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

@ www.reficultnias.org
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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, Red War Warning and War Imminent - 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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Friday September 14th 2007 - links page

Mr Bush, your sheikh is dead  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II15Ak03.html
Must Read - A quote...."Petraeus's counterinsurgency game - arming Sunnis and Shi'ites alike - is the ideal recipe for non-stop sectarian hatred, the perfect justification for an indefinite US presence in Iraq.  -  Petraeus did not even bother to seek "permission" from the puppet Nuri al-Maliki government in Baghdad to arm Sunni militias who will try to depose this same government. There's also the extra bonus of the militias doing part of the dirty work for the Pentagon - going with a vengeance after Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. Furthermore, it all fits the anti-Iran Pentagon hysteria - the creation of a Sunni counter-power to the Shi'ite Iran-trained Badr Organization."

Iraq's Baath Party Calls the Petraeus Report a 'Cover Up' - posted at Watching America  ---  http://www.watchingamerica.com/index.shtml
  ---  http://www.watchingamerica.com/aliraqnews000005.shtml
A quote...."The Arab Socialist Baath Party in Iraq stressed in a statement that the report submitted by President Bush's assistants in Iraq, Ambassador Ryan Crocker and the leader of occupation forces, General Petraeus, was close to what Iraqis and many politicians and analysts in America and the world expected, and that the intent of the report is to cover up the rapid collapse of America's colonial occupation of Iraq."

Grand Theft Iraq - Privatizing and Carving up an Entire National Economy
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6783
Must Read - A quote...."At the end of August, in Dubai and the beginning of September, in London, conferences were held in order to privatize and carve up contracts for every essential service and infrastructure in Iraq. There was not a mega-corporate pig anywhere on earth, seemingly, who did not have its trotters in the trough. As Iraqis flee in an exodus of biblical proportions and die in a genocidal one, US/UK government backed corporate priority is a smash and grab raid of every asset and facility in the “land between two rivers”.

Bush-linked Texas company signs oil deal with Iraqi Kurds  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/hunt-s15.shtml
A quote...."Earlier this month, the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq announced that it had signed a production-sharing deal with Texas-based Hunt Oil. The move is an indication that Western oil companies, frustrated over the delay in the passage of a national oil law by the Iraqi government, are moving to make deals with regional bodies to get access to Iraq’s vast oil reserves."

More on the Hunt oil company. No doubt the Turks just love Bush's continued support for the PKK and the MEK while at the same time an oil company connected with his family is helping establish a new Kurdistan - mpg
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Georgia says to cut Iraq force from 2,000 to 300 - posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
  ---  http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-29533420070914?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=602
A quote...."TBILISI (Reuters) - Ex-Soviet Georgia will cut its troops in Iraq to less than a quarter of the current contingent by next June, the defence minister said on Friday."

India strongly opposes any US military action against Iran - posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
  ---  http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0709143654120959.htm
A quote...."Strongly opposing any US military action against Iran, India Friday said it did not want "another flashpoint" in its neighbourhood and hoped "good sense" will prevail, preventing the "precipitation" of the Tehran nuclear issue."

Russia rejects tougher stance on Iran  ---  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bd7a4b66-616d-11dc-bf25-0000779fd2ac.html
A quote..."Russia on Wednesday gave a clear indication that it would not back any immediate toughening in the United Nations’ approach to Iran’s nuclear programme, in spite of US calls for leading powers to convene for discussions on the issue next week."

China urges further negotiations on Iran nuclear issue  ---  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/15/content_6724608.htm
A quote...."BEIJING, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- China urged Iran on Friday to continue negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying it hoped to see "a positive outcome" on the Iranian nuclear issue."

New Iran sanctions may not be necessary-Germany  ---  http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14626018.htm
A quote...."BERLIN, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Discussion of a third round of sanctions against Iran for refusing to freeze its nuclear programme will not be necessary if Iran cooperates with the United Nations, Germany's Foreign Ministry said on Friday."

