Thursday May
31st 2007
Repudiation,
Not Impeachment
Must Read - A
quote...."Impeachment is the constitutional remedy for a unilateral
president whose governance is an insult to traditional American
democratic norms and values. However, impeachment alone is simply a
measure which addresses the symptoms of a larger malaise that has
stricken America. The arrogance associated with the concept of the
unitary executive is prevalent throughout mainstream American political
life. The passivity of the legislative branch is one byproduct of the
dominance of the unitary executive. It is also an indicator that the
will of the people, as expressed through their election of the people’s
representatives to the Congress of the United States, no longer has the
weight and bearing long associated with the American democratic
experience.
The
Appropriate Disillusionment of Andrew Bacevich and Cindy Sheehan
A quote...." 05/31/07 "Dissident Voice" -- --- I have in front of me
two documents of despair, of disillusionment with the American
political system that allows this criminal war to continue. Andrew J.
Bacevich in his Washington Post op-ed column and Cindy Sheehan in her
statement on her blog express despair over the failure of the Democrats
placed in power by an antiwar electorate to take firm measures to end
the war in Iraq. Sheehan declares, as she announces her departure from
the spotlight that “hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a war
based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike,”
adding, “It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system
for so many years…”
Marine
feels killing ‘right thing’
A quote...."Camp Pendleton (California), May 31: An officer who saw the
corpses of Iraqi women and children sprawled across a bed in a home
said in recorded testimony that he believed that "my Marines were doing
the right thing" when they killed them."
Afghans'
anger over US bombings
A quote...."Both were among 57 killed - almost half of them women and
children - when American forces bombed their village in Shindand,
western Afghanistan, and destroyed 100 homes - "The
bombardments were going on day and night," said Mohammad Zarif
Achakzai, who had to flee their mud house in the Zerkoh Valley.
- "Those who tried to get out somewhere safe were being bombed.
They didn't care if it was women, children or old men."
The Destruction of
Iraqi Healthcare Infrastructure
A quote...." Before Iraq suffered through an embargo and two wars with
the United States starting in 1990, its healthcare system was
considered one of the best in the Middle East. Iraq had well-trained
physicians and modern facilities. Today, the healthcare system barely
exists at all, with few healthcare workers and hospitals that are
battlegrounds.
See also.......
US strikes
raze Falluja hospital
For more on this see....
The
Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
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Stop the
Theft of Iraq's Oil in DC on June 5th
A quote...."Join Faleh Abood Umara, General Secretary of the Iraq
Federation of Oil Worker, and Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, President of the
Iraq Electrical Utility Workers Union, to protest BearingPoint's and
the US government's efforts to take control of Iraq’s greatest natural
resource away from the Iraqi people."
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Come Fly the Un-Friendly Skys <<<
ACLU
suit alleges firm is profiting from torture - The Boeing subsidiary is
accused of helping facilitate mistreatment...
A quote...."The American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit Wednesday
that accused a Boeing Co. subsidiary of helping the Central
Intelligence Agency facilitate "the forced disappearance, torture and
inhumane treatment" of three men the government suspected of terrorist
involvement. - "This is the first time we are accusing a
blue-chip American company of profiting from torture," ACLU lawyer Ben
Wizner said at a news conference in New York City"
See also.......
Flog
Is
My Co-Pilot
SJ
Company Said To Plan Alleged CIA Terror Flights
Boeing’s
CIA ‘spook flights’
The
C.I.A.’s Travel Agent
Have
a Nice Flight - Boeing helps CIA fly kidnapped suspects
abroad for torture
True capitalism at work. Our nation's "conservatives" must be
very proud of all of this. Think of the wonderful business
opportunities that now exist for Boeing. They don't have to just
settle for the US government's torture business, there are dozens of
other governments out there they could work for, thousands of
opportunities if you include corporations and private
individuals. Think of what they could do for the
narco-trafficking business.
And why just settle for transporting the victims to torture and
death. You could torture them right on the plane, it would save
you time. Boeing could join with other manufactures to design
state of the art mechanical and electrical devices to be used on the
victims while they're being transported. And if they happen to
die from their treatment..... ocean disposal (with the properly
designed airlock) from thirty thousand feet would be a practicable way
to get rid of the bodies.
Think of that folks, next time you board a Boeing plane. And if
you're psychically sensitive at all, you just might still be able to
hear the faint screams of the victims while you’re flying at thirty
thousand feet.
It gives one a warm and cozy feeling doesn’t it? mpg
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posted - 12-03-06
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CBS
Silences General Dissent
A quote...."Listening to retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John Batiste, you
sense his intense loyalty to the military. He commanded the Army’s 1st
Infantry Division in Iraq, capping a 31-year Army career. So why did
CBS News fire him as a paid news consultant? A straight answer from CBS
seems as elusive as those Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
- The short answer: Batiste appeared in a television
advertisement sponsored by VoteVets.org, a nonpartisan group that
advocates for veterans. In the 30-second spot, he said, in part: “Mr.
President, you did not listen. You continue to pursue a failed strategy
that is breaking our great Army and Marine Corps. I left the Army in
protest in order to speak out. Mr. President, you have placed our
nation in peril.”
See also...
CBS
fires consultant Gen. Batiste over VoteVets ad; 'We went to war with a
fatally flawed strategy'
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On
the False Analogy Between Iraq and South Korea
A quote...."Bush is now talking about a "South Korea" model for Iraq.
He likely got this nonsense from John Gaddis at Yale, who I heard
talking it last November at the Chicago Humanities Fair."
Check out the comments. - mpg
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Rice
to Israel: Don't push Syria peace
A quote...."US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied that America
has nixed Israeli talks with Syria, but still appeared to throw cold
water on the idea when questioned about it Tuesday."
Ain't she great?! Wherever she goes "Calamity Condi" spreads her
baleful influence over everything. There's never been an attack,
invasion, or bombing that didn't thrill the dried up cockles of what
that excuse of a human being calls her rotten heart. - mpg
For more on Calamity Condi's past performance see.
Rice
leaves bloody footprints in Lebanon
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"Islamic
Terrorists" supported by Uncle Sam: Bush Admin. "Black Ops" directed
against Iran, Lebanon & Syria
A quote...."The Bush administration has admitted that covert actions of
an aggressive nature were applied against Iran and Syria. The stated
objective was to wreck the countries' economies and currency
systems. The infamous Iran-Syria Policy and Operations Group
(ISOG) created in early 2006, integrated by officials from the White
House, the State Department, the CIA and the Treasury Department, had a
mandate to destabilize Syria and Iran, and bring about "Regime Change" :
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Iraq's
Militias Under the US Surge - Killing with Impunity
A quote...."The motive is political: Commercial kidnappers in Baghdad -
numerous, violent and well-organised though they are - have never had
the need or capacity to operate on this scale. The raid also shows good
intelligence and a carefully worked-out plan to enter and leave the
ministry. - The most obvious explanation for the abductions
is that they werein retaliation for the killing of Abu Qader, also
known as Wissam Wiali, the Mehdi Army commander in Basra, by a
British-backed operation last week. It may be designed to send a
message that any British action will be met with retaliation."
