Wednesday January 6th 2010
The
Prestige
–
Part
3:The
Prestige
Must Read - A
quote...."In 1996, a self-proclaimed terrorist and thief fled the reach
of Osama bin Laden and ran right into the outstretched arms of the FBI,
where he probably couldn’t have felt more at home. He had stolen
money from bin Laden, some one hundred thousand dollars it is said, and
so the FBI offered him shelter, money, and new life. For three
years the American tax-payers shelled out nearly one million U.S.
dollars to protect the thief in hiding. It was then, under the tutelage
of FBI agent Jack Cloonan, that the very mythology of Al Qaeda was
born. It was then that the craft of the first part of the Grand
Illusion took shape."
The
Lie
of
Law:
Courts
Bow
to
State's
Raw
Power
Must Read - A
quote...."It is often forgotten how "legal" the Nazi regime in Germany
really was. It did not take power in a violent revolution, but entered
government through the entirely "legal" procedures of the time. The
"legal" vote of the "legally" elected Reichstag gave Adolf Hitler the
powers to rule by decree, thus imparting strict "legality" to the
actions of his government. -- Indeed, there were several
cases when those who felt the government had overstepped the bounds of
law in a particular instance actually took the Nazi regime to court,
and won. Why? Because the government was bound by "the rule of law."
And the fact is, almost the entire pre-Nazi judicial system of the
German state remained intact and operational throughout Hitler's reign.
The "rule of law" carried on. -- Of course, as the Nazi
regime plowed forward with its racist, militarist, imperialist agenda,
this "rule of law" became increasingly elastic, countenancing a range
of actions and policies that would have been considered heinous
atrocities only a few years before. This trend was greatly accelerated
after the Regime -- claiming "self-defense" following an alleged
"invasion" by a small band of raiders -- launched a war which soon
engulfed the world." -- also posted
at OpEdNews
Liberty
Has
Been
Lost
Must Read - A
quote...."January 06, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- I had just
finished reading the uncensored edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s
book, In The First Circle (Harper Perennial, 2009), when I came across
Chris Hedges article, “One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists”. In Hedges’
description of the US government’s treatment of American citizen Syed
Fahad Hashmi, I recognized the Stalinist legal system as portrayed by
Solzhenitsyn." -- also posted at
DProgram
The Coming
Fury Of An Angry America
Must Read - Some
quotes...."In the summer of 1914, America was an outlier in a world of
teetering monarchies, festering colonial empires, and rancid landed
aristocracies. While the rest of the world fed its gold and its young
to the insatiable maw of industrial war, Americans were building a
dream from limitless resources and the economic opportunities of a
conflict that left America unspoiled and prosperous. By the close of
hostilities in 1945, with the capital of the planet spent and
exhausted, America burst from the ruins to begin the greatest run of
prosperity and innovation of all time. The American middle class
exploded, living the dream so thoughtfully given to them over a
generation of global war." --- "In 1971, American imports
exceeded exports for the first time in modern history, by 2.6 billion
dollars. At a time when a billion was a lot, America began paying to
simply exist. Gross Public Debt had grown from 43 billion in 1940, to
381 billion by 1970. Within a single generation - the age of
narcissism, the computer age, the age of globalization - the baby
boomers of the American middle class had tilted the entire planets
resources towards an unsustainable consumer culture. No longer living
the dream, those alive just moments before Lehman Brothers listed over,
rolled under, and disappeared below the waves of history, were fighting
simply to keep the stuff they had." -- also posted at ICH
The
Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil
Transit Chokepoint
Must Read - A
quote...."On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named
Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to
Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled
explosives. Since then reports have been broadcast from CNN, the New
York Times and other sources that he was "suspected" of having been
trained in Yemen for his terror mission. What the world has been
subjected to since is the emergence of a new target for the US ‘War on
Terror,’ namely a desolate state on the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen. A
closer look at the background suggests the Pentagon and US intelligence
have a hidden agenda in Yemen."
“Obama
Has
Kept
the
Machine
Set
on
Kill”–Journalist
and
Activist
Allan
Nairn
Reviews
Obama’s
First
Year
in
Office -- A quote...."In an extended
interview, award-winning journalist and activist Allan Nairn looks back
over the Obama administration’s foreign policy and national security
decisions over the last twelve months. “I think Obama should be
remembered as a great man because of the blow he struck against white
racism,” Nairn says. “But once he became president…Obama became a
murderer and a terrorist, because the US has a machine that spans the
globe, that has the capacity to kill, and Obama has kept it set on
kill. He could have flipped the switch and turned it off…but he chose
not to do so.” He continues, “In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama
seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did
in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.”
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CIA
takes
revenge
with
missile
strikes
in
Pakistan
A quote...."In an apparent campaign of revenge at least 20 people have
died in drone missile attacks in Pakistan since the December 30 suicide
bombing that killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian intelligence
agent. -- The most deadly of the strikes by the CIA’s Predator drone
aircraft took place Wednesday in the Datta Khel region of North
Waziristan, near the Afghanistan border."
In
al-Qaida
fight,
Yemen
wants
limited
U.S.
role
Special Note - Related Article - A quote...."SAN'A, Yemen - As Yemen
becomes the new front in the fight against terror, its leaders want
this to be clear: They do not intend
for their country to become another Iraq or Afghanistan with thousands of U.S. troops on
the ground." - bold by website editor - also posted at WarInIraq - OK!! FINALLY the Muslims are beginning to learn about
the "Great Game" and how it's REALLY "played"....better late than
never, well not really, but it helps a little. - mpg
Yemen
official
tells
AP
US
troops
not
wanted
Related Article - A quote...."SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- As Yemen becomes the
new front in the
war on terror, its leaders want this to be clear: It does not intend to
become another Iraq or Afghanistan with thousands of U.S. troops on the
ground."
Mass
arrests
reported
in
Sunni
areas
in
Iraq
A quote...."Iraqi security forces have launched a wide campaign in
Sunni Muslim-dominated neighborhoods of Baghdad and towns and cities to
the north and west of the capital. -- The campaign is said to be the
widest by the government in years and has led to an exodus of people to
the Kurdish north. -- The campaign comes as the country gears for
national elections in March."
More
on
Exile...
A quote...."I received a very powerful, candid and touching email
from an Iraqi fellow. He wrote it after reading my post Hearts in
Exile. I would like to share it with you and with his permission..." --
For more on about this issue
see....The
Method
-
05-07-07
-
mpg
US-Led
Forces
Accused
of
Executing
Schoolchildren
in
Afghanistan
A quote...."In Afghanistan, hundreds have taken to the streets of Kabul
and elsewhere to protest the US killing of civilians. The incident that
has sparked the most outrage took place in eastern Kunar on December
27th, when ten Afghans, eight of them schoolchildren, were killed.
According to the Times of London, US-led troops dragged innocent
children from their beds and shot them during a nighttime raid. Afghan
government investigators said the eight students were aged from eleven
to seventeen, all but one of them from the same family. [includes rush
transcript]" --
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Three
Children
Killed
Daily
in
Afghanistan
A quote...."Kabul, Jan 6 (Prensa Latina) At least three children are
killed in Afghanistan every day in attacks, bombings and armed clashes
between insurgents and US/NATO occupying forces, the non-governmental
organization Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) denounced on Wednesday."
Blackwater
and
the
Khost
Bombing:
Is
the
CIA
Deceiving
Congress?
Special Note - A
quote...."A leading member of the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence has told The Nation that she will launch an investigation
into why two Blackwater contractors were among the dead in the December
30 suicide bombing at the CIA station at Forward Operating Base Chapman
in Khost, Afghanistan. "The Intelligence Committees and the public were
led to believe that the CIA was phasing out its contracts with
Blackwater and now we find out that there is this ongoing presence,"
said Illinois Democrat Jan Schakowsky, chair of the Subcommittee on
Oversight and Investigations, in an interview. "Is the CIA once again
deceiving us about the relationship with Blackwater?" -- also posted at CommonDreams
Mystery
Surrounds
Contractors'
Role
at
CIA
Base
Related Article - A quote...."Two of the seven CIA personnel killed in
last week's suicide bombing in Afghanistan worked as contractors for
the company formerly known as Blackwater, but what role Dane Paresi and
Jeremy Wise played at the CIA's forward base in Khost remains unknown.
The base collected intelligence used in the CIA's drone attacks across
the border in Pakistan, but CIA director Leon Panetta has said that the
former Blackwater, now known as Xe Services, is no longer involved in
the drone program."
Iraq
forms
committee
to
decide
about
joint
oil
fields
with
Iran
A quote...."Iraq has set up a committee which is to draw up a road map
on how to develop oil fields the country shares with neighboring Iran,
Oil Ministry Undersecretary Abdulkarim al-Aibi said. -- Aibi said
the committee will soon travel to Tehran to meet with Iranian
officials."
Iraq
to
import
Iranian
gas
to
feed
power
plants
A quote...."An Iraqi delegation is to head for Tehran early next year
to sign a deal for the import of Iranian gas, an electricity ministry
statement said. -- The statement said the delegation would seek
striking a long-term contract to supply gas-driven power plants with
fuel particularly in southern and central Iraq. -- Iraqi power
plants are running at below capacity due to fuel shortages. Output in
southern provinces has declined to 1711 megawatts from 1850 this month."
Russia,
China, Iran redraw energy map
Must Read - Oil/Gas Geo-Politics
- A quote...."The inauguration of the Dauletabad-Sarakhs-Khangiran
pipeline on Wednesday connecting Iran's northern Caspian region with
Turkmenistan's vast gas field may go unnoticed amid the Western media
cacophony that it is "apocalypse now" for the Islamic regime in Tehran.
-- The event sends strong messages for regional security. Within the
space of three weeks, Turkmenistan has committed its entire gas exports
to China, Russia and Iran. It has no urgent need of the pipelines that
the United States and the European Union have been advancing. Are we
hearing the faint notes of a Russia-China-Iran symphony?"
China
tightens
grip
on
Kazakh gas
Special Note - Related
Article
- A quote...."Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Kazakh counterpart,
Nursultan Nazarbayev, were liberal with their profuse eulogies such as
a "milestone in Sino-Kazakh relations" and "an epoch-making event"
after their talks in Astana on December 12. -- Hu had every reason to
describe his official visit to Kazakhstan as a success. The two leaders
signed three important documents relating to cooperation in the
development of renewable energy resources, a joint memorandum on
financing the second section of a gas pipeline from Kazakhstan to China
and a credit agreement for the reconstruction of Atyrau oil refinery in
West Kazakhstan."
China,
ASEAN
mark
establishment
of
free
trade
area
A quote...."China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) held a ceremony on Thursday to mark the establishment of a free
trade area involving eleven states and a population of 1.9 billion. --
The free trade area was officially established on January 1 and boasts
some $4.5 trillion in trade volume. -- Trade between China and the six
founding ASEAN members - Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Thailand and Singapore - is now duty-free for over 7 thousand products."
Bolivia:
Indigenous
Role
in
New
Constitution
Extolled
A quote...."Potosí, Bolivia, Jan 6 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian
President Evo Morales highlighted the presence of indigenous delegates
recognized by the new Bolivian Constitution, after 183 years of
republic life in Bolivia, in an activity celebrated in the department
of Potosí Wednesday."
HONDURAS:
Entrenched
Corruption
Stymies
Hope - Article
also posted at UDW
A quote...."TEGUCIGALPA, Jan 4 (IPS) - Corruption in Honduras has taken
root at every level of the state, which is helpless to combat it
because of the lack of credibility of most of its institutions, the
erosion of social capital and the public perception that the problem is
here to stay." -- Hideous Hillary
must be delighted with all her good works, way to go Hillary, for more
on this issue see....Hideous
Hillary's
New
Honduran
Death
Squads
El
Salvador - Hitmen Assassinate Prominent Woman Activist in
Cabañas; Pro-Mining Violence Continues @ UDW
A quote...."Six days after heavily armed men took the life of a
respected anti-mining activist in Cabañas, El Salvador, another
prominent community leader has been assassinated. On December 26 at
3:30 pm Dora “Alicia” Sorto Rodriguez, 32, was killed as she returned
from doing laundry at the river near her home in Cantón
Trinidad, in the municipality of Sensuntepeque, Cabañas.
“Alicia,” as she was known to friends, was eight months pregnant and
carried her 3-year-old son in her arms as she was shot dead. The child
was shot in the foot and is receiving medical care."
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More on the
US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco
Obama
Flubs
His
First
Bay
Of
Pigs
Moment
As
Terror
Moles
Escape
Purge
Must Read - A
quote...."Washington
DC , January 5, 2010 — Obama’s speech this afternoon was an incongruous
performance. On the one hand, he angrily detailed a catastrophic
breakdown in US intelligence procedures leading to the near-massacre of
hundreds of airline passengers in the skies over Detroit on Christmas
Day. On the other hand, there was no purge of the corrupt, complicit,
and incompetent officials who had made this incident possible. No
firings were announced. No heads rolled. The rogue network or invisible
government of treasonous and subversive moles inside the US government
which is behind the Detroit incident, and so many other incidents,
remained untouched once again."
Bomb
Plot
with
a
Yemeni
Connection:
A
Christmas
Gift
for
US
War
Plans
A quote...."Washington's blame game over the lapse of security that
enabled a young Nigerian man to nearly set off explosives as an
aircraft prepared to land in Detroit raises suspicions over how and why
the incident happened."
Breaking
The
Will
Of
The
People:
The
Real
Purpose
Of
Body
Scanners
Related Article - A quote...."The clamor to ramp up airport security
with invasive naked body imaging scanners has nothing to do with
ensuring the safety of travelers. Rather it is part of an ongoing
incremental push to break the will of the people and encourage mass
subservience and meek obedience."
For more on this sort of issue
see....US-False
Flag
Ops
-
Detroit's
"Lap-Bomber"
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The
backfiring
of
the
surveillance
state
Special Note - A
quote...."Every debate over expanded government surveillance power is
invariably framed as one of "security v. privacy and civil liberties"
-- as though it's a given that increasing the Government's surveillance
authorities will "make us safer." But it has long been clear that
the opposite is true. As numerous experts (such as Rep. Rush
Holt) have attempted, with futility, to explain, expanding the scope of
raw intelligence data collected by our national security agencies
invariably impedes rather than bolsters efforts to detect terrorist
plots. This is true
for two reasons: (1)
eliminating strict content limits on what can be surveilled (along with
enforcement safeguards, such as judicial warrants) means that
government agents spend substantial time scrutinizing and sorting
through communications and other information that have nothing to do
with terrorism; and (2)
increasing the quantity of what is collected makes it more difficult to
find information relevant to actual terrorism plots." -- also posted at CommonDreams
US
helping
terrorists
in
southeast Iran: Report
A quote...."The US is helping the Pakistan-based Jundallah militants to
enter Iran through the Persian Gulf and carry out terrorist acts in the
country, a report said Wednesday." -- For
more
on
this
issue
see....US
Support
of
Terror
-
MEK
-PKK
-Others
'Flaws'
in key Lockerbie evidence
A quote...."An investigation by BBC's Newsnight has cast doubts on the
key piece of evidence which convicted the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset
Ali al-Megrahi."
