Wednesday June 8th 2011

"....for all this "help" it gave to its EU member states, it demanded they undergo a series of austerity programs of ever increasing intensity.  In other words subjecting the affected, or should one say afflicted, EU states to the quadruple whammy of...."

"GUARANTEEING a large drop in these nations GDPs, a corresponding increase in their debts and making it much more difficult for them to EVER get out of their ever deepening EU inflicted financial holes." -- from A Quadruple Whammy - 12-16-10 - mpg

Tuesday June 7th 2011

More On The Domestic Situation....

Congress funding media propaganda machine
Presstitute Alert - RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min43sec - Jun 6, 2011) - Source:  RTAmerica -- A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Congress is spending billions on the Broadcasting Board of Governors, all the while cutting funds for public broadcasting. Why is it so? Author Eva Golinger says that the media perpetuated abroad by America is delivering US propaganda outside of the country. There is always a double standard when it comes to US foreign policy, says Golinger, who thinks the US’ media apparatus is being used to shape public opinion outside of the States."

The Gitmo no one talks about
A quote...."President Obama has presided over a threefold increase in the number of detainees being held at the controversial military detention center at Bagram Air Base, the Afghan cousin of the notorious prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. It's the latest piece of news that almost certainly would be getting more attention -- especially from Democrats -- if George W. Bush were still president." - bold by website editor - Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||

The Big Banks Have Sold Us Out. Democrats And Republicans Have Sold Us Out. No One Is Defending Our Interests. Our Future Is Going Up In Flames. It’s Time For Us To Stand Up And Defend Ourselves -- A quote...."Trillions of dollars in fraudulent activity by the big banks on Wall Street caused our current economic crisis. Paid off politicians from both parties, along with secret deals made by the Federal Reserve, gave trillions of taxpayer dollars and subsidies to the very people who caused our crisis. After taking our tax dollars, they had the audacity to give themselves all-time recording-breaking bonuses and consolidate wealth in unprecedented fashion within the economic top 0.01% of the population." -- *David McGraw* - also posted at BLN & ZeroHedge

Can We Party like it's 1776 and Just Start Over? Thomas Jefferson's Top 10 Quotes on Money and Banking
A quote...."#1 - If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

#2 - "I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816."

Citizen Sues Atlanta Fed Based on Allegation that It's Issuing Federal Reserve Notes That It Has No Intention of Redeeming, Which Amounts to Counterfeiting ... Asks that Atlanta Fed's Charter be Forfeited  -- A quote...."The complaint alleges that all of the Federal Reserve Banks (including Atlanta) stopped allowing Federal Reserve Notes to be redeemed in the early 2000's and that - because 12 United States Code Section 411 requires the notes to be redeemable - continuing to issue notes without allowing redemption amounts to counterfeiting." - also posted at ZeroHedge

UPDATED : U.S. Taxpayers Raked Over The Fake War Coals Again and Again
A quote...."Most Americans have been equally victimized by the Bank and Stock Market manipulators, actually very same people, who seeing the profitable housing mortgage business evaporate along with the loss of employment and subsequent inability of their clients to buy even bigger and more expensive homes in order to keep up with the Joneses and  “The American Dream,” reengineered the Housing Mortgage Industry in such a deceitful and illegal manner that it not only preserved their already immense profits, but raised them to heretofore unseemly and unimaginably obscene levels!" - also posted at MyCatBird'sSeat

Keiser Report: Selling Kidney for iPad (E153)
MKVideo - Alt - (MKRTYuTb - 25min56sec - June 7th, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV-- A quote...."This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, present a special episode to enlighten a baffled Wall Street. They discuss selling kidneys for iPads, Saudi Arabia's planned nuclear reactors and oil traders threatening their competition with kidnapping."

Call The Bluff – Charlie McGrath
CMcGVideo - Alt - (CMcGYuTb - 3min21sec - Jun 6, 2011) - Source:  crabbydogtrix

Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - June 7 2011
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and the radio commentary goto - 8min 20sec - into the broadcast - mpg -- (JustInTV - 2hrs - June 7th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire, and many other issues. - mpg

Cruise passengers tell of seven-hour security 'revenge' nightmare
A quote...."It was billed as a chance to taste the “glitz and glamour” of Hollywood or enjoy VIP treatment in some of the most exclusive shopping areas in the world. -- But when a group of 2,000 elderly British cruise ship passengers docked at Los Angeles for a short stop-off during a five-star cruise around America it was, in the words of one of them, more like arriving at Guantanamo Bay." - bold by website editor
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More On The International Situation....

A Frat House With Guns in Baghdad - How Not to Withdraw From Iraq
Special Note - A quote...."Way out on the edge of Forward Operating Base Hammer, where I lived for much of my year in Iraq as a Provincial Reconstruction Team leader for the U.S. Department of State, there were several small hills, lumps of raised dirt on the otherwise frying-pan-flat desert. These were "tells," ancient garbage dumps and fallen buildings. -- Thousands of years ago, people in the region used sun-dried bricks to build homes and walls. Those bricks had a lifespan of about 20 years before they began to crumble, at which point locals just built anew atop the old foundation. Do that for a while, and soon enough your buildings are sitting on a small hill." - also posted at Uruknet

Mood in Northern Afghanistan Shifts against German Troops
Special Note - A quote...."The situation is in northern Afghanistan is deteriorating. Bomb attacks against German soldiers are increasing in frequency and force, and local ambivalence has turned into hate. The risk for Bundeswehr troops deployed in the country has increased as has the number killed."

Militants torch NATO tankers in Pakistan
A quote...."A powerful explosion in the troubled northwestern Pakistan has destroyed five NATO tankers carrying supplies for the US-led foreign troops in neighboring Afghanistan."

'US aims to sabotage Pak N-facilities'
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the United States plans to sabotage the nuclear facilities of Pakistan in a bid to weaken the Pakistani government and nation."

OPEC Stand Off As Saudi Arabia Tries To Help Obama's Reelection Chances By Hiking Crude Output; Iran, Venezuela, Iraq Not Convinced - A quote...."Contrary to ongoing wideranging skepticism, Saudi Arabia continues to posture that not only does it have substantial excess capacity, but that it will bring it online any... minute...now. After all, Saudi owes the US a big favor (i.e., lower gas prices) in exchange for America's (or rather its Fifth Fleet) continued presence in Bahrain, which even those living in a cave know has been under a full media blackout to keep the ongoing religious tensions under wraps and keep the Saudi-Bahrain border safe (not to mention the Ghawar oil field). So even as Saudi had promised to hike its output as Libyian production went offline only for it to be discovered that the country had in fact lowered production, so now too the song and dance has hit fever pitch." - Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||

The Elite, the ‘Great Game’ and World War III
Must Read - A quote...."The control of the US, and of global politics, by the wealthiest families of the planet is exercised in a powerful, profound and clandestine manner. This control began in Europe and has a continuity that can be traced back to the time when the bankers discovered it was more profitable to give loans to governments than to needy individuals. -- These banking families and their subservient beneficiaries have come to own most major businesses over the two centuries during which they have secretly and increasingly organised themselves as controllers of governments worldwide and as arbiters of war and peace." - bold by website editor - also posted at DProgram

Iran Swiftly Dismissed Amano’s Latest Whistle Blowing Report
Quote of the Day...."Hamsayeh.Net - The head of International Atomic Energy Organization, Yukiya Amano, apparently after receiving orders from his handlers above, has once again issued another unsubstantiated whistle blowing report on Tehran’s nuclear activities. -- Top Iranian officials including the country’s ambassador to the IAEA swiftly brushed Amano’s report aside.  Ali Asghar Soltanieh advised the agency not to go overboard fabricating fictitious stories about Iran’s fully transparent nuclear activities."

Iranian Navy Deploys Submarines in High Seas
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- An informed source told FNA on Tuesday that the submarines were deployed in international waters together with the dispatch of 14th fleet of warships sent by Iran to the high seas. -- The move comes after high-ranking Navy commanders announced preparedness to send submarines to long-term missions. -- The source said that Iran's fleet of warships is now in the Red Sea as part of its naval mission. -- "Identifying combat vessels of the different world countries, collecting information about sea beds in international waters are among the main tasks of these submarines," the source added. "

NATO rejects Russian missile proposal
A quote...."NATO has flatly turned down a Russian proposal on the Western military alliance's plans to deploy a disputed missile system in Eastern Europe." - also posted at WarInIraq

Russia will counter any NATO missile defense - Russian envoy
Related Article - A quote...."Russia can develop missile systems capable of penetrating any missile defense deployed by NATO, Russia's envoy to the alliance Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday."

