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Rules for Radicals: How to Begin Taking Back Our Government
Action Alert - A quote...." RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." -- Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)" -- This is rule number twelve, there should be a rule number thirteen....go after the money. (This is the corollary to the investigative rule called "follow the money".) - mpg

13-a)  Every person throughout the world who was injured or harmed in any way by the renditions, torture and mass murder caused by the PNAC'ing MIOC elite's "long war" or any of the false flag events they sponsored, should sue the institutions, corporations and most importantly the individuals involved.

13-b)  That no one should ever do business with any of those involved with these crimes of murder and mayhem EVER. This would not be a boycott, this would be a permanent, life long ban on the individuals and institutions that have killed and harmed so many, they should be shunned..... forever.

13-c) Everyone involved with the trillions of dollars spent on these rapacious plans of murder and conquest should be forced to pay it all back.  Suggestions: A ten year retroactive tax on any capital gains made from the oil or defense industries. Personally requiring by statute, that Congressmen and Senators pay back into the Social Security Trust fund any amounts they overspent during their tenures, else it would be deducted from their flesh (i.e. as in the Merchant of Venice).  Retroactively taking the cap off the Social Security Tax, five, seven, ten years....whatever is necessary to pay back what was withdrawn.  Eliminating the funding for VA, education or pension benefits for those in the military till these amounts are returned. (Although that may seem harsh keep in mind every single year the Republicans have tried to reduce VA benefits without a peep from those in the military, besides it's been five years, it's time to pull the plug on this whole "Racket".)

13-d) It must be emphasized to all peoples throughout the world that these policies are essential for everyone's own safety and survival, i.e. doing "business" with "American" (a.k.a. Neo-Roman) MIOC institutions and individuals will simply corrupt you and eventually get you, your family and everyone you know killed.....always, every single time.

13-e)  It should also be made clear to everyone that letting any of the individuals or institutions get away with the enormous fortunes they made facilitating and anticipating 9/11 would be extremely bad for business....it will only encourage them to contemplate further endeavors of this sort. - mpg

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Bush: An 'accessory before the fact' of Mass Murder
A quote...."It's bad enough that those courageous enough to oppose Bush's rise to dictatorship are attacked and impugned by the right wing! That is to be expected. But the propagation of fallacies and nonsense by those who should know better is intolerable."

'Untimely deaths' that benefited R. M. Scaife, the CIA, and the Bush Crime Family
A quote...."In a twisted, right wing brain like that of Richard Mellon Scaife, murder may be justified by endless ideological rationalizations. Not only lives are lost but truth itself. It is a sick mentality that sacrifices the voice of reason for lies and bullsh-t. Short-term, short-sighted victories are pyrrhic and the very fabric of society is corrupted."

Hard numbers: The economy is worse than you know
A quote...."Ever since the 1960s, Washington has gulled its citizens and creditors by debasing official statistics, the vital instruments with which the vigor and muscle of the American economy are measured. -- The effect has been to create a false sense of economic achievement and rectitude, allowing us to maintain artificially low interest rates, massive government borrowing, and a dangerous reliance on mortgage and financial debt even as real economic growth has been slower than claimed."

Bush's GOP Legacy: A Third World America
A quote...."As the US faces a very real prospect of utter collapse where millions may be may be made jobless and homeless, the GOP drags out a tired old lie that goes like this: 'Be happy! Recession is goooood for you!' If that were true, millions would be trying to move to a third world country instead of trying to get out of one. Don't worry about it; the third world is coming to you! Millions have yet to recover from Ronald Reagan's 'recession' of some two years following an improvident tax cut which benefited only the nation's privileged elite. What Reagan failed to achieve was left to Bush Jr to polish off."

Repercussions of a Just War
A quote...."The foundation of modern international politics — the nation state — was first laid out in the treaty of Westphalia, which put an end to Europe’s religious wars of the seventeenth century. At its core, sovereignty is the notion that a state has sole authority over its land and people and is guaranteed the right of non-intervention in its internal affairs by outside powers."

