Sunday September 9th 2007 - links page

Back from vacation - 09-09-07 - mpg

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The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Must Listen - A quote...."Audio Interview With Naomi Klein  -  Klein argues that instability is being both fostered and used as a way to engage in policies of economic engineering around the world whether in Pinochet's Chile or today, in Iraq"

The Stupidest People On Earth
Must Read - Some quotes...." It's really no wonder that there's been little in the way of turning up actual terrorists in our own country.  There are simple facts like, there aren't many terrorists here to begin with, if any.  As of yet, all these years after 9-11, not a single credible terrorist has been discovered and taken out of operation.  No one has been held accountable for 9-11 and of course, the infamous Osama Bin Laden, an intelligence operative, has vanished into thin air, and is all but forgotten.  He seems only to turn up at those times when his prerecorded threats against us seem to serve the government's will to a "T", supporting their assertions and plans, providing justification for the continuing need for their uncomfortable way of doing things."  --  " Government has separated itself from us.   It has abandoned the people and now seeks only to exert unlimited control over us, and to do with us as it will.  Just as it can dismiss the law, it has dismissed the notion of the people being of consequence.  This country has become their own property to do with as they choose, and we seem only to be standing in their way, along with our rights and the laws we once had that protected us."

PJB: Phase III of Bush's War
Must Read - A quote...."Those who hoped that“ with the victory of the antiwar party in 2006, the departure of Rumsfeld and the neocons from the Pentagon, the rise of Condi and the eclipse of Cheney“ America was headed out of Iraq got a rude awakening. They are about to get another."

Why Is This Man Smiling?
Must Read - A quote...."In the effort to retaliate against terrorists who hijacked planes six years ago with an arsenal of $3 knives, this year's overall defense budget has been pushed to $657 billion.  We are now spending $3 billion a week in Iraq alone, occupying a country that had nothing to do with the tragedy that sparked this orgy of militarism.  The waste is so enormous and irrelevant to our national security that a rational person might embrace the libertarian creed if only for the sake of sanity."

Will the US Really Bomb Iran?
Must Read - War Warning - A quote....""They're about taking out the entire Iranian military." - This particular spine-chiller comes from Alexis Debat, excitingly identified as "director of terrorism and national security" at the Nixon Center. According to Debat, the big takeout is what the U.S. Air Force has in store, as opposed to mere "pinprick strikes" against the infamous nuclear facilities."

A counter argument against signs of an impending war with Iran...that such a war would cause gas prices to rise over five dollars a gallon, that the US economy already teetering on the edge of an abyss because of all the expenses incurred to maintain the Neocons'New Roman Empire would collapse if such an attack were to take place, that the dollar and US bonds would tank as the Chinese sold them off....So?

Such outcomes would only affect the "little people" and their pocket books, the wealthiest one percent who could care less have already taken steps to make sure they profit from the coming debacle. - mpg

See red war warning shown below.


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US trashes Iran agreement at own peril
War Warning - A quote...."This week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was thoroughly trashed by the Western media over its recent agreement with Iran, an agreement that, ironically, was warmly embraced by the majority of nations that are members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). The North-South gap has turned ballistic, and there is no bridge over this troubled water."

U.S. preps NORTHCOM for domestic emergencies
War Warning - A quote...."The military is transforming the Cheyenne Mountain Directorate in Colorado “ the famous Cold War surveillance and command center“ by moving important functions to nearby Peterson Air Force Base in order to improve operations for NORTHCOM, the United States Northern Command, a top official tells WND columnist Jerome Corsi in an interview published today."

The News Drones
Must Read - A quote...."Fake Photos Helped Lead US to War in Iraq - Add faked photos to the list of lies told by the Bush­Cheney Administration before its invasion of Iraq."

For more on this see.....Fake Intel - Drone Aircraft
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Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
Must Read - Related Article - A quote...."On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam's inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again."

For more on this see....Fake Intel - Intell Process
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NYT's Friedman's Addiction to War
Related Article - A quote...."Editor's Note: One of the remarkable features of the Iraq War is how few of the Washington pundits who cheered on the invasion in 2002-2003 suffered any serious career consequences. With only a couple of exceptions, these go-with-the-flow "experts" are still floating along, even though they now bemoan the war's poor execution."

