thing you possibly can, and drive contacts to Congress."

Dead On Arrival: SOPA Shelved Indefinitely, Obama Succumbs to Pressure, Issues Official Veto Threat
SOPA - WHAT!!  That lying bastard said the same thing about the NDAA, than he signed it!  SOPA ain't dead till it's DEAD!  No one should lower their guard! - mpg -- A quote...."Amid significant pressure from tens of thousands of internet users and major web behemoths like Google, Facebook, and Reddit, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is, in its current form, Dead on Arrival...." - also posted at BLN

How to Understand When You are Being Conned by the News
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Right now America’s mainstream media is being accused of playing with fire for playing-up the prospect of war, between Iran and the West.   And clearly most people in the intelligencia know that mainstream U.S. media is clearly cheerleading for war with Iran.   It’s expected."

Recipe for Vote Fraud: Global Internet Voting Firm Buys U.S. Election Results Reporting Firm
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."In a major step towards global centralization of election processes, the world’s dominant Internet voting company has purchased the USA’s dominant election results reporting company." - Source:  BlackBoxVoting

What's Really Going on in South Carolina - [An Interview WIth Bev Harris] - Related Article shown above
AJVideo - BevHarris@SC(1/2) - BevHarris@SC(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 11/15min - Jan 16, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Bev Harris talks to Alex about the increased potential for vote fraud as privately owned corporations consolidate and move toward internet voting. Harris is a writer, activist, and founder of Black Box Voting Inc., a national nonpartisan, nonprofit elections watchdog group. She is the author of Black Box Voting and her investigative journalism has appeared in both the alternative and mainstream media." - Note:  According to Bev Harris, 70% of the votes in this country are controlled by two foreign companies, and we don't know who owns them.  THEY BETTER NOT BE ISRAELI OWNED! - mpg

Manufacturing Your Reality
AJVideo - ManufacturingYourReality(1/3) - ManufacturingYourReality(2/3) - ManufacturingYourReality(3/3) - (AJYuTb - 11/15min - Jan 16, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex also covers the latest breaking news, including the decision by GOP candidate Jon Hunstman to drop out and endorse Romney as Ron Paul's campaign grows in strength. Alex also covers the latest developments on Iran as it is reported that the Mossad has posed as CIA agents in attacks on the oil-producing nation. Alex takes your calls."
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...

MF Global May Not Be Able to Pay Clients Back: Trustee
A quote...."Former customers of MF Global Holdings' collapsed brokerage were disappointed to hear on Thursday that the trustee hunting for funds missing from their accounts has no immediate plans to transfer more money to them." - Source:  CNBC

Are The Middle East Wars Really About Forcing the World Into Dollars and Private Central Banking?
#1) - Special Note - A quote...."The Middle Eastern and North African wars – planned 20 years ago – don’t necessarily have much to do with fighting terrorism. See this, this and this. - They are, in reality, about oil. - And protecting Israel (and read the section entitled “Securing the Realm” here). - But as AFP reports today, there is another major motivation for the expanding wars...." - also posted at InfoWars & ZeroHedge - Topix ||  9/11 PlngGuide - SpecTrgts  ||  9/11-Planning Guidance Docs  ||

Truth About Middle East is Spreading
#2) - Related Article - A quote...."Zero Hedge has published an article, "Are The Middle East Wars Really About Forcing the World Into Dollars and Private Central Banking?"* [shown above] that mentions my theory that Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown because he wanted to set up a private gold-currency in Africa. You can see my article here: Gaddafi Planned Gold Dinar, Now Under Attack." - *link added - also posted at BLN

On Exceptionalism and Deviance
#3) -- Related Article - A quote...."The Wall Street Journal recently carried a speculative article by Ian Tally suggesting a link between the International Monetary Fund's bailout loans to the European Union’s worst hit economies and sanctions against Iran. In essence, the article said that the Obama administration would likely support bailout loans to Greece, Italy and Spain in exchange for the EU agreeing to an embargo on Iran’s oil." - bold by website editor - also posted at AlethoNews

William Engdahl: US economy goes down the tube by days
#4) -- Related RTVideo - Alt - (YuTb - 5min41sec - Jan 16, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."European markets have remained stable on Monday, despite the wave of credit downgrades across the eurozone by the ratings giant Standard and Poor's. It slashed the credit scores of 9 EU countries on Friday, including France, which lost its triple A status, and Austria." -- Quote of the Day...."The ratings agencies are simply an extension of the US political apparatus, the Treasury department and Wall Street." -- *William Engdahl*

"Financial Terrorism": Wall Street’s Ratings Agencies Degrade Nine European Countries
#5) -- Related Article - A quote...."We live in an increasingly degraded country. - Our politics are degraded and a laughing stock to the word. Our military is demoralized and degraded with soldiers urinating on dead civilians and awaiting deployment orders for the next illegal intervention. - Our education system has been degraded with standards falling and pervasive defunding. Our transportation system, ditto. - I could go on, but I don’t have to. We are all living the decline with downward mobility, jobless and foreclosures, to cite a few trends that make life so miserable for so many. - Now, our godlike financial ratings agencies have decided to degrade nine countries struggling to fix their financial crisis."

Regarding the five articles and video shown above see....Topix ||  Israel is NOT a "Nation-State", Nor Does It Plan To Be One - 01-13-12 - mpg  ||

S&P Downgrades Euro Zone Rescue Fund
Related Article - A quote...."Rating agency Standard & Poor's said Monday it has downgraded the creditworthiness of the euro zone's rescue fund by one notch to AA+, putting the fund's ability to raise cheap bailout money at risk."

Europe’s $39 Trillion Pension Risk Grows as Economy Falters
A quote...."State pension obligations in France and Germany are three times the size of their economies, according to data compiled by Mercer. - Even before the euro crisis, people were worried about Europe’s pension bomb." - Source: Bloomberg
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

Crowd Chants: "[Expletive Deleted] The Fed" At Occupy Boston Rally Outside The Federal Reserve
Videos - [Blank]TheFed - Prtst@Fed - Rally@Fed -- A quote...."Outside of the Federal Reserve of Boston after a march around the financial district. Keep in mind these are peaceful protests, this was the first night. They aren't trying to incite a riot."

TSA Air Marshal Arrested in Mugging of Boston Occupier
WTF - Video - Alt - (YuTb - 29sec - Jan 12, 2012) - Source:  RSnotRSS -- A quote...."What was a TSA air marshal doing at an Occupy camp at 3:40 on a Saturday morning, just an hour before protestors were evicted by Boston police? - Stealing the iPhone of one of the camp’s prominent voices, then slapping her, apparently. - TSA air marshal Adam Marshall was arrested by the Boston police department at 3:50 a.m. on Dec. 10 after he allegedly argued with members of Occupy, called some of them prostitutes, struck one of Occupy’s organizers and main tweeters in the face, grabbed her iPhone and then fled. - Marshall was pursued by some 25 occupiers, according to witnesses, ditching the phone as he ran, and then was arrested by Boston police who were preparing to evict the camp."

Protesters Occupy the Federal Reserve in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
A quote...."Martin Luther King, Jr. organized an “Occupy DC” protest shortly before his assassination to bring attention to economic inequality. -- Today, protesters honored Dr. King’s vision by staging occupy protests at Federal Reserve banks all over the country. For background on today’s protests, see this, this, this, this and this."
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More On The International Situation....

Israel, US cancel missile defense drill
War Stand-Down -- (The pending war with Iran has been postponed....for now. - mpg) -- A quote...."Israel and the US canceled a missile defense drill, billed as the largest ever in the country's history, planned for the spring, senior military officials said Sunday. -- Initially scheduled for April and called "Austere Challenge," the drill was supposed to see the deployment of thousands of US troops and various sophisticated US military equipment in Israel."

The U.S. Government Funded the Iranian Terrorist Group Which “Found” The Documents Upon Which the Warmongers Are Relying - US-NRE Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."The people pushing for war against Iran are the same neocons who pushed for war against Iraq. See this and this. (They planned both wars at least 20 years ago.) -- The IAEA report being trumpted as a casus belli contains no new information, but is based on a re-hashing of old, debunked claims stemming from “laptop documents”. -- State Department cables released by Wikileaks reveal that the new IAEA head was heavily backed by the U.S., based upon his promises of fealty to the U.S. Indeed, as we’ve seen in the nuclear energy arena, the IAEA is not a neutral, fact-based organization, but a wholly-captured, political agency."

What IAEA reports about Iran’s nuclear energy/medicine, how US War Criminal 1% lie for war
US-NRE Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."IAEA appears to be under the same political pressure to make a case for war on Iran that we witnessed before US armed attack of Iraq. US corporate media and US political “leadership” will not remind Americans that the US eliminated the UN agency director who would have resolved concerns of alleged Iraq weapons...."

Iran makes arrests in scientist assassination
A quote...."Iran has arrested several people in the killing of a nuclear scientist last week that Tehran blames on Israel and the United States, parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani told state Al-Alam TV, Tehran Times daily said on Monday."
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Anger & Amnesty: 'Syria pawn in game of shadows'
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min36sec - Jan 16, 2012) - A quote...."The Arab League is divided over a Qatari proposal to send troops in to Syria. Tunisia's President has warned it could see violence flare-up across the whole region. The Emir of Qatar is leading the calls for Arab action in Syria to put a stop to the 10-month long fighting there. He was also a key player in the Arab League's role in opposing Colonel Gaddafi's rule in Libya. Meanwhile, Syria has announced a release for prisoners jailed during the uprising. This move complies with the Arab League peace plan, which Syria accepted in November. RT talks to Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar." - Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||

Saudi Arabia, China Ink Nuke Cooperation Deal
Geo-Political Note - Now What!  Israel goes ahead and attacks Saudi Arabia even if they follow the NPT like Iran?  The Saudi Royals are playing this beautifully.  What's their "friend", Israel's North American colony gonna say now? - mpg -- A quote...."The world's biggest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia has signed an agreement with China for cooperation in the development and use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes, which will help to meet the Kingdom's increasing demand for energy and cut its growing dependence on depleting oil resources." - Source:  RTTNews

The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare: What Seventy Downed Drones Tell Us About the New American Way of War -- Weapons Tech Note - A quote...."American fighter jets screamed over the Iraqi countryside heading for the MQ-1 Predator drone, while its crew in California stood by helplessly.  What had begun as an ordinary reconnaissance mission was now taking a ruinous turn.  In an instant, the jets attacked and then it was all over. -- The Predator, one of the Air Force’s workhorse hunter/killer robots, had been obliterated."

Mission Impossible: F-35C jet fighter unable to land on carriers
Weapons Tech Note - A quote...."A design flaw in the US Marine Corps version of the F-35 Lightning II, which prevents it from landing on an aircraft carrier, could see the highly advanced vehicle grounded indefinitely. -- ­The F-35C, also known as the carrier variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (CV JSF), is one of several fifth-generation fighters developed under the JSF program. New documents reveal that the aircraft has a crucial flaw, which could prevent it from ever being able to land on a vessel."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Why hasn’t NGO Monitor’s US fundraiser filed legally required public disclosures with Internal Revenue Service?
A quote...."NGO Monitor, the far-right Israeli group that fashions itself as a transparency watchdog, suffers from a mysterious lack of transparency itself. -- The legally-mandated public disclosures required of US nonprofits are nowhere to be found for NGO Monitor’s US-based fundraising arm known as REPORT." - also posted at AlethoNews

Alan Dershowitz, amoral and impotent dwarf.
A quote...."I had the good fortune to write arrangements for the Meeting House Jazz Orchestra this Fall for a benefit concert hosted by Manhattan’s Friends Shelter, the charitable arm of the E. 16th street Quaker Meeting House. The show featured the great British-Israeli saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and my arrangements of his tunes."

Canadian Forces member charged with passing information to foreign entity
A quote...."A member of the military has been charged with communicating information that could harm Canada's interests to a foreign entity." -- a comment shown below.....

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More On The Palestinian Situation....

