MPG'S DAILY RAPSHEET AND BLOTTER  ON THE "GREAT GAME"

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Editor's note : From now on each daily blog will have several items culled from the past called  "9/11 - From The History File" : It's for those who didn't know, and also for those who forgot....or are trying to forget.

Editor's note - War Update, War Alert, War Warning and Red War Warning - refer to articles regarding the upcoming war with Iran.  In the order they appear as shown above, they  represent less serious to more serious possible threats of war. - mpg
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Saturday July 14th 2007 - links page

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Bastille Day Weekend Edition  -  Quotes posted at CounterPunch  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/

"The mighty are only mighty because we are on our knees. Let us rise!"
    --Camille Desmoulins

"A person came in and announced the taking of the Bastille, the governor of which is beheaded, a crowd carries his head in triumph through the city. Yesterday it was the fashion at Versailles not to believe there were any disturbances in Paris. I presume today's transactions will induce a conviction that all is not perfectly quiet."
    --Gouverneur Morris, a framer of US Constitution, at the Royal Gardens of Versailles, July 14, 1789

"If I could have found 2,000 men filled with the anger that tore my heart, I would have placed myself at their head, stabbed Lafayette to death, burned the despot in his palace and impaled our odious representatives on their benches. When I proposed this to Robespierre, he listened to me in horror, paled and remained silent."
    -- Jean-Paul Marat, L'ami du peuple.

"One must frighten those who govern; one must never frighten the people."
    -- Antoine Saint-Just
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Summit in Kennebunkport   ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18008.htm
Must Read - A quote...." 07/12/07 "ICH" -- -- -Presidents Bush and Putin concluded their brief summit in Kennebunkport, Maine without resolving any of the main issues. Bush seeks Putin’s help to pressure Iran into giving up its nuclear enrichment program and Putin wants Bush to abandon his plans to deploy the US Missile Defense System in Czechoslovakia and Poland. No progress was made on either topic."

Putin Makes Good On Threats, Pulls Russia Out of Arms Treaty - posted at - BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2682497,00.html
Related article :

Bush to Putin at Kennebunkport -You don't give us your oil and gas, we break'a your face, we break'a your country.
Putin to Bush - F-ck you and your  PNAC'ing Neocon cronies.

We all have our limits....Putin has reached his. - mpg
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The Bush Family and their 50 Year War Against the USA [and everybody else]
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_melody_c_070713_the_bush_family_and_.htm
A quote...."Bush.  That's the only name you need to know -- Bush.  The same Bush family who are strongly allied with the UK Tory government and its most staunch right-wing.  You may remember our country's history with Tories.  -  King George the younger's swagger and smirk say it all.   This C student, this wash-out at everything he has ever tried,  this trust fund barnacle and unashamed beneficiary of nepotism, knows he's better than we are in the eyes of these people.  He is merely displaying his primate tendencies, but he can ignore that because he doesn't believe in that silly evolution stuff."  -  That's because he never evolved, he's still a chimp - mpg

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Impeachment Panel - Part I | PBS - (PBS- Win Media/QT - 071507 24m 16s)
  ---  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/video_popups/pop_vid_impeachment1-1.html
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Impeachment Panel - Part II | PBS - (PBS - Win Media/QT  071507 17m 28s)
  ---  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/video_popups/pop_vid_impeachment1-2.html
Must View - A quote...."TOUGH TALK ON IMPEACHMENT BILL MOYERS JOURNAL explores the talk of impeachment with Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and THE NATION's John Nichols, author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT"

Panel Demands Records on Tillman's Death  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=38626
A quote...."The White House and Defense Department have turned over nearly 10,000 pages of papers  mostly press clippings  but the White House cited "executive branch confidentiality interests" in refusing to provide other documents." - bold/italics by website author

Earth to Bush: "The Chaos in Iraq You Now Decry was Caused By You!"  ---  http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/Reviews/earth.html
Must Read - A quote...."Having watched our pathetic president's July 12th news conference concerning the "Initial Benchmark Assessment Report," I felt the urge to applaud Helen Thomas for verbally assaulting George W. Bush for the war criminal and mass murderer that he is. God bless her for asking: "Mr. President, you started this war, this war of your choosing, and you can end it alone, today, at this point…Don't you accept - don't you understand, we brought the Al Qaida into Iraq?"

Poll: Nearly Two-Thirds See Bush 'Surge' as a Failure  ---  http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/morenews.php?id=2473
A quote...."President Bush may be trying to rally support for his strategy in Iraq, but his efforts are not faring well with the American public, according to the latest NEWSWEEK Poll. Nearly two thirds of Americans believe that the president's troop “surge” has been a failure, poll respondents said." - bold/italics by website author

Fighting rages across Iraq as Bush claims military “progress”  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/iraq-j14.shtml
A quote...."President Bush’s attempts last Thursday to justify the open-ending US occupation of Iraq by claiming that his “surge” strategy is making progress bear no relation to reality. What is taking place is the same inconclusive war of attrition against a hostile population that the US military has been waging for four years to secure its domination over the country and its resources. More American soldiers and more aggressive operations have simply resulted in more casualties, more detentions and a deepening of the atmosphere of fear and loathing towards the US presence."

UK prepares to cut troop numbers in Iraq  ---  http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,2126853,00.html
A quote...."British forces in Iraq are preparing to withdraw their remaining troops to the airport base in Basra in the south of the country in August, handing over control of the last province they control to Iraqi forces.  -  If their most optimistic forecasts are realised, only 1,500 British troops will remain in the country by the end of the year, defence officials told The Observer this weekend."

Whoever said it was lonely at the top sure knew what he was talking about, especially if you're describing a moronic sociopathic stupid vessel of evil
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/theemptyvessel-blog-mpg-092006  ---   like our great "decider". - mpg
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Iraq PM: Country Can Manage Without US ‘Any Time They Want’  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/14/2518/
A quote...."BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that the Iraqi army and police are capable of keeping security in the country when American troops leave “any time they want,” though he acknowledged the forces need further weapons and training."

Robert Fisk: TE Lawrence had it right about Iraq  ---  http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2768261.ece
Some quotes...."'Back in 1929, Lawrence of Arabia wrote the entry for "Guerrilla" in the 14th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It is a chilling read - and here I thank one of my favourite readers, Peter Metcalfe of Stevenage, for sending me TE's remarkable article - because it contains so ghastly a message to the American armies in Iraq.

And...."It [the rebels] must have a friendly population, not actively friendly, but sympathetic to the point of not betraying rebel movements to the enemy. Rebellions can be made by 2 per cent active in a striking force, and 98 per cent passively sympathetic ... Granted mobility, security ... time, and doctrine ... victory will rest with the insurgents, for the algebraical factors are in the end decisive, and against them perfections of means and spirit struggle quite in vain."
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Out of Iraq and Into Iran?  ---  http://justworldnews.org/archives/002578.html
War Warning - A quote...."Pressure at long last is mounting
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/13/AR2007071301314.html?hpid=topnews  ---  across the U.S. political spectrum and heartland  --  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/13/AR2007071302017.html  ---  for either a withdrawal of American forces from Iraq, or a dramatic pull-back from the front-lines. You'd think the neocons and their congressional supplicants and the Christian-Likudist "Amen Chorus" would be chastened, hesitant, or dispirited. To the contrary, they're launching a full-court press for a major military blitz against Iran.

U.S., Iran do Persian Gulf squeeze  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-stennis11jul11,1,1466257.story?coll=la-headlines-world
War Update - A quote...."ABOARD THE USS JOHN C. STENNIS — Iran and the United States remain so far apart on so many issues that they refuse to talk about them.  -  But in the cramped sea routes of the Persian Gulf, U.S. and Iranian warship sailors and fighter pilots speak to each other daily.  -  They have to. They're practically jostling one another in courteous games of surveillance, counter-surveillance and geopolitical posturing.  -  "We are operating very close to their territorial waters in a very confined space with a tremendous amount of traffic, be it the small dhows, be it the supertankers going up to the oil platforms," said U.S. Navy Capt. Sterling Gilliam Jr., commander of air operations for this nuclear-powered supercarrier and its associated ships"

Ahhhh....an "incident" would be soooooo easy to arrange.  All you'd need is one special "black op" and that would be that. - mpg
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USS Enterprise joins two other U.S. carrier groups in Persian Gulf  ---  http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/ss_military_07_13.asp
War Alert - ABU DHABI — The U.S. Navy has deployed its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the USS Enterprise — the longest naval vessel in the world and which carries 66 aircraft — for Gulf operations. Officials said this marked the second deployment of the Enterprise in the Gulf in 14 months.  -  The Enterprise, which left the Gulf in November 2006, is to join the USS John C. Stennis and USS Nimitz carrier strike groups."

See also....John C. Stennis Strike Group WESTPAC 07 Deployment & USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
  ---  http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/batgru-74-westpac07.htm  &  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_C._Stennis_%28CVN-74%29
See also....Nimitz Strike Group WESTPAC 07 Deployment & USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
  ---  http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/batgru-68-westpac07.htm & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_%28CVN-68%29
See also....Enterprise Strike Group MED 07 Deployment  & USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
  ---  http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/batgru-65-med07.htm & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_%28CVN-65%29
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Cindy Sheehan: Strange Bedfellows  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1150
Must Read - A quote...."Since I announced my challenge to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi a few days ago, I have been very thrilled that issues such as impeachment and the inherent corruption of the "two" party system have been brought to the forefront of public discourse. Every interview I have done has given me the opportunity to throw the impeachment issue out there. The democratic blogosphere has predictably lined up against me and must be very frightened because they are repeating the scandalous lies of the right. Wow, the right and left are finding common ground over slandering me. I must be a uniter."

Outraged that Sen Lieberman has publicly called for bombing Iran, CODEPINK member Leslie Angeline, Arrested
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=38437
A quote...."Leslie was arrested at Sen. Lieberman's office this morning a little before 11 am while trying to get a meeting with the Senator. The senator was speaking on the floor of the Senate around the time of the arrest. Arrest happened very quickly after the group entered the office. Mother on 21st Day of Fast Implores Sen. Lieberman to Promote Diplomacy, Not War With Iran "

Protester raid cost police £111k - [that's about $222.000]  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6897656.stm
A quote...."Brian Haw, 57, has held vigil in Parliament Square for six years, using a megaphone to attack the government policy on Iraq.  -  Seventy-eight officer shifts were devoted to the overnight raid to scale back Mr Haw's encampment on 23 May 2006, Scotland Yard figures show."
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The robbery of the century  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/IG14Dj01.html
A quote...."I have previously written [1] about the impending failure of US mortgage borrowers, whose failure to pay would affect not only the US economy as many of them declare bankruptcy, but also worldwide markets, as the risk has been widely sold to investors in other countries, with the bulk of the losses coming in Asia. "  -  See also....

