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Archive File - 10-30-08 to 01-31-09
Nests
In Hell
A
quote...."“American leadership is good for America and for the world.”
-- So reads the introduction to the Project For The New American
Century (PNAC), perhaps the most important document ever ignored by so
many impacted millions—the neocon blueprint for American “full-spectrum
domination” of the world. “Benign global hegemony” is their tender
euphemism for it, and the hegemony business is not going as planned.
American leadership for America hasn’t been so good, either."
Marilyn
Young & Pierre Sprey
Video -- A
quote...."Bill Moyers sits down with historian Marilyn Young, author of
the forthcoming "Bombing Civilians: A twentieth Century History" [Gogl-Srch]
and former Pentagon official Pierre Sprey, who developed military
planes and helped found the military reform movement. -- ||
Transcript
|| Podcast-MP3
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Gaza
- Then And Now
Photo - Gallery - click on the red arrows in the upper-left
corner to advance the frames. - mpg -- See also....
YouTube:
Israeli Navy Attacks Palestinian Fisherman
Gaza
farmers devastated by war - 29 Jan 09
The
Difficulty of Being an Informed American
From the history file - A quote...."Thursday, 8
January 2009 -- The American print and TV media have never been
very good. These days they are horrible. If people intend to be
informed, they must turn to foreign news broadcasts, to Internet sites,
to foreign newspapers available on the Internet, or to alternative
newspapers that are springing up in various cities. A person who sits
in front of Murdoch’s Fox “News” or CNN or who reads the New York Times
is simply being brainwashed with propaganda."
Bailout
This! -- The Stabilization of the Financial Sector: The Holy Grail of
Economic Salvation -- Financial
Warning -
A quote...."Idiocy is usually described as "endlessly repeating the
same process, hoping for a different result". Lawrence Summers, Timothy
Geithner, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden et al are straining at the leash to
get the Bailout Ball rolling once again. The stabilization of the
financial sector, as elusive as it has been so far, has become the Holy
Grail of Economic salvation. That makes $8.5 Trillion worth of trying
and $0 of result. The Knights of the Oval Table are gathered to plan
their mission as their beleaguered subjects are trying to batter down
the castle gates. It's no small wonder that Geithner wants to get
the
money out the door as soon as the end of this week." -- Although the Credit Default Swap
derivative amounts are quite large, they are dwarfed by the overall
derivatives market, which is estimated to be between 1.3 & 1.5
Quadrillion dollars. For more on this issue see....1.3
Quadrillion and Counting - 09-18-08 - mpg
US
Special Forces Unconventional Warfare Operations: overthrowing
governments, sabotage, subversion, intelligence and abduction, FM
3-05.201, Apr 2003
Document - Field Manual -
A quote...."FM 3-05.201: Special Forces Unconventional Warfare
Operations is current US military doctrine (policy) on the use of
indigenous or surrogate forces to overthrow a foreign government and
the use of sabotage, subversion, intelligence, extra-territorial
abductions and similar activities, the most well known example of which
is the US involvement in Nicaragua. There is also a section on
legalities, including abductions ("The United States reserves the right
to engage in nonconsensual abductions for three specific reasons..").
The 296 page manual was made doctrine in April 2003 by Army
Headquarters, Washington DC. "
Israeli
troops killed Gaza children carrying white flag, witnesses say
A quote...."EZBT ABED
RABBO, Gaza Strip — Nasser Abu Freeh was one
of the first to see the Israeli soldiers as they entered this pastoral
Gaza neighborhood overlooking the Israeli border on Jan. 3, hours after
the Israeli government ordered the first ground forces into Gaza." -- also posted at ICH
Gaza
2009 -- We Will Never Forget - (YouTube - 8 min 58 sec - January
24, 2009)
Video - A
quote...."Montage documenting the genocide commited by Isreal in
"Operation Cast Lead".
Israel
planned Gaza attack nearly one year ago, says academic
A quote...."Published: January 27, 2009, 15:48 -- Manama: Israel
launched its attacks on Gaza to foil a peaceful offensive by Hamas,
said American academic Norman Finkelstein." -- also posted at CounterPunch
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A
Mortal Threat – Europe’s New Frankenstein Monster - 01-26-09 - mpg
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War
Crimes Charges Filed Against 15 Israeli Officials
A
quote...."International attorneys have filed war crime charges against
15 Israeli political and military officials including Ehud Olmert,
Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak." -- Obviously
international sanctions will have to be implemented against Israel
until these suspects are turned over to the Hauge for trial. - mpg
Three
more headlines from hell
A quote...."Jan 27, 2009,
00:30 -- This shocking piece appeared on
January 18 on the Dubai-based Gulfnews.com: Children found with bullets
lodged in their heads. The lead paragraphs read: “Cairo: Doctors
operating the only brain-scanning machine at an Egyptian hospital near
Gaza have been almost overwhelmed by the number of Palestinian children
arriving with bullet wounds to the head. -- “On just one day last week,
staff at the Al Arish hospital in Sinai were called to perform CAT
scans on a nine year old, two 10 year olds and a 14 year old, each of
whom had a bullet lodged in their brain after coming under fire during
the Israeli ground assault on Gaza."
First
Blood: Pictures From Life's Other Side
A
quote...."Already, Gaza has faded from the front pages of the Western
press. Already it is yesterday's news, yesterday's massacre, just
another in a long, long, endless line of human debauchery. After all,
the Western press, the Western establishments, indeed, Western popular
opinion, have often countenanced -- even championed -- far worse
atrocities. The establishments and power structures of most Arab
nations are also hastening to forget, to downplay, to bury, once again,
the suffering of the Palestinians, in the interests of political
gamesmanship, both domestic and diplomatic.The reality of the actual
human beings in Palestine who have been inflicted with horrific
suffering matter no more than the reality of the human beings in Iraq,
or Afghanistan, or Somalia, or Kurdistan, or Chechnya, or Colombia, or
Sri Lanka, or Burma, or the Congo, or anywhere else on the far-flung
earth where the machines of power wring the blood and terror that is
their fuel from the flesh of men and women and children."
In
America, Speaking the Truth Is a Career-ending Event
A quote...."January
26, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse"-- - “The evidence is sitting on
the table. There is no avoiding the fact that this was torture.”
--
These are the words of Manfred Nowak, the UN official appointed by the
Commission on Human Rights to examine cases of torture. Nowak has
concluded that President Obama is legally obligated to prosecute former
President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
-- If President Obama’s bankster economic team finishes off what
remains of the US economy, Obama, to deflect the public’s attention
from his own failures and Americans’ growing hardships, might fulfill
his responsibility to prosecute Bush and Rumsfeld. But for now
the
interesting question is why did the US military succumb to illegal
orders?"
With
Gaza, Journalists Fail Again
A quote...."Posted
on Jan 26, 2009 -- The assault on Gaza exposed not only Israel’s
callous disregard for international law but the gutlessness of the
American press. There were no major newspapers, television networks or
radio stations that challenged Israel’s fabricated version of events
that led to the Gaza attack or the daily lies Israel used to justify
the unjustifiable. Nearly all reporters were, as during the buildup to
the Iraq war, pliant stenographers and echo chambers. If we as
journalists have a product to sell, it is credibility. Take that
credibility away and we become little more than propagandists and
advertisers. By refusing to expose lies we destroy, in the end,
ourselves." -- For more on this issue
see....Judeo-Christian
C/C & US - The Media
Obama:
Regime Rotation
A quote...."January
26, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" -- The arrival of the Obama
administration will not fundamentally alter the course of military
expansion accelerated during the Bush era. The origins of these
policies do not lie uniquely in neoconservative ideology. While the
election of President Obama may offer new opportunities for progressive
forces to delimit the damage, their space for movement will ultimately
be constrained by deep-seated structural pressures that will attempt to
exploit Obama to rehabilitate American imperial hegemony, rather than
transform it."
Scenes from Gaza
Photos - These are grim, not gruesome....check out
the second photo, it's utterly heart wrenching. - mpg -
Palestinian Rawan Abu Taber, 4, wounded during the Israeli military
operations, screams in pain as doctors change bandages to her severe
burns, at the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday Jan. 21, 2009.
Doctors had to amputate her thumb because
it kept on burning. [That's
white phosphorous for you, she'll most likely die from the toxic
effects of the phosphorous on her internal organs. - mpg ] A
vast majority of over 4,000 Palestinians wounded in Israel's operations
in the Gaza Strip are treated at Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital."- (AP)"
We Will
Not Go Down (Song for Gaza) - (YouTube - 3 min 10 sec - January 23, 2009)
Propaganda - Ok! Ok! This is straight propaganda,
however considering the subtle, and some not so subtle,
propaganda constantly being pedaled by certain quarters, from
Huntington's “Clash of Civilizations”, to that idiotic, totally
ridiculous, celebration of Persian conquering homo-erotica, the "300",
to even the "Lord of the Rings" and the "Lion the Witch and the
Wardrobe" (both of them this editor's favorite movies) with their
"vicious conquering hordes from the East" this website editor
decided
to post this because turn-about REALLY is fair play. You gotta
check
out who plays the Lion and of course the rats (that was a bit much and
will…ahem, get one particular minority in this conflict rather
excited). Great song too. - mpg
Unseen
Gaza
Videos -- A
quote...."Channel 4 Video Report - Broadcast - January 22, 2009 -- Is
what has been presented on our screens and in our papers a true
reflection of events on the ground in Gaza? And how do these reports
differ to those aired in other countries? -- With reporters unable to
enter Gaza, attempted media manipulation from both sides and strict
regulations governing what images that can be shown on British TV, Jon
Snow asks a range of journalists from at home and abroad about the
challenges of getting the full story. -- Featuring images that haven't
before been aired on mainstream television, Jon also examines the
difference between the coverage at home and that in the US, Europe and
the Middle East. He compares the coverage available on terrestrial
channels with satellite TV and the internet and investigates the extent
to which some British Muslims are by-passing the mainstream British
media and looking elsewhere for their information. -- To what extent
does the choice of news outlet affect opinion of the conflict?"