Fastened to a Dying Animal
A quote...."Here in this crumbling empire once known as the American Republic, here in a nation that, at present, for all practical purposes, only produces Cheetos and killer drones, whose architecture is being winnowed down to thriving rural meth houses and foreclosed upon suburban mchouses, whose corrupt corporate culture has bequeathed upon our suffering planet dying oceans and the hyper-caffeinated tsunami of Red Bull Capitalism -- the essential question confronts us -- how does one retain (not retail) one's humanity amid the catastrophic machinery and inane accouterment of our age?"

Why the US has really gone broke
A quote...."....there is an enormous anomaly in the US economy above and beyond the subprime mortgage crisis, the housing bubble and the prospect of recession: 60 years of misallocation of resources, and borrowings, to the establishment and maintenance of a military-industrial complex as the basis of the nation’s economic life."

Shattering the War Consensus
A quote...."Why, for God’s sake, does nothing change? The war goes on, the money flows, the blood flows, the lies stay exactly the same. Have you noticed? Have you ever wondered, with a stab of transcendent confusion, why a self-correcting rationality hasn’t kicked in by now, why a saner awareness hasn’t made itself evident in the macro-affairs of the nation by now?"
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Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand
A quote...."In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure."

For  much more on this entire issue see....Fake Intel - NYT Article

Editor's special note: - This article will take a while to work its way into the national dialogue, to become incorporated into this nation's consciousness, when it does the consequences may be unforeseen and possibly quite traumatic.  To say that this article will cause a massive upsurge in cynicism would probably be an understatement  It's doubtful that those currently serving  in the armed forces who weren’t in the "know" regarding these issues or who didn't personally profit from the defense contracts involved will feel favorably toward the current and former officers who besmirched their reputations and helped destroy the lives of tens of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of people who live in the Middle East by participating in this "racket".

These revelations are unfortunate, necessary, and most likely are just the beginning of what's to come. - mpg
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Ramzy Baroud - Where are the Iraqis?
A quote...."Five years after the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, mainstream media is once more making the topic an object of intense scrutiny. The costs and implications of the war are endlessly covered from all possible angles, with one notable exception – the cost to the Iraqi people themselves. -- Through all the special coverage and exclusive reports, very little is said about Iraqi casualties, who are either completely overlooked or hastily mentioned and whose numbers can only be guesstimated. Also conveniently ignored are the millions injured, internally and externally displaced, the victims of rape and kidnappings who will carry physical and psychological scars for the rest of their lives. -- We find ourselves stuck in a hopeless paradigm, where it feels necessary to empathize with the sensibilities of the aggressor so as not to sound "unpatriotic," while remaining blind to the untold anguish of the victims....."

Bush's Conspiracy to Create an American Police State:
Part I -- Part II -- Part III -- Part IV -- Part V -- Part VI -- Part VII
A quote from Part III...."Had we wanted a monarchy, we had one! It didn't work out! Moreover, the one we had —King George III —was better than the cretinous would-be King who now arrogates unto himself powers he doesn't have and doesn't deserve. King George III was wrong and mad, but George Jr, a shrub, a lesser Bush, is merely ludicrous and slow witted. -- The truly intelligent are not threatened; in fact, they are found among Democracy's most staunch defenders. Rather, it is the dull of wit who are threatened by truth. Unable to win with reason, the Bush regime wages war on truth with lies and propaganda. Failing even that, Bush has made truth itself illegal. He need only 'deem' you a terrorist to shut you up for good."

The End of the World as You Know It…and the Rise of the New Energy World Order
A quote...."Oil at $110 a barrel. Gasoline at $3.35 (or more) per gallon. Diesel fuel at $4 per gallon. Independent truckers forced off the road. Home heating oil rising to unconscionable price levels. Jet fuel so expensive that three low-cost airlines stopped flying in the past few weeks. This is just a taste of the latest energy news, signaling a profound change in how all of us, in this country and around the world, are going to live -- trends that, so far as anyone can predict, will only become more pronounced as energy supplies dwindle and the global struggle over their allocation intensifies."

