FRONT PAGE - Archive File - 11-02-09 to 01-02-10

Evidence Mounts for US Complicity in Terrorism: Mutallab's father is no ordinary 'banker'
A quote...."When nothing adds up, its time we starting looking at what we know. Our recent terrorist, now dubbed "the crotch bomber" is another dupe. He could have been working for anyone, drugged, brainwashed or simply influenced, maybe by crazy Arabs, maybe by the Mossad, maybe by the CIA. We only know the game is falling apart. -- We do know a couple of things. Dad, back in Nigeria, ran the national arms industry (DICON) in partnership with Israel, in particular, the Mossad. He was in daily contact with them. They run everything in Nigeria, from arms production to counter-terrorism. Though Islamic, Muttalab was a close associate of Israel. He has been misrepresented. His "banking" is a cover. Next, what do we know about the two Al Qaeda leaders Bush had released, the ones who planned this? - According to ABC news, the Al Qaeda leaders running the insurgency in Yemen were released from Guantanamo, although two of the highest ranking known terrorists there, without trial." -- also posted at SOTT & DProgram & InfoWarsIreland & PakistanDaily

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

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

Haskell Family: FBI has changed accounts 4 times; our story is the same since day one
A quote...."COMMENT: As a customs official now confirms the 2nd man detained, confirming the Haskell’s account, the Detroit News points out that the FBI story has changed 4 times, while the Haskell’s has remained unchanged since day one:  “I just want them to look into our claims,” Lori Haskell said. “Our story has been the same since Day One because we are telling the truth. This is the FBI’s fourth story.” -- For more on the four articles shown above see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"

For more on this issue see also....9/11-NORAD - ICTS  - Updated!!

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

Al Qaeda recruited bombers from US prison in Iraq
US prison in Iraq a training ground for extremists: report
US Iraq jail an 'al-Qaeda school' - video - Alt (YouTube - 2min 54sec - Dec. 11, 2009)

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

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

Boy watches US forces shoot father in head
A quote...."Recent reports indicate that a new stage may have been reached in the war in Afghanistan. Secret operations of CIA and special forces appear to have stepped up their infamous night raids, which have induced fear in much of the local population. -- We saw in a blog post a few weeks ago that up to 15 civilians in Laghman were killed in a ground forces operation apparently carried out under NATO command. NATO itself, after initial denials, appeared to acknowledge civilian casualties, but was characteristically vague about it. -- Now, according to the article below, it seems that the attack-cum-massacre was carried out at night and, according to locals, perpetrated by US special forces on the ground. (The Washington Post, however, mistakenly reported as late as Dec 30 that the attack was an airstrike.)" -- also posted at Uruknet

Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010
A quote...."December 30, 2009 - "Information Clearing House" -- In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’.” -- Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the close of the decade, the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that “extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan” to “disorderly regions and diffuse enemies”. He called this “global security” and invited our gratitude. To the people of Afghanistan, which America has invaded and occupied, he said wittily: “We have no interest in occupying your country.”

New Year's Resolution: Don't Apologize for Democrats
A quote...."For the new year, let's resolve: Don't defend Democrats when they don't deserve defending. And that certainly includes President Obama. -- Let's further resolve: Put principles above party and never lose our voice on human rights and social justice. -- When we mute ourselves as a Democratic president pursues corporatist or militarist policies, we only encourage such policies. -- If it was wrong for Bush to bail out Wall Street with virtually no controls, then it's wrong for Obama. If indefinite "preventative detention" was wrong under Bush, then it's wrong under Obama. If military occupation and deepening troop deployments were wrong under Bush, then they're wrong under Obama." -- also posted at ICH

Paul Craig Roberts on Alex Jones Tv – The Tyranny of Good Intentions
Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 - Alt/Vid#3 - Alt/Vid#4 - (YuTb - aprox 10 min each - 12/30/09)
Videos - (AJ-YuTb - aprox 10min each - 12/31/09) -- A quote...."Paul Craig Roberts, economist, syndicated columnist, and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration also makes an appearance. Alex also covers the latest on the highly suspicious botched underwear bombing with Mr. Roberts, and what the economic future may be for america in the next 2 to 3 years." - Paul Craig Roberts is author of The Tyranny of Good Intentions - GoglBkSrch

Foreign Troops on the Streets of America?
Alt - (AJ-YouTube - 7 min 17 sec - December 26, 2009)
Video - A quote...."SCMLA's first mini-documentary! There are foreign troops on American soil, even now, as we speak. Watch and pass on the knowledge! "

A Lawless Presidency
A quote...."It is ironic that a president who owed his election to office to a U.S. Supreme Court decision – and a narrow one at that – spent so much of his eight years in office battling that same court, and the institutions which are the arbiters of international humanitarian law as well."

The Northwest Flight 253 intelligence failure: Negligence or conspiracy?
Quote of the Day....."Eight years after 9/11, with all of the still unanswered questions surrounding the attacks that were used to justify an explosion of American militarism, the attempt to gloss over an event that nearly cost the lives of 300 people with this hackneyed metaphor does not hold water. -- The general outlines of the Northwest bombing attempt and the 9/11 attacks are startlingly similar. One might even say that what is involved is a modus operandi. In both cases, those alleged to have carried out the actions had been the subject of US intelligence investigations and surveillance and had been allowed to enter the country and board flights under conditions that would normally have set off multiple security alarms. -- Both then and now, the government and the media expect the public to accept that all that was involved was mistakes."

Is the Detroit Nigerian "Terrorist" Another Patsy?
A quote...."What does the hapless Nigerian mope yanked off a plane in Detroit Christmas Day for setting his lap on fire have in common with color-coded terror alerts, with the shoeless, homeless Miami Haitians convicted of trying to bring down the Sears Tower, or with the 2004 pre-election videos allegedly dropped by Osama Bin Laden? Easy. All have been useful in whipping up public fear of Muslim-inspired “terrorism” and each and every one plugs neatly and sweetly into the meta-narratives that justify increasing the power of US police and intelligence establishments and the further militarization of foreign policy." -- For more on the two articles shown above see....US-False Flag Ops - Detroit's "Lap-Bomber"

As US power dwindles, Middle East politics will continue to shift
A quote...."I believe the Middle East is experiencing broad strategic political realignments, with insurgent forces gaining in strength, and entrenched forces entering a period of stagnation. Unsurprisingly, the regional flux is being driven by the decline of empire, and the attendant regional state opportunism. If current trends continue, the next decade will likely see a regionally diminished Egypt, an increasingly isolated Israel, and eventually less American interventionism and sponsorship. Concurrently, Syrian power and prestige will increase, Lebanon will consolidate Hezbollah’s moral authority, and Turkey will increasingly emphasize its Eastern and Islamic roots to enhance its regional role. What happens in Iran depends in large part on whether America and Israel attack, I believe. The assumption that the American empire is in decline is crucial to this analysis, so it’s worth spending time explaining its basis."

A cold, lonely place called dishonour
A quote...."On December 27 2008 Israel launched a murderous air assault against 1.5 million men, women and children in the most overcrowded piece of land on Earth - the Gaza Strip. -- Starved, besieged, yet unbowed, they could do nothing except endure as the bombs and missiles rained down, targeting hospitals, schools, civic buildings, homes, police stations and even UN compounds where people had sought sanctuary. -- Israel's bombs sought and found their victims, incinerating and blowing to smithereens young and old alike, while Tel Aviv attempted to convince the world that every effort was being made to avoid civilian casualties in what it described as a military operation to root out terrorism and provide security for its citizens. -- Yet as Albert Camus once warned, the welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants." -- also posted at Uruknet

Israeli Role in Desroying Iraq
A quote...."This is a speech by Former Israeli Security Minister Avi Dechter on 4th, September 2008 at the Research Institute of the Israeli national Security." - also posted at Uruknet - For more on this issue see....It Will Happen Every Single Time - 01-01-08 - mpg

Hackable Drones, Crumbling Empire
Quote of the Day...."On the eve of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, historian Chalmers Johnson observed in The Sorrows of Empire: "At this late date ... it is difficult to imagine how Congress, much like the Roman senate in the last days of the republic, could be brought back to life and cleansed of its endemic corruption." -- Drawing striking analogies between the fall of the Roman republic and America's decline as a global capitalist power, Johnson wrote: "Failing such a reform, Nemesis, the goddess of retribution and vengeance, the punisher of pride and hubris, waits impatiently for her meeting with us. -- Judging by the fragile state of American sociopolitical life, that meeting may not be as far off as most of us think." -- also posted at Uruknet

Best of the Web: The Truth About the 2009 Gaza Massacre
Video - A quote...."Eye opening montage of news clips and photos that tell the truth about the events in Gaza."

Video: Gaza 2009 – We Will Never Forget
Alt - (YouTube - 8 min 58 sec - January 24, 2009)
Video - A quote...."Montage documenting the genocide commited by Isreal in "Operation Cast Lead"." -- For more on this issue see....Gaza Invasion of 12/27/08

Gaza 2009: Operation Cast Lead
Video - From the history file - April 14, 2009 -- A quote...."Some things you may not know about the ongoing conflict in Gaza and the actions of the Israeli government. Please spread the link around- the truth can't be stopped."

Israel/Gaza: Operation ‘Cast Lead’ – 22 Days of Death and Destruction
Just a few points, there are many more....mpg
Just a Reminder: Condi Rice (formerly of Chevron) had Afghanistan Invasion Plans Finalized 2 Days Before 9/11 -- A quote...."Condi Rice (formerly of Chevron) had Afghanistan Invasion Plans Finalized 2 Days Before 9/11 and those plans just HAPPENED to include the “turn over bin Laden or we attack” ultimatum. The plans were used in the attack following Sept. 11th 2001."

9/11 Truth: the Challenge to the Peace Movement - Vid#1 - Vid#2  - Vid#3  - Vid#4
Videos  - (YouTube - 10 min - December 06, 2009) -- A quote...."On September 13, 2009, Dr. Graeme MacQueen presented a speech titled, 9/11 Truth: the Challenge to the Peace Movement, at the conference, "We Demand Transparency! For Peace, Truth, and a New Economics." -- posted by UW911ResearchGroup

Cutter Charges Identified in the Critical Corners of WTC
Alt - (YouTube - 34 min 06 sec - Dec 25, 2009
Video - A quote...."Small explosive ejections focused on a corner column of WTC1 (The North Tower of the World Trade Center) are evidence of cutter charges used to cut the corner columns. One of these occurs at the 98th floor at the onset of the demolition of the building. The other occurs lower in the building at the instant the column enters free fall." -- For more on the three articles shown above see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

The Joys of Airstrikes and Anonymity
A quote...."Each time the U.S. bombs a new location in the Muslim world, the same pattern emerges.  First, officials from the U.S. or allied governments run to their favorite media outlet to claim -- anonymously -- that some big, bad, notorious, "top" Al Qaeda leader "may have been" or "likely was" killed in the strike, and this constitutes a "stinging" or "devastating" blow against the Terrorist group.  These compliant media outlets then sensationalistically trumpet that claim as the dominant theme of their "reporting" on the attack, drowning out every other issue. "

The FBI Says This “Ball-Bomber” is Proof that Obama Was Right to Kill Innocent Civilians In Yemen -- A quote...."Right on time, right after the Peace Prize President’s attempt to assassinate Anwar al-Awlaki, the controversial cleric who communicated with Ft. Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, this new “terror” attack has connections not only to Yemen, but possibly right back to the same guy President Obama tried to kill.  And apparently, the “ball bomber” (as I like to call him) was “radicalized” … wait for it… via THE INTERNET…. guess we had better hurry up and let Joe Lieberman pass that “Homegrown Terrorist” bill of his."