An
Eye For An Eyelash: The Gaza Massacre - Part 1
Missed this one. - mpg -- Some
quotes...."Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:33 UTC -- On March 24, 1999, an
emotional Tony Blair appealed to the House of Commons and to the people
of Britain:"
"We must act to save thousands of
innocent men, women and children from humanitarian catastrophe."
Blair described the emergency:
"Let me give the House an
indication of
the scale of what is happening: a quarter of a million Kosovars, more
than 10 per cent of the population, are now homeless as a result of
repression by Serb forces... Since last summer 2000 people have died."
(Blair: 'We must act - to save thousands of innocent men, women and
children,' The Guardian, March 23, 1999;)
"Not even Blair claimed all the killings had been on one side. George
Robertson, the UK Defence Secretary at the time of the crisis,
testified before the House of Commons that until mid-January 1999, "the
Kosovo Liberation Army [KLA] was responsible for more deaths in Kosovo
than the Serbian authorities had been". (Quoted, Noam Chomsky, Hegemony
or Survival, Routledge, 2003, p.56)"
"The following day, NATO began its 78-day blitz of Serbia."
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Photo
Gallery: Gaza's Beit Lahia in Ruins
Photo Gallery -
01/23/2009 - High quality shots. -
mpg
In
Pictures: Gaza in ruins
Photo Gallery - January
23, 2009 at 12:43 pm - Some of these
are pretty grim. - mpg
The
Liberals' Grand Bargain
A quote...."In the
age of Obama, we're going to have to get used to the new zeitgeist in
Washington, and in the media: the perpetual high moral dudgeon of
contemporary liberalism. While the Bush administration had its own
style of moralizing – the rhetoric of "liberation," the idea that we
were doing the people of Iraq a favor by invading and occupying their
country – the Obama crowd is much more sophisticated than that, and,
simultaneously, more vulgar. On the one hand, they are all up in arms
about torture, and the lawless treatment of the Guantanamo inmates, and
on the other hand the prospect of a much wider "war on terrorism" –
extending not only into Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the ring of
'stans that encircle the new battlefield, – doesn't seem to bother them
in the least."
Obama's
orders leave torture, indefinite detention intact
A
quote...."On Thursday, President Barack Obama issued executive orders
mandating the closure of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in a
year’s time, requiring that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and
military personnel follow the Army Field Manual’s prohibitions on
torture, and closing secret CIA prisons overseas. -- While the media is
portraying these orders as a repudiation of the detention and
interrogation policies of the Bush administration, they actually change
little. They essentially represent a public relations effort to
refurbish the image of the United States abroad after years of torture
and extralegal detentions and shield high-ranking American officials
from potential criminal prosecution."
False Dawn
-- Obama's election doesn't mean peace is breaking out all over – far
from it
A quote...."As a
new administration takes power in Washington and the promise of
"change" is in the air, we have to ask ourselves: when-oh-when is it
coming? When will the dam break on the sclerotic foreign policy
thinking of the past eight – heck, the past 50 – years? -- When the New Roman Empire collapses of its
own dead weight. - mpg
New
evidence of Gaza child deaths
A quote...."Page last updated at 18:44 GMT, Thursday, 22 January 2009
-- Four-year-old Samar Abed Rabbu is a little girl with a captivating
smile to melt the heart of the most hardened correspondent."
Robert
Fisk: Posturing and laughter as victims rot
See also....How
the People of Gaza View “Change™”
A
quote...."Tuesday, 20 January 2009 -- The front page of the Beirut
daily As-Safir said it all yesterday. Across the top was a terrible
photograph of the bloated body of a Palestinian man newly discovered in
the ruins of his home while two male members of his family shrieked and
roared their grief. Below, at half the size, was a photograph from
Israel of Western leaders joking with Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime
Minister. Olmert was roaring with laughter. Silvio Berlusconi, arms on
the back of Olmert's shoulders, was also joshing and roaring – with
laughter, not grief – and on Olmert's right was Nicolas Sarkozy of
France wearing his stupidest of smiles. Only Chancellor Merkel appeared to
understand the moral collapse. No smiles from Germany." - bold
by website editor -- For more on
this sort
of issue see....Germany
- You
Are Free of Your Shame Now - 01-01-09 - mpg
Israel
accused of executing parents in front of children in Gaza
A quote...."One
nine-year-old boy said his father had been shot dead in front of him
despite surrendering to Israeli soldiers with his hands in the air. -
Another youngster described witnessing the deaths of his mother, three
brothers and uncle after the house they were in was shelled. - He said
his mother and one of his siblings had been killed instantly, while the
others bled to death over a period of days."
Gaza
'looks like earthquake zone'
Contains Video -- A
quote...."The worst-hit areas in the Gaza Strip after Israel's
three-week offensive look as if they have been hit by a strong
earthquake, aid agencies say."
How
Will Obama & the World Respond to Israeli War Crimes?
Photo Gallery
"Prima
Facie Evidence of War Crimes" by Israel - (YuTb - 5m59s - Jan. 19,
2009)
Video - A
quote...."Broadcast Jan 20th, 2009 -- Channel Four News journalist
Johnathan Miller travelled to
Gaza where he interviewed civilians sheltering in a UN run school
attacked by Israel using white phosphorus munitions. The attack -
described as "Outrageous" by the UN Secretary General - was filmed by a
school worker on his mobile phone. Donatella Rovera, an Amnesty
International investigator said "We've seen Prima Facie that there have
been war crimes"
VIDEO:
A Real Discussion on TV Regarding U.S. Policy Towards Israel
Contains Video - A
quote...."by
Glenn Greenwald - Salon -- Perhaps it takes a highly-telegenic,
American-born Jordanian monarch for American television networks to air
a real debate on the one-sided U.S. support for Israel."
The
bloody Israeli sojourn in Gaza - (RT-YouTube - 11 min 48 sec - Jan.
21, 2009)
Video - A
quote...."Controversial American Jewish scholar and specialist on the
Middle East, Norman Finkelstein, says Israel committed massive
atrocities in Gaza during the three-week war against Hamas militants."
Gaza
doctors struggle to treat deadly burns consistent with white phosphorus
Contains Video - A
quote...."Tuesday 20 January 2009 17.11 GMT -- Dozens dying after
Israeli attacks from injuries 'unlike any
seen before' that medics say should not be fatal. -- Doctors in Gaza
described today how they had struggled to treat dozens of patients with
terrible and unusually deadly burns consistent with white phosphorus
weapons, during Israel's three-week war in Gaza. -- Nafiz Abu Shabaan,
head of the burns unit at Shifa hospital and the most senior burns
surgeon in Gaza, said 60 to 70 patients had died in his unit during the
war from severe burns that were unlike any injury he had previously
seen."
Gaza's
destruction
revealed - 20 Jan 09 - (AJ-YuTb - 3m51s - January 19,
2009)
Video - A
quote...."January 19, 2009 -- The cessation of fighting in Gaza has
allowed the true scale
of destruction there to be revealed. Sherine Tadros reports from the
north of the strip on the despair of one father who says Israeli forces
shot and killed two of his daughters at close range."
David
Swanson: Appoint a "Special Proscecutor" - (YouTube - 5m 15s - 01/19/09)
Video - A
quote...."On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, hundreds of antiwar activists
expressed their outrage over President George W. Bush's eight
warmongering, economically disastrous, torture approving and
lawbreaking years in the Oval Office (2001-2009). The good riddance to
Bush rally was held at DuPont Circle, in Washington, D.C. David
Swanson, cofounder of afterdowningstreet.org,
was one of the speakers
at the event. He demanded the appointment of a "Special Prosecutor" to
bring to the bar of justice the wrongdoers in the Bush-Cheney Gang."
Al
Qaeda Doesn't Exist (Documentary) - 2 - (Adobe FP9 - 14m 21s - Rec
01/11/09)
Video - posted at Al-Qaeda Doesn't Exist
-- A quote...."Part One of the Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist documentary from
The Corbett Report, dealing with the founding and funding of what we
know as Al Qaeda. This installment of the documentary goes into
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Operation Cyclone, the ISI-CIA-MAK-US government
funding circle and CIA connections to Osama Bin Laden." -- For more on this issue see....US
Support of Terror & Judeo-Christian
C/C & US - Axis of Evil
Gaza:
Analysis, Pictures, Video Material -- A Comprehensive Review
Video List - Data Base -
A
quote...."With the Gaza "cease fire" in place for one week (after
Israeli forces murdered at least 450 Children), the Beit Sahour vigil
that was held daily for the past 22 days will be transformed to
increased action. Tomorrow (Monday) at 10 AM local, Palestinian
Civil
Society Organizations in the Bethlehem area will hold a second work day
for Gaza where we will be emailing, writing media and politicians,
sharing ideas and developing strategies to develop the Boycotts,
Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel as well as bringing
Israeli leaders to justice for war crimes and crimes against
humanity.Those of you who can join us it will be at AlGhad institute in
Downtown Beit Sahour near the bus company offices."