Too Much of Nothing: Crime Without Punishment, War Without End
A quote...."The President of the United States has openly, proudly admitted that he approved the use of interrogation methods that are by every measure -- including the measure of United States law -- criminal acts of torture. It is one of the most brazen and scandalous confessions of wrongdoing ever uttered by an American leader -- and it has had no impact whatsoever. No scandal, no outcry, no protest, no prosecution. -- This pattern has recurred over and over throughout the Bush Administration. Bush and his minions commit crimes and atrocities in secret; they move heaven and earth to conceal their filthy deeds; they squirm and squeal like panicked rats when some small portion of their evil comes to light; they belch forth a relentless series of self-contradictory lies to cover up, obfuscate or explain away the crimes; and when at last their malefactions can no longer be denied, they trot out the president himself to say: "Yeah, we did it; so what?" And then....nothing happens."

American Hegemony Is Not Guaranteed
A quote...."14/04/08 "ICH" -- Nonsensical on its face, the Petraeus/Crocker testimony is just another mask in the macabre theater of lies that the Bush regime has told in order to justify its wars of naked aggression against Muslims." -- See also...

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The Coming War with Iran: It's About the Oil, Stupid
A quote...."World civilization is based on oil. The world is running out of oil. The oil companies and governments are not telling the truth about how close we are to the end. Dick Cheney knew about peak oil back in 1999 when he spoke to the London Petroleum Institute as Halliburton CEO. He predicted it would come in 2010. After that it's just a matter of years before it runs out. Whoever controls the remaining oil determines who lives and who dies."
See also....The Strategic Provinces & The US's Centro-Asian Ring.

Wanta Save the Economy? Give Workers a Raise
A quote...."13/04/08 "ICH" --- -A specter is haunting Wall Street---the specter of insolvency. One major player, Bear Stearns, has already gone under, and from the looks of it, another may be on the way. It's getting ugly out there. The so-called TED spread---which measures the willingness of banks to lend to each other---has begun to widen ominously suggesting that the money markets believe another body will be floating to the surface any day now."

Jim Rogers: Abolish The Federal Reserve
Video - A quote...."Somebody at CNBC, billed as "America's business channel," made a mistake. They allowed Jim Rogers, investor and buddy to George Soros, to get on and slam the Federal Reserve. -- "I will ask you this," one of CNBC's talking heads asks Mr. Rogers, "what would be the first two things you would do if you were in Mr. Bernanke's seat tomorrow morning?" "I would abolish the Federal Reserve," avers Rogers, "and I would resign," a response that brings nervous laughter all around at the CNBC studios."

Saving the American Left -  The Case for a New Progressive Creed
A quote...." 07/04/08 "ICH " -- -- The American left is in the throes of an existential crisis. Some say it's a failure of nerve, others a loss of belief. It is the latter. Neoliberalism has sucked the oxygen out of the left by deflating the political sphere to the economic one. The left must articulate a new creed around three principles: empowerment (the economic is ancillary to the political); social justice (the disadvantaged have an unconditional claim upon the collectivity); and decency (the state may not humiliate anyone). To make its case, the left must redefine that most exalted form of self-interest, patriotism, as pride in a society that grants all of its members the means to belong."

American Grand Delusions - Why the Testimony of General Petraeus Will Be Delusional
A quote...."Yes, their defensive zone is the planet and they patrol it regularly. As ever, their planes and drones have been in the skies these last weeks. They struck a village in Somalia, tribal areas in Pakistan, rural areas in Afghanistan, and urban neighborhoods in Iraq. Their troops are training and advising the Iraqi army and police as well as the new Afghan army, while their Special Operations forces are planning to train Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps in that country's wild, mountainous borderlands."