Venezuela Dumps US, Sticks to Relations With the International Community
Special Note - A quote...."Hamsayeh.Net - Tuesday, 07 June 2011 13:12  -- Latin oil giant Venezuela has severed diplomatic relations with the United States after the latter imposed sanctions on Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) as a way of punishing Caracas for its realtions with Iran. -- Brushing aside Washington’s futile measures, Venezuela officially suspended relations with US and Foreign Minister Nicholas Madero calling US’ actions as a sign of its weakness and arrogance."

The Killing Continues as US Doubles Down on Failed Trade Policies
A quote...."A number of notable events took place in the past week which underscore the U.S.'s continued failed policies in Latin America. And of course, these notable events were almost totally ignored by the mainstream of the U.S. press." - also posted at AlethoNews

The Assault On Libya....

Libya: a Deafening Silence: Escalation in yet another Bloody NATO War
A quote...."The entire media have fallen into line. This is a war to protect civilians.  This is a war to force Gaddafi to leave. As if Western governments, with their proud histories of human rights abuses across the world, have any moral right to make judgements on the government of Libya. Etherington’s rhetoric reveals a despicable truth, this war is a game for us, a ‘party’ worth extending."

Obama’s illegal war against Libya
A quote...."The Obama administration has dismissed complaints that it is violating the US Constitution and the War Powers Act in waging an undeclared war against Libya without seeking or obtaining congressional authorization. This open defiance of any legal restraint on presidential war-making is the culmination of a long process of decay of American democracy, extending over many decades."

We Are Now Under Attack In Tripoli!
A quote...."It is now 1:10 in the afternoon and as the daily life in Tripoli unfolds that includes teachers, staff, and children at school, shopkeepers working in their businesses, streetsweepers sweeping the streets, people moving to and fro in the cars, on bicycles, and on foot, Tripoli has thus far since around 11:00 up to now, received at least 29 bombs."

'31 Libyans killed in NATO air raids'
A quote...."The Libyan government says NATO killed over 30 people in Tripoli in 60 airstrikes carried out on Tuesday."

China steps up diplomacy on Libya crisis
A quote...."Libya's Foreign Minister Abdelati al-Obeidi has traveled to China amid China's increasing diplomatic efforts on the conflict in the North African country."

'Arab Spring false flag from start, Libya ultimate goal all along'
RTVideo - Alt - From The History File - May 12, 2011 - (RTYuTb - 12min08sec - 05/12/11) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."The wave of Middle East revolutions was a false flag from the start and the ultimate target for the US was indeed Libya all along, insists Ian R. Crane, an independent researcher and campaigner for political truth and integrity."

Qaddafi Compound Is Pounded in Day Raid
NATO Knocks Out Gadhafi TV
Gadhafi vows no surrender
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More on the World Wide Revolution....

'IMF billions will give Egypt's sovereignty to the West'
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5min56sec - Jun 7, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Egypt's transitional government has accepted a 3-billion-dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund to help relaunch the country's economy. Barack Obama has also promised cash for Egypt, and France's Nicholas Sarkozy pledged aid to both Egypt and Tunisia. But Radio host and blogger Stephen Lendman thinks the money will effectively hand over the sovereignty of Egypt to western creditors ..."

IMF rolls out $3 BLN bailout to push Mubarack's men to top of pyramid
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 3min38sec - Jun 7, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."International bankers are preparing to hand out a massive loan to Egypt's temporary leaders, just months after praising the financial growth overseen by the FORMER regime. The money's aimed at relaunching the economy, but the number of conditions attached to the cash is likely to weigh hard on ordinary people. And as Paula Slier reports, some people fear Egypt's sovereignty is being sold off." - Spot on videos!! - mpg

Egypt’s ‘Orderly Transition’? International Aid and the Rush to Structural Adjustment
Related Article - A quote...."Although press coverage of events in Egypt may have dropped off the front pages, discussion of the post-Mubarak period continues to dominate the financial news. Over the past few weeks, the economic direction of the interim Egyptian government has been the object of intense debate in the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)."

Iran censures US interference in Syria
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has deplored the interference of the United States and its allies in Syria, saying the country is capable of resolving its domestic problems."

Ahmadinejad Blames US for Bahraini Regime's Crackdown on People
A quote..."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Bahraini regime is clamping down on its people for the sake of the United States' illegitimate interests."

Yemen says government troops kill 30 Islamic militants
Syria to send in army after 120 troops killed in town
Kurdish rights group says at least 35 killed in government crackdown in Syria
Report: 14 Palestinians shot dead in Syrian refugee camp
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Zionist Washington Ensuring End of America
Must Read - Some quotes...."The great majority of the Senate of the United States…somewhere around 80 percent…are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult.”  --  "The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don’t know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It’s quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn’t do what they’ve been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this…of this state of warfare." -- *William J. Fullbright*, United States Senator

The Impossible Distance: A Choice to Kill
Must Read - A quote...."I watched them marching toward the border. Row upon row of them in the hot, bright sun. They marched without guns, without tanks and missiles -- although some, like the shepherd boy David, did pick up a few rocks to hurl into the impossible distance. -- I watched them stream down the green hill toward the heaps of dirt and wire. I saw them, old and young, walk toward the occupied land. I saw them come closer -- close enough for the heavily-armed occupying force to have them in range. -- From a distance -- behind the barbed wire, with the occupiers, where the cameras that showed the scene were set -- I heard the dull pops and parps of the guns as they fired. I saw the marchers kept streaming down the hill, although the first wave was now breaking in disarray. I heard the guns again. I saw some marchers fall, others scramble back, and still more coming down. -- Pop. Pop. Parp. The dull sounds, intermittent, careful. The bullets whizzed across the distance -- the impossible distance, which no stone could traverse. The bullets threw up clouds of dirt, they struck flesh. I saw bodies twisting and going down. The march became a rescue party. The dead and wounded were lifted onto sheets and stretchers as the bullets kept coming: dull, intermittent, careful. Pop. Pop. Parp...." - also posted at ICH & DProgram

Israel, Syria and Western Hypocrisy
A quote...."If Cuba attacked and took a part of Florida, the US would have the right to counterattack and liberate its territory.  As long as Cuba continued to occupy American land, the US could fire on Cuban troops, according to international law, even outside of the occupied territory."

'Schumer turning US into Islamophobic police state'
A quote...."...presumably Schumer's God-given role also includes turning the country he is actually paid to represent, the United Sates, into an Islamophobic police state..." -- *Maidhc O Cathail*

Settlers [Godless Vandals] Torch A Mosque Near Ramallah
A quote...."Local residents of Al Mughayyir village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reported Tuesday at dawn that fundamentalist settlers [Godless vandals] set the local mosque ablaze, and wrote racist graffiti on it walls, the Palestine Today reported." - also posted at AlethoNews
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Film: Mavi Marmara – The Inside Story
Video - MaviMarmara(1/2) - MaviMarmara(2/2) - (YuTb - 26m/each - Jun 1, 2011) - Source:  downrodeo85  -- A quote...."Documentary broadcast on the anniversary of the attack on the Freedom Flotilla recounting the event."

AT TUWANI REFLECTION: Healing the Trees
A quote...."We start slowly, our delegation members, several men, a handful of women, a sprinkling of children. As we walk out of the Palestinian village of At-Tuwani the procession grows, women cutting across fields, childrenscrambling down hillsides.  Some of the boys carry hoes; the women swing buckets; a young child waves a Palestinian flag.  We are on our way to a small olive orchard in the valley to take part in a healing ritual, but the conversation, in Arabic, sounds chatty, neighbors exchanging the tidbits that make up daily life.  A few of the children try to bring us into the loop with their schoolroom English; we try a few Arabic phrases." - also posted at AlethoNews

Jewish settlers [homeless vandals] burn 250 Palestinian trees in Nablus village
A quote...."NABLUS, (PIC)-- Jewish settlers [homeless vandals] started a huge fire in Palestinian farmland in Deir Al-Hatab village east of Nablus on Monday burning 250 olive and almond trees, local sources reported." - also posted at AlethoNews"
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants....

Fukushima Day 87- "Stay OUT of the Rain" & "10 Hot Radioactive particles/person/Day"
Radiation Alert - CtDVideo - Alt - (CtDYuTb - 14min 16sec - Jun 5, 2011) - Source:  connectingdots1


Thousands living outside no-go zone are now packing up and evacuating
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More On The Economic Situation....

10 Myths That Politicians Want You to Believe
Must Read - A quote...."NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The financial system is on the brink of collapse after trillions in bad loans were issued by greedy bankers. If you were a U.S. political figure, would you...."

A:  Tell everyone to suck a lemon, and (maybe) let the economy implode.

B:  Fire the bankers who made the bad loans, prosecute the guys who broke the law and guarantee a portion of the loans in a grin-and-bear-it show of good faith.

C:  Reward the bankers who made the bad loans with billions of dollars in bonuses and guarantee every loan with U.S. taxpayer money (with interest, because we borrowed the money from China).