The
grandchildren of holocaust survivors from World War II are doing to the
Palestinians exactly what was done to them by Nazi Germany...
- Photo Gallery. -- An outstanding comparison of photos
from Nazi Germany and Israel. - mpg
Unanimous
Consent -- When Israel acts, Congress applauds. No debate required.
- PDF
A quote...."posted
Jan 18 2009 -- January 26, 2009 -- IssueIn most of the world, the
Israeli attack on Gaza is viewed as an intensely controversial act and,
more commonly, an excessive, unjustifiable, and brutal assault on a
trapped civilian population. But not in the United States—at least not
among America’s political and opinion-making elite. Here one finds a
bipartisan consensus as simplistic as it is unquestioned: Israel’s
bombing campaign and invasion of Gaza are right and just, and it is the
duty of the U.S. to support these actions unequivocally. -- From the
moment Israel began dropping bombs on Gaza, leaders of America’s two
major political parties rushed to announce their total support,
competing to see who could most fulsomely praise the offensive." -- For more on this issue see....
Judeo-Christian
C/C & US
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Israel
Pauses (Politely) for the Emperor's Coronation - 01-16-09 - mpg
To
Forgive and Forget -- To Deny Justice -- Never !! - 01-16-09 - mpg
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The
End of Hypocrisy: Crime's Gleeful Abandon in Gaza
A quote...."Fri
Jan 16 2009 -- More and more, comment on Israel's savage attack on the
people of Gaza seems superfluous. The facts -- even the modicum of
facts that can be gleaned through the deadly wall of Israeli censorship
and the perverse and sinister distortions of the American media --
speak loudly, with horrifying clarity, for themselves. We are
witnessing monstrous crimes, committed with cold deliberation: a
bloodthirsty spectacle of unbridled terrorism, openly celebrated by the
political and media elites of Israel and America. "
The
Truth About the 2009 Gaza Massacre
- (YuTb - 6 min 22 sec - January 10, 2009)
Video - A quote...."Eye
opening montage of news clips and photos that tell the truth about the
events in Gaza."
UK
Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza - (YuTb - 5 min 39 sec
- Jan 16, 2009)
Video - A
quote...."Israel was born out of Jewish Terrorism" Tzipi Livnis Father
was a Terrorist" Astonishing claims in the Hous of Parliamnet. SIR
Gerald Kaufman, the veteran Labour MP, yesterday compared the actions
of Israeli troops in Gaza to the Nazis who forced his family to flee
Poland."
"We
Are The Authors Of This Tragedy" - (YuTb - 5 min 49 sec - Jan
16, 2009)
Video - A
quote...."George Galloway's powerful speech in the House of Commons
debate on Gaza, Thu 15 Jan 2009 (5.30pm), highlighting the hypocrisy
and brazen double-standards of Western foreign policy towards Israel
policies, including assassinations and other war crimes."
The
Language of Death
A quote...."Posted
on Jan 12, 2009 -- The incursion into Gaza is not about destroying
Hamas. It is not about stopping rocket fire into Israel. It is not
about achieving peace. The Israeli decision to rain death and
destruction on Gaza, to use the lethal weapons of the modern
battlefield on a largely defenseless civilian population, is the final
phase of the decades-long campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestinians.
The assault on Gaza is about creating squalid, lawless and impoverished
ghettos where life for Palestinians will be barely sustainable. It is
about building ringed Palestinian enclaves where Israel will always
have the ability to shut off movement, food, medicine and goods to
perpetuate misery. The Israeli attack on Gaza is about building a hell
on earth."
Seeing
Through the Lies The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza
A
quote...."January 13, 2009 -- The record is fairly clear. You can find
it on the Israeli website, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
Israel broke the ceasefire by going into the Gaza and killing six or
seven Palestinian militants. At that point—and now I’m quoting the
official Israeli website—Hamas retaliated or, in retaliation for the
Israeli attack, then launched the missiles. -- Now, as to the reason
why, the record is fairly clear as well. According to Ha’aretz, Defense
Minister Barak began plans for this invasion before the ceasefire even
began. In fact, according to yesterday’s Ha’aretz, the plans for the
invasion began in March."
Moloch's
Altar: Child Sacrifice and the War on Terror
She should be wearing a red coat...oh, that was a
different people in a different picture.
- mpg -- A quote...."Fri. 09, Jan 2009 -- Tell me yourself, I challenge
you—answer. Imagine
that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of
making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but
that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny
creature....and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears: would you
consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the
truth.” -- *Dostoevsky*, The
Brothers Karamazov."
So
Israel
doesn't kill civilians??
Photos -- (warning,
the photos are extremely grim -- just keep in mind folks it's your tax
dollars at work. Hope all you Obamatrolls like and enjoy what you
paid for. - mpg
) A quote...."230 Palestinian children have been killed in 10 days and
it is not even an item of news on mainstream media. Imagine if
one Israeli child had been killed by a Palestinian, we wouldn't have
heard the end of it. It would have been headlines all over.
But 230 Palestinian children die and its somehow ok by the West. Just
remember them... They are not terrorists...."
War
of Choice: How Israel
Manufactured the Gaza Escalation
A
quote...."Steve Niva | January 7, 2009 -- Israel has repeatedly claimed
that it had "no choice" but to wage war on Gaza on December 27 because
Hamas had broken a ceasefire, was firing rockets at Israeli civilians,
and had "tried everything in order to avoid this military operation,"
as Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni put it. -- This claim, however, is
widely at odds with the fact that Israel's military and political
leadership took many aggressive steps during the ceasefire that
escalated a crisis with Hamas, and possibly even provoked Hamas to
create a pretext for the assault. This wasn't a war of "no choice," but
rather a very avoidable war in which Israeli actions played the major
role in instigating."
Cities
across the world become platform for hundreds of thousands of
protesters against Gaza fighting -- Photos - (huge protests)
A quote...."Cities across the world became the platform for protest on
Israel's military action in Gaza today. - Organisers said more than
250,000 people marched through Spain's capital of Madrid, with other
European cities including Athens, Brussels, Rome, Naples Frankfurt,
Munich and Berlin also the focal points of protesters."
Gaza
Exposes Arab Kings - (YouTube - 9 min 49 sec - January 09, 2009)
Video - A quote...."From
Latin America to East Asia, your cries and protests
for Palestine have been heard, we thank you dearly. - Zionism is the
most powerfully supported agenda of our century, and the events in Gaza
are but a small glance as to why that agenda's destruction should
remain a priority on everyone's list."
George
Galloway Stop Gaza Massacre protest lpart 08 - (YouTube - 3
min 37 sec - January 04, 2009) -- Video
- A
quote...."January 04, 2009 -- George Galloway's speech at Trafalgar
Square London listened
by 100s of thousands of supporters of truth and justice for Gaza."
America’s
Shame
A quote...."January
08, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" -- Why does Israel have a right to
exist, but Palestine doesn’t? -- This is the question of our time. --
For sixty years Israelis have been stealing Palestine from
Palestinians. There are maps available on the Internet and in Israeli
publications showing the shrinkage over time of what was once Palestine
into what Palestine is today--a small number of unconnected ghettos or
bantustans."
Israel:
Boycott, Divest, Sanction
A quote...."By Naomi Klein -- January 7, 2009 -- It's time. Long past
time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is
for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put
an end to apartheid in South Africa."
War of Choice: How
Israel Manufactured the Gaza Escalation
A quote...."Steve
Niva | January 7, 2009 -- Israel has repeatedly claimed that it had "no
choice" but to wage war on Gaza on December 27 because Hamas had broken
a ceasefire, was firing rockets at Israeli civilians, and had "tried
everything in order to avoid this military operation," as Foreign
Minister Tzipi Livni put it. -- This claim, however, is widely at odds
with the fact that Israel's military and political leadership took many
aggressive steps during the ceasefire that escalated a crisis with
Hamas, and possibly even provoked Hamas to create a pretext for the
assault. This wasn't a war of "no choice," but rather a very avoidable
war in which Israeli actions played the major role in
instigating." -- For more on
this issue see....US
Sponsored Civil Wars - Palestine
Obama's
Silence
A quote...."Posted
January 8, 2009 | 12:21 AM (EST) -- Back when Barack Obama was a
longshot candidate in the Iowa primary, he was morally candid, saying
on March 11, 2007, that "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian
people." It was one month after the announcement of Obama's campaign,
and the last time he would make such a statement. Three days later, at
the AIPAC conference in Washington DC, he was hammered as inexperienced
by the New York Times reporter, Patrick Healy, on March 14." -- For more on this issue see.... Judeo-Christian
Conflict-Control Within the US
Barack
Obama™; The Price of Silence
Photo gallery. - mpg
George
Galloway Stop Gaza Massacre protest l part 08 - (YuTb - 3m37s
- 010409)
Video - A
quote...."George Galloway's speech at Trafalgar Square London listened
by 100s of thousands of supporters of truth and justice for Gaza."
Gaza
2008: Micro-Wars and Macro-Wars
A quote...."With
regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict, we have entered the age of
micro-wars. -- The first wars that Israel fought with its Arab
neighbors were conventional struggles in which infantry, artillery,
armor and air forces played central roles."