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He Stood on Top of the Mound - 03-30-08 - mpg

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Network - Money speech - (YouTube - 4 min 19 sec -  Added:  August 26, 2007)
From the movie "Network" - 1976 satire - Here, made known to you lowly mortals as inscribed in the Great Book of Lex Duodecim Tabularum, contained within the secret Thirteenth Table “Amor Nummi”, is written the sacred prayer of the Neo-Liberals  -- Praise the Almighty Corporation!! For I have seen the coming of His glory, the shining of His guiding light.  He is here to punish the unbelievers who doubt His powers, He is here to show His infinite strength of arms against those who are wicked, those who do not worship the blessed token He has placed here on Earth to serve His needs, the Mighty Dollar. Behold as He unleashes His righteous wrath against those who trespass against His bottom line, as He spares not the rod, the Mighty Military Industrial Complex, against all those who are led astray from the true path of endless profit by their lack of faith.  Watch in wonder as His blessings rain down upon this world bringing fire and death to those Corporatless heathens who still occupy His lands.  Witness their terrible downfall for their retched failure to recognize His Holiness and pay proper tribute. Tremble in Awe and Rapture as thee Almighty Corporation rightly assumes complete dominion over this earthly plane....Hallelujah!! Hallelujah!!....praise thy Corporation for His Kingdom has come and we are finally saved my brothers and sisters...we are all finally saved!!   - mpg

Economic Cycles and Political Trends in the United States
A quote...."Sometimes we measure these cycles from bottom to bottom, and sometimes from top to top. For the 10-year cycle (the Juglar cycle), it often coincides with normal recurring recessions. In the U.S., there were recessions, for example, in 1969, in 1973-75, in 1980 and 1981-82, in 1990-91 and in 2001, most of them within about a 9-10 year interval. According to this cycle, there could be a somewhat severe recession in 2010-11, possibly following the slowdown or recession expected to occur this year. -- What is of interest is that the real estate cycle or housing cycle (the Kuznets cycle) is also scheduled to bottom in this period. This is a cycle of about 12 years of price increase and of 5 or 6 years of price decline. The previous cycle, from top to top went from 1987 to the spring of 2005. A bottom would therefore be normal in 2010-11 and a future top around 2023." - -For more on this issue see....Effective Fed Funds Rate 03-24-07 - mpg

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The US is After Europe Too! - 03-23-08 - mpg

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Rumours of War by William Bowles - Destabilisation is the name of the ‘game’
A quote...."And it’s not as if the US doesn’t have an awful lot of experience of invading and occupying foreign lands, they’ve been at it for centuries. - Thus to say that the US ‘miscalculated’ or ‘didn’t think it through’ is not only laughable but an insult to our intelligence. - We can only conclude that following the occupation, the US had no intention of rebuilding Iraq and indeed as I’ve pointed out, the US is on record as saying that it’s not in the business of ‘nation-building’, so, what is the ‘Plan’?"

Can India save the world?
A quote...."If both America and Europe lose confidence in their ability to compete, how can they remain custodians of the rules that ensure fairness and equity? To be fair, humanity should thank both first for creating the 1945 rules-based order at the end of World War II. To understand how visionary the Western founding fathers of this order were, just contrast what they did after World War II with what was done after World War I. After World War I, the world order forced Germany and Japan to go to war as they tried to expand their political and economic space. After World War II, both Germany and Japan significantly expanded their political and economic space without going to war."

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
Video - Spectacular satire - It's not that funny when you think about it, but the video sure is.  It is FLAWLESSLY done.  If it was on your TV you'd think it was a conventional faux-news broadcast until what they were saying actually started to register. - mpg

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What Ben Bernanke Said - 03-18-08 - mpg
Al Qaeda - Always There for the US Elites - 03-09-08 - mpg
Living Next Door to the Crazies - 03-06-08 - mpg

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This war on terrorism is bogus - The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination  -- A quote...."We now know that a blueprint for the creation of a global Pax Americana was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice-president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), Jeb Bush (George Bush's younger brother) and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences, was written in September 2000 by the neoconservative think tank, Project for the New American Century (PNAC)."

The Next War Will Pay for Itself
A quote..."You may think it a strange statement at first – but there is little to no doubt that the next war will pay for itself. It is just as true that the present unlawful, undeclared wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will pay for themselves. War pays! That’s one reason it’s so damned popular.