PJB: Stopping the Next War  ---  http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=849
A quote...."President Bush has won the Battle of September. - When he turns over the presidency on Jan. 20, 2009, there will likely be as many U.S. troops in Iraq as there were when Congress was elected to bring them home in November 2006." - italics by website author

Really well put. - mpg
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NORTH-SOUTH:  China, India, Brazil, South Africa Tilt Global Power Balance  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39247
A quote...."HELSINKI, Sep 13 (IPS) - Four developing countries -- China, India, Brazil and South Africa (CIBS) -- are poised to become new southern engines of global economic growth with increasing potential to provide prosperity to other developing countries, said prominent economics researchers here."

How could the nations shown above possibly "provide prosperity to other developing countries"?

After all, they're not bombing or invading them like the US is.  They're not bringing to all these other countries the wonderful benefits of America's newfound version of "freedom and democracy", freeing millions of these poor down trodden peoples throughout the world from the endless toil of actually being alive, freeing these benighted heathens from their routine existence of living in their own homes by the kind act of leveling them to the ground, forcing millions of these sedentary peoples into exciting mass migrations and relocations to wonderful, new, exotic, far away places.

No doubt all these "developing countries" will tire of  the "peace and prosperity” and the boring "stability" they'll be subject to if they comply with all those "quaint" international laws, treaties and agreements promulgated by such archaic international institutions as the UN.

No doubt they'll soon turn their backs on the BRICs CIBS, Russians, Europeans and assorted others and embrace the exciting opportunities of dealing with American corporations and the US’s elites knowing that at any time their countries could be torn asunder, their cities leveled, and their populations slaughtered by the world's Neo-Roman Empire now headed by Caligula’s heir apparent.

No doubt indeed. – mpg
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Poll: Civilian toll in Iraq may top 1M
  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq14sep14,1,3979621.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true
A quote...."The figure from ORB, a British polling agency that has conducted several surveys in Iraq, followed statements this week from the U.S. military defending itself against accusations it was trying to play down Iraqi deaths to make its strategy appear successful."

How the U.S. Schemed Against Spain's Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/navarro09152007.html
A quote...."According to conventional wisdom in Spain and in the U.S., in Spain’s transition from the Franco dictatorship to democracy, it was King Juan Carlos, with the assistance of the U.S. government (first the Ford administration, then the Carter administration), who brought democracy to Spain. In this interpretation of events taking place from 1975, when the dictator died,  to 1978, when the first democratically elected government was installed, the U.S. government actively supported the development of democracy in Spain.  -  The reality, however, was very different. As documented in a recent book by Nicolas Sartorins and Alberto Sabio,  El Final de la Dictadura (The End of the Dictatorship), the U.S. government was not very keen on having full democracy in Spain. The primary, if not exclusive, concern of the U.S. government in Spain was to preserve its military and economic interests. Democracy in Spain was the least of its concerns."

The US elites support dictatorships everywhere....always and forever.  They have NEVER supported the establishment of a democratic government anywhere, at anytime, at any point in the history of this planet since the WWII reconstruction of the occupied countries.

Period, full stop, end of story. – mpg
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The Endless, Meaningless Blather From The Washington Establishment  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/14/3855/
A quote...."It has been extremely difficult over the past several months to pay any attention at all to the discussion of Iraq from our political and media stars. It is all just complete blather, and never means anything. All of these stern and worried and tough words spill endlessly from their mouths — they all proclaimed in May that September was the Day of Reckoning: there would be bipartisan, forced withdrawal if the political benchmarks weren’t met — only for the same thing to happen over and over. The conditions are not met; Bush proclaims we are staying; and the Washington Establishment submits.

To answer the first comment on the site featuring the article shown above...."Great article and hit the nail squarely on the head. Ive gotten to the point of utter disillusionment with the Democratic Party that when I enter the voting booth in the next election, I will be pulling the NO lever (against Democrats) and for any third party or Independent candidate available. I am mad as hell, and I won’t take it anymore. I know I heard that line somewhere else, but where?"  -  bold/italics by website author

