Upcoming Election, Foreign Crimianl Syndicates Buying America's Governmnet
Must Read - A quote...."America’s “mid-term” elections are coming up, one-third of the senate, all members of the house and a number of state government offices are up for grabs.  These elections used to be the subject of little interest and even less money.  Now, $1.2 billion is going to be spent, and with “relaxed” campaign laws, read “gutted-eliminated,” the election is going to be a big win for one group only, the international crime syndicates.  On the front, there are issues, well, not to a serious person, but there are a lot of accusations being made with this kind of money flowing into the media.  “America is filling with Muslims,” in reality 1% of the population, half professionals, half small business owners, almost none either criminals or unemployed.  This is the theatre, the circuses that are supposed to keep the “public” amused while the knife goes in from behind. -- This year, it is working like a charm."

"CONNED AIR:" Down the 9/11 Rabbit hole with Missouri's Two Leading US Senate Candidates
Must Read - Contains Video - A quote...."Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan(D) and Rep. Roy Blunt(R)are running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Kit Bond. -- Two different people, two different genders, coming from two different political seats and two different political families. You'd think at least one would have an original idea about US support for Apartheid Israel and maybe, just maybe, have some doubts about the official 9/11 state dictated narrative?"

UK opens 7/7 bombings inquest - Finally!! Question is, will it all just become another whitewash? - mpg
A quote...."It is disgraceful that there has never been a public, judicial examination of all the facts which is truly independent of the government, the police and the security service,” Clifford Tibber, a lawyer whose firm represents families of six of the victims, said." - Source:  Al Jazeera
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Top 25 Censored Stories Released >> Please Support >> ProjectCensored
Must Read - A quote...."Project Censored’s “Censored 2011: The Top Censored Stories of 2009-2010″ is now available for pre-order here!  This year’s volume is truly Media Democracy in Action. Not only does it cover the most under-reported stories the corporate media ignore, but this year’s Censored Deja Vu, Junk Food News and News Abuse, Signs of Health, and FAIR’s 10th anniversary of Fear and Favor in the News Room. A full Truth Emergency section debuts this year for “Censored 2011″ to address State Crimes Against Democracy as well as analysis of the corporate media spin that led to the Iraq War and continues to hide US allied atrocities in the Middle East." - also posted at GlobRsrch

1. Global Plans to Replace the Dollar
2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter on the Planet
3. Internet Privacy and Personal Access at Risk
4. ICE Operates Secret Detention and Courts
5. Blackwater (Xe): The Secret US War in Pakistan
6. Health Care Restrictions Cost Thousands of Lives in US
7. External Capitalist Forces Wreak Havoc in Africa
8. Massacre in Peruvian Amazon over US Free Trade Agreement
9. Human Rights Abuses Continue in Palestine 
10. US Funds and Supports the Taliban
11. The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating Data to Enrich Drug Companies
12. Cuba Provided the Greatest Medical Aid to Haiti after the Earthquake
13. Obama Cuts Domestic Spending and Increases Military Corporate Welfare
14. Increased Tensions with Unresolved 9/11 Issues
15. Bhopal Water Still Toxic Twenty-five Years After Deadly Gas Leak
16. US Presidents Charged with Crimes Against Humanity as Universal Jurisdiction Dies in Spain
17. Nanotech Particles Pose Serious DNA Risks to Humans and the Environment
18. The True Cost of Chevron
19. Obama Administration Assures World Bank and International Monetary Fund a Free Reign of Abuse
20. Obama’s Charter School Policies Spread Segregation and Undermine Unions
21. Western Lifestyle Continues Environmental Footprint
22. 1.2 Billion People in India to be Given Biometric ID Cards
23. Afghan War: Largest Military Coalition in History
24. War Crimes of General Stanley McChrystal
25. Prisoners Still Brutalized at Gitmo

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The Emperor's Spokesman Has No Clothes
From the History File  - aprox. Oct to Dec 2009 - Related Article - A quote...."As Gallup notes, trust in the corporate media is at an all-time low. -- Much of the loss of trust is due to the media's selling of Iraq war lies and covering up the severity of the financial crisis. -- Here are two essays I wrote - the first from a year ago, and the second from last December - explaining why media is so bad, and why we need to "be the media" ourselves ."

Demagogy and duplicity: The Democrats in the 2010 elections
A quote...."With less than three weeks remaining in the 2010 election campaign, President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are seeking to stave off a major electoral defeat by making a last-minute, fraudulent appeal to popular hostility towards Wall Street and big business. -- In his remarks Sunday to a rally in Philadelphia, largely drawn from the ranks of the trade union bureaucracy, Obama attacked “millionaires and billionaires,” “Wall Street banks,” “corporations”, the “oil industry,” the “insurance industry” and “credit-card companies.” - EXACTLY EVERYONE he gave ALL the money too.!! - mpg

Foreclose This:  Obama Admin SHilling For Wall Street - And the nation wide ObamaCon continues. - mpg
A quote...."Update: It is now official, the Obama Administration is shilling for the banks again. It has been warned by big Wall Street players NOT to back a proposed national moratorium on foreclosures because it will have a negative impact on the economy, home owners in distress be dammed. See NakedCapitalism.com today and New York Times article "A Foreclosuere Tightrope For Democrats."  They want the focus restructed to any Technical issues connected with foreclosure documents and not the whole mortgage process which is riddled with fraud at every end."
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Red Cross: Civilian hospital in southern Afghanistan seeing record number of war injuries
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The International Committee of the Red Cross says a record high number of war casualties are being treated at the main hospital in the southern city of Kandahar where Afghan and international troops are pushing hard into areas long held by insurgents."

US cover-up exposed in killing of Afghanistan aid worker - Here's one of them. - mpg
A quote...."British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday admitted that British aid worker, Linda Norgrove was killed by United States forces involved in a rescue operation and not by her Afghan captors, as had previously been claimed." - also posted at Uruknet -- Topix || Jessica Lynch || Pat Tilman ||

US Troops Fled Strategic Outpost in Kunar Province
A quote...."October 11, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - Taliban fighters claimed they have forced out remnants of US troops occupying a military outpost located at a strategic cross road in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Kunar, Iran's Press TV reported today."

Former Guantánamo Prisoner, Tortured by Al-Qaeda and the US, Launches Futile Attempt to Hold America Accountable -- A quote...."Last June, in the District Court in Washington D.C., a ruling was delivered on the habeas corpus petition of a Syrian prisoner in Guantánamo, Abdul Rahim al-Janko (also identified as Abdul Rahim al-Ginco), which exemplified all that was wrong with the Bush administration’s detention policies in the “War on Terror,” and which also dealt a deadly blow to any hopes that the Obama administration would deal robustly and skeptically with the disaster it had inherited." - also posted at Uruknet

NATO helicopters breach Pakistani airspace again - No shooting involved....this time. - mpg
A quote...."NATO helicopters violated Pakistan's airspace Tuesday morning near Chaman border area in the southwest Balochistan province, local media reported citing official sources."

Coup threat reported as Iraq government deadlock drags on
A quote...."With the deadlock in forming a new Iraqi government now entering its eighth month—a world’s record—the Obama administration is intervening ever more openly and impatiently in pressuring rival political factions to cobble together a national unity coalition that would comprise all of the major parties." - also posted at ICH

Ahmadinejad and the Limits of American and Israeli Power
Special Note - A quote...."The first visit of a president of the Islamic Republic to Beirut signals that neither the U.S. nor Israel is hegemonic in the region, and that Iran is willing to brave even a Spartan existence under sanctions for the sake of its independence and its projection of influence in the Middle East. Right wing Christian critics of Ahmadinejad’s trip charge Tehran with attempting to signal that Iranian territory extends into southern Lebanon. But many long-suffering southern Lebanese hope Ahmadinejad will show Israel the new limits of its power."

U.S. Threat to Attack Iran with Nukes is “Criminal"
A quote....."The U.S. today is threatening to attack Iran “under the completely bogus pretext” that it might have a nuclear weapon, a distinguished American international legal authority says. --  When Obama administration officials, like those of the Bush regime before it, say “all options are on the table,” they are threatening nuclear war and that is prohibited by international law, says Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois at Champaign." - also posted at AlethoNews

Chinese warplanes refueled in Iran en route to Turkey
A quote...."Iran indirectly supported a secret military drill between the Turkish and Chinese air forces that took place in September, sparking concerns in the United States, daily Hürriyet reported Monday. -- The Turkish and Chinese air forces secretly participated in “Anatolian Eagle” war games in Konya, which two years ago involved Turkey’s fellow NATO members the United States, Israel and Italy."

India Boosts Investment in Iran
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Indian capital holders said they are much eager to increase investment in Iran irrespective of the tougher sanctions imposed against the country by the western powers."

Iran Announces New Oil and Gas Discoveries
A quote...."Over the course of the past six months, the country's oil and gas reserves have been reassessed… and according to the latest studies, the country's oil reserves have reached some 150.31 billion barrels: Iran's Oil Minister."
    
Ahmadinejad bears a message for Israel
Special Note - A quote...."On the eve of his much-anticipated visit to Lebanon on Wednesday, which is sure to bolster Hezbollah's national standing in fractious Lebanese politics, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad was busy working the phones to leaders in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria. He assured them that Tehran supported "sustainable security" in Lebanon and the "the unity" of Lebanon's groups, as well as "strengthening the region's resistance". -- Ahmadinejad called in his conversation with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah for "closer coordination" between the countries to "create regional stability, especially in Lebanon", according to the Iranian press."

Ahmadinejad arrived to Beirut today
A quote...."Beirut, October 13, (Pal Telegraph) Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, arrived today to Beirut for an official visit that will last until Friday which will be the day for Prime minister Erdogan’s arrival to Beirut so both will get to meet in Beirtu."

Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Pipelineistan's New Silk Road
Must Read - A quote...."Future historians may well agree that the twenty-first century Silk Road first opened for business on December 14, 2009.  That was the day a crucial stretch of pipeline officially went into operation linking the fabulously energy-rich state of Turkmenistan (via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) to Xinjiang Province in China’s far west. Hyperbole did not deter the spectacularly named Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan’s president, from bragging, “This project has not only commercial or economic value. It is also political. China, through its wise and farsighted policy, has become one of the key guarantors of global security.” -- The bottom line is that, by 2013, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong will be cruising to ever more dizzying economic heights courtesy of natural gas supplied by the 1,833-kilometer-long Central Asia Pipeline, then projected to be operating at full capacity." - also posted at Lew Rockwell

US airbase threatened in Kyrgyzstan as Russian-backed parties poised to take power
A quote...."Political parties backed by Russia and Kazakhstan are poised to take power in Kyrgyzstan, threatening closure for a strategic US airbase for the war in Afghanistan. -- The staunchly nationalist Ata-Zhurt party had taken a clear lead by Monday afternoon in what international observers from the OSCE called a "vibrant" election which "reflected the will of the people of the Kyrgyz Republic". -- Ata-Zhurt has made closing the Manas Transit Centre, a key US presence in the mountain republic of 5.5m people, a central part of its political programme. The previous government had vowed to keep it open. "

Canada: Airline Dispute Causes Eviction From Arab Air Base
A quote...."A dispute over airline landing rights has led to Canada’s eviction from an air base in the United Arab Emirates  that is an important logistical hub for its military mission in Afghanistan, the Canadian defense minister, Peter MacKay, said Monday."

Lebanese army arrests nine suspected of spying for Israel
A quote...."Beirut: The Lebanese army arrested nine people it said have spied for Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad. -- "The Intelligence Directorate was able to uncover and arrest during the last two months nine agents whose dealings with the Israeli Mossad were confirmed," the army said in a statement on its website. "Investigations with four of these agents were completed and they were referred to the relevant judicial authorities."
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French strikes: 3.5 million take to streets to protest pension reform
Special Note - A quote...."More than three million people took to the streets of France in protest at pension reforms, with distant echoes of May 1968 as students and schoolchildren swelled numbers to record highs."