America Loves Peace? Odd, Since We're Always at War
A quote...."Americans love to think that we're a peaceful people and that we fight wars only when we must.  --  Unfortunately, you can count in nanoseconds how long those assertions hold up when exposed to such insidious commie dirty tricks as the application of logic or the examination of empirical history." 

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Debt Doesn't Matter When the Rubes Pay - 02-29-08 - mpg
Africa - the Next Target - 02-28-08 - mpg

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9/11 is the Litmus Test
A quote...."There is one thing that defines everyone over the course of these early years of this new century. That thing is the 9/11 attack. Everyone in government and every field of endeavor the world over is defined by their position on this event. It is not necessary to know the truth. It is only necessary to know the extent of the lies in order to define any leader in any position anywhere in the world. By what they have said and by what they have not said, one can accurately judge who is an enemy of the people’s of the world. One can accurately determine who is a tool of the psychopaths or one of them.  --  Think about what you allow yourself to know. Think about what you pass by; ignore, deny and defend ...that defines you. It defines the degree of your personal courage, your relationship to the truth, your values, your principles and what you will pass on to your children and everyone you meet. It tells you in that place where your conscience must once have lived whether you are a hypocrite and a fool or whether something greater still lives within you."

Crusade of Surge and Siege.....
Barbarians At the Gates - Part Four
Inside the Fires of Imperialism - Part Three
Cages of Conquest - Hear No Evil, See No Evil - Part Two
Homeland Born and Bred - Part One
A quote from Part Three...." 26/02/08 "ICH" -- - This Crusade is a neoliberal one, designed to inject American style debauched democracy and corrupt capitalism into the Middle East. This Crusade, this invasion and occupation, this folly into mass murder and mass destruction, this criminal enterprise to appease the gods of greed and of the Almighty Dollar, is an ideological struggle initiated by the masters of neoliberal economics, who, together with those enamored with American Manifest Destiny, have for decades decimated the lives of the people who inhabit this condemned region."

Causes and Consequences of Our Foreign Policy in the Middle East and What It Means for Americans   --  A quote...."The following is the text of a speech given at Virginia Tech on February 12, 2008. -- I want to thank the Libertarians at Virginia Tech, the Political Science Club and the Institute for Humane Studies for the kind invitation to speak to you tonight."

Financial Crisis: Asset Securitization-- The Last Tango - Endgame: Unregulated Private Money Creation   --  A quote...."What had emerged going into the new millennium after the 1999 repeal of Glass-Steagall was an awesome transformation of American credit markets into what was soon to become the world’s greatest unregulated private money creation machine."

Traffic Jam On The Highway To Hell
A quote...." I used to think Americans had been whipped by 9-11 terror confusion into some sort of national stupor. That's not so. We're trapped in a massive spiritual paralysis. Normal people are simply not equipped to deal with remorseless psychopaths. We were not prepared to come face to face with evil, nor to be manipulated by lies and controlled through stark fear. Our refusal to address the mounting list of Bush-Cheney war crimes could be because we cannot force ourselves to admit our "one nation under God" spies upon its citizens, imprisons them without due process, engages in grotesque acts of torture and delights in mass murder. And so we stand here on the precipice of our own destruction, waiting for evil to run its course."  --  "Evil never runs its course. With each success, it grows stronger, more ghastly and, like Dick Cheney, emerges a bit more from the shadows. Never doubt for a minute that these unfeeling creatures are not evil. They are incapable of compassion, of empathy, of mercy. Their eyes are on the prize of One World rule, and they will have it in spite of -- or as a result of -- all the chaos and carnage it takes to achieve it. There are no "Imps of the Perverse" among them who will be so overcome with guilt they will break from the pack and run through the populace shrieking, "We're guilty! We did it! We are murderers!"

Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
A quote...."Turn on the TV today, and you could be forgiven for thinking it’s 1999. Democrats and Republicans are bickering about where and how to intervene, whether to do it alone or with allies and what kind of world America should lead. Democrats believe they can hit a reset button, and Republicans believe muscular moralism is the way to go. It’s as if the first decade of the 21st century didn’t happen — and almost as if history itself doesn’t happen. But the distribution of power in the world has fundamentally altered over the two presidential terms of George W. Bush, both because of his policies and, more significant, despite them. Maybe the best way to understand how quickly history happens is to look just a bit ahead."

The New New World Order: A First-Strike NATO Über Alles
A quote...."The Lords of the West have called upon their elder chieftains of war to chart a course that will preserve their power and preeminence in the face of an ever-more uncertain future. The answer? A meaner, leaner NATO, openly committed to a nuclear first-strike strategy and stripped of all the "consensus" garbage that has sometimes hampered the organization's American bosses."

Going Bankrupt - Why the debt crisis is now the greatest threat to the American republic
A quote...."The military adventurers of the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups of men thought that they were the "smartest guys in the room," the title of Alex Gibney's prize-winning film on what went wrong at Enron. The neoconservatives in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination."

The Fraud of Bushenomics: They’re Looting the Country
A quote...."A more realistic -- and less idealistic -- view of Bushenomics is that the Bush administration and its cronies came at the economy with the attitude of oilmen."
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The Green Light 01-16-08 - mpg

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VIDEO: This is What A Police State Looks Like
A quote...."In Portland, the cops get up close and personal for the crime of exercising the First Amendment."  --  See also....Police State

Why is Iran Still in the Cross-Hairs? - Clues from the Project of a New American Century
A quote...."[T]here are still quite a few neoconservatives who want to go after Iran under these unbelievable conditions." 3 - The question is, why? One popular theory holds that the push for war is all about oil; but many countries have oil, and we don't normally invade them to get their assets. Why go to war for Iran's oil when we can just buy it?"

9/11 and the incompetence excuse: Could a bunch of sociopathic screw-ups really pull off the crime of the century?  --  A quote...."Many who deny government complicity in 9/11/01 maintain that some of the best evidence against official involvement in the crime of the century lies in the Bush administration's unbroken record of sheer incompetence, an argument bolstered by the perception that key members of the administration, notably The Commander Guy, spent that entire day running around like headless chickens."

AFRICOM: The Recolonization of Africa by Uncle Sam
A quote...."The spirit of John F. Kennedy's Peace Corps, a civilian program without any ties to the U.S. military or intelligence community designed to help steer newly-emergent nations, mostly in Africa, to self-sufficiency and development, is officially dead. - George W. Bush's Africa Command (AFRICOM) not only places oil and global military strategy as the number one and two goals of America's Africa policy but places the State Department's assistance program for Africa firmly under Pentagon control."

The Bipartisan Consensus on U.S. Military Spending
A quote...."Our military spending exceeds the rest of the world's spending combined, and we spend almost 10 times what the second-place country, China, spends. "Only" about $150 billion of the total U.S. amount is attributable to the two active wars we're fighting, in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus, even if one wants to excludes those amounts, the basic picture remains the same. Nor do these amounts include the billions of dollars in military aid we give to fund the armies of other countries, such as Israel and Egypt, which alone comprise substantial portions of those countries' defense budgets."

Gates Led Realist Resurgence in 2007
A quote...."2007 will likely go down in US history as the year in which the balance of power in the long-running struggle between hawks and realists in the administration of President George W. Bush shifted decisively in favor of the latter."

Iran is still on the agenda, just not right now. - mpg

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The Butcher's Apron
A quote...." The real difference between the parties is minuscule but significant. The Democrats have become the party of traditional imperialism spearheaded by Brzezinski, Holbrooke, Albright and the other guardians of Empire. These are the master-puppeteers who operate behind the scenes for their well-heeled benefactors. Their focus is mainly on Central Asia; controlling resources from the Caspian Basin, “pacifying” Afghanistan, rallying the EU to a greater role in NATO, and continuing the apocryphal “war on terror” into infinity. It's the Great Game redux.