Israel
needs its usual friends to help again - this time for real
A
quote...."....Israel needs help again. It needs reasonable people who
share the faith of most of Israel's citizens to rescue them - and their
Arab neighbors - from a degenerate political class that is leading all
of us to disaster. Specifically, it is moderate Jewish Americans who
can be the most helpful by taking back control of the so-called "Israel
lobby" from the zealots who have made it the swamp of militaristic
racism that it is. The lobby has enormous influence over US policy in
the Middle East - and therefore over the calculations of Israeli
political parties as they select their standard-bearers in national
elections." -- For more on this sort
of issue see....Germany
- You
Are Free of Your Shame Now - 01-01-09 - mpg
America's [& Israel's] Hidden Role in Hamas's Rise to
Power
A quote...."The
United States bears much of the blame for the ongoing bloodshed in the
Gaza Strip and nearby parts of Israel. Indeed, were it not for
misguided Israeli and American policies, Hamas would not be in control
of the territory in the first place. -- Israel initially encouraged the
rise of the Palestinian Islamist movement as a counter to the Palestine
Liberation Organization, the secular coalition composed of Fatah and
various leftist and other nationalist movements. Beginning in the early
1980s, with generous funding from the U.S.-backed family dictatorship
in Saudi Arabia, the antecedents of Hamas began to emerge through the
establishment of schools, health care clinics, social service
organizations and other entities that stressed an ultraconservative
interpretation of Islam, which up to that point had not been very
common among the Palestinian population." -- And of course to help Hamas fall from
power see also....US
Sponsored Civil Wars - Palestine
Israel
is America’s hands
A quote...."Jan 1, 2009,
01:20 -- It is the responsibility of the alternative press to enlighten
the American people about who is behind all of these interminable
little “pissant” wars that drive us towards a global conflagration. --
All these little wars begin with “terrorist” attacks, which we then
rush to defend against. All these vicious terror attacks can be traced
back to American, British and Israeli intelligence agencies. Repeated
revelations being made in foreign media about CIA/Mossad connections
with terror kingpins like Dawood Ibrahim, Sheikh Omar, Ayman al
Zawahiri (Kosovo Liberation Army), Turkish “deep state” elements, etc.,
and terrorist attacks carried-out in places like Yemen, Syria and
Kosovo are providing hard proof of our charges of American/Israeli
state terrorism." -- For more on
this sort of issue see....US
Support of Terror
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Germany
- You
Are Free of Your Shame Now - 01-01-09 - mpg
For a different slant on this
sort of
issue see also....A
Word on Hatred From the Angry Arab & Are All
Americans Guilty? Whatever Happened to Western Morality?
No
Leadership From Obama. - Oh Contraire! - 12-28-08 - mpg
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Dahlia
Wasfi about the agenda in the Middle East - (YuTb - 9m57s
- Nov. 05, 2008)
Video - A
quote...."Wasfi was a speaker at the Iraq Veterans Against the War
(IVAW) 'Winter Soldier' eyewitness testimony, March 2008, in Maryland.
Snowshoefilms had some questions for the young physician and caught up
with her in Chicago a few months later."
FBI:
Mumbai's culprit has no Pak links
Possible
False Flag Indication - A
quote...."An FBI team investigating the Mumbai attacks' case has said
that the alleged main culprit, Ajmal Kasab, has no links with Pakistan.
- The five-member team headed by the agency's South Asian Department
Director, William Robert, visited the remote town of Faridkot, the
place India claims Kasab is a resident of. - However, the team members
said that there was no connection between Kasab and the town, a Press
TV correspondent reported. - "No evidence could be collected from the
area which could confirm the claim of Ajmal Kasab's being Pakistani",
the FBI investigators said on Wednesday." -- This
website editor has said a lot of very harsh things regarding the FBI's
past efforts to carry out effective investigations, especially when the
interests of the rich and powerful are involved, it appears however
this time around they're trying to conduct an honest
investigation....we'll have to wait and see just how far they're willing to go. But hat's off
to them for this little tidbit, and good luck.- mpg
Prosecute
the NIST for Obstruction of Justice
A quote...."NIST may have deliberately lied about the collapse of
Building 7 --said to have been 'pulled' even by Larry Silverstein, its
owner. The NIST, charged with investigating the building's collapse, is
still trying to peddle the absurd ex post facto rationalization that
'heat expansion' or some other fancy sounding made up word/phrase is
responsible for the perfectly symmetrical collapse of a building that
had never been struck by aircraft."
NIST
Building 7 Analysis Debunked - (YouTube - 9 min 18 sec - December
28, 2008)
Video - A quote...."9/11
Truth responds to NIST with HARD FACTS & Evidence!" -- For more on this issue see....9/11
- WTC7
Secret
of the Lusitania: Arms find challenges Allied claims it was solely a
passenger ship
Some quotes...."Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused
such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War." --
"Winston Churchill, who was first Lord of the Admiralty and has long
been suspected of knowing more about the circumstances of the attack
than he let on in public, wrote in a confidential letter shortly before
the sinking that some German submarine attacks were to be welcomed. --
He said: 'It is most important to attract neutral shipping to our
shores, in the hope especially of embroiling the U.S. with Germany.'For
our part we want the traffic - the more the better and if
some of it gets into trouble, better still.'"
Does this all sound familiar to
anyone? Perhaps this quote might help....
“The process
of transformation,” the [PNAC] plan said, “is likely to be a long one,
absent
some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.”
All it would take is for
"someone" to "somehow" pass a little note on to the German high command
that a ship loaded with munitions was sailing toward Britain on such
and such a course, on such and such a date. One tiny little note,
or some pillow talk to a German spy, or a folder conveniently left out
on someone's desk for a German agent to see....and presto, you've get
yourself a nice juicy “casus belli” for World War I. Makes one
wonder just who
would do such a thing doesn't it, and just how many times it's been
done. – mpg
U.S.
Draws India Into The Afghan "War"
A
quote...."Islamabad will be chuckling with pleasure. The parameters of
its foreign policy, which Indian diplomacy rubbished for decades, are
finally gaining habitation and name. The heart of the matter is that
India has made itself vulnerable to U.S. pressure. Of all Afghanistan’s
neighbouring countries that are exposed to the danger of militancy,
India is the only “non-combatant” threatened with a spill-over. The
Central Asian countries bordering Amu Darya, though much weaker than
India, have marvellously insulated themselves from the pernicious
fallout from the Hindu Kush. So has China’s Xinjiang. So indeed has
Iran despite robust efforts by the U.S.-British intelligence to inject
the virus of terrorism into its eastern provinces. Certainly, Moscow
managed to insulate Chechnya too." -- For
more on this issue see....Viral-Neocons
: A clinical medical diagnosis. - 05-25-06 - mpg
Iraq
story buried by US networks
Video - A quote...."Major
networks spend only 2 minutes per week on Iraq war coverage; Lara Logan
of CBS joins critique." -- For more
on this issue see....Fake
Intel / Propaganda - Iraq Death Toll
US to Fund Afghan
Militias, Applying Iraq Tactic - a.k.a.
The "Surge" Deux - mpg
US-NRE Strategy Note
-- The surge into Afghanistan of
US-NRE troops means nothing,
watch who the US-NRE
chooses to back, bribe, co-opt or attack in Afghanistan over the next
six to twelve months. Playing off the ethnic and religious groups
against each
other in that country will be much more difficult this time around
because
the differences between them are much less sharply defined then they
were in
Iraq.
The
US-NRE can't simply blow up another Al-Askari Mosque
to get the desired internal fratricide going. But it may very
well try to do something similar. – mpg -- A
quote...."Kabul, Afghanistan -
The Afghan government
will formally start a U.S.-funded effort to recruit armed local
militias in the battle against the Taliban in remote parts of the
country, exporting the tactic to Afghanistan from Iraq." -- For
more on this issue see....US
Support of Terror
Regarding the article shown
above -
see also....
Funding,
Arming, and Training Iraqis and Afghans to Fight Their Fellow Countrymen
U.S.
will give free weapons to Afghan civilians
Parable
of the Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone
US
Support of Terror
Hey
Reagan Democrats - Now Do You Get It?
A quote...."The
Reagan Democrat (technically, Imbecelicus politici) was always the
strangest and most contemptuous of species from the habitat of American
politics, as you’ve perhaps already heard. Try to imagine another
example from the animal kingdom that could be so readily counted upon
to bring harm upon itself and others. There are some of course, but
usually they are simply ignorant animals, often with very limited
cranial capacity."
In
The Great Tradition Obama Is A Hawk
From the History File, and a good call. - mpg
-- A quote...."14/06/08 "ICH" -- -In 1941, the editor Edward Dowling
wrote: "The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States
are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a
democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get
it." What has changed? The terror of the rich is greater than ever, and
the poor have passed on their delusion to those who believe that when
George W Bush finally steps down next January, his numerous threats to
the rest of humanity will diminish."
End
of the year or end of the world (as we know it)?
A quote...."Before
all the Xmas BS gets in the way, an end-of-year essay of sorts is in
order, especially so given the bumpy ride capitalism has bestowed on us
this past twelve months. And the portents for 2009 look to be even
worse as capitalism, desperate to shed over-valued assets, descends
into the abyss. -- Look at it this way: after the Crash of ‘29 and the
launch of the New Deal, it took some six years to engineer the outbreak
of WWII, the surefire way of literally burning up surplus capital in
awesome quantities."
Peter Schiff
Was Right 2006 - 2007 (2nd Edition) - (YuTb - 9 min 59 sec - Nov.
02, '08)
Video - Peter Schiff was right and everybody else
(in the video) was wrong, you gotta see it, it's pretty funny. Kudos to
jdouche. -- mpg
-- A
quote...."This is a set of clips of Peter Schiff from 2006 and 2007. I
added labels and 2008 predictions to the first video."
How
the GOP, Reagan, Bush Sr, Bush Jr Betrayed, Pillaged, then Sold the U.S.