Instant Karma: New US War Target Gets Its Own Terror Icon
Wow, that didn't take long at all. Scant days after the American war machine took the cloaking device off its direct military involvement in Yemen, we have an alleged attempted terrorist attack by an alleged attempted terrorist who, just scant hours after his capture, has allegedly confessed to getting his alleged attempted terrorist material from ... wait for it ... Yemen! -- Yemen-trained terrorists on the loose in American airplanes! At Christmas! Great googily moogily! It's a good thing our boys are on the case over there right now, pounding the holy hell outta some of them Al Qaeder ragheads! And to think, a few pipsqueaky fifth columnists had been starting to wonder why we were killing dozens of innocent civilians on behalf of an authoritarian regime embroiled in a three-way civil war on the other side of the world."

"CLG: Northwest Bomb Plot 'Oddities' By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org Updated: 27 Dec 2009 Bogosity reaches critical mass! In 2008, the ACLU estimated the 'No Fly List' to have grown to over 1,000,000 names --heck, even Cat Stevens and the late Senator Ted Kennedy was on it -- and continues to expand. And yet... suspected terrorist Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was curiously able to obtain military-grade high explosives -- 80 grams of PETN (gee, where'd he get that?), managed to escape airport security and set off his underwear bomb! In April 2009, American authorities reportedly refused an Air France flight from Paris to Mexico entry into US airspace because a left-wing journalist writing a book on the CIA was on board. Got it? Write a book critical of the CIA --you cannot fly. Carry explosives on board when the US is trolling for an excuse to invade and occupy Yemen for oil --you can!" -- Paragraph quoted from CLG

So Why Did President Obama Try to Kill a Witness in Yemen
A quote...."Up until now, there has only been speculation as to who was the real target in the most recent U.S. backed attack in Yemen that killed a reported 34 people.  But today it is being reported that the target was in fact, Anwar al-Awlaki, the controversial cleric who communicated with Ft. Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.  This most recent attack comes on the heels of another one, just a week ago, in which 17 women and 23 children were slaughtered in order to protect the investments of “U.S. assets” in Yemen (namely, Kuwait Energy and the IMF and World Bank).  As bad as that was, Obama’s killing of innocent civilians to protect pipelines and IMF’s investors, this most recent assassination attempt may be even more troubling."

The Troops Protect Our Freedom, and Other Lies I Learned in School
A quote...."December 23, 2009 "C4SS" -- Barrack Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech included this self-congratulatory little gem: -- “But the world must remember that it was not simply international institutions—not just treaties and declarations—that brought stability to a post-World War II world.  Whatever mistakes we have made, the plain fact is this:  The United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms.  The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea, and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans.” -- Before Mr. Obama dislocates a shoulder patting himself on the back, maybe we should look at the record. -- When it comes to guaranteeing stability and promoting democracy, the United States’ record is pretty clear.  “Global security” and “stability” mean the security and stability of a particular global order guaranteed by the United States—a global order that reflects the interests of the coalition of class forces that control the American government."

Dennis Kucinich – US War Presidents ignore Congress & Constitution
Video  - Alt - (YuTb 11m36s Dec. 23, 2009) - A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Anger is growing among Americans – who say less money should be spent on the country’s overseas military campaigns and more on tackling the country’s domestic problems. U.S. congressman Dennis Kucinich, who spoke exclusively to RT’s Dina Gusovsky, says America can no longer afford war-based economy."

Amazing Speech by War Veteran – Iraq Veterans Against the War
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 4m39s - Dec 20, 2009) - posted by ThePhaedrus83 -- Quote of the Day...."Our real enemy is not the ones living in a distant land whose names or policies we don't understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us" -- *Mike Prysner*

Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade; Or, the Rise of the New Oligarchs
A quote...."By spring of 2000, Texas governor George W. Bush was wrapping up the Republican nomination for president, and he went on to dominate the rest of the decade. If Dickens proclaimed of the 1790s revolutionary era in France that it was the best of times and the worst of times, the reactionary Bush era was just the worst of times. I declare it the decade of the American oligarchs. Just as the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union allowed the emergence of a class of lawless 'Oligarchs' in Russia, so Neoliberal tax policies and deregulation produced American equivalents. (For more on the analogy, see  Michael Hudson.) We have always had robber barons in American politics, but the Neoliberal moment created a new social class." -- also posted at ICH

Wars to Come
A quote...."For many, the Obama candidacy represented a change so profound that they thought (or perhaps more accurately, hoped), that an Obama presidency would not only mean a deep domestic social transformation, but an end to the American cycle of war. -- To them the news of an upsurge in U.S. troops in Afghanistan means those hopes were dashed. -- They will not be the last ones." -- also posted at DProgram

Americans Are Hell-Bent on Tyranny
A quote...."December 22, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- Obama’s dwindling band of true believers has taken heart that their man has finally delivered on one of his many promises--the closing of the Guantanamo prison. But the prison is not being closed. It is being moved to Illinois, if the Republicans permit. -- In truth, Obama has handed his supporters another defeat. Closing Guantanamo meant ceasing to hold people in violation of our legal principles of habeas corpus and due process and ceasing to torture them in violation of US and international laws. -- All Obama would be doing would be moving 100 people, against whom the US government is unable to bring a case, from the prison in Guantanamo to a prison in Thomson, Illinois." -- also posted at DProgram & AlethoNews

While You Were Sleeping… The Economy Collapsed
Charts - A quote...."One of the most powerful forces in human psychology is the force of habit. Consistency, apathetic comfort, ties men to the ocean bottom to squeeze every ounce of oxygen from their last breath until it is gone, and we wake up at 50 or 60, only realizing then that we have done the same things and thought the same thoughts for decades without err. Repetition makes us easy to startle and easy to control. Any sudden break in daily routine can cause most people to freeze; animals gripped with terror at the very possibility of necessary individual action or adaptation. -- This same repetition induces a type of “sleepwalk” in the average person, a zombie-like reanimation of brain functions that shriveled up and died years before, giving the impression of “life,” but in reality, it is merely a life on autopilot. -- This is what makes catastrophes so catastrophic. It is not always the events themselves that reap such destruction, but people’s delayed reactions and dulled senses. The more ignorant the populace, the more magnified and painful such events become. Our lack of knowledge and reasonable action sets our own house ablaze, brings economies to ruin, and murders civilizations. Others may tip the problems into motion, but in the end, all of us, each and every individual, is responsible for the final result." - also posted at DProgram

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Double Indemnity - 12-21-09 - mpg

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`A Visit from St. Obama'
A quote...."Twas the night before Christmas and all through the land
Not a creature was stirring in Afghanistan.
The bedrooms were bunkered with piles of hard stones
To protect from attacks by the Predator drones.
The children were huddled, afraid, in their beds
While visions of night raiders danced in their heads.

Mama doffed her hijab and I doffed my hat
And we both settled down for a rest and a chat
When out in the yard their arose such a clatter,
I sprang to the door to see what was the matter.
Away to the entrance I ran ‘cross the floor,
Pulled on the handle and opened the door.

The moon hadn’t risen but up in the air
A chopper was shining a light. Such a glare!
And what to my wondering eyes did appear
But a whole gang of men, armed and dressed in black gear....."

Did America keep mum on 26/11? - More on the US-NRE's Mumbai false flag attack.
A quote...."Did the Americans have detailed advance information about the 26/11 plot which they did not share with India, only passing on a watered-down warning? And was there an American spy within the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba who kept Washington (or Langley) informed of terror acts planned against India —  even if this information was never handed over to us? -- It is certainly beginning to look that way. -- When Headley was first arrested, the Americans declared that they had foiled a plot to kill a Danish cartoonist. Then, more details began to trickle out. The terror suspect, we were told, was a US citizen of Pakistani origin. He had some links with the LeT. He had visited India. He may have been part of an advance team for 26/11." -- For more on this issue see....Just Give it a Rest OK!! - 11-27-09 - mpg

The 90-Minute Stand Down on 9/11: Why Was the Secret Service's Early Request for Fighter Jets Ignored? -- A quote...."Shortly after the second World Trade Center tower was hit, at 9:03 a.m. on September 11, 2001, an officer at Andrews Air Force Base, just outside Washington, DC, was notified that the Secret Service wanted fighter jets launched over the nation's capital. It was now obvious the U.S. was under terrorist attack, and Washington would have been an obvious potential target. And yet the Secret Service's request came to nothing." - - also posted at DProgram - For more on this issue see....9/11-NORAD

The “Post-9/11 World” Is A Detriment To Humanity
A quote...."The event that created the “Post-9/11 World” were the attacks of September 11th, 2001. -- Every effort has been made by the American Government to conceal the truth about what happened that day. The “Joint Congressional Inquiry” was “limited in scope” thanks to the efforts of George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney. The “PENTTBOM” investigation failed to address a number of the families’ questions. The “9/11 Commission” was compromised from beginning to end, and was headed by Philip Zelikow, someone the families called for the resignation of during the 9/11 Commission, someone who re-wrote the 9/11 Report to be more favorable of his good friend Condoleezza Rice, someone that tried to insert a false link into the 9/11 Report between Iraq and 9/11, someone that shied people away from the NSA, someone that shied people away from Saudi Arabia’s possible involvement in the attacks, someone that is alleged to have taken the direction of Karl Rove, someone who wrote the preemptive war strategy mentioned above, someone who should never have been anywhere near the 9/11 Commission."