"If you answered C, then maybe you should run for office, support laws that funnel billions to insolvent companies, retire from politics and start working for one of the companies you helped bail out. Heck, that's what former Republican-senator Judd Gregg did "

An Entirely Predictable Economic Dip
A quote...."Six weeks ago this column observed that with the price of gold having passed $1,500, the U.S. economy was already in the midst of a downturn, and that it would be foolhardy to wait for always backward looking and unreliable government statistics to reveal what gold already had. Though unemployment figures are as unreliable as the rest, Friday's anemic report points to a slowdown in economic activity that the dollar's fall in concert with gold's spike foretold. -- The reason why is very basic. Contrary to the popular view among economists that currency devaluation is necessary during periods of economic hardship, debasement works against the very investment that drives company formation and job creation given the tautological reality that any returns on investment will come back in cheapened money."

The Safe Banking Fantasy
A quote...."Occasionally, we see an official attempt at a serious discussion of what Federal Reserve System economists would like the public to believe is safe banking. This means safe fractional reserve banking. This means fraudulent safe banking. This means fantasy banking."

Walk away from your mortgage? Time to get 'ruthless'
A quote...."NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Should you keep paying your mortgage on a home that's dwindling in value? -- No way, say an increasing number of underwater homeowners who are voluntarily choosing to "walk away" from their home loans, a practice known as "strategic default." - Absolutely right!!  Walk away from your loans, BUT STAY IN YOUR HOMES!!  Screw the Banksters, they screwed you. - mpg

Bank of Ireland to Impose Up to 90% Losses on Bondholders
A quote...."Bank of Ireland Plc will seek to impose losses of as much as 90 percent on 2.6 billion euros ($3.7 billion) of subordinated debt as it offers bondholders an exchange for cash or equity."

Monday June 6th 2011

More On The Domestic Situation....

Film: The Power of the Purse (Webmasters Most Referred Film)
Must View Video - Vol1Part1 - Vol1Part2 - (YuTb - aprox 2.5hrs each - Apr 3, 2011)  - Source:  NWOkillas -- A quote.... "Throughout human history the control and manipulation of money has been used by the elites to control free humanity. This has continued up until this day. Power of the Purse Volume 1 is a 4 hour and 50 minute documentary spanning 2 DVDs that details the history of how money has evolved from ancient times to the 21st century. This film exposes how those who have controlled money have used this power to fund both sides of wars in order to bankrupt nations and peoples. -- This film reveals important historical facts and information about the modern day monetary system that the corporate media and the teachers indoctrinating our youth in the so-called public education (indoctrination) system refuse to talk about. A MUST SEE Film!"
     
Productive Vs. Unproductive: Manufacturing Vs. Financialization
Must Read - A quote...."The key takeaway: if you don't control the banks, then they will end up dominating industrial capital. In the U.S., we have the worst of both worlds: a dominant financial Elite and various cartels (military-industrial, sickcare, agribusiness, etc.) that have captured what little of the Central State that isn't already beholden to financial capital."
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Alex Jones Show – June 3rd, 2011
Must View AJVideos  - Intro - MI6RunsBBC - FreedomOfThePrs - DavidSimpson&AJ - RyanMiklus&AJ(1/2) - RyanMiklus&AJ(2/2) - AJtheBBC&9/11 - DrStevePieczenik(1/3) - DrStevePieczenik(2/3) - DrStevePieczenik(3/3) - BobChapman(1/3) - BobChapman(2/3) - BobChapman(3/3) -- (AJYuTb - 5/15min - Jun 3, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel -- A quote...."Alex talks with critically acclaimed author and former senior State Department official Dr. Steve Pieczenik about Rep. Anthony Weiner and a lewd photograph that appeared on the New York Democrat’s Twitter page. Pieczenik insists such behavior is the rule, not the exception, in Washington. Alex also welcomes back to the show Rep. David Simpson who will discuss Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst’s request for a special session of the Texas legislature and the reintroduction of a bill to criminalize TSA molestation of air travelers. Ryan Miklus, the man who captured a video of his mother complaining about TSA molestation at the Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix, will talk to Alex about his experience. Regular Friday guest Bob Chapman of the International Forecaster talks with Alex about the economy and other topics. Alex confronts the latest news and takes your calls."

Empire or Republic. How the Empire Destroys its Own People -- From Joplin, Missouri to Kabul, Afghanistan
Special Note - A quote...."On May 29, 2011, President Obama visited Joplin, Missouri , the site of a devastating tornado that killed 140 and pronounced it a terrible “tragedy”. But were the deaths the inevitable result of ‘natural events’ beyond the human intervention? -- Coincidentally the same week Afghan President Karzai condemned the killing of a family of 14 by a NATO fighter bomber, running the total to several hundred civilians killed so far this year and thousands over the decade. -- The relation between the civilian deaths in Joplin and Afghanistan raises fundamental questions about the priorities, character and direction of the US Empire and the future of the American republic." - Source:  JamePetras

The One-Party Police State of the Republicrats
A quote...."The world is changing faster and faster. Our catastrophic problems in this Great Crisis are getting worse and worse more and more rapidly. But the Party is incapable of responding in basically new, creative, effective ways to meet the gruesome challenges we now face. Any really new reforms is simply forbidden as impossible and unthinkable – as crazy. -- Arnold Toynbee showed early in the last century in immense detail, a lot of which I started reading in high school, that even great civilizations rapidly decay and disintegrate and "fall" – such as by outside conquest or implosion or both – when the rulers are closed off from the world and cannot respond in new, creative ways to meet the new challenges."

US says dropping bombs is not war, but guessing a computer password is
A quote...."(NaturalNews) The US government sure has an interesting way of defining war these days. Just a few months after the Obama administration played word games with the public by insisting that air strikes in Libya were just "kinetic military action," not acts of war, the Pentagon has now come on the record stating that it will treat all acts of cyber-hacking against the US as "acts of war." - also posted at BLN

Riot Police, SWAT Teams Called on Dancers at Jefferson Memorial
A quote...."Editor’s note: After the report below was filed, the Park Police in DC sent in a SWAT team. “As the monument was cleared of participants and press alike, several people remained, dancing gleefully in front of SWAT team members who had arrived,” reports The Daily Caller."

They Call This Justice. Supreme Court Gives CIA Torturers, Boeing a Free Pass
A quote...."On May 16, in another shameless capitulation to the Executive Branch, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a lawsuit brought by victims of CIA torture, handing Jeppesen DataPlan, a subsidiary of defense giant Boeing, a free pass for services "rendered" as the Agency's booking agent."

Inhumane Prison Conditions in California
A quote...."On May 23, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prison conditions in California violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment and ordered the state to reduce its prison population of 140,000 by 30,000 people. The court was sharply split on this case with a 5-4 decision. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion while two extremely conservative judges, Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito, wrote dissenting opinions."
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US Raid Gets Much Credence in Gullible-minded America
A quote...."Such acceptance of official accounts is usual in a country with a collective propensity to get swept up by corporate media and government declarations, analysts say. The profound gullibility shared by many Americans is rooted in their deep trust of the United States government, their desire to protect their country’s nuclear hegemony, their impressions of world events outside the US, and their devotion to the preachings of hard-line priests." - Topix ||  More on Osama Bin Back From the Dead™  ||

Gadahn Call for Gun Violence Merges With Obama’s “Under the Radar” Anti-gun Agenda
We have an American Jew faux-Muslim pretending to be al-CIA'da who's now calling for gun violence in this country.  Just exactly how OBVIOUS does it have to get folks before we as a people put a stop to this nonsense? - mpg -- A quote...."Adam Pearlman, aka Adam Gadahn, has called for Muslims to fall on U.S. gun stores and gun shows, stock up on weapons, and start killing Americans. Pearlman’s remarks are contained in a video released on Friday." - By the way it appears, AGAIN, that this bull-sh-t is coming from SITE Intell.  To repeat.....


The Threat of State Terrorism To America By The U.S. Deep State: Cracking The Chicago Code
Special Note - False Flag Update - A quote...."I want you to know that we are all endangered. Our lives, security and freedoms are constantly threatened by the lying maniacs and criminal gangsters who have hijacked our governments in the West. They stage terrorist attacks like 9/11 and 7/7 to scare us into supporting a poorly planned, and poorly executed war on terrorism that should have never been waged. -- Our freedom is history if we do not raise our voices and warn the state terrorists in the CIA, Pentagon, and Mossad that we know they exist, we know what they are doing to America and the West, and we will defend ourselves and our rights. These traitors and government thugs are making war on the people of America and the West. We can not be timid and pretend that we are not at war with a bunch of lying, power-hungry and insane tyrants who want more wars and more destruction." - also posted at PrisonPlanet

‘Lucky’ Larry’s Chicago’s Sears/Willis Tower Tenants are Moving out and it has an Asbestos Problem
False Flag Alert - Related Article - A quote...."On June 10, 2011, Chicago’s Northwest Community Hospital and the U.S. Army Reserve will perform an emergency exercise called “Red Dragon” to prepare for any future event involving mass death. -- Security at Willis is provided by Kroll’s, the same outfit that provided ‘security’ to the WTC. - An Israeli Company provides ‘security’ to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. -- And with MOSSAD agent Rahm Emanuel as Mayor of Chicago, the table is set for mass murder. -- Is the ‘Windy City’ about to get REAL Windy?"