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Viva
Palestina
Starts
Entry
To Gaza
Special Note - A
quote...."The Viva Palestina Convoy, and after facing ongoing Egyptian
rejection and violent attacks by the Egyptian security forces, started
on Wednesday evening to roll into the besieged Gaza Strip."
Bold
Unarmed
Palestinian
Girl
Stands
Up
Against
Armed
Israelis - Alt
- (YouTube -
2 min 36 sec - Jan 20, 2009)
Video - From the history file
- A quote (from IrvingAveBully)...."As Israeli troops shoot and bomb
their way into Gaza, an unarmed Palestinian lady stands her ground and
questions the militants actions. Observe how the Israelis are in full
military gear and rifles while the Palestinians have regular clothes
and rocks. For the record i am not Jewish Nor Muslim, but i refuse to
be ignorant to atrocities such as this. LEAVE PALESTINE ALONE! LEAVE
IRAQ ALONE! Greed will be the demise of the Human Race." -- Editor's note, it appears the video is
from a (Japanese?) news service and whether the girl is Palestinian is
unknown, normally if she'd been Palestinian the IOF would have just
gunned her down, normally. Of course the camera crew discouraged
the soldiers from doing so, this time. - mpg
Guardian
investigation
uncovers
EVIDENCE
of
Israeli
war
crimes
in
Gaza
Contains Videos - Alt/Vid#1 - AltVid/#2 - Alt/Vid#3 - A
quote...."Remembering the one year anniversary of the violent, out of
control Israeli attack against Gaza, "Operation Eat Lead." Except here
in the 'United States of Israel,' the American MSM was yapping 24/7
about the latest CIA/MOSSAD false-flag, the 'Christmas Crotch Bomber.'
-- Scare the hell out of people, kill a few or kill a few thousand,
whatever it takes to distract the world from the Israeli WAR CRIMES
committed by that out of control state against Gaza. -- Even if that
means launching another MOSSAD/CIA 9/11 type of false-flag, only this
time it will be radioactive"
VIVA
PALESTINA~THE
BOYS
ON
PRESSTV
Contains Video - Action Update - Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 -- A
quote...."Well, we're just back from the celebration, I'm sure the
weather is great in Gaza as it's snowing and freezing in Ireland! We
had to laugh as the first interviews we saw were three of our five guys
on PressTV! First the Ambulance arrived driven by Eanna who had a few
words as it passed (video below) then JJ gave a nice interview (video
below) then Eddie gave a great interview but we dont have it yet cos
the fellow that has it still at the pub celebrating LOL, Hope to have
that up soon. So Ireland was well represented today!! Thanks to
everyone for all your great comments and good wishes for the lads. We
had a scary time last night, but today things are as they should be.
They are in Gaza and delivering the aid and ambulance now. You've read
their words on the blog, now you can hear them, here's the two short
videos:"
VIVA
PALESTINA:
Tears
and
joy
as
convoy
rolls
into
Gaza
7Jan10
January
6,
2010
Contains Videos - Action Update - Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 -- A
quote...."British MP George Galloway interviewed by Aljazeera in Rafah,
Gaza." - Alt/Vid#1 & "Viva Palestina convoy Rafah crossing
interviews." - Alt/Vid#2
Turks
protest
Egypt's
[Mubarak - The Butt Kising Lackey of Israel - and His] attack on Viva
Palestina
Action Update - A
quote...."Thousands of angry protesters in Turkey have staged a
demonstration in the city of Istanbul to condemn the Egyptian police
crackdown on a Gaza-bound aid convoy."
Gaza
Freedom
March
marches
in
Cairo
against
blockade
Action Update - A
quote...."The international delegation of the Gaza Freedom March
originally planned to arrive in Gaza on 29 December 2009 to join a
march against the Israeli blockade together with residents of Gaza two
days later. Instead, most of its delegates remained in Cairo, having
been blocked from going to the Rafah border by the Egyptian government,
and instead marched against the Egyptian blockade on Gaza."
ISRAEL,
GAZA:
Holocaust
survivor
explains
why
she
became
Palestinian
rights
activist
Action Update - A
quote...."Hedy Epstein is what some might see as a contradiction in
terms: a survivor of the Holocaust and also a staunch advocate for the
Palestinian people. Born in 1924 in Freiburg, Germany, Epstein was 14
when she escaped from Nazi persecution via the Kinderstransport to
England. Since her 1948 arrival in the U.S., Epstein has been an
advocate for peace and human rights. " -- also posted at Uruknet
1000
Protestors
Demand
Freedom
for Gaza
Action Update - A
quote...."Around 1000 people gathered on New Year’s Eve by Erez
crossing on the Israeli side of border with Gaza to protest against the
ongoing siege imposed by Israel on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. As
part of the Gaza Freedom March initiative, the demonstration began at
around 11.00 am with protestors waving banners and chanting for the
removal of the blockade on Gaza, as well as expressing solidarity with
its residents."
European
organizations,
Turkish
masses
protest
Egyptian
assault
Action Update - A
quote...."LONDON, (PIC)-- An alliance of solidarity with the
Palestinian people in Europe has called for demonstrations in front of
the Egyptian embassies in a number of European capitals to protest the
Egyptian security authorities' assault on members of the international
aid convoy Lifeline-3 in El-Arish on Tuesday night." -- also posted at WarInIraq & AlethoNews
Egypt Police
[Mubarak's Goons] Injure 35 Palestinians
A quote...."Egyptian forces injured at least 35 Palestinians on
Wednesday when they clashed with protesters who staged rallies against
Cairo's steeling its border with the blockaded Gaza Strip. "
Remembering
Arafa
Abd
El
Dayem
and
the
emergency
workers,
today,
everyday
A quote...."On this day [4 January] one year ago, 4 Palestinian
paramedics were assassinated by Israeli forces. By the end of the
Israeli massacre of Gaza, 16 emergency workers had been killed by
Israeli soldiers, all while performing their duties, all in
contravention of international law and the Geneva Conventions.
Another 57 were injured by Israeli attacks. At least 16 ambulances were
damaged with at least nine completely destroyed." -- also posted at Uruknet
IOF
troops
deliver
demolition
orders
for
28
Palestinian
homes
A quote...."NABLUS, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF)
delivered demolition notifications to owners of 28 houses in Akraba
village, Nablus district, ono Wednesday and asked them to evacuate them
within 48 hours."
Boycotting
the
Occupation
Action Alert - Boycott, Divest and Sanction - Because it'll save lives. - mpg
-- A quote...."...all it takes is to think of the horrors of Gaza, of
the separation wall that separates Palestinians from each other and
from their beloved Jerusalem or of the daily injustices meted out by
the Israeli occupation, to turn away from that green Starbucks logo or
to put down that tube of lipstick that is tainted with the color of
oppression." -- For
more on how
to
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the
upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website. - mpg
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The Road to
Healthcare is Paved with Bad Intentions
More on the
non-health no-care bill -- A quote...."It isn't health care
being produced in this process, but rather, health carelessness. -- Still unconvinced?
Soon we will have the final proof in hand by way of an impending faux
healthcare bill, now in conference committee while awaiting a
guaranteed presidential signature no matter what it winds up including
or omitting. A public option to keep the private insurers honest, as
contained in the House version of the bill? Not likely. A requirement
that all Americans carry private insurance anyway, backed by the
government's enforcement authority, as dictated by the Senate's
version? Quite likely. -- Welcome to America, the new and improved
"company town." -- Once this precedent is set, what other mandates will
follow? How about no more public schools coupled with compulsory
education. Or perhaps the elimination of public airwaves but a
requirement that everyone be plugged in anyway....."
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2009: The Year of the
Great Vampire Squid
A quote....For years, it was hard for many of us to fathom the
psychopathic
nature of our financial elites, or to expand the meaning of Matt
Tabbi’s marvelous description
of Goldman Sachs, the great vampire squid. Squid seems a fitting
name for the financial cartel that drives what I have traditionally
called the Tapeworm.
--
There
were
some
who
saw
the
danger
immediately
and
tried
to
warn
us,
like
Sir James Goldsmith.
There were some, like myself, who tried to prevent the housing bubble and find
alternatives to investing our life savings in it.
-- While those efforts did not stop the squid, they certainly made it
clear that the squid take down of the planet was, indeed, part of a
plan. That’s all documented now."
Public
Pensions
Face
$2
Trillion
Deficit
Special Note - A
quote...."Even in a world of massive deficits and rising national debt,
not many problems come in packages that are in the trillions of
dollars. The deficit facing U.S. public pension funds will grow to $2
trillion, according to an interview that the chairman of New Jersey's
pension fund, Orin Kramer, gave to the FT. "Estimates of aggregate
funding requirement of the US pension system have ranged between $400bn
and $500 bn, but Mr Kramer's analysis concluded that public funds would
need to find more than $2,000bn to meet future pension obligations." --
Even if Mr. Kramer is over estimating the problem, the question remains
as to whether the problem can be solved so that state and municipal
employees are paid their full retirement benefits. The answer is that
it can't, and that these people will get much less than they were
promised. Like many other Americans, they will face a shortfall in the
money they have for their golden years." -- also posted at BLN
And not ONE tear will be shed by this
website editor. The MORONS in
this country keep voting for the DemoRepubs, keep allowing
themselves to be blown up in false flag events, keep allowing their
parasitic elites to launch wars and occupations all over the planet, gave
twenty-four TRILLION dollars worth of back-stops, guarantees
and payouts to the filthy rich Banksters who promptly rewarded
themselves with buco-tax-payer-bucks,
are
going
to
give
TRILLIONS more out of their own pocket to the
pharmaceutical and insurance scammers while allowing
them
to
make
money
from
their
early
demise, and are going to give
more than a TRILLION
dollars (if you count it
all up) to the military industrial complex every year. That
doesn’t leave very much for their pensions....and you know what, that's
just to bad, tough sh-t for them, if the Neo-Romans in this country are
that STUPID, they deserve what they're gonna get -- NOTHING!! – mpg
PARAGUAY:
Public
Health
Care
Free
of
Charge
A quote...."ASUNCIÓN, Jan 6 (IPS) - "Did you have to pay for
anything?" is the obligatory question these days in the waiting room at
the Mother and Child Hospital in Fernando de la Mora, on the outskirts
of the Paraguayan capital, where people still have doubts that the
public health services are free of charge, as the government had
announced."
Booming
economy,
government
programs
help
Brazil
expand
its
middle
class
A quote...."RIO DE JANEIRO -- Teresiña Lopes Vieira da Silva
peddles spices and peppers from a street stall, but hers is no
fly-by-night business. -- She sells to restaurants in Rio's swankiest
districts and sees her success reflected in the two houses she has
bought. Instead of scraping by, she has joined the middle class in an
increasingly affluent Brazil, her accomplishment made possible by
government loans and a booming economy."
Economy
USA
2010:
From
the
Scandalous
Past
to
the
Uncertain
Future
Quote of the Day...."America
is
more
communist
than
China
is
right
now.
You
can
see
that
this
is
welfare
of
the
rich,
it is socialism for the rich -- it's just bailing
out financial institutions. This is madness; this is insanity; they
have more than doubled the American national debt in one weekend for a
bunch of crooks and incompetents." -- *Jim Rogers*, American investor
British
fury
after
Iceland
blocks
£2.3bn
repayment - Hip Hip
Hooray!! - Go Iceland! - Go Iceland! - mpg
A quote...."Iceland's president stunned his nation yesterday by
refusing to sign off on a plan to repay £2.3bn owed to the
British taxpayer, reigniting a major diplomatic row with London and
leaving Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling mortally embarrassed at the
latest twist in the saga of Reykjavik's banking meltdown."
The EU Will Not Bail
Out Greece: ECB Official
A quote...."The European Union would not help bail out Greece if that
country's public debt problem continued to worsen, European Central
Bank Executive Board member Juergen Stark was reported as saying on
Wednesday."
Tuesday January 5th 2010
The
Prestige
–
Part
2:The
Turn
Must Read - A
quote....“But, you know, this guy (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab), looking
at it in some respects, looking at it in retrospect, probably did us a
favor.” Thomas Kean, Co-Chair of the 9/11 Commission Report" --
"It’s fitting, isn’t it? It’s fitting that one of the leading
architects of the most elaborate cover-up in American history comes out
the other day and offers up this quote right in time for my second part
of the The Prestige. You can’t ask for better timing than that."
The
illogic
of
the
American
intervention
in
Yemen
Must Read - A
quote...."Has US policy in the Middle East witnessed any significant
changes from its stale and fumbling ways, which many said characterized
the erratic policies of the Bush Administration? The keen observer
would be inclined to suggest that, if anything, the Obama
Administration may be under greater pressure to fall into misguidance
and ill conceived purposes, since it apparently lacks clearly defined
ideological foundations to guide it in the formulation of its foreign
policies."
Yemen:
Pentagon's
War
On
The
Arabian
Peninsula
Must Read -
From the history file
- (
12-17-2009) -- A
quote...."It is perhaps impossible to determine the
exact moment at which a U.S.- supported self-professed holy warrior -
trained to perpetrate acts of urban terrorism and to shoot down
civilian airliners - ceases to be a freedom fighter and becomes a
terrorist. But a safe assumption is that it occurs when he is no longer
of use to Washington. A terrorist who serves American interests is a
freedom fighter; a freedom fighter who doesn't is a terrorist. --
Yemenis are the latest to learn the Pentagon's and the White House's
law of the jungle. Along with Iraq and Afghanistan which
counterinsurgency specialist Stanley McChrystal used to perfect his
techniques, Yemen is joining the ranks of other nations where the
Pentagon is engaged in that variety of warfare, fraught with civilian
massacres and other forms of so-called collateral damage: Colombia,
Mali, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia and Uganda."
Caspian
Sea
Geopolitics:
Nabucco
will
be
the
most
expensive
pipeline
ever
built
Must Read -
Oil/Gas Geo-Political Analysis -- A
quote...."Inside Beltwayistan, a number of Bushevik oil patch zombies
still roam the recession-blasted landscape mindlessly chanting their
Caspian mantra, “Happiness is multiple pipelines” - with the caveat
that they flow westwards and bypass both Russia and Iran . They’ve now
added a new word to their vocabulary, “Nabucco,” and worse, have bitten
a number of Obama administration officials and visiting European
politicians, who have joined their shuffling ranks. -- Their thinking
remains somewhat clouded by primordial memories of Bush’s “fuzzy math,”
as the statistics about Nabucco are contradictory, to say the least.
State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic (SOCAR) vice president
Elshad Nasirov is now threatening to start selling Azerbaijan ’s
natural gas, currently Nabucco’s sole projected provider of throughput,
to Asian countries if Europe further postpones Nabucco’s construction."
--
also posted at ZeroHedge
CIA
Killings
Spell
Defeat
in
Afghanistan
Must Read -
This is one hard nosed, in-your-face and
accurate article, bravo. - mpg -- A quote...."Why, everyone
wonders, did a Jordanian suicide bomber target the CIA, knowing that
the wrath of the biggest, baddest, bloodthirstiest Gang on Planet Earth
is going to start dropping bombs and slitting throats until its lust
for death and suffering is satisfied? -- Over the course of its sixty
year reign of terror, in which it has overthrown countless governments,
started countless wars costing countless lives, and otherwise subverted
and sabotaged friends and foes alike, the CIA has lost less than 100
officers. -- On a good day, one CIA drone, and one CIA hit team, kills
100 innocent women and children, and nobody bats an eye. -- Why would
the terrorists suddenly deviate from the norm – the sacred
accommodation – and throw the whole game into chaos? -- Why?"