Goldman, Merrill Almost `Junk,' Their Own Traders Say
  ---  http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=179155
A quote...."March 2 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. and Morgan Stanley, which earned a record $24.5 billion in 2006, suddenly have become so speculative that their own traders are valuing the three biggest securities firms as barely more creditworthy than junk bonds."

Right after they gave out all those huge bonuses to themselves too, it must be one of those strange inexplicable coincidences.

Let's see how this goes shall we, the Fed encourages Banks to give millions of loans to people who don't have the ability to pay them back (i.e. pump money), the banks have the Financial firms repackage them and sell them to any sucker who wants them, like your pension plan, state pension plans, stupid foreigners....you know - the usual idiots.  The Financial firms get windfall profits for simply shuffling worthless paper to unsuspecting investors, (some not so unsuspecting, but a little kick back goes a long way....no?) and the entire economy goes into the tank with this pump (the money supply) and dump (the worthless paper) scheme.  So in the end the Bankers (through fees) and the Brokers (through larger fees) make “buco bucks” and the suckers get left holding an empty bag.

This ALL SOUNDS SO FIMILIAR - Where is
 Michael (Milk'em) Milken,  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Milken
"I certainly hope so"  ---  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,969789,00.html
Charles Keating and the  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Keating
K(ch)eating Five   ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five  ---  anyway? - mpg - posted 03-04-07
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Musharraf’s Madrasa Muddle  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4381
Must Read - A quote...."The storming of the Red Mosque is not the victory that General Pervez Musharraf and  his supporters in Washington proclaim. Rather, it represents the abject failure of the Pakistani president’s policies. The shaky military junta seems to have few answers to the central question of containing religious extremism in the sect-ridden Pakistani society. With a growing number of citizens challenging the authoritarian system, U.S. support for Musharraf is more and more out of touch with Pakistani reality."

Beware Dick / Navy may get a Sunburn in Persian Gulf  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_allen_l__070713_beware_2c_dick__2f_navy_.htm
A quote...."As Dick ( Dr Strangelove ) Cheney amasses his three carrier attack groups in the Persian Gulf ~ Iran has amassed a stockpile of the most advanced anti-ship cruise missile in the world THE SUNBURN which combines a Mach 2.1 speed (two times the speed of sound) with a flight pattern that hugs the deck and includes “violent end maneuvers” to elude enemy defenses. The missile was specifically designed to defeat the US Aegis radar defense system: Allen L Roland"

Chinese-Made Armor-Piercing Bullets Found in Iraq, Afghanistan  ---  http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/07/chinese-made-ar.html
A quote...."Is there a China connection with Iraq and Afghanistan? Yes, according to a departing senior Pentagon official, who says that the Chinese-origin armor-piercing bullets -- of particular concern to U.S. and coalition troops - have showed up in the two countries. This article, from the Financial Times, came out a few days ago, but I think was lost in the shuffle of Iraq news, so it's worth highlighting here:"

Are we Already at War?  - Have US-enabled Kurds killed 200 Iranian Troops?
  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2007/07/are-we-already-at-war-have-us-enabled.html
A quote...."Since the US Senate has in its wisdom laid the groundwork for a war on Iran   --  http://www.lewrockwell.com/floyd/floyd79.html  ---  on the extremely thin grounds of an unbalanced and gullible NYT story, it is worth pondering the degree to which we are being spun once again by shadowy forces whose salaries we are paying!"

Turkey boosts troops at Iraqi border: sources
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1377364320070713?feedType=RSS&rpc=22&sp=true
A quote...."DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's army has boosted troop levels in the restive southeast to more than 200,000, most of them stationed along the border with Iraq, security sources told Reuters on Friday."

AIPAC Gives "Kiss of Death" to Abbas
  ---  http://desertpeace.blogspot.com/2007/07/aipac-gives-kiss-of-death-to-abbas.html
A quote...."'Politics breeds strange bedfellows'... there is no other way to describe this new glowing love affair between Abbas' puppet regime and AIPAC. Is this not proof that this new 'leadership' of the Palestinian people is working only in the interests of Israel, abandoning completely the desires of their own nation?"

Top Secret: We're Wiretapping You  ---  http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/03/72811/
A quote...."It could be a scene from Kafka or Brazil. Imagine a government agency, in a bureaucratic foul-up, accidentally gives you a copy of a document marked "top secret." And it contains a log of some of your private phone calls."

An Open Letter to CNN  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/14/2521/
A quote...."Well, the week is over — and still no apology, no retraction, no correction of your glaring mistakes.  -  I bet you thought my dust-up with Wolf Blitzer was just a cool ratings coup, that you really wouldn’t have to correct the false statements you made about “Sicko.” I bet you thought I was just going to go quietly away.  -  Think again. I’m about to become your worst nightmare. ‘Cause I ain’t ever going away. Not until you set the record straight, and apologize to your viewers. “The Most Trusted Name in News?” I think it’s safe to say you can retire that slogan."
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Ms. Palfrey confirms that Mr. Burkman's business with her was escort service related - posted at - BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://www.margieburns.com/blog/_archives/2007/7/13/3090733.html
A quote...."Other blogs are already all over this, but to clarify a bit more -- One of Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s outgoing calls (Sunday, January 15, 2006) was placed to an Arlington, Virginia, number listed to registered lobbyist/firm John M. (Jack) Burkman & Associates, 1530 Key Boulevard #1222, Arlington VA  22209.

L.A. Archdiocese to Pay $660M for Abuse  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6780453,00.html
Related Story - A quote...."LOS ANGELES (AP) - The nation's largest Catholic archdiocese has settled its abuse cases for $660 million, by far the largest payout in the church's sexual abuse scandal, The Associated Press has learned."

You think the term "related story" was a mistake gentle reader??  Think again. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase.... "children can be so expensive" doesn’t it? - mpg
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FIAT EMPIRE - Why the Federal Reserve ... - (Google - 58 min 53 sec - Dec 5, 2006)
  ---  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5232639329002339531&hl=en
Must View - A quote...."Find out why some feel the Federal Reserve System is a "bunch of organized crooks" and others feel its practices "are in violation of the U.S. Constitution." Discover why experts agree the Fed is a banking cartel that benefits mainly bankers, their clients in need of easy money and a Congress that would rather increase the National Debt than raise taxes."

For more on this see....Effective Fed Funds Rate 03-24-07 - mpg
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407
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A Model Economy Proves The Statistical Bias of Capitalism
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mark_whi_070713_a_model_economy_prov.htm
A quote...."Have you ever wondered why a few people end up owning and controlling the vast majority of a society’s wealth, or why aristocracies inevitably develop in practically every culture, past or present? Have you pondered the egregious wealth inequality in the US where the top 1% owns the wealth equivalent of the bottom 95% combined? "

Milk Costs Surge Due to Corn - posted at - BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11980712
A quote...."Several factors are creating a sort of "perfect storm" for milk prices this summer. Americans are drinking more milk. Add to that, droughts in major milk-producing countries like Australia.  -  But another key factor is the demand for ethanol, according to Chris Galen, a spokesman for the National Milk Producers Federation. Ethanol is increasingly being used as an alternative fuel for gasoline."
Friday July 13th 2007 - links page

Bill Clinton : First Necon President  ---  http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=143
Must Read - A quote...."Bill Clinton seems to get blamed by this Neocon administration for many things, but most of all for “losing bin Laden.” The ugly truth is that, in this case, they are probably right. Clinton’s team probably had good information on Osama’s whereabouts most of the time, since they were playing on the same team for most of Clinton’s two terms. It is becoming clear from the accumulating evidence that Bill Clinton resurrected Ronald Reagan’s Afghan strategy of using Islamist guerillas as his own covert foreign policy in Europe and other intransigent hot spots that seemed to be immune to normal diplomacy. Clinton’s foolish toying with Islamist killers is probably the spark that ignited the international jihad against America."

Misreading Iraq, Again  ---   http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/071307.html
A quote...."George W. Bush and his neoconservative supporters are hailing some signs of cooperation between Iraqi Sunni tribal leaders and U.S. forces in rooting out al-Qaeda extremists in Anbar Province as proof that Bush’s military occupation of Iraq is finally working and should not be ended by Congress."  -  "But the Anbar evidence could be read almost exactly the opposite way: that it is the growing belief among Sunnis that the American occupation is nearing its end that has caused some of them to view the U.S. military as a lesser evil and position themselves for what they perceive as the next phase of the conflict"

Won't they feel foolish as the US stays in Iraq for another twenty years? - mpg
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Iraqi Unions Fight the New Oil Law  ---  http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3261/iraqi_unions_fight_the_new_oil_law/
A quote...."“It doesn’t serve the interests of the Iraqi people,” says Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary of the Basra-based Southern Oil Company Union and the Iraqi Federation of Oil Workers’ Unions. Umara recently toured the United States, advocating both national control of Iraqi oil assets and immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq."  -  See also....

Iraqi Labor Leaders Blame US for the Bloodshed in Iraq and say Get Out!  ---  http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/062007Lindorff.shtml
A quote...."Don’t tell Faleh Abood Umara or Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein that want the U.S. quit Iraq, but that you’re worried about a resulting civil war.  -  The two Iraqi labor leaders, currently in Philadelphia as part of a U.S. tour sponsored by a coalition of American labor unions called U.S. Labor Against the War, say the U.S. is the cause of all the violence in Iraq, and argue that the sooner U.S. forces leave their country, the sooner things will start to get better - posted 06-28-07

Iraqis to U.S. Congress: Back off oil law  ---  http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/70908.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON, June 8 Iraqi union leaders met with a U.S. congressman they say is their biggest friend in Washington, urging a united front against Iraq's draft oil law.  -  Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary of the Iraq Federation of Oil Unions, and Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, president of the Electrical Utility Workers Union, called the proposed law a theft of Iraq's oil." - posted 06-09-07
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Turkey: US Arms End Up in Kurdish Hands  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6773516,00.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) - Turkey's ambassador to Washington said Wednesday that U.S. weapons have been turning up in the hands of Kurdish guerrillas staging attacks in Turkey."

Kurdistan: Dangerous Passage - Turkey embraces 'hot pursuit' in northern Iraq.  ---  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12555396/site/newsweek/
A quote...."May 8, 2006 issue - Could another front be opening in the Iraq war? Over recent weeks, some 200,000 Turkish troops, backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, have massed along the mountainous border with Iraq."

PKK Introduces Use of IEDs Against Turkish Targets  ---  http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2373498
A quote...."The casualties suffered since the beginning of June in Turkey's military operations against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members in its southeast region provide a disturbing illustration of the spread of technology and techniques among terrorist groups."