See also....
Iraq: 5
British 'hired guns' abducted
A quote....."Five British 'security contractors' were abducted by
persons unknown in Baghdad today. This comes after the May 12 incident
in Mahmoudiyah in which three US soldiers were abducted. (The body of
one member of this latter group was found later.) - The
apparent increase in the use of abductions of members of western
fighting formations in Iraq is significant. For the anti-western
insurgents, killing members of the occupying forces (and their
'privately' organized sidekicks) is much simpler. To do an abduction
you need a larger ambushing/assault force, a get-away plan, and a
relatively extensive safe area to retreat to."
Editor’s note : This is
the beginning of the end. For anybody who's seen the
movie
Michael
Collins you'll know what's going to happen next. The Iraqi armed
forces (if one can call them that) and its various factions are coming
to the conclusion that their common interests lay in driving the
western occupiers out of their country.
They have better intelligence, mobility, and tactics than that of
the Anglo-Americans and are now going to select and target those assets
of
the occupation forces they deem most threatening or easiest to get
to. It's now quite possible they know which Americans
participated in the tortures at Abu Ghraib, rode with the "bad boys"
from SCIRI during the initial cleansing operations, etc.
It may be advisable to evacuate American personal who were involved in
such activities from the country. – mpg -
posted 05-29-07
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Why I am
Ashamed to be an American
A quote...."Having grown up in a small town in Central Kansas I was
taught to believe that my country, the United States of America, was a
land committed to justice and peace, a nation that one could count on
to do the right thing, a country of civilized folks who had but one
thing in mind…….. that of doing the will of God. I also began to
realize that there is nothing wrong with feeling ashamed for having
done something wrong, that such a response is a rather natural
consequence of having violated one’s conscience, a voice from deep
within that is no doubt a reliable guide for how a man (or woman) of
true integrity ought to live his (or her) life. However, for those who
seem to lack the capacity to feel ashamed, one can only wonder what
must be wrong with them."
The
End of Liberty
A quote...."I am in general opposed to violence, except as a last
resort. And I know that the police are not all fascists. Many policemen
don't like the drive against civil liberties any more than I do. But,
even granted that they are only doing their job, I can promise you
this. The first policeman who stops me as I am peacefully going about
my lawful business, and demands to know who I am and where I am going,
will get punched on the nose."
Meet
Bush's World Bank Nominee - PNAC Member, Bilderberg Attendee, CFR
Member, Trilateral Commission Member, NAFTA Architect and Enron Advisor
- A quote...."President Bush's reaction to the loss of close
ally, ultra globalist and PNAC war hawk Paul Wolfowitz as President of
the World Bank has been to nominate one of his best friends, closest
allies and ultra globalist PNAC war hawks, Robert Zoellick for the
position."
US
big business funnels hundreds of millions into presidential campaigns
A quote...."With the 2008 US presidential election still more than 17
months away, and primaries not scheduled until next year, a “money
primary” is well under way to separate the “serious” candidates—those
with the most support from corporate America—from the rest."
The best elections money (and rigged voting machines) can buy. - mpg
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Public
Enemy #1: The Corporations
A quote...."The corporations our Capitalist system spawned, encouraged
and supported have now left our borders and become entities of life
unto themselves. They have turned on us. The nature of a corporation,
like a virus, is to survive and multiply like cancer. A corporation may
be comprised of humans, but unlike humans a corporation has no soul and
no inherent, self-imposed standard of ethics. Anything and anyone that
stands in the way of profits is an enemy to a corporation."
See also....
The
Corporation Part 1 - (Google - 1 hr 25 min 43 sec - Jan 13, 2007)
& T
he Corporation dot Com
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U.S.
Government Policy: Going Down For The Third Time
A quote...."The way things are going in Washington and throughout the
nation, neither Republicans nor Democrats deserve to win the 2008
presidential election. There are a few responsible and concerned
elected officials in both parties; however, they are the exception
rather than the norm."
Report:
In Meeting, ‘Wild-Eyed’ Bush Thumped Chest While Repeating ‘I Am The
President!’ - posted at
BuzzFlash
A quote...."But by all reports, President Bush is more convinced than
ever of his righteousness. - Friends of his from Texas were
shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the
chest three times while he repeated “I am the president!” He also made
it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of
“our country’s destiny.”
An
Orwellian answer to all our problems
A quote...."I don’t know, Mr. President, it doesn’t look good. They
simply have too much on you, with potentially more to come, if you know
what I mean. The only way, the only legal way that is, to avoid being
removed from office is if some kind of “catastrophic emergency” were to
occur, in which case you could invoke “Homeland Security Presidential
Directive/HSPD-20,” then quickly put an end to any impeachment
proceedings, and any further investigations. But, unfortunately, one
never quite knows when a “catastrophic emergency” might occur, now do
we sir? If you know what I mean.”
Minnesota
case fits pattern in U.S. attorneys flap - posted at
BuzzFlash
A quote...."WASHINGTON — For more than 15 years, clean-cut,
square-jawed Tom Heffelfinger was the embodiment of a tough Republican
prosecutor. Named U.S. attorney for Minnesota in 1991, he won a series
of high-profile white-collar crime and gun and explosives cases. By the
time Heffelfinger resigned last year, his office had collected a string
of awards and commendations from the Justice Department. -
So it came as a surprise — and something of a mystery — when he turned
up on a list of U.S. attorneys who had been targeted for firing.
- Part of the reason, government documents and other evidence
suggest, is that he tried to protect voting rights for Native Americans"
Democrats
Have Lost 2008 - Wonder if they know
A quote...."A political party's base wins or loses elections. The
Republicans figured that out more than 40 years ago. Democrats,
incredibly, remain stubbornly and willfully ignorant. - One
is left to wonder whether or not the Democratic Leadership
Council-sponsored (DLC) DC Democrats have realized yet, that their
unfettered war-funding disaster has already cost them the 2008
Congressional elections? Probably not, because the DC Democrats have
condemned themselves to the DLC's delusional belief that a nonexistent
entity called the "sensible center" wins and loses elections."
Ron
Paul Odds Slashed Dramatically: 15 to 1 from 200 to 1
A quote...."It was only two weeks ago that 2008 Presidential candidate
Ron Paul was listed at Sportsbook.com with odds of 200 to 1. In
fact, early in the month he was not even offered on the political
betting menu. My how things have changed in the past month."
Americans
Mistaken on Missile Defense
A quote....""Is the United States - by virtue of its national
immaturity and geographic location - mistaken in pursuing a national
missile defense system? According to this editorial from the
state-controlled People's Daily, 'It would be better to reduce the
number of spears rather than increase the number of shields.'"