For the origin of the quote, see the video shown below - mpg

Howard Beale: Turn off your TVs - (YouTube - 4 min 51 sec - June 11, 2007)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Gf0VKXk5Q
From the Movie Network  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_%28film%29
He's right you know, they don't call it the boob tube for nothing.  Dear gentle readers for your own sanity, for your own peace of mind, for the sake of your children....turn off your TV's, turn them all off, and never watch, listen to, or read any of the commercially produced garbage spewed out by the five conglomerates who control ninety percent of the "mass media"  in this country ever again. – mpg  -  posted 07-19-2007
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Were War Critic Soldiers Killed To Send Message?  ---  http://prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/140907_send_message.htm
A quote...."A third author of the letter was also shot in the head in a separate incident during the time when the op-ed was being written. Though Staff Sgt. Jeremy Murphy survived and is expected to make a full recovery, the fact that three of the seven authors of the op-ed were either killed or received life-threatening injuries shortly before and after the publication of the piece is highly suspicious."

Bin Laden's Timing a 'Strange Coincidence' - posted at Watching America  ---  http://www.watchingamerica.com/index.shtml
  ---  http://www.watchingamerica.com/lefigaro0000183.shtml
A quote...."The last video of bin Laden turned up the day before the 2004 Presidential elections, and helped Bush considerably against Kerry. This time he has appeared just before a debate in Congress over the strategy in Iraq. Strange coincidence. …"

CNN: Mystery 9/11 aircraft was military 'doomsday plane'
  ---  http://rawstory.com//news/2007/CNN_investigates_secret_911_doomsday_plane_0913.html
Must Read - A quote...."CNN has now learned from two government sources that the mystery plane was a military aircraft and has determined that the blurry image on video appears to match photos of the Air Force's E-4B (discussed here on Wikipedia),  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-4B  ---  a specially modified Boeing 747 with a communications pod behind the cockpit."

Yep! We had one of the US's largest, newest, most expensive, aircraft, jam packed with the some of the most sophisticated set of command, control and communications equipment ever stuffed into an airplane hovering over Washington DC during that fateful day of 9/11, an incident which had been continuously denied by our officials up until this very day.

Sure would be nice to know EXACTLY when that plane took off....wouldn't it.  - mpg
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The Greatest Story Never Told - posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18392.htm
Must Read - A quote...." 09/14/07 "ICH" --- - No issue is more sensitive in the US than daring to criticize Israel. It's the metaphorical "third rail" in American politics, academia and the major media. Anyone daring to touch it pays dearly as the few who tried learned. Those in elected office face an onslaught of attacks and efforts to replace them with more supportive officials. Former five term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney felt its sting twice in 2002 and 2006. So did 10 term Congressman Paul Findley (a fierce and courageous Israeli critic) in 1982 and three term Senator Charles Percy in 1984 whom AIPAC targeted merely for appearing to support anti-Israeli policy.

Russia's new premier has bite  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/II15Ag01.html
Must Read - A quote...."MOSCOW - Russia's new Prime Minister Victor Zubkov has moved from obscurity to presidential status in half a day, showing character not seen in Moscow for 25 years. - The man, whose name in Russian means "tooth", shows he has mettle and bite - confidence in himself, pride in what he has done, and toughness toward what he must do, characteristics last on display in Moscow when Yuri Andropov took charge."

This is really good stuff. - mpg

See also...."Putin Dissolves Russian Government"  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4237
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Surprise slowdown in US retail sales  ---  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/360a732a-62c8-11dc-b3ad-0000779fd2ac.html
War Warning - A quote...."US retail sales slowed last month as concerns mounted about the economic impact of the downturn in the housing sector and turbulence in financial markets."

For more on this see....Standard Disclaimer  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207
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Thursday September 13th 2007 - links page

Preventing a Rogue President from Committing a War Crime: Open Letter to the New Generation of Military Officers
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6773

Must Read - An open letter to those serving in the armed forces - mpg - Some quotes....

"I contend that should some civilian order you to initiate a nuclear attack on Iran (for example), you are duty-bound to refuse that order. I might also suggest that you should consider whether the circumstances demand that you arrest whoever gave the order as a war criminal."   --  (Dr., Lt. Col. Bob Bowman)"

"We know that many of you share our concern and our determination to protect our republic from an arrogant, out-of-control, imperial presidency and a compliant, namby-pamby Congress (both of which are unduly influenced by the oil companies and other big-money interests). We know that you (like us) wouldn't have pursued a military career unless you were idealistic and devoted to our nation and its people. (None of us do it for the pay and working conditions!) But we also recognize that you may not see how you can influence these events. We in the military have always had a historic subservience to civilian authority."