David Ray Griffin on the 9/11 Cell Phone Calls: Exclusive CBC Interview
Alt - (YuTb - 6m57s - 12/18/09) -- Video - A quote...."Excellent interview with Dr. Griffin. He especially notes how the FBI itself admits that there was only one connection attempt made from Barbara Olson, which lasted "zero seconds," not to mention that Ted kept changing his story, first saying she called him on a seatback phone, then cell phone, then seatback again. And given that out of all the supposed 9/11 phone calls, Olson is the only passenger to mention "boxcutters," the FBI's admission is an intriguing one indeed." - For more on this issue see....9/11-NORAD

911-War Promises - Alt - (YouTube - 1 hr 15 min 43 sec - November 27, 2009)
Video - A quote...."Millions of people believe that evidence proves that Western intelligence services organized the hideous attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001. Even the mainstream media have stopped defending the official version and now prefer to ignore the issue altogether. -- Distrust in Western governments grows as the wars of aggression waged by the USA and NATO continue to be justified with these “false flag” operations. Ever harsher domestic laws are being passed to crush all outrage and resistance in Western populations; at the end of the day they aim to unleash the German military on German civilians, instead of allowing morality and ethics to flow into day-by-day policy-making." -- For more on this issue see.....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

Viva Palestina Convoy Arriving in Turkey - Alt - (YuTb - 6m26s - Dec 19, 2009)
Video - Action Update -- A quote...."Tuesday December 15, 2009: Video of arrival in Turkey from Greece. Interviews with the drivers and members of the Convoy. -- The Viva Palestina Convoy departed for Gaza from London on December 6: http://vivapalestina.org  -- Get News & Track the Convoy here: http://readingpsc.org.uk/convoy/  -- * This is an edited version of the full video that insaniyardim2003 posted at: http://www.dailymotion.com/insaniyard...*" 

Sir Geoffrey Bindman: Livni has no right to claim immunity from prosecution
A quote...."It is not at all surprising that the Israeli government is outraged at the attempt – initially successful – to obtain an arrest warrant in Britain against their former foreign minister Tzipi Livni. But their characterisation of it as a "diplomatic offence" is wide of the mark. Those who come to Britain are subject to its laws. -- It is necessary to step back from the particular case and look at the broader picture. War crimes and crimes against humanity are international crimes transcending national boundaries. Universal jurisdiction to put those accused of them on trial is a logical development of that recognition. Such crimes are unlikely to be redressed in the country where the perpetrators hold political power. If they are not, they can only be adjudicated in courts of another state, or in an international court or tribunal."

Freedom Rider: “War is Peace” Prize
A quote...."The Norwegian Nobel Committee, who award the Nobel Peace Prize, created world wide feelings of dismay, shock and anger from the moment they announced that Barack Obama would be the 2009 honoree. How could the man who is waging two wars, who is responsible for the largest military budget in world history, be given the same honor that went to luminaries such as Martin Luther King, who fought tirelessly against militarism? -- Barack Obama’s actual speech at the ceremony was worse, much worse than anything that could have been imagined when this honor was announced two months ago. His words were so horrific, so bereft of any of the ideals of peace makers, that he single handedly made the once prestigious Nobel Peace Prize worthless. If the winner speaks about the urgent need for military action and denigrates the very need for peace, then surely the wrong person was honored." -- bold by website editor

This article is Part 3 in the Series, "The Origins of World War III." - at Global Research
A quote...."In Part-1 and Part-2 of this series, I have analyzed US and NATO geopolitical strategy since the fall of the Soviet Union, in expanding the American empire and preventing the rise of new powers, containing Russia and China. This Part examines the implications of this strategy in recent years; following the emergence of a New Cold War, as well as analyzing the war in Georgia, the attempts and methods of regime change in Iran, the coup in Honduras, the expansion of the Afghan-Pakistan war theatre, and spread of conflict in Central Africa. These processes of a New Cold War and major regional wars and conflicts take the world closer to a New World War. Peace can only be possible if the tools and engines of empires are dismantled."

Keith Olbermann: Special Comment - Ruined Senate Bill Unsupportable
Video - More on Obama's non-health no-care bill  - Alt/Transcpt - Alt/Vid - (MSNBC Vid - 11 min 58 sec - Dec . 16, 2009) -- Except for Mr. Olbermann's belief that there's the slightest bit of difference between the Demo or Repub parts of the DemoRepub party, and his naive appeal to Obama's "better nature" (Bombs-Away doesn't have one), this is one outstanding video. - mpg

Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald: Current Health Reform Bill Does More Harm Than Good -
Video - Alt - (3m41s) -- More on Obama's non-health no-care bill  -- A quote...."I don’t think this has anything to do with “anger” or anything that Jay Rockefeller just said. I think the argument of why the bill should be defeated as Dr. Dean is expressing and others is not that “well because we didn’t get everything we wanted, sink the bill”. That’s not it. The argument is much more substantive than that. The argument is that this bill does more harm than good from the perspective of healthcare policy and how our government works. Essentially it requires by force of law, 10s of millions of people who don’t want to be customers of the private insurance industry to become customers of that industry." -- *Glenn Greenwald*

White House as helpless victim on healthcare
More on Obama's non-health no-care bill -- Two Quotes of the Day...."....contrary to Obama's occasional public statements in support of a public option, the White House clearly intended from the start that the final health care reform bill would contain no such provision and was actively and privately participating in efforts to shape a final bill without it.  From the start, assuaging the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries was a central preoccupation of the White House...."  ---  "The evidence was overwhelming from the start that the White House was not only indifferent, but opposed, to the provisions most important to progressives.  The administration is getting the bill which they, more or less, wanted from the start -- the one that is a huge boon to the health insurance and pharmaceutical industry." -- *Glenn Greenwald*

Power and Theft - The Israeli Stranglehold
A quote...."Settlers attack West Bank mosque and burn holy Muslim books” was a London Times headline on December 11, 2009. -- These attacks, together with the demolition of Palestinian homes, the uprooting of Palestinians’ olive groves, the innumerable checkpoints that prevent Palestinians from accessing schools, work, and medical care, the Israeli Wall that denies Palestinians access to the land stolen from them, and the isolation and blockade of the Gaza Ghetto, are part of the Israeli government’s policy of genocide for the Palestinians." -- also posted at Aussies4Palestine

Palestinian Christians urge Israel isolation
Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because it's the Christian thing to do. - mpg -- A quote...."BETHLEHEM — Christian religious and community leaders in occupied Palestine have launched an ecumenical campaign aimed at enlisting Christians around the world to help end the Israeli military occupation. “This document is the Christian Palestinians’ word to the world about what is happening in Palestine,” says the 15-page document."

“We, Palestinian Christians, declare in this historic document that the military occupation of our land is a sin against God and humanity and that any theology that legitimizes the occupation is far from Christian teachings because true Christian theology is a theology of love and solidarity with the oppressed and a call to justice and equality among peoples.” -- *Palestinian Christians*

Britain’s Foreign Office wimps surrender to the thugs
A quote...."The British public must be wondering what has happened to the nation’s backbone – and its moral compass - when they see news items like these."

"British Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday apologized to MK Tzipi Livni and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman for the arrest warrant issued against Livni in London earlier this week. He also promised Lieberman to begin working immediately to change the UK laws that enable the issue of arrest warrants against Israeli officials accused of war crimes."

"Who does this foreign secretary think he is, apologising in our name for the operation of British law, especially when the warrant was issued to answer well-founded charges of war crimes? -- Livni claims it was not personal. "It’s about the entire State of Israel and our ability to go on working together against common threats." -- What common threats? We have nothing in common. The threats Israel faces are caused by its racist expansion, land theft, general lawlessness and hateful attitude towards its neighbours, and by the lethal threat Israel itself presents to others in the region. Our government puts us in harm’s way by associating so closely with the regime and continually taking its side." - bold by website editor -- also posted at AlethoNews

The Peace Prize goes to the commander-in-chief of invading armies in Afghanistan & Iraq.
A quote...."Is this the best the world can deliver? -- A hypocrite who unsuccessfully tries to justify war and aggression on the starved and brutalized people of Iraq and Afghanistan? -- In a silent America, Obama is unchallenged and does all he can to strengthen U.S. ties with Israel (as the rest of the world contemplates boycotts of various kinds to deter Israel from committing more crimes). A year into his presidency, not only are the wars against the people of Iraq and Afghanistan going strong, but Obama is sending 30,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan. -- The American brand of “peace” has surely made a mockery of the word. No one in the Middle East is foolish enough to believe, for a second, that America wants “peace” when all that America, and her handsome new president, does is to reinforce its devastating military presence in countries where they are not welcomed. -- An Iraqi mother who lost every child she had (4 boys) as a result of the U.S. invasion in 2003 said: “don’t utter that word, it has brought us nothing but death and destruction”. -- She was referring to the word “peace”." -- also posted at Creative-i

Bilin activist: "Words are not enough"
A quote...."One night, the Israeli army surrounded my home, and took my father from his bed to come and knock on my door. They told him that because I was a child, they just wanted to speak to me for five minutes. Some of the soldiers were dressed in civilian clothes, and they grabbed me as soon as I opened the door. -- That five minutes became two years, in the worst place in the world -- Naqab prison [in the Negev desert]. I spent the first 20 days in solitary confinement. I was kept in a room I could only stand up in, with terrible food and no showers, and during the night in a room I could lie down in but had a hole in the roof, at a time when it was raining and snowing. Every day the soldiers were beating me, and every night they would bang on the door so that I couldn't sleep. The whole time, they were also asking me if I had thrown stones and what political party I belonged to, so in the end I admitted that I had, at some point, thrown stones. By the end of those 20 days, I smelled like an animal." -- also posted at AlethoNews & WarInIraq

Another Childhood Nakba Memory
A quote...."I remember it was one Sunday afternoon, sometime around one or two o'clock, when my father barged running into the house shouting "we have to leave, we have to leave". His face was all red; his eyes shined with piercing outrage, uncertainty and incredulity. -- I remember it was Sunday because my mother was fixing our special Sunday lunch that included meat –the only day in the week where we had a little bit of meat. Sundays were the only days in the week where the butchers would butcher fresh goat meat. I remember my mother had prepared a big kettle of “tabeekh” (stew of beans, tomato sauce and a bit of meat) with rice on the side. My village was mostly Christian with some Druze. We were a farming community relying, primarily, on olives and oil, without much cash." -- also posted at Uruknet

America's Race to the Bottom
A quote...."In the past three decades, the income of the richest Americans quadrupled, while the income of the lowest ninety percent actually fell. Today, the median wage is lower than it was in the 1970s, even though productivity has grown by nearly fifty percent. -- All told, from the 1930s through the 1970s, America produced the biggest and richest middle class in human history. But then many of us made the mistake - as I did - of assuming that this had become, based on a solid society compact, the default status quo for the foreseeable future. -- In fact, it was instead an aberration. And it was contingent." -- also posted at SmrkngChimp

Normalising the Crime of the Century
A quote...."The purpose of the Chilcot inquiry is to normalise an epic crime by providing enough of a theatre of guilt to satisfy the media so that the only issue that matters, that of prosecution, is never raised. When he appears in January, Blair will play this part to odious perfection, dutifully absorbing the hisses and boos. All “inquiries” into state crimes are neutered in this way. In 1996, Lord Justice Scott’s arms-to-Iraq report obfuscated the crimes his investigations and voluminous evidence had revealed." -- also posted at DProgram & CommonDreams & TheNwStsmn