CIA
reportedly
ordered
Blackwater
to
murder
9/11
suspect
It's really quite simple, he
knew WAY too much about the
US-NRE's parasitic class and their direct involvement with the Saudi
Royals and 9/11....he had to be eliminated. - mpg -- A
quote...."In 2004, the CIA sent a team from the private security firm
Blackwater, now Xe, to Hamburg to kill an alleged al Qaeda financier
who was investigated for years by German authorities on suspicion of
links to al Qaeda, according to a little-highlighted element in a
Vanity Fair article to be published this month."
Civilian
trials
and
the
so-called
rule
of
law
A quote...."How can anyone possibly argue simultaneously that (a) the
"rule of law" requires civilian trials and (b) the Obama administration
is following the "rule of law," when: (c)
the Obama administration is explicitly
denying civilian trials to numerous terrorism suspects whenever it
feels like doing so? If someone actually believes that
"the rule of law" requires civilian trials for terrorism suspects, then
it cannot be rationally argued that the Obama administration is
upholding the "rule of law," since providing civilian trials -- which
the "rule of law" supposedly requires --
is a policy they are explicitly rejecting.
-
also posted at CommonDreams
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More on the
US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco
Witness:
I
Saw
a
Second
Man
Arrested
in
Detroit -
Listen to the
Interview
Audio Interview - A
quote...."Scott Horton interviews Kurt Haskell, January 06, 2010 --
Scott Horton: It’s New
Year’s Eve 2009. We’re going to start off the first hour though with
our first guest today, Kurt Haskell; he is, I guess, becoming
semi-famous here as the guy that saw something that is something
seemingly quite important that is apparently being left out of the
typical narrative of the attempted bombing of the airplane over Detroit
on Christmas day. His name is Kurt Haskell and he’s a lawyer, I
believe, in Detroit, is that right Kurt? Welcome to the show…"
The
Creatures
from
the
Black
Lagoon
of
the
Reptile
Mind.
A quote...."The reason they came up with an underwear bomber is the
same reason they came up with a shoe bomber. First they wanted to get
into your shoes and then they wanted to get into your underwear. After
that they want to get into your body. But job one, day one, they want
to get into your head. These are stages of humiliation designed to
strip you of your dignity,"
Holocaust
survivor abused by Israeli security
Related Video -
Welcome to the New Roman Empire folks.
- mpg -- A quote...."To see the complete video (#213) and our other
videos please visit us at
http://www.thestruggle.org/
-- Hedy was victimized yet again in an attack probably from a Zionist
thug 6/17/09 in St Louis. She was theatened after going on Fox News and
speaking out against the recent attack on Gaza."
For more on this sort of issue
see....US-False
Flag
Ops
-
Detroit's
"Lap-Bomber"
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More on the
US-NRE's & the Saudi Royals' False Flag War in Yemen
FACTBOX-Roots
of
Yemen's
conflict
with
northern
rebels
Special Note - A
quote...."Dec 27 (Reuters) - The leader of Yemen's Shi'ite rebels may
have died after being severely wounded by government forces in the
north of the country, a Yemeni government website and media said on
Sunday. -- Yemen's conflict with the rebels has intensified since
August, when the army launched Operation Scorched Earth to try to crush
an intermittent revolt that first erupted in 2004. -- The rebels, known
as the Houthis after the family name of their leader Abdul-Malik
al-Houthi, are fighting government troops in the north, complaining of
social, religious and economic discrimination. -- Here is some
background about the Houthi rebels:"
Houthis
welcome
president’s
conditions
yet
lay
their
own
A quote...."SA’ADA, JAN. 3 — Abdul Malek Al- Houthi, leader of the
Houthi insurgants in Sa’ada north of Yemen welcomed on Saturday
President Saleh’s call for national dialogue which was initiated by the
president last month. The dialogue invitation was an attempt to reach
agreements on national issues with opposition and other stakeholders."
Thousands
Expected
to
die
in
2010
in
Fight
against
Al-Qaeda
A quote...."It seems that the government of Yemen is addictive to war.
This week, the government has been trying to stop the ongoing war in
Sa’ada and start peace negotiations with Houthis. Houthis agreed to the
conditions the government put on the table. -- With the Houthi war
maybe nearing to an end, the government is finding other ways to keep
Yemeni blood dripping. The open war it announced against Al-Qaeda was
hailed internationally but angered many in Yemen. -- The anger does not
come because Yemenis support Al-Qaeda, but rather because Yemenis feel
that hundreds of innocent civilians will be killed by Yemeni and U.S.
airstrikes on Al-Qaeda targets under the slogan of hunting Al-Qaeda
members."
The
Houthis
say
they
are
defending
their
people's
civil
rights,
which
the
gov't
undermined
under
pressure
from
Saudi-backed
Wahhabi
extremists.
-- A quote...."The Houthis, however, say they are defending their
people's civil rights, which the government has undermined under
pressure from Saudi-backed Wahhabi extremists. Shias, who form the
clear majority in the north, make up approximately half of Yemen's
overall population. -- As Sana'a does not allow independent media into
the conflict zone, there are no clear estimates available as to how
many people have been killed in the Shia province of Sa'ada since 2004
or in the recent wave of violence."
Ahmed
Al-Bahri
-
Expert
in
Houthi
Affairs
Interview - Interviewed
by Hakim Almasmari -- A quote...."
How were Houthis able to reach the
power they have now? -- The government in the
beginning supported the Believing Youth group, and left them for a long
time to buy weapons and gather followers, so they were able to reached
their current power. Also, the government’s mistakes made thousands go
against it. --
Were Houthis
collecting weapons by the government’s fund? -- Houthis were
buying weapons through governmental and nongovernmental fund, this is
widely known. The Yemeni government supported the Houthi movement
against the Salafi stream, in the begining."
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IRAN:
New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story
Propaganda Exposed Alert
-
Special Note - A
quote...."WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (IPS) - New revelations about two documents
leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a
"nuclear trigger" mechanism have further undermined the credibility of
the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing
Iranian nuclear weapons programme." --
also posted at DProgram
& CommonDreams
MSM:
China
rules
out
new
U.N.
sanctions
on
Iran
for
now
A quote...."(Reuters) – China’s U.N. ambassador on Tuesday dashed
Western hopes for a swift agreement on a fourth round of U.N. sanctions
against Iran over its nuclear program, saying the issue requires more
“time and patience.”
Turkmenistan,
Iran
set
to
open
new
gas
pipeline
A quote...."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived Tuesday in
energy-rich Turkmenistan to attend this week's opening of a new
pipeline that will ensure a sharp increase in natural gas deliveries
from the Central Asian nation."
IRGC
prepares
for
major
drill
amid
war
speculations -
More
getting ready for Israel's and the
US-NRE's Blitz.
War Update - A
quote...."Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced
plans to hold a major defense exercise in the Strait of Hormuz in late
January. -- "The sensitive conditions of the Middle East region have
multiplied the need for us to be ready to defend the country,"
commander of the IRGC Navy, Rear Admiral Morteza Saffari said on
Tuesday."
Salvador
Option
Fomenting
Civil
War
In
Pakistan
A quote...."It was a bloody beginning of the year 2010 in Pakistan’s
Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border. More than one hundred people were killed
and another 22 injured in a car bomb attack on the packed volleyball
ground in Laki Marwat." -
also
posted at Uruknet
-
For more on this issue see....It
Will
Happen
Every
Single
Time
-
01-01-08
-
mpg
Obama
adds
675
million
Muslims
to
the
ultimate
US
Terrorism
List
A quote...."Lebanon reacts: “Would it be simpler just to put the whole
world on?” --
For more on what you
can do as a world citizen to appose the New Roman Empire, see....An
Individual
Commitment
-
11-03-09
-
mpg
Left
to Fend for Themselves - Killing Organizers in Honduras
Special Note - A
quote...."The bodies of slain activists are piling up in Honduras.
While it's being kept quiet in most Honduran and international media,
the rage is building among a dedicated network of friends spreading the
word quickly with the tragic announcement of each compañero/a.
-- Now that the world heard from mainstream news outlets such as the
New York Times of a “clean and fair” election on Nov. 29 (orchestrated
by the US-supported junta currently in power), the violence has
increased even faster than feared. -- The specific targets of these
killings have been those perceived as the biggest threats to the coup
establishment. The bravest, and thus the most vulnerable: Members of
the Popular Resistance against the coup. Their friends and family." --
Hillary must be so pleased and perhaps
even
"excited"
by her new death squads.....for more on this see Hideous
Hillary's New Death
Squads
Bolivia
refuses
to
be
U.S.
slave:
VP -
But
why? Neo-Romans in this country just love being slaves. - mpg
A quote...."LA PAZ, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Bolivian government said on
Monday that it refuses to blindly cater to the economic or political
desires of the United States." --
also
posted
at Mathaba
Bolivian
Second
Term
Ratified
A quote...."La Paz, Jan 5 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Evo
Morales and Vice President Alvaro Garcia will be confirmed as top
authorities for a second term on Tuesday, after being re-elected in the
December 6 elections."
U.S.
Venezuelan
Relations:
Imperialism
and
Revolution
A quote...."Within this imperial matrix, Venezuela was of special
importance as the most important provider of petroleum. This was
especially true in times of heightened US and Israeli induced political
hostility and military warfare in the Middle East, with the onset of
the US invasion of Iraq and sanctions against Iran, Sudan and other
Muslim oil suppliers." --
also
posted at AlethoNews
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The Chilcot
Inquiry: Britain’s 9/11 Commission
Special Note - A
quote...."Perhaps Philip Zelikow was one of the few people who was not
surprised by his appointment as executive director of the National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, better known as
the 9/11 Commission. After all, the Professor of History at the
University of Virginia had shown uncanny prescience in foreseeing an
event such as 9/11 itself."
--
also posted at Uruknet
New discoveries
about 911 insider trading
Special Note - A
quote...."The French webTv "La Télé Libre" will soon
broadcast an exclusive documentary about 911 insider trading. -- Watch
the trailer of this report."
More
Israeli
Mossad
Connections
to
9/11
Special Note - A
quote...."When viewed from a certain angle, Hangar 17 in JFK airport
has a prominent, unfaded billboard that says “ Tower Air ”. Tower
Airlines was an * Israeli * airline that went bankrupt in 2000 . None
other than Hangar 17 housed Tower Air’s then brand-new corporate
headquarters. -- Why does 9/11 evidentiary material that would provide
clues such as the absence or presence of Super Thermite or other
explosive material in the dust from the blasts sit for "safekeeping" in
the former Executive Headquarters of a ten-year-defunct Israeli front
organization that contracted heavily for the U.S. Defense Department
and still has an unfaded sign hanging on the building?" --
also posted at DProgram
Kevin Fenton:
Disconnecting The Dots: How 9/11 Was Allowed To Happen -
[GoglBkSrch]
New Book Alert - A
quote...."Questioning actions taken by American intelligence agencies
prior to 9/11, this investigation charges that the CIA and NSA
repeatedly and deliberately withheld information from the FBI, thereby
allowing hijackers to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Pinpointing a CIA deputy unit chief, Tom Wilshire, and his manager,
Richard Blee, as being primarily responsible for many of the
intelligence failures, this account analyzes the circumstances in which
critical intelligence information was kept from FBI investigators in
the wider context of the CIA’s operations against al-Qaeda, concluding
that the information was intentionally omitted in order to allow an
al-Qaeda attack to go forward against the United States."
For more regarding the four
articles shown abvoe see....Reficultnias's
9/11
Central
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Occupation
101 -
Alt
- (Google Vid - 1hr 27min 59sec - 2 years ago)
Must View Video -
From the history file
-
2 years ago -- A
quote...."A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the
current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101'
presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths
surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its
long-perceived myths and misconceptions. -- The film also details life
under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the
conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting
and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through
first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars,
peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian
workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media
outlets."
The
Road to Gaza Parts 1-6 - (YouTube - aprox 10 min each - November
29, 2009)
Alt/Vid#1
-
Alt/Vid#2 -
Alt/Vid#3
-
Alt/Vid#4 -
Alt/Vid#5
-
Alt/Vid#6
Must View Videos - A
quote...."In March 2009, two activists Patrick Ward and Stewart
Halforty from the London Stop the War Movement travelled to the Gaza
Strip in Palestine with the intention of documenting the effects of the
recent attack on Gaza by Israel. Taking only basic equipment they
crossed the border into Gaza where the full horror of the attacks
became apparent. This film remarkably shot in under 48 hours features
interviews with the Samoudi family who lost 48 members of their family
after Israel ordered them into a residential house which was then
shelled. The lads also traveled to Gaza city and interviewed Dr Abu
Shaban who is the Head of Burns and Plastic Surgery at the Shifa
Hospital which saw the arrival of thousands of casualties during the
attack. He gives a compelling insight into Israel’s actions during the
attack on Gaza and raises the question that banned and experimental
weapons were tested on the Gazan civilian population."
Christian
Peacemakers
deported
from
Israel
A quote...."Two members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams have been
refused entry into Israel, and deported by Israeli authorities."
Candlelight
demonstration
remembers
the
martyrs
of
Nablus
and
Gaza
A quote...."A demonstration was held in the northern West Bank city of
Nablus last night to mark the anniversary of the 3-week assault
launched on Gaza one year ago that left over 1,400 Palestinians dead,
and to mourn the assassination of 3 men by Israeli soldiers in Nablus
last week."
Fishing
Under
Fire
Report
2009
A quote...."Since the declaration of the “ceasefire”(18/1/2009), till
the end of the year:"
Arrest warrants keep Israeli team away from UK
Special Note -
Isn't it just completely awful when you
can't incinerate with utter impunity, men, women and children, using
white
phosphorous whenever you want to? That there's these pesky,
little,
ridiculous laws which could actually put you in legal jepardy for doing
so. It's like having an itch you can't scratch. - mpg --
A quote...."The incident provoke anger among Israeli officials who
cried that the British legal system's acceptance of pro-Palestinian
group's lawsuits was threatening to "undermine relations"
[Oh My Gawd!! How terrible!]
between London and Tel Aviv. -- "Should we not get the appropriate
securities
[Wa'da they mean....junk
bonds, credit default swaps, what?] and if the British law
remains unchanged, Israeli officers and seniors
[What, they want senior discounts
now too? Burn three kids alive for the price of one?] will
not
be
able
to
travel
to
Britain,
[What
a tragedy that would be, it'll be the end of Britain if the world's
newest Mini-Nazis
can't travel there.] which would undermine the good relations,"
[guess that means no more hugs and kisses]
Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon said Tuesday." -
also posted at WarInIraq
Criminals
Running
Again
From
the
Law
-
Anyone
notice
a
theme
here?
Related Article - Well, the cowardly War criminals are running from the
law again. Israel, the “only” democracy in the Middle East, well, then
there is Palestine, but they don’t like to talk about THAT democratic
election, Never mind, back to the criminals. They have cancelled a
visit to Britain for fear of arrest. Because this “so called” democracy
in fact does not respect the law at all, and prefers to break it every
chance they get. And then arm twist, bribe and pay off countries and
governments to protect them from the Law everyone else has to abide by.