"Our oath of office is to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Might I suggest that this includes a rogue president and vice-president? Certainly we are bound to carry out the legal orders of our superiors. But the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) which binds all of us enshrines the Nuremberg Principles which this country established after World War II (which you are too young to remember). One of those Nuremberg Principles says that we in the military have not only the right, but also the DUTY to refuse an illegal order. It was on this basis that we executed Nazi officers who were “only carrying out their orders.”  -  bold by website author
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Was a Covert Attempt to Bomb Iran with Nuclear Weapons foiled by a Military Leak?  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18374.htm
Possible Related Article - Update - 09/13/07 "The Canadian" --- - Critically exploring whether or not there was a covert attempt to instigate a catastrophic nuclear war against Iran is illuminated through an introduction using the recent B-52 Incident. On August 30, a B-52 bomber armed with five nuclear-tipped Advanced Cruise missiles travelled from Minot Air Force base, North Dakota, to Barksdale Air Force base, Louisiana, in the United States. Each missile had an adjustable yield between five and 150 kilotons of TNT which is at the lower end of the destructive capacities of U.S. nuclear weapons. For example, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 13 kilotons, while the Bravo Hydrogen bomb test of 1954 had a yield of 15,000 kilotons. The B-52 story was first covered in the Army Times on 5 September after the nuclear armed aircraft was discovered by Airmen.
See also previous article  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070909_b_52_bomber_incident.htm  ---  by same author, posted 09-11-07

Media, politicians maintain silence on flight of US nuclear bomber  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/nuke-s14.shtml
Possible Related Article - A quote...."When analyzing the US corporate-controlled media, it is often more important to take note of what is not reported than what is. - Such is clearly the case with the revelation earlier this month that a US B-52 Stratofortress bomber flew nearly 1,500 miles over the length of the United States with six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles fixed to its wings. - The flight took place August 30 between Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana."

Testimony of The Tortured  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/13/3816/
Must Read - A quote...."When President Bush dispatched the neoconservative “terror expert” Paul Bremer to Baghdad in the summer of 2003, it took the former staffer to Henry Kissinger just two weeks to boldly declare that Iraq was “open for business.” Naomi Klein, who traveled to Iraq during Bremer’s one year stint in the country, writes in The Shock Doctrine: “Overnight, Iraq went from being one of the most isolated countries in the world, sealed off from the most basic trade by strict UN sanctions, to becoming the widest-open market anywhere.”

Petraeus out of step with US top brass  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II14Ak02.html
A quote...."WASHINGTON - In sharp contrast to the lionization of General David Petraeus by members of the US Congress during his testimony this week, Petraeus's superior, Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (Centcom), derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad in March, according to Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting."

The General Lies  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/12/3789/
A quote...."Of course, Gen. David Petraeus predicts success in the Iraq war. What wonders couldn’t generals achieve with more troops and more time? The battle is always going well until it is lost, and then they blame defeat on the politicians and the public.  -  There’s no shortage of retired generals who will tell you we could have won in Vietnam, if only we had sent more troops, or bombed the dikes in the North, or been willing to kill more than the 3.4 million Vietnamese who died along with 59,000 American soldiers. Instead, the politicians and public, led by that bleeding heart President Richard Nixon, lost the will to win. Thus, the dominos fell to communism, and Red China and Red Vietnam now rule the world by dint of military force. Have you been to Wal-Mart lately? The triumph of communism is total."