Regarding the article shown above and for any of the bull you might read later on in our nation's mass-faux-media, understand this - I.E.D.s & E.F.P.s can be made by anybody. A five year old could make them.  All you need is a plastic ring (like a PVC pipe) a screw on bottom, some squibs, some high explosives and concave copper sheet for the top....that's it - mpg - posted 07-09-07

For the truth about I.E.D.s & E.F.P.s see.......In Iraq, anyone can make a bomb
  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-cockburn16feb16,0,6714688.story?coll
  ---  =la-opinion-center
Iraq's Superbombs: Home Made?
  ---  http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/02/where_are_iraqs.html
The Imminent Spread of EFPs
  ---  http://www.mortyscabin.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1385
The Smoking Gun?: Photographic Evidence
http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/1621/The_Smoking_Gun_Photographic_Evidence
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'Tell the Americans it's Their Turn to Do More' - posted at America's Pub Int Agncy  ---  http://www.watchingamerica.com/index.shtml
  ---  http://www.watchingamerica.com/thenationpk000052.shtml
A quote...."Aggressive military action against extremists' has cost Pakistan's security forces dearly … Pakistan has suffered immensely due to its blind cooperation with the so-called 'war on terror."

Let's make it quite clear to anyone reading this blog.  American policy considerations in Pakistan are as follows - The Pushton tribes and the Taliban are bad because they're an insurgency that will prevent US control of the Afghanistan "corridor" for access and pipeline routes to the Caspian basin.  al-Qaeda is good because they offer no threat to the US's strategic assets and always provide good grist for the Neocon’s slaughter machine. - mpg
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Iran Asks Japan to Pay Yen for Oil, Start Immediately  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3762
War Warning - A quote...."Iran asked Japanese refiners to switch to the yen to pay for all crude oil purchases, after Iran's central bank said it's cutting holdings of the U.S. dollar. -  Iran wants yen-based transactions ``for any/all of your forthcoming Iranian crude oil liftings,'' according to a letter sent to Japanese refiners that was signed by Ali A. Arshi, general manager of crude oil marketing and exports in Tehran at the National Iranian Oil Co. The request is for all shipments ``effective immediately,'' according to the letter, dated July 10 and obtained by Bloomberg News."

Why is this a War Warning? - Because it's exactly what Saddam ---  http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/Iraq_dollar_vs_euro.html  ---
did  ---  http://www.thinkandask.com/news/thedollar.html  ---   before   --- http://www.energybulletin.net/7707.html  ---   the US bombed the heck out of Iraq. - mpg

Iran Agrees to UN Nuclear Inspection  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071307C.shtml
War Warning - A quote...."   U.N. nuclear inspectors banned earlier this year by Iran from visiting a heavy water reactor will now be allowed to inspect it before the end of July, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday  -    In a further sign of compromise, the IAEA said the country also agreed to answer questions on past experiments that the international community fears could be linked to a weapons program."

Why is this a War Warning? -  Because it's exactly what Saddam did (to no avail) before the US bombed the heck out of Iraq. - mpg
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U.S. Treasury Holds Disaster Drill in Tampa Bay  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3759
War Warning - A quote...."The language of the press release states that the purpose of the exercise was to test the ability of financial institutions, federal and state regulators, state and local government officials and state and local first responders to quickly get to their feet after any disaster. This is open ended and indicates that this could have been a drill to prepare for any number of disasters from terrorism to a natural disaster or an economic collapse but the main focus clearly revolves around the financial community. The question is why the focus around the financial community?"

Ron Paul: U.S. In "Great Danger" Of Staged Terror  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/130707greatdanger.htm
War Alert  - A quote...."Presidential candidate Ron Paul says the U.S. is in "great danger" of a staged terror attack or a Gulf of Tonkin style provocation while also warning that a major collapse of the American economy is on the horizon and could be precipitated by the bombing of Iran and the closure of the Persian Gulf."

We Won, You Lost  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/clifford130707.htm
Must Read - A quote...."You can’t blame us that you lost. We’re winners. The end justifies the means, just ask Dick Cheney. And you made it so easy. Who could’ve believed intelligent people would accept the boondoggle that installed a pathological twit of criminal pedigree as President of the United States of America? The vote fraud was so obvious, not even counting W’s brother Jeb, governor of Florida, guaranteeing Florida would go to his brother. It was all so crooked the Supreme Court had to intervene and screw it in all the way. Verifiable evidence of massive fraud, but spectators swallowed it. Sure, quite a few people voted for W that first e-fraud cycle, probably at least half as many as tried to vote for Gore. And their willingness to accept the fraud because their twit got the nod was just that much more loss. The second coming of W was even more amazing, loss squared. With our electronic voting machines, and electoral Rove-a-lution, we own the vote count. Like Joseph Stalin said: "It’s not the people who vote that count; it’s the people who count the votes." Maybe you’ve heard about old "Uncle Joe" on the History Channel?"
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9/11 - From The History File...Unocal and the Afghanistan pipeline
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHI203A.html
War on Terrorism or Oil War? See the Map of the Pipeline!
  ---  http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/oil_war.htm
Zalmay Khalilzad and the Bush Agenda
  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/01.14A.Zalmay.Oil.htm
The Afghan Pipeline Project - An Oil-Soaked History
  ---  http://www.rense.com/general19/oil.htm
Afghanistan Aims to Revive Pipeline Plans
  ---  http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/natres/oil/2002/0530pipeline2.htm
Afghanistan
  ---  http://liesofbush.com/Afghanistan.shtml
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Pot, Meet Kettle: 'NYT' Hits Bush For Al-Qaeda Claims -- After Public Editor Blamed Paper
  ---  http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003611373
A quote...."In a remarkable column today, Clark Hoyt, the newly arrived public editor at The New York Times, charges that the Times in recent weeks has too often gone along with the new drive by the White House and the military to blame insurgent attacks on al-Qaeda. The column arrives on the same day the paper calls for a U.S. pullout in Iraq.  -  E&P and other news outlets last week had noted the same tendency in the Times in the reporting of Michael R. Gordon and others. A top Times editor admits to Hoyt that the paper's reporting in this regard has become "sloppy."

Website That Predicted London Bombs an Intelligence Agency Front  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/020707agencyfront.htm
A quote...."The website in question, Al Hesbah, has been attacked by other similar jihadist Internet forums for being a tool of intelligence agencies to monitor and entrap Islamic extremists."

One of the now recently retired Rumsfeld's P2OG ops. at work. - mpg
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PERU: Escalating Conflicts Put Pres. García on the Spot  ---  http://www.coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1977
A quote...."LIMA, Jul 12 (IPS) - Three people dead, several injured, and fire at an airport: the results of a wave of protests in Peru, regarded as the worst social crisis since Alan García became president nearly one year ago. Thousands of teachers, workers and peasant farmers continued the mobilisation Thursday."

Chavez thanks OAS for not intervening in the RCTV case  ---  http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=10737&formato=HTML
A quote...."Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez thanked all Organization of American States, (OAS) country members for not supporting a United States proposal to “intervene” regarding the non license renewal for Radio Caracas Television, one of the country?s main opposition television stations."

Poor Calamity Condi, sure hope she doesn't have another snit fit. ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/riceslittlesnitfit-blog-mpg-060507 - mpg
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Fine Dining  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese376.html
A Quote...."Some years ago, I had occasion to have dinner as the guest of the minister of defense in Switzerland. It was the one and only time I ever experienced the fancy life we often see in the movies.  -  The dinner was held in a 300-year-old mansion in Berne. There was one servant for every two guests, and we were served one of those many-course meals on fine china and silver. Then we retired to the library for cigars and brandy."

Argentine Supreme Court revokes pardon of former military chief
  ---  http://news.monstersandcritics.com/americas/news/article_1329805.php/Argentine_Supreme_Court_revokes_pardon_of_former_military_chief
A quote...." Buenos Aires - Argentina's Supreme Court on Friday revoked the pardon granted to a former high-ranking military officer over human rights abuses during the country's last dictatorship.  -  The Buenos Aires court ruled a pardon granted in 1989 by former Argentine president Carlos Menem to General Santiago Omar Riveros, now 83, was unconstitutional.  -  The decision could pave the way for the lifting of other pardons, Argentine media reported, including that given to former military ruler Jorge Videla who led a coup on March 24, 1976."

To the Bushists, their bootlicking lackeys and their enablers in the US who’ve committed similar crimes, it doesn't matter how much you think you still control events in the here and now, you should all ask yourselves where you'll be ten, twenty, or thirty years from now.

Ask yourselves if you think this government and the American people will have the same tolerance for torture and murder as they currently have, ask yourselves if you think your victims will ever forget what you've done?

Ask yourselves if that knock on your door ten or twenty years from now is the pizza man....or justice long delayed, finally catching up to you. - mpg
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The Mainstream Media’s Michael Moore Inferiority Complex  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/13/2508/
A quote...."In a world full of political provocateurs and public hotheads, why is it that only Michael Moore triggers the media’s all-too-absent obsession with factual accuracy? Because he scares them."

Michael Moore on Countdown with Keith Olbermann  - (YouTube -  9 min 40 sec - Added: July 12, 2007)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-XQ8nfnye4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eprogressivedailybeacon%2Ecom%2F
This is fun. - mpg

Killing the Constitution: How I Became a Radical Twenty Years Ago Today
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/13/2510/
A quote...."Many think they now see through the Democrats’ complicity with the Bush administration’s illegal wars and unconstitutional actions. If they think this is new, they don’t know that half of it.  -  Exactly twenty years ago today, on July 13, 1987, I witnessed the Democratic Party establishment covering up — and therefore helping — the subversion of the U.S. Constitution. It was actually on national TV, but few seemed to care."

FBI lied to get ISPs to turn over data  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/130707_a_lied.htm
A quote...."THE FBI'S counter terrorism unit sent a large number of fake emergency letters to phone companies, asking them to turn over phone records immediately."

Selectees Clinton, Edwards Plot Against Kucinich, Obama  ---  http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=924
A quote...."It makes perfect sense, of course. “Following a debate during Thursday’s Democratic candidates forum at the NAACP convention, news agency microphones picked up comments by Sens. Hillary Clinton and John Edwards as they discussed limiting future debates to only ’serious’ candidates,” reports Newsroom America. “We should try to have a more serious and smaller group,” suggested Edwards. “We’ve got to cut the number,” Hillary responded. “They’re not serious.”

DC Madam Sex Scandal Jokes  ---  http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sexandpolitics/a/dcmadamsex.htm?nl=1
A quote....""Family values conservative Republican Senator from Louisiana David Vitter admitted he has had sex with prostitutes. Apparently years ago this Senator Vitter guy had been seeing one of the DC Madam's escorts. You think the Senator's embarrassed? How about the hooker? Now the whole world knows she had sex with a politician, eww." --Jay Leno

I like this one. - mpg
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Thursday July 12th 2007 - links page

Bush's Russian Invasion  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_john_kel_070712_bush_s_russian_invas.htm
A quote...."Well we aren’t really invading Russia, at least not this week. The point is that Bush’s invasion of Iraq bears a striking resemblance to Hitler and Napoleon’s invasions of Russia, with the potential for similar disastrous results."