Tread Carefully Congressmen… The Terrorists Are Still Out There
A quote...."It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  Dennis Kucinich would be wise to remember that. -- The congressman from Ohio is valiantly working to attempt to use the war powers act to end the illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.- [YuTb]  He is going to submit two resolutions as soon as congress comes back in January that will set this plan of his into motion.  In all likelihood, the Rahm Emanuel/Hillary Clinton dominated DLCers of the congress will strike them both down with little fanfare from the corporate media.  However, like his impeachment resolution in 2007, there is a possibility that the antiwar faction of the right (yes, it’s small but it does exist) and some of the most exposed democrats facing re-election next year, may just be enough to garner Kucinich’s bills some traction. If he hooks up with the Ron Paul movement in the House, which has gained a considerable measure of strength with his “Audit the Fed” bill,  Kucinich may just have enough juice early in the election cycle of 2010 to actually make a game out of this. -- But if our “terrorist” history is any indication, that might not be the safest thing for the American people. -- Funny as it is, “the terrorists” always seem to strike when it is the most politically advantageous for the imperialists in the White House whether they are republican or democrat.  Odd how that works, ain’t it?" -- For more on this issue see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

>>>  Hideous Hillary's New Death Squads  <<<

[US-NRE Honduran] Death Squad kills five members of Resistance in Tegucigalpa
BREAKING NEWS - A quote...."Death squads have come back to do what they do. Sunday night a vehicle without plates took the lives of 5 people, all identified as members of the popular resistance against the dictatorship that was installed in the country 5 months ago." -- Ahhhhhh.....Hillary must be soooooo pleased right about now, because the death squads are back. - mpg -- See related articles shown below - (updated) - mpg

Honduras journalists under attack - video - (AJYuTb - 2 min 38 sec - May 24, 2010)
The Honduran Coup and the Clinton Connection
The high-powered hidden support for Honduras' coup
Ex-Clinton aides advising Honduran coup regime
Who's Behind Lanny Davis' Putsch Paycheck?
Washington behind the Honduras coup: Here is the evidence  - Alt
Key leaders of Honduras military coup trained in U.S.
Honduran coup leader a two-time SOA graduate
How Much Repression Will Hillary Clinton Support in Honduras? - Alt
Honduras: Coup Leaders Hire Top Democrat Lobbyists to Justify Their De Facto Government
Lanny Davis Now Lobbying In Support Of Honduran Coup
Return of the Death Squads
Pressure Mounts on Honduras as Journalist Death Toll Rises
Honduras: Death squads escalate killings
Text Book State Terrorism in Honduras: Death Squad Kills Teacher in Front of Students - in PDF
Death Squad Terror in Honduras
Welcome to the New Honduras, Where Right-Wing Death Squads Proliferate
[US-NRE Honduran] Death Squad kills five members of Resistance in Tegucigalpa
Honduras: The risks of Practicing Journalism - Alt
Killings Bear Hallmarks of Death Squads
Another young member of resistance Renán Fajardo Argueta found dead
Journalist murders spotlight Honduran government failures
For additional updates goto....Hideous Hillary's Happy Honduran Hit Squads

Chavez says Clinton threatens Venezuela over ties with Iran
A quote...."MOSCOW, December 14 (RIA Novosti) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said a recent statement by the U.S. secretary of state on ties with Iran was "a clear threat" against his country and Bolivia, the EFE news agency said on Monday. -- Hillary Clinton said on Monday that "if people want to flirt with Iran, they should take a look at what the consequences might well be for them." She expressed hope that they would "think twice" before doing so." - also posted at AlethoNews -- Ahhhhh, HH is now threatening Venezuela and no doubt the rest of Latin and Central America with the massive reemergence of the US-NRE's old fashioned Death Squads. - mpg

Norman Finkelstein: Israel's Disgrace in Gaza - Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2
Videos - - (YouTube - 1hr - Dec. 07, 2009) -- A quote...."Norman Finkelstein clarifies Israel's invasion of Gaza December '08 was a one-sided war, disproportionate use of force, crime against humanity, a disgrace. He relies on Goldstone Report, among others, and testimony of Israeli soldiers. At the Brecht Forum in Manhattan Dec 3, '09" -- For more on this issue see....US Sponsored Civil Wars - Palestine & Gaza Invasion of 12/27/08

Israeli Occupation, Colonialism & Apartheid
A quote...."The Cape Town, South Africa-based Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) "conduct(s) large-scale, policy-relevant, social-scientific projects for public-sector users, non-governmental organisations and international development agencies," and disseminates its findings widely. -- In May 2009, it issued a damning report titled, "Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid? A re-assessment of Israel's practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law." At the time John Dugard was the UN's Special Human Rights Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine. At his January 2007 suggestion, the study was undertaken "to scrutinise (his) hypothesis from the perspective of international law." It stated: -- "Israel is clearly in military occupation of the OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territories). At the same time, elements of the occupation constitute forms of colonialism and of apartheid, which are contrary to international law."

SINN FEIN CALLS FOR IRELAND TO BREAK DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH ISRAEL  -- BREAKING NEWS - Action Update - Quote of the Day - (shown below) A quote...."Sinn Féin gets it right again. TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh has come out swinging after Israel refused entry of Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin into Gaza recently. He is calling for a suspension of all diplomatic ties with Israel:"

“Israel, a rogue, racist and belligerent state, has no right whatsoever to deny any Irish Minister a visit to Palestine to see for himself or herself the humanitarian crisis that has been created by their criminal war actions."  ---  “No Irish Minister – with a scintilla of backbone – can allow matters to rest here. I am calling on Minister Micheal Martin to take a stand. It is high time that a hard line is taken on the issue of Israel – to stand out among European and world leaders – and to stand up for the people of Palestine."  ---   “He must demand access and make every effort to get to Gaza and Palestine despite what the Israeli authorities say. If the Israeli authorities refuse access again diplomatic relationships should immediately be broken off and the Israeli Ambassador sent home." -- "Aengus Ó Snodaigh"

"And Aengus should know as he's been to Gaza and witnessed the effects of the siege several times."

Alex Jones on Russia Today – Obama’s peace prize is a joke
Video - Alt - (RT-YuTb - 4m 20s - Dec 10, 2009) - A quote...."Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize as he plans to expand the war in Afghanistan and continue many of George W. Bush’s policies. Radio host Alex Jones says that Obama’s actions over the past 11 months have shown that he is a complete fraud and the Nobel committee has made a joke of the peace prize by giving it to Obama."

Change ... for the Worse - The [Nameless One] and Mr. Obama
Spot-On!! -- The most extensive, no-holds-barred, bucket of ice-cold water in the face, realistic look at what's happened to America this website editor has read in a long time. - mpg -- A quote...."Well lookee here! An invite from my limey comrades to recap Barack Obama's first year in office. Well comrades, I can do this thing two ways. I can simply state that the great mocha hope turned out to be a Trojan horse for Wall Street and the Pentagon. Or I can lay in an all-night stock of tequila, limes and reefer and puke up the entire miserable tale like some 5,000 word tequila purged Congolese stomach worm. I have chosen to do the latter." -- also posted at Creative-i & ICH & Uruknet

Liberals, I Do Despise
From the History File - First Published in The Village Voice, Nov. 12, 1996  -- "Liberals" the more things change, the more they stay the same....here's a blast from the past that could have been written today. - mpg -- A quote...."Sometime early in Ronald Reagan's first term, I decided to forget everything I'd always disliked about liberals. I took pains to subordinate what put me off about them to the larger objective of unity against the rightwing onslaught, I decided to overlook their capacity for high-minded fervor for the emptiest and sappiest platitudes; their tendencies to make a fetish of procedure over substance and to look for technical fixes to political problems; their ability to screen out the mounting carnage in the cities they inhabit as they seek pleasant venues for ingesting good coffee and scones; their propensity for aestheticizing other people's oppression and calling that activism; their reflex to wring their hands and look constipated in the face of conflict; and, most of all, their spinelessness and undependability in crises. "

Will the Last “Progressive for Obama” Please Turn Out the Lights? - posted at BAR
A quote...."The U.S. peace “movement,” much of which “comes and goes” as often as Boy George’s “Karma Chameleon,” has finally discovered that its presumed perch in Barack Obama’s tree was untenable, if not wholly imaginary. To be sure, “Progressives for Obama” and other assorted delusional groupings were always squatters in the Obama camp – but they were the only ones who didn’t know it. How embarrassing it would have been, back during the campaign, had the lost little lefties realized that Obama’s imperial soul mates were laughing at them from a disdainful distance, knowing full well the path their bought-and-paid-for president would soon be traveling. How would the Obama peacenik groupies have preserved their sense of self-worth – much less their arrogant smugness – had they realized the absolute contempt in which they were held by their hero’s funders and packagers – and no doubt by the Object of Adulation, himself? " -- also posted at AlethoNews & Creative-i

Heroism Under Tyranny - Apathy Under Freedom
Quote of the Day (shown below)...."December 09,m 2009 "ICH" -- The following remarks are excerpted from a series of leaflets produced by a Christian based anti-war group at Manchester University:"

"If the British people are already so corrupted and spiritually crushed that they do not raise a hand, frivolously trusting in a questionable faith in lawful order of history; if they surrender man’s highest principle, that which raises him above all other God’s creatures, his free will; if they abandon the will to take decisive action and turn the wheel of history and thus subject it to their own rational decision; if they are so devoid of all individuality, have already gone so far along the road toward turning into a spiritless and cowardly mass – then, yes, they deserve their downfall.”
 -- *Leaflets of the White Rose*

Normalising the Crime of the Century
A quote...."The purpose of the Chilcot inquiry is to normalise an epic crime by providing enough of a theatre of guilt to satisfy the media so that the only issue that matters, that of prosecution, is never raised. When he appears in January, Blair will play this part to odious perfection, dutifully absorbing the hisses and boos. All “inquiries” into state crimes are neutered in this way. In 1996, Lord Justice Scott’s arms-to-Iraq report obfuscated the crimes his investigations and voluminous evidence had revealed." -- also posted at DProgram

Keith Olbermann: Bush Administration Gets Away With Torture - Alt
Video  -- More on Obama's cover-up of war crimes. - mpg -- For more on this issue see....9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables

Dennis Kucinich "I Have Seen The Slow & Steady Erosion Of The Constitution Of The United States!" -- Video - Alt - (C-SPAN YouTube - 5 min 37 sec - December 08, 2009) -- A quote...."The war in Afghanistan is a racket....." -- *Dennis Kucinich*

Will the Last “Progressive for Obama” Please Turn Out the Lights? - posted at BAR
A quote...."The U.S. peace “movement,” much of which “comes and goes” as often as Boy George’s “Karma Chameleon,” has finally discovered that its presumed perch in Barack Obama’s tree was untenable, if not wholly imaginary. To be sure, “Progressives for Obama” and other assorted delusional groupings were always squatters in the Obama camp – but they were the only ones who didn’t know it.