Mass protests shake French government
A quote...."Over three million workers participated in a strike yesterday against the pension cuts of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, with workers in several industrial sectors voting to extend strike action."

France faces open-ended strikes
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."French workers are staging their fourth major strike in just over a month against government plans to raise the retirement age, in what is becoming a showdown between workers and Nicolas Sarkozy, the president. -- Rail, sea port and flight workers went on strike across the country on Tuesday, while the Paris metro was slowed significantly. -- Walkouts were also expected at hundreds of high schools, with teachers and students taking part in the action."

French protest over pension reform
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Paris to protest against the French government's pension reform. The country's upper house has approved to extend the full-pension retirement age, from 65 to 67."
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Tantrums and Sheeshas -- Who will care when Israel self-destructs?
Must Read - A quote...."October 11, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- After  the collapse of the faux Middle East peace talks Israel’s growing isolation in the world is not entirely unexpected. A side-effect is that America has discovered that it cannot force the rest of the international community to embrace the Frankenstein monster it has nurtured. With the exception of Egypt, and in the absence of financial or military inducements given to the Pharaoh Hosni Mubarak, few self-respecting states are willing to embrace the Zionist brat. In any case, no one takes much notice of Egypt these days, where Mubarak is preparing to crown his son as his successor. His slavish support for Israel prompted by copious amounts of US aid has lost him trust, credibility, respect and international standing. Even the Americans are beginning to realise that their Cairo rent boy is of little value these days."

Veteran reporter blasts US over Israel
A quote...."Former White House veteran reporter has criticized the United States for not allowing people to talk about Israeli policies against the Palestinian people."
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What a Waste!
10-12-10
mpg

Vanunu: Israel still vengeful to me
Vengeful, biting, back-stabbing, little Orcs.  The world's brand new Mini-Nazis.  Just keep in mind folks when you listen or watch this nation's mass-info-tainment media, that there are just five million Jews living in the state of Israel. Just five million!

They (through their proxies in this country) helped formulate the PNAC Protocols and than, as was explicitly and clearly laid out in those Protocols, in cahoots with the Saudi Royals along with traitorous elements within this country, helped facilitate the event called 9/11. TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS have now been spent on this little scheme to "ensure" Israel's "right" to wipe another people off the map. TRILLIONS more are to be spent in the future.  The entire US Banking system was rigged to support these plans for a "Long War", of "Full Spectrum Dominance" across the "Arch of Instability" (deliberately instigated) and steps taken to ensure that the rest of the world would pay for it.

Many folks out there will lose, if they haven't already, their homes, their jobs, their families, their fortunes  and their self-respect.  Is ANY of this really worth it? If people out there in this country STILL answer yes, they will be on their own during this coming Depression.  One would hope they don't start WHINING about how poor they are, how the "Gub'mint' cut off their Social Security, their Medicare, their food stamps and their VA benefits, how they got thrown out of their houses, or how their sons and daughters came back maimed and scared for life...or didn't come back at all.

The US-NRE has broken its treaty commitments to the Nuremberg convention, the Geneva conventions, the NPT treaty, the ABM treaty and its own Constitution. It has deliberately devalued the dollar, run up massive government deficits and knowingly sold trillions of worthless synthetic debt instruments to the rest of the world.  It has lied repeatedly for ten years, in front of the entire international community and even in the UN.  It has repeatedly committed war crimes, torture and mass murder. Its word is now worthless -- no agreement, bond, surety, oath, or promise ever made by it or by those who represent it, can ever be trusted again.  And ALL of this was done in an effort to support a minuscule, tiny, vicious, apartheid, genocidal, colonial, homicidal state.

One would hope those in this country who did not, and do not, support these policies would be disciplined enough to turn their collective backs on those who do, those morons who live here who are so stupid, so mentally deranged and so utterly immoral, that they would empty their own pockets, endanger their own childrens' future and help commit mass murder just because someone told them to do so on behalf of another people living in another far flung land.

What a WASTE!!  What a TRAGEDY!!  What utter and complete STUPIDITY!! -- mpg
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Turkey will not attend OECD conference, minister says
A quote...."Turkey will not send any delegation to a biannual tourism conference in Israel later this month, the country’s culture minister said Tuesday, marking the first boycott of Israel on a multilateral level since a deadly raid on a Turkish aid ship in May."

CAF: Harper government’s policies [mostly regarding Israel] lead to loss of UN Security Council seat
A quote...."“The Harper government must take full responsibility for Canada losing the race for a UN Security Council seat. This is as a result of the misguided positions taken by the Harper government domestically and within such key international bodies as the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council that undermine human rights, environmental rights and global principles,” said Khaled Mouammar, CAF National President." - also posted at AlethoNews

Bahrain-based Saudi-financed "Islamic" bank Arcapita doing rich business with Israel military
A quote...."This blog reported on 9 October that American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) Board Member Marwan M. Atalla and his investment firm NEST U.S.A. Inc. are shareholders in Cirrus Design Corporation, an aircraft manufacturing firm which does millions in business with Israeli military contractors closely tied to the Israeli military establishment. (See "Board member of Ziad Asali's ATFP does millions in business with Israeli military firm")" - also posted at AlethoNews
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Eight Year Old Child Kidnapped By Israeli Soldiers
A quote...."On Tuesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded Silwan town in occupied East Jerusalem, broke into the house of Mofeed Mansour and kidnapped his eight year old child." - also posted at Uruknet

Israeli troops accused of shooting children in Gaza
A quote...."At least 10 Palestinian children have been shot and wounded by Israeli troops in the past three months while collecting rubble in or near the "buffer zone" created by Israel along the Gaza border, in a low-intensity offensive on the fringes of the blockaded Palestinian territory. -- Israeli soldiers are routinely shooting at Gazans well beyond the unmarked boundary of the official 300 metre-wide no-go area, rights groups say." - also posted at Uruknet

Arbitrary Arrests Continue in the West Bank and Detainees Held under Severe Condition and Subjected to Torture and Ill-Treatment - A quote...."The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns campaigns of arbitrary arrests waged by Palestinian security services against members and supporters of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and subjecting the detainees to cruel treatment, in violation of the law. PCHR points out that, in spite of releasing a number of detainees recently, Palestinian security services have continued to wage arrest campaigns targeting dozens of members and supporters of Hamas, and have continued to detain hundreds of others for several months. Dozens of persons have been also summoned by security services." - also posted at Uruknet

A tour of the maze of Israeli (in)justice
Contains Video - Alt - A quote...."The international activists that were arrested at the demo on Saturday witnessed a 25 years old Palestinian, with mental problems, while he was extorted the confession that he was throwing stones. However he had been arrested at the very beginning of the demonstration when no one was throwing stones yet. -- The other three Palestinians, all minors, were treated very violently: they had plastic restraints so tightly around their wrists that their hands were swollen. They were blindfolded and forced to kneel down and one of the younger ones was violently pushed with his head against the wall."

Corrie family appeals decision allowing soldiers to testify behind screen
A quote...."Lawyers for the family of Rachel Corrie filed an appeal with the Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday, challenging a decision to allow soldiers to testify behind a screen in the lawsuit filed against the State of Israel for the unlawful killing of the American peace activist in Rafah, Gaza."
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Keiser Report №85: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
Must View MKVideo - Alt - (MKRTYuTb - 26min 35sec - October 12, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday - Producer: MaxKeiser -- A quote...."This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at rich people buying gold and the rest of the world decoupling from the United States. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Barry Ritholtz about foreclosure-gate, corporations versus the people and his panoramic view of the bailed out banks of New York."

Gold Surges After Japan Says It Is Considering New QE And Geithner Guarantees Currency Wars
A quote..."A quick look at gold price action demonstrates that someone somewhere is actively debasing currencies. An even quicker scan of headlines confirms this to be the case: per Reuters "Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said on Wednesday the central bank will consider expanding a new scheme for buying assets ranging from government bonds to exchange-traded funds when deemed necessary." Harakiri Shirakawa continued: "We have taken a very bold measure ... If the need arises in the future, making further use of the new fund as part of monetary policy is one of our strongest policy options." Judging by the chart below, either gold has a tent in its pocket or was really happy to hear this announcement."

Wall Street Pay: A Record $144 Billion -- Haaaaaa!  Haaaaaaaa!  Haaaaaaaa!  Americans are so STUPID!
Special Note - A quote...."Wall Street Pay: A Record $144 Billion  11 Oct 2010 Pay on Wall Street is on pace to break a record high for a second consecutive year, according to a study conducted by The Wall Street Journal. About three dozen of the top publicly held securities and investment-services firms--which include banks, investment banks, hedge funds, money-management firms and securities exchanges--are set to pay $144 billion in compensation and benefits this year, a 4% increase from the $139 billion paid out in 2009, according to the survey." - Topix || Having Fun with Your Tax Dollars ||

"At the Root of the Crisis We Find the Largest Financial Swindle in World History", Where "Counterfeit" Mortgages Were "Laundered" by the Banks -- Special Note - A quote...."The tidal wave of evidence showing that the giant banks have engaged in fraudulent foreclosure practices is so large that the attorneys general of up to 40 states are launching investigations. -- People's homes are being taken when they didn't even hold a mortgage, and the big banks have been using "robo signers" to forge mortgage related documents. Indeed, even president Obama has been hit by robo signers (see this and this). -- Its so blatant that foreclosure mills have published price lists for forging documents, including such gems as...."

What Is MERS and What Role Does It Have in the Foreclosure Mess?
A quote...."You've heard the name "MERS" mentioned in relation to the foreclosure problems in the residential real estate market. -- But what is MERS? -- It is the company created and owned by all of the big banks to process title to property in the U.S. Approximately 60% of the nation’s residential mortgages are recorded in the name of MERS. -- MERS is a shell corporation with no employees, but thousands of officers. -- As the treasurer and secretary of MERS admitted - PDF in a deposition:"

S&P Chimes In On Foreclosure Fraud, Expects 6-8% Home Price Decline Through November 2011
A quote...."S&P finally chimes in on fraudclosure, and in combination with other recent weak data out of the home segment, now sees an additional 6-8% decline in prices through November 2011. "U.S. home sales and home prices aren't likely to improve as we move into the seasonally sluggish fall and winter months. Although the latest pending home sales, reported last week, showed a modest increase, generally slowing new and existing home sales in recent months, combined with declining mortgage purchase applications after the government's temporary tax credit for homebuyers expired at the end of April, lead us to expect the housing inventory to grow and home prices to fall in the months ahead."

Here Is Your Chance To Check If You Are The Victim Of Mortgage Fraud
A quote...."Wondering if you are one of those suckers paying a mortgage in limbo, with all the payments due to some non-existent mortgage noteholder getting retained at the servicer banks? Well, if you can spare 3 minutes then "Where's the Note" is for you. The website, which is on the verge of a viral break out, has a simple message: "Whether you are facing foreclosure, have an underwater mortgage, or are just a concerned homeowner, it’s important that you contact your bank and demand to see the original note on your mortgage."