Opposition to American Oil Grab Is Unifying Iraqis  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071207S.shtml
A quote...."U.S. President Bush may be right: Iraq's oil law, although highly controversial, could be a "benchmark for reconciliation."  -  When Iraq's council of ministers last week suddenly approved the law, critics of various stripes united in opposition. Shiite and Sunni political parties alike denounced it, vowed to defeat it, even threatened to ensure Parliament can't take it up. It is seen by some as weakening the central government and giving too much to foreign companies."

Iraqi Deaths Due to US Invasion  ---  http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
A quote...."The number is shocking and sobering.  -  It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on the only scientifically valid study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003."


Abusing Iraqi Civilians  --- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18006.htm
A quote...." 07/10/07 "The New York Times" --With no end yet in sight for the long dark night of the Iraq war, The Nation magazine is coming out this week with an article that goes into great and disturbing detail about the brutal treatment of Iraqi civilians by some U.S. soldiers and marines. "

The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness  ---  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/hedges
Must Read - A quote...."Over the past several months The Nation has interviewed fifty combat veterans of the Iraq War from around the United States in an effort to investigate the effects of the four-year-old occupation on average Iraqi civilians. These combat veterans, some of whom bear deep emotional and physical scars, and many of whom have come to oppose the occupation, gave vivid, on-the-record accounts. They described a brutal side of the war rarely seen on television screens or chronicled in newspaper accounts."

The Language of Dead Bodies  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/12/2437/
A quote...."I’ve been cutting trees. The woods on the north side of my house is thick with gray trunks of dead fir and spruce. Neither old nor particularly large, these trees have been dead and dying for some time, killed by acid rain or spruce bud worm or something complex and harder to diagnose."
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Down in the Flood: The Senate's Blank Check for War on Iran
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Down_in_the_Flood%
  ---  3A_The_Senate%27s_Blank_Check_for_War_on_Iran/#jc_allComments

Must Read - Red War Warning - A quote...."As you may know -- unless you rely on the corporate media for your news, of course -- yesterday the U.S. Senate unanimously declared that Iran was committing acts of war against the United States: a 97-0 vote to give George W. Bush a clear and unmistakable casus belli for attacking Iran whenever Dick Cheney tells him to."  - bold/italics by website author  Note : this is the first Red War Warning that's been posted

The March to War: Détente in the Middle East or "Calm before the Storm?"
  ----  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6281
War Warning - A quote...."Despite the discussions of détente in the Middle East, the peril of war is still a real menace that threatens to proliferate globally. The dialogue taking place between the U.S., the E.U., Russia, Syria, and Iran seems to be merely a transient point in the timeline of the Middle East and Central Asia. The ongoing international discussions focused on the Middle East are part of an instant in time and history that will come to pass. Attached to these discussions are the fate of the Middle East, or so it may seem. With certainty, only time will tell what will unfold in the Middle East and become recorded in the annals of history."

Intel Report: al-Qaida Takes Aim at US  ----  http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6776219,00.html
War Warning - A quote...."The draft National Intelligence Estimate is expected to paint an ever-more-worrisome portrait of al-Qaida's ability to use its base along the Pakistan-Afghan border to launch and inspire attacks, even as Bush administration officials say the U.S. is safer nearly six years into the war on terror"

Republicans and the Coming Terror Attacks  ----  http://farleft.blogspot.com/2007/07/republicans-and-coming-terror-attacks.html
War Warning - A quote...."Evidently all this talk of coming terrorist attacks is just a Republican strategy. According to Capitol Hill Blue, a secret memo that was leaked in 2005 "suggests that a new attack by terrorists on U.S. soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of President George W. Bush as well as the GOP and 'restore his image as a leader of the American people.""  ***

GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline
  ----  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2005/121105newterror.htm
War Warning - A quote...."A confidential memo circulating among senior Republican leaders suggests that a new attack by terrorists on U.S. soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of President George W. Bush as well as the GOP and "restore his image as a leader of the American people." ***

*** Website author's note : Capital Hill Blue removed the article because.... "As a result of an internal review by our staff, doubts were raised about the original source for the material used in this article."

Edwards Statement On President Bush Remarks On Iraq  ----  http://johnedwards.com/news/press-releases/2007012-bush-iraq/
War Warning - A quote...."he president claimed that the same people attacking U.S. troops today are the ones who perpetrated 9/11. It must be nice to live in a world where your actions have no consequences. There was no group called Al Qaeda in Iraq before the president's disastrous mismanagement of the war gave them a foothold, a fact the president flagrantly ignores. After being discredited again and again, the president is still trying to link Iraq and 9/11 - a rationale for the war that virtually everyone except Dick Cheney has now recognized was false."

Regarding the constant mention of al-Qaida in the articles shown above see....

Everyone we fight in Iraq is now "al-Qaida"  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/06/23/al_qaeda/index.html  ---   posted 06-24-07
Related article - War Alert - A quote...."Josh Marshall publishes an e-mail
---  http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2007_06_17.php#014771  ---
from a reader who identifies what is one of the most astonishing instances of mindless, pro-government "reporting" yet:....

It's a curious thing that, over the past 10 - 12 days, the news from Iraq refers to the combatants there as "al-Qaida" fighters. When did that happen?

Until a few days ago, the combatants in Iraq were "insurgents" or they were referred to as "Sunni" or "Shia'a" fighters in the Iraq Civil War. Suddenly, without evidence, without proof, without any semblance of fact, the US military command is referring to these combatants as "al-Qaida".

Welcome to the latest in Iraq propaganda.

Web site authors note : I just got back from a weeklong vacation (6-16 to 6-24 '07) and while catching up on my reading - I noticed the exact same thing.

Regarding the three articles shown above see also....Fake Intel
  ---   http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206

Sheehan: Distinct Chance Of Staged Attack, Martial Law
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/120707distinctchance.htm
War Warning - A quote....""I definitely think that is a distinct possibility, that there will be some kind of attack whether it's manufactured or real....I think it's really possible that these people will do that - why would he [Bush] put in that presidential directive if he didn't need to use it - I think it's really really frightening," Sheehan told The Alex Jones Show."

German TV: Kurds Used to Attack Iran  ---  http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=921
War Update - A quote...."Last month, as the corporate media mulched over renewed Pentagon claims Iran is providing deadly IEDs to Iraqi “insurgents,” German television reported the Maoist Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or Partiya Karkaren Kurdistan (PKK), has “killed over 200 Iranians,” a handful by way of IED, according to a PKK terrorist quoted by German ARD television (original in German)."

Tell the Media to Stop Lying About Iraq and al-Qaeda
  ---  http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1604
A quote...."If by some small miracle someone missed it, the Bush administration and America's corporate-owned media are desperately trying to convince the people of the United States, that al Qaeda and not Sunni insurgents and Shiia militias is the primary force opposing Mister Bush's occupation of Iraq. That is a blatant lie. All the National Intelligence Estimates, including the one released this week, have consistently found 'foreign fighters' to account for only two and six percent of all forces in Iraq."
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9/11 - From The History File...9/11 - Bank Buys Broker for CONCEALED DEMOLITION
  ---  http://www.911eyewitness.com/truth/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=39
Evidence Destruction at Ground Zero
  ---  http://www.911review.com/coverup/groundzero.html
9/11 and the Greenberg Familia
  ---  http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1261.shtml
DrDebug's 9/11 investigation
  ---  http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DrDebug
Pentagon Rebuilding Teams Will Recreate Life-Saving Design
  ---  http://www.siteselection.com/ssinsider/special/sp011001a.htm
Paper exposes profiteering on WTC cleanup
  ---  http://www.total911.info/2005/12/paper-exposes-profiteering-on-wtc.html
Scholars for 9/11 Truth
  ---  http://911scholars.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73&Itemid=52
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Code Pink: Those Pesky Peaceniks  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/12/2469/
A quote...."WASHINGTON — When a lawmaker’s office is stormed, a hearing is disrupted or a protester is handcuffed on Capitol Hill these days, it’s a safe bet the activist being hauled away will be female and wearing pink.  -   CodePink  ---  http://www.codepink4peace.org/  ---  a group spawned by Bay Area peace activists, has become the vibrantly hued public face of the anti-war movement in Washington. Launched in 2002 to oppose the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq, the female activists are gaining new attention as a thorn in the side of Democrats, urging the new leaders of Congress to move faster to end the war.

Pelosi's Sinking Fortunes  ---  http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/070507Lindorff.shtml
A quote...."House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took power in the House of Representatives in January on a wave of public enthusiasm and hopes that Congress would finally start holding the president to account.  -  Not quite six months out, it's becoming apparent to Democrats who were looking to her for leadership that she's not about leading an opposition party; she's about posturing and hoping for better days in 2008, but not much else."

Regarding the article shown above, see also....Constitution vs. Failed Impeachment: Is it Worth it?  ---  http://wurstwisdom.com/?p=57
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Barbara Boxer: Impeachment "Should Be On The Table. This Is As Close As We've Ever Come To A Dictatorship"
  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/24602
A quote...."Here's Barbara Boxer on the Ed Schultz Show yesterday. Though she wimped out a bit at the end, she was mostly strong on the necessity of considering impeachment."

Kucinich: Impeaching Cheney first step to restoring the rule of law
  ---  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/24629
A quote...."Speaking at the NAACP sponsored candidates forum in Detroit today, presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) called for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney."

White House invokes broad executive privilege claims to block congressional testimony
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/exec-j13.shtml
A quote...."Former White House Counsel Harriet Miers refused on Thursday to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about the Bush administration’s decision to fire a group of US attorneys last year. In justifying her decision to ignore a congressional subpoena, Miers cited a Justice Department opinion released this week that asserts broad and unprecedented claims of executive privilege."

House Panel Clears Way for Contempt Proceedings Against Miers
  ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071207R.shtml
A quote...." A House panel cleared the way Thursday for contempt proceedings against former White House counsel Harriet Miers after she obeyed President Bush and skipped a hearing on the firings of federal prosecutors.  -   Addressing the empty chair where Miers had been subpoenaed to testify, Rep. Linda Sanchez ruled out of order Bush's executive privilege claim that his former advisers are immune from being summoned before Congress.  -  The House Judiciary subcommittee that Sanchez chairs voted 7-5 to sustain her ruling. If an agreement with the White House is not reached, the full Judiciary Committee could convene hearings and vote on whether to hold Miers, Bush's longtime friend and former Supreme Court nominee, in contempt. Ultimately, the full House would have to vote on any contempt citation"

Guards steal $282 million from a bank in Baghdad  ---  http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/12/africa/12iraq.php
A quote...."BAGHDAD: In an astonishing heist, guards at a bank here made off with more than a quarter-billion dollars on Wednesday, according to an official at the Interior Ministry."