STUXNET Type Virus Attack Being Planned for Libya: Meet the “Unveillance Solution”
A quote...."Sinkholes”, “Domain Takedowns”, “botnets”, Infragard, Unveillance, and Endgame. These are but a few of the modern buzzwords and current Public/Private Partnership players in the wide-open world of “whitehat” cyber-security and warfare."

Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - June 6 2011
MRVideo - Note:  To avoid the advertisements and radio commentary goto - 6min30sec - into the broadcast - mpg -- (JustInTV - 2hrs - June 6th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire, and many other issues. - mpg

The Alex Jones Show – June 6th, 2011
Must View AJVideos - AJ&Israel/Straight-Up - Globalist - PaulCraigRoberts(1/2) - PaulCraigRoberts(2/2) - The TruthSellsItself - AdamPearlman-akaAdamGadahn - MikeAdams&EColi(1/2) - MikeAdams&EColi(2/2) - AJ&Bilderberg(1/2) - AJ&Bilderberg(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 5/15min - Jun 6, 2011) - TheAlexJonesChannel -- Please note the segment:  AJ & Israel Straight-Up, it appears Alex is getting really ticked off at Israel, it takes a lot to provoke Alex, this is a definite sign (one of thousands of course) that Israel has gone WAY to far.  Also note the interview with Paul Craig Roberts....he's spot-on. - mpg
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More On The International Situation....

Losing the war in Afghanistan
A quote...."A series of events over the past few months have further reinforced the view that the war in Afghanistan has taken an unwelcome course and Obama’s Afghan strategy is in tatters. In a show of desperation, General Petraeus appears to have adopted the "counter-Afghan strategy" after the complete failure of his so-called counter-insurgency strategy."

US drone strikes kill 21 in NW Pakistan
A quote...."A barrage of non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes have killed at least 21 people and wounded several others in Pakistan’s South Waziristan’s tribal region near the Afghan border. -- In two consecutive assaults, US drones fired four missiles at a religious seminary and a house in Shalam Raghzai and Wacha Dana areas respectively, killing at least 17 people and injuring several others early Monday, local sources told a Press TV correspondent." - Source:  PressTV

U.S. troops brace for withdrawal along Iraqi road
Website editor's reminder - There are still over 50,000 US-NRE "advisers" (you think they would've at least tried to come up with a different stupid euphemism for combat troops) along with the world's largest Vatican sized embassy ever built in history anywhere, still in Iraq.  When they're gone and the "embassy" is abandoned, than, and only than, people can say the US-NRE has "left" Iraq. - mpg -- A quote....
"BAGHDAD -- Even as the U.S. military winds down its eight-year war in Iraq, commanders are bracing for what could be the most dangerous remaining mission: getting the last troops out safely.

Five US Soldiers Killed in Baghdad Attack
A quote...."At least five US soldiers were killed today in the deadliest single incident against troops in Iraq in two years. The five were killed at “Camp Loyalty,” a US military forward operating base in the city of Baghdad, not far from Sadr City."

Afghan forces to protect gas pipeline
A quote...."In a bid to provide security for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, the Afghan government plans to hire 12,000 military forces."
   
Is an attack on Iran in the works? - Always, without fail, each and every day....till it happens. - mpg
War Update - A quote...."TEL AVIV - In contrast to, say, a year ago, few analysts now dare to consider a military strike on Iran in the near future as a serious possibility. On the contrary, most are dismissive of the idea, especially in as much as Israel is concerned. "One of the great bluffs in the foreign policy community in the previous decade was that Israel would have no choice but to attack Iran's nuclear facilities unless Washington stepped up and took military action first," writes Trita Parsi in Foreign Policy, offering a lucid analysis to explain why such an option is not feasible. [1]"

IAEA blasts Israel for Syria attack
A quote...."The United Nations nuclear watchdog has slammed Israel for its arbitrary 2007 attack on what Tel Aviv had called 'a Syrian nuclear facility.'"

If Yemen Falls, so Does the Dollar Reserve?
A quote...."June 06, 2011 "TheDailyBell" -- How is it that the world's fortunes hang on the life or death of a murderous thug that the US has been supporting for 30 years? And why, in fact, if Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh is so important, isn't it common knowledge? Saleh was wounded yesterday when opposition forces blew up his palace. But as I'll discuss, below, there's more to the story. (Isn't there always?)"

US-Chinese Rivalry Over Africa Gaining Momentum
Geo-Political Analysis - A quote...."A China-Africa summit convened in Sharm el-Sheikh in November, 2009, the two highlights of the forum being Beijing’s pledge to extend $10b in loans to African countries in return for commodity deals and the signing of a host of impressive contracts in the sphere of infrastructure construction by Chinese companies. As a result, China made a big step towards guaranteeing the supply of natural resources to its rapidly growing economy, not to mention the fact that the creation of new jobs in Africa for millions of Chinese certainly counts as a serious accomplishment against the backdrop of the growing unemployment in China."

How the empire will prevail: Will Washington Foment War Between China and India?
Geo-Political Analysis - Divide and conquer, it's been Washington's way for a hundred years, and a hundred and fifty years before that for the British.  Some things just never change, especially when they've worked so well. - mpg -- A quote...."Paul Craig Roberts - What is Washington’s solution for the rising power of China? -- The answer might be to involve China in a nuclear war with India. -- The staging of the fake death of bin Laden in a commando raid that violated Pakistan’s sovereignty was sold to President Obama by the military/security complex as a way to boost Obama’s standing in the polls." - also posted at ICH & LewRockwell

For more on the two articles shown above - see Alex Jones interview with Paul Craig Roberts PaulCraigRoberts(1/2) - PaulCraigRoberts(2/2) - also posted above. - mpg

Pentagon Using Drug Wars as Excuse to Build Bases in Latin America
A quote...."U.S. military construction in Central and South America has more than doubled in the last two years, while a U.S. buildup on military bases in Colombia continues, despite a Colombian court ruling last summer that struck down an agreement for U.S. use of the bases." - also posted at AlethoNews

Venezuela's foreign minister says relations with Washington are 'frozen' following sanctions
A quote...."We've made every effort to establish a relationship of fluid communications," Maduro said. "It's been impossible." -- Tensions between the two countries reached their highest point while Bush was in office. Chavez expressed hope that would change when Obama became president, but he's repeatedly lamented that improving relations has not been possible."

Why is the US Waging Perpetual War on Cuba's Health Care System?
A quote...."In January the government of the United States of America saw fit to seize $4.207 million in funds allocated to Cuba by the United Nations Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the first quarter of 2011, Cuba has charged. The UN Fund is a $22 billion a year program that works to combat the three deadly pandemics in 150 countries. (Prensa Latina (Cuba), March 12, 2011.)"

The Assault On Libya....

America's Imperial War on Libya
A quote...."Obama's claimed humanitarian intervention, if fact, is lawless imperialism by any standard, America's latest target to be conquered, colonized, controlled and pillaged for greater power and profit."

Libya: NATO's War Of Aggression Against A Sovereign African State
A quote...."The use of Western troops in Africa – particularly in the case of France – the use of its paratroopers, first in Ivory Coast, and now in Libya, represents a new strategic declaration of war against Africa, the African interest, and the African continent. In NATO’s disregard of AU, there is without doubt a remanifestation of that ontological disease of the Western mind that regards Africa as simply a place without history and without agency."  - also posted at Uruknet - That last statement is TOTALLY untrue!  The "West" remembers and regards their prior colonial past in Africa with a great deal of fondness and a sense of deep loss.  That's exactly why they intend to do it all over again. - mpg

Libya: Opposition Arbitrarily Detaining Suspected Gaddafi Loyalists
A quote...."(Tunis) – Libyan opposition authorities are arbitrarily detaining dozens of civilians suspected of activities in support of Muammar Gaddafi, Human Rights Watch said today. The opposition authorities, which exercise control in eastern Libya and parts of the west, should provide the detainees with full due process rights or release them, Human Rights Watch said."