Putin:
Missile tests are response to US
A quote...."MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that
Russia's test-firing of new missiles this week was a response to U.S.
plans to build missile defense sites across Europe, and suggested
Washington is pursuing an imperialist policy that has triggered a new
arms race."
Washington’s
Quest for Allies in its Battle Against Chavez’s Influence in the
Americas
A quote...."The U.S., with limited success, is using its diplomatic
channels to urge nations to which it has privileged access to take a
firm stand against Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. In the meantime, the
European Union (EU) is fast allowing its presence on the map of Latin
America to fade. On the Chavez issue, the EU clamorously remains
neutral, and in doing so, might be losing out on what could be
important benefits emerging from a sharpening divide separating the
U.S. from a progressive bloc of Latin America states."
Ukraine
parliament fails to legislate on snap elections-1
A quote...."KIEV, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's parliament has
failed to meet the presidential deadline for adopting laws needed to
hold early parliamentary elections, and to end an ongoing political
crisis."
Felix
Kulov suggests a confederation with Russia : Kyrgyzstan
A quote...."Interviewed by NTB TV network on May 30, Felix Kulov of the
oppositionist Front For The Worthy Future did not rule out the
possibility of a political alliance between Kyrgyzstan and Russia."
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Wednesday May
30th 2007
War Is a Government
Program
Must Read - A
quote...."June 1 is the 227th anniversary of the birth of Carl von
Clausewitz, the influential Prussian military theorist and historian.
Clausewitz is best known for writing in his book, On War, “War is not
merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a
continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other
means.”
The
Cold War: Fears of an unfinished victory
A quote...."Since US overreach after the Iraq invasion of 2003, and the
subsequent decline of the US and the unrelenting rise of Russia, China
and India, in concert with the globe's key resource-exporting regimes,
have become ever more strident, even brazen, in opposition to US global
hegemony. The US can no longer ride roughshod over, nor bully, nor
simply ignore resurgent Russia, rising China, or the globe's regimes
that supply the vital oil that fuels the US economy."
Goldsmith
'told Army to ignore Rights Act' in Iraq
A quote...."The Attorney General was today facing allegations that he
had instructed Army chiefs to ignore the Human Rights Act in
Iraq. - Leaked emails between London and military chiefs in
Iraq suggest Lord Goldsmith advised a "pragmatic" approach to handling
prisoners rather than adherence to the "higher standards" of human
rights."
Two
More Journalists Killed in Iraq as Carnage Continues
A quote...."BAGHDAD Gunmen shot and killed two Iraqi journalists,
including one who was killed in his home near Fallujah along with seven
family members, police and medical officials reported Wednesday.
- Abdul-Rahman al-Essawi was killed Monday when gunmen broke into
his home about 10 miles west of Fallujah, a former insurgent stronghold
in Anbar province."
Memorandum
on the planned US Airbase at Kleiaat
A quote...."This editor has been attacked for reporting on the nature
of the Bush administration's and Israel's end game in Lebanon. And we
are pleased to publish the following article by Dr. Franklin Lamb of
the American University of Beirut. [WMR began reporting on the planned
U.S. airbase in Lebanon over a year ago]."
Turkish
army bolsters forces on Iraq border amid heated debate for incursion
A quote...."ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey has sent large contingents of
soldiers, tanks, guns and armored personnel carriers to reinforce its
border with Iraq — amid heated debate over whether to stage a
cross-border offensive to hit Kurdish rebel bases."
Cheney
accused on prisoner abuse
A quote...."A top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell has
launched a stinging attack on US Vice-President Dick Cheney over abuse
of prisoners by US troops. - Col Lawrence Wilkerson accused
Mr Cheney of ignoring a decision by President Bush on the treatment of
prisoners in the war on terror. - Asked by the BBC's Today
if Mr Cheney could be accused of war crimes, he said: "It's an
interesting question." - "Certainly it is a domestic crime
to advocate terror," he added. - "And I would suspect, for
whatever it's worth, it's an international crime as well."
Pipeline
would extend Iran's reach
A quote...."ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan, India, and Iran came one
step closer this week to realizing a $7 billion natural-gas pipeline, a
project that is likely to irk US policymakers trying to contain
Tehran's nuclear ambitions. - Billed as a "peace pipeline"
by the
three countries, which are currently negotiating terms in Tehran, the
project is designed to slake Pakistan's and India's soaring thirst for
energy and strengthen regional cooperation. Pakistan, for one, says it
can't afford to let the project fail."
Bush
Gets Taste of Czech Resistance to Anti-Missile Plan
A quote...."MOSCOW: At the end of last week, the U.S. president had a
chance to see what awaits him in the Czech Republic, where he will
visit on June 4th as part of a tour of seven Central and West European
countries. - Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets
of Prague in protest against the American plan to deploy military radar
south-west of the Czech capital."
Chavez
Mocks U.S., European Charges of Censorship
A quote...."Chávez pointed out that the resolution was "proposed
by the European People’s Party and the People’s Party of Spain, which
is an honor for us, since these people are fascists Nazis, and are on
the extreme right." - He stressed that, "The European
Commission sent a representative to the debate, and conclusively
stated" that the issue of renewing RCTV's license "is a subject
entirely within Venezuela’s exclusive jurisdiction, and for this reason
she refused to give any statement about it."
The
Sixty Year Wound - To the Shores of Tripoli
A quote...."The bloody battles that have erupted around the Nahr
al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli in Lebanon remind us that the
refugee problem has not disappeared. On the contrary, 60 years after
the "Nakba", the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948, it is again the
center of attention throughout the world. - This is an open
wound. Anyone who imagines that a solution to the Israel-Arab conflict
is possible without healing this wound is deluding himself."
Donald
Rumsfeld on 9/11: An enemy within
A quote...."'What was Rumsfeld doing on 9/11? He deserted his post. He
disappeared. The country was under attack. Where was the guy who
controls America’s defense? Out of touch!' --A senior White House
official"
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9/11
- From The History File...U.S.
Army Intell Analyst Targeted For Sugg New Indpndt 9/11 Investigation
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Britain:
Parliament votes to exempt itself from Freedom of Information
legislation
A quote...."With tacit support from the Labour government and
Conservative front bench, a bill has been tabled that would exempt
Parliament and MPs from Freedom of Information (FoI) legislation
- Former Conservative whip David Maclean was recently able to
reintroduce his private member’s bill removing parliament’s obligations
under the Freedom of Information Act"
In other words, what you the British voters don't know....won't hurt
the members of your Parliament. - mpg
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Ron
Paul :: DomeNation :: Episode 4 - (YouTube - 7 min 40 sec -
Added: May 24, 2007)
A quote...."In episode four, David and Jerome follow-up on their
promise to DomeNation viewers to interview the winner of their YouTube
Challenge by interviewing Dr. Ron Paul, Republican candidate for
President."