IRAQ:  Samarra Under U.S. Attack
A quote...."New defiance is rising against U.S. forces following military "crimes", fleeing residents say. - "On Sunday the 26th of August, there was fierce fighting between armed men and American forces in the Armooshiya district, and I saw Americans evacuate many of their soldiers by stretchers," a man who fled Samarra for Baghdad, speaking on condition of anonymity, told IPS. "As usual, Americans took revenge by bombing the district."

Democratically Controlled Congress Stands on the Brink of Irrelevance on Iraq
A quote...."Next week, Ryan Crocker, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, and General David Petraeus, the army's counter-insurgency guru, will brief Congress on the Bush administration's claims of progress in Iraq. At stake is not only the upper hand in the political debate over the continuing occupation, but an enormous amount of money -- $147 billion -- that was supposedly conditioned on tangible measures of progress, specifically 18 "benchmarks" attached to the 2007 supplemental spending bill."

Reporting From Baghdad
A quote...."It should come as no surprise that the Bush administration's newest military-man-of-substance-turned- political lapdog, General Petraeus, maintains that the situation in Iraq is not only salvageable, but actually improving, due to the surge of U.S. combat troops into Iraq over the past year.  All the president and his collection of GI Joe hand-puppets ask for is more time, more money and more troops."

The shrinking Bush bubble
A quote...."The president is a lonely man. Once, he was surrounded by admirers and acolytes. There was Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell and Alberto Gonzales and Condi Rice and Karl Rove -- many of them better known inside the White House by the affectionate but often unprintable nicknames assigned by their playful president. (Rove, you'll recall, was "Turd Blossom.") Yale University forgave Bush's mediocre student record and gave him an honorary degree in 2001, and bright young Yale law graduates at the Justice Department struggled to acquire Texas drawls and develop legal rationales for White House criminality.  -  Those were the days."

Tomgram: Ruth Rosen, Shutting Down the Information Society, Bush-Style
A quote...."We live with an administration whose concept of domestic "freedom" went out with those "freedom fries," briefly sold at the cafeterias of the House of Representatives. The Bush team has quite literally been a force for darkness. For those who remember the "memory hole" down which the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Truth dumped all uncomfortable or inconvenient documents in Orwell's famed dystopian novel 1984, this administration has created its functional equivalent."

Israel 'prepared' for possibility of conflict after Syria alleges IAF violated its airspace
A quote...."Israel is "fully prepared" for the possibility of a conflict in the North, defense officials said late Thursday, after Syria alleged it had fired on a pre-dawn IAF flight over the coastal city of Latakia.

Rights group: IDF indiscriminately struck Lebanon civilians
A quote...."In its harshest condemnation of Israel since the Second Lebanon War, Human Rights Watch charged that most of the Lebanese civilian casualties came from indiscriminate Israeli air strikes, according to a report to released Thursday."

Lawsuit demands US reveal civilian deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AFP)” A US civil rights group filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding the American military release documents about civilians killed by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, accusing the government of trying to hide the human cost of war"

Basra: The soldiers' tales
A quote...."The soldiers of the 4 Rifles Battle Group spoke for the first time yesterday about their night-time evacuation from the palace and also how, for five months, they had been living under a state of siege with attacks around the clock and patrols being hit by roadside bombs."

The Great Iraq Swindle
A quote...."How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins -- he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq."

Billions over Baghdad
Must Read - Related article - A quote...."Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency”much of it belonging to the Iraqi people”was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Some of the cash went to pay for projects and keep ministries afloat, but, incredibly, at least $9 billion has gone missing, unaccounted for, in a frenzy of mismanagement and greed."

Death Squads Still Operating
A quote...."SAN SALVADOR, Sep 4 (IPS) - Recent arrests of police officers in El Salvador accused of committing extrajudicial executions have encouraged human rights activists and experts who have long reported the continued existence of death squads in this Central American country."