Hence, Israel’s current answer is not to abide by the law, but change
it for the protection of criminals."
Viva
Palestina
are
faced
with
2,000
riot
police
in
the
port
of
Al-Arish!
A quote...."To all friends of Palestine -- Our situation is now at a
crisis point! Riot has broken out in the port of Al- Arish. -- This
late afternoon we were negotiating with a senior official from Cairo
who left negotiations some two hours ago and did not return. Our
negotiations with the official was regarding taking our aid vehicles
into Gaza. --
He left two hours ago and did not come back. Egyptian authorities
called over 2,000 riot police who then moved towards our camp at the
port. -- We have now blocked the entrance to the port and we are now
faced with riot police and water cannons and are determined to defend
our vehicles and aid."
Irish4Palestine on the al Arish
Mossad/Egyptian police inspired Thug-O-Thon
#10
Viva
Palestina
Update,
Last
One
I
Hope -
videos
#9
Update
on
Convoy
Attack
#8
Update
Viva
Palestina
Attack
#7
Latest
on
Attack
of
Convoy
People
Hurt
and
Missing
#6
Urgent!!!
Convoy
Under
Attack
#5
Update
Viva
Palestina
Trouble
at
al
Arish
#4
Update
Viva
Palestina
More
Problems
#3
viva
Palestina
Update
5
January
#2
Updated
Viva
Palestina~Derry
to
Gaza
Update
5
January
#1
Viva
Palestina
Update
5th
January
Egyptian
reactions
I
A quote...."While their government did everything it could to block our
efforts to join our sisters and brothers in Gaza and to spread
falsehoods about the nature of the Gaza Freedom March and its
participants, the response we got from ordinary Egyptians was
overwhelmingly positive."
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Peter
Schiff
On
CNBC -
Alt
- (YouTube 7
min 04 sec - January 05, 2010)
Must View Video -
A vigorous discussion, Shiff defends his
views quite ably. - mpg --
For
more
on
this
sort
of
issue
see....Which
Flation
Will
Get
Us? and Price
Deflation,
Black-Scholes
&
The
Fed
-
12-01-09
-
mpg
US
Avoids
Technical
Default
By
Three
Days
A quote...."On December 24, the Senate passed a vote by a razor thin
margin (with not a vote to spare) to raise the Federal debt ceiling
from $12,104 billion to $12,394 billion. The actual debt ceiling
increase took effect on December 28. And as the chart below shows, the
Treasury's cash flow projections were spot on: 3 days later, and the
debt subject to limit
surged to $12,254,
a jump of over $200 billion in 2 days, and a whopping $150 billion
over the old debt ceiling. Three days is all the buffer the
administration's reckless spending spree has afforded this country to
avoid bankruptcy. Had one more Democratic vote dissented from the
stopgap measure,
the US would now be
in technical default. There is just $140 billion left before the
revised debt ceiling is breached. We hope for the country's sake that
Bill refunding in January is massive, because as we already pointed
out, on January 7th we expect another ~$130 of new Treasuries to be
announced for auction by January 15th."
Robert
Rubin:
All
Hell
Could
Break
Loose
Because
of
the
Huge
Government
Debt
A quote...."The ultimate insider, Robert Rubin, who is a former
secretary of the Treasury (1995–99) and now serves as co-chairman of
the Council on Foreign Relations and is a fellow of the Harvard
Corporation, in a Newseek opinion piece had this to say:" --
also posted at BLN
Goldman's
offshore
deals
deepened
global
financial
crisis
A quote...."NEW YORK — When financial titan Goldman Sachs joined some
of its Wall Street rivals in late 2005 in secretly packaging a new
breed of offshore securities, it gave prospective investors little hint
that many of the deals were so risky that they could end up losing
hundreds of millions of dollars on them."
US
home sales plummet, personal bankruptcies soar
A quote...."An important measure of future home sales fell far more
sharply in November than economists had expected. The National
Association of Realtors (NAR) index on pending home sales—contracts
agreed upon but not finalized—dropped by 16 percent in November, more
than three times what economists interviewed by the Dow Jones Newswires
had anticipated."
US
Pending
Home
Sales
Plunge
the
Most
on
Record
Chart - A quote...."A
housing
market recovery is one of the essential platforms to a broader recovery
for the battered US economy; and for the most part, data has been
supportive of a slow but steady recovery in the economic sector
arguably responsible for the world’s credit crisis. However, the
November reading of the pending home sales report delivered a shock by
tumbling 16 percent."
AP:
2009
bankruptcies
total
1.4
million,
up
32
pct
A quote...."RALEIGH, N.C. – U.S. consumers and businesses are filing
for bankruptcy at a pace that made 2009 the seventh-worst year on
record, with more than 1.4 million petitions submitted, an Associated
Press tally showed Monday."
December
Rolling
Tax
Witholdings
Collapse
To
Multi-Year
Low
A quote...."The rolling twelve month individual tax witholdings in
December dropped to a new multi-year low of $1.298 trillion (an 8.2%
decline from last December). Yet this was nothing compared to the
company tax witholdings. We thought November was bad at $99.2 billion.
December came in at a stunning $92.8 billion,
61.5% lower then the LTM December 2008
number. Record financial profits, record bonuses, and the Treasury and
US taxpayers are none the wiser."
PIMCO
Sees
UK
Rating
Downgrade
Probability
At
80%,
Gilts
Higher
By
100
Bps
A quote...."The end of QE will be a big problem in the US. Yet what
happens in the UK, where the BOE is openly monetizing, once their free
liquidity ends, could be a watershed event. Couple this with the
likelihood of a downgrade, and the UK's fiscal and monetary future in
2010 is looking quite shaky. Today PIMCO's Scott Mather told Dow Jones
his expectation for a rating downgrade of the island nation: "It's just
a question of when on the current trajectory, not if. Based on what we
know today about the debt trajectory and about the inability to adjust
that, I think it's greater than a 50% likelihood for sure.
Call it more like 80%."
Spanish
inflation,
joblessness
rise
in
Dec
This is commonly called
"stagflation", Neo-Romans in this country are going to see
"hyper-stagflation" at some point in the not to distant future.
Something never ever seen before except once
in Weimar Germany. - mpg -- A quote...."MADRID:
Spanish consumer prices rose by a more than expected 0.9 percent
year-on-year in December, boosted by the base effects of an energy
price rally over the last year, but a weak economy meant unemployment
also rose."
Monday January 4th 2010
The
Prestige
–
Part
1:The
Pledge
Must Read - A
quote...."At the start of the previous decade, the story began to take
shape; the Pledge had begun. The history of The New American Century
was about to be dominated by a fanatical
and
illusive
band
of
traveling
demons; al Qaeda. They hated
us for our freedom we were told; they struck at us from hiding; they
were and are an ever shifting, ever-changing enemy of our ideology,
hell-bent on creating terror where-ever they go, simply for terror’s
sake. Even the most outspoken critic of US foreign policy dares
not undermine the foundations of the Pledge. Like a magician who
picks a ringer out of the audience, like David Blaine and his obviously
well-rehearsed gags with a “random” member of the crowd, the real
audience must take the Pledge at his word else the entire illusion
crumbles like a house of cards. " -- For
more
on
this
sort
of
issue
see....Reficultnias's
9/11
Central
Blowback
On
the
Border:
The
Purpose
of
the
Terror
War
System
Must Read - A
quote...."The Terror War is not an event, or a campaign, or even a
crusade; it
is
a
system. Its purpose is not to eliminate "terrorism"
(however this infinitely elastic term is defined) but to perpetuate
itself, to do what it does: make war. This system can be immensely
rewarding, in many different ways, for those who operate or assist it,
whether in government, media, academia, or business. This too is a
self-sustaining dynamic, a feedback loop that gives money, power and
attention to those who serve the system; this elevated position then
allows them to accrue even more money, power and attention, until in
the end -- as we can plainly see today -- any alternative voices and
viewpoints are relegated to the margins. They are "unserious." They are
unimportant. They are not allowed to penetrate or alter the operations
of the system." - bold/underline by website editor
Understanding
the
'Unserious
Empire'
Must Read - A
quote...."To explain not one,
but two decades of American war, conducted aggressively since the
collapse of the USSR by four different American presidents, two
Republicans and two Democrats, punctuated for the mass public with
spikes of "war" activity and intelligence alarms, the most
workable
perspective is gained by simply following the money. Some argue
that
Iraq and Afghanistan weren’t about oil and gas because they weren’t
about owning real estate and doing the hard work of getting oil out of
the ground, or actually building wealth through transportation links
and pipeline construction. Instead, our wars and ongoing occupations
have produced corruption and waste rather than real capital development
and human productivity in the distant warzones. Regular people who work
honestly for a living, who understand wealth creation on a human scale
– and consequently are not overly interested in debt/equity
swaps and credit
default
insurance
used by politically connected banks and
investment firms – regular people don’t intuitively see how waste,
corruption and chaos can be a good thing. --- Murder, too, for
that matter – it’s all good and useful if it creates demand for
government subsidy of, and government spending on, things our
war-fighting, intelligence, security and nation-building industries
produce." - bold/underline by website editor
The
US and China: - One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning
Must Read - A
quote...."January 03, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Asian
capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for
global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic
growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire
building. - One Day's Read of the Financial Times" - also posted at DProgram
Australian
Soldiers
Kill
Afghan
Children - Alt
- (YouTube -
8 in 46 sec - January 02, 2010)
Video - A quote...."5
Afghan children killed by the Australian soldiers."
The
Pictures
of
War
You
Aren’t
Supposed
to
See
A quote...."War is brutal and impersonal. It mocks the fantasy of
individual heroism and the absurdity of utopian goals like democracy.
In an instant, industrial warfare can kill dozens, even hundreds of
people, who never see their attackers. The power of these industrial
weapons is indiscriminate and staggering. They can take down apartment
blocks in seconds, burying and crushing everyone inside. They can
demolish villages and send tanks, planes and ships up in fiery blasts.
The wounds, for those who survive, result in terrible burns, blindness,
amputation and lifelong pain and trauma. No one returns the same from
such warfare. And once these weapons are employed all talk of human
rights is a farce." -- also posted at
ICH
Yemen
dismisses
Al
Qaeda
threat
as
'exaggerated'
A quote...."Reporting from Beirut - Yemeni officials on Sunday
dismissed the threat posed by Al Qaeda in their country as
"exaggerated" and downplayed the possibility of cooperating closely
with the United States in fighting Islamic militants, even as the U.S.
and Britain temporarily closed their diplomatic outposts in Yemen
because of unspecified Al Qaeda threats." -- also posted at ICH
& Uruknet
Yemen
rules
out
US
intervention
A quote...."Yemen's foreign minister has ruled out direct US military
intervention to tackle the [Saudi
Royal & CIA sponsored] al-Qaeda group operating in his
country." - also posted at Uruknet
- Yemen is a country? It has a
foreign minister? That's news to most Neo-Romans living in this
country! "Who cares", they'll say, "let's go bomb them anyway". -
mpg
Sixteen
Yemenis
killed
in
Saudi
air
raids:
rebels
A quote...."SANAA — Saudi Arabia has carried out a series of lethal air
raids across the border with Yemen, killing 16 civilians and wounding
19 others, Yemen's Shiite rebels said on Monday. -- In one of 25 raids
launched on Monday, six civilians were killed and six others were
wounded, women and children among them, according to a statement issued
by the rebels, who Riyadh has been battling since early November."
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More on the
US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco
The Strange
Case of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab
Special Note - A
quote...."Despite some $40 billion dollars spent by the American people
on airline security since 2001, allegedly to thwart attacks on the
Heimat, the botched attempt by Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab to bring down
Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day was foiled,
not by a bloated counterterrorist bureaucracy, but by the passengers
themselves. -- Talk about validating that old Wobbly slogan: Direct
action gets the goods! -- And yet, the closer one looks at the
available evidence surrounding the strange case of Umar Farouk Abdul
Mutallab, the more sinister alleged "intelligence failures" become. As
this story unfolds it is becoming abundantly clear that U.S. security
officials had far more information on the would-be lap bomber than
we've been told." -- also posted at
GlobalRsrch
& Uruknet
Questions
mount
over
attempt
to
bomb
Detroit-bound
jetliner
Special Note - A
quote...."The official discussion repeats the same rhetorical trope
employed to cover up the role of US intelligence agencies before the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—that they failed to “connect
the dots.” This metaphor suggests a highly abstruse process in which
many small details, each seemingly innocent in itself, are correlated
through sophisticated analysis by experts familiar with the patterns of
terrorist operations. -- No such operation was required to detect the
Northwest Airlines bomb plot. The facts listed above were a series of
fire alarms, each sufficient in itself to give the alert. To stop
Abdulmuttalab from boarding the US-bound jetliner was a routine police
matter, one that would ordinarily be executed without difficulty by the
government of any middle-sized country, let alone by the most powerful
military/intelligence apparatus on the planet."
MI5
told
US
about
Detroit
bomber's
terror
links
'a
year
ago' - Article also posted at DProgram
Special Note - A
quote...."Britain told American intelligence agents more than a year
ago that the Detroit bomber had links to extremists, according to
Downing Street."
9/11
Commission
Chairman:
Plane
Bomber
“Did
Us
A
Favor”
Special Note - A
quote...."9/11 Commission whitewash chief Thomas Kean told CNN
yesterday that the Christmas Day plane bomber “did us a favor,” by
allowing Obama to expand the so-called war on terror into Yemen, a
startling reminder that the highly suspicious Flight 253 attack served
to fulfil pre-determined U.S. geopolitical objectives." - also posted
at AlethoNews
& BLN
- Yeah, and AIPAC/PNACkers said the
exact same thing on 9/11....go figure. - mpg
Given
Everything
That's
Happened,
Shouldn't
We
At
Least
ASK?
Special Note - A
quote....""Given that Cheney is apparently at least
partly responsible for creating the terror problem in Yemen ...
And
that
one
of
the
most
highly
decorated
soldiers
of
all
time
says
that "war is a racket" ... Given
that FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, constitutional law
expert professor Jonathan Turley, Time Magazine, Keith Olbermann and
the Washington Post have all said
that U.S. government officials "were trying to create an atmosphere of
fear in which the American people would give them more power"...
And that "truth
is
the
first
casualty
of
war"...
And that fear
of
terrorism
makes
people
stupid ... Isn't it worth at least
ASKING whether we can rule out false flag
terrorism"
Kurt
Haskell
on
Alex
Jones
TV
(Sun.
Edtn.)
–
FBI
Still
Protecting
Plane
Bombers
Accomplice! @ DProgam
Must View Video - Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 -
(InfoWars YouTube - aprox 10 min each - January 03, 2010) -- More on the lap bomber from an eye
witness. Here's his
blog. - mpg
For more on this sort of issue
see....US-False
Flag
Ops
-
Detroit's
"Lap-Bomber"
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Are
US
Forces
Executing
Kids
in
Afghanistan?
Americans
Don't
Even
Know
to
Ask
Photos - A quote...."The
Taliban suicide attack that killed a group of CIA agents in Afghanistan
on a base that was directing US drone aircraft used to attack Taliban
leaders was big news in the US over the past week, with the airwaves
and front pages filled with sympathetic stories referring to the fact
that the female station chief, who was among those killed, was the
"mother of three children." -- But the apparent mass murder of Afghan
school children, including one as young as 11 years old, by US-led
forces (most likely either special forces or mercenary contractors
working for the Pentagon or the CIA), was pretty much blacked out in
the American media. Especially blacked out was word from UN
investigators that the students had not just been killed but executed,
many of them after having first been rousted from their bedroom and
handcuffed."