Lawyer:
Cheney Visitor Logs Not Recorded
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) - A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney
told the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who visited
Cheney at his official residence, a newly disclosed letter states. The
Sept. 13, 2006, letter from Cheney's lawyer says logs for Cheney's
residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory are subject to the
Presidential Records Act."
The Republican Neocons learned a long time ago not to keep any records.
- mpg
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The
Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom
A quote...."This Monica revealed something hotter — much hotter — than
a stained blue dress. In her opening testimony yesterday before the
House Judiciary Committee, Monica Goodling, the blonde-ling underling
to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Department of Justice Liaison
to the White House, dropped The Big One….And the Committee members
didn’t even know it."
More on Greg Palast's "caging discovery" - mpg
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Special
Prosecutor: Assault on Elections Needs Full Airing
Related article - A quote...." As more information
comes out in congressional hearings, some things about the firing of
U.S. attorneys become murkier and others clearer. - On the
murkiness side, it is still not apparent just who came up with the idea
of firing a number of U.S. attorneys. - On the side of
clarity, it seems more and more apparent that behind the U.S. attorney
scandal is a blatant effort of the Justice Department to tamper with
the U.S. election process, trumping up voter fraud as an issue to
intimidate voters and suppress voting in the United States."
Shape Up
Democrats: Anybody But Bush Will Not Do
A quote...."With the 2008 election approaching fast, I find myself with
the same unsettled feeling I had in the last presidential race to the
bottom. Perhaps it is because I feel that the age-old maxim, “Those who
fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” is as true for
today as it was in 2004. Fact is, if we do not wake up quick, and start
pressing the current Democratic Party frontrunners Hillary Clinton and
Barak Obama, to be more leftist, or in other words to be more like
Presidential candidate Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), then we can
hope for little substantive change in the next administration."
Democratic
Blood Money
A quote...."The Democrats, fresh from selling out the soldiers and
marines in Iraq by handing the mad George Bush $120 billion to continue
funding his war, are claiming victory. - Oh, they can’t
hide the fact that they gave up on the war issue. But they’re quick to
brag that they won a big one by cleverly including in the war funding
supplemental bill a hike in the minimum wage, bringing the federal rate
from the current $5.15/hour to $7.25."
For more on this see....
Mommy
Pelosi and Daddy Bush - 11-18-06 - mpg
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The
Pamela Martin Phone Records
A quote...."May 25-27, 2007 -- The Justice Department filed a motion
before US District Judge Gladys Kessler on May 23 to maintain the gag
order against Washington Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey and her attorneys
from releasing the names of any additional customers of Pamela Martin
& Associates.
Gasoline
prices and the “free market”: Refiners profit after reducing capacity
A quote...."The recent sharp rise in US gasoline prices and the
accompanying hardship for millions of people underscore once again the
consequences of an energy market dominated by a few giant corporations.
The price increase has been attributed to limited refining capacity,
which has generated a sharp rise in refinery profits while facilitating
market manipulation."
Slaughter
of Buffalo Calves
Planned by Montana 5/31 - posted at
BuzzFlash
A quote...." The last wild buffalo need your help today! Please take a
moment to read this alert and contact the three decision-makers listed
below, demanding that they cease plans to capture and slaughter
approximately 300 wild buffalo, including little calves, their moms,
and families."
Well.... at least they have a consistent philosophy in Montana, if they
don't own it, can't make money off of it, they're either going to
destroy it or shoot it....sort of like what Bush and the Neocons are
doing to Montana's sons, daughters and the entire Middle East right
now. After all they're just "public assets", it's not like they're
private property or anything. - mpg
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FBI:
Violent crime still increasing - posted at
BuzzFlash
Yep, hundreds of thousands of people are going to be coming back from
Iraq, having spent years there exposed to the most horrific violence
that a person should never see, many of them teenagers, and this nation
intends to keep them there for years, it will keep sending them back
there tour after tour after tour, untill there's nothing left.
There’s no escape for them….they’re going to come back wanting to take
their anger out on something. We as a people can only hope it
will be those who sent them over there in the first place. The
people who sent them to suffer and make others suffer so they could
make a quick buck, who deliberately sent them into the “heart of
darkness”. - mpg
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Fooled Again:
How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next
One
BuzzFlash.com's
Book Review
(excerpt) - A quote...."There's no better companion piece to Greg
Palast's writings on the way that the Bush Republicans have been
stealing elections -- and are working still on 2008 (think about the
U.S. Attorneys replaced and that the Bush loyalists are now in position
to launch ginned up charges of voter fraud against the Democrats come
the election) -- than the new expanded paperback edition of Mark
Crispin Miller's "Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform."
Tuesday May 29th
2007
Bush's
New Middle East
A quote...."05/29/07 "ICH" --- - It's hard to know what Bush hopes to
accomplish by backing the bloody siege of the Nahr al-Bared refugee
camp, but one thing is certain; things are never as they seem. In an
interview on Democracy Now last week, investigative reporter Seymour
Hersh stated that, Fatah al-Islam---the group of Sunni extremists
inside the camp--were getting material support from the Saudis, the
Bush administration and members of the Lebanese political
establishment."
As'ad
Abukhalil On The Nahr al-Bared Siege
Interview - A
quote...."Electronic Intifada co-founder Ali Abunimah spoke with As'ad
Abukhalil, the creator of the
Angry
Arab News Service blog. Abukhalil explained the origins of Fath
al-Islam, the events that led to the violence and what it means for
Lebanon and the region."
Israel
Targets Hamas’s Political Leadership
A quote...."Israel is continuing to mount air strikes in Gaza as part
of its drive to destroy Hamas as a military and political force and
torpedo the Palestinian national unity government, as well as any
possibility of a negotiated deal with Palestinian leaders."
Mind you this is after the Palestinian people voted for Hamas in an
open, free and fair election, exactly as the Shia did in Lebanon when
they voted for Hezbollah. This is America's newest Neo-Roman
version of "freedom and democracy". You have an actual fair vote
and decisively vote for the people who really represent your interests
and
the US and Israel will bomb the ever loving heck out of you. The
elites can't very well do that in this country (yet), so to prevent the
awful catastrophe of such an event they simply don't hold any free or
fair elections. - mpg
Iraq: 5
British 'hired guns' abducted
A quote....."Five British 'security contractors' were abducted by
persons unknown in Baghdad today. This comes after the May 12 incident
in Mahmoudiyah in which three US soldiers were abducted. (The body of
one member of this latter group was found later.) - The
apparent increase in the use of abductions of members of western
fighting formations in Iraq is significant. For the anti-western
insurgents, killing members of the occupying forces (and their
'privately' organized sidekicks) is much simpler. To do an abduction
you need a larger ambushing/assault force, a get-away plan, and a
relatively extensive safe area to retreat to."
Editor’s note : This is
the beginning of the end. For anybody who's seen the
movie
Michael
Collins you'll know what's going to happen next. The Iraqi armed
forces (if one can call them that) and its various factions are coming
to the conclusion that their common interests lay in driving the
western occupiers out of their country.