El Salvador’s Anti-terrorism Law Claims Victims  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/12/2467/
A quote...."Recently, that process of healing has been put to the test due to the jailing of 14 local and national activists arrested July 2 during protests in and around the small colonial city of Suchitoto. Dozens of social movement organizations coalesced in Suchitoto due to plans by Salvadoran president Antonio Saca to unveil there his administration’s new “National Decentralization Policy.” Many local activists view that policy as a thinly veiled plan to privatize water resources. Among the 14 protesters arrested were four staff members from the Association of Rural Communities for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES) who were intercepted and forcibly removed from their vehicle. - bold/italics by website author

Wednesday July 11th 2007 - links page

It’s What Bush Craves!  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski186.html
Must Read - A quote...."We observe the modern American political theme – global democracy, global freedom, global security, global planning – from afar, as if on a big screen, framed and shaped for our consumption, neat.  -  Americans watch and wonder. George W. Bush speechwriters, neoconservatives and the odd state-worshipping evangelical – or do I repeat myself – nod encouragingly in our direction, in Paris Hilton-style and say, "Do you love it?"  -  Sadly, overwhelmingly, we do not."

The author's right, we haven't become the New Roman Empire, nor the New Syndicate....we've become the Idiot State. - mpg
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Sheehan's Rebellion   ---  http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11269
Must Read - A quote...."I see that Cindy Sheehan is announcing a possible run against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Sheehan's angry that Pelosi has consistently resisted defunding the Iraq war and has staunchly stood against the impeach-Bush-and-Cheney tide sweeping the Democratic/antiwar netroots. Yet it seems, also, that she has had an ideological awakening:"

Democrats, White House agree: Iraq war will rage on regardless of Senate debate
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/iraq-j12.shtml
Must Read - A quote...."The two weeks of official debate over the war in Iraq which began Tuesday in the US Senate will do nothing to stop the ongoing bloodbath. The Bush administration will continue with the military escalation that has killed tens of thousands of Iraqis since January, as well as more than 600 US troops. The congressional Democrats will continue their “antiwar” posturing, while doing nothing that could actually affect the course of events."

World Wealth Report: a census of the global oligarchy
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/weal-j12.shtml
Must Read - A quote...."As the London-based Financial Times pointed out, the UNWIs do better than HNWIs largely thanks to high-risk, high-return investments. It quoted Nick Tucker, head of Merrill Lynch’s private client group in the UK and Ireland, as noting, “Ultra-high net worth individuals are very aggressive investors. If things are good, they will do better than the high net worth individuals, who are more cautious.”

There's no risk!!  Most of the HNWIs and UNWI's reside in the US. and got our government to print vast sums of money for their little splurge.  They're all "in" on the "game plan".  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407  ---   Start a war, pump the money supply like crazy, ride it up for four, five or six years....sell into the top, create another excuse for war - than start it all over again.

They've been doing it that way since World War II. – mpg
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Special Treatment for Uncle Sam?
  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,493605,00.html
Must Read - A quote...."This camouflaging of an illegal kidnapping as a rescue flight was no isolated incident. SPIEGEL has obtained complete lists of the flight plans of secret CIA flights in German airspace, which reveal 390 takeoffs and landings of CIA aircraft at airports in Germany between 2002 and 2006. The documents also show that mis-identifying the flights was part of a system designed to dodge compliance with complicated approval regulations." - bold/italics by website author

You see, we had it all wrong.  The US's thugs and gofers for this nation's elites are actually "rescuing" people when they snatch them off the streets, torture and kill them. Just as they’re actually bringing "freedom and democracy" to all the countries throughout the world (or at least the ones endowed with lots of oil) when they bomb them to smithereens.

How could we have been so mistaken....they’re actually kind and caring people after all.

Anybody else out there want to be "rescued", anybody else out there want some "freedom and democracy" anybody else out there want the US's "protection" or "help"  No?  Well if you don't avail yourselves of our elite’s gracious offer something really awful might happen to your country….our elites won't be able to "help" you.

Now wouldn't that be a terrible shame? -  mpg

See also....Fun & Torture - It's a Pleasure - 02-03-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/funandtorture-blog-mpg-020307
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Bush’s Pakistan Paradox  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070710_bushs_pakistan_paradox/
A quote...."As Iraq continues to disintegrate, and our top generals and in-country ambassador predict that U.S. troops will need to die there for decades in order to prevent a full-scale regional blood bath, it is important to recall the reasons why we got into this mess. The marker of what will go down in history as “Bush’s folly” is that this idiot of a president invaded a country that had absolutely nothing to do with terrorist attacks on the United States or WMD threats to America while coddling the military junta in Pakistan, which was guilty on both counts.  -  (For newspaper editors inclined to strike my reference in this syndicated column to our “idiot president” as excessively pejorative, I refer them to one definition of idiot in Webster’s New Riverside University Dictionary: “being unable to guard against common dangers and being incapable of learning connected speech.")" - bold/italics by website author

This is not an "accident" of US policy

See the Kunduz Airlift.................The Getaway
  ---  http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/01/28/020128fa_FACT
Escape From Afghanistan
  ---  http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/escapeafghanistan.html
US helped Taliban to safety, magazine claims
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/us_helped_taliban_to_safety_magazine_claims.html
Mystery of Taliban 'flown out by Pakistan'
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/27/wkund127.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/11/27/ixhome.html
The ‘airlift of evil’
   --  http://www.prisonplanet.com/the_airlift_of_evil.html
'Nov.14-25, 2001: US Secretly Authorizes Airlift of Pakistani & Taliban Fighters'
  ---  http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a1101airlift
Pakistan air force seen evacuating foreign fighters from Kunduz
  ---  http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article145912.ece
Afghan alliance irked over Kunduz
  ---  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3340836/

See also "The Great Escape"......CIA Commander In Tora Bora Admits US Allowed Osama Bin Laden To Escape
  ---  http://awood.blogspot.com/2005/08/cia-commander-in-tora-bora-admits-us.html
The Anti-Hunt for Osama bin Laden
  ---  http://www.pastpeak.com/archives/2004/06/the_antihunt_fo_1.htm
Escape from Tora Bora
  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/oneyearon/story/0,,785554,00.html
How Osama got away from big guns of the US
  ---  http://www.iol.co.za/general/newsview.php?art_id=qw1029169441609B221&click_id=2396&set_id=1
Did the US really let bin Laden get away?
  ---  http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1027/dailyUpdate.html
How Bush blew it in Tora Bora
  ---  http://atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/FJ27Ag02.html
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Saving Al Qaeda: Collective Punishment and Curious Policy in the "Surge"
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Saving_Al_Qaeda%3A_Collective_Punishment_and_Curious_Policy_in_the_%22Surge%22/
A quote...."Administration's hideously named military offensive in Iraq's Diyala province ("Arrowhead Ripper" -- there's a real hearts-and-minds moniker for you) is having the same effect we've seen in all the other many pushes and surges and crackdowns during the botched conquest: killing innocent people, alienating the locals, strengthening the insurgency -- and allowing the ostensible targets of the operation to escape long before the action begins."

Operation Arrowhead Becomes Fountainhead of Anger
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Saving_Al_Qaeda%3A_Collective_Punishment_and_Curious_Policy_in_the_%22Surge%22/
Related article - A quote...."BAQUBA - Ongoing U.S. military operations in Diyala province have brought normal life to an end and fueled support for the national resistance.  -  Baquba, 30 mi. northeast of Baghdad, and capital city of the volatile Diyala province, has born the brunt of violence during the U.S. military Operation Arrowhead Ripper.  -  Conflicting reports are on offer on the number of houses destroyed and numbers of civilians killed, but everyone agrees that the destruction is vast and the casualties numerous."

20 Rockets, Mortar Shells, Hit Green Zone; Kill 3
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/greenzoneattack-jc-cached-071107
A quote...."On Tuesday, guerrillas launched some 20 katyusha rockets and mortar shells into the Green Zone in downtown Baghdad, killing 3 persons, including a US soldier, and wounding 25 persons.  -  The Green Zone was originally supposed to be the safe place in Iraq, with the area outside it (everything else) called the "Red Zone." The US Embassy in Baghdad appears to have forgotten what the phrase "Green Zone" means, since a spokesman there told the LAT, "There's fire into the Green Zone virtually every day, so I can't draw any conclusions about the security situation based on that . . ."

Homeland Security chief warns of 'increased risk’
  ---  http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/nation/chi-070710chertoff,0,4168207.story
War Warning - A quote...."Fearing complacency among the American people over possible terror threats, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in Chicago Tuesday that the nation faces a heightened chance of an attack this summer.  -  "I believe we are entering a period this summer of increased risk," Chertoff told the Chicago Tribune's editorial board in an unusually blunt and frank assessment of America's terror threat level."

Another heads up to our super rich....they're coming thick and fast right now. - mpg

For more on Mr. "I never met a terrorist I didn't like" Chertoff see....Vote for Us or there WILL be another Attack - 06-05-06 - mpg
   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/voteforusortherewillbeanotherattack-essay-mpg-060706
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Exclusive: Two More Defense Contractors Exposed!  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3740
A quote...."According to an article published by the Los Angeles Times back on July 4th, 2007, there are now more contractors in Iraq than US soldiers. The article states that more than 180,000 civilians -- including Americans, foreigners and Iraqis -- are working in Iraq under U.S. contracts, according to State and Defense Department figures obtained by the Los Angeles Times. Including the recent troop surge, 160,000 soldiers and a few thousand civilian government employees are stationed in Iraq."

Calling for Paper Ballots, Kucinich Reiterates Dropped Support of Holt Election Reform Bill
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=38388
A quote...."Charging that Congressman Rush Holt's (D-NJ) Election Reform bill (HR 811)  ---  http://www.bradblog.com/Holt  ---  "does not address the concerns that Americans have, to do something about electronic voting," Ohio's Rep. Dennis Kucinich reiterated his withdrawal of support for the controversial legislation last Friday."

Fear and Trembling in Washington, D.C.
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_wayne_ma_070711_fear_and_trembling_i.htm
A quote...."Pamela Martin & Associates escorts counted some of Washington's wealthiest and most elite among their clientele according to individuals and places WMR has matched to the agency's phone records from 1994 to 2000."

15 Congress Members for Impeachment
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_070711_15_congress_members_.htm
A quote...."Congressman Sam Farr (D., Calif.) is the latest member of Congress to respond to intense pressure from his constituents and co-sponsor H Res 333, articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. "

Gonzales Was Told of FBI Violations  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=38398
A quote...."As he sought to renew the USA Patriot Act two years ago, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured lawmakers that the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting powers. "There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse," Gonzales told senators on April 27, 2005.  -  Six days earlier, the FBI sent Gonzales a copy of a report that said its agents had obtained personal information that they were not entitled to have. It was one of at least half a dozen reports of legal or procedural violations that Gonzales received in the three months before he made his statement to the Senate intelligence committee, according to internal FBI documents released under the Freedom of Information Act." - bold/italics by wegsite author

Gee, what a surprise, maybe as Calamity Condi is so fond of saying, "he just forgot"....the half dozen reports he read.