More of America's sick, sadistic, "help"....still operating after all these years in El Salvador. Congratulations to all the Neo-Romans still plying the torture trade in the School of the America's, you must be really proud of your handiwork.“ mpg
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Psychological "torture bible" published in 1961 reappears online
A quote...."If you were to begin researching interrogation, interviewing, and brainwashing techniques, you would eventually notice that one particular interesting-sounding volume appears over and over again in the relevant bibliographies: something called The Manipulation of Human Behavior, published in 1961 [by John Wiley & Sons]."

How to ruin someone's reputation or their career, how to provoke them into a rash act, how to manipulate or destroy a person's cherished beliefs or pervert them into their exact opposite, how to get them perhaps to join a "terrorist cell".

There are monsters in our government, absolute monsters, and no one is trying to stop them. - mpg

See also....Group (or Gang) Stalking, a Growing Menace
See also....The FBI's Vendetta Against Martin Luther King, Jr.
See also....Steep Price Paid by Those Who Blew Whistle on Iraq Fraud
See also....FBI Whistleblower Describes Government Muscle Tactics
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U.S. holding 22,000 Iraqi prisoners
A quote...."Azzaman, September 4, 2007  -  U.S. invasion troops detain more than 22,000 Iraqis in their prisoner camps across the country, senior government officials say.  -  The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said many of those languishing in U.S. jails are innocent and have been incarcerated for long periods without trial or charges."

Doctors accuse US of 'unethical practices' at Guantanamo Bay
A quote..."More than 260 doctors from around the world have launched an unprecedented attack on the American medical establishment for its failure to condemn unethical practices by medical practitioners at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba."

Eight Iraqi Resistance groups announce formation of unified front
A quote...."In a dispatch posted at 11:39am Makkah time Friday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that eight Iraqi Resistance organizations had come together to form a new umbrella group called the Front for Jihad and Change, according to an announcement on the Internet signed by representatives of the groups."

Dallas Oil Company Signs Deal With Kurds
A quote...."HOUSTON (AP) - Texas' Hunt Oil Co. and Kurdistan's regional government said Saturday they've signed a production-sharing contract for petroleum exploration in northern Iraq, the first such deal since the Kurds passed their own oil and gas law in August."

So much for the idea of a "national" Iraqi government.  This was the Neocons' plan all along. - mpg
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Study: US Jews distance themselves from Israel
A quote...."Feelings of attachment to Israel declining among non-Orthodox American Jews, and are replaced by indifference and even alienation, study finds. Only 48% think Israel's destruction would be a personal tragedy for them, only 54% 'comfortable with the idea of a Jewish state'"

Report: Norway diplomats urge Oslo to criticize Israel over torture
A quote...."Norway's embassy in Tel Aviv has urged the government to criticize Israel for the alleged use of torture in prisons, the state radio network NRK reported Thursday."

Russian bombers launch missiles over Arctic
A quote...."Twelve Russian strategic bombers are taking part in military exercises above the Arctic involving the launching of tactical cruise missiles."

Is China quietly dumping US Treasuries?
A quote...."A sharp drop in foreign holdings of US Treasury bonds over the last five weeks has raised concerns that China is quietly withdrawing its funds from the United States, leaving the dollar increasingly vulnerable."

Are The Banks In Trouble?
A quote...."09/07/07 "ICH"- -- -About a month ago, I wrote an article “Stock Market Brushfire: Will there be a run on the banks?� which showed how the collapse in the housing market and the deterioration in mortgage-backed bonds (CDOs) in the secondary market was creating difficulties for the banking system.  Now these problems are becoming more apparent.

Part 1: The rise of the non-bank financial system & PART 2: Bank deregulation fuels abuse
A quote from Part II...."US Federal Reserve data show that the outstanding stock of US commercial paper has fallen by US$255 billion or 11% over the past three weeks, a sign that many borrowers have been unable to roll over huge amounts of short-term debt at maturity. Asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP), which accounted for half the commercial-paper (CP) market, tumbled $59.4 billion to $998 billion in the last week of August, the lowest since December. Total short-term debt maturing in 270 days or less fell $62.8 billion to a seasonally adjusted $1.98 trillion. The yield on the highest-rated asset-backed paper due by August 30 rose 0.11 percentage point to a six-year high of 6.15%."