They have better intelligence, mobility, and tactics than that of
the Anglo-Americans and are now going to select and target those assets
of
the occupation forces they deem most threatening or easiest to get
to. It's quite possible they now know which Americans
participated in the tortures at Abu Ghraib, rode with the "bad boys"
from SCIRI during the initial cleansing operations, etc.
It may be advisable to evacuate American personal who were involved in
such activities from the country. – mpg
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Iraq
says MKO behind violence
A quote...."A senior Iraqi prosecutor has said there is evidence to
suggest the terrorist Organization is involved in the ongoing
violence in Iraq. "
For more on this see.........
U.S.
Support for Terrorism in Iran
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Turkish
MPs Question Turkey-US Alliance
A quote...."ANKARA - Onur Oymen, CHP (Republican People's Party) MP
accused the US for the PKK terror camps in Iraq. "We say 'allow, let we
do the operation against the PKK', they say 'no', but they also do
nothing against the PKK terror organization" Mr. Oymen added.
- Oymen said that the NATO members should protect each other. Mr.
Oymen continued:"
Tomgram:
The Mother Ship Lands in Iraq
A quote...."Of the seven wonders of the ancient Mediterranean world,
including the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Colossus of Rhodes,
four were destroyed by earthquakes, two by fire. Only the Great Pyramid
of Giza today remains."
Why Are We in Iraq?
Must Read - A quote...."
Don't bother examining a folly, advised Ayn Rand – ask yourself only
what it accomplishes…The simplistic and totally wrong explanation we
are given in the "mainstream" media is that Sadr is a pawn of Iran, but
this has no basis in fact: the real Iranian pawns are SCIRI and its
affiliated militia, the Badr Brigade (renamed the Badr Organization, in
a lame attempt to apply a thin coat of cosmetic paint to what is
otherwise the biggest death squad in Iraq). The former SCIRI, as
indicated in its name, was founded to extend Iran's Shi'ite revolution
to Iraq. The Iranian government funded and armed SCIRI for many years,
and the group's leaders lived in Tehran, where they plotted their
return."
Editor's note : The US has been the biggest supporter of SCIRI, when
the
US talks about the "Iraqi government", i.e. "the Maliki
government" they're talking about SCIRI, when the US talks about
"death squads" they're mostly talking about SCIRI and when the US talks
about "we're [the US] going to be riding with the bad boys" they are
definitely talking about SCIRI.
For more on this.....
The
Coming Wars
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9/11
Coincidences (Part Eleven) - Who Benefited From 9/11? (YouTube
10min 21sec) - posted at
InfoWars
A quote...."When a crime has been committed, any good investigator will
ask the question -- Who benefits? In this 9/11 Coincidences
installment, we apply this same reasoning to the main parties
associated with the events of 9/11. - I had to shorten this
video in order to upload it to YouTube, so I edited lots of bits out.
The full video is 30 mins long and goes into more detail on each of the
parties spoken about.
Editors note - update : 05-30-07
- The video above was "removed due to terms of use violation."
The video links below basically cover the same ground.....
Dr. Robert
Bowman: the impossibility of the official government story YouTube
(5min 37sec)
9/11
and it's Fallout - Video List - 05-30-07 - mpg
9/11 Documentaries & Vids
For more regarding this video, see the links listed below....
9/11 - From The History File...Ownership,
Control, and Insurance of The World Trade Center
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Fed offers
explanation for $5 billion surge [currency spike prior to
9/11] but fails to provide documentation
A quote...."May 28, 2007 – Vincent R. Reinhart is the Director of the
Federal Reserve’s Division of Monetary Affairs[1]. He is one of
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s top advisors on interest rates[2].
Despite his high ranking position with the Fed, the American Enterprise
Institute announced on January 17, 2007 that Reinhart would be leaving
the Federal Reserve to take a position with AEI[3]. I spoke with
AEI spokeswoman Veronique Rodman earlier this week. She indicated
that Reinhart is scheduled to join AEI in September 2007. "
Labour
turmoil over new police powers
A quote...."The final days of Tony Blair's premiership were in disarray
last night as plans to give police "draconian" powers to stop and
question people provoked open dispute among Cabinet ministers."
House
rejects microchip implants for violent criminals
A quote...."Legislation that would authorize microchip implants in
people convicted of violent crimes was sent back to a committee for
more work Wednesday after state House members questioned whether the
proposal would violate constitutional civil liberties."
They rejected them....for now. - mpg
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Good
Riddance Attention Whore
A quote...."I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was
killed and especially since I became the so-called “Face” of the
American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have
remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on
such “liberal blogs” as the Democratic Underground. Being called an
“attention whore” and being told “good riddance” are some of the more
milder rebukes."
See also....
Cindy
Sheehan Quits Democratic Party - Text of Open Letter to
Democratic Congress
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Trust
and Betrayal
A quote..."In this place where valor sleeps, we
are reminded why America has always gone to war reluctantly, because we
know the costs of war." That's what President Bush said last year, in a
Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. -
Those were fine words, spoken by a man with less right to say them than
any president in our nation's history. For Mr. Bush took us to war not
with reluctance, but with unseemly eagerness."
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Watch Greg Palast on Youtube Video-1 & Video-2 & Video 3 & Video 4 - posted at
OpEdNews
Must View - A
quote...."Greg Palast author of Armed Madhouse (now out in the expanded
edition paperback) and Robert Kennedy Jr. speak Rove And Rove's Brain,
'Should Be In Jail,' Not In Office-RFK Jr"
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Greg
Palast, Author of Armed Madhouse, on How Rove May Have Already Stolen
the 2008 Election
A BUZZFLASH
INTERVIEW - A
quote....People ask me: Are they going to steal the 2008 election? No,
they’ve already stolen the 2008 election. We still have a chance of
swiping it back, but the reason I’ve expanded and put out the new
edition of Armed Madhouse is to tell you how they will steal in 2008,
and what to do about it. That’s one of the main new things. Plus a
special chapter on New Orleans and my bust down there.
---
Greg Palast"
Democrats
gave Bush the oil - posted at
BuzzFlash
A quote...."Although a timeline was not included, the Iraq war spending
bill that passed Congress last week did contain benchmarks. One
of those benchmarks was to privatize Iraq's oil for U.S.
companies. Ann Wright explains the hidden provision:"
Where
Are All the Signing Statements?
A quote...."Perhaps the best indication of the toothlessness and
complicity of the new Democratic Congress is that President Bush, who
between September 2001 and December 2006 used so-called “signing
statements” and a bogus claim of extra-constitutional executive
authority as commander in chief in time of war to invalidate 1200 laws
or parts of laws passed by Congress, hasn’t issued a single one since
January."