The Republican Party has become the party of neoconservatives. Their operational plan is “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm”. It aligns the US with the foreign policy objectives of Israel's Likud Party. The focus is balkanizing the Middle East, undermining Arab nationalism, installing US-Israeli client regimes, and controlling the regions prodigious natural resources. It is a straightforward strategy for regional hegemony.

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The Slow Play Option - 12-11-07 - mpg

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Put Option On America - Part 1
A quote...."The entire American political establishment is so rotten the stench wafts around the world. Why is it that Americans seem among the least aware that the radical changes needed for America to regain its Constitution, and survive as a Republic, will never happen within our rotted-out system? All the tinkering and primping, lying, killing and pimping masquerading as hope aren’t touching the core problem."  --  Part II & Part III

Getting Past ‘Oh!’: Why Americans Misunderestimate the Depravity of the President They Hate -- A quote...."Bush is incompetent and Iraq is likely the greatest foreign policy blunder in two-plus centuries of American history. But to say that - and particularly to say that alone - does not truly do justice to either disaster, Bush or his war. The truth about this president and his motives for war are far, far uglier than the words ‘incompetence’ or ‘mistake’ imply."

Bully of the Playground: How Washington Makes - Enemies Abroad and Undermines Freedom at Home -- A quote...." On June 4, 2007, Ted Galen Carpenter gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety. Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Dr. Carpenter is the author of seven books and the editor of ten books on international affairs.

Why America's Currency Is the World's Problem
A quote...."The ailing US economy seems to be driving the exchange rate of the dollar inexorably downward, with serious consequences for the global economy. Politicians and central bankers are looking on helplessly as the economic outlook worsens by the day and European companies rack up huge losses."

Consensus Against Neoliberal Washington Consensus
A quote...."DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 28 (IPS) - One thing is clear from debates at the third Helsinki Process conference, underway here: there is agreement among economic development experts, civil society representatives and government officials attending the meeting that the neoliberal Washington consensus is not a solution to the problems of developing countries, but rather one of the causes of these problems."

The Algebra of Occupation
A quote...."In 1805, the French army out maneuvered, outsmarted, and outfought the combined armies of Russia and Austria at Austerlitz. Three years later it would flounder against a rag-tag collection of Spanish guerrillas."

The U.S. Congress Legislates Genocide Of The Mind
A quote...."11/17/07 "ICH" -- A close reading within an historical context – keeping especially in mind the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Presidential Executive Orders, pursuant to which the government has engaged in massive surveillance of its own citizens, as well as detentions, extraordinary renditions, assassinations, and torture – leads me to the following conclusions:

·         This is a “Thought Crime” bill of the type so often discussed in an Orwellian context.
·         It specifically targets the civilian population of the United States.
·         It defines “Violent Radicalization” as promoting any belief system that the government
·        “Homegrown Terrorism” and “Violent Radicalization” are defined as thought crimes.
·         Since the bill does not provide a specific definition of extremist belief system, it will be

A few extracts of the Bill are presented below to show you its tone or “flavor.”

See also....Thinking for yourself is now a crime
See also....The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act: A Tutorial in Orwellian Newspeak
See also....Civil Libertarians Warn of 'Patriot Act Lite'
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America's Invisible Empire
A quote...."The American imperial empire has remained largely invisible: only very recently have Americans just begun to learn about their imperial history. But information about empire is fragmented and extensively filtered and the American public remains by and large unaware of the reality and costs of empire. Until empire is placed on the public agenda, it can never be effectively criticised or made an object of basic policy change.   --  David Ludden --

Averting World War III, Ending Dollar Hegemony And US Imperialism
A quote...."David Ludden’s article ‘America’s Invisible Empire’(4) sums up the problem of the world’s most recent empire with remarkable clarity. Constituting itself at a time when decolonisation was well under way and other empires were disintegrating, US imperialism could never openly speak its name. Initially, it disguised itself as the defender of democracy against communism; when the Soviet Union ceased to exist, the pretext became the “war against terror”. National security and national interest were invoked as the rationale for global dominance."