Was Gonzales under oath - is this perjury - does anybody care? - mpg
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Food is growing out of consumers' reach  ---  http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_6337093
A quote...."The U.S. Department of Agriculture, at the start of the year, had forecast a 2.5 percent jump in food prices for 2007. By May it had raised the bar to 4 percent, with a very sharp 17 percent jump forecast for eggs.  -  Through May, food and beverage inflation ran at 3.9 percent year-over-year, compared to overall inflation of 2.7 percent."


Tuesday July 10th 2007 - links page

Santorum Suggests New Terror Attacks Will Change View Of War
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6279
Must Read - War Warning - A quote...."Former Senator predicts "unfortunate events" within a year that will alter perceptions  -  In an alarming display of fearmongering, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum has suggested that a series of "unfortunate events," namely terrorist attacks, will occur within the next year and change American citizen's perception of the war."

Another heads-up to our local wealthy cognoscenti of the next planned "event".- mpg

For more on this see....Red Alert: Has Santorum Let the Cat Out of the Bag?
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=3940
See also - War Warning....Al Qaeda Cell in the U.S. Or On Its Way, According to New Intel
  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.abcnews.com%2Ftheblotter%2F2007%2F07%2Fal-qaeda-cell-i.html
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Pentagon denies plans to add third carrier in the Gulf
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Pentagon_denies_plans_to_add_third__07102007.html
War Warning - A quote...."Navy officials had earlier raised the possibility that the Enterprise would increase the number of carriers in the region to three, which would be the biggest US naval presence in the Gulf since the US invasion of Iraq."

Attack on Green Zone as Bush defends Iraq strategy
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Attack_on_Green_Zone_as_Bush_defend_07102007.html
A quote...."Insurgents opened fire on the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least three people, as US President George W. Bush rejected a new wave of opposition to his strategy for the strife-torn country."

Warning Signs Part 3: Smedley D. Butler
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=3934
A quote...."There is one great voice that does not turn up in our sanitized and cleansed textbooks and his message was a condemnation of the callousness of the blood barters and his voice was one that spoke from experience. He is the highly decorated (two medals of honor) former USMC General Smedley Darlington Butler. "

The Real Nuclear Threat  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory139.html
A quote...."Why can’t the United States just leave Iran alone?  -  Specifically, the fear is that Iran will have nuclear weapons, which just might be used by Islamist terrorists against Americans or US allies. Supposedly, Iran is one of the very worst regimes in human history. Its evil has risen to levels unparalleled since the Third Reich. It is a chief sponsor of terror, the command center from which our enemies conspire to strike. It is lying about its nuclear ambitions. It is thumbing its nose at the international community, and so on.  -  How can anyone fall for this nonsense? It’s the exact same propaganda we heard five years ago, except the last letter in the name of the enemy nation. "

Pakistan's iron fist is to the US's liking  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IG11Df03.html
Some quotes...."KARACHI - A last-minute intervention by Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf ended nine hours of negotiations seeking a peaceful end to the siege of the radical Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad. Apparently saying he was "heavily under duress from his allies", the president in the early hours of Tuesday instead ordered in the military to end the seven-day saga. Unconfirmed reports even say that Musharraf personally led the assault, along with Corps...."

And...."The next episode has already begun in Batkhaila, North West Frontier Province, where the pro-Taliban Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Moham has clashed with the military and seized all highways in the area, including on the Silk Road leading to China.  -  It is only a matter of time before the US-led "war on terror" formally crosses the Pakistani border."
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Les Roberts: Iraq's death toll is far worse than our leaders admit
  ---  http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2268067.ece
A quote...." On both sides of the Atlantic, a process of spinning science is preventing a serious discussion about the state of affairs in Iraq.  -  The government in Iraq claimed last month that since the 2003 invasion between 40,000 and 50,000 violent deaths have occurred. Few have pointed out the absurdity of this statement."

Michael Moore Rips Into CNN’s Wolf Blitzer
  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20070709_michael_moore_rips_into_cnns_wolf_blitzer/
Must View - A quote....""SiCKO” director Michael Moore opens up a can of whoop-ass on CNN’s “The Situation Room” (our sincerest apologies to those with delicate sensibilities, but there’s just no other way to put it), giving host Wolf Blitzer and resident MD/one-time “embedded journalist” Dr. Sanjay Gupta quite a dressing-down in a must-see live TV moment."

The real fun stuff starts at the begining of  Video #1   ---  http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2i2dp_moore-on-cnn  ---  (Dailymotion - Duration: 10:58 - Taken: 10 July 2007)
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Panel Moves to Cut Off Funds to Cheney  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6770644,00.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats moved Tuesday to cut off funding for Vice President Dick Cheney's office in a continuing battle over whether he must comply with national security disclosure rules. A Senate appropriations panel chaired by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., refused to fund $4.8 million in the vice president's budget until Cheney's office complies with parts of an executive order governing its handling of classified information."

Themes, Dreams and Schemes: Another Conservative in the White House; Arabs Without Oil
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Themes%2C_Dreams_and_Schemes
  ---  %3A_Another_Conservative_in_the_White_House%3B_Arabs_Without_Oil/
A quote...."Think of why you are opposed to the war. Is it not largely because of all the unspeakable suffering brought down upon the heads and souls of the poor people of Iraq by the American military? Hillary Clinton couldn't care less about that, literally. She thinks the American military has "succeeded". Has she ever unequivocally labeled the war "illegal" or "immoral"? ....I've long known [she] is a conservative; going back to at least the 1980s, while the wife of the Arkansas governor, she strongly supported the death squad torturers known as the Contras, who were the empire's proxy army in Nicaragua."

Sir! Kiss My Ass, Sir!  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=38378
A quote...."Courage in the face of an armed enemy is laudable. Courage in the face of malfeasant authority is heroic. Consider the case of Army retiree Anthony Taguba. While on active duty a few years ago, he happened to be on hand when the Army needed a two-star general to investigate the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. His superiors limited his assignment to the exposure of instances of abuse by low-ranking guards and interrogators, but he discovered graphic evidence of a systematic policy of maltreatment and torture."

This nation's real military heroes. - mpg
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Conservatives and the Presidency  ---  http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2007/07/05/conservatives-and-the-presidency/
A quote...."But for the intriguing–and unsettling–revelation that President Bush’s nickname for his attorney general is “Fredo,” there’s not much new in the Washington Post’s recent four-part series on vice president Dick Cheney.  But the series does serve to remind us of how consistently Cheney has pushed for three decades to expand the powers of the presidency.  That in turn is a good jumping-off point for examining how inconsistent post-Watergate conservatives’ affinity for powerful executives is with conservatism, properly understood. "

By the way, John C. Yoo is mentioned in this article.  Check out what he said in the linked article listed as Act number nine  -  (# 9 ) : Renounce, repudiate, ban, halt and condemn torture.  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/february2007/010207Yoo.htm  -  in Thirty Two Acts to Restore Americans' Rights  --- 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/seventeenacts-blog-mpg-111006  ---   mpg
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The Art of Deception  ---  http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/136216-The+Art+of+Deception
A quote...."The man sitting across the table from you is known for trickery. He is a stage magician. You know he employs trickery, so he tells you he is going to do a card trick in which he can't possibly manipulate the cards. In this trick, you will do all of the card handling. He won't touch the cards at all."

Big Oil's Arctic Passage  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/
A quote...."The rapid melting of Arctic ice has introduced an entirely new factor into this play. To the north and East of the Beaufort Sea, the fabled Northwest Passage hits the North Pacific. At the eastern most end, it meets the North Atlantic, passing between Greenland and Iceland. For centuries this passage has been frozen over for all but a short time during the summer.  -  Now there is renewed speculation the passage will be open and navigable within a decade for big tankers and container ships. This ought to bring a boom in shipping because the passage cuts by one-third the distance from Europe to Asia. Commercial fishing boats will be able to get at vast schools of fish hitherto unreachable because of the ice. The world's stock of fish has long been predicted to decline due to overharvesting."

Euro tops 1.37 dollars for first time  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Euro_tops_1_37_dollars_for_first_ti_07102007.html
A quote...."The euro jumped to a record high against the dollar Tuesday as worries emerged about problems in the US subprime housing market hitting other sectors of the world's biggest economy."

Cloned Animal Meat On Sale Within Two Years  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3729
A quote...."Cloned red meat could hit British supermarket shelves in just two years, according to scientists linked with Dolly the sheep.  -  And American authorities are expected to approve meat from offspring of cloned livestock being sold before the end of the year - without any extra labelling."

Just buy organic, it's the only way to really know for sure. - mpg
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Monday July 9th 2007 - links page


Now the U.S. military is assassinating Iraqi peace workers
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_kathlyn__070709_now_the_u_s__militar.htm
Must Read - A quote...."At 3 a.m. on the 4th of July, U.S. military forces and Iraqi national guards opened fire with a barrage of bullets and grenades on the Baghdad home of Abdel-Hussein Saddam. The severely wounded Abdel-Hussein was taken away and his 18-year-old daughter was left alone, injured and bleeding on the floor. Abdel-Hussein’s beaten body turned up at the Yarmouk Hospital morgue on July 6.  -  The murder of Abdel-Hussein was the most devastating of four attacks by the U.S. military on the Iraq Freedom Congress in the past 10 months. The IFC is an organization comprised primarily of trade unionists, community leaders, and women’s and children’s rights workers who are determined to look after their own. IFC’s goals are to salvage the lives of as many Iraqis as possible, and to end the occupation and sectarian fighting. Its slogan: "No Shiite… No Sunni… Ours is Human Identity.”

US Middle East Wars: Social Opposition and Political Impotence  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17985.htm
Must Read - A quote...."07/08/07 "ICH" ---Everywhere I visit from Copenhagen to Istanbul, Patagonia to Mexico City, journalists and academics, trade unionists and businesspeople, as well as ordinary citizens, inevitably ask me why the US public tolerates the killing of over a million Iraqis over the last two decades, and thousands of Afghans since 2001?

Check out the comments, including this link  ---  http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/official_culture.htm  ---  that was posted. - mpg
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Bone Dance:A Late Ephiphany at the New York Times
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Bone_Dance%3AA_Late_Ephiphany_at_the_New_York_Times/
A quote...."This is the sound of a very large bone, lodged for a very long time, being hocked up at last:...."

"It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit." -- the New York Times, July 8, 2007.

"Only four years -- and hundreds of thousands of dead bodies -- too late, of course. And it might have been nice if the Times editorialists had noted the very large part their own paper played in what they now call -- they now call -- "this unnecessary invasion."
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"Accidents" of War - The Time Has Come for an Honest Discussion of Air Power
  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174817/carnage_from_the_air_and_the_washington_consensus
Must Read - A quote...."In the past, when such civilian slaughters were reported, often days or even weeks after the initial military account of the battle, what followed also had a pattern to it. The first responses from the U.S. military would be outright denials (undoubtedly on the assumption that, without reporters present, the accounts of Afghan peasants or Iraqi slum dwellers would carry little weight). Normally, given the competing he says/she says frame for the reports and the inability of journalists to make it to the scene of the reputed slaughter, sooner or later the story would simply fade away."

see also....
US to hunt the Taliban inside Pakistan  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IG03Df03.html
Must Read - Major War Expansion - A quote...."KARACHI - Since last September, North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in Afghanistan have been pressing Islamabad for the right to conduct extensive hot-pursuit operations into Pakistan to target Taliban and al-Qaeda bases.  -  According to Asia Times Online contacts, NATO and its US backers have gotten their wish: coalition forces will start hitting targets wherever they might be.  -  Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf is expected to make an important announcement on extremism during an address to the nation in the next day or two."