OPEC Overshadowed by Qaddafi in Most-Hostile Meeting Since 1990 Gulf War
A quote...."OPEC’s decision on production quotas this week may be complicated by hostilities in Libya as members meeting in Vienna find themselves supporting opposing camps of a military conflict for the first time in 21 years. -- Not since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990 has the producer group gathered with some nations giving financial and military support to a movement seeking to topple the government of a fellow member. While Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi is trying to quash a rebellion in a country that holds Africa’s largest crude reserves, Qatar, [the royal families of] Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are backing the insurgents [at the  behest of, and on behalf of, the Saudi Royals.  Who are themselves doing so on behalf of Israel and the US-NRE]." - Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||

Cynthia McKinney visits a hospital in Libya (Video)
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 12min32sec - Jun 5, 2011)  - Source:  dondebar -- A quote...."Cynthia McKinney and the Dignity delegation visit victims of US/NATO bombings at a hospital in Tripoli, Libya, June 4, 2011."
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More on the World Wide Revolution....

Bahraini revolution's Lulu TV goes on air
A quote...."Bahraini revolutionaries have launched a satellite television network to report on the anti-government protests in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom."

Bahrain medical staff 'tortured for confessions'
A quote...."Doctors and nurses put on trial in Bahrain yesterday told relatives they were beaten with hoses and wooden boards embedded with nails and made to eat faeces. They also had to stand without moving for hours, or even days, and were deprived of sleep in order to force them to sign false confessions."

Continuing Bahraini State Terror
A quote...."For months, Bahraini and Saudi security forces targeted nonviolent protesters and activists wanting the repressive Al Khalifa monarchy replaced by constitutionally elected government, political freedom, and social justice, what Bahrainis never had and don’t now." - Source:  SteveLendman

Saleh suffers burns on 40 % of body, collapsed lung after presidential palace attack
Gangs attack Syrian troops, kill 120
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

A Deepening Rift Between Germany and Israel
A quote...."BERLIN — On Feb. 18, Germany did something unthinkable. It voted in favor of a U.N. Security Council resolution calling the Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory illegal and demanding the immediate halt of all settlement activity. -- The resolution did not pass — the United States, the only one of the Security Council’s 15 members to vote against it, vetoed it. That did not stop the German vote from opening a serious rift between Germany and Israel."

Israeli Soldiers Kill Dozens of Palestinians, Including Woman and Child in Occupied Golan
Contains RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 1m27s - Jun 5, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."(VOANews) – Israeli troops have opened fire on pro-Palestinian demonstrators who allegedly tried to cross the fence separating Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Syrian state media report at least 20 people were killed. Among those reported killed were a woman and child. The incident was part of a wave of Palestinian demonstrations marking the 44th anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war."

Update: 22 killed, 360 Injured as Israeli Troops Attack Naksa Protests
Related Article - A quote...."Ramallah – PNN – On Sunday 22 civilians were killed and 360 injured when Israeli soldiers opened fire at protesters marking Naksa across the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and the Syrian border."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Naksa Day Commemorates Decades of Israeli State Terror
A quote..."Supported, funded and armed by Washington, Israelis terrorize Palestinians daily. From late May to early June alone, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Palestine News Network, and others reported:" - Source:  SteveLendman

Israeli Military Arrests a Palestinian Child as she was visiting her Father in a Detention Facility
A quote...."Nablus-PNN- Israeli troops arrested Samah Mousalan, 13, from the northern part of Nablus as she was visiting her father who has been held by Israelis in the Negev detention facility."

Soldiers Kidnap Hamas Legislator in Nablus
A quote...."Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Tuesday at dawn Hamas legislator, member of the Change and Reform Parliamentary Bloc, Sheikh Ahmad Al Haj, after breaking into his home in the northern West Bank city of Nablus."
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants....

Japan Finally Admits TOTAL Meltdown at 3 Nuclear Reactors Within Hours of Earthquake … And More Than DOUBLES Estimate of Radiation Released After Accident -- A quote...."For months, Tepco and Japanese
Radiation Alert - officials refused to admit that there had been any meltdowns at Fukushima. -- Then they said there were meltdowns at reactors 1, 2 and 3 … but they might have only been partial meltdowns. -- Finally, today, they admitted the obvious: there were total meltdowns at all 3 reactors."

NISA doubles early fallout estimate
Radiation Alert - A quote...."NISA on Monday more than doubled its estimate of the radioactive material ejected into the air in the early days of the Fukushima nuclear crisis to 770,000 terabecquerels."

Website editor's note:  The blogsphere was RIGHT, the mass-media was criminally and negligently totally WRONG, and many, many, people will pay the price of their indifference to the truth. - mpg

Record Radiation Levels – 4,000,000 Microsieverts Per Hour — Found Venting From Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant - A quote...."A robot measuring radiation in the Fukushima nuclear power plant, where 3 full-blown nuclear meltdowns are underway detected the highest levels of radiation yet – topping over 4,000,000 microsieverts per hour – a level so high it is 100% lethal within 1.5 hours of exposure."

Radiation News 06-06-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (5 articles)
Japan Finds Plutonium One Mile Away From Fukushima, Doubles Radiation Leak Estimate
Gov't may expand scope of evacuation order in Fukushima
3 nuclear reactors melted down after quake, Japan confirms
Scientists: Average person in Seattle breathed in 10 hot radioactive particles a day during April
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More On The Economic Situation....

The Real "Margin" Threat: $600 Trillion In OTC Derivatives, A Multi-Trillion Variation Margin Call, And A Collateral Scramble That Could Send US Treasurys To All Time Records... - A quote...."While the dominant topic of conversation when discussing margin hikes (or reductions) usually reverts to silver, ES (stocks) and TEN (bonds), what everyone so far is ignoring is the far more critical topic of real margin risk, in the form of roughly $600 trillion in OTC derivatives. The issue is that while the silver market (for example) is tiny by comparison, it is easy to be pushed around, and thus exchanges can easily represent the illusion that they are in control of counterparty risk (after all, that was the whole point of the recent CME essay on why they hiked silver margins 5 times in a row). Nothing could be further from the truth:" - Some say it's 1.4 - 1.5 Quadrillion, there are different ways of counting the derivatives. - mpg

True Cost of Fannie, Freddie Bailouts: $317 Billion, CBO Says
That's bull-crap.  When it's all said and done, there'll be another zero at the end of that figure. - mpg -- A quote...."(CNSNews.com) – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the real cost of the federal government guaranteeing the business of failed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is $317 billion -- not the $130 billion normally claimed by the Obama administration."

Will The Banksters And The Corpocracy Eventually Own It All? 29 Statistics About Extreme Income Inequality In America That Will Blow Your Mind - Special Note - A quote...."Today, average Americans have less power relative to the monolithic corporate and governmental institutions that dominate our society than at any other point in U.S. history.  Sadly, this is not what our founding fathers ever envisioned.  Our founding fathers established a government "of the people, by the people, for the people", but what we have today is very far from that ideal.  In America today, wealth and power are very highly concentrated, and if you have neither wealth nor power than most of our politicians really do not have any interest in you." - also posted at PrisonPlanet

State, Local Governments Set to See Record Job Cuts, Layoffs
A quote...."Don’t look to state and local governments to prop up the job market. -- To the contrary, this cash-strapped sector is set to go on a record-breaking layoff binge when the new fiscal year starts on July 1. -- State and local governments are forecast to shed up to 110,000 jobs in the third quarter, the first time the blood-letting has risen into the triple digits, according to IHS Global Insight." - Source:  CNN

Unemployment Now Worse than During Great Depression
A quote...."Despite the Republican rhetoric of "jobs jobs jobs," the country is stunningly lacking them. We knew it was bad, but the latest US Unemployment Report, released Friday, proves that we are in the worst slump since the 1930s. This puts it in perspective:" - also posted at ICH

Quantifying The Treasury's Plunder Of Retirement Accounts: $80 Billion Between The G- And CSRD Funds Since Debt Ceiling Breach - A quote...."Last Thursday we attempted a rough estimation of how much the Treasury has been dipping, or as it is also known "disinvesting", into the G-fund and the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund (CSRDF). Courtesy of Stone Mountain, we now have a definitive number. Even we did not realize how bad it is: in a nutshell, since the debt ceiling breach in mid May, Tim Geithner has replaced one IOU (that of the Fed) with another (that of the Treasury) in the G Fund to the tune of $57 billion, and in the CSRDF of about $22 billion."