Some quotes...."Rome
fell for the same reasons the US will have lost empire and world
influence. Like Rome, the US has despoiled the land, waged war upon
both the small farmer and the laborer, outsourced it's industry,
devalued the dollar and subverted the products of labor --the sole
source of 'value' in any economy. That the US 'current account balance'
--as officially recorded by the CIA --is the highest in the world
proves that US is bankrupt and has been for years. It also proves that
GOP economics have made the US less productive vis a vis the rest of
the world." -- "Rome fell because it became economically impossible.
Wars of conquest
ravaged the class of 'freeborn farmers' whose lands were seized whilst
they were away at war. Slaves brought back to Rome permanently
depressed the job market. Eventually, the free-born farmer was forced
by policy and circumstance to compete with slaves for jobs. Rome had
forgotten or never knew the source of wealth itself: labor! It is among
the many 'evils' of slavery that in addition to being cruel, it robs
the product of labor of its value."
All
roads lead out of Afghanistan
Geo-Political Prediction
-- A quote...."The
measure of success of president-elect Barack Obama's new "Afghan
strategy" will be directly proportional to his ability to delink the
war from its geopolitical agenda inherited from the George W Bush
administration. -- It is obvious that Russia and Iran's cooperation is
no less critical for the success of the war than what the US is
painstakingly extracting from the Pakistani generals. Arguably, Obama
will even be in a stronger negotiating position vis-a-vis the tough
generals in Rawalpindi if only he has Moscow and Tehran on board his
Afghan strategy. -- But then, Moscow and Iran will
expect that Obama
reciprocates with a willingness to jettison the US's containment
strategy towards them. The signs do not look good. This is not only
from the look of Obama's national security team and the continuance of
Robert Gates as defense secretary. -- On the contrary, in
the dying
weeks of the Bush administration, the US is robustly pushing for an
increased military presence in the Russian (and Chinese) backyard in
Central Asia on the ground that the exigencies of a stepped-up war
effort in Afghanistan necessitate precisely such an expanded US
military presence."
Should
Dick Cheney Be Hanged? By Rachel Maddow Video And Transcript
Video - A
quote...."We hanged people for waterboarding as a war crime, in Dick
Cheney's lifetime. With that as the historical context, the vice
president cavalierly told ABC News that he specifically approved that
same technique being used against the prisoner named Khalid Sheikh
Mohammad."
The
Betrayal of The Commons
A quote...."The
cornerstone of capitalism, it has been said, is a handshake. -- The
legal embellishments that constitute the law books lining the shelves
of any lawyer, those laws are footnotes to the many ways people have
betrayed trust, betrayed the letter of the law, the spirit of the
contract, the meaning of the handshake. -- Trust, not money, makes the
world go around. Money is an emblem of the exchange of trust. It
doesn't exist except as an invention. -- And trust has been broken."
The
mother of all paradoxes, the American social model
A quote...."(Rome)
It’s undeniable that the American social model is a paradox in the
world. All you have to do is look around at other nations and the
difference is clear as the Rome sky in July. Even though today at the
nadir of its profound social crisis because of its flagrant, outright
failure, America continues unabashedly to hammer away at its people how
fortunate they are, while simultaneously proposing itself to the world
as the paradigm, the quintessence, the very epitome of western
civilization. But is history not carrying America into a faded American
Dream?"
Things
Are Not as They Seem
A quote...."I am
disgusted with liberal politics as usual. I am disgusted with the
self-congratulations, the self-gratification, the feeling of moral and
intellectual superiority voiced by liberal pundits and their
sickeningly predictable, patent, self-important, arrogant and
superior-feeling followers. Is it enough to be happy that people are
throwing shoes at Bush? Are people so gratified with Bush-bashing that
they have forgotten that the entire capitalist system is on the brink
of collapse? Do they not wonder in disgust as their liberal Democratic
heroes work like mad to save the sinking ship? Shouldn't they wonder
why such repairs as they recommend come solely at the expense of
working people like themselves? Shouldn't the conclusions of leadership
be more drastic? Liberalism as it stands has no answers. No answers for
the disaster that faces us. Even Barack Obama stated that the usual
list of remedies for liberal economic reform is just about spent.
Liberalism has nothing left, or next to nothing. What it does have left
will not fix what ails us."
The
Bubble of Empire -- It's been popped …
A quote...."The
idea that the United States is the global hegemon, that we have first
dibs on the title of world policemen – indeed, our entire post-WWII
foreign policy – is nothing but a delusion. That is one of the chief
lessons of the recent economic downturn, one that, unfortunately, the
incoming administration has yet to face up to – and the pundits
(ensconced as they are in the culture of hubris) have yet to realize."
-- For more on this issue see....Effective
Fed Funds Rate & Total Nonfarm Payrolls - 03-24-07 - mpg
PJB:
Obama’s War
A quote...."Just
two months after the twin towers fell, the armies of the Northern
Alliance marched into Kabul. The Taliban fled. -- The triumph was total
in the “splendid little war” that had cost one U.S. casualty. Or so it
seemed. Yet, last month, the war against the Taliban entered its eighth
year, the second longest war in our history, and America and NATO have
never been nearer to strategic defeat."
The
American-Made Insurgency in Afghanistan - A Million McVeighs Now
A
quote...."December 17, 2008 --- The "Good War" in Afghanistan –
the
Bush-launched war that Barack Obama tells us we must fight and win –
continues to deteriorate before our eyes. Just like every other
operation in the so-called "War on Terror" (another Bush-launched
campaign that Obama has fully embraced as his own), the Afghan war, now
in its seventh year, has proven entirely counter-productive to its
stated aims. Instead of stabilizing a volatile region and denying it as
a base for violent extremism, it has of course done the opposite. The
shock waves of the heavy-handed American-led invasion of Afghanistan –
a country that no foreign power has ever conquered and held – have
spread across Central Asia, most dangerously into Pakistan."
What
A Coincidence
A quote...."In
1992, then under-secretary of defense, Paul Wolfowitz wrote a 46 page
document called the “Defense Planning Guide” for civilian military
leaders and the Department of Defense. It was later referred to as the
“Wolfowitz Doctrine“. In it he maps out a new “post cold war strategy”
for American involvement in affairs overseas that was vastly different
than any policy this country had adapted before. The primary focus of
the Wolfowitz Doctrine was to insure that American superiority and
global dominance would continue in the future; “to prevent the
emergence of a rival superpower“."
Billl
Moyers Interviews Glenn Greenwald
Video - A
quote...."Bill Moyers sits down with political commentator and
Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald who asks: Are we a nation ruled by
men or by laws? A former constitutional and civil rights lawyer,
Greenwald looks at the legacy of the Bush Administration, the prospects
for President-elect Obama's cabinet choices, as well as the
possibilities for government accountability." -- || Transcript
|| Podcast
Mp3 ||
The
Creature from Jekyll Island - A Second Look at the Fed Reserve by G
Edward Griffin
(Google vid - 1 hr 11 min 13 sec - Sep 24, 2007) - Audio - A quote...."Where does money
come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets
are unveiled. Here is a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines,
the pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called
money. A boring subject? Just wait. You'll be hooked in five minutes.
It sounds like a detective story, which it really is, but it's all
true. Based on Mr. Griffin's book of the same title, this address will
shatter your old ideas about money and change the way you view the
world. 1998 lecture." -- Except for
the authors comments at the very end regarding the threat "one world
government" poses to the US-NRE's sovereignty (possibly one day, in any
case it will just be an amalgam of corporations and banks) to the
threat the UN posses (laughable, the UN is currently the US-NRE’s lap
dog) this is the most lucid, must easily understood, most
straightforward explanation of how and why the Federal Reserve taxes us
while destroying our hard earned “money” that this website editor has
ever heard. - mpg
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The Mumbia Attack -- Multiple
Articles
Profile
of Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq
A
quote...."Dec 14th, 2008 -- Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq, the
65-year-old Saudi Arabia-based chief financier of the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba
(LeT), was in touch with underworld gangster and designated global
terrorist Dawood Ibrahim.Bahaziq, also known as Abu Abd al-Aziz,
approached Dawood in the late ’90s to fund the LeT. Sources in the
Intelligence Bureau said Dawood acceded to Bahaziq’s demands and also
promised him foot soldiers for the LeT in India. -- The Indian-born
Saudi national has been key to the LeT’s establishment and activities,
and was a popular visitor to the Jamaat-ud-Dawah’s — the parent body of
the LeT — centre in Muridke in Pakistan."
Did
the Saudis Help Fund the Terror School Behind Mumbai?
A quote...."Shady
cash transfers link Saudi charities to Mumbai terror and French bank
accounts to Arafat's graft. -- In Muridke, Pakistan, there is a toney
boarding school set in a neatly trimmed green campus that includes a
farm, swimming pool, and even a small hospital. Indian authorities
believe this bucolic facility is also the headquarters for the
terrorists who carried out the Mumbai attacks."
The Mumbai
Terror Attacks: Need For A Thorough Investigation
Some
quotes...."In all the confusion and horror generated by the ghastly
terrorist attacks in Bombay, a dimension which has not received the
attention it deserves is the circumstances surrounding the death of
Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare and two of his
colleagues, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Additional
Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte." -- "Hemant Karkare was engaged in
unearthing a terror network with characteristics which had not been
seen so far. The investigation started by tracing the motorcycle used
to plant bombs in Malegaon in September 2008 to a Hindu Sadhvi,
Pragyasingh Thakur; it later uncovered a cellphone conversation between
her and Ramji, the man who planted the bombs, in which she asked why
more people had not been killed. For the first time, the Indian state
was conducting a thorough professional probe into a terror network
centred on Hindu extremist organisations...."