UK Labour Party student officials face backlash over free tour of Israel, settlements
A quote...."A member of the UK’s National Union of Students Executive Council has denounced several youth and student officers from the opposition Labour Party for taking part in an all-expenses-paid tour of Israel and its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The Labour students delegation met with Captain Barak Raz, an Israeli army spokesperson and other Israeli officials." - also posted at AlethoNews

Gaza tunnel smuggling OK, says confused Britain
A quote...."Stuart Littlewood highlights how the British government dissembles and prevaricates in order to shield Israel from pressure and allow it to continue subjecting the 1.5 million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip to unbearable hardships."

Soldiers beat and arrest two teenagers in Hebron
A quote...."On 12 January 2012 at 5:20pm, Israeli soldiers forcibly entered the Zaru family home near the Qitoun checkpoint in al-Khalil (Hebron), assaulting the mother and two sons. The invasion was a result of an earlier encounter between the soldiers and Anas, the older of the sons, age 18 and developmentally disabled." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More On The Economic Situation....

The Daily Bail - Jan 16, 2012 at 12:36 PM
A Daily Bail round-up of the day's business news. - mpg

Sunday January 15th 2012

Saturday January 14th 2012 - links page 

2012 Is Here, Moral Pole Shift Underway  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/13/2012-is-here-moral-pole-shift-underway/ 
Quote of the Day...."I’m not an end-of-the-worlder.  I’m not a gloom-and-doomer. -- But after a week of US Marines urinating on corpses, Republican candidates cheering the murders of Iranian scientists, and US officials all but admitting that the real reason for hostilities with Iran is that Iran is one of the last countries on earth with a non-Rothschild central bank…in other words, that Americans are being frog-marched into World War III by Rothschild satanists in order to create a Jerusalem-based global bankster dictatorship…well, I’m starting to believe in this pole-shift thing. -- Americans have obviously lost their moral compass. The poles of morality – good and evil – are switching places." 
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Clash of Civilization, Iran Part II  ---  http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/01/clash-of-civilization-iran-part-ii/ 
A quote...."Israel’s survival kit is: perpetuate conflict, insecurity to rationalize collective hate and finally playing victim. - Devoid of conflict, Israel implodes internally; without hate, Zionism losses its justification; and playing eternal victim to continue blackmailing the West. Absence of this holy trinity, Israel ceases to exist." 
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IRAN: US/Israeli “False Flag” Attack May Be Underway  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/iran-usisraeli-false-flag-attack-may-be.html 
False Flag Alert - A quote...."Several warnings of an imminent “false flag” attack by the Israeli-influenced United States on one of its own warships, which will be attributed to Iran, have been reported by several reliable sources. In recent years “false-flag” terrorism has been utilized multiple times by US and Israeli political actors to provide pretexts for otherwise unjustifiable, anti-Islamic military excursions. The plan is to justify an all-out assault on Iran based upon a new fabricated “Pearl Harbor”." 
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[Israel's German produced] Dolphin class submarine  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/152695 
False Flag Alert - A quote...."Israel has been sending their Dolphin class submarines through the Suez Canal. Traveling on the surface, the Dolphins can travel 8000 miles without needing to refuel. Given a sub-tender in the Indian ocean, Israel's Dolphins may safely be assumed to be at or near the Straights of Hormuz. While the Clinton administration officially refused to sell Tomahawk cruise missiles to Israel, reports are that the US did supply 100 Harpoon missiles which were loaded onto Israel's Dolphins when they made a highly unusual voyage down to Diego Garcia in 2003. Whether later administrations did provide Tomahawks to Israel is unknown. Israel also manufactures the Gabriel series of anti-ship missiles, with the latest version able to fit into a torpedo tube canister launching system. -- The concern here is that Israel wants the US to go to war with Iran. A Dolphin class submarine running on batteries could easily slip into the shallow waters near the coast of Iran, fire missiles at the US battle groups, and blame Iran for the attack, much as Israel ships and planes attacked the USS Liberty and attempted to blame Egypt for that attack." -- *Michael Rivero* 
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Cheney Considered Killing American Servicemen [Using People] Dressed as Iran[ians] to Start WWIII  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZM7ppkVCT8 
Related Video - From the History File - Sep 22, 2008 - (YuTb - 3min51sec - 09/22/08) - Source:  secretcombinations  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/secretcombinations  ---  A quote...."The Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh reveals how the neocons convened around Dick Cheney and brainstormed ways to kick off World War IV, as they fondly call their pet project to take out the Muslims and foment a contrived "clash of civilizations." 
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Did Eric Holder Cover Up FBI’s Role In ’95 OKC Bomb Plot?
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2012/01/14/did-eric-holder-cover-up-fbi%E2%80%99s-role-in-%E2%80%9995-okc-bomb-plot/ 
A quote...."In 2005, just ahead of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recovered a box of Kinestik explosives from the home of Terry Nichols, the convicted co-conspirator of Tim McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing." 
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Another ATF weapons operation comes under scrutiny  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-white-gun-20120113,0,3917291.story 
Fast & Furious II?-- A quote...."Reporting from Washington—In the late summer of 2010, the ATF agent leading the failed Fast and Furious gun-smuggling operation in Arizona flew to Mexico City to help coordinate cross-border investigations of U.S. weapons used by Mexican drug cartels. -- Hope A. MacAllister wanted access to police and military vaults for American weapons recovered by Mexican authorities in raids and at crime scenes. She especially was interested in firearms from another ATF investigation, code-named White Gun, that she was running." 
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Is America A Victim of Israeli Aggression And False Flag Terror, Or Is That Just Clever CIA Propaganda?
  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/is-america-victim-of-israeli-aggression.html 
A quote...."In an interview on the Chris Matthews show on MSNBC, former CIA officer Robert Baer said that Israel is behind the string of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists. The latest victim of this terror campaign was 32-year-old Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan." 
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[UK] Soldiers' faces before, during and after serving in Afghanistan (13Pics)
  ---  http://refreshingnews9.blogspot.com/2012/01/soldiers-faces-before-during-and-after.html 
Photos - This is an astounding series of photos and short interviews. - mpg 
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Corrupt Regimes Crumble When the Foot Soldiers Refuse to Carry Out The Tyrant’s Draconian Orders - Part II  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/
Corrupt_Regimes_Crumble_When_the_Foot_Soldiers_Refuse_to_Carry_Out_The_Tyrant%E2%80%99s_Draconian_Orders/17418/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
Contains Video - Part I  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlR9rMrYuHU  ---  Part II  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugU6ELwbi_o  ---  Part III  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKSUfCG7ax4  ---  (YuTb - 6/10min - Nov 29, 2011) - Source:  liagrainger  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/liagrainger  ---  A quote...."I was in Leipzig on November 9, 1989 with leaders of East German opposition and they told me that - perhaps within a year – there would be free passes back and forth across the Berlin wall. -- Within a few hours, the Berlin Wall, at least as far as an impediment to human traffic, did not exist." -- *Chris Hedges* 
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From The Dust To The Divine: The American People Can Save The World By Ending Washington's Global Empire
  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/from-dust-to-divine-american-people-can.html 
A quote...."All we have to do is remember who we are. We are not Germans. We're not peasants in China. We're not peasants in Russia. We have a legacy and a history of fighting for liberty. Americans have always fought for liberty. And we will fight again. So we will not be the Fourth Reich. We will not let that happen. Not without a fight." -- *Stewart Rhodes*, founder of Oath Keepers, speaking on the Alex Jones show on January 12, 2012. 
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SOPA And PIPA Sponsors Caving In To Opposition - Hip Hip Hooray!! - Victory is in Sight!!
  ---  http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/sopa-and-pipa-sponsors-caving-into-opposition.php 
A quote...."As more and more actions are planned in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), the dual pieces of anti-online piracy legislation moving through Congress, the architects and supporters of these bills have finally begun tiptoeing back." 
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Obama czar proposed government should ‘infiltrate’ social network sites, chat rooms, message boards  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Obama_czar_prop
osed_government_should_%E2%80%98infiltrate%E2%80%99_social_network_sites%2C_chat_rooms%2C_message_boards./17413/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."Just prior to his appointment as President Obama’s so-called regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein wrote a  lengthy academic paper suggesting the government should “infiltrate” social network websites, chat rooms and message boards." - Source:  ArronKlein
  ---  http://klein.wp.wnd.com/2012/01/12/obama-czar-proposed/ 
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Outrage As RNC Fraud Rears Its True Ugly Head  ---  http://www.rense.com/general95/ugly.htm 
A quote..."Many Conservative Americans are scratching their heads and trying to figure out what IN HELL has gotten into some of the better-known names of the Republican Party. Must have learned too much from Clinton, Bush and Barky." 
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When Mitt Romney Came To Town — Full, complete version  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/152290 
Video - 2012 Election Cycle - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLWnB9FGmWE  ---  (YuTb - 26min07sec - Jan 11, 2012) -- A quote...."It is obvious that a lot of money went into this documentary about Romney and Bain, and it did. This is produced by one of Newt Gingrich's support groups. What is that old saying, the enemy of my enemy is my friend? Well, not in this case, but this video does help Ron Paul without question, and may well be the reason Mitt Romney has backed off his claim of job creation and is trying to make immigration his new defining issue!" -- *Michael Rivero* 
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Which presidential candidates have earned the defense industry’s support?
  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/13/which-presidential-candidates-have-earned-the-defense-industrys-support/ 
2012 Election Cycle - And the winner?  The "Peace Prize" candidate of course! - mpg -- A quote...."President Obama is leading the pack in donations from the defense industry: according to the Center for Responsive Politics." 
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Obamney vs. US, USrael vs. Iran, Eugenicists vs. Everyone - New World Next Week
  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/obamney-vs-us-usrael-vs-iran.html 
CRVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcfMZzETiE0  ---  (CRYuTb - 14min41sec - Jan 12, 2012) - Source:  corbettreport  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/corbettreport  ---  A quote..."Welcome back to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week...." 
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War with Iran?...  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/crabbydogtrix#p/a/u/1/xIG_IXQ0ipo 
CMcGVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIG_IXQ0ipo  ---  (CMcGYuTb - 4min02sec - Jan 15, 2012) - Source: crabbydogtrix  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/crabbydogtrix 
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Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - January 14 2012  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/305300495
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min10sec into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Jan 14th, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues.
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Gerald Celente - Jeff Rense Radio Show - 13 January 2012  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9DnN9IAqP0
Must Listen Video - (YuTb - 44min55sec - Jan 14, 2012) - Source:  geraldcelente  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/geraldcelente 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Keiser Report: Wall Street Gangsta! (E236)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVECwKRmhx8&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=2&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVECwKRmhx8  ---  (RTYuTb - 25min44sec - Jan 14, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Producer:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert discuss corruption with a clean face and Jamie "Spaghetti Face" Dimon. In the second half of the show, Max talks to investment adviser and blogger Michael Krieger about Ron Paul, the Fed and political futures." 
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The Problem is Big Government  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/3/bsZNYeBrVGw 
AJVideo - PeterSchiff(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsZNYeBrVGw  ---  PeterSchiff(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yK1Bb06MSo  ---  (AJYuTb - 12/13min - Jan 14, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  And TBTF financial institutions. - mpg -- A quote...."Tonight's Friday, January 13, 2012 edition of the Infowars Nightly News features an interview with Peter Schiff, investor and economic advisor to Ron Paul. Schiff gives his forecast for 2012, with an eye on crashing economies and the fresh credit downgrades for nine EU countries, new theaters of war and the impact of Ron Paul's presidential campaign." 
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Home Seizures May Jump 25% This Year as U.S. Foreclosures Resume
  ---  http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-13/home-seizures-may-jump-25-this-year-as-u-s-foreclosures-resume.html#fadetoblack 
A quote...."Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Banks may seize more than 1 million U.S. homes this year after legal scrutiny of their foreclosure practices slowed actions against delinquent property owners in 2011, RealtyTrac Inc. said. -- About 1.89 million properties received notices of default, auction or repossession last year, down 34 percent from 2010 and the lowest number since 2007, the Irvine, California-based data seller said today in a statement. One in 69 U.S. households received a filing." 
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AP source: House Republicans got discounted loans  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/AP-source-House-Republicans-got-discounted-loans 
Gets you ticked off huh? - mpg -- A quote...."14 Jan 2012 Two veteran House Republicans received discounted mortgage loans from the now-defunct Countrywide Financial Corp. under a VIP program, a congressional official said Friday. " 
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'France downgrade well-deserved disaster for Sarkozy'
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-lrsfAmIgs&feature=autoplay&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&lf=plcp&playnext=2 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-lrsfAmIgs  ---  (RTYuTb - 4min44sec - Jan 13, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."France's prized triple-A credit rating could be about to be cut, according to a senior Eurozone source." - France WAS cut, one notch. - mpg 
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Q4 Spanish Unemployment Soars By Most Since Lehman, Hits "Astronomical" 23.3%
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/q4-spanish-unemployment-soars-most-lehman-hits-astronomical-233 
Chart - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2012/01/Spain%20Unemployment.jpg  ---  A quote...."For anyone convinced that yesterday's S&P two notch downgrade of Spain to A is the last one for a while, we have some bad news: in Q4 Spanish unemployment soared by the most since the Lehman collapse, hitting what new PM Mariano Rajoy called an "astronomical" 5.4 million." 
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Romania clashes video: Protests turn violent in Bucharest
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Difi2rzsGTk&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=3&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Difi2rzsGTk  ---  (RTYuTb - 1min27sec - Jan 15, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."There have been violent scenes in the Romanian capital Bucharest between police and protestors demonstrating over health service cuts. Nine people were injured, as officers used tear gas while some in the crowd threw petrol bombs. Thousands have been taking to the streets across the country, angry at more government austerity measures needed to get new financial help from the International Monetary Fund. Opponents say the already outdated medical system will be further worsened and living standards reduced." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