Dear Progressives; You’re Right, It’s Not “Obama’s War”… it’s Yours.
A quote...."At the risk of sounding glib… “We told ya so.” -- Over a year and a half ago, some of us fought desperately to warn a “New Moon”esque enraptured “progressive” populus that their hero/God/candidate wasn’t what he was being portrayed as; that the campaign was just more false advertising being pawned off on an unsuspecting nation.  Well, we were shouted down, banned from websites, sent hate mail, accused of being closeted republicans (I thought they were all in the House), and generally dismissed unceremoniously so that we couldn’t serve as the BuzzKill Captains for the party. -- Well, now the Party is rolling on. -- It’s rolling over Afghanistan and soon it will be rolling over Pakistan and possibly even Iran and Venezuela.  The festive street-party of an election night celebration has faded away leaving nothing but a hangover and the gut-wrenching realization that your wallet is missing (along with the house, the 401k, most of the constitution, and of course… your job)."

Ronnie Kasrils - The Case for BDS: Israel, the Palestinians and Apartheid
Video - Action Alert - Alt/Vid#1  Alt/Vid#2  -- (YuTb - 8m - 12/09/09) -- Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because it will further the cause of justice. - mpg -- A quote...."The debate on sanctions against Israel is about to heat up again. This week and next, there is a major initiative in the launch of a trade union boycott movement (boycott, disinvestment and sanctions or BDS) with public meetings in London, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburgh. -- The meetings will be addressed by one of the leading Palestinian figures in the boycott campaign, Omar Barghouti, from the Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC). Key figures from South Africa with their own experience of the sanctions campaign against Apartheid will also speak at the meetings." - For more on how to Boycott Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website. - mpg

ALJAZEERA VIDEO: The battle for Jerusalem - Alt - (AJ YuTb - -24m25s - 12/06/09)
Video - A quote...."As EU Foreign ministers prepare to meet on Monday to discuss a Swedish proposal to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of both Israel and Palestine, the EU accuses Israel of working deliberately to alter the citys demographic balance and sever East Jerusalem from the West Bank. Can the EU play a role in peace making after being marginalised for so long? Or is the battler for Jerusalem already over? "

Walid Khalidi at the UN on Jerusalem Parts 1-5 6Dec09
Alt/Vid#1 - AltVid#2 - Alt/Vid#3 - Alt/Vid#4 - Alt/Vid#5 - (YuTb 5-10m each 12/01/09)
Video - Must view videos - The best, most articulate, most sweeping and most accurate round-up of the Israeli conflict, along with a history of Jerusalem, from the Muslims' perspective, this website editor has ever seen. – mpg

Honduran elections exposed- Alt - (YouTube - 12 min 14 sec - December 06, 2009)
Video - A quote...."Honduran coup regime's claims about 60% turnout at free and fair elections is revealed as fraud. Also implicated in the video are the wide array of media outlets and governments that have unquestioningly accepted the electoral data of a regime that overthrew the last elected president."

Liberals Are Useless
A quote...."Liberals are a useless lot. They talk about peace and do nothing to challenge our permanent war economy. They claim to support the working class, and vote for candidates that glibly defend the North American Free Trade Agreement. They insist they believe in welfare, the right to organize, universal health care and a host of other socially progressive causes, and will not risk stepping out of the mainstream to fight for them. The only talent they seem to possess is the ability to write abject, cloying letters to Barack Obama—as if he reads them—asking the president to come back to his “true” self. This sterile moral posturing, which is not only useless but humiliating, has made America’s liberal class an object of public derision." -- also posted at AmericanEveryman

“Forward,” March
A quote...."Left, right, left, right, left, right, left … who can tell the difference these days? The party in power — whichever party that may be — makes policy on the basis of precedent, not ideology. Old programs are preserved, perhaps “reformed.” The opposition party fights tooth and nail against new programs — then keeps and expands them when it comes out of opposition and into power. Government gets larger, never smaller, and as President Barack Obama’s speech at West Point last Tuesday demonstrates, politicians are at least as likely (if not more so) to double down on their predecessors’ bad ideas as on any stray good ones which might have accidentally worked their way into the program."

It's a return to the Star Chamber as Europe finally tramples Magna Carta into the dust
A quote...."If you have a spare evening, read the Magna Carta. It is a restraining document. What leaps out from the pages of Langton’s text is the intent to protect subjects from overweening authority (in this case, Norman-French despotism), by restoring ancient freedoms. -- I have a copy dated MDCCLXVI (1766) left to me by my father, and to him by his father. The customary law is Saxon, Celtic, even Visigoth." -- also posted at RogueGov Ramping up Afghanistan war to control Caspian oil and gas transport routes 
posted at Online Journal -- A quote...."The 800-pound gorilla standing in the auditorium at West Point is still waiting for an answer to why Obama made his surge-speech for 30,000 more troops and $30 billion to pay for them. That gorilla wonders “why” Obama pitched so hard for the US to stay and surge through Afghanistan and Pakistan. The reasons given were that the Afghanistan Taliban and Al Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden were the people that attacked us on 9/11, which was an iteration of George W. Bush’s reasons for the War on Terror. They are as phony now as the day Bush promised to smoke out Bin Laden."

Emails Show bin Laden was Bush Talking Point, not Target - Alt
A quote...."“Missing” White House emails retrieved from Bush administration records indicate that top Bush Justice Department officials had little interest in the pursuit of Osama bin Laden or Mullah Mohammed Omar, head of the Taliban in Afghanistan."

Asia Digest Tells the Truth About 9/11
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A quote...."Half way around the world in a publication from Sri Lanka, November's edition of Asia Digest, the feature story is "9/11 — Has America been Told The Truth?" -- Asia Digest begins their feature with a brief introduction by Richard de Zoysa which sets the stage for the two following articles by Johnny Christy which include a thorough presentation of the mysteries and problems with the conventional story told." - also posted at DProgram -- For more on this issue see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

Trickle-up Economics - Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me
A quote...."December 04, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- Goldman Sachs senior executives are arming themselves with New York gun permits, according to Alice Schroeder on Bloomberg.com.  The banksters “are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.” -- One can understand why the banksters are worried. The company, now known as Gold Sacks, has a large responsibility for the financial crisis and the fraudulent “securities” that wrecked the world economy and Americans’ pensions. A former Gold Sachs CEO had control of the US Treasury during the Bush regime from which he diverted $750 billion to bail out the banks, thus supplying them with free capital. Gold Sachs made $27,000 million during the first three quarters of 2009 and is paying out massive bonuses, leaving the busted taxpayers with the debt and interest charges." -- For more on this issue see....Good Economic News - 12-04-09 - mpg

Obama's Af-Pak is as Whack as Bush's Iraq
A quote...."Barack Obama’s oratorical skills have turned on him, revealing, as George Bush’s low-grade delivery never could, the perfect incoherence of the current American imperial project in South Asia. Bush’s verbal eccentricities served to muddy his entire message, leaving the observer wondering what was more ridiculous, the speechmaker or the speech. There is no such confusion when Obama is on the mic. His flawless delivery of superbly structured sentences provides no distractions, requiring the brain to examine the content – the policy in question – on its actual merits. The conclusion comes quickly: the U.S. imperial enterprise in Afghanistan and Pakistan is doomed, as well as evil. -- The president’s speech to West Point cadets was a stream of non sequiturs so devoid of logic as to cast doubt on the sanity of the authors. “[T]hese additional American and international troops,” said the president, “will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces, and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011.” -- Obama claims that, the faster an additional 30,000 Americans pour into Afghanistan, the quicker will come the time when they will leave. More occupation means less occupation, you see? This breakneck intensification of the U.S. occupation is necessary, Obama explains, because “We have no interest in occupying your country.” -- also posted at ICH

Savvy to a Fault: Coming to Terms With Imperial Power
A quote....""How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it." -- *Henry David Thoreau*  ---  "To me, this quote from Thoreau expresses the only rational, moral and humane stance that a citizen can take toward the vast and brutal machinery of the American imperial state in our time. The crimes of this state are monstrous, and mounting. But what is worse is that these crimes are not aberrations; they are the very essence of the system -- they are its goal, its product, its lifeblood."

A Death Warrant for the Future
A quote...."....as Barack Obama's speech shows, we are plowing ahead on this insane, inhuman course. We are not even attempting to begin to find ways to slow or mitigate the imperial cancer, much less stop it outright; we are just stomping the pedal to the floor, screeching full-throttle to the depths of hell. This is a terrible, sickening moment in American history, yet another fatal turning point in the nation's slow and agonizing demise."

Obama's Vietnam-lite - Alt - (YouTube - 10 min 58 sec - December 02, 2009)
Video - A quote...."Pepe Escobar: It's not Vietnam, said Obama, but neither it is what he said it is. President Obama's widely expected surge in Afghanistan is the "gift" US taxpayers received right in the middle of the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression. The Pentagon for its part got (more or less) what it wanted - for now. As much as Obama stretched himself to stress this was not a new Vietnam, he trapped himself by conflating al-Qaeda with the Taliban and rehashing the same "war on terror" rationale - all clad in the glorious robes of a "noble struggle for freedom". Pepe Escobar argues the most significant point about Obama's West Point address is what he omitted. He simply ignored the current, high-stakes New Great Game in Eurasia, on which the Pentagon is focused like a laser, and of which Afghanistan is just a peon."

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Here We Go Again
A quote...."It is already a 30-year war begun by one Democratic president, and thanks to the political opportunism of the current commander in chief the Afghanistan war is still without end or logical purpose. President Barack Obama’s own top national security adviser has stated that there are fewer than 100 al-Qaida members in Afghanistan and that they are not capable of launching attacks. What superheroes they must be, then, to require 100,000 U.S. troops to contain them." - also posted at ICH

Why Obama’s Surge in Afghanistan?
A quote...."The reasons behind the surge — Al Qaeda, “rooting out terrorism,” etc. — are unlikely to fool many people, with the exception of the media.  This “war on terror” propaganda is based on the same illogical catch-phrases that Bush’s limited intelligence tripped over.  Coming from Obama, such stupid reasoning sounds especially bizarre, akin to an evolutionary biologist forced to argue in favor of creationism. - Obama is compelled to tell the really big lie because the truth is too damning. If he remotely approached the real motives behind the war, the public would be pushed into total defiance — Obama’s new $660 billion military budget for 2010 would have caused mass demonstrations. - In reality, the war in Afghanistan was a convenient way for U.S. corporations — who dominate U.S. politics — to get a firmer hold in the resource-rich Middle East.  For example, soon after Afghanistan was invaded, we were told that Iraq was a “ticking time bomb,” while now Obama assures us that Pakistan is the real threat — and don’t forget Iran!  When considering the above military budget, these countries are threats to the U.S in the same way that a flea is a threat to an elephant."

