Wisdom 1of5 - 2of5 - 3of5 - 4of5 - 5of5 - (YuTb aprox8mEach March 29, 2008)
Arundhati Roy - (YuTb 6m53s July 07, 2006)
Arundhati Roy: World Bank Tribunal Jury Findings - (YuTb - 9m22s - May 06, 2008)
Democracy Part/1 - Part/2 - Part/3 - Part/4 - (YuTb - aprox 8-10m - March 25, 2006)

Charlie Sheen on Alex Jones Tv 2/5:Charlie Sheen Issues 9/11 Challenge to Critics! -- Videos -- Vid#1 - Vid#2 - Vid#3 - Vid#4 - Vid#5 - (Alex Jones YuTb - aprox 10 min each - Sept. 11, 2009) -- A quote...."On this eighth anniversary of the false flag attacks on the United States, Alex talks with Charlie Sheen about his widely covered article "20 Minutes with the President" and his call for a new investigation. Charlie will issue a special challenge during the show. -- http://prisonplanet.tv/" -- For more on this issue see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

Bill Moyers - Kaptur and Johnson
Video Interview - This is a must view video - mpg -- A quote...."Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform from Washington, has Wall Street really changed? Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) report on the state of the economy." -- ||  Transcript  || 

War and Peace
A quote...."I suppose we should not  begrudge Barack Obama his Nobel Peace Prize, though it represents a  radical break in tradition, since he's only had slightly less than nine months to discharge his imperial duties, most concretely  through the agency of high explosives in the Hindu Kush whereas laureates like Henry Kissinger had been diligently slaughtering people across the world for years. -- Woodrow Wilson, the liberal imperialist with whom Obama bears some marked affinities, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, having brought America into the carnage of the First World War. The peace laureate president who preceded him was Teddy Roosevelt, who got the prize in 1906  as reward for sponsorship of the Spanish-American war and ardent bloodletting in the Philippines.  Senator George Hoar’s famous denunciation of Roosevelt on the floor of the US Senate in May of 1902 was probably what alerted the Nobel Committee to Roosevelt’s eligibility for the Peace Prize:"

Peace Prize Laureate Obama Humbly Takes his Place Next to Terrorists (Begin) and War Criminals (Kissinger) -- A quote...."For only the third time in history, a seated U.S. President has won the Nobel Peace Prize.  Barack Obama has been named the recipient of this years award.  According to the chairman of the Nobel committee, President Obama was given the award not so much for what he has done, but for what he represents: “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” -- Well if that is the case it seems to me that they should have given the prize to Obama’s PR team because he is just a pitchman and “HOPE” was just his empty slogan given to him by the advertising executives that ran his campaign.  And besides, it was a cruel empty slogan at that."

Well, Nobel Was the Inventor of Dynamite, After All
A quote...."Sometimes you run across a story that defies all comment, rational analysis -- even parody. This is one of those times: -- In Surprise, Nobel Peace Prize to Obama for Diplomacy (NYT). -- To give a peace prize to the commander-in-chief of a war machine now churning its way through the populations of three countries (Iraq/Af-Pak), with innumerable black ops, lightning raids and drone shots on the side .... to a man who even as we speak is deciding just how he wants to kill even more civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan ...  a man who has enthusiastically embraced as "an extraordinary achievement" one of the most heinous and barbaric acts of military aggression since Hitler rolled across the border into Poland ... a man who blusters about leaving "all options on the table," including the use of mass-murdering nuclear weapons, to bully other nations into compliance with American wishes ... to give a peace prize to such a man, while all over the world, there are men and women who have devoted their entire lives to non-violence and reconciliation, many of them suffering imprisonment, torture and ruin for their efforts ... well, like I said, it's beyond words. -- But it's good to see that the spirit of arms merchant Alfred Nobel -- purveyor and profiteer of death and destruction -- is being honored so perfectly with today's award."

Warmonger Wins Peace Prize
October 09, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- It took 25 years longer than George Orwell thought for the slogans of 1984 to become reality. -- “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” “Ignorance is Strength.” -- I would add, “Lie is Truth.” -- The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to President Obama, the person who started a new war in Pakistan, upped the war in Afghanistan, and continues to threaten Iran with attack unless Iran does what the US government demands and relinquishes its rights as a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty." - also posted at AlethoNews  & CounterPunch  & LewRockwell

Bizarro Peace Prize Awarded to Obama
A quote...."....as a reward for all your strenuous efforts on behalf of keeping the world a place that is less safe, less stable, and less worth living in than at any time since the outbreak of World War II, you are bestowed with – yes, that’s right, the Nobel Peace Prize. This, however, isn’t just any Nobel Peace Prize – oh no It’s a Bizarro Peace Prize – the natural result of us having slipped through a crack in the space-time continuum, and landed in a world where up is down, right is left, and war is peace – Bizarro World!"