Oil, Dollar Hegemony and Islam  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28661 
Must Read - A quote...."....they put into planning an interventionist force, designed expressly for the purpose of stealing Arab oil fields, and that was called the rapid deployment force. And it took ten years of training, planning, positioning, and supply to build that interventionist force of that capability and eventually it was called the U.S. Central Command. The purpose of the U.S. Central Command is to steal and control and dominate the oil and gas resources of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia. And that's exactly what the U.S. Central Command proceeded to do in the Bush Sr. war against Iraq, their first military expedition." 
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UK seeks Saudi Arabia support to attack Iran?
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6tWfIE1xmM&feature=autoplay&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&lf=plcp&playnext=1 
Must View RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6tWfIE1xmM  ---  (RTYuTb - 4min53sec - Jan 14, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote.... "British PM David Cameron has met with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - the UK's biggest trade partner and arms market in the Middle East. The gulf kingdom has been rattled by recent unrest in the Arab world - and has suppressed protests on home soil as well as elsewhere with ruthless force. During the visit, the British leader and the King of Saudi Arabia discussed shared concerns about Syria, with David Cameron talking about removing the country's President. But senior politics editor at the New Statesman magazine Mehdi Hasan believes Britain has no moral authority to preach democracy to a country which is using lethal force to disperse protests." 
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Russia: “Should Anything Happen to Iran … This Will Be a Direct Threat to Our National Security”
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/russia-should-anything-happen-to-iran-this-will-be-a-direct-threat-to-our-national-security.html 
A quote...."Iran is our close neighbor, just south of the Caucasus. Should anything happen to Iran, should Iran get drawn into any political or military hardships, this will be a direct threat to our national security,” -- *Dmitry Rogozin*, Russia’s deputy prime minister and former envoy to NATO 
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Iran sends rare letter to U.S. over killed scientist  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28657 
A quote...."We have reliable documents and evidence that this terrorist act was planned, guided and supported by the CIA," the Iranian foreign ministry said in a letter handed to the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, state TV reported. The Swiss embassy represents U.S. interests in a country where Washington has no diplomatic ties. -- The spokesman for Iran's Joint Armed Forces Staff, Massoud Jazayeri, said: "Our enemies, especially America , Britain and the Zionist regime (Israel), have to be held responsible for their actions."  
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AIPAC’s “War With Iran”  ---  http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/01/aipacs-war-with-iran/ 
A quote...."It is time for more diplomacy not less — even if that means offending a powerful lobby that is hell-bent for war." 
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Israeli Mossad training Iranian exiles in Kurdistan: French newspaper  ---  http://intelnews.org/2012/01/11/01-906/ 
A quote...."A leading French newspaper has claimed that Israeli intelligence agents are recruiting and training Iranian dissidents in clandestine bases located in Iraq’s Kurdish region. Paris-based daily Le Figaro, France’s second-largest national newspaper, cited a “security source in Baghdad”, who alleged that members of Israeli intelligence are currently operating in Iraq’s autonomous northern Kurdish region. According to the anonymous source, the Israelis, who are members of the Mossad, Israel’s foremost external intelligence agency, are actively recruiting Iranian exiles in Kurdistan." 
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Japan backtracks on Iran oil embargo  ---  http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1176568/1/.html 
Awwwww this is a STUPID headline!  Japan's FM essentially said "maybe" when asked if Japan would participate in the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium's sanctions against Iran.  That's because the Japanese are polite, they don't like to say a flat out no....but he meant NO. They're not "backtracking" on anything. - mpg 
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Oil prices, Iran are increasingly sources of concern
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/increasing-concern-over-oil-prices-iran/2012/01/13/gIQAP98PzP_print.html 
Related Article - And here's WHY Japan said NO! - mpg -- A quote...."The push for tighter sanctions on Iranian oil exports comes at a time when oil prices are already high. Last year was a record-shattering year for oil prices, which averaged $107 a barrel, about 14 percent more than in the previous record year of 2008, according to figures from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries." - bold by website editor 
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Syria and Iran: the great game  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/04/syria-iran-great-game 
Must Read - Second Quote of the Day...."This is today's "great game" – losing Syria. And this is how it is played: set up a hurried transitional council as sole representative of the Syrian people, irrespective of whether it has any real legs inside Syria; feed in armed insurgents from neighbouring states; impose sanctions that will hurt the middle classes; mount a media campaign to denigrate any Syrian efforts at reform; try to instigate divisions within the army and the elite; and ultimately President Assad will fall – so its initiators insist." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30248.htm 
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Friends In Greed: 'Qatar-US synergy could work again with Syria'
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sGw4o4WGro&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=2&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sGw4o4WGro  ---  (RTYuTb - 4min40sec - Jan 15, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."The emir of Qatar has become the first Arab leader to voice support for military intervention in Syria should the bloodshed continue there. Does that mean Doha is aligned with the West's agenda in the region?" 
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Syrian president grants general amnesty  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20120115/170764723.html 
A quote...."President of Syria Bashar al-Assad has issued a decree granting a general amnesty, the official government news agency SANA reported on Sunday." 
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Afghan Stalemate: 'US pullout to be delayed for years'
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBgq0JRSP1I&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=11&feature=plcp 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBgq0JRSP1I  ---  (RTYuTb - 7min17sec - Jan 15, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."A leaked CIA report says the situation in Afghanistan is mired in stalemate, contradicting recent optimistic Pentagon statements. The sobering conclusion is deepening divisions between U.S. intelligence and the military, about the outcome of the decade-long war." 
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US-led chopper crashes in Afghanistan  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/221116.html 
A quote...."A helicopter operated by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has crashed in Logar province in eastern Afghanistan, Press TV reports." 
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Obama Sending US Forces to Libya  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/13/obama-sending-us-forces-to-libya/ 
A quote...."Throughout 2011, Washington and rogue NATO partners committed Nuremberg level crimes. They made Libya a charnel house. -- Terror bombing caused massacres, mass destruction and human misery. Libya remains wracked by violence, instability, and illegitimate governance. -- Occupation, colonization, pillaging and exploitation intend raping Libya for profit." 
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Iraq: Arbaeen Attacks Leave 71 Killed, 145 Wounded  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2012/01/14/iraq-arbaeen-attacks-leave-71-killed-145-wounded/ 
al-CIA'da Strike - (The Saudi Royals and the CIA must be so proud of what they've done. - mpg) -- A quote...."Today is Arbaeen, which marks the end of the 40-day mourning period observed by Shi’ite pilgrims in honor of Hussein bin Ali, the Prophet Mohammad’s grandson. As expected, insurgents staged a major bombing against pilgrims. It alone left about 200 casualties. Overall, at least 71 people were killed and 145 more wounded. It is unknown if any foreigners were among the casualties. -- In Zubayr, a suicide bomber dressed in a military uniform set off his vest amidst a group of pilgrims, killing 64 and wounding 137 more. Many were women and children." - bold by website editor 
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UK PM accused of bullying Scotland  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/221066.html 
A quote...."Scotland First Minister has accused UK prime minister of attempting to “bully and intimidate Scotland” after David Cameron forced a deadline for Scottish independence referendum." 
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Talks to end Nigeria fuel crisis fail  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/221107.html 
A quote...."Talks between Nigerian government and union leaders over the state's controversial decision of removing the fuel subsidies have ended without an agreement." 
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Key US oil supplier may cut off spigot Sunday  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/key-us-oil-supplier-may-cut-off-spigot-221105937.html 
A quote...."NEW YORK (AP) — One of the biggest suppliers of oil to the United States may shut off the spigot this weekend, pushing crude and gasoline prices higher for Americans. -- Nigeria, which supplies 8 percent of U.S. oil imports, could see production halted if striking workers walk off the job Sunday. Workers are demanding the return of a vital government fuel subsidy that has kept gasoline prices low in that impoverished and restive nation of 160 million people." 
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What Did Cuba Ever Do to Us?  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/13/what-did-cuba-ever-do-to-us/ 
Defeated a CIA lead invasion.  That is something which is UNFORGIVABLE to the New Roman Empire.  It makes the Empire look bad. - mpg -- A quote...."In 1954, Washington punished President Jacobo Arbenz for nationalizing United Fruit company property in Guatemala (a US-backed coup d’etat), to again dramatize how the US treated disobedience. -- Despite the long history of US punishment of insubordinate Latin American leaders, Castro and compañeros remained focused on goals emerging in the 1860s’ revolt against Spain: independence; sovereignty; social justice." 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

Why Don’t They Pull the Plug on Israeli Trade?  ---  http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/01/why-dont-they-pull-the-plug-on-israeli-trade/ 
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel!  Because it's the right thing to do, and because  it's easy to do. (All you have to do is look at the label and NOT buy their products, now WHAT could be more simple than that?) -- AND, it's working!!  - mpg -- A quote...."The imprisonment and collective punishment inflicted on the civilian population in the overcrowded enclave of Gaza continues without let-up. -- For example, those whose children were killed or maimed by Israel’s murderous blitzkrieg 3 years ago (Operation Cast Lead), and whose homes were destroyed, have received no response to the criminal complaints submitted on their behalf by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. Not only that. They are still subjected to air-strikes, shelling or sniper fire on an almost daily basis, and live in constant fear." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/campaign-launched-against-french-purchase-of-israeli-drones-as-senators-demand-deal-be-abandoned/  ---  For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/  ---  of this website. 
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Did you know that by law the US guarantees israel's oil supply - no matter what?  ---  http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/4504 
A quote...."Under a 1975 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) the USA guaranteed all Israel's oil needs in the event of a crisis. This Memorandum of Understanding is quietly renewed every five years. It commits U.S. taxpayers to maintain a strategic U.S. reserve for Israel, equivalent to $3 billion in 2002 dollars." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Settlers [Jewish gang-banging vandals] torch a car in Hebron, throw stones at house  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=452561 
A quote...."HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Settlers [Jealous Jewish gang-bangers] torched a Palestinian owned car overnight Saturday in the southern city of Hebron. - The owner, Hana Abu Heikal, told Ma'an that settlers began to throw stones at her home near the Tel Rumeida settlement at around 2 a.m before setting fire to her car." 
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Here we go again - another round of futile negotiations
  ---  http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/resources/commentary-and-analysis/3277-here-we-go-again-another-round-of-futile-negotiations 
A quote...."The bad news from Israel keeps coming thick and fast. If the report by European embassies in Tel Aviv on Israel's discrimination against Palestinian Arabs was bad, then surely the internal EU report on the West Bank was shocking. One only needs to scan the two to realise why the Amman talks between Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and Yitzhak Molko, the advisor to the Israeli prime minister, are doomed to fail." 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84834&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (05- 11 January 2012)
  ---  http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8046:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-05-11-january-2012&catid=131:new 
Every week of the year..... 