Arrests
made in Mumbai terror attack, but one may be Indian undercover officer,
igniting controversy -- Some
quotes...."The arrests, announced in the eastern city of Calcutta, were
the first since the bloody siege ended. But what was touted as a rare
success for India's beleaguered law enforcement agencies, quickly
turned sour as police in two Indian regions squared off against one
another. Senior police officers in Indian Kashmir, which has been at
the heart of tensions between India and Pakistan, demanded the release
of the officer, Mukhtar Ahmed, saying he was one of their own and had
been involved in infiltrating Kashmiri militant groups." --
"The
implications of Ahmed's involvement — that
Indian agents may have been in touch with the militants and perhaps
supplied the SIM cards used in the attacks
— added to the growing list of questions over India's ill-trained
security forces, which are widely blamed for not thwarting the
attacks." -- bold by website editor
Former
ISI Chief: Mumbai And 9/11 Both “Inside Jobs”
A
quote...."General Hamid Gul, the former head of the Pakistani ISI, told
CNN yesterday that both the Mumbai attacks and 9/11 were “inside jobs,”
much to the chagrin of host and CFR luminary Fareed Zakaria, who told
viewers that Gul’s opinions were “absolutely wrong and thoroughly
discredited”. -- “When you look at the full spectrum of possibilities,
who could have done it, then one knows that Samjhauta Express was a
similar case, in which Pakistan ISI was accused. But it turned out that
it was the militant Hindus themselves who had killed 68 passengers in
that train, and that it was an inside job,” said Gul."
The
Meaning of Mumbai South Asia, the new arena
A quote...."The
Mumbai massacre comes at a time when the U.S. is about to switch
battlefields in its avowedly "generational" war on terrorism, from the
Middle East to South Asia. As we move our forces eastward into
Afghanistan and, inevitably, Pakistan, the events in Mumbai light up
the geopolitical landscape like lightning at midnight, prefiguring a
new and even bigger quagmire than the one we're supposedly leaving
behind in Iraq. Forget the differences between Sunnis and Shi'ites.
That's so yesterday. What we're dealing with now, in the
Pakistani-Indian rivalry, is a true war of civilizations, pitting
Muslims against Hindus."
Bodies
in the River
A
quote...."There's a well-known myth in India about bodies in the river.
- Villagers notice a body floating by, and they take it out of the
river and bury it. - Then more bodies float by, and the villagers take
them out and bury them. - Soon, so many bodies are floating downriver
that the village can't keep up. They run to the village elder to ask
him how to fish all the bodies out. - The elder tells them to stop
fishing out bodies, and instead tells them to walk upstream to find out
why bodies are falling in the river in the first place. He tells them
that unless they stop it, they won't solve the problem. - They do so,
find out why people are dying and ending up in the river, and stop the
whole mess."
Financing
terror: the Lashkar and beyond
A quote...."Dec 5th, 2008 -- The Wahabi brand of Sunni Islam that
the Lashkar owes
allegiance to is an ultra- conservative version founded in the 18th
century in Saudi Arabia by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792). The
Al-Saud dynasty that rules Saudi Arabia professes the Wahabi faith.
Fuelled by oil money, and to cloak their own lavish lifestyles, the
rulers pump in money for Wahabi missionary activity all over the world.
According to The New Yorker’s investigative journalist Seymore Hersh,
the Saud regime is “increasingly corrupt, alienated from the country’s
religious rank and file, and so weakened and frightened that it has
brokered its future by channeling hundreds of millions of dollars in
what amounts to protection money to fundamentalist groups that wish to
overthrow it.” This is a practice that has been referred to as
“Petro-Islam.” Muslim Brotherhood chapters all over the world have also
been allegedly helped in a similar manner."
The
Mumbai Attacks: More Than Meets The Eye
A quote...."Details
have emerged regarding who was responsible for the recent terrorist
attacks in Mumbai, India, with the evidence pointing to the
Pakistani-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). But the trail
doesn't end there. -- Indications of a coming attack were reportedly
received by intelligence agencies well in advance. US signals
intelligence (SIGINT) picked up a spike in “chatter” indicating
something was brewing, which was supported by information from assets
in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Some of the information that was received
by US intelligence was passed on to India as early as September."
Pakistani
Security Consultant Calls Mumbai Attacks A "Botched" False Flag
A quote...."A renowned Pakistani strategic defence analyst has
described last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai as a "botched" false
flag operation designed to imitate the 9/11 attacks on the United
States."
Mumbai
Attacks: Piecing Together the Story
A quote...."There
is a torrent of information and analysis on the recent attacks in
Mumbai, but much of the story is nowhere to be seen in the American
mainstream media. Here's a guide to what you might have missed:"
PJB:
Will the Terrorists Succeed Again?
A
quote...."Arguably the most successful act of revolutionary terror was
the June 1914 assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand in
Sarajevo. - Believing his mission to murder the heir to the Austrian
throne had failed, Gavrilo Princip suddenly found himself standing a
few feet away from the royal car. He fired twice, mortally wounding the
archduke and his wife. - Tactically, that act of terror eliminated the
reformist Ferdinand, who meant to address the grievances of his Slav
subjects by granting them greater autonomy and equality with Austrians
and Hungarians inside the empire. - Strategically, the assassination
succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its Black Hand plotters."
CIA Foreknowledge
of the Mumbai Attacks
A
quote...."Yesterday, Outlookindia.com reported that the CIA's station
chief in Delhi approached one of India's intelligence agencies, the
Research and Analysis Wing, and passed on a fairly specific warning...."
Mossad-CIA
Connection To Mumbai Terror Attacks?
A quote...."Numerous theories are doing the rounds about the dastardly
terrorist assault on Mumbai. The dominant view, based on what is being
suggested by the media, is that this is the handiwork of the dreaded
Pakistan-based self-styled Islamist and terrorist outfit Lashkar-e
Tayyeba, which, ever since it was ostensibly proscribed by the
Government of Pakistan some years ago, has adopted the name of Jamaat
ud-Dawah. This might well be the case, for the Lashkar has been
responsible for numerous such terrorist attacks in recent years,
particularly in Kashmir. -- The Lashkar is the military wing of the
Markaz Dawat wal Irshad, an outfit floated by a section of the
Pakistani Ahl-e Hadith, a group with close affiliations to the Saudi
Wahhabis. It has its headquarters at the town of Muridke in the
Gujranwala district in Pakistani Punjab. The Markaz was established in
1986 by two Pakistani university professors, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and
Zafar Iqbal. They were assisted by Abdullah Azam, a close aide of Osama
bin Laden, who was then associated with the International Islamic
University in Islamabad. Funds for setting up the organization are said
to have come from Pakistan’s dreaded official secret services agency,
the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). From its inception, it is thus
clear, the Lashkar had the support of the Pakistani establishment."
Mumbai
Twitter Conspiracy Blues
A quote...."What I
am troubled by is the "why". Not the "why" of the terrorists
themselves- it is obvious that they were unthinking [4th grade
education], misled [satellite phones and gps for "escape"] and enraged.
-- The "why" is regarding the true purpose of this mission. -- Why is a
terrible question, always open to conjecture. I am extremely prone to
conjecture, especially about humans and their motivations. I am
unfortunately also prone to cynicism about same. Here are some of my
conjectures. Conspiracy theories. Get the tarbrush out of the way, I
always say, so there it is. What follows are my conspiracy theories. I
think they're quite good- worthy of a Ludlum novel at least."
Plans to partition
Pakistan 'on schedule', compliments of Mumbai incident: The cost of
creating the map of the 'New Middle East' -- Contains Video - Maps - Charts
-- A quote...."2008-11-29 18:30. -- Last year we learned that the
United States was planning to
start a Civil War in Pakistan when new classified American
military
documents revealed that the United States government was intensifying
efforts “to enlist tribal leaders in the frontier areas of Pakistan in
the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, as part of a broader effort
to bolster Pakistani forces against an expanding militancy.”
Mumbai
Attacks Look Like A Western Intel Operation
A quote...."The
recent terrorist attacks in Mambai India appear to be the work of a
western intelligence agency. Sophisticated terrorist attacks are
usually only executed by an institution with a vast amount of resources
at their disposal, and not by terrorists living in a cave somewhere.
History has shown that high profile terrorist attacks which get top
billing in the media are in fact government sponsored. Already, India
is blaming Pakistan for the attacks and we’ve also seen an onslaught of
propaganda from media outlets attempting to place the blame for this
attack on the fictional CIA founded organization Al-Qaeda. There are
even eyewitness accounts saying that the attackers did not look like
Indians but instead appeared to be western. In fact, some of the
attackers have already been identified as British citizens of Pakistan
origin. Of course none of that matters, since the media needs to sell
the Al-Qaeda myth to the dumbed down masses here in America."
Deepak
Chopra Blames Washington For Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
A
quote...."Video and Text -
Posted November 28, 2008 -- Chopra: Ultimately the message
is always toward Washington
because it's also the perception that Washington, in their way,
directly or indirectly funds both sides of the war on terror. They fund
our side, then our petrol dollars going to Saudi Arabia through
Pakistan and ultimately these terrorist groups, which are very
organized. You know Jonathan, it takes a lot of money to do this. It
takes a lot of organization to do this. Where's the money coming from,
you know? The money is coming from the vested interests. I'm not
talking about conspiracy theories, but what happens is, our policies,
our foreign policies, actually perpetuate this problem."