Is America In Decline? 24 Statistics About The United States Economy That Are Almost Too Embarrassing To Admit - Must Read - A quote...."Does anyone really want to hear that America is in decline?  For decades, most of us have been raised to believe that the United States is "number one" and that anyone who doubts that fact is a "gloom and doomer" that should just pack up and move to "Russia" or "Iraq" or some other country where things are not nearly as good.  But does it do us or future generations any good to ignore the very serious signs of trouble that are erupting all around us?  The truth is that it is about time to wake up and admit how much trouble we are actually in.  The U.S. government is absolutely drowning in debt.  The entire society is absolutely drowning in debt.  We are being slaughtered in the arena of world trade, and every single month tens of billions of dollars (along with large numbers of factories and jobs) leave our shores for good. "

10 Reasons Why Ordinary Hard-Working Americans Are About To Really Start Feeling The Squeeze
Special Note - A quote...."American families better get ready to tighten their belts again.  There is every indication that we are all going to really start feeling the squeeze in the months ahead.  The price of gas is starting to spike again.  The price of food is moving north.  Health insurance premium increases are being announced coast to coast and a whole slate of tax increases is scheduled to go into effect in 2011.  Meanwhile, household incomes are down substantially all over the nation and the U.S. government is indicating that there will not be an increase in Social Security benefits for the upcoming year once again.  So if the cost of most of the basic things in our monthly budgets is going up and our incomes are going down what does that mean?  It means that average American families are about to be squeezed like nothing we have seen in decades." - also posted at PrisonPlanet & BLN

US Cities Face Half a Trillion Dollars of Pension Deficits
A quote...."Big US cities could be squeezed by unfunded public pensions as they and counties face a $574 billion funding gap, a study to be released on Tuesday shows. -- The gap at the municipal level would be in addition to $3,000 billion in unfunded liabilities already estimated for state-run pensions, according to research from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the University of Rochester. - bold by website editor

Government Prepares To Seize Private Pensions
A quote...."The government is preparing to seize the private 401(k) pensions of millions of Americans while enforcing an additional 5 per cent payroll tax as part of a new bailout program that will empower the Social Security Administration to redistribute pension funds in a frightening example of big government gone wild."

Britain, the jobless capital of Europe where one in eight adults live in house where no one works
A quote...."Britain was last night exposed as the jobless capital of Europe, with one in eight adults living in a house where no one is in work. -- As the Government prepares a clampdown on benefits scroungers, a league table revealed that a greater proportion of people in the UK are in jobless households than in any other European country."

Monday October 11th 2010

Why the U.S. has Launched a New Financial World War -- And How the the Rest of the World Will Fight Back -- Must Read - Quote of the Day...."Finance is the new form of warfare – without the expense of a military overhead and an occupation against unwilling hosts. It is a competition in credit creation to buy foreign resources, real estate, public and privatized infrastructure, bonds and corporate stock ownership. Who needs an army when you can obtain the usual objective (monetary wealth and asset appropriation) simply by financial means? All that is required is for central banks to accept dollar credit of depreciating international value in payment for local assets. Victory promises to go to whatever economy’s banking system can create the most credit, using an army of computer keyboards to appropriate the world’s resources. The key is to persuade foreign central banks to accept this electronic credit." - also posted at AlethoNews

Currency Rift With China Exposes Shifting Clout
Special Note - A quote...."We have come to the end of a model where seven advanced economies can make decisions for the world without the emerging countries,” said one European official involved in the weekend talks."

420 banks demand 1-world currency
Are they KIDDING!?!?!  The EU's currency union was viciously attacked by a Bankster cabal in the US-NRE less than five months ago, probably under the direction of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and now some foreign Banksters think they can put the tooth paste back in the tube and play nice.  The EU is still BARELY holding its currency union together, there is no way anyone can form a one world currency.  How would they structure it? How would they include the US-NRE's massive and increasing debt that it's incurring because of its ongoing PNACing attempt at a Neo-Roman Empire?  What....the rest of the world should pay for the Neocon's Empire Fling? Is that the idea? The voters in the EU won't stand for it, nor will the peoples in the rest of the world! There is no way this is EVER gonna happen!  The US-NRE made this mess, along with Israel, and it's gonna have to clean it up itself! - mpg - also posted at BLN

IMF fails to strike deal over currency frictions
Special Note - A quote...."The International Monetary Fund on Saturday night failed to reach agreement on tackling mounting global "frictions" over exchange rate policies despite US calls to deal with the issue more forcefully." - also posted at BLN

Guest Post: Bank Shot
Satire - A quote...."The banking authorities were shocked - shocked - to discover last week that an awful lot of mortgage paper in this country is not quite in order... appears to contain, er, irregularities... seems less than kosher... frankly, exudes an odor like unto dead carp or, shall we say, a heap of dead carp the size of the building at 3900 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Any day now we will hear that... mistakes... were... made."

Foreclose This: There’s More Than Robo Signatures To Blame For The Ongoing Foreclosure Scandal
A quote...."The other day, during an interview on Al Jazeera, I was asked if I was frustrated because my warnings and worries about the financial meltdown and foreclosure crisis, first aired in 2006, have been ignored so long.  ---  Duh!

US Drops From First To Seventh In Average Wealth Per Adult, Behind Singapore, Sweden, And... France
Chart - Gawd Dang!!  The FROGS beat us!  Guess those Neo-Roman Empires can get really expensive....ain't that right folks?  Saying "we're number seven" ain't near so much fun as saying "we're number one" (which we weren't anyway, but who's counting anymore?) - mpg-- A quote...."As if we needed more warnings that the US is rapidly losing its position as the world's superpower and wealth aggregator, is the following chart from Credit Suisse, which ranks the top 10 countries in the world in terms of average wealth per adult. While the US was #1 10 years ago, due to an abysmal growth rate of only 23%, by far the lowest of all the ranked countries, the US has now dropped from first to seventh...."

The Fed's Magic Money-Printing Machine, Act 2
Special Note - A quote...."It’s amazing, given the attention the Tea Party allegedly is paying to government waste and government spending, that there hasn’t been more controversy about the now-seemingly-inevitable arrival of “QE2” – a second massive round of money-printing cooked up by the Fed to prop up both the government and certain sectors of the economy. A more overtly anticapitalist and oligarchical pattern of behavior than the Fed’s “Quantitative Easing” program could not possibly be imagined, but the country is strangely silent on the issue. " - also posted at BLN

With QE2 "Sealed", Next Rate Hike Won't Come Until 2015 Says Goldman
A quote...."Jan Hatzius pretty much slams the door on any possibility for a liquidity moderation (let alone exit): "We found that under our own economic forecasts it might take until 2015 or longer before a rate hike became appropriate." In other words, the US economy will very likely just go down in flames, as the Fed makes sure that each and every American is infinitely "rich" courtesy of zero cost debt denominated in worthless dollars. The only salvation from this outcome is for the rest of the world to stage a Fed intervention before it all burns down. Of course by that point, the next reserve currency will be in tow, and few if any will care what happens to that particular former superpower. And just the message is heard loud and clear, Hatzius says that even with a QE of over $100 billion (but under $150 billion) monthly will hardly proceed to rescue the economy: "Even after the next 6-9 months, we still see still plenty of headwinds that will keep the growth pace slow by historical US recovery standards."

Van Hoisington On Why QE2 Will Be Either A Small Or Massive Failure
A quote...."In his latest letter Van Hoisington cuts through the bullshit and asks the number one question (rhetorically): why are bank excess reserves (aka the ugly, liability side of Quantitative Easing) still so high. He answers: "Either the banks: 1) are not in a position to put additional capital at risk because their balance sheets are shaky; 2) are continuing to experience large write-downs on commercial and residential mortgages, as well as on a wide variety of other loans; or 3) customers may not have the balance sheet capacity or the need to take on additional debt. They could also see no expansionary prospects, or fear an uncertain regulatory future. In other words, no viable outlets exist for banks to loan funds." Which leads him to conclude quite simply that while risk assets may hit all time highs courtesy of free liquidity, the economy, also known as the middle class, will be stuck exactly where it was before QE2... and QE1."

The Average American Has a Sub-Average Quality of Life... and a Sub-SUB View of Politicians
A quote...."Let’s take a slice of the adult American population, say, 100 people, and put them in a room. --  Of these 100, nearly three quarters (73) complain of financial stress. In fact, of the ones who are divorced, 80% cited financial difficulties as the reason they split from their spouse. --  It’s not surprising to hear this, the official numbers tell us that roughly 9-10 of the 100 people we selected are unemployed. Of course, those are the “official” numbers. If you actually bother asking these 100 people to their faces if they’ve got work, you’d find 16-17 of them are unemployed, but the 6-7 extra to the official 10 listed as out of work are not counted by the Government because they’ve given up looking for employment."

The Wealthy are Bursting from their Financial Seams: The Struggle for a Workers' Recovery
A quote...."Stocks are booming; the Dow Jones soared past 11,000; the very wealthy are bursting from their financial seams. Meanwhile, mass unemployment continues, with 95,000 more jobs -- mostly teachers -- lost in September. -- As millions of Americans sink into desperation, President Obama continues to preach the good word of optimism, based on the gospel of "private sector job growth."

Obama's NSA Pick Has Fannie Mae, Goldman Sachs Past
So now what?  The NSA will track us down for our bad credit card debt?  Or is Goldman Sachs gonna be privy to all those foreign bank transactions and be allowed to listen in to all their telephone conversations? - mpg -- A quote...."President Obama's new National Security Advisor spent the decade prior to joining the White House as a legal advisor to powerful interests including Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, and as a lobbyist for Fannie Mae, where he oversaw the mortgage giant's aggressive campaign to undermine the credibility of a probe into its accounting irregularities, according to government reports and public disclosure forms." - also posted at BLN

Pay Garnishments Rise as Debtors Fall Behind
A quote...."PHOENIX — When the bank sued Leann Weaver for not paying her credit card balance, her reaction was typical for someone in that situation. Personal and financial setbacks weighed her down, and she knew she owed the $2,470. So she never went to court to defend herself."

US healthcare 'to blame' for poor life expectancy rates
A quote...."The study  notes that in 1950, the US ranked fifth among leading industrialised nations for female life expectancy at birth, but only 46th in 2008." - bold by website editor - also posted at ICH

For more on the articles shown above see....So What? - 05-12-10 - mpg
& The First Salvos of the Currency Wars - 05-07-10 - mpg
& Let's Just Call It QE2 - 04-01-10 - mpg
& Empire Typology and Economic Stellar Evolution - 01-20-10
& The Problem is Not the Economy, It's the Politicians - 11-20-09 - mpg
& Currency Spheres - 10-29-09 - mpg
& The Virtual Economy - 05-01-09 - mpg

Sunday October 10th 2010

No posts. - mpg

Saturday October 9th 2010

The US Economy is Faltering. An Inflationary Depression is in Progress
Must Read - A quote...."In spite of the disinformation, misdirection and outright propaganda the economy is faltering without the addition of stimulus and quantitative easing. The benefits of inventory accumulation over the past 17 months, which accounted for 60% of the strength in the economy is at an end. We either get more stimulus either governmental or from the privately owned Fed or growth is going to continue to drop. We are looking at indexes that for the most part are at or near their lows. We see short reactive rallies but certainly nothing that leaves us to believe that any kind of a recovery is at hand. The longer we have to wait for Congress and the Fed to act, the more difficult it will be to regain upside momentum. It could be the plan is to simply go sideways for the next two years. The problem with that is that it will cost $5 trillion to accomplish. Production is starting to fall with the exception of a temporary increase in automotive manufacturing. Inventory build is retracting and both the absence of further build, and production should herald a 2-year low by yearend." - also posted at DProgram & Hamsayeh

Three Horrifying Facts About the US Debt “Situation”
Must Read - Charts - Some quotes...."

1. The US Fed is now the second largest owner of US Treasuries.
2. “There are only about $550 billion of Treasuries outstanding with a remaining maturity of greater than 10 years.”
3. The US will Default on its Debt

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Eurasia Re-Drawn, Plans by the US-NRE
10-09-10
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Al-Qaeda or Al-Tricko? ‘US cries wolf to rev up world for dominance war’
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 6min 21sec - October 08, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."European intelligence officials and senior Pakistan diplomats have accused the U.S. of crying wolf after it issued a terror alert for Europe earlier this week. The UK's Guardian newspaper goes on to allege the actual purpose of the alert was to justify a recent increase in drone attacks inside Pakistan. American-German historian F. William Engdahl, says the timing of the terror alerts has led to a questioniong of U.S. motives..."

Editor's special note:  William Engdahl makes a very good point when he suggests the CIA is going to use the tens of billions of dollars generated each year from Afghanistan's now burgeoning heroin trade, (keep in mind, the Taliban had eradicated the heroin trade before they were overthrown) to fund various destabilization efforts throughout the old Soviet Union's former "Stans".  probably by backing new versions of the CIA's and Saudi Royal's al-Qaeda elements. 