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Yes, Mr. President, there are parallels to Vietnam
Must Read - Some quotes...."BOSTON: It ill behooves an administration led by two who assiduously avoided the Vietnam War to lecture the nation now on the lessons of its consequences. President George W. Bush said last week that those who succumbed to calls to end the war would be responsible for the same tragedies that the end of Indochina wars unleashed."  --  "For those of us who spent some years in Indochina, living through that drawn-out catastrophe, there are indeed parallels with today. The president's rousing claim that "a free Iraq" is within our reach is the same drivel as was the "light at the end of the tunnel" to a previous generation."

Bush to request $50 billion more for Iraq war: report
Some quotes...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush is preparing to ask Congress for as much as $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a White House official."  -  "The additional funds would come on top of about $460 billion in the fiscal 2008 defense budget and $147 billion in a pending supplemental bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Post said."

U.N. reports cholera outbreak in northern Iraq
A quote...."(CNN) -- More than 2,000 Iraqis in the northern part of the country have contracted cholera, U.N. officials said Wednesday, citing local authorities. - The outbreak is thought to be the result of poor water quality, the U.N. officials said."

For more on this see....Child Abuse
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New steps in the war dance over Iran
War Warning - A quote...."A day after French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner apologized to Iraq for his inappropriate call for a leadership change in that country, President Nicolas Sarkozy added his own blunder by tacitly endorsing the military option on Iran. Clearly, the new US-friendly leader in Paris has much to learn about international diplomacy and Middle East politics, or he risks taking France down a path where only the dogs of war and clashing civilizations prowl. "

Bush's brand-new poodle
A quote...."PARIS - With former British prime minister Tony Blair out of the picture, there's now a newer, leaner, meaner, adrenaline-packed "Made in France" version. Thanks to his unrelenting support for President George W Bush's war on Iraq, Blair used to be derided in all corners of the globe as Bush's poodle. Now the new self-appointed lap dog is French President Nicolas Sarkozy."

Given the two articles shown above, it appears that anyone who is against the war might want to consider halting anymore purchases of French produced goods. - mpg
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OMG, Part 2
War Warning - War Provocation - A quote...."Okay, this is not good folks... not good at all:    "Iran says it will make a formal protest to Iraq on Wednesday over the apparent arrest and detention of seven of its nationals by US troops in Baghdad"

Study: US preparing 'massive' military attack against Iran
War Warning - A quote...."The United States has the capacity for and may be prepared to launch without warning a massive assault on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities, as well as government buildings and infrastructure, using long-range bombers and missiles, according to a new analysis."

Bush Calls for the Mass Murder of Iranians
War Warning - A quote...."Thus we are told Iran is not only supplying IEDs to Iraqi Shites, but the Sunni insurgency as well. The U.S. military has concluded that Sunni insurgents have acquired weapons from Iran,� the World Tribune reports. U.S. commanders said Sunni insurgents, including operatives from Al Qaida, have received Iranian-origin weapons. The commanders said many of these weapons were believed to have been acquired through the black market, never mind a paucity of evidence—but then neocons don't need evidence, as fabrication and lies will suffice, especially when they are behind in their plan to reduce Iran to a smoldering ruin.

Regarding any mention of IED's or EFP's in this article see....Fake Intel - I.E.D'S & E.F.P'S

Bush threatens to militarily “confront� Iran
A quote...."In his second foreign policy speech in less than a week, President Bush Tuesday portrayed the ongoing US military occupation in Iraq as part of a broader regional struggle to defend vital US interests against radicals and extremists. - Contained in this speech was the explicit threat of widening the US war in the Middle East, directed in the first instance against Iran"

War and the "New World Order"
A quote...."Referring back to Robert Kagan and William Kristol: this war will not end in Afghanistan. It is going to spread and engulf a number of countries in conflicts of varying intensity. It could well require the use of American military power in multiple places simultaneously. It is going to resemble the clash of civilizations that everyone has hoped to avoid. And it is going to put enormous and perhaps unbearable strain on parts of an international coalition that basks in contented consensus.� [26] The international coalition being referred to is NATO and the international military network based around the U.S. and the unbearable strain� is war, but of an unknown scale.  On August 10, 2007 Lieutenant-General Douglas Lute, the War Czar overseeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and any expanded theatre, publicly talked about restoring a mandatory military draft. [27] The march to war is not waning, but driving the world towards the abyss."