• A Palestinian woman was wounded by IOF in the Gaza Strip.   
  
• IOF have continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.   
• 3 Palestinian civilian were wounded.   
• IOF arrested 5 Palestinian civilians, including a woman.   
• IOF conducted 68 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the Gaza Strip.   
• IOF arrested 20 Palestinians, including two children and a university professor.   
• IOF have continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.   
• IOF arrested 4 fishermen and confiscated their boat.   
• Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.   
• Israeli soldiers arrested 6 Palestinian civilians, including two children, at various checkpoints in the West Bank.   
• Israel has continued efforts to create a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem.   
• IOF demolished some civilian facilities in al-‘Eizariya village.   
• IOF demolished some civilian facilities in al-‘Eissawiya village to establish a biblical garden.   
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.   
• IOF demolished 3 houses in al-Dyouk village, northwest of Jericho.   
• Israeli settlers burnt 3 cars in Deir Estia village, northwest of Salfit.    

Friday January 13th 2012 - links page 

Israel is NOT a "Nation-State", Nor Does It Plan To Be One   
01-13-12   
mpg   
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Waging Covert War on Iran  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/13/waging-covert-war-on-iran/ 
Must Read - A quote...."Washington and Israel plan regime change in Iran and Syria. Israel wants regional supremacy. Washington wants global hegemony and control of the world’s strategic resources. -- America tolerates no independent states. Making them client ones is prioritized." 
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Money Over God, Power Over Country: 9/11, The Almighty Dollar, & The Betrayal of American Values
  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/money-over-god-power-over-country-911.html 
Must Read - A quote...."Dollar is not gold. Dollar is God. - And wherever there is God, there is also a class of priests who are ready to sacrifice the people's lives and money in rituals and wars to prop up the God that they believe in. - In America, the class of priests who are tasked with defending the Almighty Dollar sit on the boards of the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) and the Federal Reserve." 
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Israel is NOT a nation-state, it doesn't act like one, and in fact, it has no intention of being one.   

To be brutally honest, most members of the "Jewish Community", especially those in Israel, absolutely despise and hate "nation-states" and the whole concept of the nation-state structure.  It's why they created the PNAC protocols  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409  ---  in the first place, it's why they've had their psychotic, moronic, satanic, Golem destroy every "nation state" in the Middle East, reducing everything to the tribal level  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/newmemap-peters-nwa-cached-092507  ---  (to eventually be reduced even further) or to the level of barbaric medieval monarchies, (the entire Arabian Peninsula for example)  It's why they've now turned their sights on the two remaining nation-states still left in the Middle East, Syria and Iran.   

(Note:  although they also had their sights set on Pakistan and Pakistan's nuclear weapons, Pakistan appears -- for the moment -- to have "woken up" to their country's imminent peril and successfully halted their nation-state's long planned dismemberment)   

The Israelis and most members of the "Jewish Community" firmly believe that corporations, controlled by a few globe-spanning banking institutions who can print fiat script at will, is the future organizational structure and governing principal for the world's people. That any other entities or economic systems, especially those not currently part of, and deeply in debt to, the US-NRE's (i.e. the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium's) banking sphere, should be flattened -- literally -- (per Thomas Friedman),  ---  http://www.alternet.org/story/55418/  ---  and if necessary, that tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of people (non-Jews only of course), be murdered, to make way for this new global structure.  A structure where those who print and have free access to fiat currency get to lord it over the 99.99% who don't and are forced to work for theirs.   

Some might object that there are other fiat-currency unions like the Euro. Yes, the Euro is the one effective system that has risen to challenge the US-NRE's and Britain's Banksters world wide financial dominance, and we are currently witnessing that system's total destruction at the hands of the very same US-NRE (AIPAC/Israeli Consortium) Banksters who sold that system tens of trillions of dollars worth of faux-financial paper crap. All to pay for their Empire fling in the Middle East  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/debtdoesntmatter-blog-mpg-022908    

These are the very same Banksters (Goldman Sachs), who ten years ago helped Greece finagle their books to illegally get into the EU, the very country that first "started" this crises and which, by the way, also happens to be the very country that is now supposed to "trigger" the EU's domino like downfall when it finally goes bankrupt/leaves the EU. 

These are the very same US-NRE ratings agencies, who illegally, and knowingly triple "AAA" rated all of the toxic waste sold to the EU during the last decade, and who are now constantly down grading the EU's member states for having bought all of their crap in the first place.  

This was planned more than ten years ago.  It appears to be part of the Ten Year Economic / Warfare Cycle.  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407  ---  Or to quote a previous blog....   


Israel is an ever expanding criminal enclave of gang-banging, terrorist supporting, empire building, nation-state destroying, war mongering, financial parasites, living by the shores of the Mediterranean Sea who've refused to; establish a constitution, abide by ANY international laws or coherent set of internationally recognized principals, or the laws of other nation-states, set their own borders or even try to establish peace with their neighbors.     

They have no intention of EVER doing so.   

They truly believe they can romp around the entire world, propagandizing, spying, black-mailing, bribing, assassinating, "arranging" numerous wars and economic "collapses" whenever it suits them.  They truly believe they can penetrate the institutional structures of national governments with their front-men (such as Nicolas Sarkozy in France and Stephen Harper in Canada), own other countries in their entirety by the printing of fiat currency, (like the US-NRE & Britain), and stage false  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html  --- 
flag events like 9/11 & 7/11  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html  ---  to "play" the stupid goyum against Israel's geo-economic competitors in the Middle East whenever they wish to do so.   

Well one day there will be a reckoning for all the millions they've helped to murder and impoverish  and the countries they've helped to destroy. - mpg   
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Additional articles you might enjoy.... 