Who
Was
the
CIA
Suicide
Bomber
in
Afghanistan?
A quote....."Mohammad Al-Najjar from Jordan reported in the Arabic
edition of Al-Jazeera about the identity of the suicide-bomber in
Afghanistan who killed himself and seven CIA elements, and wounded
another six.
- Who was the CIA suicide-bomber in Afghanistan?
- Who sent him to work as CIA agent?
- When and Why?
The answers to these questions can be found in the report of Mr.
Mohammad Al-Najjar from Jordan. -- also
posted
at Uruknet
& WarInIraq
Eighth
man
killed
in
CIA
attack
in
Afghanistan
a
Jordanian
spy
A quote...."The eighth man killed in a suicide bomb attack on a secret
CIA base in Afghanistan last week was a captain in the Jordanian spy
service known as the General Intelligence Department (GID)."
Germany
knows
nothing
of
alleged
CIA
murder
plot - More on
the CIA's cover-up of 9/11 - mpg
A quote...."BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government said on Monday it
knew nothing about a magazine report that the CIA had planned a secret
operation to kill a German-Syrian in Hamburg linked to the September 11
attacks on U.S. targets." -- For
more on this sort of issue see....9/11-Iraq-Torture
Fables specifically regarding
what happened to Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi.
33
Conspiracy
Theories
That
Turned
Out
To
Be
True,
What
Every
Person
Should
Know
@ DProgram
Must Read & Must View Videos.....
Alt videos shown below....
A quote...."Conspiracy theory is a term that originally was a neutral
descriptor for any claim of civil, criminal or political conspiracy.
However, it has come almost exclusively to refer to any fringe theory
which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret
plot by conspirators of almost superhuman power and cunning. To
conspire means “to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or
wrongful act or to use such means to accomplish a lawful end.”
The term “conspiracy theory” is frequently used by scholars and in
popular culture to identify secret military, banking, or political
actions aimed at stealing power, money, or freedom, from “the people”.
-- To many, conspiracy theories are just human nature. Not all
people in this world are honest, hard working and forthcoming about
their intentions. Certainly we can all agree on this. So
how did the term “conspiracy theory” get grouped in with fiction,
fantasy and folklore?"
Emirates
is
Top
US
Military
Customer
A quote...."Two UAE orders for military helicopters and guided bombs
capped a remarkable year for procurement in which the Emirates became
the largest foreign purchaser of US defence equipment, a Pentagon
agency said."
EU
lawmakers
call
off
Iran
trip - Guess
Obama isn't the only one who knows how to to kiss AIPAC butt. - mpg
A quote...."A delegation of EU legislators canceled a planned trip to
Iran after US congressmen sent a letter of protest to Jerzy Buzek,
president of the European Parliament, EU Parliament spokesman Thomas
Dudrap confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Monday."
Iran
bans
contact
with
groups
involved
in
soft
war
A quote...."Iran has banned Iranian citizens from cooperating with 60
international institutions and a number of media outlets due to their
involvement in the post-election unrest."
Canada’s
Rogue
Conservatives
Prorogue
Parliament
A quote..."This week during the year’s slowest news period, startling
reports from Ottawa have revealed that the Canadian conservative Prime
Minster, Stephen Harper has prorogued or postponed the opening of
parliament for at least a month. With the governor general’s
blessings (who according to parliamentary procedure the authority to
close down the legislature) he plans to proceed with this
scurrilous plot and thereby undermine parliamentary democracy. If all
goes according to Harper’s plan, then the House of Commons which is due
to resume its New Year’s session on January 23rd will not sit until
March 3rd or after the winter Olympics games to be held in February in
Vancouver , B.C."
Japan
vows
to
pursue
more
equal
ties
with
US
Yeah, being one of the New
Roman Empire's lackeys is not a lot of fun, as the British people have
already found out. - mpg -- A quote...."TOKYO: Japanese Prime
Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledged on Monday to pursue more equal
relations with the United States as Tokyo seeks to defuse a row with
its close ally over where to move an American military base."
US
aid
for
Israel
tied
to
arms
sales:
75%
of
the
aid
must
be
used
to
buy
military
material
made
in the US
A quote...."WASHINGTON: Just before Christmas, the US President, Barack
Obama, signed into law one of his country's biggest aid pledges of the
year. It was bound not for Africa or any of the many struggling
countries on the World Bank's list."
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Long
Live
Palestine
–
Lowkey - Alt/Vid#1 - Alt/Vid#2 -
(YouTube - aprox 10 min each - Dec. 31, 2009)
Must View Videos - (Outstanding Videos! - mpg ) -- A
quote...."Long Live Palestine Part 2 by Lowkey (ft DAM, Shadia Mansour,
Reveal, Hich-Kas, Eslam Jawaad, The Narcycist, Hasan Salaam) is
available for purchase now from http://bit.ly/5SxmrV
-- 50% of all profits will be donate to Interpal, and the other 50%
will be donated to Islamic Relief's Gaza Strip Appeal."
"I hope
that I die on my land"
Must Read Interview - A
quote...."Fatima Mohammed Yassin, 49, is a farmer from the Palestinian
village of Bilin in the occupied West Bank. In spite of Israel's
occupation and construction of its wall in the West Bank, including on
Bilin's farm land, Yassin and her husband continue to work their land
on a daily basis. Jody McIntyre spoke to her for The Electronic
Intifada." -- also posted at AltheoNews
When
Does
It
Become
Genocide? - Alt
- Alt
- Alt
Special Note - A
quote...."During a visit to Ramallah a year ago while the Israeli
bombardment of Gaza was underway, I shared my fears with a close
Palestinian friend. "It may sound insane, but I think the Israelis’
real objective is to see them all dead." - My friend told me not to be
silly, the assault was horrific, but it was not mass killing. I said
that wasn’t the issue: This was a population already very vulnerable to
disease, ill-health, and malnutrition after years of siege, with its
infrastructure rotted, its water and food contaminated. Israel’s war
would surely push the people over the brink, especially if the siege
was maintained -- as it has been." -- Hmmmmm,
this
website
editor's
seen
this
sort
of
thing
before.....that's
right,
the
Native
Americans
experienced
this
sort
of
"special
treatment".
–
mpg
Israeli
forces
'deliberately
let
him
bleed
to
death'
A quote...."Bethlehem - Ma'an - On 4 January 2009, one year ago today,
Iyad Samouni, his wife, and five children were together with about 40
other members of their extended family in the house of Asaad Samouni, a
relative." -- also posted at AlethoNews
Israeli
occupation
authority
continues
to
desecrate
Mamanullah
cemetery
A quote...."OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The Israeli occupation authority (IOA)
is still unearthing and destroying the ancient Muslim cemetery in
Jerusalem, the Mamanullah (or Mamillah) graveyard, the committee for
reconstruction of Muslim cemeteries in Jerusalem said."
Viva
Palestina
Convoy
Arrives
in
El-Arish
Alt/Vid#1
- Alt/Vid#2 -
(PressTV YouTube - Vid1/38sec - Vid2/2min 6sec - January 04, 2010)
Videos - A
quote...."Press TV - 4 Jan 2010 2115GMT: Viva Palestina humanitarian
aid convoy has arrived in the Egyptian port city of El-Arish to pass
thought the Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip. Egypt is
refusing entry to a number of vehicles."
Unbreakable
in
Cairo
A quote...."Though I have lived most of my life in and around Chicago,
it has never been my complete home. My sisters and I were born as
first-generation Palestinian-Americans coming from Kuwait and for this
reason our lives in Chicago always felt temporary -- we were only
supposed to stay until the Gulf War was over, we finished school, the
occupation ended, the siege was broken, etc. The only accepted rhetoric
about our presence in America was and continues to be, "This is not our
home, we are from Gaza." The semantics of a Gazan home are lovely, but
the only sense of Gaza I have is as fleeting as gusts of dust that blow
off of old pictures. These faded images of a time and place that no
longer exist leave us with nostalgia for memories we never even lived.
It is the most porous of identities and I feel the gaps palpably."
My
Husband:
Jailed
for
Protesting
Israel’s
Wall
A quote...."On International Human Rights Day in last year, my husband
Abdallah Abu Rahmah was in Berlin receiving a medal from the World
Association for Human Rights. This year on the same day, December 10th,
Abdallah was taken away at 2am by Israeli soldiers who broke into our
West Bank home. Abdallah was arrested for the same reasons he received
the prize – his nonviolent struggle for justice, equality and peace in
Israel/Palestine."
320
Israeli
settler
attacks
in
Nablus
in
2009
A quote...."Ghassan Daghlis, head of village affairs in the West Bank
district of Nablus has confirmed there were 320 attacks by Israeli
settlers on Palestinians and their property throughout 2009. He said
the past year which witnessed the highest number of attacks since
records began was particularly difficult for farmers and civilians." - also posted at Uruknet
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========== ====
PPIP
May
Have
INCREASED
the
Amount
of
Some
Toxic
Assets
In March, I pointed
out that:
PPIP
[the Public-Private Investment Program] is a massive wealth transfer
from taxpayers to investors and banks, and that Treasury funds are
being used to sidestep Congress and their constituents - the American
people...
Citigroup,
Bank
of
America and other players are
already
gaming the program (and see
this),
which
will
create
unintended
consequences.
In April, I noted that the former head of structured
products at UBS said that game theory exposes PPIP as fraudulent. --
Also
in April, I predicted
that the PPIP will not substantially reduce the amount of toxic assets
in the system.
It's turned out to be even worse ... PPIP has
actually increased
the amount of some toxic assets."
Three
top
Wall
Street
banks
to
award
$49.5
billion
in
year-end
bonuses
A quote...."The US media has been virtually silent on the colossal
year-end bonuses for 2009 that will shortly be handed out by major
American banks and financial firms. This is doubtless a deliberate
response by the corporate-controlled media to popular anger over the
financial gains reaped by Wall Street executives, who have been bailed
out at taxpayer expense while working people have been left to face
depression levels of unemployment and mounting home foreclosures,
hunger and poverty." -- For more on
this issue see....Having
Fun
With
Your
Tax
Dollars
Coming
Soon: The Bill for the Massive U.S. Debt - Article also posted at DProgram
A quote...."Americans could be in for a rude awakening in coming months
when they discover the true scope of the massive national debt racked
up by the U.S. government. -- In fact, the $1.6 trillion deficit
expected for 2010, which is above 10% of gross domestic product (GDP),
is only the beginning. -- Since the current economic crisis began in
late 2007, the U.S. Federal Reserve has tripled the size of its balance
sheet, creating enormous amounts of new money by lending to hundreds of
ailing banks and buying up more than $1 trillion of questionable
asset-backed securities." -- Oh it's
much more than that, and much of it's hidden from public view, and much
of it's highly toxic. - mpg
Video:
USA
Will
Not
Repay
$1
Trillion
Debt
To
China - posted
at DProgram
Video - More Max,
same
message,
slightly
different
take
on
China's
options.
-
mpg
- A quote from http://silversnowball.com/2030...."While all the
talk is about gold bullion right now, silver is still a bargain and
will be playing catch up very soon. China is dependant on buying USA's
depreciating dollars so that it's own currency doesn't become more
valuable- thus affecting export affordability. China is trying to hoard
as much gold as it can because it knows that the US dollar is
eventually going to crash. Luckily China is a huge producer of gold
bullion. " posted at
(YouTube - 5 min
2 sec - January 04, 2010) by gausert123
China
manufacturing
growth
accelerates
A quote...."China's manufacturing activity has performed at its fastest
pace in more than five years for December, a survey of purchasing
executives shows."
Sunday January 3rd 2010
No posts. - mpg
Saturday January 2nd 2010
The Danger of
Defeatism -
posted at ConsortiumNews
Must Read - A
quote...."In 2004 I began speaking at rallies and forums around the
country on issues of peace and justice, something I've done off-and-on
ever since. -- Up through 2008, it was extremely unusual for questions
from the audience to consist of pure defeatism. In 2009, it was
rare to get through a Q&A session without being asked what the
point was of trying. -- And the defeatism is so contagious that it will
be hard for me to make it through 2010 if people don't shut up about
how doomed we are. -- If current trends continue, by 2011 the only
people showing up at forums on peace and justice will all be old enough
to tell my grandparents they're too young to understand how pointless
it is to try. And my grandparents are dead."
The
degrading
effects
of
terrorism
fears
Must Read - A quote...."
The citizenry has been trained to expect that our Powerful Daddies and
Mommies in government will -- in that most cringe-inducing, child-like
formulation -- Keep Us Safe. Whenever the Government fails to do
so, the reaction -- just as we saw this week -- is an ugly combination
of petulant, adolescent rage and increasingly unhinged cries that More
Be Done to ensure that nothing bad in the world ever happens.
Demands that genuinely inept government officials be held accountable
are necessary and wise, but demands that political leaders ensure that
we can live in womb-like Absolute Safety are delusional and
destructive. Yet this is what the citizenry screams out every
time something threatening happens: please, take more of our
privacy away; monitor more of our communications; ban more of us from
flying; engage in rituals to create the illusion of Strength; imprison
more people without charges; take more and more control and power so
you can Keep Us Safe. --- This is what inevitably happens
to a citizenry that is fed a steady diet of fear and terror for
years. It regresses into pure childhood. The 5-year-old
laying awake in bed, frightened by monsters in the closet, who then
crawls into his parents' bed to feel Protected and Safe, is the same as
a citizenry planted in front of the television, petrified by endless
imagery of scary Muslim monsters, who then collectively crawl to
Government and demand that they take more power and control in order to
keep them Protected and Safe." --
also
posted
at CommonDreams
Gandhi
and
The
Dalai
Lama
Are
Not
Opposed
to
Guns
Must Read - Some Quotes of the
Day....
Laws that forbid the carrying of
arms, disarm only those who are neither inclined, nor determined to
commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better
for the assailants. They serve rather to encourage than to prevent
homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence
than an armed man. -- *Thomas
Jefferson*, 1764
What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned
from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance.
Let them take arms. -- *Thomas
Jefferson*
Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for
those who didn't. -- *Ben Franklin*
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve
order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue
were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. -- *Thomas Paine*
A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they
should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of
independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would
include their own government. -- *George
Washington*
Editor's
special note on the three
articles shown above: The people's right to vote has still not
yet been totally violated. In other words the parasitic class lie
for, cheat for and steal all the votes they can get their hands on but
they can only change the outcome by about plus or minus five percent --
at least for now. So if the people of this nation are
dissatisfied with the present situation, if they're finally tired of
all the broken promises, if they have come to realize that voting for
either the Demo or Repub part of the DemoRepub party is TRULY a waste of one's vote....than they
should stop. It's just that simple. This coming election
the people of this country should go down to the polls and vote
for someone, ANYONE,
other than a DemoRepub. Their future and that of their children are at
stake. - mpg
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2010:
U.S.
To
Wage
War
Throughout
The
World
Geo-Political Analysis --
A quote...."January 1 will usher in the last year of the first decade
of a new millennium and ten consecutive years of the United States
conducting war in the Greater Middle East."