Massacre? What Massacre?--Haditha  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mumia_ab_070912_massacre_3f_what_massa.htm
A quote...." One military prosecutor said he declined to punish the soldiers further because to do so would "harm unit morale." - That's US justice, for all the world to see - the 'law' of the Occupier.- If ever we engaged in the illusion that the puppets in government in Iraq were little more than U.S. stringed mannequins, their silence on Haditha is evidence enough. - Dozens of Iraqi civilians were slain in their homes, under their beds, while holding their babies, unarmed, and the US Imperial Government issues its final ruling. - 'No harm, no foul.' "

Another $100 billion for Iraq?  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-ed-iraq12sep12,0,1250102.story?coll=la-home-commentary
A quote...."Eleven more months of surge would mean $100 billion that could be better spent elsewhere. - Iraq is too important to lose, so we've got to keep on trying, no matter the cost, and though it's not clear when we will succeed."

Bush calls for permanent US military occupation of Iraq in nationally televised address  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/bush-s14.shtml
A quote...."President Bush’s nationally televised speech, delivered Thursday evening from the Oval Office, was the low point of a week of lies and absurdities designed to justify the United States’ bloody colonial war in Iraq. The ugly farce began with the congressional testimony Monday and Tuesday of Gen. David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, and US Ambassador Ryan Crocker."

Anybody surprised by this....anybody?  If ANY single American out there states they were surprised by this because they believed all the previous lies told by the moral cretins who rule our society.  Lies such as the US went there to bring the Iraqi’s “freedom and democracy”, that it wasn’t about the oil, that the military bases were “temporary", that al Qaeda was in Iraq, that Iraq was connected to 911, along with Iraq's WMD’s, drones, aluminum tubes, yellow cake, bio-weapons trailers, mission accomplished, etc. etc. etc.....

They're really stupid. 

Actually, totally, completely, congenitally, metaphysically, incredibly, unbelievable outrageously, impossibly stupid.

Or a murdering liar.

Take your pick. - mpg
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Keith Olbermann Top 9/11 Story: The Promotion Of Failure - (YouTube  4 min 49 sec 09-13-2007)
  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be0uIjz68KA
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
Must View - A quote...."Keith Olbermann's Top 9/11 Story: The Promotion Of Failure In Bush Administration"

Almost ALL of the people mentioned by Mr. Olbermann in his video bare an uncanny resemblance to those portrayed in the
PNAC - Rouges Gallery.  ---  http://tvnewslies.org/html/pnac_neo-con_artists.html  ---  An organization most of our "mass media" have adamantly refused to even mention, much less examine, for over the last seven years. -  mpg
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The War Party: Democrats Lie to Prolong Iraq; Reporters Go Along  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/13/3806/
A quote...."Americans don’t know how their government works. Democrats, in control of Congress, are taking advantage of our ignorance to continue the Iraq War. Which brings up two questions: Why won’t the “antiwar” Democrats act to stop the carnage? And why aren’t reporters calling them on it?”

The Iran Attack That Wasn't  ---  http://www.prospect.org//cs/articles?article=the_iran_attack_that_wasnt
From the history file - A quote..."On July 2 and 3, The New York Times and the Associated Press, among other media outlets, came out with sensational stories saying that either Iranians or Iranian agents had played an important role in planning the operation in Karbala, Iraq last January that resulted in the deaths of five American soldiers. Michael R. Gordon and John F. Burns of The New York Times wrote that "agents of Iran" had been identified by the military spokesman as having "helped plan a January raid in the Shiite holy city of Karbala in Iraq in which five American soldiers were killed by Islamic militants …" 

Testy times seen for US-Japan ties  ---  http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Testy_times_seen_for_US_Japan_ties_09132007.html
A quote...."US-Japan ties face challenging times with the abrupt resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after an uphill battle to renew a law for providing military help to US-led forces in Afghanistan. - The United States had lobbied strongly for Japan, its key Asian ally, to extend the anti-terrorism law but Abe threw in the towel Wednesday following persistent refusal by the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) to back the overseas mission."

Sell the rumor, buy the news
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/recessions-mean-stock-market/story.aspx?
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Some quotes...."A number of you were unhappy with one of my columns earlier this week,
  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/reaction-jobs-report-suggests-were/story.aspx?guid=
  ---  %7BE02825E0%2D81ED%2D4592%2DBC91%2D35CD8EB02D15%7D&dist=morenews
in which I concluded that the odds had increased that we were already in a recession.  --   Many of your objections don't deserve a column in response.  --  But some of you did ask a question that I want to address here: How can I square the generally bullish tone of my other recent columns (the ones based on a contrarian analysis of newsletter sentiment) with the apparently bearish message of my column about a recession?"