Well-connected
drug company obtained anthrax vaccine contracts despite side effects
A quote...."Two former high-ranking health officials with close ties to
the Bush administration helped a Michigan-based pharmaceutical company
secure sole-source, multi-million dollar federal contracts for the
purchase of its controversial anthrax vaccine, a RAW STORY
investigation has found."
South
Americans Wage Battle Against Economic World Order
A quote...." Across South America rages the battle the rest of the
world forgot. - It’s a battle for a change in the way that
the world does economics. Its symptoms mark the beautiful cities of the
continent: In Quito, Ecuadorians protest daily against a proposed
free-trade agreement with the United States, while Colombians graffiti
their cities’ walls with slogans decrying privatization."
Venezuela’s
RCTV: Sine Die and Good Riddance
A quote...."Venezuelan TV station Radio Caracas Television’s (known as
RCTV) VHF Channel 2’s operating license expired May 27, and it went off
the air because the Chavez government, with ample justification, chose
not to renew it. RCTV was the nation’s oldest private broadcaster,
operating since 1953. It’s also had a tainted record of airing
Venezuela’s most hard right yellow journalism, consistently showing a
lack of ethics, integrity or professional standards in how it operated
as required by the law it arrogantly flaunted."
Stewing
In His Own Juice
A quote...."Despite his frantic efforts, Musharraf has been unable thus
far to free himself from a trap of his own creation. The more he tries
to free himself, the more he finds himself ensnared."
U.S.
ready to take part in Russia-proposed CFE treaty conference-1
A quote...."WASHINGTON, May 29 (RIA Novosti) - The U.S. administration
could take part in a conference of signatories to an arms control
treaty in Europe, which was proposed by Russia, a State Department
spokesman said Tuesday."
Russia
successfully launches four U.S. satellites into orbit
A quote...."MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has successfully
launched four U.S. Globalstar satellites into orbit on board a Soyuz-FG
carrier rocket from a space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian space
agency said Wednesday."
Russia
Says New ICBM Can Beat Any System
A quote...."MOSCOW (AP) - Russia tested new missiles Tuesday that a
Kremlin official boasted could penetrate any defense system, and
President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans for an anti-missile
shield in Europe would turn the region into a ``powder keg.''
From
a Chinese oil refinery to your Twinkie
A quote...."WHEN I began researching the ingredients for Twinkies, I
naively thought that their raw materials were extracted from nuts,
beans, fruit, seeds or leaves, and that they came from the United
States. I was looking to link places with foods — along the lines of
California wine or Maine lobster, but for thiamine mononitrate. It
turned out that I was way off."
And don't forget all the herbicides, pesticides, fungicides,
fertilizers, stabilizers, preservatives, antibiotics, hormones and
dozens and dozens of other things they apply to or add to the food we
eat. Not to mention their use of irradiation, cloning, gene splicing,
human sewage and other methods they use to “manufacture” our food.
It's enough to make one want to eat natural and organic twenty four
seven. – mpg
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Youtube
video: Suffering From Republican Memory Disorder? Try this treatment
- posted at
OpEdNews
A quote...."Monica Goodling's admissions show the value of subpoenas,
immunity, and aggressive congressional police work. - But
is it lame to get so excited about a legal maneuver that you make a
video about it? We aimed to find out."
HILARIOUS !. - mpg
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Monday May 28th
2007
No posts (except the three shown
below) for Memorial Day except
this....A year from today the US will still be occupying Iraq, and as a
result tens of thousands more people will be killed or injured. -
Something to think about - mpg
Some REAL news on what's going on in Lebanon. The facts are still
unsettled, but what seems clear is that the Bush Neocons and their
policy of "constructive instability" are getting a lot more people
killed in that country.
Proxy
Wars
Must Read - A
quote...." 05/28/07 "ICH" -- - I suppose I shouldn’t be
surprised. The last seven years of this administration have
created and exposed so many global problems that it is virtually
impossible to keep track. The mainstream media is still
demonstrating complicity by not reporting the truth of the horrific
violence we are witnessing all over the world, and it’s very easy for
critical events to escape our notice. "
The
Mirror Crack'd: Into the Lebanese Labyrinth with the Angry Arab
Must Read - A
quote...."Again, for anyone interested in the fate of the Palestinian
refugees in Lebanon who have been caught in the murderous crossfire of
the geopolitical games being played out on the bodies of innocent
people by the Bush-Cheney gang, the Saudi royals, the Israelis and the
Iranians, you need to consult the site of As'ad AbuKhalil, the "Angry
Arab." Born and raised in Lebanon, and long a leading political science
professor in the United States, AbuKhalil is one of the very, very few
voices in English providing both eyewitness testimony of the suffering
and in-depth analysis of the "deep politics" (and the shallow as well)
behind the bloodshed. The United States is now shipping loads of ammo
to the Lebanese army to wipe out the extremist Sunni militia that the
Lebanese government -- or rather, the Hariri faction and the Saudis --
had earlier installed, with Bush's blessing, in the wretched
Palestinian camps in Lebanon as a counterweight to Hezbollah. This was
part of a larger Bush-backed strategy of arming and funding Sunni
extremists to counteract growing Shiite influence in the region. These
included several groups affiliated with al Qaeda -- which bothered the
Bush administration not at all."
Bush
administration endorses anti-Palestinian, anti-Syrian offensive in
Lebanon
Must Read - Some
quotes...."Yet, the massively disproportionate assault on the camp has
been unconditionally endorsed by US Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice. “The Siniora government is fighting against a very tough
extremist foe,” Rice said. “But Lebanon is doing the right thing to try
to protect its population, to assert its sovereignty and so we are very
supportive of the Siniora government and what it is trying to do.”
And...."There is in fact no evidence linking Fatah al Islam to Syria.
The group is Sunni and shares the Salafist (sometimes referred to as
Wahabbist after its founder) ideology of Al Qaeda, which provides the
ideological basis for the regime in Saudi Arabia."
You go girl!! We all knew you could do it Condi, you go right
ahead and keep killing all those innocent woman and children. You
must be real proud of yourself for a good weeks work....ain't you? - mpg
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Sunday May 27th
2007
They
Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, an excerpt
Must Read - A quote...."
But Then It Was Too Late - "What no one seemed to notice,"
said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap,
after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very
wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always
wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be
told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be
enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little,
really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing."
Bush Pens Dictatorship
Directive, Few Notice
A quote...."It is hardly surprising not a single corporate newspaper
reported the death of the Constitution. Go to Google News and type in
“National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive” and
hit enter. Google returns ten paltry results, not one from the New York
Times, the Washington Post, or related corporate media source. Google
Trends rates the story as “mild,” that is to say it warrants nary a
blip on the news radar screen. Of course, another death blow to the
Constitution, already long on life support, is hardly news. Few
understand we now live in a dictatorship, or maybe it should be called
a decidership."