Obama
and
Afghanistan:
America’s
Drug-Corrupted
War
Geo-Political Analysis --
It is as if Washington had emerged with only one objective from
America’s failure in Vietnam: the urge to do it again and get it right.
But the principal obstacle to victory in Afghanistan is the same as in
Vietnam: the lack of a viable government to defend. The importance of
this similarity has been stressed by Thomas H. Johnson, coordinator of
anthropological research studies at the Naval Postgraduate School, and
his co-author Chris Mason. In their memorable phrase, "the Vietnam War
is less a metaphor for the conflict in Afghanistan than it is a
template:"
Pirates and Emperors
- Schoolhouse Rock - (YouTube - 3 min 45 sec - September 17, 2006)
Geo-Political Analysis -
(simplified) - Must View Video
- From the history file -
September 17,
2006 -- A quote...."A political schoolhouse rock cartoon about
terrorist/robbers/killers and US leaders."
Concern
as
China
clamps
down
on
rare
earth
exports
Special Note -
Let's go
invade them!!
-- Ohhh, was that a bad thing to say? After all, the
Anglo-Americans do that sort of thing so often it sort of becomes a
reflex thought. But, (sigh), China's got the bomb, lot's of them,
and over a billion people too, and they're right next to Russia and
Japan. Ohh wait, (thought balloon popping) there's this WHOLE
OTHER continent called Africa, and just like the Middle East they've
got all those pesky little countries that are riven by tribal and
religious identities and BEST OF ALL, they don't have the bomb
(snicker) – mpg -- A quote...."Britain and other
Western countries risk running out of supplies of certain highly
sought-after rare metals that are vital to a host of green
technologies, amid growing evidence that China, which has a monopoly on
global production, is set to choke off exports of valuable compounds.
--
Failure to secure
alternative long-term sources of rare earth
elements (REEs)
[Africa....London's
calling....]
would affect the manufacturing and development of low-carbon
technology, which relies on the unique properties of the 17 metals to
mass-produce eco-friendly innovations such as wind turbines and
low-energy lightbulbs." - bold by website editor -
also posted at CommonDreams
--
Ohhh, capital idea.
The Anglo-Americans
will invade more countries killing millions of their rightful
inhabitants (again), destroying vast swaths of their infrastructure
(again), so they can acquire (steal) their natural resources
(again), to "help"
(hold on to
your hats ladies and gentlemen) THE
ENVIRORNMENT!!! -- Ain't Neo-Colonialism wonderful? - mpg
Happy
2010
from
Obama
by
~Latuff2
Cartoon -
Click on the image to enlarge. - mpg
Obama
New
Year's
Eve
by
~Latuff2
Cartoon -
Click on the image to enlarge. - mpg
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Shooting
Hancuffed
Children -
In the Middle East
for now.....Africa later....mpg
A quote...."The occupied government of Afghanistan and the United
Nations have both concluded that U.S.-led troops recently dragged eight
sleeping children out of their beds, handcuffed some of them, and shot
them all dead. While this apparently constitutes an everyday act of
kindness, far less intriguing than the vicious singeing of his pubic
hairs by Captain Underpants, it is at least a variation on the ordinary
American technique of murdering men, women, and children by the dozens
with unmanned drones."
Yes,
Shooting Handcuffed Children
Related Article - A quote...."Silly me. I thought I could comment on
something that was in the news without proving that it was in the news.
Maybe this will help...."
Exclusive:
Secret
Army
squad
'abused
Iraqis'
A quote...."A secret army interrogation unit accused of being
responsible for the widespread abuse of Iraqi prisoners is being
investigated by the Ministry of Defence. -- Fourteen fresh claims of
torture against the British Army include detailed accounts of a shadowy
team of military and MI5 interrogators who are alleged to have
authorised the physical and sexual abuse of Iraqi detainees. -- The new
allegations bring the total number of cases being investigated by the
Government to 47."
Dancing
With
Snakes
A quote...."No kidding. Over the past week I have been
investigating our new terror target, the people of the nation of
Yemen. Let’s not fool ourselves anymore, we aren’t going there to
stop “al Qaeda” from lighting up more panty sparklers; we are going
there to prop-up a failing corrupt regime who just happens to be
“pro-Western”, “pro-business”, and deeply indebted to the World Bank
and the IMF. The Yemeni government is in deep trouble from all
sides and they need to be bailed-out. With all the money and
resources at stake, the debauched Yemeni government is just “too big to
fail”. At least, that’s how Washington sees it. "
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More on the
US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco
Crotch
Bombers,
Jewish
Media
Groups
and
the
USA's
'War
of
Terror'
Special Note - Propaganda Alert
-
Contains Video - Our old
friend Ben Venzke at the Jewish Media Group, IntelCenter, is at it
again. IntelCenter is famous for finding 'al Qaeda' videos and
releasing them even before the
dead
Bin
Laden is informed of his being on the recording. -- Now Ben
finds an 'al Qaeda' web page that is not to be found in the real world
and Americans get to find out which 'existential' enemy of Israel is
next on the list to be bombed to hell and gone, Yemen." --
For more on this issue see....US
Fake
Intel
/
Propaganda
-
"al
Qaeda"
Videos
U.S. - Israeli
Complicity in Terror Plots Exposed, FBI, Media Cover-Up Flight 253 Plot
Special Note - A
quote...."First Posted: December 31, 2009. Last updated: January 2,
2010. -- High-level help in yet another terror plot is emerging, along
with U.S. F.B.I. and D.O.J. cover-up of the facts and outright
involvement. History is rife with examples of intelligence agencies
setting up terror plots - sometimes with unintended victims and
consequences - and the Delta 253 terror plot is the latest such plot to
have gone wrong."
For more on this sort of issue
see....US-False
Flag
Ops
-
Detroit's
"Lap-Bomber"
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French
media
caught
red-handed:
Honduras
coup
protest
photo
presented
as
Iranian
Special Note - Propaganda Alert -
A
quote...."The
German
daily
Junge
Welt
reported
[1]
that
the
French
public
national
television
channel
"France
2"
has
diffused
an
image
of
a
protest
in
Honduras
against the June 2009 military coup and portrayed
it as young Iranians resisting security forces during the Ashura day
protests in Tehran." --
also posted
at AlethoNews
Iran
opposition
leaders
face
threat
of
prosecution
A quote...."The warning came a day after crowds at pro-government
rallies chanted calls for the execution of the opposition leaders and a
group posted an online threat that suicide squads were ready to
assassinate those leaders if the judiciary did not punish them within a
week. -- For a second straight day, government supporters staged a
rally wearing white funeral shrouds to symbolize a willingness to die
in defense of Iran’s clerical rulers. Several hundred turned out for
today’s demonstration in southern Tehran outside the offices of Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, state radio reported." --
For more on this entire issue see....It's
The
Votes
That
Count
-
06-28-09
-
mpg
Indian
consortium
to
invest
in
Iran
gas
field
A quote...."An Indian Consortium led by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
Limited (ONGC) is to finalize a deal to invest in the development of an
Iranian gas field, an Iranian official says."
Mahathir:
US
preparing
for
attack
on
Iran
War Alert - A
quote...."The former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has
warned that the US is preparing to launch an attack on Iran with the
help of Israel. -- "Obama is preparing for a (military) offensive on
Iran with the help of his ally, the Israeli regime," IRNA quoted
Mohamad as writing on his weblog."
China,
Ecuador
Extoll
Mutual
Links
A quote...."Beijing, Dec 2 (Prensa Latina) China and Ecuador
congratulated each other for their bilateral relations'' development,
celebrating the 30th anniversary of those links, an occasion
highlighted in messages exchanged by presidents Hu Jintao and Rafael
Correa."
Ecuador
prez:
US
extremists
plot
to
destabilize
Related Article - Full Quote...."QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuadorean
President Rafael Correa says right-wing extremists in the United States
are conspiring against his government by attempting to destabilize the
poor Andean nation. -- The leftist president contends that U.S.-based
groups—although not the U.S. government—are funneling aid to parts of
Ecuador's indigenous movement. -- He says plots to destabilize
progressive governments no longer use direct confrontation. -- Indian
protests and roadblocks in recent months have forced Correa to
reconsider proposals to allow mines on Indian lands without their
consent and to put water under state control. -- Ecuador's president
gave no examples of the aid he denounced, however. -- Correa spoke
Saturday on his weekly radio program."
Venezuela and
China Consolidate “Strategic Alliance,” Expand Bilateral Trade
Related Article - A quote...."Mérida, December 24th 2009
(Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan and Chinese government officials
and business leaders met in Caracas this week to discuss bilateral
relations. As a result of the accords signed at the meeting, Venezuela
will increase its supply of oil to China to more than 600,000 barrels
per day next year, and China will increase its investments in
Venezuelan agriculture, infrastructure, mining, and energy production."
The
Boiling
Frogs
Presents
Mark
Klein - Podcast Show #17
Audio Interview - A
quote...."Mark Klein provides us with his personal account of the
illegal spying apparatus installed at AT&T by the National Security
Agency and his battle as a whistleblower to bring it to light. He talks
about the difficulties in getting a reluctant media to report the
story, the incredible betrayal by the L.A. Times, his role as a witness
in a lawsuit brought against AT&T by the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF), the alarming state of our civil liberties today, the
need for vigilant activism, and more."
A Zero Hedge Premium
Preview: The Dionysian Rites of Henry Kissinger's CIA and the Iranian
Revolution of 2010
Event Note - A
quote...."As you may or may not know, Zero Hedge is in the process of
developing a number of premium offerings for 2010. One of these
is "Cf., The Journal of Irreverent Attacks on Conventional Wisdom,
Entrenched Dogma and Sacred Cows." For your reading pleasure, and
to act as a preview of premium things to come, we attach Volume I,
Issue I entitled "The Dionysian Rites of Henry Kissinger's CIA and the
Iranian Revolution of 2010." -- Abstract...."
Israeli
journo
longs
for
the
segregation
of
days
past
A quote...."After publishing an op-ed from a settler comparing herself
to Rosa Parks, Haaretz is back at it with one of its writers trying to
explain why democracy and civil rights are too dangerous to implement
in modern society (and this is the liberal Israeli newspaper). From the
article "Overly democratic ways can prove deadly":"
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
GAZA
FREEDOM
MARCH
IN
CANADA
–
Inspirational!
3Jan10 -
Alt
- (YuTb - 3
min 2 sec - Dec 30, 2009)
Video - Action Update - A
quote...."Carleton University Students Against Israeli Apartheid
protest in Toronto Canada on 27 December 2009 in solidarity with
protests all around world to end the siege on Gaza still ongoing 12
months after Israel’s brutal war on a civilian population." --
For
more on how
to
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the
upper-left-corner of the "Front Page" of this website. - mpg
Gaza Freedom
Marchers issue the ‘Cairo Declaration’ to end Israeli Apartheid
Action Update / Alert - A
quote...."Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at
accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
(BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. -- Roughly 1400 activists from 43
countries converged in Cairo on their way to Gaza to join with
Palestinians marching to break Israel’s illegal siege. They were
prevented from entering Gaza by the Egyptian authorities."
Reflections
of
war
on
Gaza,
Aljazeera
Parts
1-4 -
Alt/Vid#1
-
Alt/Vid#2 -
Alt/Vid#3
-
Alt/Vid#4
(YT
10m 021409)
AJ-Videos -
From the history file
-
February
14,
2009 -- A quote...."
Australians
for
Palestine Editor’s Note: do you want
to understand what it felt like to be in Gaza when the bombs were
falling? Do you want to identify with the families who felt death
right at their doorstep? Watch this and think about what our
silence is doing to these people still coming to grips with the
brutalization of their society one year after the war. You will not be
able to ignore Gaza again if you are at all human. Please pass this
link on. The whole world needs to know about that war and that Israel’s
savage treatment of the Palestinians is continuing with a crippling
siege that denies them any chance of rebuilding their lives." --
For more on this issue see....Gaza
Invasion
of
12/27/08
The
Occupation
indicts
the
director
of
“Jenin,
Jenin”
film
Censorship Alert - A
quote...."The Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz is expected to
file charges against the director of the film “Jenin, Jenin”, Mohammed
Barki, for allegedly defaming Israeli soldiers." --
also posted at AlethoNews
URGENT
ISRAELI
NAVY
BLOCK
VIVA
PALESTINA
AID
CONVOY
Action Update -- I just
got a message from the Derry to Gaza team on the Viva Palestina convoy
with the latest developments which are not very good for the Convoy or
Gaza, They are hearing that Israel will be performing "military"
operations in the waters, and the convoy cannot pass through. This
leaves them stranded and unable to make the deadline for crossing the
Rafah border which Egypt has given them. When I get more updates I'll
post them, that's it for now. Here's the message...."
Gaza
Freedom
March
Wrap
Up
Action Update - A
quote...."I'm sure its going to take me some time to process everything
that has happened in Cairo with the Gaza Freedom March over the past
week or so but here are some of my initial thoughts and feelings. Bear
in mind, these are my own opinions and reflections and they surely are
not the same as the 1300 other people who were in Cairo. So for what
its worth – here it goes:"
Hamas
Slams
World
Silence
on
Israeli
Military
Escalation
A quote...."Hamas has condemned "the international community's silence”
towards the Israeli-imposed blockade on the Gaza Strip. -- "This
aggression reflects the barbarian Israeli policy against the
Palestinians amid tightening a suffocating siege imposed on the Gaza
Strip for more than three years," said Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum on
Saturday, Xinhua reported."
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========== ====
Is
the
Fed
Juicing
the
Stock Market?
Special Note - Market Tech Note
- A quote...."Is the Fed manipulating the stock market? TrimTabs
CEO
Charles Biderman seems to think so, and he makes a strong case for his
theory in an article at zerohedge.com. -- Biderman focuses his
attention on the mystery surrounding the stock market's 9-month rally
and asks, "Where is the money coming from?" After all, the market
cap
has increased by more than $6 trillion since March 9. That amount of
money should be fairly easy to trace; right? -- Wrong." --
also posted at DProgram
--
For more on this sort of issue
see Standard
Disclaimer
An
Introspective
Look
at
the
Future of America - Systemic Fraud,
Corruption and Financial Instability
Special Note - A
quote...."As we close out 2009 and look forward into 2010 and beyond,
this has been a year of near financial catastrophe and monumental
change, none of which benefited America or ordinary Americans. Late in
2008 and throughout 2009, events have happened in the US which would
have been labeled unfathomable just a few short years ago, and yet
already these monumental changes are expected to be filed into the
memory hole and Americans are expected to believe nothing has changed."
--
also posted at DProgram
Dave’s Top 10 Reasons to
Expect the Yield Curve to Flatten
Special Note - Charts - A
quote...."As I told Larry Kudlow on CNBC last night, the employment
recovery will be poorer than the market appears to expect, for reasons
I’ve posted on this blog during the past two weeks. The yield curve is
at record steepness. I think that’s an overreaction. In fact, the steep
yield curve in the present environment is NOT a harbinger of recovery —
it’s a brake on recovery because it encourages banks to own Treasuries
rather than risky assets (see below). Here are my top ten reasons to
expect the yield curve to flatten."
U.S. to Lose $400 Billion
on Fannie, Freddie -
The yield
curve won't flatten with these (understated) losses.