One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810   
Time For Jews Who Disagree To Step Up.... 06-21-11 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/timeforjewswhodisagreetostepup-mpg-reficultnias-062111   
Israel Collapsing; Not Quite.... 03-13-11 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/israelcollapsingnotquite-mpg-reficultnias-031311   
It's Pronounced "The Jewish Community" - 03-15-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/itsprononuncedthejewishcommunity-mpg-reficultnias-031510   
They've Become Monsters - 05-17-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/theyvebecomemonsters-mpg-reficultnias-051710   
Minority Control - 01-08-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/minoritycontrol-mpg-reficultnias-010810   
Four Criteria - 01-18-10 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/fourcriteria-mpg=reficultnias-011810   
A Mortal Threat – Europe’s New Frankenstein Monster - 01-26-09 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/amortalthreat-europesnewfrankenstein-mpg-reficultnias-012609   
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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery … and Fighting Back is ‘Aggression’
  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/kevin-carson/2012/01/13/war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery-and-fighting-back-is-aggression/ 
Must Read - A quote...."The US Department of Defense recently promulgated a new "defense" guidance document: "Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense." I use scare quotes because it just doesn’t seem quite right to use "defense" to describe a document that — like its predecessors — envisions something like an American Thousand-Year Reich." 
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AIPAC’s “War With Iran”  ---  http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/01/aipacs-war-with-iran/ 
A quote...."Wasting no time after its success in getting the administration to oppose Palestinian statehood at the United Nations, and still celebrating the UNESCO funding cut-off, AIPAC has returned to its #1 priority: pushing for war with Iran." 
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Neocon Israel Mouthpiece Writes Syrian Opposition Intervention Paper
  ---  http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/01/neocon-israel-mouthpiece-writes-syrian-opposition-intervention-paper/ 
A quote...."Bashar al-Assad is right. There are international conspiracies to take him down. -- This is for example obvious when the expatriate Syrian National Council uses a policy papers arguing for military intervention in Syria that was written by a neocon and Israel supporter and paid for by the U.S. State Department. To further the military intervention the paper is defended by doing away with the local protesters in Syria who oppose any intervention." 
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The Jewish War On Vladimir Putin  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/152482 
BNVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTT9TOZ3ihY  ---  (BNYuTb - 4min58sec - Jan 12, 2012) - Source:  zionget   ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/zionget 
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Center for Constitutional Rights Demands that President Obama Close Guantánamo
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/center-for-constitutional-rights-demands-that-president-obama-close-guantanamo/ 
A quote...."Washington, DC – Today, on the tenth anniversary of the arrival of the first detained men at the U.S. prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement:" - Source: CCR  ---  http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/tenth-anniversary-of-guant%C3%A1namo%2C-center-constitutional-rights-demands-president-obama-close-guant%C3%A1na 
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The US Supreme Court in 1866 Struck Down Lincoln's Martial Law and Military Tribunals
  ---  http://lonestarwatchdog.blogspot.com/2012/01/us-supreme-court-in-1866-struck-down.html 
A quote...."The US supreme Court in 1866 stuck down civilians being brought before military tribunals. The case of Ex Parte Milligan struck down the governments aguement justifying non military people being tried in a Military court. The Court upheld the Bill of Rights as the law of the land. This is one of the reasons for the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 prohibiting the Military in civilian Law Enforcement after reconstruction restoring self rule of the south.." 
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Student faces 10 years in U.S. jail for setting up 'illegal' website (in chilling echo of Gary McKinnon)
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Student-faces-10-years-US-jail-setting-illegal-website-chilling-echo-Gary-McKinnon 
Web Censorship Alert - A quote...."14 Jan 2012 A British student faces up to a decade in a U.S. prison for actions which are not even a crime in the UK. Campaigners say Richard O'Dwyer, 23, is being abandoned by his country in the same way as computer hacker Gary McKinnon." 
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FBI agent admits deleting emails amid terror probe  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/FBI-agent-admits-deleting-emails-amid-terror-probe 
More FBI cover-up exposed - mpg -- A quote...."12 Jan 2012 An FBI agent testified Thursday that she deleted potentially sensitive emails covering several months when she was helping spearhead an investigation of a terror suspect. Defense attorneys have sought to examine FBI emails to see if they reveal agents skirted interrogation rules in the case of Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed...." 
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Clear Channel is owned by Mitt Romney
  ---  http://www.examiner.com/elections-2010-in-wilmington/rush-limbaugh-broadcasts-on-clear-channel-clear-channel-is-owned-by-mitt-romney 
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."Clear Channel boasts names like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and even Coast to Coast AM! -- Michael Savage is TRN, but is on a lot of Clear Channel stations." 
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Jon Stewart on MSNBC on New Hampshire Ron Paul 2nd  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe705dz37PQ 
MSNBCVideo - 2012 Election Cycle - Alt#1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cILGviTOTI  ---  (Alt#1 was removed by Viacom, Viacom should get a clue.  This is only a 45 sec clip, falls within the domain of "fair-use" and it's free publicity for Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show". If they want advertisements too, they can post this clip on the Daily Show. This website editor would be perfectly willing to link to it. - mpg) - (MSNBCYuTb - 45sec - Jan 11, 2012) - Source:  beforeirene  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/beforeirene  ---  Producer:  TheDailyShow  ---  http://www.thedailyshow.com/  ---  This website editor doesn't promote or endorse any particular candidate.  But what most of the mass-infotainment complex is trying to do to Ron Paul, borders on the delusional.  As hilariously described in this video by Jon Stewart. - mpg - See related video -  Ron Paul against all odds - "The 13th floor in a hotel"  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMErkplqtIo  ---  (Note:  Must turn volume up) - (MSNBC - 4min21sec - Aug 17, 2011) 
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"Those Beltway Wankers"  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/8/dsURP5vCk74 
AJVideo - BeltwayWankers(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsURP5vCk74  ---  BeltwayWankers(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU17iaOJPWI  ---  BeltwayWankers(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UebQb6mnS58  ---  (AJYuTb- 12/14min - Jan 13, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  On curtailing Iran's sale of Oil, Japan has said "maybe" (which means no), Turkey has said no, India has said no, China (of course) said no, Russia said no, and Europe has delayed their participation in the sanctions by six months.  So it appears Israel's colony, the nation state once known as the USofA and its sanctions against Iran, are going nowhere for now. - mpg 
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01-13-12 Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - January 13 2012  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/305398633 
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min10sec into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Jan 13th, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Keiser Report: Death by Thousand Revelations (E235)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu1RphS7HFE&list=UUpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg&index=3&feature=plcp 
Must View RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu1RphS7HFE  ---  (RTYuTb - 25min46sec - Jan 12, 2012) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Producer:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss death by a thousand revelations and destroying the City to save the City. In the second half of the show, Max talks to author, Nomi Prins, a former investment banker, about the role of JP Morgan in Jon Corzine's MF Global crime." 
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Bernanke's Double-Whammy - The Foreclosure-to-Rental Screwjob  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30237.htm 
A quote...."January 13, 2012 "Counterpunch" --  -- Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke wants US taxpayers to purchase more of the garbage loans and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) that the big banks still have on their books. (Cash for trash) That’s the impetus behind the Fed’s 26-page white paper that was delivered to Congress last Wednesday. The document outlines the Fed’s plan for ‘stabilizing the housing market’, which is a phrase that Bernanke employs when he wants to provide more buy-backs, giveaways, subsidies and other corporate welfare to big finance." - Source:  CounterPunch
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/13/the-foreclosure-to-rental-screwjob/ 
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Why QE3 Won't Help "Average Joe"  ---  http://www.streettalklive.com/daily-x-change/614-qe3-coming-now-what.html 
A quote...."Are the markets already front running a potential announcement of a third round of Quantitative Easing (QE 3)?   Maybe so.  We had expected QE3 at the end of last summer as the economy weakened substantially from the impact of the Japanese earthquake/debt ceiling debate/Eurozone crisis trifecta.  However, with political pressures running high due to the raging battle in Congress raising the debt ceiling there was little support from the public for further intervention.  Furthermore, with inflation, as measured by CPI, already outside of the Fed's comfort zone, the Fed opted to institute "Operation Twist" (O.T.) instead." - also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-why-qe3-wont-help-average-joe 
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Michael Olenick: 9.8 Million Shadow Inventory Says [US] Housing Market is a Long Way From the Bottom
  ---  http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/michael-olenick-10-million-shadow-inventory-says-housing-market-is-a-long-way-from-the-bottom.html 
A quote....""Shadow inventory,” the number of homes that are either in foreclosure or are likely to end up in foreclosure, creates substantial but hidden pressure on housing prices and potential losses to banks and investors. This is a critical figure for policymakers and financial services industry executives, since if the number is manageable, that means waiting for the market to digest the overhang might not be such a terrible option. But if shadow inventory is large, housing prices have a good bit further to go before they hit bottom, which has dire consequences for communities, homeowners, and the broader economy." 
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Obama Sends Request To Congress For $1.2 Trillion Debt Ceiling Increase
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/obama-sends-request-congress-12-trillion-debt-ceiling-increase 
A quote...."Two days ago we wondered how long it would take for Obama to restart the debt ceiling theater. Not that long it turns out." 
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Foreigners Sell Record $85 Billion In [US] Treasurys In 6 Consecutive Weeks - Time To Get Concerned?
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/foreigners-sell-record-85-billion-treasurys-6-consecutive-weeks-time-get-concerned 
Chart - (click to enlarge)  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2012/01/Custody%20Account%201.12.jpg  ---  A quote...."Last week, when we pointed out what was then a record $77 billion in Treasury sales from the Fed's custody account, in addition to noting the patently obvious, namely that contrary to what one hears in the media, foreigners are offloading US paper hand over first, there was this little tidbit: "The question is what they are converting the USD into, and how much longer will the go on for: the last thing the US can afford is a wholesale dumping of its Treasurys. Because as the chart below vividly demonstrates, the traditional diagonal rise in foreign holdings of US paper has not only pleateaued, but it is in fact declining:" 
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Dear U.S.A.: Your Account is Overdrawn  ---  http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan12/US-overdraft01-12.html 
A quote...."Dear United States of America: We regret to inform you that your withdrawals exceeded your deposits last year by $1,600,000,000,000 ($1.6 trillion), including your "supplemental appropriations" spending.  ---  Your account does have an overdraft protection, and so bonds were sold to cover your $1.6 trillion overdraft. While we value your business, we feel obligated to remind you that this is the third year that your overdraft protection exceeded 10% of your gross national product (GDP), and it seems your account is on course to register yet another $1.6 trillion overdraft in fiscal year 2012.  ---  Currently, your overdraft account exceeds your GDP of $15 trillion." - also posted at ZeroHedge
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-dear-usa-your-account-overdrawn 
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Eric Sprott: "The Financial System Is A Farce"  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/eric-sprott-financial-system-farce 
A quote...."2011 was a merry-go-round of more bailouts, more deferrals and more denial. Everyone is tired of the Eurozone. It’s not fixable. There’s too much debt. The politicians don’t know what’s going on. Nothing has structurally changed. We’re still on the wrong path. There’s more global debt than there was a year ago, and it’s the same old song: extend and pretend, extend and pretend,… around and around we go,… and it isn’t fun anymore."  
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EU threatens Hungary over refusal to implement austerity policies and 'authoritarian' new constitution
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085317/EU-threatens-Hungary-refusal-implement-austerity-policies-authoritarian-new-constitution.html 
A quote...."The European Union has stepped up pressure on Hungary over the country's refusal to implement austerity policies and threatened legal action over its new constitution. -- The warnings escalated the standoff between Budapest and the EU, as Hungary negotiates fresh financial aid from Europe and the International Monetary Fund." 
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It's Official: France Cut To AA+ From AAA By S&P, Outlook Negative  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/its-official-france-cut-aa-aaa-sp-outlook-negative 
A quote...."Today's worst kept secret just hit the wires, as S&P announces that it has officially downgraded France." 
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Downgrade-palooza Continues: S&P To Cut Portugal, Italy, Spain, Austria
  ---  http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2012/01/13/downgrade-palooza-continues-sp-to-cut-portugal-italy-spain-austria/?mod=BOLBlog 
A quote...."The downgrades from Standard & Poor‘s keep coming, with anonymous government officials now identifying many more targets beyond France. -- Now, insiders are saying Italy, Spain and Portugal will have their sovereign credit rating downgraded by two notches. Austria is also set to lose its Triple A rating along with France. Germany and the Netherlands are said to be safe from this round of downgrades." -- For now....mpg 
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French, European credit ratings slashed as Greek debt talks collapse  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2012/jan2012/cred-j14.shtml 
A quote...."Standard & Poor’s slashed the credit ratings of countries across Europe yesterday, including France, Italy, Spain and Austria. The same day, talks between Greece and the major financial institutions that hold its bonds collapsed over the bankers’ demands for higher interest charges in return for bondholders taking a 50 percent reduction in previously held Greek debt." 
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Greek economic crisis turns tragic for children abandoned by their families
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/28/greek-economic-crisis-children-victims 
A quote...."Nation shocked by stories of parents forced to give up children because of poverty – but charities warn of more cases to come." 
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22 Signs That We Are On The Verge Of A Devastating Global Recession
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/22_Signs_That_We_Are_On_The_Verge_Of_A_Devastating_Global_Recession_/17403/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
A quote...."2012 is shaping up to be a very tough year for the global economy.  All over the world there are signs that economic activity is significantly slowing down.  Many of these signs are detailed later on in this article." 
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News.... 

Will You Occupy AIPAC?  ---  http://www.occupyaipac.org/2012/01/will-you-occupy-aipac/ 
A quote...."We are excited to announce that plans for OCCUPY AIPAC are under way and we hope you will join us March 2-6 in Washington DC. -- With the Occupy movement that has swept the country demanding social and economic justice, many have concluded that AIPAC—the powerful pro-Israeli government lobby that distorts U.S. policy in the Middle East— is a mandatory “occupy target”. Adbusters, the magazine that issued the initial visionary call for the takeover of Wall St. on September 17th, has declared: “The time has come for the Occupy Movement to demand an end to the Occupation of Palestine… We need a hashtag, #occupyAIPAC” (Kalle Lasn)." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