All part of the MIOC elite's glorious ten year cycles of "Keynesian military spending" first started during WWII.

For more on this see....Effective Fed Funds Rate  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/fedfundschart-photopg-cached-032407
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National Academy of Sciences Member Calls for New 911 Investigation
  ---  http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/139512-National+Academy+of+Sciences+Member+Calls+for+New+911+Investigation
A quote...."Official Explanation a "Fraud" - World renowned scientist, Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., has severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation. "I suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough, and impartial investigation be undertaken."

911 Commission Chair Lee Hamilton claims he doesn't know what the hell happened that day
  ---  http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/139827-911+Commission+Chair+
  ---  Lee+Hamilton+claims+he+doesn%27t+know+what+the+hell+happened+that+day
A quote...."CBC News: Sunday's Evan Solomon interviews Lee Hamilton, 9/11 Commission co-chair and co-author of the book "Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission".  --  "Solomon: Now, one of the stipulations, you write in the book, one of the ways that you thought that this ought to be successful, this report, the Commission Report, is on page 23, you said if the American people would accept the results as authoritative, and the recommendations. - And when I measure that against a Zogby poll done in May, that says now 42% of Americans say that "the U.S. government, and its 9/11 Commission, concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence that contradicts the official explanation of September 11th, saying there's a cover-up" - 42%, Mr. Hamilton - what does that say to you about the efficacy of the Commission's report?"

Analysis: Venezuela, China boost oil ties
  ---  http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Energy/Analysis/2007/09/12/analysis_venezuela_china_boost_oil_ties/3189/
A quote...."MIAMI, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Venezuelan and Chinese state petroleum companies said they will spend more than $10 billion to develop the oil-rich Faja del Orinoco region, part of a continuing effort by Caracas to bolster ties between the two countries."

Wednesday September 12th 2007 - links page

Pigs of War - posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18367.htm
Must Read - A quote...."09/12/07" --"ICH" ---  - Pigs of War come in both political colors of red and blue. We are all unfortunately very familiar with the red pigs. The pigs of war who manipulated, cherry-picked, stove-piped and manufactured intelligence to suggest to the world that Saddam had mushroom cloud producing WMD and something to do with the tragic events of 9-11 that occurred six years ago now."

Here’s the Smell of the Blood Still  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/12/3780/
Must Read - A quote...."When Martin Luther King Jr. publicly referred to “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government,” he had no way of knowing that his description would ring so true 40 years later. As the autumn of 2007 begins, the reality of Uncle Sam as an unhinged mega-killer haunts a large minority of Americans. Many who can remember the horrific era of the Vietnam War are nearly incredulous that we could now be living in a time of similarly deranged official policy."

"That really pisses me off down there, those a**holes"  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_kevin_go_070912__22that_really_pisses_.htm
Must Read - A quote...."Democratic Representative Ike Skelton from Missouri was overheard by a Wall Street Journal reporter at a hearing for Army Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, who were about to testify about current conditions in Iraq. He leaned over to say this to Republican Representative Duncan Hunter, “That really pisses me off down there, those a**holes.”

Fur flies as Petraeus and pink protestors enliven Congress  [a.k.a. DemoRepub Ike Skelton's a**holes]
  ---  http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j-VoRERFMcj_Z6CGxpE-ueageiuQ
Related Article - A quote...." WASHINGTON (AFP) — The screams of pink-clad female protestors could be heard but General David Petraeus could not. The US commander in Iraq had a dud microphone.  -  What was billed as the most electrifying day of testimony in Congress for many years lurched into farce Monday as Petraeus struggled to be heard and members of the anti-war group Code Pink were dragged kicking from the room."

'War criminal' cries get protesters quickly removed from hearing  ---  http://rawstory.com//news/2007/War_criminal_cries_get_protesters_quickly_0910.html
Related article - A quote...."As soon as Rep. Ike Skelton gaveled a joint Congressional hearing to order this morning, protesters could be heard yelling "war criminal" at Army Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, who were about to testify about conditions in Iraq."