The US is now going to start bombing towns and cities throughout Pakistan at the invatation of Pakistan's leader General Pervez Musharraf.  This website author did not think it was possible that there was another world leader dumber than George Bush....untill now that is. - mpg - posted 07-02-07
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Lessons From the U.S. Stance Towards Iran  ---  http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/lessons-from-the-us-stance-towards-iran/
A quote...."Prior to the military invasion of Iraq in 2003, the government and media, for whatever various motives, had engaged in a propaganda campaign that effectively deceived the American people on a massive scale. The propaganda continues to this day, such as the implausible denial that there ever was such a campaign and the fabricated myth that there was an “intelligence failure” leading up to the war. But the propaganda isn’t limited to Iraq. Iran has become a major focus of U.S. propaganda efforts. That this state of affairs continues demonstrates the failure of the American people to learn the most obvious lessons from the course of events that led us to be in Iraq in the first place."

Regarding the article shown above and for any of the bull you might read later on in our nation's mass-faux-media, understand this - I.E.D.s & E.F.P.s can be made by anybody. A five year old could make them.  All you need is a plastic ring (like a PVC pipe) a screw on bottom, some squibs, some high explosives and concave copper sheet for the top....that's it - mpg

For the truth about I.E.D.s & E.F.P.s see........In Iraq, anyone can make a bomb
  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-cockburn16feb16,0,6714688.story?coll=la-opinion-center
Iraq's Superbombs: Home Made?
  ---  http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/02/where_are_iraqs.html
The Imminent Spread of EFPs
  ---  http://www.mortyscabin.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1385
The Smoking Gun?: Photographic Evidence
  ---  http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/1621/The_Smoking_Gun_Photographic_Evidence
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Reservist Sues Army Over Fifth Deployment  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3720
A quote...."PORT ST. LUCIE - An army reservist from Port St. Lucie plans to sue the military after being ordered to report for a fifth deployment.  -  In the days after the attacks on September 11th, 26-year old Erik Botta signed up to serve. After a tour in Afghanistan and three in Iraq, he said enough is enough."

Argentina's Struggle to Restore the Rule of Law   ---  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070907H.shtml
Some quotes....."La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina - The trial of a former Argentine military chaplain accused of crimes against humanity began on Thursday under heavy security. The trial may be a tipping point for Argentina's long-awaited reconciliation process after their seven year 'dirty war.'"  -  "Von Wernich's case is just the second to proceed to oral trial since the Supreme Court overtured a series of amnesty laws from the late 80s - enacted in response to significant military pressure - that shielded prosecution of most crimes committed during the dictatorship. It is the first case ever to proceed against a member of the Catholic church, which is widely suspected of having supported the military government."

Dybbuks of the State  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/rossi/rossi15.html
A quote...."Most everyone is privy to a family secret. Sometimes you may be tempted to think that you know about the family secrets of others. But the truth of the matter is that most times people tend to chatter on about second-rate peccadilloes in families, while the truly disturbing matters are left unspoken. Should the subject matter arise, it becomes the proverbial elephant in the living room that no one dare admit exists. Oddly enough, these secrets tend to get blurted on occasion and for no apparent reason."

A moment of truth for Pakistan  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IG10Df04.html
A quote...."KARACHI - Six days into the offensive against the radical Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad, Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf was on Monday desperately searching for a way to contain the damage from the bloody confrontation.  -  Unrest over the clashes between armed students (and possibly foreign militants) inside the mosque and government forces has spread to Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the semi-autonomous tribal areas on the border with Afghanistan."

Speaker Pelosi, You Are Part of the Problem
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_james_br_070709_speaker_pelosi_2c_you_.htm
A quote...."We noticed yesterday online and again this morning in the local newspaper that Cindy Sheehan will, as an independent, challenge the Congressional seat of Nancy Pelosi out in San Francisco.  If this is the way it has to work, so be it.  Speaker Pelosi is outside the Constitution by declaring impeachment to be off the table.  No one, not even the nurturing first femme Speaker can put aside essential features of our Constitution.  Let me be plain, it is OUR Constitution, not Nancy Pelosi's or Rahm Emanuel's or Steny Hoyer's."

Republican Dissenters Won’t Dissuade Bush on Iraq  ---  http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx070607
A quote...."Even as Bush keeps losing fans among Republicans in the Senate, don’t bet that’s going to change his mind on Iraq.  -  This man gives stubbornness a bad name.  -  He’s said in the past that he’s going to stay on course even if the only people supporting him are Laura and Barney.  -  And I’m not even sure they’re still on board."

The Napping President  ---  http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/8601
A quote...."I read somewhere that while George W. Bush was governor of Texas he was prone to leave his office in the early afternoon. He was not the most energetic governor and retains a well-known penchant for naps even when surrounded by troubling news."
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9/11 - From The History File...White House Accused of Thwarting 9/11 Commission
 ---  http://foi.missouri.edu/terrorintelligence/whaccused.html
Bush's 9/11 coverup?
  ---  http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/06/18/911/index.html
Bush Opposes 9/11 Query Panel
  ---  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml
Without taking oath, Bush & Cheney testify together for 9/11 investigation
  ---  http://www.unknownnews.net/040430911.html
Was Bush using his Earpiece during the 9/11 Commission Session in the Oval Office
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO410A.html
White House Accused Of Halting 911 Commission
  ---  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0210/S00087.htm
Bush and Cheney Block 9-11 Investigation
  ---  http://www.mikehersh.com/Bush_and_Cheney_Block_911_Investigation_.shtml
9-11 Commission Funding Woes
  ---  http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,437267,00.html
9/11: Cracks in the “Official Story”
  ---  http://revcom.us/a/060/911cracks-en.html
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Report: Wars Costing $12 Billion a Month  ---  http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070709/D8Q97VI00.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AP) - The boost in troop levels in Iraq has increased the cost of war there and in Afghanistan to $12 billion a month, and the total for Iraq alone is nearing a half-trillion dollars, congressional analysts say."

Texas: Where Every Fascist Worth his Swastika Owns Himself a Politician Like Bush
  ---  http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2007/07/texas-where-every-fascist-worth-his.html
A quote...."Texas barely resembles the state it once was. Under Bush, it became a sleazy auction where would-be Bushes sell out the rule of law and the people. Columnist Joseph Galloway asks: "Why is it that the Bush administration, in its dying throes, looks remarkably more like an organized crime ring than one of the arms of the American government?" I have a simple explanation. The GOP looks and acts like a criminal conspiracy because it is one. It looks like a crime syndicate because it's cheaper to buy a politician than it is to obey the law. They proved it all in Texas."

Should corporate mercenaries guard Texas' border? Meet DynCorp
  ---  http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2007/07/should-mercenaries-guard-texas-border.html
A quote...."South Texas Chisme points  ---  http://stxc.blogspot.com/2007/07/do-you-want-blackwater-types-patroling.html  ---  to a McAllen Monitor article about a private defense contractor that hopes to supply mercenaries to supplement the US Border Patrol ("Proposals could put contractors on the border,"   --- 
http://www.themonitor.com/news/border_3585___article.html/patrol_agents.html  ---  July 7) on the Mexican border. In a proposal to Congress last month, the Monitor reported:"

Iraqi FM: Turkey Massing 140,000 Troops  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6767275,00.html
A quote...."BAGHDAD (AP) - Turkey has massed 140,000 soldiers on its border with northern Iraq, Iraq's foreign minister said Monday, calling the neighboring country's fears of Kurdish rebels based there ``legitimate'' but better resolved through negotiation."

Despite warnings, oil usage expected to increase  ---  http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/09/business/oil.php
A quote...."PARIS: Despite four years of high prices and increasingly dire warnings about climate change, a new report Monday predicted that world oil demand would rise faster than previously expected over the next five years while production slips, threatening a supply crunch."

Woman Arrested for Not Watering Lawn  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=38331
A quote...."A widow and grandma spent the morning in jail, arrested for refusing to give a policeman her name when he tried writing her a ticket for failing to water her yard. The woman hasn't watered her lawn in more than a year, and the condition of her yard violates an Orem zoning ordinance."

Sunday July 8th 2007 - links page

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi - Life in Iraq Under U.S. Occupation - (YouTube 16m 16s June 30, 2007)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=colcD8UVr90  ---  posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17979.htm
Must View - Outstanding!! - A quote...."shortages; lack of electricity; potable water; tanks rolling through the streets night and day; gunfire and explosions. Iraqi health care in shambles. 200 bodies turn up daily in the Baghdad morgue. For Iraqis, it's 9/11 every day."

Keep in mind as you watch this video that every single fact she cited regarding what the U.S. did in Iraq IS TRUE, VERIFIABLE, AND HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED THROUGHOUT THE WEB.

Something to think about. - mpg

See also....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
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Founder of Iraq Oil Workers Union Rejects U.S.-Backed Oil Law as "Robbery"
  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/06/1359232
Listen to Segment ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007/july/audio/dn20070706.ra&proto=rtsp&start=12:32
Download Show mp3  ||  ---  http://www.archive.org/download/dn2007-0706/dn2007-0706-1_64kb.mp3
Watch 128k stream  ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007/july/video/dnB20070706a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=12:32
Watch 256k stream ||  ---  http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007/july/video/dnB20070706a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=12:32
Read Transcript ||  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/06/1359232#transcript
Interview - Amy Goodman interviews Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein and Faleh Abood - A quote...."Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein is the president of the Electrical Utility Workers Union, she is the first woman to head a national union in Iraq. Faleh Abood Umara is the general secretary of the Federation of Oil Unions and a founding member of the oil workers union in Iraq. In 1998, he was detained by the Saddam Hussein regime for his activities on behalf of his coworkers. They recently joined us in our firehouse studio. I began by asking Faleh Abood Umara to describe the current situation for oil workers in Iraq and why he is protesting the proposed oil law."