The best way to think about the US-NRE in Eurasia is that it acts just like colony of flesh-eating bacteria, it will slowly dissolve the nation-state structures and inter-tribal affiliations still left in Eurasia ("the arch of instability" -- their phrase) by supporting horrendous "pseudo-gang" violence throughout the region in favor of its new matrix, a series of Bantu-stan like territories, steeped in the Saudi-Royals state sponsored religion (Wahhabism), kept divided, confused and poverty stricken by the complete corruption of its leadership, and most likely set-up along ethnic lines, all run by the Empire's, soon to be established, colonial administration (no doubt manned by Israelis). -  mpg

For more on how the region might look after the US-NRE is done with it, see maps....The US-NRE's New Map of the Middle East & The US-NRE's New Map of Iraq

For more on this issue see also....One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg

For more on the issue of poppy production see...US Support / Drug Trade - Afghanistan - NEW WEBLIST!!
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Let's Call It What It Truly Is - Treason
10-09-10
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9/11 Report Is A Cover Up From Start To Finish! – Anthony Shaffer on Freedom Watch
FNVideo - Alt - (FNYuTb - 14min 51sec -  October 09, 2010) -- It should be noted that Faux-News is owned by none other than Rupert Murdoch, who as previously stated on this website is a life long, card carrying, Jewish supporter of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and a rabid, vicious, cheerleader for all the death and destruction that the Consortium has caused to millions of people around the world.

It is unclear to this website editor why this particular episode was allowed to air. Both Colonel Anthony Shaffer (Able Danger) and Michael Scheuer (CIA) took the line that much of the cover-up, carried out by every member of the 9/11 commission according to them, was done to hide "negligence" and "mistakes" committed by participants within the political establishment of this country.

Of course since these supposed 'errors in judgment' led directly to a long planned for "catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor" needed to further what are now known as the PNAC protocols, an event that just 'somehow' by a complete 'coincidence' enriched and furthered the geo-political desires of several economic groups in this nation, along with two foreign national states, interested parties that had financed and controlled the political careers and economic fortunes of the very participants charged with these 'errors in judgment' in the first place, and since it appears there is OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE of direct governmental complicity in 9/11 by the three nation states who benefited most from the consequences and fall-out of 9/11....Israel, the Saudi Royal family and elements within the US-NRE itself....it hardly seems likely that this cover-up by members of the 9/11 commission was designed solely to conceal 'errors in judgment'.

It would be much better if we call these 'errors in judgment'  the 9/11 commission members attempted to cover-up by their true name - treason - on behalf of one foreign country, one set of foreign "royals", and several interested economic groups within this nation, all by a bunch of craven, bought and paid for politicians, who were eager to "service" their needs. - mpg
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Former Senator Mike Gravel Spearheads California 9/11 Truth Commission Initiative
A quote...."Listen to the weekly Community Currency radio show on Progressive Radio Network 5- 6 pm (EST), Thursday, October 14, 2010 - to hear more about the California 9/11 Truth Commission Initiative with former Senator Mike Gravel  (U.S.Senator from Alaska 1969-1981), best known for his courageous effort to read the Pentagon Papers into the public record. (He is featured in the documentary- The Most Dangerous Man in America) Senator Mike Gravel's passion has been Direct Democracy, which allows people to make laws, rather than allowing "elected representatives" exclusive ability to make the laws. He has also taken brave stances and spoken out against secrecy in government." - also posted at DProgram

O'Neill Versus Osama
From the History File - Cached 9/12/2010 - A quote...."Most of the victims of the September 11 attack seemed tragically random -- they were just going to work. Not John O'Neill. Until last August, he'd been the FBI's top expert on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, a lead investigator of the USS Cole and African embassy bombings. Leaving the Bureau in frustration, he'd taken a job he thought of as retirement: World Trade Center security chief. But when he died it became clear: His own life contained as many mysteries as his enemy's."
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9/11 - From The History File...Clearing the Baffles for 911 - Alt

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The Politicization of Judaism
Must Read - A quote...."I agree that it would be wrong to draw conclusions about Israelis or Jews in general because of some Israeli policies and military actions — just as it would be wrong to judge any community by the actions of its worst representatives. But how do we deal with Judaism when almost all American Jewish organizations unconditionally support Israeli policies?" - also posted at Uruknet -- For more on this sort of issue see....Minority Control - 01-08-10 - mpg -- See also the quote and essay shown below....

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Maliki appeals to rivals to join hands
A quote...."Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has reached out to all rival parties to join in political talks to help the country out of its months-long political impasse."

The Karzai Family Fortune, Courtesy of U.S. Taxpayers
A quote...."The average Afghan — and, indeed, the average American — may be deriving very little benefit from the United States’ continued occupation of Afghanistan and the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars that continue to be poured into that country, but in both countries the well-connected make out quite handsomely. In Afghanistan, the key to prosperity and power, it seems, is having the surname of Karzai, as in President Hamid Karzai." - also posted at Uruknet

NATO Truck Massacre: More tankers torched in Pakistan
RTVideo - Alt - (RTYuTb - 41sec - October 09, 2010) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Gunmen armed with a rocket launcher torched 29 more NATO oil tankers in southwestern Pakistan before dawn Saturday. It's the latest attack on the supply line for international troops in Afghanistan since Pakistani authorities closed a key border crossing in Torkham after a NATO helicopter strike killed two Pakistani border guards. Since then, there have been several attacks on supply convoys, including two in which militants torched 70 fuel tankers and killed a driver. The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for such previous attacks."

FM Stresses US, Britain's Failure in Sowing Discord between Iran, PGCC
No matter how much they may actually distrust each other. - mpg -- A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki reiterated on Saturday that the US and Britain have failed in their plots to create rift and tension between Iran and members of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC)."

The ‘Times’ smooths the path to the next Lebanon war
Over a million dead in Iraq, along with tens of thousands killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan and they're not enough to satisfy the Old Gray Whore's Jewish owners blood-lust, just EXACTLY how much more blood do they want spilled, when is enough ENOUGH for them?!?!  What is WRONG with them! - mpg -- A quote...."Should another war break out between Israel and Lebanon, who would be at fault: the nation that actually commences bombing and invasion, backed by the full diplomatic and military support of the most powerful country in the world? Or the country that is bombed and invaded, along with its quasi-ally that provides a small fraction of such assistance?" - also posted at Uruknet

Yemen: The Covert Apparatus of the American Empire
A quote...."In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of his least known and ultimately one of his most important speeches ever, “Beyond Vietnam,” in which he spoke out against the American war in Vietnam and against American empire in all its political, military and economic forms. In his speech, King endorsed the notion that America “was on the wrong side of a world revolution.” Dr. King explained:"


"This is the nature of war of today: during King’s time, the pretext for war was to stop the spread of Communism; today, it’s done in the name of stopping the spread of terrorism."

GAWD DANG, the Berlin wall came tumbling down around Nov. of 1989, ending the threat of communism, along with any reason for the US-NRE's Military Industrial Complex's continued existence or any excuse for the US-NRE to intervene anywhere overseas....ever again.  Then, like manna from the Gods of War, 9/11 'happened', a little more then ten years after the Berlin wall came down (ten year cycle anyone?) enabling the US-NRE to go forth on another "Crusade" (Bush), "The Long War" (Rumsfeld) and attempt to establish "The New American Century" (PNAC) against the brand new forces of Islamic Darkness™, or as some would like to say, Islamo-Fascism™.  Ensuring endless wars, endless occupations and of course, correspondingly endless profits for this nation's reinvigorated and now newly revived Military Industrial Complex for as far as the eye could see.  Golly gee weepers, when will all these oh-so-wonderful "coincidences" ever end?  Ain't life just grand folks? - mpg
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More on the USNRE-AIPAC/Israeli Attempted Coup in Ecuador ....

Ecuador: What Really Happened
Must Read - October 7, 2010 -- A quote...."Official recordings later revealed that during those tense and dangerous moments, police officers called out to “kill him” on their radios. “Kill the President”, “Kill Correa”, “He won’t get out alive today”, ordered the higher-ranking officers on the internal police patrol radios. -- “Kill them all, open fire, shoot them, ambush them, but don’t let that bastard leave”, said police over the radios, referring to the President and the team of ministers and secret service that accompanied him. “Kill that ‘s.o.b’ Correa”, they shouted, with clear intention to assassinate the head of state." -- For more on Hillary's penchant for wanting people murdered, including heads of state (which really isn't a good idea if you think about it) see....US Support Death Squads - Hideous Hillary's Happy Honduran Hit Squads

The Ecuadorian Coup: Its Larger Meaning
Must Read - A quote...."The facts on the ground all point to a violent attempt by the police and sectors of the military to seize power and depose the president – by any definition a coup. And so it was immediately understood by all Latin American governments, from right to left, some of whom immediately closed their frontiers and threatened to break relations if the coup leaders succeeded. The only exception was Washington – whose first response was not to join in the condemnation but to wait and see what would be the outcome or as presidential spokesperson Philip Crowley announced “we are monitoring events”, referring to the uprising as a “protest” challenging the government. When Washington realized that the coup was actively opposed by the Ecuadorian public, all the Latin American governments, the bulk of the armed forces and doomed to failure, Secretary of State Clinton called Correa to announce US “backing” for his government, referring to the coup as merely an “interruption of the democratic order”. - also posted at AlethoNews -- Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, and all the other pieces of stinking detritus residing in that slime encrusted, filthy, festering, rotting, cess-pit called Washington DC, are unrepentant, AIPAC/Israeli butt-kissing, bona-fied, hell-ward-bound, lying sacks of human excrement. - mpg.

For more on the two articles shown above see....US Sponsored Civil Wars - Ecuador - Updated!!
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

The War On Hamas and My Bag
Special Note - A quote...."It was on Saturday 27 December 2008 when the earth split in the tiny Gaza Strip and we fell in the heart of hell. The barbarity was coming from the sky. -- The then Israeli Foreign Minister Tzivi Livni went to Cairo two days before to illustrate to President Mubarak her plan to eradicate Hamas from the Gaza Strip and to make a new Gaza. Something easy, like to eradicate a thorny plant from the Gaza sand after an abundant rain. -- In Shifa hospital amidst the scores of victims, at the very beginning of the Israeli aggression code-named Cast Lead, the first one I recognized was my friend Mahmud."

Four Palestinians and four international activists arrested in Beit Ummar.,
A quote...."Israeli brutal repression of any form of peaceful dissent continues: four young Palestinians and four international peace activists were arrested during a demonstration in Beit Ummar. -- The regular weekly demonstration in the town of Beit Ummar near Hebron against the Israeli occupation, and against the theft of its land by the illegal Israeli settlement of Karmei Tzur quickly ended up in an explosion of violence."

Zionist settlers [vandals] damage olive trees using chemicals - God, they are such a spiteful, nasty, little people!
A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Zionist settlers destroyed tens of fruitful olive trees in Al-Mughir town, northeast of Ramallah, on Friday after spraying them with a chemical material. - Local sources said that the settlers spoiled 55 olive trees using a white chemical material unknown to locals, adding that the material dries the trees and slowly kills them. - They noted that farmers could not reach the area, which is adjacent to a Zionist settlement, fearing attacks by those settlers." - also posted at Uruknet - For more on this issue see....Israel's Scorched Earth - Updated!!

Settlers [home invaders] move furniture out of Jerusalem home
A quote...."JERUSALEM (Ma’an) – Israeli settlers ransacked the home of a Palestinian family in occupied East Jerusalem's Old City early Sunday tossing furniture into the street."

Deportation of Palestinians with Gaza ID continues - Israel has started it's program of ethnic cleansing.
A quote...."JERUSALEM: When 31-year-old Farid Sha'aban was driving with his friend near the Israeli city of Beer Sheva in late October 2008, he could not imagine how drastically his life was about to change."