Why does Obama get a prize whilst Bush gets shoes
A quote...."Today, when I came home from our nonviolent demonstration in Bil'in, after the soldiers shot tear gas and after seeing the violence of the Israeli soldiers, I heard that President Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize. When I heard this from the media I started to go crazy. I asked myself why. The Americans are still in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Palestine is still occupied. In the recent news I saw that the Israeli soldiers closed Jerusalem, and I heard that many people were injured. We haven't seen anything changed. Why didn't the committee give the prize to Bush? I remember nine years ago Bush had a good speech about the establishment of a Palestinian state in the year of 2005. We saw after the speech that Sharon invaded Al Aqsa mosque, and the American army invaded Iraq." -- also posted at OhBummer

Code Yellow
Related Article - A quote...."Right on time  for the somber eighth anniversary of the Afghanistan war and occupation, Code Pink founder and primary spokeswoman Medea Benjamin has announced that her organization – which made so many headlines and newscasts protesting "Bush’s war" – is now "rethinking" their position on Afghanistan. A piece in the Christian Science Monitor, which Code Pink is now strenuously trying to spin, reports that the famous antiwar group is seriously amending their position after listening to the views of Afghan women. On a recent trip to Afghanistan, the leaders of Code Pink met Afghan women who opposed the idea of a US withdrawal, and this somehow forced them into a reevaluation of their views. As the Monitor reports: " -- also posted at OhBummer  -- For more on this issue see....A Fist Full of Dollars - 10-02-09 - mpg

A historian's account of Democrats and Bush-era war crimes
A quote...."The American Propsect's Adam Serwer notes that, yesterday, Sen. Joe Lieberman successfully inserted into the Homeland Security appropriations bill an amendment -- supported by the Obama White House -- to provide an exemption from the Freedom of Information Act's mandates by authorizing the Defense Secretary to suppress long-concealed photographs of detainee abuse.  Two courts had ruled -- unanimously -- that the American people have the right to see these photographs under FOIA, a 40-year-old law championed by the Democrats in the LBJ era and long considered a crowning jewel in their legislative achievements.  But this Lieberman amendment, which is now likely to pass, undermines all of that and -- as EBay founder Pierre Omidyar put it today -- its central purpose is to "legalize suppression" of evidence of American war crimes.  ---  What made those detainee photographs so important from the start is that they depict brutal abuse well outside of the Abu Ghraib facility and thus reveal to Americans -- and the world -- that America's torture was not, as they've been constantly told, limited to rogue sadists at Abu Ghraib and the waterboarding of three bad guys.  Instead, our torture regime was systematic, pervasive, brutal, fatal, and -- becuase it was the by-product of conscious policies set at the highest levels of government -- common across America's "War on Terror" detention regime.  These photographs would have documented those vital facts; combated the false denials from torture apologists; fueled the momentum for accountability; and revealed, in graphic and unavoidable terms, what was truly done by America's government.  But a Democrat-led Congress, at the urging of a Democratic President, is now taking extraordinary steps -- including a new law which has no purpose other than to suppress evidence of America's war crimes -- to ensure that this evidence never sees the light of day." -- also posted at Uruknet  & CommonDreams

The Unacceptable Cost of Judeo-Christianity; Its Legacy of Pain
A quote...."The Unacceptable Cost of Christian Zionism" is offered as memorial to eight dead American soldiers, who did not need to die, and uncounted Afghans, Iraqis, and Palestinians, all killed the first four days of October.  We also memorialize the calculated assassination of a thing we all use and depend upon, the “Dollar,” destroyed in a large part by unnecessary and contrived Serial Wars. --  The Death of the Dollar” is a passing that will bring deprivation to a class of Americans who never dreamed it could befall them. In the “Unacceptable Cost” first published in August 30, 2007, we explain why we place the blame for Serial Wars and destroyed dreams upon America’s churches and church leaders, not all of them mind you, but most.  They alone, as institutions, have the responsibility to know the truth and tell it, regardless of the cost.  Truth is the product of Jesus’ work, but those who claim to follow Him from the mega-church pulpits have played the monopoly game of war along with the bankers and politicians.  We blame them, and we see no reason why God will not; stop following them!" -- also posted at ICH  --  For more on this issue see....A Fist Full of Dollars - 10-02-09 - mpg

US Foreign Policy, Rudyard Kipling, and the Libertarian Theory of the State
A quote...."How is foreign policy made? In these, the last days of America’s imperial decline, when the Constitution is but a ragged piece of parchment relegated to the Museum of Archaic Documents, our relations with other countries are entirely governed by the executive branch: all decisions are made by the president and his appointed national security bureaucrats. A recent news story reporting on the procedure whereby President Obama is going to make a decision about whether to escalate the war in Afghanistan illustrates how the process is supposed to work...."