Editor's note : listen or watch the downloaded segment (if you can) to avoid constant interruptions.  To be honest this editor found RealPlayer to be impossible to use.
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NYT on Iraq: Better Late Than Never?   ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/070807.html
- posted at Consortiumnews  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/
Must Read - A quote...."In an extraordinary full-length editorial, the New York Times has called for an end to the U.S. military occupation of Iraq, a step that some anti-war Americans may praise as a turning-point while others will be left wondering why it took the nation’s leading newspaper more than four years – and scores of thousands of dead – to figure this out."
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9/11 - From The History File...Destroyed, Missing, and Surviving Evidence of the September 11th Attack
  ---  http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/evidence.html
Talk of Rescue Used to Mask Destruction of Evidence
  ---  http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/groundzero/index.html
Destruction of Evidence from Ground Zero at the World Trade Center
  ---  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Destruction_of_Evidence_from_Ground_Zero_at_the_World_Trade_Center
Recyclable Metal Shipped Out, Literally
  ---  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Destruction_of_Evidence_from_Ground_Zero
  ---  _at_the_World_Trade_Center#Recyclable_Metal_Shipped_Out.2C_Literally
The Closure of Ground Zero to Investigators
  ---  http://911research.com/wtc/groundzero/restrictions.html
World Trade Center Destruction Forensics
  ---  http://911research.com/resources/web/wtc.html
Commentary On Destruction Of Evidence At WTC- video
  ---  http://www.metacafe.com/watch/338180/commentary_on_destruction_of_evidence_at_wtc/
Firemen's Half-Baked Assault On Cover-Up
  ---  http://www.public-action.com/911/firemen.html
AMEC Destroys Evidence in WTC Cleanup Scam
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/amecdestroys911proof-cp-cached-071807
The British Knights Who "Cleaned Up" 911
  ---  http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Egulufuture/future/knights.htm
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Sheehan Considers Challenge to Pelosi  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6765782,00.html
A quote...."CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - Six weeks after announcing her departure from the peace movement, Cindy Sheehan said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks."

Hip Hip Hooray!! - mpg
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Chalabi Departs Further From The Neo-Con Line  ---  http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=44
A quote...."Don’t call the Wall Street Journal’s neo-conservative editorial board unfair or unbalanced  -  Just yesterday (Friday), it ran an op-ed by Sen. Joseph Lieberman restating his thesis that the “fanatical government” of Iran is engaged in a “proxy war” against the United States, and is the “common denominator that links” all U.S. adversaries, from Sunni to Shi’a, throughout the Middle East together. Today, it is running a glowing profile/interview of former neo-con heartthrob Ahmad Chalabi that does nothing to disabuse anyone of the theory that Chalabi, if not an agent of the Islamic Republic as some have charged, is certainly sympathetic to it."

Barak secretly meets with Palestinian PM  ---  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3422318,00.html
A quote...."Defense minister holds secret contacts with emergency Palestinian government Prime Minister Salam Fayyad; the two discuss easing restrictions on Palestinians in West Bank, lay groundwork for meeting planned between Barak, Abbas  -  Defense Minister Ehud Barak secretly met with the prime minister of the emergency Palestinian government Salam Fayyad in the West Bank last week, Ynet has learned."

Olmert releases Fatah prisoners to boost Abbas
  ---  http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2747711.ece
Related article - A quote...."The Israeli cabinet has agreed to release 250 Palestinian security prisoners as a gesture to President Mahmoud Abbas and his new West Bank government, which was established last month in competition with the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip. Israeli officials predicted that the prisoners, all affiliated to Mr Abbas's Fatah faction, could be sent home by the end of this week."

Divide and conquer a.k.a., "the method" or "constructive instability" is a very, very, old game indeed. - mpg
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Who Runs the CIA? Outsiders for Hire.
  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070601993.html?nav=rss_print/outlook
A quote...."Red alert: Our national security is being outsourced.  -  The most intriguing secrets of the "war on terror" have nothing to do with al-Qaeda and its fellow travelers. They're about the mammoth private spying industry that all but runs U.S. intelligence operations today."

Opportunistic Tyrants  ---  http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1600
A quote...."If politicians, especially the likes of Joe Lieberman, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush should ever wonder why the American people no longer consider their counsel on terrorism to be worthy of deliberation, they need only observe their own politically opportunistic behavior."

Liar, Liar, pants on fire!!!  ---  http://www.atlargely.com/2007/07/liar-liar-pants.html
A quote...."David Leppard continues to embarrass the Times of London in the same way that Judith Miller will forever be an embarrassment to the NYT. For his latest propaganda piece, Leppard breathlessly reports the propaganda handed him, despite UK  officials on the record saying the exact opposite:"

World shrinks for U.S. diplomats as security fears keep them inside embassies
  ---  http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/06/america/NA-GEN-US-Diplomatic-Lockdown.php
A quote...."Lockdowns and prohibitions on travel now apply to Americans posted to embassies and consulates in at least 28 nations, according to an Associated Press survey of State Department warnings, internal directives and officials. More than half the nations are identified as key to curbing the spread of militant Islam.  -  Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the number of posts deemed too dangerous for U.S. diplomats to bring families has doubled, from 10 to 21. And since the 1980s, the number of missions where employees receive danger pay has soared from two — Colombia and Lebanon — to 26."

Given the story shown below....and what's already happened throughout the world, keeping U.S. diplomats inside their embassies might be the safest thing.......for the countries and societies they've been posted to. - mpg
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Venezuela's Foreign Minister Accuses Departing U.S. Ambassador of Destabilization
  ---  http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2347
A quote...."Mérida, July 7, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)— Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, speaking at Venezuela's Independence Day celebrations yesterday, accused the outgoing U.S. ambassador of carrying out a "destabilizing" mission in Venezuela. Also, responding to recent comments from Peru's prime minister, Maduro demanded that Peru stop "attacking ALBA," Venezuela's regional integration plan, the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas."

Venezuela Sets Deadline for Mercosur Entry  ---  http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2345
A quote...."Caracas, July 4, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)— In reaction to the delays in the admission of Venezuela to Mercosur, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said that if his country is not admitted in the next three months, he would withdraw Venezuela’s effort to become a full member."

Chavez is being silly.  He should issue an apology, and after Venezuela is admitted to Mercosur, he can have his television stations run all sorts of stories about Lula's complicities with the Bush Regime and the manifest and multiplying scandals currently proliferating within Lula's own party.  Considering the rumors of just how much corruption is ongoing in that den of thieves, Chavez will have grist for his new media outlets for years.

Heck he could probably model himself as the Rupert Murdoch of South America (although that might be going a bit too far) - mpg
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President Chavez Announces "Petrochemical Revolution"  ---  http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2346
A quote...."Mérida, July 5, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)— Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the launch of a "Petrochemical Revolution" for Venezuela yesterday, emphasizing that it is vital for the diversification of the economy and for national development. Focusing on developing industry to work with oil derivatives, the Chavez government announced plans to build several large petrochemical plants and to expand other existing plants to supply national industry with raw materials."

It appears despite their differences, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia think alike in one respect, they don't just want to be the producer of a commodity.  See story shown below

Saudi Takeover of GE Plastics Flies Under Radar
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_diane_m__070703_saudi_takeover_of_ge.htm
A quote...."The announcement on May 21, 2007 that the largest public company in the Middle East, by market value, would be acquiring a division of the world’s second-largest corporation, by market value, and based in the United States, could not have been any less publicized. But in the world of corporate governance, the largest transaction ever completed in the Persian Gulf, seemingly trumps all laws of reason."

Actually this take-over makes perfect sense.  You know -- oil = petrochemicals = plastics. The Saudis not only want to pump it, they want to change it, alter it, make it, mold it, sell it and ship it.

It's called vertical integration and it's allot more profitable than just selling a commodity - mpg  -  posted 07-04-07
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Russian spy agency opens criminal probe of alleged MI6 recruitment of Russian man
  ---  http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/07/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-Britain-Espionage.php
A quote...."MOSCOW: Russia's spy agency said Saturday it has opened a criminal investigation into allegations by a Russian man that he was recruited by Britain's foreign intelligence agency, MI6."

Russia Proton-M booster puts U.S. satellite into orbit-1  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20070707/68538483.html
A quote...."MOSCOW, July 7 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket has successfully delivered U.S. telecommunications satellite, DirecTV-10, into orbit, Russia's space agency said.  -  The rocket, powered by a Briz-M booster was launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 5.16 a.m. Moscow time Saturday (1.16 a.m. GMT)."

Alleged spy says Berezovsky, Litvinenko involved him in MI6  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20070707/68536814.html
A quote...."MOSCOW, July 7 (RIA Novosti) - Vyacheslav Zharko, a Russian ex-security service officer who admitted earlier working for British intelligence, said Saturday murdered Alexander Litvinenko and fugitive Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky introduced him to MI6.  -  Last week FSB said the alleged spy, Zharko, had disclosed the names of four British intelligence officers, and given locations in Europe where meetings had taken place, including information regarding the assignments he had been given."

What If Bush's Supreme Court Blocks Congressional Oversight by Hearing and Subpoena?
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_070708_what_if_bush_s_supre.htm
A quote...."It's very likely that Bush or his surrogate has already discussed strategy with the Supreme Court Whores who put him in office and who are now tearing apart the constitution, precedent after precedent.  -  If they've already had those conversation-- and why shouldn't we make that assumption?-- the American people must face some very unpleasant realities."

Files show talks on 'vote caging'  - Discussions with elections chief were prior to '04 election
  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jacksonville.com%2Ftu-online%2Fstories%2F070807%2Fmet_183045410.shtml
A quote...."TALLAHASSEE - Internal city memos show the issue of Republican "vote caging" efforts in Jacksonville's African-American neighborhoods was discussed in the weeks before the 2004 election, contradicting recent claims by former Duval County Republican leader Mike Hightower - the Bush-Cheney campaign's local chairman at the time.  -  "Caging" is a longtime voter suppression practice by which political parties collect undeliverable or unreturned mail and use it to develop "challenge lists" on Election Day."

Government opposes mad cow testing  ---  http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/06/04/government-opposes-mad-cow-testing/
A quote...."The U.S. government is trying to prevent a Kansas meat company from testing all of its cows for mad cow disease.  -  The U.S. Department of Agriculture last week appealed a federal court ruling saying that it could not prevent Creekstone Farms Premium Beef from using the same test for mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, that the government uses.  -  The difference is that while the government tests less than 1 percent of all cows, Creekstone Farms wants to test every cow.

The Bush Cabal's prescription for every policy they've ever promoted and every act ever taken by any agency in the Federal government.  If you don't allow any investigations....you won't find anything wrong.   It's that simple - mpg

There's a Lot You Don't Know About What's in Your Food ---  http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/55847/
A quote...."Nearly three quarters of all processed foods contain genetically engineered ingredients, but you'd never know it by reading the back of your kid's cereal box or that pint of ice cream you've been craving. Rather than being relegated to its own supermarket section, this food sits unlabeled on grocery store shelves, allowing a handful of transnational biotech companies to profit handsomely as consumers shop blindly."

South Dakota fire kills one as western US blazes spread
  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/South_Dakota_fire_kills_one_as_west_07082007.html
A quote...."One person killed Sunday by a wildfire raging in the midwestern state of South Dakota, as extreme heat and drought conditions created tinderbox conditions in parts of the western United States.  -  Firefighters were battling to quell the blaze near Hot Springs in Alabaugh, South Dakota, which also injured two firefighters and has incinerated about 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares), officials said."