Hamas censures Arab League dithering
A quote...."Ismail HaniyehThe Hamas movement has criticized the Arab League for giving the United States more time to tinker with its plans for the Middle East talks. -- On Friday, a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers held in Libya backed a Palestinian demand not to negotiate unless Israel extends a partial moratorium on settlement construction that expired two weeks ago." - Source:  PressTV

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (30 Sept – 06 Oct 2010)
Every single week of the year....mpg

• IOF willfully [killed] a Palestinian worker in occupied Jerusalem.  
• IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
• A Palestinian child was wounded.
• IOF continued to fire at Palestinian workers an farmers in border areas in the Gaza Strip.
• A worker was wounded.
• IOF conducted 18 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and a limited one into the Gaza Strip.  
• IOF arrested 6 Palestinian civilians, including a judge and a child.
• Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• Israeli troops stationed at military checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested at least two Palestinian civilians.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• Israeli began to build 350 housing units in a number of settlements in the West Bank.
• IOF delivered noticed ordering the demolition of a number of houses in Far'oun village, south of Tulkarm.
• Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in Beit Fajjar village, south of Bethlehem.

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Friday October 8th 2010

Unrelinquished Power, the Military Coup We Never Saw
Must Read - A quote...."When President Obama took office in January, 2009, it was expected he would do as he had promised, end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, wars he claimed were illegal and immoral, close the prison at Guantanamo, end the drone attacks on Pakistan and restore the constitutional rights lost under the Bush administration through the Patriot Acts and other ill advised legislation. -- A new investigation into 9/11, along with investigations of the manipulation of intelligence leading to the invasion of Iraq and the shameful torture and rendition programs and the massive financial crimes that crashed the American economy in 2007 was also expected.  In fact, one of the common discussions prior to the election was whether President Bush and Vice President Cheney would resign, seeking pardon’s from their successor, on the expectation that criminal proceedings would lead to their eventual arrest and imprisonment for war crimes or even treason. -- Two years later, President Obama is a virtual “ghost.”  Everything he promised to undo is the same or worse.  Even more surprising, the mainstream media says nothing about these promises being broken.  How long will we wait for the questions, “When will former Vice President Cheney be arrested,” or “Are there plans to control ‘death squads’ in Afghanistan or begin to curtail the massive heroin exports from that country?” - also posted at MyCatBirdsSeat

Leaked Letter Reveals Obama's Contempt For International Law
Must Read - A quote...."It has been an unsettling week watching Obama’s unholy alliance with Israel take the world a step nearer the edge of the abyss. -- First I read Mark Glenn’s scary piece, “Exodus of Jewish Advisors from Obama White House Likely Not an Omen of Good Things to Come”, in which he suggests the unexpected departure of Rahm Emmanuel, David Axelrod and Larry Summers from the top echelons of the White House might indicate that some sinister and possibly cataclysmic event is imminent. -- Then I saw reports in Haaretz and elsewhere about a leaked letter from Obama to Israeli prime minister Netanyahu, showering him with gifts if he, Netanyahu, would only save Obama’s political bacon and see him through next month’s primaries by extending Israel’s freeze on settlement building for just a few months."

A Long History of America's Dark Side - posted at ConsortiumNews
Must Read - A quote...."There is a dark -- seldom acknowledged -- thread that runs through U.S. military doctrine, dating back to the early days of the Republic. -- This military tradition has explicitly defended the selective use of terror, whether in suppressing Native American resistance on the frontiers in the 19th Century or in protecting U.S. interests abroad in the 20th Century or fighting the “war on terror” over the last decade." - also posted at Uruknet

Docs detail murder case against GOP House hopeful
A quote...."Last month we told you  about Iraq War vet Ilario Pantano, a Republican congressional hopeful who has a real shot at taking out incumbent Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-NC). In Iraq in 2004 Pantano shot two unarmed Iraqi prisoners, unloading up to 60 rounds, and then placed a sign next to their bodies with a Marine slogan, "No better friend, no worse enemy."

More terrorism fear-mongering exposed as frivolous
Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."What's most striking is how we collectively never learn lessons.  These are the same people who ran around screaming for two years that we had to attack Iraq or else Saddam would get us all with his mad chemical scientists (Dr. Anthrax and Mrs. Germ) and nuclear clouds, yet they are still listened to whenever they unleash their newest Scary Villains.  Fear is a potent weapon." - also posted at Uruknet

Opposition to the rule of law
A quote...."As part of the multi-tiered justice system  it created for War on Terror detainees -- whereby some are sent to real courts, some are placed before newly concocted military commissions, and others are just held indefinitely without any charges, all based on the unfettered discretion of the Government -- the Obama DOJ last June brought Ahmed Ghailani, accused of bombing two East African embassies in 1998, from Guantanamo to New York to stand trial in federal court.  Ghailani had been detained by the U.S. without any charges for the past six years, including two years in a secret CIA "black site" beyond the reach even of international human rights monitors."
For more on this issue see....9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables

What happened in Europe's secret CIA prisons?
A quote...."The CIA used a secret prison in Poland to detain and torture its most important 9/11 suspect, a former top human rights official alleges in a new BBC documentary."

George Galloway Returns To Canada
Contains Videos - Touchdown - Galloway - A quote...."Anti-war activist and former British MP George Galloway arrived in Canada to a throng of supporters waiting to greet him at the Toronto Pearson International Airport. Eighteen months ago, Galloway was refused entry and deemed a security threat." - Article Source:  CanadnChrgr
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As war enters tenth year, Afghan people rise against occupation
A quote...."On Oct. 8, the U.S.-led war and occupation of Afghanistan will enter its tenth year. Despite numerous attempts at spinning a justification for this war from both the Bush and the Obama administrations, there is no hiding the colonial nature of this enterprise." - also posted at Uruknet

US-led airstrike kills 6 in Afghanistan
A quote...."A US helicopter has claimed the lives of at least six members of Afghan security forces in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan, officials say."
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Iraq's Disappeared
A quote...."Each day before noon prayers, Sahera Ibrahim lights a candle at the Sunni shrine of Abu Hanifa in the Adhamiya district of east Baghdad to pray for the return of her son. -- Ibrahim is among thousands of Iraqis whose loved ones disappeared during the worst days of sectarian warfare between 2005 and 2007. Some were seen picked up by uniformed militias and piled into lorries, others simply seemed to vanish."

Iraq's Maliki expects to announce coalition by next week
A quote...."BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki said Friday his Shiite coalition is close to forming a government and could announce a new coalition by next week, ending the country's long-running political crisis."

Iraqis on edge as rocket attacks intensify
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Sunni and Shi'ite insurgents are reviving the tactic of firing rockets at Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, unsettling the Iraqi capital's residents and adding to a sense that security is eroding as U.S. troops withdraw."
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30 NATO tankers torched in Pakistan
BREAKING:  Sat Oct 9, 2010 2:57AM - A quote...."Unidentified gunmen in southwestern Pakistan have [again] attacked [another] 30 NATO tankers carrying fuel for US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan."

Pakistan's Convoy Halt Forces U.S. to Reduce Tensions
Special Note - A quote...."WASHINGTON, Oct 8, 2010 (IPS) - By continuing its halt in NATO convoys headed for Afghanistan through the Torkham border crossing into a second week, Pakistan's military leadership has brought an end to the unilateral attacks in Pakistan pushed by Gen. David Petraeus and forced Washington to make a new accommodation."
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Hizbullah makes preparations for Ahmadinejad visit
A quote...."BEIRUT: Hizbullah is finalizing preparations to receive Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is scheduled to visit Lebanon next week. -- The Central News Agency (CNA) reported on Friday that Hizbullah has boosted its arrangements in the Beirut southern suburbs and southern Lebanese villages which Ahmadinejad is expected to tour during his two-day visit set to start on Wednesday."

Hezbollah's message to Lebanon: Plant more trees
A quote...."A television station run by Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group has aired a rare spot showing the group's reclusive leader emerging from hiding to plant a tree."

Olive harvest kicks off in [Lebanon's] southern villages
A quote...."TYRE: In a land full of political, economical, and social division, there is one thing that Lebanese people live off of everyday and can fully appreciate, and that is the olive tree."
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FT: “Seoul finds new way to finance Iran trade”
A qutoe...."This past September, The Wall Street Journal Asia’s editorial board heralded the Japanese and South Korean enforcement of UN sanctions against Iran as “worth cheering” and a sign that South Korea was “growing up as a democracy.” -- But the news today that South Korea has appointed two state-run banks to finance trade with Iran, might make the WSJ editorial board rethink their premature exuberance over the effectiveness of the sanctions regime." - also posted at AlethoNews - Editor's note:  The WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a life long, card carrying, Jewish supporter of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and a rabid, vicious, cheerleader for all the death and destruction that the Consortium has caused to millions of people around the world. - mpg

Iran's Exports of Petrochemical Products (not raw crude) Tops $4 Billion
A quote...."October 08, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - Iran’s exports of petrochemical products reached $4 billion in the first six months of the Iranian calendar year starting March 21 each year."

2 Sanandaj attack terrorists killed
A quote...."Iranian security forces have killed two gunmen who opened fire on a police patrol in the western province of Kordestan on Thursday, leaving five people dead and nine injured."
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China, Turkey aim for $50 bln in trade
A quote...."China and Turkey have pledged to raise their trade to 50 billion dollars by 2015 from an expected 17 billion dollars this year."

Kyrgyzstan to double rent for Manas base
Only double?  They should have quintupled the rent, after all, it only means Bernanke would have to run the printing presses for a few minutes longer on that particular day. - mpg -- A quote...."A Kyrgyz politician says the incoming government would nearly double the rent for the Manas Air Force Base, a key logistical hub for Afghanistan."

The Bosnian Standoff - Empire's Fantasy and Balkans Reality
A quote...."Though some of the results of last week’s general elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina have potential to prove interesting down the road, overall the vote was neither unexpected nor dramatic. Twenty years after the first multi-party election, which saw the triumph of ethnic parties and set the scene for Bosnia’s subsequent civil war, nothing substantial has changed in Bosnian politics. Serbs remain opposed to a centralized government. Croats remain unhappy about their dwindling numbers and influence, but would rather perish than agree with the Serbs on anything. Meanwhile, Muslim leaders continue to insist on Izetbegovic the Elder’s dream of a centralized Bosnian state, dominated by Muslims. This particular form of deadlock may well be dubbed the "Bosnian standoff." The Empire and partisans of liberal interventionism may find it frustrating, but it is a fact nonetheless."

Postcard from...Takae
A quote...."In the jungles of northern Okinawa, protests against planned U.S. helipads reach a crisis point." - also posted at AlethoNews

Latin America’s Twenty-First Century Socialism in Historical Perspective
A quote...."Introduction: The electoral victory of center left regimes in at least three Latin American countries, and the search for a new ideological identity to justify their rule, led ideologues and the incumbent presidents to embrace the notion that they represent a new 21st century version of socialism (21cs)."

Cuba-Venezuela Submarine Cable will be Ready in July 2011
A quote...."Havana, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) The submarine optical fiber cable between Cuba, Venezuela and Jamaica will be ready in July 2011, said the Cuban Vice Minister of Computing and Communications, Alberto Rodríguez."

Russian destroyer escorts new commercial convoy off African coast
A quote...."The Russian destroyer RFS Admiral Levchenko started on Friday escorting a convoy of nine civilian ships through the pirate-infested waters off the Somali coast, a Russian Defense Ministry's spokesman said."
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More on the USNRE-AIPAC/Israeli Attempted Coup in Ecuador ....