World War 01-12-12  A DProgram Round-Up  ---  http://dprogram.net/2012/01/12/world-war-1-12-12/ 
A DProgram round-up of the day's war news. - mpg 
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 13, 2012  ---  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/01/13/bfp-select-nightly-news-editorials-january-13-2012/ 
A BFP Round-Up of the day's national and international news. - mpg 
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All the News That's Fit to Slant - Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/13/whatever-happened-to-al-jazeera/ 
Presstitute Exposed - (al-Jazeera.  Their cheering role for the "Trinity of Evil" has been known to many for quite awhile.  It's too bad, their initial reporting of the Iraq war for the first year was pretty good, they've gone badly down hill since than. - mpg) - A quote...."In the final days of the Libyan conflict, as NATO conducted a nonstop bombing campaign, an  Al Jazeera Arabic television correspondent’s actions raised more than eyebrows. They also raised serious questions regarding the journalistic responsibility of Arab media – or in fact any media – during times of conflict." 
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Turkey defies US over Iran sanctions  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220788.html 
A quote...."Turkey says it will not comply with the fresh US-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran over its peaceful nuclear program. " 
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India to buy Iran oil despite US sanctions -minister  ---  http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/india-to-buy-iran-oil-despite-us-sanctions--minister/ 
A quote...."NEW DELHI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - India will keep doing business with Tehran and sees no reason to seek a waiver from the United States that would protect buyers of Iranian oil from a fresh round of sanctions, a senior Indian cabinet minister said on Thursday." 
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China dismisses US's Iran oil embargo  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/219763.html 
A quote...."China has dismissed the new US sanction against Iran's oil sector, saying that the commercial ties with Iran are totally legitimate and should not be subject to any punishment." 
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Japan PM: Govt yet to decide on Iran oil cuts  ---  http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2012/01/13/pm_says_japan_yet_to_decide_on_cutting_iranian_oil/ 
A quote...."TOKYO—Japan's prime minister said Friday the government has yet to decide on whether it will reduce oil imports from Iran in line with U.S. sanctions, saying businesses implications need to be considered." 
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The West [The US-NRE, Israel, Britain & Sarkozy] Blinks - Iran Embargo Likely To Be Delayed By Six Months
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/west-blinks-iran-embargo-likely-be-delayed-six-months 
A quote...."Why? Because the world slowly realized that the potential surge in oil prices would tip a world already on the verge of a recession even deeper into economic contraction. Not rocket science, but certainly something the US president apparently has been unable to comprehend, especially if hoping that he would merely transfer exports from Iran to his close ally Saudi Arabia which would cement its European market monopoly even further. Or, perhaps, someone just explained to Obama that Embargo in January + QE3 in March = No Reelection..." 
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The Israel Lobby's Plan: Press Iran Into Attacking USrael
  ---  http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/01/the-israel-lobbys-plan-press-iran-into-attacking-usrael.html 
A quote...."Laura Rozen reports on the state of talks between the U.S. and Iran: Amid rising tensions, preparations for possible new Iran nuclear talks. -- Those talks will of course lead to nothing. Iran's nuclear program is not the real reason why the Israel is pressing the United States into a conflict with Iran. From the very beginning the aim was regime change in Iran to keep up and reenforce Israel hegemony in the Middle East." 
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Iran: The Neocons Are At It Again  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28631 
A quote...."The same neocons who persuaded George W. Bush and crew to, in Ron Paul's inimitable words, "lie their way into invading Iraq" in 2003, are beating the drums of war more loudly these days to attack Iran. It is remarkable how many of these war-mongers are former draft dodgers who wanted other Americans to fight the war in Vietnam. -- With the exception of Ron Paul, who actually knows the history of U.S.-Iranian relations, the Republican presidential contenders have declared their belligerency toward Iranian officials who they accuse of moving toward nuclear weapons." 
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Ex-Israeli Intelligence Officer: “Pearl Harbor” Style Attack Will Be Pretext For War On Iran
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/ex-israeli-intelligence-officer-pearl-harbor-style-attack-will-be-pretext-for-war-on-iran.html 
A quote...."Former Israeli intelligence officer Avi Perry writes that a “surprise” Pearl Harbor-style Iranian attack on an American warship in the Persian Gulf will provide the pretext for the US to launch all-out warfare against Iran." 
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Iran has pay back in mind  ---  http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NA14Ak01.html 
A quote...."PALO ALTO, California - Despite a strong pitch by Iran, the United Nations has failed to condemn the latest assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist, thus sending a bad signal about the UN's determination to fight global terrorism and to condemn all acts of terrorism even-handedly." 
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Nuclear Assassinations Just the Tip of the Iceberg  ---  http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/01/nuclear-assassinations-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/ 
A quote...."I saw a motorcycle. They were wearing ski masks — black ski masks. They were two people. I saw the motorcycle speed by. I saw them. It seemed as if they had something in their hands,” this is how a female witness described the scene of the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan." 
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'Israeli Mossad agents posed as CIA spies to recruit terrorists to fight against Iran'
  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-mossad-agents-posed-as-cia-spies-to-recruit-terrorists-to-fight-against-iran-1.407224 
A quote...."Foreign Policy magazine cites CIA memos from 2007-2008 that the Mossad recruited members of Jundallah terror group to fight against Tehran; U.S. was reportedly furious with Israel and moved to limit joint intelligence programs." - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30244.htm  ---  That's right!!  If the Israelis are going to recruit terrorists like the CIA does almost every day, they can't do it representing themselves as the CIA.  They'll just have to pretend to be from another foreign intelligence service.  As for their recruitment, training and financing of terrorists and their activities.....that's A-OK as far as this government is concerned. - mpg 
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Libyan Central Bank: West Still Hasn’t Returned $20 Billion in ‘Freed’ Assets
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/13/libyan-central-bank-west-still-hasnt-returned-20-billion-in-freed-assets/ 
Don't hold your breath. - mpg -- A quote...."The $20 billion was supposed to be the first of an estimated $150 billion in overseas cash returned to the Libyan government after it was frozen by UN Security Council sanctions during the NATO summer attack on Libya." - bold/underline by website editor -- Haaaa, haaaaaa, haa!  What $150 Billion?!?!  Libya thinks they have a $150 billion???  They'll be lucky to see ten cents on the dollar! - mpg -- For a related video see....Poof it's gone!  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAKsMnAM8vk  ---  (YuTb - 50sec - Sep 22, 2009) 
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Two Killed as Rival Libyan Militias Clash South of Tripoli  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/13/two-killed-as-rival-libyan-militias-clash-south-of-tripoli/ 
A quote...."At least two people were reported killed today when members of a militia from the town of Gharyan, just south of Tripoli, fought with members of a militia from the neighboring town of al-Asabia." 
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Rumor and Anger Mount in Libya  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84797&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."This observer was stunned late last week when during a meeting in a Maghreb country with three high ranking former Libyan officials, among hundreds currently in hiding, and some organizing, in countries bordering Libya, one of them, in all earnest, asked me, "Do you believe there be a counter revolution soon in the "Jamarariya [state of the masses, ie Libya]?"" 
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Four US suspects nabbed in Baghdad  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Four-US-suspects-nabbed-Baghdad 
Special Note - US-NRE Terrorists Caught - A quote...."The US Embassy in Baghdad has declined comment on the incident, which is seen as a violation of a security pact signed between Baghdad and Washington. 12 Jan 2012 Iraqi authorities have detained four armed American nationals over what the officials described as "suspicious" activity in the capital, Baghdad, Press TV reports. Iraqi sources said the suspects, including two women, were arrested on Thursday as they were found traveling in a BMW car with a local license plate, instead of diplomatic registration. The US nationals were wearing flak jackets and were armed with pistols -- equipped with silencers -- and automatic weapons when they were arrested in a Shia neighborhood in central Baghdad." - bold by website editor 
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'Memogate' scandal deepens as American accuser threatens to tell all
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/12/memogate-scandal-pakistan-isi-haqqani 
Special Note - US-NRE Coup Attempt Bites the Dust -- A quote...."The controversial American businessman at the center of the "Memogate" scandal threatening to bring down the government of Pakistan has told the Guardian he plans to fly into the country [One hopes he will use a secure airplane whose flight plan is not public!!! - Perhaps the Pakistan military should fly him in? - mpg]  to tell what he describes as the "unaltered truth" before the courts. - The allegations made by Mansoor Ijaz reach all the way up to President Asif Zardari, and could end up with treason charges against the country's former US ambassador, Husain Haqqani, or even the president himself." 
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Gilani puts up a brave front; all eyes on Pak SC  ---  http://refreshingnews9.blogspot.com/2012/01/gilani-puts-up-brave-front-all-eyes-on.html 
Related Article - A quote...."Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday said he would not seek a vote of confidence from Parliament against the backdrop of an escalating row with the judiciary and military as his government did not want any clash between state institutions. -- "I have no need for a vote of confidence," Gilani told a special session of the National Assembly or lower house of parliament that was convened by the ruling coalition after the Supreme Court warned action could be taken against the President and premier for not reopening high-profile graft cases." 
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Muslim Brotherhood Says Secures 46 Percent of Egypt’s Parliament
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/13/muslim-brotherhood-says-secures-46-percent-of-egypts-parliament/ 
A quote...."With runoffs coming to an end in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has released a projection saying that they have won 232 seats, or 46 percent of the 498 seats available in the lower house of parliament." 
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'Afghan opium production soared in 2011'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220789.html 
US-NRE's Annual Drug Crop Report - (Well, the Banksters are gonna be mighty happy with this year's take - mpg) -- A quote...."A recent UN report says the production of opium and the illicit drug's value soared in Afghanistan last year, despite the presence of some 130,000 US-led foreign troops in the war-battered country." - Topix ||  US Support - Drug Trade  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportdrugtrade-weblist-mpg-101010 
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Mexico drug war deaths over five years now total 47,515  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16518267 
Fast & Furious Fall-Out - Our government's deliberate attempt to destabilize Mexico, promote the North American Union, consolidate control of the drug trade on behalf of our Bankster parasites and blame the second amendment (and those "dirty, illegal, job-stealing Mexicans") for the whole mess, has cost the lives of tens of thousands of totally innocent Mexicans. - mpg 
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Ukraine alone in Russia gas talks  ---  http://atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/NA14Ag01.html  
A quote...."Kiev's hopes for cheaper Russian gas from January 1 have failed to materialize. Gas talks are continuing, and there are signs that Moscow will agree to cut the price of gas in exchange for a share in a consortium to be set up to operate Ukraine's pipelines carrying Russian gas to the European Union."  
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Russia to test over 70 new missile systems in 2012  ---  http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20120113/170743544.html 
A quote...."About 70 new rocket and missile systems will be tested at Russia’s Kapustin Yar test range in 2012, an increase of 150 percent from last year, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Friday. - The systems are part of more than 160 ongoing projects, said Col. Vadim Koval, without providing any details." 
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Haiti, Raped by the U.S. Since 2004, and Still Bleeding  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/haiti-raped-us-2004-and-still-bleeding 
A quote...."The horrific squandering of Haitian lives and earthquake relief and aid dollars by the occupying powers over the past two years are direct consequences of previous imperial crimes. “Since 2004, Haiti has been methodically stripped of its sovereignty, made into a protectorate of the United Nations,” which is merely a front for the United States. “The earthquake of January 2010 was a natural phenomenon that happened to take place while a rape was in progress.” - also posted at ICH 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

USS Liberty Dead in the Water (Full Movie) Betrayed by ZOG Murdered by Israel
  ---  http://12160.info/video/uss-liberty-dead-in-the-water?xg_source=shorten_twitter 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8b0bnX3fc8  ---  (YuTb - 1hr8min33sec - Jun 4, 2011) - Source:  TruthersQuest  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TruthersQuest 
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Death threats and attempts to intimidate the French BDS Campaign
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/death-threats-and-attempts-to-intimidate-the-bds-french-campaign/ 
A quote...."On Tuesday 10 January 2012 one of the organizers of the BDS French Campaign, while going through the post addressed to the Campaign, opened an envelope containing a white powder together with death threats." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Three Years After the Bombs Fell on Gaza  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/12/three-years-after-the-bombs-fell-on-gaza/ 
A quote...."It’s exactly three years ago that the ins and outs of the overpopulated strip were sealed off by the Israeli military just as tightly as the entire “International Community” shut its eyes and ambivalently turned its back on a horrifying massacre that was in the making. And it’s three years ago that we’ve used up what little was left of our quota of sympathy and compassion towards the Palestinians and took our collective apathy to a whole new level." 
also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/three-years-after-the-bombs-fell-on-gaza/ 
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West Bank 2011: One year of Humiliation in a Two Minutes Video
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/13/west-bank-2011-one-year-of-humiliation-in-a-two-minutes-video/ 
A quote...."And on Christmas, a rainy and great wind swept over the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Trees bent and roofs rattled but the wind couldn’t carry away the suffering, vulnerability and the long 365 days of humiliation." 
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Settlers [Jealous, Envious, Homeless, Jewish, Vandals] Destroy 100 Olive Trees Near Salfit  ---  http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18675 
A quote...."SALFIT, January 14, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers [jealous, envious, homeless, Jewish, vandals] from Tappuah settlement [squatter town] in the northern West Bank cut off and destroyed on Friday around 100 fully-grown olive trees northwest of Yasouf, a town east of Salfit, according to local sources." 
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Israeli Forces Demolish House, Properties in Jordan Valleys, East of West Bank
  ---  http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/politics/646-israeli-forces-demolish-house-properties-in-jordan-valleys-east-of-west-bank 
A quote...."On Thursday, Israeli forces demolished properties and destroyed agricultural lands in Jordan valleys area, east of West Bank. -- This process is the latest one in the Israeli demolition campaign in that area, after dozens of demolitions of buildings, livestock sheds, agricultural lands, as well as the demolition of a Mosque in Khirbet Yerza." 
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Troops Attack Bil’in’s Weekly Protest  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62834 
A quote...."Israeli trooped attacked on Friday the weekly nonviolent protest in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah; dozens of residents suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, and chemical burns." 
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More On The Monsanto Monster.... 

Monsanto's Ties to Big Government  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/9/f_06F_1rNNw 
Must View AJVideo - (New, important, scientific insight) - Monsanto(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_06F_1rNNw  ---  Monsanto(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glH93UDxdtk  ---  (AJYuTb- 12/14min - Jan 13, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  Related: Natural News  ---  http://www.naturalnews.com/  ---  A quote...."In the Thursday, January 12 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with Mike Adams about Monsanto. Mike is the founder of NaturalNews.com, an online news source covering all areas of personal and planetary wellness from nutrition to renewable energy." - A Quote to Note:  "When we eat these foods ~ we're eating information", to find out why, watch the video. - mpg 
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KILLER SEEDS: The Devastating Impacts of Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Seeds in India
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28629 
A quote...."With pressure from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Indian government has “forced market liberalization on India which means the elimination of government subsidies and government-backed loans to farmers.” -- Enter Monsanto with its “magic” GM seeds to transform the lives of the poor Indian farmers." 
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Thursday January 12th 2012 - links page 

Wednesday January 11th 2012 - links page 

Al-Qaeda's Safe Haven Is In Washington And Riyadh, Not Afghanistan And Pakistan
  ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/al-qaedas-safe-haven-is-in-washington.html 
Must Read - A quote...."Numerous experts and analysts, including former government officials, all agree that Al-Qaeda is a data-file of radical Sunni Jihadist terrorists who are trained and funded by U.S., Saudi, Israeli, and British intelligence, not a politically coherent, socially organic, and ideologically motivated movement. -- Contrary to mainstream opinion, "Al-Qaeda" was not behind 9/11, rather, its principal financial and political manipulators - the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Israel - plotted the attacks and reaped the benefits." - also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2012/01/11/al-qaedas-safe-haven-is-in-washington-and-riyadh-not-afghanistan-and-pakistan/ 
& PrisonPlanet  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/al-qaedas-safe-haven-is-in-washington-and-riyadh-not-afghanistan-and-pakistan.html 
Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810 
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Morris Rant - Zionists Back All Sides - Syria, Turkey, Libya  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/0/eiOwTi1hwtk 
Must View M108Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiOwTi1hwtk  ---  (M108YuTb - 6min07sec - Jan 11, 2012) - Source:  108morris108  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108  ---  A quote...."Will Israel succeed to become the world's preeminent superpower?" - FYI.  There are only about five to six million Jews living in Israel with about the same number living here in the US-NRE (a little over 2% of total US-NRE population). - mpg - A few related articles posted below..... 