That's a pretty good quote...."the decidership" - mpg
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"I Don't
Understand These People!" - So You Thought They'd End the
War
Must Read - A
quote...."But (someone protests), can't you at least admit that the
Democrats are better than the Republicans? And if you love the country,
or care about the world, aren't you obligated to support the lesser of
two evils, even if it's only slightly less evil? - To which
I reply: What's really evil is being forced to choose between people on
the one hand who support the war, and accuse anyone who questions it of
"helping the terrorists" -- and people on the other who oppose the war,
criticize the war, pledge to the end the war, and then vote to keep it
going. - Or being asked to choose between the village idiot
and someone who's consistently outsmarted by him."
This article really sums up the
DemoRepubs
quite nicely. - mpg
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The
entire Labour party shares blame for Iraq's horrors
A quote...."Iraqis often debate whether it is the Labour party as an
institution or Tony Blair as an individual that is the real British
culprit in their tragedy. This issue needs to be addressed, not least
for the future of relations between Iraq and Britain; but the debate
echoes the deeply felt anger among Arabs and Muslims worldwide."
Ron Paul On Real
Time With Bill Maher - (YouTube 8min 9sec) - posted at
Info-Wars Alex Jones
Must View - A
quote...."Ron Paul took time out of his busy schedule to appear on Real
Time with Bill Maher last night and got a resounding ovation from the
left leaning audience."
GOP
Rivals Embrace Unproven Iraq-9/11 Tie
A quote...."WASHINGTON - In defending the Iraq war, leading Republican
presidential contenders are increasingly echoing words and phrases used
by President Bush in the run-up to the war that reinforce the
misleading impression that Iraq was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks."
Except for Ron Paul....everyone of these GOP'ers is a lying, shilling,
war-mongering, Neo-Roman, Neocon. - mpg
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Fear-Mongering
and Fiction: Cheney Addresses West Point Grads
A quote...."As Cheney told the graduates of the enemies they may soon
face — terrorists “who oppose and despise everything you know to be
right, every notion of upright conduct and character” — there were
moments when it seemed that he had simply recycled an old speech from
2002. Indeed, long after most members of the Bush administration have
distanced themselves from some of the more insidious claims that
propelled the U.S. into war with Iraq, the vice president continues to
repeat them as fact. At one point today he cited the link between Iraq
and Al Qaeda (which has been thoroughly debunked) as the reason why the
U.S. invaded Iraq."
Same old, same old. Just continue to follow the Leo Strauss
script....arrange a "fortuitous" attack by an "outside enemy", demonize
that enemy, destroy all constitutional restraints on your power, take
over the "mass media" and continue to promote war.
It's all just so boring and completely absurd. The Nazis did it
with much more finesse, flair and better propaganda. However
Cheney
and Co. should be complemented on one aspect of their effort....not
even the Nazis continued to openly fund their "enemies" (see
P2OG) or
encourage their "friends" to do so (see
The
Redirection), five years after they started their wars. Not
even the German people back in the 1930's were stupid enough to stand
for that.
One would have to guess being that credulous really does make Americans
“exceptional”.- mpg
See also....
Hitler
Would Have Sympathized - 05-26-07 - mpg
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U.S.
Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
Some quotes...."
U.S.
Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With
Cuba - The
mainstream media is now acknowledging "Operation Northwoods", a
(declassified) secret plan to kill innocent civilians in the US: The
objective was to "create a useful wave of indignation", blame Fidel
Castro for the civilian deaths, with a view to building a pretext to
invade Cuba." - bold/italics by website author.
"'The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years
after,' says Bamford."
It's not "scary" at all. It's just our magnificent "mass-media"
in action all over again. What do you want to bet that after
forty years 9/11 is going to turn out to have a whole lot more US
government involvement than anyone has been told so far? Any
takers? - mpg
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Al
Gore Doesn't Accept the 9/11 Cover Up, So Why Do You?
A quote...."Most Americans have tended to give the Bush-Cheney
administration the benefit of the doubt when it comes to its
failure to take action in advance of
9/11 to guard against an attack. Hindsight casts a harsh light on
mistakes that
should have been visible
at the time they were made. But now, years later, with the benefit of
investigations that have been made public, it is
no longer clear that the administration
deserves this act of political grace from the American
people."[1]
Republican
senator: GOP will be ready by September to start looking at troop
withdrawal
A quote...."Republican Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said this morning
on CBS' Face the Nation that "unless something extraordinary happens,"
most members of Congress believe that troop withdrawal should be on the
table in September."
General
Strike: Another Officer Denounces Military Aggression
A quote...."It seems there is another ex-general out there who is not
too fond of sending American troops off on a "war of conquest," and who
feels that such "unjust" misadventures not only corrupt the nation's
character and betray its founding principles, but also provoke
sustained, horrific blowback against the American people. What's more,
the general says that such a reaction to America's "transgression" is
not only justified -- it is an act of divine retribution for the
nation's sins."
Operation
Freedom From Iraqis
A quote...."When all else fails, those pious Americans who conceived
and directed the Iraq war fall back on moral self-congratulation: at
least we brought liberty and democracy to an oppressed people. But that
last-ditch rationalization has now become America’s sorriest
self-delusion in this tragedy. - However wholeheartedly we
disposed of their horrific dictator, the Iraqis were always pawns on
the geopolitical chessboard rather than actual people in the
administration’s reckless bet to “transform” the Middle East."
U.S.
Security Contractors Open Fire in Baghdad
A quote...."Employees of Blackwater USA, a private security firm under
contract to the State Department, opened fire on the streets of Baghdad
twice in two days last week,
and one of the
incidents provoked a standoff between the security contractors and
Iraqi forces, U.S. and Iraqi officials said." - bold/italics by website author.
Iraq
war funding bill fiasco masks collusion between Bush and Democrats
A quote...."Expansion of Middle East oil war is a bipartisan
imperative. - On May 22, 2007, Washington’s Democrats
obediently capitulated to the Bush administration, handing Bush a war
spending bill completely stripped of conditions that would, in any way,
slow the administration’s relentless Middle East conflagration. In
fact, the new bill is an even more egregious blank check for a massive
“surge” of Bush administration violence throughout the region, opening
the door for a war with Iran. New Iraq “benchmarks” pushed by the
Democrats themselves will result in new atrocities and more bloodshed,
funded by the Democrats themselves."
Iran
says US must change Iraq policy for talks to succeed
A quote...."It [Iran] says the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq
is a prerequisite for security to be restored to its war-ravaged
neighbour. - Washington charges Iran with fomenting the
violence by supporting extremist groups, mainly Shiite. [That’s mostly
an outright lie - Iran has relationships with the
SCIRI,
Washington's erstwhile ally and the faction in Iraq which has received
most of the US's support. It's also the one doing most of the
sectarian "cleansing" of Sunnis by the
Badr Organization.
- mpg]- Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said last
week that Tehran would merely use the Baghdad talks to remind
Washington of its "occupiers' duty" in Iraq."