Sunday June 5th 2011

No posts. - mpg

Saturday June 4th 2011

"It is even possible, in fact quite probable if you think about it, that the Osama-Hoax was the trigger event for this next ten year economic / war cycle, the next decadal "inflection-point" and the pre-arranged signal for the uber-parasites to re-adjust their portfolios.  Perhaps they now believe the sheeple have become so dumbed down, so fearful, so "conditioned" and infantalized, that there is no need to stage another mass-killing event.  That something as obviously transparent, and as poorly staged as the Osama-Hoax, was sufficient this time around to be used as a pretext for more police-state repression at home and more wars abroad." - From...."The Ten Year Cycle, Traitors, Inflection-Points & The Osama Hoax - 05-13-11 - mpg"

"If great care is not taken, each successive ten year cycle creates more and more underlying debt/inflation per capita necessitating bigger and bigger cycles of war (violating the Fifth law) thereby increasing systemic instabilities untill the entire system collapses." - From...."Some Tentative Laws" - Topix ||  The Ten Year Cycle, Traitors, Inflection-Points & The Osama Hoax - 05-13-11 - mpg  ||

Friday June 3rd 2011

No posts. - mpg

Thursday June 2nd 2011

More On The Domestic Situation....

The Alex Jones Show – May 31st, 2011
Must View AJVideos - (Pay close attention to Eric from Texas and Bruce Fein in the last three videos, simply outstanding! - mpg) --  HungerforLiberty - TexasRevolt - AdamKokeshIllegalDancing(1/2) - AdamKokeshIllegalDancing(1/2) - CriminalityOfWarOnLibya - TXGovDewhurst - BigSisPre-Crime - CellPhones - EricFromTexas - BruceFein(1/2) - BruceFein(2/2) -- A quote...."Alex welcomes back to the show constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein, who will talk with Alex about recent decisions on the Fourth Amendment, specifically the Indiana Supreme Court ruling that citizens may not challenge law enforcement during raids. Fein was a top Justice Department official during the Reagan administration and has heavily criticized every president since. Alex also talks with television host Adam Kokesh, who was arrested with several other activists participating in a flash-mob at Jefferson Memorial for silently dancing in response to a ruling by a federal judge that the practice at the memorial."

Senators sound alarm over Patriot Act extension
Special Note - A quote...."....in a statement before the vote, Udall said the law allows the government to "place wide-ranging wiretaps on Americans without even identifying the target or location of such surveillance; target individuals who have no connection to terrorist organizations, and collect business records on law-abiding Americans, without any connection to terrorism."

SPECIAL REPORT: Symptoms of Tyranny, Oathkeepers in Arizona to Honor Marine Jose Manuel Guerena
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 10min 05sec - Jun 2, 2011) - Source:  lonelantern -- A quote...."An epidemic is sweeping the nation. In this special report, never seen on the mainstream news, we look at the symptoms of tyranny and take you to Arizona where the Oathkeepers converged to march for a fallen Marine. Jose Manuel Guerena was shot 61 times in his home when Pima County SWAT entered to serve a search warrant. You will get an inside look at the Oathkeepers memorial service where Stewart Rhodes and Sheriff Richard Mack spoke of the recent abuses, presented the widow with a plaque, and provided solutions on how you can overcome these symptoms of tyranny."

Army judges weigh military trials for civilians
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Army judges are weighing a question that hasn't cropped up in decades: whether a civilian contractor working for the U.S. military can be tried in a military court. The issue eventually could end up at the Supreme Court."

Cop Tells German Tourist He Could Get Raped For Speeding
Video - Alt - Alt/LvLk - From the History File - Oct 18, 2010 - (YuTb - 1m34s - 10/18/10) - Source: freespeech --  A quote...."A German tourist visiting the United States apparently thought he was back on the Autobahn when he reached speeds of 98 mph before being pulled over. The tourist then switched on a video camera to capture the exchange between himself and the officer. (found) LiveLeak" - Talk about the New Roman Empire....mpg

Woman Screams For Help After TSA Molestation
Video - Alt - (YuTb - 9min59sec - May 31, 2011) - Source:  rynomaz111 -- A quote...."Video of an incident recorded over the memorial weekend at Sky Harbor International in Phoenix, AZ, documents how the TSA deal with people who are traumatized by grossly invasive enhanced pat downs. -- After a woman refused to go through a full body scanner she was pulled aside and made to undergo the pat down procedure. When the TSA agent touched the woman’s breasts, she broke down into tears and screamed for a police officer." - More New Roman Empire stuff!!  Gawd Dang!  To be groped by a bunch of perverts, all so a dual Israeli citizen named Michael Chertoff can give cancer to tens of millions of Americans and make a few bucks. What a disgusting place this country has become. - mpg
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Our Goose is Cooked
Must Read - A quote...."June 02, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- This must be what it was like in Russia before the Soviet Union collapsed. The government's so crooked that nothing works right, the infrastructure's in a shambles, millions of people are scraping by on government handouts, and everyone's on a permanent downer. Welcome to the Soviet States of America 2011. -- I mean, seriously, things are really looking bad. Apart from killing people, we really don't do anything anymore. We have a humongous, over-bloated military that lumbers from one war to the next spreading misery wherever it goes, and meanwhile, back at home, things continue to go to the dogs. How long can that go on?"

Hail Caesar
Muxt Read - A quote...."June 02, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Although the financial press speculates about a downgrade of the US government’s credit rating and default if political impasse prevents the debt ceiling from being raised in time, I doubt anyone really believes that the debt ceiling will not be raised. It is just all a part of the political theater of the next couple of months."

Congressional Research Service Confirms Big Banks Borrowed Cash For Next To Nothing, Then Lent It Back to the Federal Government at Much Higher Rates - Special Note - A quote...."As I've noted for years, the government has been guaranteeing that the big banks make money at taxpayer expense by loaning money at very low interest rates, and then letting the banks loan the money back to the government at much higher interest rates."

David P. Hamilton : French Healthcare is the World's Best
A quote...."The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks the French health care system as the best in the world. The U.S. system ranks 37th. The complex details of the procedures used to determine these rankings are available on the WHO website. The WHO has hundreds of rankings on health related topics as specific as beer consumption by country. The U.S. fails to distinguish itself favorably in any of them. -- Of particular note is the ranking by total health care expenditures as a percentage of the GNP where the U.S. at 15.4% leads the world, only exceeded by the Marshall Islands and far ahead of any other major industrialized nation." - bold by website editor

The Official Final Chapter of bin Laden Myth is Aptly Named After a Myth
A quote...."Aren’t they clever? They named the final chapter of the bin Laden myth after a Roman mythological figure. That should earn more than a few insider’s snickers down at the old CFR building. -- One month has passed since the last bin Laden distraction card was played and they have finally got the story ironed out enough to smooth over all the little wrinkles and declare this last version, or the next to the last version, as the “official” version of what happened and who better to put forward that new, almost complete, official version, than the Council on Foreign Relations." - Topix ||  More on Osama Bin Back From the Dead™  ||

Ben (Still) Laffin Netanyahu and the rest of the REAL 9/11 Perps
A quote...."A small sampling of the "276 Strange Coincidences about 9/11" - [in PDF]

8: From 1987 to 2000, Dov Zakheim was CEO of System Planning Corp (SPC). Through subsidiary Tridata Corp, oversaw the investigation after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. He had access to the buildings blueprints

19: In the 11/98 issue of Foreign Affairs, Philip Zelikow, part of President Bush's transition team in 2000-2001, speculated in an article, "Catastrophic Terrorism" that if the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center had succeeded, "an act of catastrophic terrorism would be a watershed event in American history [involving] loss of life and property unprecedented in peacetime and undermine America's fundamental sense of security ... The United States might respond with ... scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects and use of deadly force. More violence could follow ... Belatedly, Americans would judge their leaders negligent for not addressing terrorism more urgently." - And many more samples....  - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||

What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – June 2nd, 2011
Must Listen MRVideo - Part1 - Part2 - (JustInTV - 2hrs - June 2nd, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids -- Michael Rivero discusses the ongoing crimes of empire, the completely out-of-control Banksters, the out-of-control TSA, the situation in Libya, the recent cyber attacks in the US which the US is now trying to blame on China, and many other issues. - mpg

Transcript: (@ 42min52sec) -- "As you know the situation in Libya is deteriorating, the United States is continuing to bomb those people until they decide they're going to love us, and according to Al Jazeera "Western" troops, presumably British and some American, are already on the ground.  Which is in complete violation of the United Nation's resolution regarding Libya.  So we've already invaded the place under the pretext of helping one side or the other and we're still not sure which one it is.  We're going in there and basically clobbering the place for DARING to have a government issued currency based on gold, rather than submit to the will of a private central bank and a debt based currency which has done such a wonderful job with the American economy. -- So....."

"Dennis Kucinich basically went into the Congress and he proposed this resolution to basically end the US's involvement in the Libyan war.  And the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives postponed the vote because they're afraid it might PASS!  So here we have soldiers....the war going on in Libya....the American people are tired of war.....we can't even keep track how many wars we have!  How many wars do we have to be in before it's a World War, and I think we're already over that line....