Fools for Empire (II)
A quote...."Just as the actual nature and purposes of intelligence work are understood by almost no one, so, too, this aspect of the source of most of the information relied upon by intelligence personnel is almost completely overlooked."

Squeeze Play: Militarists and Media Close Off Alternatives to War
Chris's take on the article shown above - mpg -- A quote....."We wrote here last week of Arthur Silber's telling insights into the misuses, abuses -- and ultimate uselessness -- of the "intelligence" reports produced by the security organs of powerful states....particularly the world's self-proclaimed "hyper-power" as it careens around the world in its obsessive-compulsive urge for domination. Silber's rule can be boiled down thusly: "Intelligence" is always -- always -- a political tool for the agenda of power, and it can never -- never -- be used to support an argument over policy. You can only argue and infer from the facts; if your case relies on "intelligence" – even if it seems temporarily favorable to your cause – then you are fighting on power's own turf, using power's own distorting terms, and making power's case, not yours. For once you accept that "intelligence" possesses some kind of objective truth when it seems to undercut some policy you abhor, what will you do when it suddenly changes and now supports that very policy? Again, Silber covers all this in eloquent detail, here and here. -- This week gave us a glaring example of this principle in action. Scarcely had the pixels dried on Silber's posts when the New York Times came knocking with a story cobbled together from the usual anonymous "intelligence" sources to stoke the campaign of fearmongering over the "nuclear threat" from Iran."

More Iran Hysteria from the NY Times
A quote...."The surest sign that another neocon bill of goods is being hawked in respect of the Iran “nuclear peril” is the revival of Rumsfeld-esque “unknowable unknowns”, a la Iraq WMD panic circa late 2002. In the real world, of course, solid progress is being made towards a plausible diplomatic deal to strengthen safeguards against Iran weaponizing the nuclear material it is producing. (See my latest on this at TIME.com)" -- also posted at PJB

Connecting the Dots: The Axis of Evil Closes in on Iran's Nuclear Sites, while the G20 stamps on our Civil Rights -- Videos - A quote...."In the great global chess match, the Axis of Evil exchanges pieces with Russia towards a check-mate on Iran, while Afghanistan is set to be the proving ground of an open-ended military strategy. -- The G20 crowns itself queen of the global economy, as our civil liberties are pawned off the board for the illusion of security. -- If the audience is the human masses, they seem blithely disinterested in the high-stakes moves on the board and only vaguely aware that beneath the board itself Mother Nature is shaking the table, rattling the Earth and making waves. -- September was yet another episode in the slow motion collision of humanity's tragic history and reality."

Palestine Will Be Free - Alt - (YouTube - 5 min 39 sec - August 08, 2009)
Video - A quote...."Awakening Records is pleased to announce the release of the world's first animated peace music video on Palestine. Palestine will be Free' is performed by Awakening's latest music sensation - Maher Zain. -- www.maherzain.com -- " -- also posted at DProgram

If the Russians Did This to Us, We’d Kill ‘Em
A quote...."What if the Russians invaded? -- It's not so far-fetched an idea, you know. We spent half a century and trillions of dollars to make sure that it would never happen, so it's really not such a strange notion." -- also posted at CommonDreams

========== ========= ========== ========== =========== ======

A Fist Full of Dollars - 10-02-09 - mpg

========== ========= ========== ========== =========== ======

The War on Language
A quote...."There is a scene in “Othello” when the Moor is so consumed by jealousy and rage that he loses the eloquence and poetry that make him the most articulate man in Venice. He turns to the audience, shortly before he murders Desdemona, and sputters, “Goats and monkeys!” Othello fell prey to wild self-delusion and unchecked rage, and his words became captive to hollow clichés. The debasement of language, which Shakespeare understood was a prelude to violence, is the curse of modernity. We have stopped communicating, even with ourselves. And the consequences will be as extreme as in the Shakespearean tragedy." -- also posted at ICH

The Lying Game
A quote...."September 30, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- In 2001, the Observer in London published a series of reports that claimed an “Iraqi connection” to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being manufactured as a weapon of mass destruction. It was all false. Supplied by US intelligence and Iraqi exiles, planted stories in the British and US media helped George Bush and Tony Blair to launch an illegal invasion which caused, according to the most recent study, 1.3 million deaths."

Debunking the War Party
A quote...."The long-awaited first top level meeting in thirty years between US diplomats and their Iranian counterparts in Geneva is over but we are far from done with what promises to be a long, involved, and often quite scary drama, likely to unfold slowly-but-ominously over the next year. Odds are that, at this time in 2010, we’ll still  be talking about Iran’s completely nonexistent nuclear weapons program, with rival versions of what Tehran is really up to battling it out within the administration and in the arena of public opinion. The opening shots of that war have been fired, and,while the War Party, spearheaded by the powerful Israel lobby, is bound and determined to strike at Iran, the news out of Geneva is not good for the "bomb bomb bomb Iran" crowd."