U.S.-IRAQ:  Fallon Derided Petraeus, Opposed the Surge  ---  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39235
A quote...."WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - In sharp contrast to the lionisation of Gen. David Petraeus by members of the U.S. Congress during his testimony this week, Petraeus's superior, Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March, according to Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting.  -  Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be "an a**-kissing little chickensh*t" and added, "I hate people like that", the sources say. That remark reportedly came after Petraeus began the meeting by making remarks that Fallon interpreted as trying to ingratiate himself with a superior."

A Look At How Petraeus Helped Arm Warring Sunni and Shia Militias in Iraq  ---  http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/12/1410237
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A quote...."On Tuesday, President Bush's top military commander in Iraq returned to Capitol Hill for a second day to urge the continuation of the war in Iraq. We speak with Arun Gupta, an editor of "The Indypendent" about the Petraeus hearings. Gupta's most recent article is titled, "Meet Gen. David Petraeus: His Militia Strategy Plunged Iraq Into a Civil War, And Now He's Back for More." [includes rush transcript]"

Terrorism Policies Split Democrats - Thursday, August 30, 2007; Page A01
   ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082902355.html?hpid=topnews
Missed this one while I was on vacation - mpg - A quote...."A growing clamor among rank-and-file Democrats to halt President Bush's most controversial tactics in the fight against terrorism has exposed deep divisions within the party, with many Democrats angry that they cannot defeat even a weakened president on issues that they believe should be front and center."

Two of Seven Soldiers Who Wrote 'NYT' Op-Ed Die in Iraq
  ---  http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003638726
A quote...."NEW YORK The Op-Ed by seven active duty U.S. soldiers in Iraq questioning the war drew international attention just three weeks ago. Now two of the seven are dead. -  Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance T. Gray died Monday in a vehicle accident in western Baghdad, two of seven U.S. troops killed in the incident which was reported just as Gen. David Petraeus was about to report to Congress on progress in the "surge." The names have just been released."

Cheney Orders Media To Sell Attack On Iran  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/040907_cheney_orders.htm
War Warning - A quote..."Dick Cheney has ordered top Neo-Con media outlets, including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, to unleash a PR blitz to sell a war with Iran from today, according to Barnett Rubin, the highly respected Afghanistan expert at New York University."

Compromise on Oil Law in Iraq Seems to Be Collapsing  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/141010
A quote...."BAGHDAD, Sept. 12 — A carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq’s rich oil fields, agreed to in February after months of arduous talks among Iraqi political groups, appears to have collapsed. The apparent breakdown comes just as Congress and the White House are struggling to find evidence that there is progress toward reconciliation and a functioning government here."

New armor-piercing grenade causing US casualties in Iraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/140957
A quote...."Although improvised explosive devices have until now been responsible for the majority of US casualties in Iraq, a new, armor-piercing hand grenade may pose an even greater threat.  -  CBS News reports that the Russian-made device is light enough to be thrown by a single insurgent standing alongside a road and is equipped with a parachute so that it falls vertically on its target and can take out even armored vehicles."

No Exit from Iraq Before Bush Leaves  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=11608
A quote...."After two days of Congressional testimony by Washington's top two officials in Iraq, prospects for a substantial withdrawal of US military forces there before the end of President George W. Bush's tenure at the White House look as remote as ever."

No!  You're kidding!  Gee whiz what a surprise! - mpg
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Borderline Case: Brits Join Bush Push for Iran Provocation  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1283/135/
A quote...."Following up on the previous post about the new American base  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1280/135/%20
now being built on the Iraq-Iran border, we find the Independent reporting  ---  http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2953462.ece
that UK troops are also being sent to the volatile line, there to dangle themselves as tempting targets for an Iranian "provocation" -- or, as Tehran claims, to join the Americans in staging their own cross-border provocations with raids on Iranian soil.