Has America Forgotten Peace?
Every person in America should read this article. - mpg -- A quote...."December 01, 2009 "Veterans Today" -- Tonight, I will listen to the President tell me that it will take years to withdraw from Afghanistan.  He will, out of political necessity tell a series of lies.  He will lie by omission, failing to tell people that this war, our "good war" was, when the facts are examined, a farce.  There has not been a credible word from Osama bin Laden since December, 2001, when his death was announced in the Islamic press.  What other reason did we have to occupy Afghanistan and lead it into total ruin? -- The President will also lie because he has been lied to.  He will present solutions, solutions sending troops into harms way, troops meant to build a government and country that force of arms can only destroy." -- also posted at ICH

Obama’s blurry vision for Afghanistan - posted at Online Journal
A quote...."How complicated really is it to understand why the US doesn’t belong in Afghanistan? We invaded the country illegally after 9/11, supposedly in search of Osama bin Laden. Eight years later we haven’t found him. -- David Ray Griffin, America’s leading scholar on 9/11 has written a book, Osama Bin Laden -- Dead or Alive, which presents an enormous amount deal factual evidence that Osama died at the end of December, 2001 in Pakistan and was buried there in an unmarked grave, according to Muslim tradition. Theoretically, that should collapse our entire reason for being there. Yet we are still there."

Our lie-based reality - posted at Online Journal
A quote...."Our government cannot function without the trust of the people. Without unshakeable faith that the people will allow the government to proceed, the governing coalitions of politicians will not dare to implement their own plans. Fear of popular reprisals (which could diminish their power) restrains even the most devious politicians from acting. Even Hitler himself would not have dared to proceed with his vile plans, if he hadn’t believed that the people would let him get away with it. -- When government plans are so repulsive that no sane person would support them, then it becomes necessary to construct a false version of reality to spoon-feed the people, in order to gain the requisite trust, and with it, the people’s consent. -- This is our current situation in America and throughout the Americanized world."

The U.S. Government Is Taking Us Down
A quote...."President Obama has decided to up the ante in Afghanistan by acceding to his generals’ request to send an additional 34,000 troops to that beleaguered nation. What better proof that those of us who opposed the initial invasion of Afghanistan were right? The decision to treat the 9/11 attacks as a military problem, rather than a criminal-justice one, has turned out to be one unmitigated disaster, a disaster that seemingly has no end." -- also posted at ICH

The World’s Least Powerful Man - The Obama Puppet
A quote...."December 01, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- It didn’t take the Israel Lobby very long to bring President Obama to heel regarding his prohibition against further illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land. Obama discovered that a mere American president is powerless when confronted by the Israel Lobby and that the United States simply is not allowed a Middle East policy separate from Israel’s. -- Obama also found out that he cannot change anything else either, if he ever intended to do so."

Hasbara Author vs Iran’s Bomb
A quote...."December 01, 2009 "Information Clearing House" - - Hasbara author (1) David Aaronovitch is pretty much unstoppable. The man who together with the Jewish Chronicle writer Nick Cohen encouraged the war in Iraq, is now warning us about the evolving Iranian bomb. “Wake up”, he urges us in The Times, “this threat is too big to ignore”.  As if more than one million Iraqis killed in a war he advocated were not enough, the enthusiastic Hasbara author has a new conflict to propel."

We are all Palestinians now
A quote...."On September 16, Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli expatriate, told the Cambridge Forum: “As the picture of the current economic disaster becomes ever more clear, it becomes rather obvious, to me at least, that the ideology and the people who are directly responsible for the mass killing of millions of Iraqis and the displacement of many other millions, the people who keep the Palestinians starved behind walls, are unfortunately very much the same people who are responsible for a class genocide of millions of disenfranchised Americans who are now on the brink of total dispossession.”

The Danger of a Single Story - Alt - (TEDVid - 18m49s - Filmed Jul '09, Posted Oct '09)
Video - A quote...."This is a superb presentation by Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie. Also see Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to write about Africa“, and Uzodinma Iweala’s “Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Africa“.  Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding." -- also posted at AlethoNews

UN Partition of Palestine
A quote...."The UN General assembly voted 29 November 1947 to recommend partition of Palestine to give the Zionist movement control over 55% of Palestine and leave the Palestinians with 45% of Palestine. The Palestinian natives were then more than 2/3rd of the population and owned 93% of the land.  Jews constituted a third of the population (most of them illegal new immigrants) who had land ownership of less than 7%." -- also posted at Uruknet

Thanksgiving or the Politics of Genocide - Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 - (YT-11m39s-112709)
Video - One ticked off Original American. -- A quote...."Thanksgiving and the Muslim Eid Al-Adha have coincided around the same dates. -- In Eid Al Adha we give thanks to Allah, through a ritual of animal sacrifice, the Americans give thanks to their maker, through a ritual of human sacrifice from the first day the white man landed on native American land, until the present when that same white man, (who unfortunately now includes blacks and native Americans too) landed in Iraq, continuing that exact same 200 years old methodology of arrogance, theft, rape, torture, killing crowned with lies and deception - in short genocide."

Economic Hitman John Perkins: US predatory capitalism creates poverty, terrorism....
Videos -- Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 - Alt/Vid#3 - Alt/Vid#4 - Alt/Vid#5 - Alt/Vid#6
Special Note - From the History File - May 20, 2009 -- (YuTb - 10m each - 05/20/09) - A quote...."NY Times Bestselling author of "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", [GoglBkSrch]* -- John Perkins, [joins Alex Jones to discuss the globalist agenda, and] explains in excerpts from his new book, "Hoodwinked: An Economic Hitman Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded" [GoglBkSrch]* —and What We Need to Do to Remake Them, that the US lives under a corporatocracy, with US policy captured to serve corporate profits rather than the public good." -*links added -- also posted at DProgram

Senate Report Explores 2001 Escape by bin Laden From Afghan Mountains
A quote...."WASHINGTON — As President Obama vows to “finish the job” in Afghanistan by sending more troops, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has completed a detailed look back at a crucial failure early in the battle against Al Qaeda: the escape of Osama bin Laden from American forces in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora in December 2001." -- For more on this issue see....US Support of Terror - Tora Bora

Senator Wants to Know if the Dead Osama will be Read Miranda Rights
A quote...."Osama bin Laden was a CIA asset who died in December, 2001. “Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader,” Fox News reported on December 26, 2001. “Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.” -- For more on this issue see....They Were Paid to be Guilty - 11-23-09 - mpg

Flight 77 Cockpit Door Never Opened?
(Possible remote control confirmation or data recorder tampering - mpg) -- A quote...."(PilotsFor911Truth.org) - Newly decoded data provided by an independent researcher and computer programmer from Australia exposes alarming evidence that the reported hijacking aboard American Airlines Flight 77 was impossible to have existed. A data parameter labeled "FLT DECK DOOR", cross checks with previously decoded data obtained by Pilots For 9/11 Truth from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) through the Freedom Of Information Act."  - also posted at DProgram -- For more on this issue see....9/11-NORAD

A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack
A quote...."I hear, every so often, that “there hasn’t been an attack on our soil since 9/11″, and it always makes me cringe. Sometimes I wonder about people. The anthrax attacks were never solved. They never had to bring their “evidence” to trial or put their key witness, the lying woman who got a new house out of the deal and maybe some breast implants, on the witness stand. Everyone admits the anthrax sent to our congress and members of the press came from our own military labs, yet they claim the case is “closed”.  So closed, in fact, that no-one ever needs to mention it again. Down the memory hole it goes. Mr. Greenwald uses his popular platform to suggest we don’t simply forget about it. Good for him" - For more on this issue see....US-False Flag Ops - Anthrax

Richard Gage AIA on New Zealand National Television - Alt - (YuTb - 6m11s - 112709)
Video - A quote...."This may be the first time the evidence assembled by Gage and others in the 9/11 truth movement has been presented with the gravity and respect it deserves by any mainstream news broadcaster." - For more on these issues see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

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Just Give it a Rest OK!! - 11-27-09 - mpg

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The Iraq War ‘Inquiry’: ‘Revelations’? What revelations?
A quote...."I read with amazement the ‘revelations’ concerning war criminal Tony Blair’s visit to Camp Crawford in March 2002 where Bush/Blair decided that ‘regime change’ was the order of the day. But there’s nothing new about these ‘revelations’, indeed I and many others reported this meeting literally years ago."

Everyone Knew that Iraq Didn't Have WMDs
For example, Tony Blair - the British Prime Minister - knew that Saddam possessed no WMDs. If America's closest ally Britain knew, then the White House knew as well. -- And the number 2 Democrat in the Senate -who was on the Senate intelligence committee - admitted that the Senate intelligence committee knew before the war started that Bush's public statements about Iraqi WMDs were false. If the committee knew, then the White House knew as well. -- But we don't even have to use logic to be able to conclude that the White House knew.   -- Specifically, the former highest-ranking CIA officer in Europe says that Bush, Cheney and Rice were personally informed that Iraq had no WMDs in Fall 2002 (and see this).

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They Were Paid to be Guilty - 11-23-09 - mpg

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Blair - Bush Texas meeting in 2002 sealed Iraq fate
A quote...."The former Prime Minister allegedly "signed in blood" Britain's support for an attack on Baghdad when he got together with the US president at his Texas ranch. -- And Mr Blair deliberately linked Saddam to al-Qaeda in a bid to strengthen the case to topple Saddam, despite there being no evidence, the Iraq War inquiry heard." - bold by website editor

Iraq inquiry: Bush administration 'discussing regime change two years before invasion'
A quote...."Elements of the new US administration of President George Bush were already discussing ''regime change'' in Iraq two years before the invasion of 2003, the official inquiry into the war has been told." - In other words, before 9/11. - mpg

US discussed Iraq regime change a month after Bush took office, senior British officials say
A quote...."The chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee in 2001 told investigators Monday that elements of the Bush Administration were pushing for regime change in Iraq in early 2001, months before the 9/11 attacks and two years before President George W. Bush formally announced the Iraq war." - also posted at Uruknet -- -- But 9/11 sure helped, didn't it?  By the way, for those with long memories, remember how the Neocons and Bush were screaming about how they had to go into Iraq FIRST, for four long months after 9/11 they ran around like chickens with their heads cut off frothing at the mouth about how they just had to go after Saddam, till they were convinced by a few people, including Powell, that they'd have to go into Afghanistan first.  To say it again, especially for all those morons out there in this country who are truly in denial (or far, far, worse) regarding 9/11.....the "attack" sure was convenient for the Neocons' plans, wasn't it? - mpg

Eastern Partnership: The West’s Final Assault On the Former Soviet Union
Geo-Strategic Analysis - From the History File - February 13, 2009 -- A quote...."At a meeting of the European Union’s General Affairs and External Relations Council in Brussels on May 26 of last year, Poland, seconded by Sweden, first proposed what has come to be known as the Eastern Partnership, a program to “integrate” all the European and South Caucasus former Soviet nations – except for Russia – not already in the EU and NATO; that is, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. -- The above are half of the former Soviet republics in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) established as a sop to Russia immediately after the breakup of the Soviet Union in that year and in theory to be a post-Soviet equivalent of the then European Community, now European Union." -- also posted at AfterDwngSt

Iraq report: Secret papers reveal blunders and concealment
A quote...."The reports disclose that:   Tony Blair, the former prime minister, misled MPs and the public throughout 2002 when he claimed that Britain’s objective was “disarmament, not regime change” and that there had been no planning for military action. In fact, British military planning for a full invasion and regime change began in February 2002. -- The need to conceal this from Parliament and all but “very small numbers” of officials “constrained” the planning process. The result was a “rushed”operation “lacking in coherence and resources” which caused “significant risk” to troops and “critical failure” in the post-war period." -- bold by website editor

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
A quote...."At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an investigation by The Nation has found. The Blackwater operatives also assist in gathering intelligence and help run a secret US military drone bombing campaign that runs parallel to the well-documented CIA predator strikes, according to a well-placed source within the US military intelligence apparatus."