Given the five articles shown above, it appears as predicted that the PNAC plan, never ever talked about by our illustrious mass-media, nor sanctioned or discussed by the US's civilian population....is still on track. - mpg
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Warmongers Won't Be Pleased - Study: Safe and Stable Iraq Withdrawal Possible In One Year
A quote...."Most U.S. troops can be withdrawn safely from Iraq in roughly one year and the Bush administration should begin planning the pullout immediately, according to a study released Wednesday."

More Shame, More Sorrow
A quote..."The Republicans have bogged America down in a gratuitous and illegal war. The war has destroyed Iraq, killed between 650,000 and 1,000,000 Iraqi civilians, displaced 4,000,000 Iraqis, and littered the country with depleted uranium. Bush's war remains unwon despite its five year duration and $1 trillion in out-of-pocket and incurred future costs. -  Bush's invasion of Iraq is a war crime under the Nuremberg standard, a direct counterpart to Hitler's invasion of Poland. Both were based on lies and deception, and the declared reasons for both were masks for secret agendas."

911 General Strike Gains Momentum - Paging the Mainstream Media - strike911
Must Read - Action Alert - A quote...."No Work, No School, No Shopping “ Hit the Streets�  -  "The 911 General Strike called by a coalition of antiwar, 911 Truth, and pro impeachment groups is gaining strength with gatherings scheduled across the country and rapidly expanding activity on the Internet, where the idea originated."

Forget About the Politicians, Remember the Streets
Action Alert - A quote...."In the coming months, Washington DC, San Francisco, New York and several other cities will be the sites of a number of actions against the US war in Iraq. These protests, which include and encampment and march the week of September 22 - 29, a protest on September 15th in DC and Los Angeles, and a number of regional protests around the date of October 27th, are being called by a number of national organizations, including UFPJ, Troops Out Now, and ANSWER. In addition, the Iraq Moratorium Project is calling for nationwide locally organized actions across the country every month beginning on September 21st.

Who is the US Fighting in Iraq?
A quote...."The odd tendency of the US military and press to refer to all guerrillas in Iraq as "al-Qaeda" is obviously not justified by their own subsequent interrogations of captured suspects. Readers should write and complain when they see al-Qaeda used indiscriminately to describe Sunni Arab fighters."

Miliband: US will not dictate our pullout from Iraq
A quote...."The decision to pull troops out of Iraq will be independent of the United States and based only on the "British national interest," the Foreign Secretary said today."

Hezbollah to file lawsuits against Israel for damage caused in war
A quote...."Hezbollah is planning to file a host of lawsuits against Israel over the damages it caused during the Second Lebanon War. Lebanese individuals with dual citizenship will file the suits in the countries where they hold citizenship. "

Exclusive: EU officials holding talks with Hamas
A quote...."EU security officials have been conducting secret talks with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks, Palestinian Authority officials told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. - The PA officials did not reveal the identity of the visitors, except to say that they belonged to three EU intelligence services"

Abbas and the Abyss
A quote...."The rash and self-defeatist behaviour emanating from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his close circle in the West Bank cannot possibly be intended for the benefit of the Palestinian people or for their internationally sanctioned struggle for human rights, freedom and equality. Abbas, and his self-serving Palestinian elites seem hell-bent on exploiting the unfolding Palestinian drama to further cement their status and position, even if such an attitude will lead to the total decimation of any little hope of recovering Palestinian rights."

Google  Censors Another 9/11 Documentary
A quote...."Google Video is once again censoring one of Alex Jones' documentary films after it received a huge jump in viewings last week and briefly entered the top ten on the back of heightened warnings of an impending terror attack."