So, Dennis Kucinich comes in to represent the will of the people that we want to get out of this war, that we don't want any more wars, and he brings it to the House of Representatives and on a quick little informal tally it looks like it's going to pass, and so the Republican leadership postponed the vote.  They won't let it come to the floor because they were afraid it would pass and they'll have to stop playing over there in Libya."

"And if they stop playing in Libya than Gaddafi goes back to his gold based, value based, African currency that everyone wants to sign on to.  He'll be free of the private central banks....and WE CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN!  Because if the rest of the world sees how wonderful life can be in a country that does NOT have a private central bank and a debt based currency....there'll be more revolutions and that's what they're afraid of."

"The Money Junkies have almost succeeded in bringing the entire planet underneath this pyramid scheme called a debt based currency and a private central bank.  It took three tries for them to get it here in the United States of America and bring our nation to the edge of ruin, and when they do that what do they do?  They say "Oh you can get more money, you can borrow from the IMF, which is just a bigger version of the same scam.  But not all countries want to play that game, and every country that tries to break free of the private central banks....THEY GET BOMBED!!"

"Iraq wanted to get away from debt based currency, they wanted to get away from using the dollar for the oil currency....instant war.  Iran's been making the same noises and look how hard they're trying to sell a war there.  Gaddiffi establishes a gold based dinar issued by the government without a private central bank and sure enough we're in there bombing the place."

"Look at how the Federal Reserve, the pyramid scheme called the Federal Reserve has destroyed the United States Economy.  Do you REALLY WANT your children to die in a war to force this same crooked system on the rest of the world?  Because that's what's going on, you're being asked to sacrifice the lives of your children to make the world safe for private central banking."  --  *Michael Rivero*, owner of WhatReallyHappened.Com
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More On The International Situation....

The Assault On Libya....

'Libya offensive - piracy on international level'
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 4m59s - June 3rd, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."
A quote...."NATO is not interested in a ceasefire in Libya as it craves regime change in the country, believes International Action Center activist Sara Flounders. Russia's foreign minister has criticized the way the UN resolution on Libya is being implemented, in the wake of NATO's 90-day extension of its mission there. Sergey Lavrov says NATO's actions go beyond the scope of the resolution and undermine international law."

Libya Onslaught: 'You can't impose democracy by bombing civilians'
Must View RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 5m17s - June 2nd, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote.... "NATO is extending its operation in Libya by another three months. The Alliance chief says the decision is meant to signal to Colonel Gaddafi that the coalition is determined to fulfill the UN mandate to protect Libyans. But anti-war activist Chris Nineham says the whole campaign has become an obsessive quest to oust Gaddafi."

The war in Libya growing more illegal by the day
Special Note - A quote...."To the extent that the War Powers Resolution (WPR) authorized President Obama to fight a war in Libya for 60 days without Congressional approval -- and, for reasons I described here, it did not -- that 60-day period expired 12 days ago.  Since that date, the war has been unquestionably illegal even under the original justifications of Obama defenders, though I realize that objecting to "illegal wars" -- or wars generally -- is so very 2005.  After making clear that they intended to contrive "some plausible theory" to justify this illegal war, the White House finally settled on the claim that the war in Libya -- despite featuring substantial U.S. military action with the goal of destroying a foreign army and removing that nation's leader -- is too small and limited to be a real "war" under the Constitution and the WPR." - also posted at ICH & Uruknet

Israel's Netanyahu thanks France for intervening in Libya
Special Note - It appears Israel, despite the alleged mercenary support they supplied to Libya's government when the war first started, was not, is not, and perhaps never has, backed Gaddaffi or his government.  Except of course to make a little money "playing" both sides against each other, and also thereby get the best deal for themselves. - mpg --  A quote...."Meeting visiting French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, Netanyahu noted that Gaddafi had 'was never a friend of Israel or the Jewish people and Israel will not be sorry to see him disappear from the map.'"

Libyan rebels [a.k.a. al-CIA'da] will recognise Israel, Bernard-Henri Lévy tells Netanyahu
Special Note - Related Article - Ahh-HAH!  The sound of the second shoe dropping. - mpg -- A quote.... "Libya’s rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) is ready to recognise Israel, according to French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who says he has passed the message on to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu." - also posted at Uruknet --  For more on this ENTIRE issue see....One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg

For those who support the Libyan "Opposition"
A quote...."Under which United Nations resolution did NATO get the right to murder civilians? Why did NATO murder Colonel Gaddafi's son if their remit was to impose a no-fly zone to protect civilians? Why did NATO murder three of Colonel Gaddafi's grandchildren? Why has there been no accountability for the murder of innocent children? Why is nobody calling Cameron, Sarkozy or Obama a cold-blooded child murderer?" - also posted at ICH

Series Of NATO Strikes Target Tripoli
A quote...."NATO blasted Tripoli with a series of air strikes early Thursday, sending shuddering booms through the city. -- Ambulances, sirens blaring, could be heard racing through the Libyan capital after the rattling blasts. A NATO statement said the attacks hit military vehicle and ammunition depots, a surface-to-air missile launcher and a fire control radar. -- Libyan government officials refused repeated requests for information."
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Keiser Report: Regime Change in Greece Now! (E152)
MKVideo - Alt - (MKRTYuTb - 25min56sec - June 2nd, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer:  Max Keiser TV-- A quote...."This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on the indignation, loss of national sovereignty and treason in Greece. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Gonzalo Lira of the Strategic Planning Group about whether Greece will abandon the eurozone and whether or not it is safe for anyone to remain exposed to the region."

Record NATO deaths in early Afghan fighting season
A quote...."KABUL (AFP) – More foreign troops in Afghanistan were killed in April and May this year, the early stages of the fighting season, than in the same months of any year of the decade-long conflict, figures showed."

Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan kill German, Polish soldiers
A quote...."KABUL : Two German and Polish soldiers were killed on Thursday in two separate insurgent attacks in northern and eastern Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the country's governments said."

1 German soldier dead, 5 wounded when tank hit by roadside bomb in Afghanistan
A quote...."BERLIN (AP) — One German soldier died and five were wounded when their tank was hit by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, German news agency DAPD reported on Thursday."

"No Shred of Evidence", Iran Building Nukes, Ex Head of IAEA Says
A quote...."The former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) said in a new published report that he had not seen “a shred of evidence” that Iran was “building nuclear-weapons facilities and using enriched materials.”

The American Misreading of Iran - The Changing Reality of the Middle East
Special Note - A quote...."It is clear that the United States and its Western European allies were caught completely unprepared for the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain, as well as the upheavals throughout the Arab world.  On the other hand, many of us in the region have been repeatedly and explicitly stating for quite a while now, in meetings, seminars, and papers that the center cannot hold and that these pro-Western and corrupt regimes are sliding toward collapse; "

Polish officials may face charges over secret CIA prisons - Hip Hip Hooray!
A quote...."Polish state prosecutors are considering bringing charges against members of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) for their alleged involvement in secret CIA prisons located on Polish soil between 2002-2005. The prisons were allegedly used to torture terrorist suspects from al-Qaeda."
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More on the World Wide Revolution....

Bahrain braces for Friday rallies
A quote...."Bahrainis are set to hold anti-government rallies in the Persian Gulf sheikhdom amid widespread deployment of Saudi-backed forces across the country."

15 killed in Yemeni capital clashes: medics
Thousands flee Yemeni capital as battles rage
Yemen: 'Thousands' of tribesmen march on Sanaa
Yemen at breaking point. All airports closed.
Syria: Attack on central town of Rastan 'kills 15'
Syria in total internet blackout - provider
Turkey talks to Syrian dissidents and warns Assad: 'Time is running out'
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Ofer Gate: Sammy Ofer dies of ‘serious illness’
A quote...."Israeli tycoon whose firm is at heart of scandal over illegal trade with Iran found dead at his Tel Aviv home."

Scottish Court to Rule on Whether Anti-Israel Protesters are 'Anti-Semitic'
A quote...."Cupar, Scotland--This county town of Fife, is not exactly a news hot spot. Probably the last big story here was the landing of Italian balloonist Vincenzo Lunardi nearby in 1785 at the end of a 43-mile flight from Edinburgh. -- However the small town’s sleepy Sheriff court is about to host a key legal case involving a US student from New York and two anti Israeli protestors who have been charged with racism." - also posted at Uruknet
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Palestinian woman beaten by colonists during march
A quote...."Ramallah: A Palestinian teacher from Occupied East Jerusalem was admitted to hospital after a group of Israeli colonists attacked her and severely beat her up. -- The attack on Noor Al Hussaini took place while she was in a supermarket buying items for her special needs students, when a group of ultra orthodox Israeli colonists attacked her for no apparent reason."

Israel creates 'Obama' settlement, more obstacles for viable Palestinian state
A quote...."In a move that comes as gesture of deep gratitude, the Israeli government permitted an extreme rightwing Israeli association to name a new settlement Obama. The building of settlements makes the establishment of a connected Palestinian state an impossible task."