Documented VIDEO PROOF of Israeli Lies, Treachery and Murder - Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 - Alt/Vid#3 - Alt/Vid#4  -- Videos - A quote...."UN: "Israel knew they were bombing a school" -- John Ging, the head of the UN relief and works agency in Gaza, has said Israel were given the GPS and knew the building was a school. "There should be an imediate independent investigation into this."

Obama Administration Official Trying to Nit-Pick ICC Definition of Aggression as a War Crime. I Wonder Why.  -- A quote...."As Obama gets set to “surge” in Afghanistan while you and I pay extra taxes to foot the bill, and as his CIA directed drones rain Hellfire missiles down on civilian targets in Pakistan… again, Obama’s US war crimes ambassador Stephen Rapp is at a gathering in The Hague of the International Criminal Court’s Assembly of State Parties doing his best to soften the ICC’s definition of the crime of waging wars of aggression.  In short, the Obama administration apparently wants any declaration from the ICC of “crimes of aggression” tied into the United Nations Security Councils declaration of a crime of aggression.  That means that the United States would have effective VETO power over any war crime resolution coming out of the ICC."

Did Cheney Order The Torture To Get Bad Information? - Alt - (YuTb 4m22s 04/23/09)
Video - From the History File -- April 23, 2009 -- A quote.."Watch more at http://www.theyoungturks.com" -- For more on this issue see....9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables

HR 4130 – Share the Sacrifice Act of 2010 (or what I call the “You Pay so the Defense Contractors Don’t Have too” Bill) -- A quote...."At first I thought that this was a joke; an internet politicized rumor run amuck. How wrong I was. -- HR 4130 – Share the sacrifice Act of 2010 has been proposed in the House of Representatives by David Obey. It is an additional income tax to be amended to the U.S. tax code to pay for the ongoing illegal occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and whatever other “extremist” nation Hillary Clinton and her Bilderberg buddies deem “unacceptable” to the new world order. -- It was announced the other day by a bunch of loyal democrats (I should say they are loyal to the DLCers in the White House, not the American people) which included Barney Frank, John Murtha, and David Obey. The idea is to hit up anyone making more than $22,600 for some more cash, even though jobs are scarce, benefits are gone, and we are about to be mandated by law to buy health insurance from companies that are already using their newfound political muscle to undercut established medical practices that are known to save lives."

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The Problem is Not the Economy, It's the Politicians - 11-20-09 - mpg

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I Had a Dream....
"That I lived in a nation that had informed, educated people that loved and fiercely protected their Constitution and Bill of Rights that enshrined forever those unalienable rights so vital and necessary to a free republic. -- That this country had a healthy and robust educational system, with free schooling all the way thru college. And that these schools at all levels taught Civics with an emphasis on the Constitution which led to many a lively debate in the classrooms about the rights the people had and how much power should be accorded to the federal government. -- These vigorous debates didn't stop after graduation from college, but carried on in many a restaurant, bar, club and home."

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US-NRE Standard Attack Profiles (SAPs) - 11-16-09 - mpg

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The Arab Street - Cairo - Alt - (YouTube - 12 min 46 sec - November 16, 2009)
Video - A quote...."The Arab Street takes viewers to the beating heart of some of the world's most vibrant cities. In this episode we visit the Egyptian capital, Cairo. -- As well as giving a taste of the street life, colour and culture of Cairo, The Arab Street hears from Egyptians as they share their views on their own country and the wider Arab world. -- From Egypt's economy and the country's political future to Barack Obama, the US president, Israel's war on Gaza and the niqaab (face covering) issue, residents of Cairo tackle the topics that really matter to them."

Obama’s Betrayals
A quote...."After President Obama announced he would fight the release of photographs showing American soldiers abusing “war on terror” detainees, Richard Haass, president of the quintessentially mainstream Council on Foreign Relations, said that Obama had learned the difference between campaigning and governing. [i.e. the difference between what he promised, and what the parasitic class will allow - mpg] He wasn’t being sarcastic."

Fort Hood & the Perversion of Language:  “The Shooter Was a Soldier”
Quote of the Day...."November 13, 2009 -- Information Clearing House...."

“… now this may sound convoluted, but not if one tracks the cultural response of hostility from every passionate point of view when a leadership itself is so prone to unjustifiable violence and un-American diminishment of the constitution.  What do you think is going to happen?  What do you think the American hopeless will do…?  We better consider what the fundamentalist within will put on our table…”-- * Sean Penn*

"This quote is from Sean Penn speaking last August in Denver, CO at a rally to open the presidential debates to “third parties” and independent candidates.  This excerpt was part of Penn’s attempt at foreshadowing how violence could become the last line of defense against a corrupt government and debased political process that is devoid of substantive democratic debate and participation."

Alan Sabrosky – War With Iran? America's Titanic Rushes The Iceberg
A quote...."A very strange thing must have happened to Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), on his way to his recent talk at Washington's National Press Club. He oddly asserted that Iran was indeed an "existential threat" to Israel (nice of the Israelis to have provided that sound bite), that he was open to a US attack on Iran (which is no threat whatsoever to the US) to forestall that supposed danger to Israel, and that the attack "would also be incredibly destabilizing."  ---  In reality, only the anticipation of potentially catastrophic consequences is accurate. Regardless of what Arab governments do, the Arab street may explode. Iraq - whose population, police and armed forces are largely Shi'a, and which now has good ties with Shi'a Iran - could easily turn on the Americans in their midst, with gruesome consequences. Oil prices would skyrocket. And that is just for openers.  ---  As for "existential threats," Israel certainly knows something about them, because that is precisely what Israel itself poses to Palestinians. But the idea that an Iran which might someday acquire a handful of crude nuclear weapons would somehow threaten the existence of Israel with its massive nuclear arsenal and American-designed air force surpasses lunacy. The Israelis know this. What they want is for the US to remove their only surviving competitor in the region at America's own expense." - bold by website editor - also posted at OhBummer & WarInIraq - For more on this issue see....A Fist Full of Dollars - 10-02-09 - mpg

America, Israel’s Lackey
Quote of the Day...."On November 10 Obama’s White House chief of staff, Rahm Israel Emanuel, surrendered for his boss at the annual conference of the United Jewish Communities. The ongoing Israeli settlements, he said, should not be a “distraction” to a peace agreement. -- Allegedly, the US is a superpower and Israel is a client state whose very existence depends entirely on US military and economic aid and diplomatic protection.  Yet, in the real world it works the other way.  Israel is the superpower and the US is its client state." -- Regarding Kucinich's speech see....Kucinich: "Almost As Serious As Committing War Crimes Is Covering Up War Crimes" - posted 11-04-09

What is Israel's Role in the Destabilization of Pakistan?
A quote...."When waging war "by way of deception," the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe. Thus the force-multiplier effect when staged crises are reinforced with pre-staged intelligence. In combination, the two often prove persuasive." -- See also....It Will Happen Every Single Time - 01-01-08 - mpg

Galloway War Crimes Speech part1 - Vid#2 - Vid#3 - (YuTb aprox 10m Nov 03, 2009)
Videos - A quote...."Speech by George Galloway MP at the War Crimes Conference & Exhibition that took place at the Putra World Trade Center in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on 28th October 2009."

Let's Criminalize War! -- Speech at War Crimes Conf & Exhibition
AltVid#1 - AltVid#2 - (YuTb aprox 10m 11/03/09)
Videos - A quote...."Speech by Cynthia McKinney from the USA at the War Crimes Conference & Exhibition that took place at the Putra World Trade Center in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on 28th October 2009."

Lies, War, and Empire - AltVid#1 - AltVid#2
(YuTb - aprox  #1/57min #2/30 min - June 25, 2007)  - Analysis - Paradigms - From the History File - June 17, 2007 - Outstanding lecture - mpg -- A quote...."Parenti speaks about lies, dissent, and how we arrive at the truth of our situation and still retain our sanity. He raises the question whether the Iraq war was not a failure but a success for some parts of the empire - and why. -- "Lies, War, and Empire" given May 12, 2007 at Antioch University in Seattle." - also posted at DProgram - For more on this type of issue see....Many Still Believe That Saddam Hussein Was Behind 9/11, and Now We Have Some Idea Why - posted 11-07-09

11/9 and 9/11: And we thought we were free
A quote...."Seventy-one years ago today, on 11/9/38, the horrifying event that the Nazi party called Kristallnacht occurred. -- It could be said, that the events of 11/9/38 were the official start of Adolf Hitler’s overt and “endless war” against the Jews, but the methods used to justify that war were not an aberration. Rather, the Night of the Shattering Glass, which saw many synagogues destroyed, all the plate glass windows of a thousand Jewish businesses in Germany shattered and the first 26,000 Jewish men, of many millions more to come, sent off to concentration camps, was simply another example of an all-too-common historical reality that has been going on ever since the first tyrant orchestrated the first false flag operation, allowing him to “innocently” and patriotically declare the first “retaliatory” war. And then, by repeatedly using cunning propaganda techniques, that tyrant could plausibly deny responsibility for the coming violence because the enemy was, after all, the one who drew “first blood.” -- For more on this issue see....Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

Israel: 60 years of Ethnic Cleansing and Mass Murder
Video - A quote...."Zionist massacres, 1948-2009. This is what Israel thinks of peace..." -- also posted at AlethoNews