Regarding the articles
shown above....This terrorist group got its money and training from
somewhere....therefore everyone who truly wishes to find out how this
crime happened, everyone who is truly interested in discovering the
truth, everyone who sincerely wants to obtain JUSTICE, can only
do so if they follow
the money!
Anybody who will
not do this,
anybody who does not state this.....any
investigator, any agency, any political leader, any mass-infotainment
outlet of any kind which does otherwise or says otherwise, tacitly
supports the tactic of “terror"
in all its forms -- indigenous "homegrown" attacks, "foreign
organized and/or financed" attacks and the inevitable and highly useful
"false flag" attacks, which arise from, and are always facilitated by,
long term "State" sponsored relationships with already established
"home grown" or
"foreign organized/financed" terror groups.
And of course as
circumstances will usually have it, all this "terror" will eventually
lead
to Nation state mass-terror attacks, the bombing and
destruction of entire countries and peoples many of whom had nothing to
do
with any of these groups in the first place.- posted 11-27-08
mpg -- For more on this
issue see....
Zinn
and Zelikow - Two Like Minds Thinking Together - 11-22-08 - mpg
& US
Support of Terror & US
Sponsored Civil Wars
See also....It
Will Happen Every Single Time - 01-01-08 - mpg
See also....Al
Qaeda - Always There for the US Elites - 03-09-08 - mpg
See also....The
True Axis of Evil - 10-10-08 - mpg
See also....The
Kingdom of Leprosy - 10-07-08 - mpg
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Bones
A quote..."November
27, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" -- It is generally considered a
courtesy for a newly inaugurated President to overlook any sins of the
past incumbent in the interests of 'looking ahead' and in the knowledge
that the same good manners will be repeated after his/her own end of
term."
Christianity
and War
Videos - note: it has an autoload feature
-- A quote...."On June 8, 2008, Laurence Vance gave the following
speech at the Future of Freedom Foundation’s conference Restoring the
Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can
viewed below in its entirety."
Collapsing the
Economy in the Buildup to World War III: 11 of the Most Important
Economic Events of the Last 11 Years -- A quote...."The following will
remain the top post for the next few
days. It is an update of “10 of the Most Important Economic Events of
the Last 10 Years: Collapsing the Economy in the Buildup to World War
III ”, which in turn was an update of “7 of the Most Important Economic
Events of the Last 7 Years: Collapsing the Economy in the Buildup to
World War III.” -- For more on this
issue see....Effective
Fed Funds Rate & Total Nonfarm Payrolls
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Zinn
and Zelikow - Two Like Minds Thinking Together - 11-22-08 - mpg
The
Merchant of Venice and the Detroit Three - 11-22-08 - mpg
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How Major
US
Neo-imperialist Wars End
Videos - note: it has an autoload feature --
A quote...."On June 6, 2008, Robert Higgs gave the following speech at
the Future of Freedom Foundation’s conference Restoring the Republic
2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below
in its entirety."
You're
Scaring Me,
Obama: Let the Bush Years Die
A
quote...."To be honest, Obama, you lost me when you voted for the
PATRIOT Act reauthorization in 2006. You lost me again when you voted
for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) amendment in 2008.
And you lost me every single time you voted for yet more war funding.
Don't even get me started on your vote for the $700 billion Wall Street
bailout. I cast a ballot for you in November, but I just can't share in
this moment of collective euphoria over your election. So, if your
transition team really wants feedback on "where President-Elect Obama
should lead this country," here's a Top Five list:...."
Plus
ça change: "Progressive" Leaders Ride War Machine Deeper Into
Darkness
A quote...."Armed with the same invincible ignorance and arrogance that
have for generations led their imperial forbears to bitter defeat in
Afghanistan, Barack Obama and Gordon Brown have both pledged themselves
to a substantial escalation of the Anglo-American adventure in
Central Asia. Thus these two self-proclaimed "progressive" champions of
benevolent change are guaranteeing more of the same bitter fruit
already produced by this misbegotten enterprise: more death, more ruin,
more suffering, more corruption – and more violent extremism. -- The
latter, of course, is where we came in, with the Carter-Reagan
marshalling of extremist jihadis -- known as "freedom fighters" in
those days of yore -- to hotfoot the Soviets and their secular Afghan
clients. Indeed, the entire arc of
America's bipartisan policies in the region over the past 40 years can
be seen as the elaborate construction of a gargantuan, self-propelled
blowback machine, producing an endless effluent of violence, threat,
chaos and crime that is now sluicing through the entire world. But
blowback, as we all know, is not a design flaw of imperial policy, at
least not for the most part; it is a design feature. No War
Machine without perpetual war and rumors of war; no war profits – and
no war powers – without the War Machine." -- bold by website editor
Scott
Horton Interviews Robert Prechter
Audio Interview - War Warning - A
quote...."Robert
R. Prechter, Jr., Executive Director of the Socionomics Institute,
discusses how Elliott Wave market trend analysis is predictive not only
of stock markets but also human social behavior, the societal mood as a
leading indicator of economic trends and warfare, the correlation
between bull markets and bright mini skirts and how the bailouts
encourage recklessness on Wall St. by encouraging moral hazard."
Editor's
Special Note & Caution: All social/economic paradigms,
unless
rooted in unalterable human behaviors
or unalterable circumstances,
are subject to the Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principal. In other words, the greater the number
of participants subject to a given paradigm -- who observe that paradigm -- a paradigm whose inputs are alterable
by the observer-participants....the
less reliable will be that paradigm's predictive value over time.
-
mpg -- For more on this issue see....The
Great Game - In 3D - 06-15-08 - mpg & Effective
Fed Funds Rate & Total Nonfarm Payrolls
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Merkel
Says Europe Is `Closely' Watching U.S. Plans on Auto Aid
Depression Alert -- A
quote...." Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said
she and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have asked the
European Union to monitor U.S. proposals to prop up its auto industry
for signs of anti-competitive practices. -- ``We are watching the U.S.
closely to see what they do on the car industry,'' Merkel told
reporters today in the northern Italian city of Trieste during a joint
news conference with Berlusconi."
A strange scent is suddenly
filling the air, one which will soon take your economic breath away,
the forgotten, poignant, forlorn, fragrance of a very old depression
era flower....the Smoot Hawley flower. It's a very rare flower
that's only been sighted in a few places so far, but it's beginning to
spread now; soon it will become as common as a weed. - mpg
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Obama
and the Great Depression
A
quote...."No, I don’t mean that Great Depression. I’m talking about the
inevitable moment—maybe next week, maybe next year—when the Kool Aid
wears off and the Obamatrons wake up to realize their hero offers
nothing even approximating hope or change. -- The carefully calculated
speeches—which have always been filled with empty, hollow phrases—will
no longer soothe a battered and desperate populace and the Obamabots
will suddenly recognize that the Pope of Hope has never been anything
more than a human marketing strategy, a product. This year’s iPhone."
-- For more on this issue see....AViDD
"believer" Type-1 and Type-2 Syndromes - 11-04-08 - mpg
US
Imperialism: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Great poster from Leon Kuhn.
- mpg
Hobbes Is
Dead (or at least on life support) . . . and I Feel Fine
A quote...."In his
foundational tome Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes famously asserted that the
natural disposition of humankind was aggression, brutality, and a "war
of all against all." He argued that the creation of a modern
State was
necessary in order to bind us under a social contract, to impose by
coercion the rule of law, and in essence to protect us from
ourselves.
Hobbes was primarily motivated by fear in his moral and political
philosophizing: fear of the other, fear of nature, fear of death, fear
of losing his property and privilege, even fear of his creator. --
While the modern nation-state employs many methods to maintain the
patterns of social control that Hobbes envisioned - including the
hardware of weaponry, imprisonment, and surveillance - it is at root
the ideological software of Leviathan that is the glue holding the
system together. Unsurprisingly, modern-day Hobbesians seek to
create
and accentuate fear among the masses as a means of preserving their
positions of power. The outgoing Bush Administration in
particular
built its entire platform on this, tapping into the well of 9-11 over
and over again as a justification for everything from preemptive war to
offshore drilling to high-tech voyeurism."
The Worst Is Not Behind
Us
From one of the guys who
predicted it all, Nouriel Roubini. - mpg
Financial Warning
- A quote...."It is useful, at this juncture, to stand back and survey
the economic landscape-both as it is now, and as it has been in recent
months. So here is a summary of many of the points that I have made for
the last few months on the outlook for the US and global economy, as
well as for financial markets:" -- Also
posted at ICH
Who
will finance America's deficit?
Financial Warning - Charts
- The United States government needs to borrow US$1 trillion
a year, before a new stimulus package, or handouts for the auto
industry, or healthcare reform, or a dozen other spending programs
promised by the incoming administration of president-elect Barack
Obama. Where will the Treasury find the money? - A bizarre jump in the
US Treasury's real cost of borrowing points to severe market disruption
if the Treasury deficit continues to rise. It appears that the Treasury
market is also a victim of global de-leveraging. The new administration
has far less budgetary flexibility that it seems to think." -- For more on this issue see below....
A Parable and Its Opposite:
The
Little Red Hen - versus - The
Little Roman Empire
One day the Little Roman Empire
found itself with huge amounts of debt.
"Look look!" he clucked.
"Who will help me pay this debt?"
"Not I", quacked the EU, and he waddled away.
"Not I", oinked the PRC, and he trotted away.
"Not I, meowed the GCC, and he padded away.