Israeli forces bulldoze crops in northern Gaza during harvest period
A quote...."Israeli Occupation Forces have begun bulldozing agricultural crops in the north of the Gaza Strip just shortly before they were due to be harvested by farmers."

Gaza fishermen: Israeli navy hit skiff, 1 injured
A quote...."GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Gaza fishermen said one skiff was hit and sunk Wednesday night by an Israeli naval boat off the Rafah coast." - also posted at AlethoNews

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (26 May – 01 June 2011)
Every single week, without a momments respite, think of how you'd feel if it was your community. - mpg

• A Palestinian child was wounded in Iraq Bourin village, south of Nablus.
• IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
• A Palestinian demonstrator was wounded in Bil'ein, west of Ramallah.
• IOF arrested 15 demonstrators, including a child.
• The arrested persons include 7 Palestinians and 8 international human rights defenders.
• IOF conducted 47 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and one limited incursion into the central Gaza Strip.
• IOF arrested 29 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children and 2 women.
• IOF launched a wide scale campaign against the Islamic Jihad in Jenin and closed 2 charitable associations.
• IOF continued settlement activities and Israeli settlers continued their attacks in the West Bank.
• IOF demolished 8 artisan wells in Jenin and bulldozed a shop of construction materials in Qalqilya.
• Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian shepherd in Madma village, south of Nablus.
• Israeli settlers set fire to 4 donums[1] planted with grains in Madma village, south of Nablus.
• Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the Gaza Strip and tightened the siege on the West Bank.
• IOF arrested at least 4 Palestinians at military checkpoints in the West Bank.
• IOF stopped and held Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and another 2 PLC members and arrested a third one.

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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants....

Fukushima Day 84 - EXPLOSION & BURST of steam/smoke seen rising at Reactor No. 4
Radiation Alert - Video - Alt - (YuTb - 7min03sec - Jun 2, 2011) - Items covered: Japan bans radioactive green tea from area 40 miles Southwest of Tokyo, a small explosion near one of the reactors was video taped, the IAEA is being urged to add a category "8" to the international nuclear disaster scale to represent Fukushima, (the video's author thinks Fukushima should be rated a "10"), and other issues....mpg

EPA posts latest radiation data: Cesium-137 in Delaware drinking water above “Maximum Contaminant Level”
Radiation Alert - [Dover, DE -- Posted 6/1 -- Collected 4/13 -- Drinking Water -- Cs-137 @ 4.1 pCi/l] - EPA lumps these gamma and beta emitters together under one collective MCL, so if you’re seeing cesium-137 in your milk or water, the MCL [Maximum Contaminant Level] is 3.0 picocuries per liter; if you’re seeing iodine-131, the MCL is 3.0; if you’re seeing cesium-137 and iodine-131, the MCL is still 3.0."

‘There’s no safe radiation level’
A quote...."PUTRAJAYA: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today admitted there is no such thing as “safe” levels of radiation. -- However , it told the Consumer Association of Penang that some radiation levels could be justified."

Radiation News 06-2-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (4 articles)
Fukushima fallout spurs bans on green tea
Blast at Japan nuclear plant 'likely gas cylinder'
Fukushima's nuclear meltdown puts [the prefecture's] forest industry near collapse
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More On The Economic Situation....

Wall Street's Mortgage-backed Security Fraud Destroyed Both the US and EU Economies
Special Note - A quote...."As detailed in "Bankers Gone Wild", mortgages were cranked out by unscrupulous mortgage brokers, then bundled together into mortgage securities, which were in turn re-sold to investors as triple-A investments, even though the bundles included sub-prime mortgages already defaulting as US jobs were shipped overseas. -- These mortgage-backed securities are a Wall Street invention!" - Topix ||  Debt Doesn't Matter When the Rubes Pay - 02-29-08 - mpg  ||

Ron Paul: One-Third of Fed Bailout Loans - and Essentially 100% of NY Fed Loans - Went to Foreign Banks
Related Video - Alt - (YuTb - 5min12sec - Jun 2, 2011) - Source:  LiveFreeorDieReport -- A quote...."From yesterday's Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee hearing, with Fed Board of Governors general counsel Scott Alvarez and New York Fed counsel Thomas Baxter" - Source:  WashingtonsBlog

Fed Balance Sheet And Monetary Base Update - New Records All Around
Related Charts - (click to enlarge) - A quote...."The Federal Reserve, just like Atlas, continues carrying the weight of if not the world, then certainly the stock market on its shoulders. As expected, both the Fed's balance sheet, and its economic equivalent, the Adjusted Monetary Base, just hit fresh all time records. This will continue for 4 more weeks at which point QE2 will end and what happens next will depend entirely on what side of the bed Bernanke wakes on."  - Check out the spot-on comments!! - mpg

The financial avarice of the global banking system – U.S. banks insolvent to the tune of $3 trillion. FDIC pretends to have funds to support over $7 trillion in banking deposits. - A quote...."Part of the big delusion in our banking system is the reality that debt has become a large source of money flowing through the economy.  This is why housing made the perfect vessel for Wall Street and banking speculation.  Banks create money by issuing loans and there is nothing larger to loan on than a home.  Think about the fact that banks were giving out $500,000 for trashy run down homes overrun with rats and this was something that they were booking on their balance sheet as an asset."

Moody's says Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo may no longer be too big to fail
A quote...."NEW YORK, N.Y. - Moody's Investors Service said Thursday that it was reviewing the ratings of Bank of America Corp. Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. for possible downgrades. -- The rating agency gives the three banks fairly strong investment-grade credit ratings. But those grades are based on Moody's assumption that the federal government would prevent them from failing in a crisis. Moody's said Thursday that this "too big to fail" presumption may no longer be true."

Treasury Continues To Dip Into Retirement Accounts, Prepares To "Take Out" $66 Billion Chunk To Make Room For New Bond Issuance - Special Note - (For all you federal workers) - A quote...."Today, very quietly, the Treasury released its latest refunding announcement, in which it disclosed it would issue another $66 billion in 3, 10 and 30 Year notes next week. The irony of course is that the US is and continues to be at its debt ceiling limit (or just $25 million short of it), at a total of $14,293,975 million. Furthermore, as was also disclosed by the Treasury, this gross issuance will also be the net amount added in marketable debt, as upon settlement on June 15, there will be no redemptions of maturing bonds. Which simply means that the continued "disinvesting" (which is merely a polite word for plundering) from intragovernmental debt, also known as retirement accounts, is about to kick into high gear." - bold by website editor

10 Reasons Why The “Economic Recovery” Is a Fraud
A quote...."Yesterday’s so-called “horror” show for the US economy with the release of new data illustrating how the economic “recovery” has all but ground to a halt was met with feigned astonishment and shock by the establishment media, and yet for the past two years the public has been continually deceived about the true state of the financial system." - also posted at ActivistPost

Can We Please Stop Pretending the GDP Is "Growing"?
A quote...."The Federal government borrowed and spent $6.1 trillion over the past four years to generate a cumulative $700 billion increase in the nation's GDP. That means we've borrowed and spent $8.70 for every $1 of nominal "growth" in GDP. -- In constant dollars, GDP is flat: we got no growth at all for our $6.1 trillion: zip, zero, nada. In constant dollars, the GDP in 2011 might return to the 2007 level, if the economy continues "growing" at the same pace reached in the first three months of 2011. If not, then the GDP will actually be lower than pre-recession levels." - also posted at ZeroHedge

The Consumer Contraction Begins: May Same Store Sale Summary - 12 Misses, 5 Beats
Chart - A quote...."As the chart below from BofA shows the May retail SSS data turned very sour with 12 misses and only 5 beats, and just like every other segment, very soon the stock market, which since Jackson Hole has been reacting to newsflow like a retárd, will finally grasp that even with nobody paying their mortgage, the reality of diminishing squatter returns is unavoidable."

Unemployment During the Great Depression Has Been Overstated and Current Unemployment Understated (We've Now Got Depression-Level Unemployment) - Must Read - Charts - A quote...."The commonly-accepted unemployment figures for the Great Depression are overstated. -- Specifically, government workers were counted as unemployed by Stanley Lebergott (the BLS economist who put together the most widely used numbers) ... even though gainfully employed and receiving a pay check. -- If we're trying to compare current unemployment figures with the Great Depression, the calculations of economists such as Michael Darby are more accurate. -- Here is a comparison of Lebergott and Darby's unemployment figures:" - also posted at the Intercept

Greek government to announce billions more in austerity measures
A quote...."The Greek government is preparing to announce another €6.4 billion in austerity measures, after Moody's, the debt rating agency, cut the country's credit rating three notches, sending it deep into junk status."

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