Gonzales resigns, but torture, spying, and round-ups continue
A quote...."What's up with a country where a torturer -- and let's call a spade a spade -- an architect of a police state and fascist laws can be forced to resign and no one in a position of power calls for the reversal of everything he's done and for his and his boss's indictment for war crimes? - What's up is a system that is so hell-bent on extending and preserving its empire that a police state that tortures is the program of the whole lot of them? That's why the Democrats grandstand and garner political advantage over Gonzales's resignation but have not and will not oppose the essence of his program"

American Idols
A quote...."Furthermore, the Ephesians passage is blatantly misapplied to a flesh-and-blood struggle for power in the physical world. The passage is, in fact, part of the Apostle Paul's description of the "full armor of God" (Ephesians 6:11), which he clearly states is not for use "against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms" (Ephesians 6:12). Turning that passage into an endorsement of the U.S. military's imperial adventures is to make a liar of Paul and, by extension, God." - bold/italics by website author

How Did News Outlets Miss Senator's Arrest for Nearly Three Months?
A quote...."NEW YORK The revelation late Monday that Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was arrested nearly three months ago for allegedly making sexual advances in a men's room raises the issue of how such an action could occur without the press reporting it."

The whole world knows exactly how....because there's hardly any difference between the fawning supplicants who try to please their wealthy RepubDemos masters, and the people who staff the institutional purveyors of mass-media garbage in this country.  If you really think about it, you'd have a hard time being able to distinguish any difference between the two groups“ mpg
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On Market Predictions In The Current Chaotic Environment
War Warning - Must Read - A quote...."No one can predict how deep the decline in Western economies that is underway will go, because there is so little transparent information. Within the U.S., the government is hiding the severity of the crisis in order to prevent a collapse of consumer confidence. - Realize that the problem does not lie on the side of production. Global industry has the capacity to produce a huge quantity of goods and services. There is even a glut in some sectors, such as automobiles, textiles, IT, and other consumer products. - Rather the problem, as with the Great Depression, is that purchasing power at the consumer level is lacking. In the U.S., purchasing power, as measured by M1, is already in a recession-level decline. The causes are the high level of consumer debt, high cumulative levels of taxation on the dwindling middle class, and the tragic erosion of wages and salaries from job outsourcing."

Regarding this article see....Standard Disclaimer
See also....No Visibility - posted 08-12-07
See also....Market Crash Forecast Suggests New 9/11 - posted 08-27-07
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How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?- posted at BuzzFlash
A quote...."The Republican Party is the Party of Ideas - Really, Really Bad Ideas."
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Computer down for technical updates, reconfigurations and program uploads - no posts. - mpg

Monday August 27th 2007 - links page

Washington continues propaganda barrage against Iran
War Warning - A quote...."As it prepares for a diplomatic offensive against Iran at the UN next month, the Bush administration is maintaining a steady barrage of threats and propaganda” in particular, over so-called Iranian interference in US-occupied Iraq and Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons programs.

Regarding any mention of IED's or EFP's in this article see....Fake Intel - I.E.D'S & E.F.P'S
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Market Crash Forecast Suggests New 9/11
Red War Warning - A quote...."A mystery trader risks losing around $1 billion dollars after placing 245,000 put options on the Dow Jones Eurostoxx 50 index, leading many analysts to speculate that a stock market crash preceded by a new 9/11 style catastrophe could take place within the next month."

Editor's note : Trust no information out there, especially "tips" about the market.  This investor(s) could be trying to manipulate the market (after all a billion dollars is just chump change now days) or they could be the ones being manipulated.  Nevertheless this item has to be classified as a Red War Warning“ mpg

See....Standard Disclaimer
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US Opposition Political Leaders Issue Urgent False Flag Terror Warning
Red War Warning - A quote...."A group of former government officials along with current Congressional candidates, authors and activists has issued an urgent warning that a faction of the US government allied with Dick Cheney is planning to stage a terror event or provocation as a pretext for launching military attacks against Iran and implementing emergency powers in America.

Evidence Suggests CIA Spiked Investigations
Must Read - Related article - A quote...."It appears that Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar were being protected by higher ups in the CIA. Respected author Joe Trento has reported that they were working for Saudi Intelligence. Others reported the two were removed from the watchlist two days before 9/11. I don't know if either was the case. It is clear however that there was a concerted effort to protect them similar in some respects to the way authorities in FBI HQ refused to allow Rowley and company in Minnesota to go into Mousaoui's laptop computer or how higher ups prevented Robert Wright in Chicago from going after the money trail of Yassin Al-Kadi (Qadi) who financed the software company Ptech and the terrorist group Hamas and who was later named a /Specially Designated Global Terrorist/ by President Bush in October of 2001."