A quote...."Taxpayer losses from supporting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
will top $400 billion, according to Peter Wallison, a former general
counsel at the Treasury who is now a fellow at the American Enterprise
Institute."
Aughts
were
a
lost
decade
for
U.S.
economy,
workers -
The
next one will make it two. - mpg
Special Note - Charts - A
quote...."The past decade was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern
times, a sharp reversal from a long period of prosperity that is
leading economists and policymakers to fundamentally rethink the
underpinnings of the nation's growth. -- It was, according to a wide
range of data, a lost decade for American workers. The decade began in
a moment of triumphalism -- there was a current of thought among
economists in 1999 that recessions were a thing of the past. By the
end, there were two, bookends to a debt-driven expansion that was
neither robust nor sustainable." --
From
Bloomberg
'Withdrawal
Tax':
How
to
Stick
It
to
the
Big
Banks
That
Got
Bailed
Out,
and
Make
Money
While
You're
at
It. Pass It On! -- A quote...."The Huffington
Post has come up with a nice little protest movement. Let's pull our
money out of the bailed-out banks and put it in local banks that lend
to locals. Who are the locals? People just like us. -- This makes sense
economically. If you ever want a loan, get it from your own banker. If
it's a local bank, you will be treated well. -- The FDIC insures all
accounts up to $250,000. Your money is as safe in a local bank as a
bailed-out mega-bank."
Yummy!
Ammonia-Treated
Pink
Slime
Now
in
Most
U.S.
Ground
Beef
Health Alert - A
quote...."You're not going to believe what you've been eating the last
few years (thanks, Bush! thanks meat industry lobbyists!) when you eat
a McDonald's burger (or the hamburger patties in kids' school lunches)
or buy conventional ground meat at your supermarket...."
Friday January 1st 2010
Evidence
Mounts
for
US
Complicity
in
Terrorism:
Mutallab's
father
is
no
ordinary
'banker'
Must Read - A
quote...."When nothing adds up, its time we starting looking at what we
know. Our recent terrorist, now dubbed "the crotch bomber" is another
dupe. He could have been working for anyone, drugged, brainwashed or
simply influenced, maybe by crazy Arabs, maybe by the Mossad, maybe by
the CIA. We only know the game is falling apart. -- We do know a couple
of things.
Dad,
back
in
Nigeria,
ran
the
national
arms
industry (DICON)
in partnership
with Israel, in particular, the Mossad. He was in daily contact
with them. They run everything in Nigeria, from arms production to
counter-terrorism. Though Islamic, Muttalab was a close associate of
Israel. He has been misrepresented. His "banking" is a cover. Next,
what do we know about the two Al Qaeda leaders Bush had released, the
ones who planned this? -
According
to
ABC
news, the Al Qaeda leaders running the insurgency in Yemen
were released from Guantanamo, although two of the highest ranking
known terrorists there, without trial." --
also posted at SOTT
& DProgram
& InfoWarsIreland
& PakistanDaily
The
Underwear
Bomber
-
Crushing
Freedom
With
Phony
Arab
Terrorism
Must Read - A
quote...."Guess who runs the security at Amsterdam Schipol airport?
ICTS of course! the same Israeli owned security company that somehow
managed to let the shoe bomber on his Miami flight in 2001 and several
of those mythical hijackers who allegedly flew out of Boston's Logan
airport on 9/11. It is also useful to remember that the shoe bomber was
cleared through ICTS and El Al security at Amsterdam airport on a
flight to Tel Aviv in July 2001 for what was apparently an all-expenses
paid week-long trip to the Israeli city. What precisely he did there
remains a mystery."
Who
Let
Security
Fail
at
Schiphol?
ICTS
Conspiracy
Must Read - A
quote...."The elder Mutallab is a frequent visitor to the United States
and he is married to a Yemeni woman. -- For a number of years,
passengers at Schiphol flying to the United States have been subjected
to intense grilling by security personnel linked to an Israeli firm. --
In fact, these procedures were in effect even prior to the 9/11 attacks
and many were put into place after the Pan Am 103 bombing in December
1998."
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9/11 - From The History File...
All 9/11
Airports Serviced by One Israeli Owned Company
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Haskell
Family:
FBI
has
changed
accounts
4
times;
our
story
is
the
same
since
day
one
Special Note - A
quote...."COMMENT: As a customs official now confirms the 2nd man
detained, confirming the Haskell’s account, the Detroit News points out
that the FBI story has changed 4 times, while the Haskell’s has
remained unchanged since day one: “I just want them to look into
our claims,” Lori Haskell said. “Our story has been the same since Day
One because we are telling the truth. This is the FBI’s fourth story.”
--
For more on the four articles
shown above see....US-False
Flag
Ops
-
Detroit's
"Lap-Bomber"
Iraq
bomb
plotters
recruited
in
US-run
prison:
police
Special Note - A
quote...."BAGHDAD — Two men on death row for masterminding an Al-Qaeda
truck bombing that killed 88 people on June 20 were recruited in a
US-run prison camp, a senior Iraqi police commander said on Thursday.
-- Adnan Jassim Ali al-Hamdani and Hawas Falah al-Juburi were among
three people sentenced on Tuesday to death by hanging for their part in
the bombing in the predominantly Shiite Turkmen town of Taza in
northern Iraq which also wounded 265 people, according to a police
toll." --
For more on this issue see
also....
Al
Qaeda recruited bombers from US prison in Iraq
US
prison in Iraq a training ground for extremists: report
US
Iraq
jail
an
'al-Qaeda
school'
-
video
-
Alt
(YouTube - 2min 54sec - December 11, 2009)
World’s
Sole
Military
Superpower’s
2
Million-Troop,
$1
Trillion
Wars
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."In
his
Nobel
Peace
Prize
acceptance
speech
on
December
10
the
president
of
the
United
States
appropriated
for
his
country
the
title
of
“the
world’s
sole
military
superpower”
and
for
himself “the
Commander-in-Chief of the military of a nation in the midst of two
wars.” -- This may well have been the first time that an American – and
of course any – head of state in history boasted of his nation being
the only uncontested military power on the planet and unquestionably
the only time a Nobel Peace Prize recipient identified himself as
presiding over not only a war but two wars simultaneou
sly." -
It's only "two" wars if you treat the
US-NRE's occupation of both Afghanistan and Pakistan (Afpak) as one
war. But lets face facts folks, Bombs Away O-Bomb-a is HELL-BENT
on starting two more occupations in both Yemen and Iran. - mpg
Regarding the six articles
shown above -- Just think about it this way folks, for every dollar the
US-NRE / Military Industrial Complex gives to support terrorist groups
throughout the Middle East, it generates for itself about two hundred
dollars in funding for the "war on terror". That's a pretty good
rate of return, and a very well designed, highly profitable business
model. - mpg - posted 03-03-09
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========== ====
Making
"Islam"
synonymous
with
"terrorism"
Special Note - A
quote...."No matter how many times you see it, the capacity for people
to believe what they want to believe, rather than what is actually
true, is astounding -- and those who want to depict Islam as the
ultimate evil seem to grant themselves special license to live that
way:" --
also posted at DProgram
"Smart power”
and “bear traps” in the Hindu Kush
A quote...."The US President Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet at
the regional powers with his latest Afghan strategy. The constructive
ambiguity in his strategy falls in the Kissingerian tradition of
negotiating tactic. In a climate of deeply polarized political opinion,
he is free to advance matters of vital US interests, while retaining
the prerogative to revisit unresolved questions at a date of his
choice." --
also posted at ICH
Boy
watches
US
forces
shoot
father
in
head
Special Note - A
quote...."Recent reports indicate that a new stage may have been
reached in the war in Afghanistan. Secret operations of CIA and special
forces appear to have stepped up their infamous night raids, which have
induced fear in much of the local population. -- We saw in a blog post
a few weeks ago that
up
to
15
civilians
in
Laghman were killed in a ground forces operation
apparently carried out under NATO command. NATO itself, after initial
denials, appeared to acknowledge civilian casualties, but was
characteristically vague about it. -- Now, according to the article
below, it seems that the attack-cum-massacre was carried out at night
and, according to locals, perpetrated by US special forces on the
ground. (The Washington Post, however,
mistakenly
reported as late as Dec 30 that the attack was an airstrike.)" --
also posted at Uruknet
Afghan
Govt
Calls
on
NATO
to
Hand
Over
Those
Responsible
for
Kunar
Killings
A quote...."The Afghan National Security Council has raised the stakes
in the aftermath of this week’s alleged Kunar massacre, calling for
NATO to hand over the responsible parties immediately to Afghan
authorities." --
also posted at
AmericanEveryman
Karzai
calls
for
US
troops
in
Afghan
custody
Related Article - A quote...."Afghanistan has demanded that foreign
troops responsible for the killing of 10 civilians be handed over to
the custody of the government. -- The demand has been made via the
National Security Council chaired by President Hamid Karzai on
Thursday."
7
[more]
civilians
killed
in
S.
Afghanistan
A quote...."KABUL, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in southern
Afghanistan's Helmand province said Thursday that a military operation
on Taliban has claimed the lives of seven civilians in the province."
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Judge Dismisses
Charges Against Blackwater Guards Involved in Iraq Massacre
Special Note - A
quote...."A federal judge in Washington, DC on Thursday dismissed
criminal charges against five Blackwater guards involved in the
massacre of 14 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in September 2007, an
incident that led to a public outcry over the government's increasing
reliance on contractors in the battlefield." --
also posted at Uurknet
Fed
Judge
Gives
Blackwater
Huge
New
Year's
Gift,
Dismisses
All
Charges
In
Iraq
Massacre
Related Article - A quote...."A federal judge in Washington DC has
given Erik Prince’s Blackwater mercenaries a huge New Year’s gift.
Judge Ricardo Urbina dismissed all charges against the five Blackwater
operatives accused of gunning down 14 innocent Iraqis in Baghdad’s
Nisour Square in September 2007. Judge Urbina’s order, issued late in
the afternoon on New Year’s Eve is a stunning blow for the Iraqi
victims’ families and sends a clear message that US-funded mercenaries
are above all systems of law—US and international." --
also posted at Uruknet
&
AlethoNews
Iraq
Outraged
Over
US
Clearing
Blackwater
Related Article - Full quote...."Iraq has denounced a US judge for
dropping all charges against five guards from US security firm
Blackwater accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007. -- Human
Rights Minister Wejdan Mikhail said she was "astonished". -- She has
summoned the US ambassador in Baghdad for an explanation. -- The US
judge dismissed the charges saying prosecutors had used statements made
by the defendants under immunity. The minister says the guards had
opened fire at unarmed civilians. -- The bloodbath prompted widespread
outrage in Iraq. -- US private security guards have been accused of
systematic abuses. Both the Iraqi and US governments have since banned
Blackwater from operating in Iraq. Blackwater recently changed its name
to Xe."
Iraq
'to
appeal
Blackwater
verdict'
Related Article - A quote...."The Iraqi government will push to appeal
a US court ruling
dismissing charges of murder against five security guards of the
private Blackwater firm, an official has told Al Jazeera."
Iraq’s oil
production down this month as Ceyhan-bound pipeline bombed – Bloomberg
TV
A quote...."BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq’s 450,000 barrel-a-day oil
export pipeline north to Turkey may be offline for the rest of the week
after an explosion forced its closure, according to Bloomberg TV. --
The pipeline connecting fields near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk
to the Turkish oil port of Ceyhan will need three to five more days for
repairs until it can start pumping again, said Mazin Abdul Jabbar, an
official at the production unit of Iraq’s North Oil Co., which operates
the link." --
also posted at WarInIraq
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Mufti
Usmani holds Blackwater responsible for blast [in Karachi pakistan]
A quote...."Contrary to the claim and media reports by the media about
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan taking responsibility of the Ashura bomb
blast, Mufti Mohammed Rafi Usmani held US agency Blackwater responsible
for the gory incident that claimed more than 40 lives."
Taliban
say
not
behind
Karachi
suicide
blast
A quote...."KARACHI: The Taliban have disassociated themselves from a
militant commander's claim that the group was behind the suicide attack
on a Muharram procession of
Pakistani
Shia Muslims here that killed 43 people." - bold by website
editor
Pakistan
Taliban Claims It Carried Out CIA Attack
A quote...."The announcement was nearly impossible to verify
independently because it involves covert operations in a dangerous
region. It is highly unusual for the Pakistani Taliban to claim credit
for an attack in Afghanistan, and the proclamation followed indications
the Afghan Taliban may have been involved in the attack."
CIA
Agents
assassinated
in
Afghanistan
worked
for
“contractor”
active
in
Venezuela,
Cuba
A quote...."At least eight U.S. citizens were killed on a CIA
operations base in Afghanistan this past Wednesday, December 30. A
suicide bomber infiltrated Forward Operating Base Chapman located in
the eastern province of Khost, which was a CIA center of operations and
surveillance. Official sources in Washington have confirmed that the
eight dead were all civilian employees and CIA contractors."
Obama has
announced the partition of Pakistan - Webster Tarpley - (RT YouTube
- 4m57s - Dec. 31, 2009)
RT-Video - A quote...."A
former NATO officer claims US Special Forces have conducted secret
raids inside Pakistan's border regions. The operations were conducted
between 2003 and 2008, but only one was ever made public." -
For more on this issue see....It
Will
Happen
Every
Single
Time
-
01-01-08
-
mpg
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Ukraine after
the presidential elections: how to overcome economic crisis and social
misery?
A quote...."The forthcoming Ukrainian elections most likely will not
bring a new face into the leadership of the country. Both, the orange
and the blue elite send their best-known candidates into the electoral
contest. Whoever will win the ballot is going to face problems he or
she already dealt with since months and years. The unsolved economic
and social difficulties accompany the young state since its declaration
of independence. The outbreak of the world economic crisis in 2007/08
with its financial and industrial breakdown accelerated and deepened
these problems. An Ukrainian version of the sub-prime crisis which led
to an overheated real-estate-market, a general credit crunch, an
enormous devaluation of the currency, a decline of production following
the decline of steel-prices on the world-market and a remarkable
reduction of foreign-trade do not only reflect the integration of the
country into the capitalist world-system but also its peripheral
position within the same."
S.
Ossetia more defense-capable now than before August 2008 – Kokoity
A quote...."TSKHINVALI. Dec 31 (Interfax) - South Ossetia is much more
defense-capable now than before August 2008, South Ossetian President
Eduard Kokoity said at a press conference in Tskhinvali on Thursday. --
In commenting on opinions of analysts and Russian Defense Ministry
specialists regarding the reality of new Georgian aggression against
South Ossetia, Kokoity said he shares the opinion that there is
likelihood of such aggression."
China-ASEAN
Free
Trade
Area
Starts
Operation -
Hip
Hip
Hooray -
(
Psssssst, don't use US-NRE dollars.)
mpg
Special Note - A
quote...."China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
kicked off their free trade area (FTA) on Friday. -- The world's
largest FTA embracing developing countries covers a population of 1.9
billion and involves about 4.5 trillion U.S. dollars of trade volume.
-- The average tariff on goods from ASEAN countries to China is cut
down to 0.1 percent from 9.8 percent."
Harper
Suspends
Canada's
Parliament
For
2
Months -
More
ol'dat "freedom and democracy"
Canadian style.