Jumpin' Jack Verdi, It's a Gas, Gas, Gas - Iran and the Pipelineistan Opera
Geo-Political Analysis -- A quote...."Brussels -- Oil and natural gas prices may be relatively low right now, but don't be fooled. The New Great Game of the twenty-first century is always over energy and it's taking place on an immense chessboard called Eurasia. Its squares are defined by the networks of pipelines being laid across the oil heartlands of the planet. Call it Pipelineistan. If, in Asia, the stakes in this game are already impossibly high, the same applies to the "Euro" part of the great Eurasian landmass -- the richest industrial area on the planet. Think of this as the real political thriller of our time. -- The movie of the week in Brussels is: When NATO Meets Pipelineistan. Though you won't find it in any headlines, at virtually every recent NATO summit Washington has been maneuvering to involve reluctant Europeans ever more deeply in the business of protecting Pipelineistan." -- also posted at CommonDreams

========== ========= ========== ========== =========== ======

Update: NYC law dept.: New 9/11 probe 'not a proper subject' for voters
Must Read - (For the outrage) -- A quote...."A favorable ruling would likely be appealed by the City pushing the issue to the Appellate Court,” an NYC CAN advisory predicted. “If the Petition overcomes all legal challenges, goes to November ballot and the referendum passes, it would lead to the creation of a local, independent commission with subpoena power that would be tasked with comprehensively reinvestigating the attacks.” -- “While the specter of 9/11 is raised repeatedly, ghoulishly, dangled before us to justify the dismemberment of our Constitution, the trampling of our civil liberties,” said Sunjata. “Questioning 9/11 itself? Oh, that is strictly prohibited. Do you hear that, New York? Do you hear that, family members? Cops? Firefighters? First responders? Your government has just told you, again, again, that you are good enough to die for them, but that asking questions about the inciting event is un-American, unpatriotic and just quite simply out of bounds.” -- For more on this issue see....

See also....9/11 - NORAD & 9/11 - WTC7 & 9/11 - Commission & 9/11 - Punish or Reward & 9/11 - WTC-1&2 & 9/11 - Planning Guidance & 9/11 - Iraq - Torture Fables
========== ========= ========== ========== =========== ======

Another War in the Works
A quote...." Does anyone remember all the lies that they were told by President Bush and the "mainstream media" about the grave threat to America from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? These lies were repeated endlessly in the print and TV media despite the reports from the weapons inspectors, who had been sent to Iraq, that no such weapons existed. -- The weapons inspectors did an honest job in Iraq and told the truth, but the mainstream media did not emphasize their findings. Instead, the media served as a Ministry of Propaganda, beating the war drums for the US government. -- Now the whole process is repeating itself. This time the target is Iran."

Everything You Know About Iran Is A Myth
From the History File - 11 July 2006 -- A quote...."There are some terms that people in Islamic and Western countries should never say to each other, because they confuse and inflame more than they clarify. The most obvious ones would be “jihad”, “crusade” and “great satan”. All of them are used in somewhat innocuous ways by the people who utter them, but mean something completely different – and much more inflammatory – to foreign ears." - also posted at ICH - The author shown above is absolutely CORRECT!  Watch the video shown below to get a better idea of what's going on in Ahmadinejad's head.  To add to what this website editor wrote below, Ahmadinejad isn't denying the truth, he's denying Zionist philosophy, or the Zionist's own myth, of using crimes against their own people as justification to go oppress another.  He's not denying the crimes (although he doesn't want to talk about them because he feels it would give justification for Zionism, which is simply idiotic) he's denying the Zionist's shameful and false use of these crimes of the holocaust for their own evil mythmaking. – mpg

“The Washington Post reported on November 15, 2005 that it had obtained documents detailing how executives from major oil corporations, including Exxon-Mobil Corp., Conoco Royal Dutch Shell Oil Corp., and the American subsidiary of British Petroleum met with Energy Task Force participants while they were developing national energy policy. Wiki"

"Pakistan briefed Cheney [about the plans for the terrorist attacks ahead of time] …nations also got wind of this and warned the CIA. We also had two walk-ins to the FBI, one in Orlando, one in Newark, that were dismissed by the FBI because the names were all virgins and not in the FBI data base—the arrogance of stupid bureaucracy. -- Cheney saw an opportunity for what Bush called his trifecta, and gave it to him by giving the go-ahead to ISI and Al Qaeda, and ordering up a terrorism exercise that allowed him to send all relevant close-in air defense strip alert craft away from the target areas, and to disable the NORTHCOM normal response to flight path diversion."

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 - posted 03-30-08