Can You Hear Us Now?
A quote...."One year ago, the Democrats won commanding victories resulting in control of the presidency and lopsided majorities in the House and Senate. -- One year ago, the Republican brand was so weak that the party was on death watch, literally capable of sliding into the history books alongside the Whigs and the Federalists. -- One year ago the country was enthralled with the notion of a new president who seemed committed to solving a host of problems and, above all, offering change from a hated predecessor and his disastrously failed politics. -- But now, today, that promised change seems a lot more like chump change instead. -- Now, today, the Big Hope president has virtually nothing of import to show for nearly a year in office. -- Now, today, that president continues to follow the policies of his horrid predecessor on everything from civil liberties to civil rights to economics and foreign policy. -- And now, today, he and his comrades in Congress have squandered whatever goodwill they once had and face an angry public turning back to the right, desperately seeking solutions to their problems." -- also posted at CommonDreams & Article also posted at the Smirking Chimp

The Evil Empire
A quote...."November 06, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- -The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that  “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate.  Voters will vent their frustrations over their impotence on the president, which implies a future of one-term presidents.  Soon our presidents will be as ineffective as Roman emperors in the final days of that empire." -- also posted at CounterPunch & AntiWar

The billionaire bailout society
Video - A quote...."The new financial instruments invented about 30 years ago helped the America’s wealthiest to suck up the extra wealth created by deregulated finance system, explains Les Leopold, author of “The Looting of America” [GoglBkSrch]."- *links added -- also posted at BLN

It's Time To Fire Tim Geithner
A quote...."A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system is a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance  CEOs pay themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lend and insure assets with money they don't have to customers who can't pay back the loans. -- In those dark days between the fall of Lehman Brothers and before the presidential election, we were often carried through that time by the small glimmer of hope that at least we would soon have a new leader who would hopefully fix this mess and punish those responsible. -- Yet in the past 9 months, not only has the administration failed to fix anything, they have actually made things much worse for anyone who isn't a Wall Street banker. Therefore, we are past the point where anyone in power still gets the benefit of the doubt -- the process of taking back our country for all citizens must begin now." -- also posted at OhBummer

Our terrorists
A quote...."Once upon a time, the CIA trained, financed and supported Osama bin Laden and his mujahidin networks in Afghanistan to repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. After the end of the Cold War, bin Laden turned against the West and we no longer had any use for him. His persistent terrorist attacks against us for more than a decade, culminating in 9/11, provoked our own response, in the form of the ‘War on Terror’. This is the official narrative. And it’s false. Not only did Western intelligence services continue to foster Islamist extremist and terrorist groups connected to al-Qaeda after the Cold War; they continued to do so even after 9/11."

TALIBAN = 9/11?? -- Afghanistan by Hypnosis
A quote...."On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi Arabians, funded by Saudi Arabians. And so, in response to the Saudis' attack, America invaded ... Afghanistan. Like, HUH? -- And here we go again. New York Times headline last Friday: "Pakistani Army, In Its Campaign In Taliban Stronghold, Finds A Hint Of 9/11." -- Google it and you'll find the Times report repeated and amplified 5,785 times more. -- Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11. -- Your eyelids are getting heavy. Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11. -- It's the latest hit from the same crew that brought you Saddam = 9/11 and its twin chant, Saddam = WMD, Dick Cheney's chimerical tropes which the New York Times' Judith Miller happily channeled to the paper's front page. -- And they're at it again.

Many Still Believe That Saddam Hussein Was Behind 9/11, and Now We Have Some Idea Why  -- A quote...." Sociologists at the University of North Carolina and Northwestern University examined an earlier case of deep commitment to the inaccurate: the belief, among many conservatives who voted for George W. Bush in 2004, that Saddam Hussein was at least partly responsible for the attacks on 9/11. -- Of 49 people included in the study who believed in such a connection, only one shed the certainty when presented with prevailing evidence that it wasn't true. -- The rest came up with an array of justifications for ignoring, discounting or simply disagreeing with contrary evidence — even when it came from President Bush himself." - bold by website editor - Yep, he really did say it, for more on that issue see....Republican Tourettes Syndrome  (RTS) -- 08-26-06 - mpg

Kucinich: "Almost As Serious As Committing War Crimes Is Covering Up War Crimes"
Video - Wow! - mpg -- (YuTb - 2m22s - 11/03/09) -- A quote...."Dennis Kucinich expresses his opposition to H.Res. 867 which calls on the President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the "Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict" (The Goldstone Report)." -- For more on this issue see....An Individual Commitment - 11-03-09 - mpg

Israel keeps up Palestinian evictions 04 Nov 09 - (YuTb - 2m41s - Nov. 03, 2009)
Video - A quote...."The United Nations, the United States and the European Union have all called on Israel to stop the illegal eviction of Palestinians and the demolition of their homes. -- Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, urged Israel to end its "provocative actions" in East Jerusalem, while calling for it to freeze all settlement activity in the occupied West Bank."

A Nation of Golems
A quote...."How do our representatives become a Golem? By obedience to their master. That master is Israel through its Zionist government and its multiple lobbies in the U.S., by their use of extortion and threat, and by control of monetary resources. There is no need to recount how these charges are true; books have been written about it, most especially those by former Congressman Paul Findlay and the recent study by Mearsheimer and Walt, Grant Smith’s America’s Defense Line, John Hosteller on the Iraq war, Aaron David Miller on the peace process, and Stephen Sniegoski’s Transparent Cabal"-- For more on this issue see....Judeo-Christian C/C & US

President Obama's Deep Love Of Peace?
Two Quotes of the Day -- "November 04, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." — *Voltaire*

Question: "How many countries do you have to be at war with to be disqualified from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?"

Answer: "Five. Barack Obama has waged war against only Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. He's holding off on Iran until he actually gets the prize."

What the Military Industrial Complex Does Not Want You to Know: The History of Iran - (YuTb 9m48s 11/01/09) -- Video - A quote...."America will go to war with Iran and here is the History of the NWO thugs that have taken over America!"

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An Individual Commitment - 11-03-09 - mpg

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Noam Chomsky: No Change in US 'Mafia Principle'
A quote...."As people across the world breathed a sigh of relief to see the back of former US president George W. Bush, top American intellectual Noam Chomsky warned against assuming or expecting significant changes in the basis of Washington's foreign policy under President Barack Obama. -- During two lectures organized by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, Chomsky cited numerous examples of the driving doctrines behind US foreign policy since the end of World War II."

Life & Debt -- go to - AltVid#1 - AltVid#2 - AltVid#3 - AltVid#4
A quote...."Life and Debt is a feature-length documentary which addresses the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalization policies on a developing country such as Jamaica. -- Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact." -- For more on this sort of issue see....Currency Spheres - 10-29-09 - mpg

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A Bad Precedent for the Parasitic Class - 11-01-09 - mpg

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Osama bin Laden as Responsible for the 9/11 Attacks: Is This Belief Based on Evidence?
Analysis -- A quote...."The idea that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks has been an article of faith for public officials and the mainstream media. Calling it an “article of faith” points to two features of this idea. On the one hand, no one in these circles publicly challenges this idea. -- On the other hand, as I pointed out at length in two of my books – "9/11 Contradictions"1 [GoglBkSrch]* and "The New Pearl Harbor Revisited",2 [GoglBkSrch]* no good evidence has ever been publicly presented to support it." - *links added -- also posted at AmericanEveryman & ICH & VeteransToday  -- For more on this issue see.... Reficultnias's 9/11 Central

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Currency Spheres - 10-29-09 - mpg

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Can Bush be Prosecuted? - Alt - (YouTube - 9 min 44 sec - October 27, 2009)
Video Trailer - A quote...."Famed Charles Manson prosecutor and three time #1 New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi stars in this most powerful, explosive, and thought-provoking documentary."

Ehren Watada: Free at Last
Contains Video - Quote of the Day -- A quote...."There came a time when I saw people with power, and they held that power absolute and they did not listen to the will of the people," he says in In the Name of Democracy. "That was the leadership of our country. Those were the people who were in charge of our lives, and yet they did what they wanted to do with impunity, and nobody was willing to stand up and challenge them." -- *Ehren Watada*, former US Army lieutenant

Empire of Illusion - The Cult of Self
Videos - Stay with this one, it's not just about celebrity culture; it's about the Empire, Globalization, War, the Federal Reserve and the Commoditization of everyone in this country. – mpg -- By Chris Hedges:  AltVid#1 -- AltVid#2 -- AltVid#3

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What You Didn’t Know About The War - Alt - (RT-YuTb - 10m 42s - 10/22/09)
Video - A quote...."This video is mandatory viewing to all supporters of the war(s)."

By the way....her voice is unmistakable, the speaker at the end of the video was Dr. Dahlia Wasfi.  For videos regarding her views see below....

World Peace Forum - Dahlia Wasfi - (Gogl Vid - 15 min 26 sec - 15:26 - 11 months ago)
Dr.Dahlia Wasfi - Life in Iraq Under US Occupation - (MySpcVid 14m26s - Jul 28, 2007)
CONG PROG CAUCUS: Dahlia Wasfi at Iraq Forum - (YuTb - 6m14s - Sept 22, 2006) Dahlia Wasfi: Ain’t Nothin’ Green About the Green Zone - (Gogl Vid 33m28s 33:28 1yr)

One of the other women's voices ("flags are bits of colored cloth....") was that of Ms. Arundhati Roy. For videos regarding her views see below....
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)

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Now That's Just Sick - 10-25-09 - mpg

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 EYE WITNESS REPORTS FROM GAZA Video Free Gaza News
Alt - (YouTube - 10 min 1 sec - October 23, 2009) -- Video - This is a powerful video. - mpg -- A quote...."Ewa Jasiewicz was a witness to the horrors in Gaza before and after Israels brutal massacres in December and January during Israel's Operation Cast Lead. - Listen to her eloquent speech in Berlin, Germany and watch the images taken by volunteers in Gaza during Israel's brutal assault." -- Here's a few more videos, see below.....

Video Israel Doesn't Want You to See - (YuTb - 2m56s - 06/18/06)
If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing! VIDEO WAS CENSORED! (3m23s 06/24/07)
Free Gaza Mov: Israeli shooting palestinian fishermen boat 2 - (YuTb - 2m17s - 10/02/08)
Israeli Soldiers Shoot Gaza Farmer (they kill and they call it ceasefire) - (2m35s 02/22/09)
Free Gaza Mov: Italian activist injured by Israeli army navy - (YuTb - 1m52s - 08/18/08)
12th Aug 09 Video Free Gaza on the right of Resistance - (YuTb - 8m28s - 08/13/09)
Gaza: The Killing Zone - Israel/Palestine - (YuTb - 10m9s - 08/13/07)
30th July Video Free Gaza news Is Israel guilty of piracy - (YuTb - 8m19s - 07/30/09)
Free Gaza: olive picking under shooting by israeli army - (YuTb - 2m13s - 10/23/08)

Gaza 2009: Operation Cast Lead - Alt - (YouTube - 5 min 54 sec - April 14, 2009)
Video - A quote...."Some things you may not know about the ongoing conflict in Gaza and the actions of the Israeli government. Please spread the link around- the truth can't be stopped." -- For more on this issue see....Gaza Invasion of 12/27/08