Many Take Army's 'Quick Ship' Bonus
Red War Warning - A quote...."More than 90 percent of the Army's new recruits since late July have accepted a $20,000 "quick ship" bonus to leave for basic combat training by the end of September, putting thousands of Americans into uniform almost immediately."

Neocons One Step Closer to Attacking Iran
War Warning - A quote..."As should be expected, the neocons have shifted from one preposterous lie to another in order to prepare the way for eventually inflicting mass murder, mayhem, and misery on the people of Iran."

Regarding any mention of IED's or EFP's in this article see....Fake Intel - I.E.D'S & E.F.P'S
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Sinking ship leaves rat
A quote...."Alberto Gonzales lived up to his nickname of Fredo - the sycophantic Mafia sidekick, always trying to please the Don."  --  "Back when George Bush, in the picture presented by the US media, was a visionary leader who was protecting us from evil, and a swell guy you'd like to have a beer with to boot, the press corps in Washington used to devote far too much attention to the president's penchant for bestowing on those around him little nicknames."

Bush Drops Another Crony
A quote...."Civil liberties advocates and Democrats hailed Monday's resignation by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as a major victory, while most Republicans, for whom Gonzales' performance had increasingly become a source of embarrassment, kept their comments to a minimum."

ALP Lead Keeps Increasing in Australia
A quote...."(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has extended its lead over the governing Coalition of Liberals and Nationals, according to a poll by Roy Morgan International. 51 per cent of respondents would back the ALP in this year's election to the House of Representatives, up 1.5 points since early August."  --  John Howard (another Bush buddy) is having a few problems down under. - mpg

Conviction of Padilla is Bad News for All Americans--Including Journalists
A quote...."8/16/07”With habeas corpus a thing of the past, with arrest and detention without charge permitted, with torture and spying without court oversight all the rage, with prosecutors free to tape conversations between lawyers and their clients, and with the judicial branch now infested by rightwing judges who would have been at home in courtrooms of the Soviet Union or Hitler's Germany, for all they seem to care about common law tradition, the only real thing holding the line against absolute tyranny in the U.S. has been the jury."

Empire or Freedom?
A quote...."The 9/11 attacks exposed what has been going on for many decades and continues to occur at an ever-increasing pace“ the movement of our nation away from its founding principles of a republic and in the direction of empire, militarism, and intervention. Equally important, the reality is that such federal programs as the war on terror,� the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the impending attack on Iran, along with the omnipotent powers that the president, the CIA, the NSA, and the Pentagon now wield against the American people, are inherent, integral, inescapable parts of that foreign policy."

U.S. has second worst newborn death rate in modern world, report says - posted at BuzzFlash
A quote...."(CNN) -- An estimated 2 million babies die within their first 24 hours each year worldwide and the United States has the second worst newborn mortality rate in the developed world, according to a new report."

Welcome to the New Roman...ahem...Third World Empire. - mpg
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Russia says Politkovskaya murder ordered from abroad
A quote...."MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors said on Monday they had detained 10 suspects in the murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya, but that the killing was masterminded from abroad by anti-Kremlin forces trying to discredit Russia."

The Fed's Subprime Solution
A quote...."THE subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 is, in fact, a credit crisis” a worldwide disruption in lending and borrowing. It is only the latest in a long succession of such disturbances. Who's to blame? The human race, first and foremost. Well-intended public policy, second. And Wall Street, third” if only for taking what generations of policy makers have so unwisely handed it."

Peterson's Law of Inflation
A quote....""Funny money," commented a visitor in our earshot at the Chase Manhattan Bank Museum of Moneys of the World in New York Rockefeller Center. The visitor, a Texan we surmised from his drawl, height, and wide-brim Stetson, was referring to a display of Yap stone money. One Yap specimen measures some thirty inches in diameter and weighs about 175 pounds. It is worth ten thousand coconuts or one wife, or so the sign read."

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