"Then I will pay it myself,"
said the Little Roman Empire. And being unable to do so.....
he slowly starved to
death.
- mpg
Don't
Let Barack Obama Break Your Heart
A quote...."On the
day that Americans turned out in near record numbers to vote, a record
was set halfway around the world. In Afghanistan, a U.S. Air Force
strike wiped out about 40 people in a wedding party. This
represented at least the sixth wedding party eradicated by American air
power in Afghanistan and Iraq since December 2001. -- American planes
have, in fact, taken out two brides in the last seven months.
And don't try to bury your dead or mark their deaths ceremonially
either, because funerals have been hit as well. Mind you, those planes,
which have conducted 31% more air strikes in Afghanistan in support of
U.S. troops this year, and the missile-armed unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) now making almost daily strikes across the border in Pakistan,
remain part of George W. Bush's Air Force, but only until January 21,
2009. Then, they -- and all the brides and grooms of Afghanistan and in
the Pakistani borderlands who care to have something more than the
smallest of private weddings -- officially become the property of
President Barack Obama." -- bold by website editor
The
Audacity of
Hype Dissent in the Age of Obama
A
quote...."The
Obama bandwagon is moving fast and furious, rolling over the few
remaining pockets of dissent even as it prepares to take power. The
mainstream media, particularly on television, has lost all sense of
objectivity and proportion, and their reporting of the
president-elect's doings has taken on a distinctly Soviet air. "Our
Glorious Leader Picks the White House Dog" is the emblematic headline
of a servile fourth estate. The political atmosphere is positively
eerie: amid calls for "unity" and attacks on "toxic" language that is
"divisive," there is an odd uniformity of thought similar to the
virtual unanimity that gripped the nation in the wake of the 9/11
terrorist attacks. Groupthink is all the rage, and the media has joined
in the fun. Due to this love-fest, they're oblivious to the warning
signs that worry us few and scattered skeptics. They somehow missed the
Dear Leader's call for a civilian "national security force," for
example, one that is "just as well-funded" and "just as powerful" as
the U.S. military. " -- bold by website editor
Conned
again
A
quote...."If the change President-elect Obama has promised includes a
halt to America’s wars of aggression and an end to the rip-off of
taxpayers by powerful financial interests, what explains Obama’s choice
of foreign and economic policy advisors? Indeed, Obama’s selection of
Rahm Israel Emanuel as White House chief of staff is a signal that
change ended with Obama’s election. The
only thing different about the
new administration will be the faces." -- bold by website editor
The
Election: It Had to Be this Way
A
quote...."November 07, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" -- The
Democrats winning Congress and the White House just had to happen. If
we are ever going to change this country from an empire to a
representative democracy, we have to rid ourselves of the notion that
one corporate political party can do anything toward that goal. Barack
Obama will be the catalyst for a new movement, away from false hope and
false promises, not because he will deliver to the people of this
country anything worthwhile, but because he won’t. This will be the
final nail in the coffin of our corporatist society."
Obama:
return to elite status quo
A
quote...."The election triumph of Barack Obama and the return of power
to the Democrats was a cause for a split second of relief, but not
elation. What the world learned is that it will not be subjected to a
McCain-Palin presidency, which certainly would have ushered in horrors,
violence, and insanity that likely would have dwarfed those of
Bush-Cheney. But the arrival of Obama as the new imperial figurehead of
the Anglo-American empire is not a victory of, or for, the people. It
will not signify a dramatic upheaval, in any way, and by no means is
any sort of revolution at hand.
Nor is Obama’s ascendancy about
“you.” It is about “them.” This election was a necessary rotation of
management, scripted at the highest levels of the Anglo-American elite."
-- bold by website editor
Thousands
of Obamatrolls Now Wandering Aimlessly Through Life
Video Satire - Regarding the awful demise of millions of
poor little Obamatrolls from what appears to be a terribly sad case of
national
ennui. Honestly....it almost brought this website editor to tears.
-- The Obamatrolls are classic AAViDD
believer type-1 (Advanced Audio Visual Disassociative Disorder) sufferers. It could be years
before they "wake-up" from their long painful slumber. - mpg
A
Look Under the Hood at the (Potential) Obama Administration
Must Read Predictions -
A
quote...."November 06, 2008 -- - Tuesday’s celebration hangovers
have
finally started to wear off, and the pieces are beginning to fall into
place. Change will be coming to Washington in January, but it is
difficult to decipher what form it will take. Early clues, however,
suggest that Barack Obama’s administration will prove unlikely to alter
the fundamental political machinery that has led us into war and
economic turmoil. Below is a brief summary of Obama’s potential choices
for a few key roles in his administration."
WIBDI:
A Prism for the New Paradigm
A quote...."As the
United States enters a new and unprecedented political era -- or, as
killjoy cynics would have it, as the American empire gets a new set of
temporary managers -- the fate of the "dissident" movement that arose
under the Bush Regime seems greatly occluded. So many of those who set
out their stalls as bold outsiders "speaking truth to power" now find
themselves on the inside, enthralled by power, speaking for power, as
it is personified by President-elect Barack Obama -- who, ironically,
has consistently repudiated many of the tenets and principles that
provoked the dissidents' outrage in the first place. -- I have always
disliked this phrase "speaking truth to power" (although I'm sure I've
lazily employed it myself on several occasions). No one needs to speak
truth to power: power knows the truth well enough, it knows what it is
doing, and to whom, and why. What we need, most desperately, are people
who will speak truth about power, and speak it to people who might not
have heard that truth through the howling cacophony of media diversion,
corporate spin and political manipulation." -- For more on this issue see....AViDD
"believer" Type-1 and Type-2 Syndromes - 11-04-08 - mpg
Only
Nader Is Right on the Issues
A quote...." There is
little disagreement among liberals and
progressives about the Nader and Obama campaign issues. Nader would win
among us in a landslide if this was based on issues. Sen. Barack
Obama’s vote to renew the Patriot Act, his votes to continue to fund
the Iraq war, his backing of the FISA Reform Act, his craven courting
of the Israeli lobby, his support of the death penalty, his refusal to
champion universal, single-payer not-for-profit health care for all
Americans, his call to increase troop levels and expand the war in
Afghanistan, his failure to call for a reduction in the bloated and
wasteful defense spending and his lobbying for the huge taxpayer
swindle known as the bailout are repugnant to most of us on the left.
Nader stands on the other side of all those issues. - So if the
argument is not about issues what is it about? "
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"believer" Type-1 and Type-2 Syndromes - 11-04-08 - mpg
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Failed
States: America and Iraq, Rotted by War Crime
A quote...."And so
the great historical presidential campaign of 2008 is finally at an
end. By every reasonable and legitimate measure, Barack Obama will be
the winner. But of course "reasonable and legitimate measures" mean
little when dealing with deliberately fomented chaos and chicanery of
the American electoral process, the laughingstock of the rest of the
world, whose people stand in slackjawed amazement as they watch and
wait -- in dreadful impotence -- to see which hegemon will emerge from
the stormcloud of filth, lies, ambition and money that howls around the
campaign trail. -- It has been, as usual, a bizarre, even lunatic
experience, completely untethered from reality, obsessed with trivia,
gossip and spin, and emptied, again deliberately, of anything
resembling substance. Vague hope is offered by one side, vague, wiggly
fear by the other. "Change" is the universal mantra, but both sides
have fully and unashamedly embraced all the fundamental tenets and
practices of the current power structure: militarism, corporatism,
authoritarianism."
No
Currency Left to Buy the Big Lies
A
quote...."Neoconservatives will lie in the weeds and gather forces, the
same players in a revolving door. They want back in and if history has
proved anything, worshiping the markets is not enough. We must actually
kill to feed them. A horrible cross-pollination of fundamentalism,
dementia and market fever has turned America into a willing enabler of
corporate cannibalism. Nothing else to call it when murder is seen as a
legitimate extension of economic policy. Preemptive war is not only
justified but openly referred to as a market opportunity. The strong do
what they can and the weak suffer what they must. As we look out at the
wreckage -- world economies collapsing, nationalized banks and a
complete loss of trust -- we can see the hypocrisy as all are revealed
as true socialists on the way down, crying in their scotch and Ambien
as they run to the state for cover."
"From Checks and
Balances to Executive Despotism" by Bruce Fein
(Six Vids - aprox
10 min. each) - Videos -
These videos have an auto-load
feature.
-- A quote...."On June 8, 2008, Bruce Fein delivered the
following speech, "From Checks and Balances to Executive Despotism," to
the second Future of Freedom Foundation conference, "Restoring the
Republic," held in Reston, Virginia."
Making
Excuses for Obama: or The Mythology of Good Intentions
A quote...."Every time I
write about Barack Obama I get a lot of
letters, and the most typical goes something like this:"
Dear Justin,
I read your column regularly, and generally agree with what you have to
say, but I think you've got Barack Obama all wrong. Yes, I know, he
went before AIPAC and kowtowed; he pledged to do "anything – and I mean
anything" to stop Iran's nuclear program. He acts "tough" and says he's
going to invade Pakistan; he gets in Russia's face. But that's all a
show: you see, he has to do this stuff or else he won't get elected.
Once he's safely in office, he'll do the right thing.
Sincerely,
John Q. Reader
"This is an amalgam, but true to the spirit of the many pro-Obama
missives I've received. They express a sentiment that is very
widespread, so much so that it doesn't seem to matter, much, what Obama
says he's going to do, because, in any case, his fans and supporters
will simply insist on projecting their own hopes, desires, and views
onto him."
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A
Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the New American Century - 10-31-08
- mpg
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