A quote...."Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) - Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper suspended on Wednesday Parliament for two months. The
proroguing intends to give way to the opening of the Vancouver 2010
Winter Games in February and prepare the House of Commons for the
Speech from the Throne on March 3 and presentation of the federal
budget on March 4.
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European
Parliament
to
Investigate
WHO
and
“Pandemic”
Scandal
A quote...."The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry
in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the
global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the
pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO. The Health Committee of the EU
Parliament has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the inquiry.
The step is a long-overdue move to public transparency of a “Golden
Triangle” of drug corruption between WHO, the pharma industry and
academic scientists that has permanently damaged the lives of millions
and even caused death."
Murder of Antonio Ferrigno
A quote...."Murdered inhabitant of Rijswijk appears to be nuclear
physicist -- The 54 year old man that was found dead on thursday in his
flat on the Mayor Elsenlane in Rijswijk ( near The Hague ) -- appears
to be a renowed nuclear physicist. The Italian engineer Antonio
Ferrigno was brutally murdered. -- A spokesperson of the Hague PD
confirmed Ferrigno’s identity on monday."
Impeachment:
Congress
must
use
this
tool
to
keep
high
officials
in
check
Special Note - A
quote...."FOR
220 years, power has moved from Congress, courts, states and the people
to the presidency, a trend that has taken giant steps during the Bush
and Obama years. Presidents rewrite laws with signing statements or
create them with executive orders. They make treaties with occupied
governments and no Senate consent. They spend money in secret. They
launch and escalate military actions at will. - They spy without
warrants and imprison without charges. They grant immunity for criminal
offenses."
Breaking
With
Obama?
A quote....By Ralph Nader -- January 01, 2010 "Information Clearing
House" -- Those long-hoping, long-enduring members of the liberal
intelligentsia are starting to break away from the least-worst mindset
that muted their criticisms of Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential
campaign. -- They still believe that the President is far better than
his Republican counterpart would have been. Some still believe that
sometime, somewhere, Obama will show his liberal stripes. But they no
longer believe they should stay loyally silent in the face of the
escalating war in Afghanistan, the near collapse of key provisions in
the health insurance legislation, the likely anemic financial
regulation bill, or the obeisance to the bailed out Wall Street
gamblers. Remember this Administration more easily embraces bonuses for
fat cats than adequate investment in public jobs."
Court:
Feds
Can
Hide
Alleged
Spying
on
Gitmo
Lawyers
Special Note - A
quote...."A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the government’s
refusal to admit or deny it has documents related to warrantless
eavesdropping on Guantanamo Bay detainees and their lawyers. -- In
doing so, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals accepted a little-known
defense called the Glomar doctrine. The doctrine, the court ruled,
allows the National Security Agency to refuse to acknowledge to the
lawyers suing under the Freedom of Information Act that there are any
documents responsive to allegations their clients had been or are being
targeted under the Terrorist Surveillance Program adopted following the
2001 terror attacks." -
For more on
this issue see....9/11-Iraq-Torture
Fables
Lawyers
lose
effort
to
force
US
to
reveal
who
was
targeted
by
anti-terrorism
program
Related Article - A quote...."NEW YORK — A federal appeals court ruled
Wednesday that law professors and attorneys who represent Guantanamo
Bay detainees cannot force the government to reveal whether an
anti-terrorism program eavesdropped on their conversations."
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War on
Terror or War on Disaffected Yemenis? -- Interventions R Us
Special Note - A
quote...."As if the US interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan were not
enough to satiate the Empire's bloodlust, the calls are increasing for
an all-out war on the nation of Yemen. The reason given for this
intervention is that the man who apparently wanted to blow up an
airliner on Christmas Day 2009 spent some time there and may have
received his instructions while he was visiting. Like the increasingly
bloody occupation of Afghanistan, Washington wants the world to believe
that attacking a nation that hosts organizations intent on resisting US
domination will somehow end those organizations existence and make
everyone safer. Left unsaid in this rather simplistic equation are the
obvious facts. Over eight years of war and occupation of Afghanistan
has neither stopped the desire of politically nor religiously motivated
individuals to blow up airliners and other structures in their war
against US cultural and economic imperialism. Nor has it broken the
back of the groups in Afghanistan that also oppose the US intervention
in their country. In fact, if we are to believe intelligence reports
from various US agencies, these groups are not only still in existence,
they have mutated politically and are at least as strong as they were
before the US invasion in 2001." -
also
posted
at ICH
Threats
to
Yemen
prove
America
hasn't
learned
the
lesson
of
history
Special Note - A
quote...."Yemen has always been a dangerous place. Wonderfully
beautiful, the mountainous north of the country is guerrilla paradise.
The Yemenis are exceptionally hospitable, though this has its limits.
For instance, the Kazam tribe east of Aden are generous to passing
strangers, but deem the laws of hospitality to lapse when the stranger
leaves their tribal territory, at which time he becomes "a good back to
shoot at".
--
also posted at ICH
POLITICS:
U.S.
Arms
Feed
Yemen's
Gun
Culture
A quote...."UNITED NATIONS, Dec 30 (IPS) - When Yemen refused to vote
in support of a U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution against Iraq
during the 1990-1991 Gulf War, a visibly angry U.S. delegate turned to
the Yemeni diplomat and said: "That will be the last time you will ever
vote against a U.S. resolution." --
For
more
on
this
issue
see....The
Method
-
05-07-07
-
mpg
Houthi
fighters
set
for
Saudi
peace
talks
The Houthis could take on the
Yemeni government, they could even take on the Saudi Royal family along
with the Jordanians
and
Morroccans.
They had to draw the line however on any continued resistance if they'd
be forced to go up against the US-NRE, Israel and no doubt eventually
even NATO. WOW, just think of it folks, all that fire power for
some
tribesmen living in the hills on the Saudi border who just wanted to be
left alone. What a proud day it is for "America".- mpg --
A
quote...."Yemen's Houthi fighters have expressed readiness to hold
peace talks with neighboring Saudi Arabia if Riyadh halts its attacks."
Houthi Leader:
Yemeni civilians targeted by design -
Of course, what else is new? - mpg
A quote...."Abd Al Malek Badreldin Al Houthi launches today 31/12/2009
an urgent appeal by audio message to listeners everywhere: He questions
the deafening silence of the world to the savage crimes against
humanity now being committed in Yemen by Saudi, Yemeni, and USA
warplanes targeting innocent civilians, and killing women and children,
as they bombard population centers far away from the battle fields:
towns, market places, mosques..."
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EU
visit
to
Tehran
angers
U.S.
lawmakers
First
off
"US lawmakers" don't make the "laws" anymore in the New Roman Empire,
as has usually been the case these little whores of the parasitic class
have the laws written for them by whoever pays them the most money,
organizations like AIPAC or the Wall Street Banksters for
instance. Secondly,
in what is a new development, whatever "laws" these craven little
boot-lickers do pass nowadays can be completely ignored or eviscerated
by this nation's brand new Emperor with his brand new signing
statements. Thirdly, who cares
if Washington DC's most moronic twits get their panties in a twist on
behalf of Isreal. – mpg
-- A quote...."WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- European leaders angered
U.S. lawmakers with a decision to visit Tehran as Iran claims it
received a request by U.S. Sen. John Kerry to visit the country. -- An
11-member team from the European Parliament is set to visit Tehran next
week, marking the first Western visit to Iran in more than a year."
Propaganda
Alert:
Fox
News
Tries
to
Link
Iran
to
Crotch
Bomber
Video -
Good ol'Rupert Murdoch doing his level
best to start the long planned for war with Iran. - mpg
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More on the
US-NRE's attempted "lap-bomber" false-flag fiasco
The Old
'False-Flag Trick'
Must Read - Quote of the Day (in bold)...."
Government is the only human enterprise
that profits from failure. Once that principle is understood, many
otherwise inexplicable choices made by ruling elites and their servants
can be made intelligible. -- For instance, we can begin to
understand the perverse persistence governments display in courting
preventable catastrophes, and then capitalizing on such incidents to
enhance their power to do exactly the same things that resulted in
disaster. In this case, in addition to requiring the helotry to undergo
unconscionable personal violations before flying, the Regime is
exploiting the incident aboard Northwest Flight 253 to escalate the
ongoing military assault on Yemen, thereby increasing the human misery
that helps propel international terrorism. -- And so it is that the
Regime – which has squandered trillions of debased dollars in the name
of "fighting terrorism" (hundreds of billions to build a domestic
garrison state, and even greater sums to conduct wars of aggression
overseas) – will continue to do exactly the same thing following an
episode that demonstrates, beyond serious dispute, that the "war on
terror" has done exactly nothing to make Americans safer." --
also posted at DProgram
Flight
253
Passenger
Kurt
Haskell:
'I
Was
Visited
by
the
FBI'
Must Read - A quote...."
Following up on a visit from FBI officials about an eyewitness account
first described to MLive.com, Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell described
the visit in comment sections across MLive on Wednesday. -- Haskell and
his wife, Lori, were aboard Flight 253 when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
allegedly tried to destroy the plane. They say another man tried to
help Abdulmutallab board the plane in Amsterdam." -- "Today is the
second worst day of my life after 12-25-09. Today is the day that I
realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow
Americans. Let me explain....." -- *
Kurt
Haskell*
Webster
Tarpley
on
Alex
Jones
Tv
–
Underwear
Bomber
“Establishment
Controlled
Patsy!”
Alt/Vid#1
-
Alt/Vid#2 -
Alt/Vid#3
-
Alt/Vid#4 -
Alt/Vid#5
-
Alt/Vid#6 -
(AJ-YuTb - aprox 10min each - 12/31/09)
AJ-Videos - A
quote...."Alex talks with author, journalist, lecturer, historian, and
expert on false flag attacks Webster Tarpley about the underwear
bomber. Tarpley is the author of several important books, including
Obama: The Post Modern Coup and Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized
Biography "
For more on this sort of issue
see....US-False
Flag
Ops
-
Detroit's
"Lap-Bomber"
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More On The
Palestinian Situation....
Rattling
the
Cage:
A
taboo
question
for
Israelis
Special Note - A
quote...."There's a question we Israelis won't ask ourselves about the
Palestinians, especially not about Gaza. The question is taboo. Not
only won't anyone ask it out loud, but very, very few people will dare
ask it in the privacy of their own minds." --
also posted at AmericanEveryman
Israeli
settlers
uproot
trees
and
destroy
natural
water
spring
in
northern
West
Bank
A quote...."Israeli settlers uprooted trees and destroy natural water
spring on Thursday that belongs to the villagers of Qarawit Bani Hassan
in northern West Bank." --
also
posted at AlethoNews
Israeli
Warplanes,
Tanks
Strike
Eastern,
Southern
Gaza
Strip
A quote...."Israeli F16 warplanes and tanks had carried out late on
Friday night five successive air and ground strikes on targets in
eastern and southern Gaza Strip, wounding five people, medics and
witnesses said. -- The witnesses said that Israeli F16 warplane fired
two missiles, while tanks fired two shells that all landed at empty
zones east and northeast of Gaza City, adding that five people were
injured." --
also posted at Uruknet
Targeting
human
rights
defenders
A quote...."I remember the day I first met Jamal Juma'. He was speaking
at a United Nations conference in 2003 about the damage being done by
Israel's wall. The audience was shocked: Many had heard that Israel had
started carving a wall in the West Bank in 2002, but they had no idea
it could already be seen from outer space."
Action Updates - The Gaza
Freedom March
Gaza
Freedom
Marchers
Reject
Egyptian
Offer to Let Just 100 Enter Gaza
A quote..."After three days of vigils and demonstrations in downtown
Cairo, Suzanne Mubarak’s offer to allow just 100 of 1,300 delegates to
enter Gaza was rejected by the Gaza Freedom March."
Gaza
Freedom
March
activists
target
Egypt's
complicity
A quote..."It was another eventful day here in Cairo at the inaugural
Gaza Freedom March (GFM). On Tuesday night, organizers informed the
1,362-strong delegation that only 100 of them had been selected to
travel to Gaza yesterday morning, Wednesday 30 December. After several
hours of heated debate with organizers over whether this was an
appropriate strategy, the meeting concluded without a consensus."
BREAKING
NEWS:
Protesters
are
being
brutalized
in
Tahrir
Square
right
now
–
500+
protesters
violently
forced
into
pens,
others
barricaded
in
their
hotels
December
31,
2009
--
A
quote...."Members
of
the
Gaza
Freedom
March
are
being forcibly detained in hotels around town (Lotus, Liala) as well as
violently forced into pens in Tahrir Square by Egyptian police and
additional security forces. Reports of police brutality are flooding a
delegate legal hotline faster than the legal support team can answer
the calls. The reports span from women being kicked, beaten to the
ground and dragged into pens, at least one confirmed account of broken
ribs, and many left bloody."
Egyptian police
attack pro-Gaza activists
A quote...."Egyptian police have attacked some 1,200 international
activists who had gathered at the Rafah border crossing to protest
against the Israeli-imposed blockade on the Gaza Strip." --
From PressTV
French Gaza
Freedom March activist killed in Cairo
A quote...."Gaza Freedom March activists chant slogans in front of
Egyptian riot police during a protest at the center of Cairo, Egypt on
Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. -- Organizers of the Gaza Freedom March report
the death of a French citizen from injuries sustained at the hands of
Egyptian security forces during a demonstration in the capital, Cairo."
--
From PressTV
URGENT~Viva-Palestina
Needs
Your
Help
Now
Action Alert - A
quote...."We have friends on both the Code Pink Gaza Freedom March
(stranded and protesting in Egypt) and also on the Viva Palestina
Convoy waiting for boats to go to Al Arish. Because of the volatile
situation in Egypt we have devoted more time to monitoring that
situation than reporting on our Irish boys from Derry. So we plan to do
some catching up on the Viva Palestina convoy now because they are
about to face a trying and dangerous time. More one that in a minute."
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Right
and
Left
Agree:
Mandates
are
the
Road
to
Neo-Feudalism
Must Read -
More on
Obama's health non-care disaster - Welcome, all you slaves out there, to the
New Roman Empire - mpg - A quote...."There is tremendous fear
rising on both the right and the left that the announced intention of
Congress — to force every American to pay tribute to private
corporations, with no government alternative — sets a dangerous and
frightening precedent with implications far outside the scope of health
care. -- If the health care bill written by the Senate is passed,
middle class Americans will be mandated to pay almost as much to
private insurance companies as they do to the federal government in
taxes, with the IRS acting as a collection agency for penalties of 2%
of your annual income for refusing to comply." -
also posted at CommonDreams
-
Haaa, haaaa, ha....you
Obamatrolls, you're too funny for words....or tears. - mpg
For more on this issue see....Double
Indemnity
-
12-21-09
-
mpg
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Will
Americans
Reclaim
Our
Nation
in
2010
From
the
Thugs
and
Con
Artists?
A quote...."The giant banks are treating the American Citizen
like
we
work
for
them, are
holding
the
economy
hostage, and are taking our deposits and
using
them
to
speculate in casino style gambling.
They've bought and paid for Congress and the White House. See
this,
this
and
this.
Will
Americans
exercise
our
power
-
see
this
and
this
- or become serfs to a permanent banking royalty?"
Thursday December 31st 2009
No posts. - mpg
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