• Super-Entity' Of 147 Companies At Center Of World's Economy, Study Claims
•   --- http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/10/24/super-entity-147-global-economy-swiss-researchers_n_1028690.html   
  
• Just 147 companies control 40% of global wealth
•   --- http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/5378   
  
• Top 1 Percent Control 42 Percent of Financial Wealth in the U.S  --- http://www.mybudget360.com/
• top-1-percent-control-42-percent-of-financial-wealth-in-the-us-how-average-americans-are-lured-into-debt-servitude-by-promises-of-mega-wealth/   
  
• Who Rules America
•   --- http://daviddegraw.org/2011/08/who-rules-america-economic-elite-have-at-least-45-9-trillion-in-wealth-revealing-the-economic-top-0-1/   
  
• "top 5 banks in the US held about 94% of the total derivatives"
•   --- http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article30671.html   
  
• Five Banks Account For 96% Of The $250 Trillion In Outstanding US Derivative Exposure
•   --- http://www.zerohedge.com/news/five-banks-account-96-250-trillion-outstanding-derivative-exposure-morgan-stanley-sitting-fx-de   
  
• Top 5 Investment Banks Want No Derivatives Controls At All
•   --- http://emsnews.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/top-5-investment-banks-want-no-derivatives-controls-at-all/   
  
• Top Bailout Fund Recipients
•   --- http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=4923229   
  
• Top Bailout Recipients Spent $71 Million On Lobbying In Year Since Bailou
•   --- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/top-bailout-recipients-sp_n_346877.html   
  
• The 6 Monolithic Corps That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read - [in the US]  --- http://www.blacklistednews.com/Who_Ow
• ns_The_Media%3F_The_6_Monolithic_Corporations_That_Control_Almost_Everything_We_Watch%2C_Hear_And_Read/17341/0/38/38/Y/M.html   
  

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No More Victums: Working for Peace, One Child at a Time  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel#p/a/u/1/Mb6ocX1Up2Y
Must View AJVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6ocX1Up2Y  ---  (AJYuTb - 4min17sec - Jan 11, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6ocX1Up2Y  ---  A quote...."No More Victims (NMV) is a grassroots organization that connects American communities with war-injured children and their families. Community participants band together to learn how the child was injured, assess the child's current situation, and work to meet the most pressing needs of the child and family."
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NDAA: Open Season for The Police State on American Citizens - Stewart Rhodes Reports
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheAlexJonesChannel#p/u/9/JSQf-YgBeio
Must View AJVideo - StewartRhodes(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSQf-YgBeio 
StewartRhodes(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih3tI09vols 
StewartRhodes(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ1CG_IjEpk  ---  (AJYuTb - 14/15min - Jan 11, 2012) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."On the Wednesday, January 11 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with constitutional expert Stewart Rhodes, founder and Director of Oath Keepers. Rhodes served as a U.S. Army paratrooper until disabled in a rough terrain parachuting accident during a night jump and is a former firearms instructor and former member of Rep. Ron Paul's DC staff. Rhodes will discuss how the NDAA bill attempts to legalize tyranny, as well as Ron Paul's success in New Hampshire." 
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Lawsuit demands that Obama administration release Guantanamo torture tapes
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Lawsuit-demands-Obama-administration-release-Guantanamo-torture-tapes 
A quote...."By Tom Carter 12 Jan 2012 A lawsuit filed Monday by lawyers for the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in federal court in New York demands that the Obama administration turn over video tapes documenting the torture of Mohammed al-Qahtani at the US military prison in Guantanamo. The videotapes requested by the CCR constitute important evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and could serve as the basis for criminal indictments of top US military and civilian officials. The CCR made a formal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the tapes last year, but the Obama administration refused to turn them over." 
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Guantanamo by Numbers: Close America's Concentration Camp  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28594 
InfoGraphic - Source:  ACLU  ---  http://www.aclu.org/node/29856 
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The Tiring Bin Laden Saga, Version 27  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/11/the-tiring-bin-laden-saga-version-27/ 
A quote...."I do so love fiction, even when some of it is true.  There really are ghost helicopters, there really are Navy SEALS.  The mission, and there was one, involved the assassination of an 80 year old former Mujihideen, not Osama bin Laden.  Bin Laden had died years before as an active CIA agent.  We have multiple confirmations on this." 
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Where Does Our National Policy Come From? Think-Tanks Explained
  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/where-does-our-national-policy-come.html 
A quote...."I was shocked to see the corporate-financier Lowy Institute of Australia  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/07/globalists-australian-nexus.html  ---  tweet a story explaining the ins-and-outs of think-tanks. I was equally shocked to actually read the article, titled "Devaluing the Think Tank,"  ---  http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/devaluing-the-think-tank  ---  written by Tevi Troy and published in "National Affairs." It describes what is basically an extra-legal process where national policy is not produced by our elected representatives within the legislative branch, but rather in these policy think-tanks and in some cases, even described as being "marketed." 
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WordPress Comes Out Against SOPA Internet Censorship Bill
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2012/01/11/wordpress-comes-out-against-sopa-internet-censorship-bill/ 
A quote...."WordPress, the website and blogging platform with over 60 million users, has publicly come out against the Stop Online Piracy Act. (SOPA) -- Tens of thousands of websites. as well as major players such as Google and Facebook, have already spoken out against this internet censorship bill and now, with internet powerhouse WordPress doing the same, it is only a matter of time before this bill is 100% defeated." 
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SOPA becoming election liability for backers  ---  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71284.html  ---  GOOD!! - mpg 
A quote...."To the ranks of same-sex marriage, tax cuts and illegal immigration, add this to the list of polarizing political issues of Election 2012: the Stop Online Piracy Act. -- The hot-button anti-piracy legislation that sparked a revolt online is starting to become a political liability for some of SOPA’s major backers. Fueled by Web activists and online fundraising tools, challengers are using the bill to tag its congressional supporters as backers of Big Government — and raise campaign cash while they’re at it." 
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Dead People Voting in New Hampshire – Could Oregon Be Next?
  ---  http://5440fight.com/2012/01/11/hey-portland-dead-people-voting-out-in-new-hampshire-sound-familiar/ 
2012 Election Cycle - Vote Fraud - Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-uVhhIlPk0  ---  A quote...."Dateline January 11, 2011, Portland OR:  BREAKING NEWS A breaking video from conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe  ---  http://projectveritas.com/okeefe  ---  and his organization, Project Veritas  ---  http://projectveritas.com/  ---  shows a potential voter getting ballots from voter registration folks in the names of dead people.  According to The Daily Caller which broke the story...."  ---  http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/11/video-nh-poll-workers-shown-handing-out-ballots-in-dead-peoples-names/#ixzz1jAzcVkP2 
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The Romney Bot 2012 — 90% Dumber Than The 2004 Model…
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/11/the-romney-bot-2012-90-dumber-than-the-2004-model/ 
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."There is a marvelous article online at the Economist that makes a really simple suggestion — stop worrying about the dogfight in the Republican party and pay attention to and force Romney to say in simple declarative sentences what it is that he intends to do as president. Since I personally think he is absolutely clueless as to what he wants to do in general, I suspect that it could be a far more enlightening exercise than wondering about how Newt Gingrich can paint himself as the populist opposing a malefactor of great wealth. Won’t happen, but it is an interesting idea…" 
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Romney’s cash conspicuous for a White House hopeful  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/11/romneys-cash-conspicuous-for-a-white-house-hopeful/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29 
2012 Election Cycle - A quote...."WASHINGTON — Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney “is probably one of the richest people ever to run for President of the United States” according to his party rival Rick Perry. - With an estimated net worth of $250 million, Romney is certainly very wealthy compared with most Americans. - And after the biggest economic crash since the 1930s, his wealth is now being wielded against him in the hope of dulling his popular appeal." 
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01-11-12 Broadcasting live from Hawaii on Justin TV - January 11 2012  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/305210068 
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto 8min30sec into the broadcast - mpg - (JustinTV - 2hrs - Jan 11th, 2012) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire and many other issues. 
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens... 

Full-Blown Civil War Erupts On Wall Street – Financial Elite Start Turning On Each Other
  ---  http://wakeup-world.com/2011/09/06/full-blown-civil-war-erupts-on-wall-street-financial-elite-start-turning-on-each-other/ 
A quote...."Finally, after trillions in fraudulent activity, trillions in bailouts, trillions in printed money, billions in political bribing and billions in bonuses, the criminal cartel members on Wall Street are beginning to get what they deserve. As the Eurozone is coming apart at the seams and as the US economy grinds to a halt, the financial elite are starting to turn on each other. The lawsuits are piling up fast. Here’s an extensive roundup...." -- Source: AmpedStatus
  ---  http://ampedstatus.org/full-blown-civil-war-erupts-on-wall-street-as-reality-finally-hits-the-financial-elite-they-start-turning-on-each-other/ 
also posted at WakeUpWorld  ---  http://wakeup-world.com/2011/09/06/full-blown-civil-war-erupts-on-wall-street-financial-elite-start-turning-on-each-other/ 
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Pimco Doubles Down On All In Bet Fed Will Monetize MBS  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/pimco-doubles-down-all-bet-fed-will-monetize-mbs 
A quote...."When back in December we observed that Pimco's Total Return Fund (which contrary to rumors actually closed the year at $244 billion, or $4 billion more than in the beginning) had a $60 billion margin "cash" position, the proceeds of which were used to purchase a near record $103 billion in Mortgage Backed Securities we thought this is about as far as Bill Gross would go betting the ranch on QE3, and specifically that kind of QE3 that assumes at least a big portion is used to buys MBS (the same instrument that SocGen believes, along with gold, will benefit the most from an imminent QE3 announcement). It turns out we were wrong, and in December the fund doubled down on its QE3 all in bet, by "borrowing" even more cash, or a record $78 billion, using the proceeds to buy even more MBS, as well as Treasurys...." 
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The Obama Administration's 'New' Bank Fraud Deal: Still Unfair, Still Unjust, Still Unbalanced
  ---  http://crooksandliars.com/richard-rj-eskow/obama-administrations-new-bank-de 
A quote...."The Obama White House continues to push for a settlement that would let bankers avoid being punished - or even investigated - for a wave of mortgage-related crimes that includes perjury, tax evasion, and several types of fraud.[1] - Despite the President's new-found populism - rhetorically, anyway - officials in his Administration continue to push an unfair deal designed to conceal the financial Crime of the Century."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30212.htm 
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News.... 

Occupy protesters return to New York park  ---  http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/01/201211161753476850.html 
A quote...."Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters have returned to Zuccotti Park in New York's financial district after the park owners took down metal barricades around the Manhattan square. - On Tuesday evening, about 250 protesters flocked to the park where the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement was born for the first time since they were evicted two months ago. - Gathering around a large model of the Statue of Liberty, they sang and celebrated. - The park's owners, Brookfield Office Properties, removed the barricades after a legal challenge to the restrictions from several civil rights groups." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

War Plan Iran: China Snubs Washington's Best-Laid Plans to Destabilize Iran's Oil Industry  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28584 
A quote...."Why should China shoot itself in the foot to accommodate hostile American chauvinists? -- Chinese leaders dealt a blow to US plans to strangulate Iranian oil exports just hours before Washington's Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner touched down in Beijing. -- It could hardly be a more pointed snub to Washington's designs to press-gang a global lynch mob into laying into the Iranian economy." 
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PBS's Dishonest Iran Edit  ---  http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/01/10/pbss-dishonest-iran-edit/ 
Presstitute Exposed - (PBS this time....) -- A quote...."The way that's presented you'd think that the United States has evidence that Iran is pursuing a weapon. Leon Panetta's soundbite is from his appearance on Face The Nation on Sunday. But the NewsHour removed one key phrase; right before Panetta says, "But we know," he said this...." 


"So Panetta's statement--that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon--is being used to argue that the United States disputes Iran's long-standing contention that it not building a nuclear weapon." 
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At WaPo, Editorial Page Can Make Up Iran Facts  ---  http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/01/11/at-wapo-editorial-page-can-make-up-iran-facts/ 
Presstitute Exposed - (WaPo....again) -- A quote...."Last month the group Just Foreign Policy  ---  http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/  ---  alerted readers to a Washington Post feature that was headlined "Iran's Quest to Possess Nuclear Weapons. -- The Post changed the headline,  ---  http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/1093  ---  and ombud Patrick Pexton weighed in with a column (12/7/11)  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/getting-ahead-of-the-facts-on-iran/2011/12/07/gIQAAvvCjO_story.html  ---  saying that...." 