About
70 pct of Iran oil income in non-U.S. dollar
Some quotes...."TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran, embroiled in a row with
Washington over its nuclear program, has increased the amount of its
oil export earnings in currencies other than U.S. dollars to about 70
percent, an Iranian official said on Saturday. - Iranian
officials have said they are seeking to limit dollar-denominated trade.
The central bank governor has said Iran was seeking to "distance"
itself from dollars and held just 20 percent of its foreign reserves in
the U.S. currency. - "We are following our government's
monetary policy not to depend on the weak U.S. dollar," Ghanimifard
said, speaking on the sidelines of a conference in Tehran organized by
Iran's Ravand Institute for Economic and International Studies."
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Pipeline to carry
Iraqi crude to Iran
A quote...."Iraq has accepted an Iranian offer to build a pipeline
connecting its terminals and refineries to the prolific Iraqi oil
fields in Basra. - Assem Jihad, Oil Ministry’s Information
Officer said, the agreement was reached during a meeting between Oil
Minister Hussain Shahristani and the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad.
Iran
wants to develop shared oil fields with Iraq
A quote...."TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran wants to develop previously
untapped oil fields shared with neighboring Iraq, a move that will
benefit the two countries which fought a war in the 1980s, an Iranian
oil official said on Saturday."
Bush
sanctions 'black ops' against Iran
War Update - A
quote...."President George W Bush has given the CIA approval to launch
covert "black" operations to achieve regime change in Iran,
intelligence sources have revealed. - Details have also
emerged of a covert scheme to sabotage the Iranian nuclear
programme - Mr Bush has signed an official document
endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign
intended to destabilise, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of
the mullahs. - Under the plan, pressure will be brought to
bear on the Iranian economy by manipulating the country's currency and
international financial transactions."
US-UK
Preparations for the Apocalypse?
War Update - A
quote...."Build-up of propaganda & military encirclement prior to a
first strike attack on Iran? - In an inexorable build-up of
propaganda and military encirclement prior to a first strike attack on
Iran, the Bush junta, along with its London quislings, have switched
their anti-Iranian propaganda from nuclear issues to accuse the Iranian
government of "meddling" in Iraq and supplying Iraqi guerillas weapons
with which to fight the US and British occupying troops."
Regarding the four articles shown above. - Well duh! Iran just
doesn't get it...It's the Neocons' oil after all. - mpg
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What Congress
Really Approved: Benchmark No. 1: Privatizing Iraq's Oil for US
Companies
Must Read - Some
quotes...."On Thursday, May 24, the US Congress voted to continue the
war in Iraq. The members called it "supporting the troops." I call it
stealing Iraq's oil - the second largest reserves in the world. The
"benchmark," or goal, the Bush administration has been working on
furiously since the US invaded Iraq is privatization of Iraq's oil. Now
they have Congress blackmailing the Iraqi Parliament and the Iraqi
people: no privatization of Iraqi oil, no reconstruction funds."
"With the Bush administration's "Support the Troops" bill and its
benchmarks, primarily Benchmark No. 1, we finally have the reason for
the US invasion of Iraq: to get easily accessible, cheap, high-grade
Iraq oil for US corporations."
"Now the choice is for US military personnel and their families to
decide whether they want their loved ones to be physically and
emotionally injured to protect not our national security, but the
financial security of the biggest corporate barons left in our country
- the oil companies."
Editor's note : It's been
five long years, it's costing this nation trillions of dollars, it's
costing hundreds of thousands of lives....it's time to choose.
Either one is a Neo-Roman Centurion working for the Oil Companies....or
one isn't. Either one is the organic component of a weapon
system, a MIOC product, to be discarded when damaged, to be forgotten
when one's contract is up...or one isn't. Either one is an
idolater, a worshipper at the alter of money, a mindless drone in a
system whose only moral value is profit and whose costs are measured in
death and destruction....or one isn't.
There is absolutely no middle ground on this point anymore. Time has
run out, it's time to choose. – mpg
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Divide, rule and
plunder
Related article - A quote...."The law of oil and gas, due for debate at
the parliament, has caused much controversy outside the country.
Unfortunately, the local media has treated it as routine news, failing
to explain its full significance to the public. The forceful manner in
which the occupation authorities keep pushing for that law is alarming,
especially at a time when all construction work in the country has
ground to a halt due to widespread disturbances. If the law is passed,
experts argue, US and multinational companies would benefit at Iraq's
expense."
Thousands
flee fighting, Lebanese Army accused of shelling U.N. relief convoy
& Killing Civilians
A quote...."At least 10,000 Palestinians from Nahr al-Bared refugee
camp in northern Lebanon have fled to neighbouring Beddawi camp
following a lull in fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamist
militants, according to an official in one of the schools over-run with
an influx of displaced people."
Beirut
wants Palestinians to settle Nahr al-Bared crisis
A quote...."NAHR AL-BARED, NORTH LEBANON: The Lebanese government
deferred to Palestinians factions on Sunday in brokering a "political"
solution to the standoff here between the army and Fatah al-Islam
militants, although it was unclear to what extent Palestinian leaders
had accepted the role. "We are waiting for the Palestinians factions to
reach a final decision on how to deal with the issue of Fatah
al-Islam," Youth and Sports Minister Ahmad Fatfat told The Daily Star
Sunday. "The army continues to maintain security on the ground."
Dammit ! CONDI where the hell are you?! Those Goddamn Arabs are
at it again, they're thinking of making peace. You stupid bimbo,
get your dumb ass out there right now and stir up some trouble!
Don't you understand if we don't keep them Arabs at each others throats
they might actually form a stable, peaceful, non-aligned nation
state.....and then where would the US's policy of "constructive
instability" be? Hmmmmmm? Get the CIA in there, get those boys
working for P2OG in there, get somebody from Special Forces in there
right quick or we'll all be in trouble. - mpg
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Aide
testifies that Gonzales discussed firings of U.S. attorneys
A quote...."WASHINGTON - A former senior aide to Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales told lawmakers Wednesday that Gonzales had sought to
go over with her his recollections about the firings of U.S. attorneys
after a congressional investigation was under way."
Yeah, that's what the police call "getting your 'stories'
straight". In other words making sure your lies match. - mpg
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The
end of a marriage made in hell
A tale of woe, and an object lesson for Chinese, Japanese or Russian
governments, flush with depreciating US dollars, and thus an interest
to invest in US equities. - mpg
Razor-thin
TV screen you can wear as a T-shirt
A quote...."In the race for ever thinner displays for TVs, cell phones
and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all - a
razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-colour
video."
Here's something that might save the newspaper business. Remember
that scene in the movie Minority Report where Tom Cruz is a wanted
felon, as he gets on the subway train he's worried because all the
newspapers people are reading had just been updated within thirty
minutes of his escape, and were displaying his face.
Or imagine changing the color or pattern of your dress with the press
of a switch, or your wall paper into the stunning vista of a view from
Mt Everest, or a rain forest, or the bottom of a tropical lagoon.
- Its coming. - mpg
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