Behind the Coup in Ecuador
Must Read - A quote...."October 08, 2010 -- The latest coup attempt against one of the countries in the Bolivarian Alliance For The People of Our America (ALBA) is attempt to impede Latin American integration and the advance of revolutionary democratic processes. The rightwing is on the attack in Latin America. Its success in 2009 in Honduras against the government of Manuel Zelaya energized it and gave it the strength and confidence to strike again against the people and revolutionary governments in Latin America." - check out the comments - also posted at AlethoNews

Ecuador Creates Front for Democracy
A quote...."Quito, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) Different social organizations, assembly members, authorities and public figures are forming a broad front to defend the democratic order in Ecuador, and plan to hold a march and a rally in Quito on October 15."
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A Window Into the Mind of a Scientific Dictator
Must Read - A quote...."...the biological, psychological, moral, and economic destruction of this majority of normal people is a “biological” necessity to the pathocrats..."  --  "Within the field of political science is a study called political ponerology, the study of evil applied to politics. Every time a society falls into the hands of a brutal dictator, nearly identical patterns can be observed. The scientific dictatorships of today and those that may come in the future will follow in the same vein. This is not by accident. Andrew M. Lobaczewski's ground breaking 1998 book entitled "Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes)", [GoglBkSrch]* discusses in depth the nature of psychopaths and their exploits when in positions of power." - *links added

Ron Paul: Fear is The Tool of The Thugs in Government – Alex Jones Tv
AJVideo - AJ&RP(1/2) - AJ&RP(2/2) - (AJYuTb - 15min - October 08, 2010) - Source:  AlexJonesTV -- A quote...."Alex welcomes back to the show physician, Republican Congressman for the 14th congressional district of Texas, and former presidential candidate, Ron Paul. He is the founder of the advocacy group Campaign for Liberty and his ideas have been expressed in numerous published articles and books, including End The Fed (2009), and The Revolution: A Manifesto (2008).  Paul serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Joint Economic Committee, and the Committee on Financial Services. Mr. Paul was honorary chair of, and is a current member of, the Republican Liberty Caucus."

Debunking the DOJ's Hit Piece, Part 2: Assault on The Constitution and Those Who Revere It
Special Note - A quote...."In Part 1 of this essay, I showed that the Department of Justice's glossary “Investigating Terrorism and Criminal Extremism: Terms and Concepts,” was nothing more than a hit-piece against the citizenry who are waking up to the lies of Big Government.  The first part debunked their assertion that the Patriot Movement is made up of “conspiracy theorists” who believe that CFR, the Trilateral Commission, and Bilderbergs are working against the American people.  This second of three parts debunks their attacks on the Constitution Party, as it represents a de facto attack on our Constitution: -- the very foundation of our country." - also posted at DProgram

Microsoft Proposes Government Licensing Internet Access! – Alex Jones Tv
Web Censorship Alert - AJVideo - Alt - (AJYuTb - 11min 26sec - October 07, 2010) - Source:  AlexJonesTV -- A quote...."A new proposal by a top Microsoft executive would open the door for government licensing to access the Internet, with authorities being empowered to block individual computers from connecting to the world wide web under the pretext of preventing malware attacks." - For more on this issue see....US - Atmpts 2 Cntrl Web
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Israel and Monty Python's Dead Parrot
Must Read - A quote...."How many of you remember Monty Python’s dead parrot sketch? It was a wonderful comedic routine that transcended nationality and culture. Timeless in its appeal, it is often cited in doomed or desperate situations when a bit of gallows humour is needed. -- I was reminded of it on the road to Damascus the other day as news filtered through that the Middle East peace talks had stalled and failed; well, I wonder who saw that one coming? Yes, Barack Obama’s peace initiative is even deader than the Norwegian Blue parrot “bought from this ‘ere emporium” by John Cleese. Just like the Monty Python pet-shop owner, played so brilliantly by Michael Palin (“It’s stunned; it’s pining for the fjords!”), Obama is in complete denial that the peace talks are a busted flush. Can he resurrect them, like Michael Palin tried to resurrect the extremely dead parrot? Can he do it? No, he can’t!"

High property taxes could force Palestinians out of Occupied Jerusalem
Must Read - This is how it's DONE folks....THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE. With money, with control of the entire financial system, with a choke-hold on the economy, through ownership of the banks, and finally by taxation!  This is how they take your business, your home, your life savings and leave you penniless standing beside the road.  It's their "method". - mpg -- A quote...."Currently 85 per cent of Palestinian residents are in debt and many believe these high taxes will be more effective than demolition of their homes in making them move."

Israeli security forces practice dealing with “riots following population exchange”, mass detentions of Israeli-Palestinians - Ethnic Cleansing Alert - Pending War Crime - A quote...."IBA Radio is reporting  that Israel’s security forces ended Thursday a large national drill, in which the civil defense forces, police, military police, fire department and Israel’s prisons unit trained for large scale riots in the Israeli-Arab public, following a signing of a peace agreement that would include “population exchange” (transfer of Arab population to the Palestinian state)." - bold by websit editor - also posted at Uruknet

New Side-by-Side Gaza Flotilla Timeline Report: Discredits Israeli Version of Events
Special Note - Timeline - [For report timeline click here] -- A quote...."Washington D.C., October 7, 2010:  A comprehensive report examining the minute-by-minute versions of the same events during the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla attack by Israel was released by two charity groups today. -- Contrasting passenger testimonies against official Israeli accounts side-by-side to each other, a complete picture can be seen as to exactly what transpired in the days and hours leading up to the incident as well as its aftermath." - also posted at DProgram

Gaza flotilla attack: calls for international criminal court to step in
Related Article - A quote...."The international criminal court is being urged to prosecute members of the Israeli defence force for the raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship. Turkish victims have formally requested an investigation, the Guardian has learned." - also posted at Uruknet

Gaza Olive harvest begins in the Beit Hanoun buffer zone while strawberry picker in Beit Lahiya is shot by Israeli Snipers -- A quote...."This tree is blessed for us and our grandfathers and ancestors have taken care of this tree for generations.  I grew up with an olive tree in our back yard and it represents the peaceful life we had always lived on these lands. Now our olive groves are bulldozed and farm workers are shot at so we are here in solidarity with farmers whose lives are made impossible by the Israeli siege and occupation.”

Jewish Settlers [Squaters] Torch Palestinian Cultivated Fields
A quote...."NABLUS, (PIC)-- Jewish setttlers [squaters] on Thursday afternoon set fire to large areas of Palestinian owned land in the village of Hawwara to the south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, according to local sources." - For more on the two articles shown above see....Israel's Scorched Earth

Report: “Two Palestinians Killed, Ten Wounded During Israeli Invasion In Hebron”
A quote...."Palestinian medical sources in the southern West Bank city of Hebron reported Friday morning that two Palestinians were killed and ten others were wounded after the army invaded the city, surrounded a house of a resistance fighter and fired mortars at it."

Israel's Persecution of Ameer Makhoul
A quote...."At any time, from 7,000 - 12,000 or more Palestinians are politically persecuted and imprisoned, including young children. The Addameer Prisoners' Support and Human Rights Association explains that for over 43 years under military occupation, over 650,000 Palestinians have been illegally detained for wanting freedom on their own land in their own country, what Israel won't tolerate, nor have its leaders ever wanted peace. Saying so is a lie." - also posted at Uruknet

The reality of Israel
A quote...."On Sunday, five Jewish settlers from the Gush Itzion settlement south of Bethlehem slipped into the nearby Palestinian village of Beit Fajjar under cover of darkness in order to torch the Masjid Al-Anbiyaa (Mosque of the Prophets). The blaze gutted much of the interior of the mosque, including the carpet, and consumed as many as 15 copies of the Quran . -- Before leaving the mosque, the attackers scrawled the words "revenge" and "price tag mosque", on the building in an act that was the fourth time in as many months that Israeli settlers had set Muslim places of worship on fire." - bold by website editor

Israeli soldiers to testify behind screen in Corrie Case
GAWD ALMIGHTY, weaklings and cowards one and all.  They can't even face the girl's family in a court of law!  Where in the heck do these so-called "soldiers" come from? - mpg -- A quote...."Haifa, Israel – The Haifa District Court on Thursday granted a government request to allow soldiers to testify behind a screen in the lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza."

Documentary Probes Death of a Peace Activist
Film Review - A quote...."NEW YORK, Oct 8, 2010 (IPS) - The 2003 death of young peace activist Rachel Corrie, crushed by an Israeli military bulldozer, inspired worldwide press coverage, demonstrations and debates – and eventually at least two plays and a number of songs." - also posted at Uruknet
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More Articles Regarding Foreclosure-Gate....

Boiler Rooms, Foreclosure Mills: The Story of America’s Mortgage Industry
Special Note - A quote...."Updated: 10/7/2010, 3:33 pm | The news about the nation’s foreclosure scandal has been coming fast and furious, driven by tales of backdated documents, false affidavits and “rocket dockets” that push families into the street. -- A former employee with one of the nation’s largest lenders testifies that he signed off on 400 foreclosure documents a day without reading them or verifying the information in them was correct." - also posted at ICH

There is Only One Way Out of the Foreclosure Crisis
Special Note - A quote...."We're the fish. [see photo] -- The giant "too big to fail" banks are the bird. They've got their talons in the American consumer and the economy. -- The only way out for us - the fish - is if someone "shoots" the bird ... or at least captures it and removes its talons from our hide. -- In other words: Unless the mega-banks are broken up and reined in, we're in quite a pickle."

Foreclosuregate and Obama's 'Pocket Veto'
A quote...."By most reports, it would appear that the voluntary suspension of foreclosures is underway to review simple, careless procedural errors. Errors which the conscientious banks are hastening to correct. Even Gretchen Morgenson in the New York Times characterizes the problem as “flawed paperwork.” -- But those errors go far deeper than mere sloppiness. They are concealing a massive fraud. -- They cannot be corrected with legitimate paperwork, and that was the reason the servicers had to hire “foreclosure mills” to fabricate the documents. -- These errors involve perjury and forgery -- fabricating documents that never existed and swearing to the accuracy of facts not known." - also posted at DProgram

US Banks Fake Documents to Rush Foreclosures
A quote...."Major US banks systematically faked documents in order to speed up foreclosures for hundreds of thousands of homeowners, a mounting body of evidence shows. It appears likely that federal and state laws were broken in the process."

BofA Freezes All U.S. Foreclosures to ‘Clear the Air’
A quote...."Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp., the biggest U.S. lender, extended a freeze on foreclosures to all 50 states as concern spread among federal and local officials that homes are being seized based on false data."

JPMorgan, Bank of America Face `Hydra' of Foreclosure Probes
A quote...."JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Ally Financial Inc., defending allegations of fraudulent home foreclosures from customers and Congress, may face the most financial peril from investigations by state attorneys general."

There Goes Wells Fargo: California AG Calls On Banks To Halt All Foreclosures In California
Full quote...."Sorry Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger: the lie was fun while it lasted. Suck it up.
BN  *CALIFORNIA AG CALLS ON BANKS TO HALT FORECLOSURES IN CALIFORNIA
and there's more:
BN  *AG BROWN SAYS IN TALKS WITH BOFA, ALLY, JPMORGAN, WELLS FARGO
and yes, it's now airborne:
BN  *NEW MEXICO AG CALLS FOR SUSPENSION OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE
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The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America
A quote...."October 08, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Not only is income and wealth in America more concentrated in fewer hands than it’s been in 80 years, but those hands are buying our democracy as never before – and they’re doing it behind closed doors." - also posted at OpEdNews

The Great Transformation - America's Third World Economy
A quote...."Time after time I reported that there was no sign of the “New Economy” jobs, but that the old economy jobs were disappearing. The only net new jobs were in lowly paid domestic services such as waitresses and bartenders, retail clerks, health care and social assistance (mainly ambulatory health care services), and, before the bubble burst, construction. - The facts, issued monthly by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, had no impact on the ”New Economy” propaganda. Economists continued to wax eloquently about how globalism was a boon for our future." - also posted at AlethoNews & GlobalRsrch & DProgram & ICH & OpEdNews

The Coming Middle-Class Anarchy
A great story and case study on the housing scam.  All this website editor can say is Empires are VERY expensive.  They become even MORE expensive when you use dollar printing, debt hiding, and massive, illegal, totally uncontrolled financialization to pay for your "Empire Fling".  Anyone who voted for Bush or Obama deserves what they get as far as this website editor is concerned.  EVERYONE KNEW BETTER!! - A quote..."True story: A retired couple I know, Brian and Ilsa, own a home in the Southwest. It’s a pretty house, right on the manicured golf course of their gated community (they’re crazy about golf). - The only problem is, they bought the house near the top of the market in 2005, and now find themselves underwater."