"Pexton added that Just Foreign Policy's Robert Naiman  "and his Web army were right. The headline and subhead were misleading."  
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The Next War on Washington’s Agenda  ---  http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/01/11/the-next-war-on-washingtons-agenda/ 
A quote...."Only the blind do not see that the US government is preparing to attack Iran. According to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, “Active war preparations directed against Iran (with the involvement of Israel and NATO) were initiated in May 2003.” http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28542  ---  Washington has deployed missiles directed at Iran in its oil emirate puppet states, Oman and the UAE, and little doubt in the other US puppet states in the Middle East. Washington has beefed up Saudi Arabia’s jet fighter force. Most recently, Washington has deployed 9,000 US troops to Israel to participate in “war games” designed to test the US/Israeli air defense system. As Iran represents no threat unless attacked, Washington’s war preparations signal Washington’s intention to attack Iran." - also posted at Hamsayeh  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/1495-the-next-war-on-washingtons-agenda.html 
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Iran says Fordo uranium enrichment site runs under IAEA watch: TV
  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Iran-says-Fordo-uranium-enrichment-site-runs-under-IAEA-watch-TV 
A quote...."10 Jan 2012 Iran's permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali-Asghar Soltanieh said all of the country's nuclear activities, including those at Fordo enrichment site, are under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog, the local satellite Press TV reported on Tuesday. Since two years ago, the agency is continuously monitoring all the activities in Fordo, Soltanieh told Press TV on Monday. Soltanieh said that the Islamic Republic needs the 20-percent enriched uranium, to be produced in Fordo, for the production of nuclear fuel plates required at the Tehran Research Reactor for producing radioisotopes for cancer treatment." 
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'IAEA leaked secret info to Iran enemy'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220511.html 
Special Note - The IAEA is now probably involved in MURDER!  The NPT has been dead for YEARS! It's all over for the non-proliferation regime....mpg -- A quote...."A senior lawmaker says assassination of Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan proves that the confidential information provided to international bodies by Iran has been leaked to the country's enemies." - Topix ||  How About An Honest NPT? - 11-11-10 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/howaboutanhonestnpt-mpg-reficultnias-111110  
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Israeli Mossad training Iranian exiles in Kurdistan: French newspaper  ---  http://intelnews.org/2012/01/11/01-906/ 
A quote...."A leading French newspaper has claimed that Israeli intelligence agents are recruiting and training Iranian dissidents in clandestine bases located in Iraq’s Kurdish region. Paris-based daily Le Figaro, France’s second-largest national newspaper, cited a “security source in Baghdad”, who alleged that members of Israeli intelligence are currently operating in Iraq’s autonomous northern Kurdish region. According to the anonymous source, the Israelis, who are members of the Mossad, Israel’s foremost external intelligence agency, are actively recruiting Iranian exiles in Kurdistan." 
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'Mossad, MKO Killed Iranian Scientist'  ---  http://www.salon.com/2012/01/11/more_murder_of_iranian_scientists_still_terrorism/singleton/ 
A quote...."January 11, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- An Iranian news agency reports  ---  http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010170677   ---  that a fourth Iranian nuclear scientist has been assassinated.  Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was a professor specializing in petroleum engineering at a technical university and director of  Natanz’s uranium enrichment facility.  Mehr news agency said  ---  http://www.mehrnews.com/en/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1506992  ---  he was “deputy director of the commercial department of the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility.”  He was killed by a bomb attached to the side of his car by two men on a motorcycle.  My own confidential Israeli source confirms today’s murder was the work of the Mossad and MEK, as have been a number of previous operations I’ve reported here." 
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More murder of Iranian scientists: still terrorism?  ---  http://www.salon.com/2012/01/11/more_murder_of_iranian_scientists_still_terrorism/ 
Special Note - A quote...."Back then, I wrote about Reynolds’ suggestion several times, but I was far from alone. Law Professor Paul Campos wrote a column in the Rocky Mountain News denouncing Reynolds for publicly advocating “murder,” which, he pointed out, is exactly what this would be given that the U.S. is not at war with Iran (he went on to suggest that targeting civilian religious leaders and scientists would still be murder even if the U.S. were at war with Iran); Campos added: “government-sponsored assassinations of the sort Reynolds is advocating are expressly and unambiguously prohibited by the laws of the United States.” - also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30213.htm 
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More demonization of Syria  ---  http://lefti.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-demonization-of-syria.html 
A quote...."A French journalist and 7 other people are killed while on a *government-sponsored tour* of Homs, and once again the U.S. corporate media is happy to spin the absurd claims by the Syrian opposition that the government killed the journalist and its own people just to make the opposition look bad. Huffington Post's story doesn't even bother to mention that the journalist was on a government-sponsored tour at the time, a rather relevant fact." 
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Assad joins pro-Syria rally in Damascus  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/220492.html 
A quote...."Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has once again vowed to crush foreign-backed conspiracies against his government, saying the crisis in the country is nearing its end." 
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January 11, 2012
  ---  http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/01/11/bfp-select-nightly-news-editorials-january-11-2012/ 
A BFP daily Round-Up of national and international news. - mpg 
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US aided Pakistan group which supported extremists
  ---  http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/11/us-aided-pakistan-group-which-supported-extremists.html 
A quote...."ISLAMABAD: The US gave money to a Pakistani Muslim group that organised anti-Taliban rallies, but which later demonstrated in support of an extremist who killed a leading liberal politician, the US Embassy in Pakistan said Wednesday." 
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Pakistan’s Military Slams PM, Warns of ‘Grievous Consequences’
  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/11/pakistans-military-slams-pm-warns-of-grievous-consequences/ 
A quote...."The Pakistani military has today issued a furious response to Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani’s statement earlier this week, in which he claimed top generals broke the law in responding to court requests for statements on the “coup memo,” a putative attempt by the government to solicit US military help in ousting top Pakistani generals." 
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Pakistan PM sacks Secretary Defence; COAS calls emergency meeting  ---  http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/11/pm-sacks-secretary-defence.html 
Related Article - A quote...."ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday sacked Secretary Defence Khalid Naeem Lodhi, DawnNews reported. In a related development, the army chief summoned an emergency meeting of the corps commanders." 
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Pakistan high court rules premier must reopen Zardari probe
  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pakistan-zardari-20120111,0,2845777.story 
A quote...."Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan—Ratcheting up pressure on Pakistan's embattled civilian government, the nation's Supreme Court on Tuesday threatened to dismiss Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani from office if he does not revive corruption proceedings against President Asif Ali Zardari."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84725&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Iraq bravery hailed as blow to sectarianism  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/11/us-iraq-violence-idUSTRE80A1NH20120111 
Two Iraqi Heroes - A quote...."(Reuters) - The bravery of two Sunnis who died trying to stop a suicide bomber killing Shi'ite pilgrims is being praised as a sign that Iraq can overcome sectarian divisions amid its worst political crisis in a year." 
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EUROPE AND SOUTH STREAM, Part 1 -- Gazprom races for EU loophole  ---  http://atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/NA12Ag01.html 
A quote...."Moscow has confirmed that Turkey will allow Gazprom's South Stream pipeline to be built through Turkey's Black Sea exclusive economic zone, en route to central Europe. Beyond threatening Ukraine's transit system with bankruptcy and takeover, Moscow seeks to persuade European countries along the proposed South Stream routes that Russia is poised to proceed with construction." 
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NATO versus CSTO: The Clash between Competing Military Alliances
  ---  http://indrus.in/articles/2012/01/10/csto_emerging_as_an_alternative_to_nato_14134.html 
A quote...."Nearly two decades after it was formed, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a seven-member regional security bloc led by Russia, is rapidly expanding its profile in the evolving global security architecture and is emerging as an alternative to counter the designs of the US and NATO in the Central Asian region." - also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28612 
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Bulava's triumphant salvo  ---  http://indrus.in/articles/2012/01/11/bulavas_triumphant_salvo_14149.html 
A quote...."The submarine Yury Dolgoruky fired a salvo of two Bulava-30 intercontinental missiles from beneath the ice-bound White Sea. The Defense Ministry reported that the launch went smoothly; all the warheads covered a distance of nearly 5,000 miles and hit targets on the Kura test range on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The exact number of warheads was not released, but it is believed to be somewhere between six and 10." 
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US 'stoking up tensions' to gain regional role  ---  http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012-01/11/content_14419211.htm 
This smells semi-official - mpg -- A quote...."Casting our eyes around we can see that the United States has been bolstering its five major military alliances in the Asia-Pacific region, and is adjusting the positioning of its five major military base clusters, while also seeking more military bases around China," wrote Luo. -- Instead, Luo advised that China must do a better job in courting friends in the region, charming countries away from the US' orbit, he wrote."
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28613 
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Nicaragua's President Urges Denuclearization of Israel  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/1494-nicaraguas-president-urges-denuclearization-of-israel.html 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega condemned Israel's nuclear weapons stockpiles as the main threat to the Middle-East peace and stability, and underlined the necessity for the dismantlement of Israel's nuclear arsenals." 
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Nigerian general strike escalates as government steps up repression  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2012/jan2012/nige-j12.shtml 
A quote...."Hundreds of thousands have demonstrated throughout Nigeria over the past three days in an escalating indefinite general strike against the government of President Goodluck Jonathan." 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere.... 

Professor of Hate: Israeli "scholar" urges ethnic cleansing of Bedouins
  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/professor-hate-israeli-scholar-urges-ethnic-cleansing-bedouins 
A quote...."A prominent Israeli professor at the University of Haifa, Arnon Sofer, is urging the government to act fast to ethnically cleanse Palestinian Bedouins lest Israel be “destroyed” by them." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84731&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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In 6-5 decision, Israeli court rules against citizenship for Palestinians married to Israelis  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62820 
A racist, hateful, vicious, murderous, non-state. Nothing good has EVER come from the criminal colony on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea called Israel, except seventy years of death, degradation, murder, ethnic cleansing and endless wars. - mpg 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Palestinian graffiti artists penetrate heavily fortified heart of West Jerusalem  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84741&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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How my uncle in Gaza filled me with hope of return  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/content/how-my-uncle-gaza-filled-me-hope-return/10795 
A quote...."The date is 21 December 2011, a day that will live within me for the rest of my life. As I went through the Rafah crossing, my eyes scanned the faces of every man before me; I was searching for my uncle, Hazem Elaydi. I had not seen him in more than twenty years, since before he was illegally imprisoned by Israel during the first intifada. I traveled across the world to see him after his release during the prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas in October."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84721&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Palestine's farmers: Refusing to Die in Silence
  ---  http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/component/content/article/28-news/3862-palestines-farmers-refusing-to-die-in-silence 
They should be able to refuse to die in silence by having the ability to defend themselves and kill those who attempt to harm them, their family or trespass on their land with the intent to commit destruction!!  But you see, in Israel you're not ALLOWED to defend yourself.  Sort of like what they're trying to do to everyone  here!   THANK GOD for the second amendment in this country!!! - mpg 
also posted at Urukent  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84718&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Israeli Soldier Acquitted Despite Killing Palestinian Civilian  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/62819 
A quote...."Four years after an Israeli soldier used his sniper rifle to kill a Palestinian civilian from Bethlehem district visiting family in the Ramallah district; an Israeli court acquitted the soldier and claimed that there is not enough evidence to convict the soldier, adding that no charges were filed against the shooter, the Arabs48 News Agency reported." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/israeli-soldier-acquitted-despite-killing-palestinian-civilian/ 
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Soldiers raid office, home of detained journalist  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=451921 
A quote...."NABLUS (Ma’an) -- Israeli military forces on Thursday confiscated computers, mobile phones and camera memory cards from the office and home of a Palestinian journalist." 
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Israel to make 60 more Palestinians homeless
  ---  http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/component/content/article/33-west-bank/4039-israel-to-make-60-more-palestinians-homeless 
A quote...."According to Palestinian news agency WAFA, Israeli authorities notified seven families in the Palestinian village of Umm al Khair yesterday that their houses will be demolished because they lack Israeli-issued building permits. 60 people will be left homeless." - also posted at Uruknet
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m84714&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Tuesday January 10th 2012 - links page