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Despotism (1946) Encyclopedia Brittanic...(Google - 9m 56s - Feb 22, 2006) @ ICH
A quote...."Measure how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how  ... all » societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales?"
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A Remarkable Achievement - 10-17-07 - mpg
Go Build Your Neo-Roman Empire - Just Leave Us Out Of It - 10-14-07 - mpg

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The "Great Game" Enters the Mediterranean: Gas, Oil, War, and Geo-Politics
[Part II of a series see Part I]  -- Some quotes...." It is no mere chance that before the upcoming summit in Tehran that three important post-Soviet organizations (the Commonwealth of Independents States, the Central Security Treaty Organization, and the Eurasian Economic Community) simultaneously held meetings in Tajikistan. Nor is it mere coincidence that the SCO and CSTO have signed cooperation agreements during these meetings in Tajikistan, which has effectively made China a semi-formal member of the CSTO alliance. It should be noted that all SCO members are also members of CSTO, aside from China."

"Two blocs are starting to manifest themselves in similarity to the geographic boundaries of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and Mackinder’s Islander versus Continental scheme; a Eurasian-based bloc and a naval-based, oceanic bloc based on the fringes of Eurasia as well as North America and Australasia. The latter bloc is NATO and its network of regional military alliances, while the former is the reactionary counter-alliance formed by the Chinese-Russian-Iranian coalition as its nucleus."

Take a guess at which "bloc" started this whole thing in the first place, the MIOC elites of this country initiated their plans for "global dominance" more then twenty years ago. The "Eurasians" are belatedly forming a defensive alliance to combat their efforts. Viewed against this context, the sweeping vastness of it all, setting up and murdering three thousand Americans must have been considered a bargain, just peanuts, or chump change by this nation's MIOC elites and those who continue to support their plans.

It was a price they were all perfectly willing to pay.

This is the true "clash of civilizations" and it's about time that we as a people put a stop this madness...before time runs out for all of us.  – mpg

For more on this see....White Man's Burden - 12-20-06 - mpg
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Pork and Piggy Banks: U.S. Defense Contractor Campaign Contributions and Political Influence  --  Multiple Resources -  A quote...."Total U.S. Department of Defense prime contracts increased from $144.6 billion in FY 2001 to $294.9 billion in FY 2006, a 103.9 percent growth, according to a report by William D. Hartung and Frida Berrigan of the World Policy Institute.  The five largest—Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and Raytheon—received a total of $84 billion in defense contracts in FY 2006."

Check out Halliburton's 1,325.2% percent increase in government contracts from 2001-2006 !! - mpg


War Profiteering and the Concentration of Income and Wealth in America
posted 04-13-07 - A quote...."Critics of the recent U.S. wars of choice have long argued that they are all about oil. "No Blood for Oil" has been a rallying cry for most of the opponents of the war.  -  It can be demonstrated, however, that there is another (less obvious but perhaps more critical) factor behind the recent rise of U.S. military aggressions abroad: war profiteering by Pentagon contractors.  -  Frequently invoking dubious "threats to our national security and/or interests," these beneficiaries of war dividends, the military–industrial complex and related businesses whose interests are vested in the Pentagon’s appropriation of public money, have successfully used war and military spending to justify their lion’s share of tax dollars and to disguise their strategy of redistributing national income in their favor."

The Economic Impact of the Iraq War and Higher Military Spending - PDF - or in HTML
A quote...."There has been relatively little attention paid to the Iraq War's impact on the U.S. economy. It is often believed that wars and military spending increases are good for the economy. This is not generally true in most standard economic models. In fact, most models show that military spending diverts resources from productive uses, such as consumption and investment, and ultimately slows economic growth and reduces employment."

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START OF WARS - APROX.

Korea - around 1952
Vietnam - around 1962
1972 - Nixon, Wartergate, Oil crisis - no wars started
 1982 - small wars Granada, Panama, Lebanon
1992 - (back on track yipee!  Thanks to April Glispie) - Gulf War I
 2002 - (thanks to that fortuitous 9/11) - Gulf War II  

a.k.a. "the long war" the "thirty years war" "the PNAC Plan" etc.

"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."

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