Bernanke's Declaration of Independence
Quote of the Day...." Ben Bernanke gave a grim speech on October 4. It did not get media attention. That was because it was so grim. -- It was on the looming fiscal crisis of the Federal government. There will be no easy way to avoid it, he said. Congress has to decide what spending to cut. This means that Congress must decide which special-interest groups to alienate. Then it must decide which taxes to raise. Whose ox will get gored? -- Congress has been deferring this two-part decision since the Nixon Administration."

Federal Reserve Officials: Americans Are Saving Too Much Money So We Need To Purposely Generate More Inflation To Get Them Spending Again - Well, they're FINALLY admitting it now....mpg -- A quote...."Some top Federal Reserve officials have come up with a really bizarre proposal for stimulating the U.S. economy.  As unbelievable as it sounds, what they actually propose to do is to purposely raise the rate of inflation so that Americans will stop saving so much money and will start spending wildly again.  The idea behind it is that if inflation rises a couple of percentage points, but consumers are only earning half a percent (or less) on their savings accounts, then there will be an incentive for consumers to spend that money as the value of it deteriorates sitting in the bank.  Yes, that is how bizarre things have gotten.  It is not as if U.S. consumers are even saving that much money.  Several decades ago, Americans typically saved between 8 and 12 percent of their incomes, but over this past decade the personal saving rate got down near zero a number of times as Americans were living far beyond their means.  Once the recession hit, Americans very wisely started saving more money, and so now the personal saving rate has been hovering around the 5 to 7 percent range.  This is well below historical levels, but the folks at the Fed apparently are eager for Americans to pull that money out and start spending it again."

Fed to print more Funny Money to ease the problems caused by having too many Dollars in circulation
Related Article - A quote...."I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said."  ---  "Former Fed Head Greenspan who helped blow up the housing and derivatives bubble that is pushing this nation into poverty - So what's Ben 'Shalom' Bernanke's solution to this crisis? - Print up more funny money and add to our woes by making toilet paper more valuable than than the USD."

Why Is Unemployment Rising?
Chart - A quote...."Today's unemployment numbers are bad. See this and this. -- Why is unemployment rising? Because the government is doing everything wrong. -- One definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. Unless the government substantially changes its approach, unemployment will keep rising."

Gold Climbs the Bull Market Wall of Worry
A quote...."Joblessness still dogs the economy, which needs 125,000 jobs monthly just to keep up with population growth. As we await September’s statistics we wonder if they’ll be as bad as August’s loss of 54,000 jobs?"


"This unfortunate situation has been going on for more than three years; 22 million Americans do not have jobs and some 10 million additional are forced to work part-time, some 34 hours a week." - also posted at Hamsayeh

Currency wars: Another phase in the capitalist breakdown
Special Note - A quote...."The semi-annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank which convenes in Washington today is marked by the most serious breakdown in global economic relations since the trade wars and competitive devaluations that characterised the Great Depression of the 1930s."

US Dollar vs. Yuan: Reasons Behind the Conflict
Special Note - A quote...."Debates between the US and China over the valuation of the yuan are currently gathering momentum. A new campaign of pressure on Beijing is initiated by the US Congress which proposed a bill authorizing the government to slap duties on China's imports based on the view that the yuan is grossly undervalued. The lower chamber approved the legislation." - also posted at Hamsayeh

Thursday October 7th 2010

What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – 10-7-10
Must Listen Video - Alt - (JustinTV - 2hrs - October 7 2010) - Source:  JustinTV -- Another fine Michael Rivero rap-up on the New Roman Empire's criminal conduct. - mpg

Who Are Their Prey ?
A quote...."Let us begin by asking ourselves, “Who owns the corporate-mainstream media?” --And of course, the answer is large, very large, corporations own the corporate media. --But, who owns the controlling stock of these large corporations, and controls their “news” and aired content? -- The answer is the foreign, privately owned International Monetary/Banking Cartel, that controls the money and credit of the world. Make sense?"

Rick Sanchez: Jews [The Jewish Community] Run[s] CNN & [Almost] All [the] Media
Article List - A great article list of the most recent incidents and punishments for those who refuse to toe the AIPAC/Israeli line. - mpg - also posted at DProgram

Pink Floyd Frontman Targeted By ADL For Criticizing Globalist Military Industrial Complex
Here's someone who wasn't on the list. - mpg -- A quote...."It is outrageous that Roger Waters has chosen to use the juxtaposition of a Jewish Star of David with the symbol of dollar signs.” an ADL statement issued by director Abraham Foxman last week read." - a.k.a. The truth hurts?  Waters touched a nerve?  The ADL is acting guilty? Take your pick folks. - mpg

Xymphora - Thursday, October, 7, 2010
A Xymphora daily round-up. - mpg

Barack Obama accused of exaggerating terror threat for political gain
Must Read - A quote...."A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida  plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information, senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials have told the Guardian." - also posted at ICH & SOTTnet

Our Brave New World
A quote...."Not sure if DPD is trying to make this sound like a dystopian novel, but at a briefing on the program held Monday, the coppers sure had some fantastic iWatch terminology: Information goes through a "Fusion Center" once tips come in from SAR (private sector Suspicious Activity Reporting). But before you check out of the real world and into that bunker in the yard, Deputy Chief Brian Harvey  assures that racial and ethnic profiling will be minimized because of the Fusion Center, and also because of an online focus group that'll be used to evaluate the program. Harvey says DPD has been in touch with civil liberties groups in trying to ensure nobody's liberties get uncivilly taken away."  ---  "Focus group marketing meets the police state meets government bureaucracy. How do you improve three things that, each on their own, produce miserable results? You combine them, and create a cell phone app. It's called Paranoia 2.0." - also posted at BLN

Corporate cash floods US congressional elections
A quote...."Big business and the wealthy are pouring unprecedented sums of money into the US congressional elections, according to data reported in the media over the past several days. While the lion’s share of the money is going to candidates of the Republican Party, Democrats are also raking in millions, underscoring the status of both parties as political instruments of the financial aristocracy."

The Economic Hit Man Confesses Again: An Interview With John Perkins
Interview - A Truthout interview with John Perkins -- A quote...."Reclama: Thank you for the opportunity to interview you. We've found that many Peace Corps Volunteers have read your books. One told me that "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", [GoglBkSrch]* totally reshaped her view of our foreign policy. She just wishes she would have read it sooner. Another reconsidered a job proposal working on one of the large infrastructure projects you used to forecast after reading the book. So it's definitely had an impact on our community, which is why we wanted to interview you." - *links added - also posted at DProgram

Cash-Strapped States Resurrect "Debtors' Prisons"
This website editor is quite fond of saying "welcome to the New Roman Empire"...well in this case it's "welcome to Medieval World" - mpg -- A quote...."Two reports published by NYU's Brennan Center for Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reveal a rising trend of patently unconstitutional practices in cash-strapped states, where a growing number of impoverished people are jailed for being unable to pay their legal fees - including charges for use of public defenders, a guaranteed right in the United States. The resurgence of these draconian "debtors' prisons" has been documented in at least 13 of the 15 states with the largest prison populations in the country, including California, Arizona, Michigan and Alabama." - also posted at DProgram & BLN
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Partitioning Iraq
Must Read - A quote...."The US occupation has plunged Iraq into years of security breakdown and social and political chaos. A genocidal war has claimed hundreds of lives a day and sapped the country of its human resource potential through the demolition of the edifice of the modern state and the prevalence of the law of the jungle, which together created fertile soil for terrorism and violence which, in turn, have been used to justify the trade in security services and the "soft" invasion. From the outset various Arab quarters fell in with the Iraqi enterprise, inspired by the notion that by currying favour with Washington they would acquire a piece of the Iraqi pie." - also posted at Uruknet -- See also maps....The US-NRE's New Map of the Middle East & The US-NRE's New Map of Iraq - For more on this issue see also....One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg

Should the U.S. Help Break Up Somalia?
Related Article - WHEREVER the US-NRE goes, that "country", that "nation-state", that once united community, is GOING TO DIE!  It's that simple.  It WILL be DIVIDED and it WILL be CONQUERED sooner or later. - mpg -- A quote...."Last month, the United States announced a new policy toward Somalia. In a September 24 press briefing in New York City, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson said  that the U.S. would "work to engage more actively with the governments of Puntland and Somaliland," two autonomous regions within Somalia. This ends the U.S. policy of relating exclusively to Somalia's transitional federal government (TFG), which can be described as the country's central government only if "central" is understood to mean controlling several blocks  of the capital with the help of 7,000 foreign soldiers." - also posted at BLN
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8 months after clearing operation, Marines in Marjah face full-blown insurgency
A quote...."MARJAH, Afghanistan — The young Marine had a simple question for the farmer with the white beard: Have you seen any Taliban today? -- The answer came within seconds — from insurgents hiding nearby who ended the conversation with bursts of automatic rifle fire that sent deadly rounds cracking overhead. -- It was a telling coincidence — and the start of yet another gunbattle in Marjah, the southern poppy-producing hub which U.S. forces wrested from Taliban control in February to restore government rule."

Afghan Rebels Control 75 Percent of the Territory
A quote...."Kabul, Oct 7 (prensa Latina) The Talibans, one of the segments of the afghan rebels assured today that 75 percent of the national territory is under their control and demanded withdrawal of the US and NATO occupying forces."

Little hope for Afghan peace council
Must Read - A quote...."KABUL - The long-awaited announcement of the peace council tasked with talking to the Taliban has been greeted with skepticism by some Afghans who believe its composition and the insurgents' refusal to negotiate until foreign forces leave do not bode well."
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[Britain's] Navy to reduce to smallest size ever to save carriers
A quote...."The Navy is set to be reduced to the smallest size in its history after admirals yesterday offered drastic reductions in the fleet in order to save two new aircraft carriers from defence cuts." -- Whoops!!  Something truly awful happened on the way to being the New Roman Empire's (and Israel's) best little lap dog ever.... bankruptcy. - mpg

Chinese Premier Wen arrives in Turkey for 3-day visit
Contains Video - A quote...."Premier Wen Jiabao has arrived in the Turkish capital Ankara to begin an official three-day visit. -- Turkey is the last leg of his four-nation tour, which has taken him to Greece, Belgium and Italy. During his stay in Turkey, Wen is scheduled to meet with the country's Prime Minister and President. Chinese Ambassador to Turkey Gong Xiaosheng said that the Premier's visit to Turkey aims to boost the two countries' relations to a new level."

Russia to pay Iran $800 mln for shelved S-300 deal
Yes but....who'd sign a contract with them now?  How could they be trusted after they so cravenly, and so brazenly, caved to the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium? Seriously, put yourself in some politician's shoes, you're trying to defend your nation, you desperately need some spare parts for all that Russian equipment you've purchased during the last several years, but Israel, the US-NRE, one of their corporations or some European country gives Russia the "veto" and you're now stuck with fifty billion dollars worth of worthless hardware!! Who'd be stupid enough to take that sort of risk? Who'd be willing to waste all that money? By doing this Russia has guaranteed that their military industrial complex will lose fifty percent of its income.  And it's the foreign contracts and weapons deals that are the "life blood" of not only a country's defense industry, but its geo-political policy.  Not a very smart move on Russia's part. - mpg -- A quote...."Russia plans to pay Iran about $800 million to compensate for its failure to deliver S-300 missile systems, the head of state-controlled conglomerate Russian Technologies, Sergei Chemezov, said on Thursday."

Soyuz launch
Video - Pay no attention to who's listed in the head-line, she's not actually in the video....damn. - mpg -- A quote...."The Soyuz TMA-01M,launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan, took off successfully with American astronaut, Scott Kelly and Russia's Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka on board. They are due to reach the orbiting laboratory in two days, where they will join two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut who have been at the station since June."

Russia, India create joint venture to produce transport aircraft
A quote...."MOSCOW, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and India have signed an agreement on the creation of a joint venture to develop and manufacture a multifunctional transport aircraft, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday."

Obama’s Balfour Declaration
A quote...."Those who invested again in the so-called peace process apparently believed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ready for historic decisions, and that US President Barack Obama's support for the talks represented a unique and serious opportunity. -- Netanyahu allowed Israel's mostly fictitious 10-month "settlement freeze" to expire on September 26, setting off a desperate scramble among peace process sponsors to find a formula to "save the peace talks" - as if simply having such talks is the ultimate prize. -- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, US envoy George Mitchell and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton all rushed in not with the goal of stopping Israel's criminal settlement expansion but to find a formula for Israel to continue building settlements while pretending it is not." - also posted at GlobalRsrch

Freedom Rider: Tuskegee, Guatemala...
Special Note - A quote...."The dictates of white supremacy have resulted in numerous examples of murder, torture and endless human rights abuses over the course of centuries. White supremacy is still with us, and so are its many manifestations. We are propagandized, induced to lose intelligence, compassion, and even the instinctive desire for self-preservation whenever white people declare their actions to be right, and the only possible way to understand the world." - also posted at Uruknet

Elections in Brazil and the US Intelligence Community
Special Note - (Good, dirty, details on how the US-NRE REALLY plays the "game") -- A quote...."It seemed suspicious recently that Washington which tends to denigrate the “immature” democracies of Latin America and the Caribbean without restraint made serious efforts to demonstrate respect for Brazil. G. Bush's Administration bracketed as “immature” the Latin American states with populist regimes and, generally, any countries showing a measure of defiance defending their national interests under the US pressure. Brazil never allowed to call its right to sovereignty and independent position in international politics into question over the eight years of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's presidency, and it was widely expected that G. Bush's Administration would eventually run out of patience and try to tame the Brazilian leader. Nothing of the kind happened, though, evidently because the US felt too burdened with problems with Venezuela to get locked in an additional conflict in Latin America."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

AL-NAAMI: Israel losing its appeal for Jews
A quote...."Dov Weisglass, an Israeli lawyer who was bureau chief to former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, admits that he is losing sleep over deteriorating relations between Israel and the world." - bold by website editor -- Awwwww, the poor widdle thing, guess it's time to ramp up another huge, highly expensive, grossly inaccurate, add campaign. - mpg

Victory in Sheikh Jarrah!
A quote...."Activists were delighted yesterday when they won a sweet victory against the ever-encroaching colonization of east Jerusalem. The Zionists at Shimon Hatzadik had planned a huge rally for the night of the sixth of October and to support that had illegally (as always) erected three large metal flag-posts on land that was not theirs. Not only was this blatant trespass and criminal damage to property but these seven meter tall monstosities towered over the area in nasty attempt to dominate the locals, who already suffer from daily harassment and persecution. A large but calm crowd of Palestinian locals, Israeli activists and ISM’ers gathered with a view to removing this provocative eyesore without delay."

MSD files complaint in Geneva to stop Israel from exiling Jerusalemite officials
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Al-Maqdesi for society development (MSD) organization said it filed a complaint with the UN human rights council in Geneva to prevent Israel from exiling four Jerusalemite elected officials from their native city."

Replanting The Saffa Valley
A quote...."In Palestine, planting trees has become a courageous act of resistance against the ever-encroaching settlements on Palestinian agricultural land. On Sunday, 3 October, farmers and international activists joined together to launch the Palestine Solidarity Project’s campaign to replant the Saffa Valley. For the first two months of the project they will prepare the land for planting trees in the winter." - also posted at Uruknet

Sha'ath: Abbas will resign
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Palestinian negotiations team member Nabil Sha'ah said Thursday evening that President Mahmoud Abbas will resign from his post, rebuffing days of speculation as the leader arrives in Libya for an emergency Arab League session."

Interview: Palestine's red lines of struggle
A quote...."While many of the key concepts of the Palestinian struggle, the likes of intifada (uprising) and awda  (return), have become familiar in other languages, an integral term in the Palestinian lexicon has yet to be understood by non-Arabic speakers. Thawabet (plural of thabet) is an Arabic word that literally means "constants." For Palestinians it generally refers to the red lines of the struggle, those demands on which there can be no compromise and which have acquired a certain sanctity over the decades of struggle."

Settlers [Illegal Jewish Squatters] torch farmlands near Nablus
A quote...."NABLUS (Ma’an) -- Residents of Huwwara village south of Nablus said Thursday that settlers set dozens of dunums of farm lands on fire, destroying crops."

Israeli army kidnapped 485 Palestinians last month
A quote...."The report issued on Sunday said the Israeli army last month took captive 485 Palestinians, including three women and around 90 minors. -- A 13-year-old boy was arrested for ten days against a military decision to separate him from his home for five months. -- Foreign activists were also documented to have been arrested in Palestine. An activist from the U.S. and another from England were detained while marching to protest the separation wall and seizure of Palestinian land in Bil’in. -- The prisoner committee’s media manager Riyadh Ashqar said the Israeli prisons authority continued to violate human rights codes last month by failing to provide necessary treatment for hundreds of cases of diseases that have spread among Palestinian prisoners."
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The Biggest Shock to Gold Since Nixon
Must Read - A quote...."Have you looked at the market lately? -- The Dow is pushing 11,000. The S&P 500 has broken out above 1,150 and seems to be going to 1,220. -- Gold is at $1,346 per ounce, another all-time high. -- Silver is at prices not seen since the Hunt brothers tried to corner the market back in the 1970s. -- Oil is threatening to break out of its range…" - also posted at Hamsayeh -- Let's be clear about this folks, this is NOT conventional inflation, it's not caused by any sort of  "wage-push" in the US-NRE.  People aren't expecting, nor are they "pushing" large price increases by paying higher prices for goods and services.  This is because they simply can't afford to do so, they don't have the money anymore, nor will they in the foreseeable future.  Many economic inputs are still severely depressed such as industrial capacity, unemployment, housing prices, real wages, overbuilt inventories, etc.  Instead, what this market action represents is a collapse in the dollar, which could lead to something much, much, worse than the '70s to '80s stagflation. In fact it's beginning to look like the US-NRE is about to enter something many websites have been predicting for a long time....a Hyper(inflationary)-Depression. - mpg

High unemployment rate "new normal" for U.S., says Stiglitz
Related Article - A quote...."Even if U.S. economy manages to grow, it will be too slow to provide enough jobs needed and high unemployment rate will be a new normal for Americans, said Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz on Wednesday." - also posted at BLN

M2 Update: 12th Consecutive Weekly Increase, The Seasonal Adjustment Inflection Point, And The FDIC's "Free Capital Transfer" Plan Is Working -- Chart - Related Article - A quote...."M2 continues its seemingly endless rise higher...at least on a seasonal adjusted basis. In the week ended September 27, M2 rose to a fresh record of $8,741.9 trillion: a$30.9 billion W/W jump which was the 4th largest weekly rise year to date. This was the 12th sequential increase in M2, which in 2010 has increased by over quarter of a trillion dollars."

The Incredible Two-Day Jump in US Treasury Debt
Related Article - A quote...."To show you that I am not over-reacting like the hyper-excitable, gun-nut, gold-bug, Austrian school of economics kind of weird guy that I actually am, here is an example of the corrupt, game-playing crap going on with the Federal Reserve and the Treasury  --  On Wednesday, 9/29/10, the national debt was $13.466 trillion. The next day, 9/30, it goes to $13.561 trillion. Again, “the next day,” 10/1, the start of the new federal fiscal year, it rises to $13.610 trillion! -- This $144 billion is a staggering lot of borrowing that, somehow, happened in Two Freaking Days (TFD)! This is $72 billion per day! This is the government borrowing – per day! – almost $240 for every man, woman and child in the Whole Freaking Country (WFC)! Gaaaahhhh!" - bold by website editor
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China is ready to push yuan as global reserve currency
A quote...."China is the only country in this world that has an offensive foreign exchange strategy in store. Most other countries are trying to cover their heads. Premier Wen Jiabao has toured Europe, sending a strong message that Beijing is willing to stand by Greece and other financially troubled nations in Europe, in the face of growing hostility from the United States. US lawmakers have been introducing legislation to retaliate against China amid allegations that it is manipulating its currency to boost exports. With its deep pockets, Beijing is ready to take part in the bailout of ailing European economies and pit the entire continent of Europe against the US." - also posted at BLN

Global currency, trade conflicts dominate IMF meeting
A quote...."The semi-annual International Monetary Fund and World Bank meeting, being held this weekend in Washington DC, has become the focus of mounting currency and trade conflicts between the major imperialist powers and the so-called emerging economies of Asia and Latin America, and among the great powers themselves."

White House sanctions employers’ cut-rate health plans
More on Obama's No-Care Plan -- A quote...."Over the past several weeks, Obama administration officials have granted waivers to companies and insurers who offer cut-rate insurance coverage for their employees. These “mini-med” plans provide minimal benefits with limits on annual coverage far below what has been stipulated in the phase-in period of Obama’s health care overhaul, the Affordable Care Act."

More Protests in Greece and Eastern Europe Over Austerity Program
A quote...."Greek strikers in the country’s public sector are angry at IMF imposed program against working people. They demand equal rights for all the citizens and want rich people to pay their share of the country’s debt."

Canadian Pension Plans Still Reeling
A quote...."John Morrissy of the Financial Post reports in the Montreal Gazette, Pension plans fail to reap recent stock gains:"

[British] Property prices drop £6,000 in a month
A quote...."The price of a typical house dropped from £168,124 in August to £162,096, according to Britain’s biggest mortgage lender Halifax. - The decline wil bring more home owners closer to falling into negative equity, where their mortgage is greater than the value of their home."

Japanese gov't endorses 61.3 bln dollars stimulus plan, says further currency intervention possible
Hey BERNIE!!  Did'ya see the last little bit of the head-line shown above?!?!  You know, the part were it says "further currency intervention possible". - mpg --  A quote...."TOKYO, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Cabinet on Friday approved an emergency stimulus plan to the tune of 5.1 trillion yen (61.3 billion U.S. dollars) in a bid to boost the nation's economic recovery by combating persistent deflation and a surging yen, whilst supporting local governments and small businesses."

Wednesday October 6th 2010

Secret of the Lusitania: Arms find challenges Allied claims it was solely a passenger ship - Alt
Some quotes...."Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War." -- "Winston Churchill, who was first Lord of the Admiralty and has long been suspected of knowing more about the circumstances of the attack than he let on in public, wrote in a confidential letter shortly before the sinking that some German submarine attacks were to be welcomed. -- He said: 'It is most important to attract neutral shipping to our shores, in the hope especially of embroiling the U.S. with Germany.'For our part we want the traffic  -  the more the better and if some of it gets into trouble, better still." -- Does this all sound familiar to anyone?  Perhaps this quote might help....

“The process of transformation,” [as stated in the] [PNAC] plan, “is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.”

All it would take is for "someone" to "somehow" pass a little note on to the German high command that a ship loaded with munitions was sailing toward Britain on such and such a course, on such and such a date.  One tiny little note, or some pillow talk to a German spy, or a folder conveniently left out on someone's desk for a German agent to see....and presto, you've get yourself a nice juicy “casus belli” for World War I.  Makes one wonder just who would do such a thing doesn't it, and just how many times it's been done. - posted on 12-25-08 – mpg