9/11 - the big cover-up?  ---  http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_tatchell/2007/09/911_the_big_coverup.html
A quote...."Six years after 9/11, the American public have still not been provided with a full and truthful account of the single greatest terror attack in US history."
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9/11 - From The History File...PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR - Part I
  ---  http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/012005_ptech_pt1.shtml
PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR PART II
  ---  http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/012705_ptech_pt2.shtml
The PROMIS of 9/11 and beyond
  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1322.shtml
Michael Chertoff and the sabotage of the Ptech investigation
  ---  http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=86105
The PTECH Story
  ---  http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/109323/index.php
Chertoff Created Terror Pretexts for US Pplice State
  ---  http://www.newswithviews.com/Briley/Patrick4.htm
(Cont'd) CHERTOFF CREATED TERROR PRETEXTS
  ---  http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/04-10-05/discussion.cgi.67.html
Bush Uses Terrorists To Establish World Government
  ---  http://www.okc903.com/BushTerrorGovernment.html
Subject: Crossing the Rubicon - - - Simplifying The Case Against Dick Cheney
http://www.algore.org/forum/general_category/everything_else/subject_crossing_rubicon_simplifying_case_against_dick_cheney
UQ Wire: The Role Of The U.S. Government On 9-11
  ---  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0501/S00116.htm
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The Soviet Collapse, the Growth of Islamic Fundamentalism, and The Intensification of U.S. Hostility Toward Iran
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6759
A quote...."For over 100 years, the domination of Iran has been deeply woven into the fabric of global imperialism, enforced through covert intrigues, economic bullying, military assaults, and invasions. This history provides the backdrop for U.S. hostility toward Iran today—including the real threat of war."

IAEA Head walks out on European Union in protest at Meeting  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6754
A quote...."Western nations are "poisoning the environment" at a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency by underestimating initial successes of an agency probe into his nation's nuclear past, a senior Iranian envoy said Wednesday."

Death at a Distance: The U.S. Air War  ---  http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4511
A quote...."According to the residents of Datta Khel, a town in Pakistan's North Waziristan, three missiles streaked out of Afghanistan's Pakitka Province and slammed into a Madrassa, or Islamic school, this past June. When the smoke cleared, the Asia Times reported, 30 people were dead. - The killers were robots, General Atomics MQ-1 Predators. The AGM-114 Hellfire missiles they used in the attack were directed from a base deep in the southern Nevada desert."

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008  ---  http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2008/index.htm
Project Censored's top 25 "unreported" stories. - mpg

Hit and Myth: Poll Shows 1 in 3 Americans Still Believe Saddam Involved in 9/11
  ---  http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003638490&imw=Ywww.mercurynews.com/
  ---  search/ci_6859681?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com&nclick_check=1
One third of Americans are completely, utterly, stupid.  There's just no other way of looking at this poll.  If Bush told these people their children were aliens from outer space....they would quite likely kill their own progeny.

Gary Webb: More Pieces In The Suicided Puzzle - Pt 1  ---  http://www.rense.com/general69/webb1.htm
From the History File & a poignant reminder of the life and dedication of a "real reporter”.- mpg - A quote...."Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in." - Edward Abbey

Oil hits record $80 on tight supply
  ---  http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=businessNews&storyid=2007-09-
  ---  12T181432Z_01_SP57154_RTRUKOC_0_US-MARKETS-OIL.xml&src=rss&rpc=23&sp=true
A quote...."NEW YORK (Reuters) - Crude oil prices vaulted to a record high $80 a barrel on Wednesday as dealers focused on tight inventories in top consumer the United States ahead of peak winter demand."

Oil Minister Calls on Exxon and Conoco to Leave Venezuela  ---  http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2404
A quote...."Caracas , August 30, 2007 (venezuelanlysis.com) – Rafael Ramirez, Venezuela's Energy Minister and president of the state owned oil company PDVSA, called on US oil companies ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil to leave Venezuela. Ramirez issued the call as he submitted details of proposed contracts relating to the final transition of companies operating in the Orinoco oil belt into joint ventures with PDVSA during a session of the National Assembly’s Energy Commission yesterday."

Gitmo Panels Struggle to Assess Facts  ---  http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6909024,00.html
A quote...."SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - After years of indefinite confinement, many detainees at Guantanamo Bay say they feel they may never receive justice, according to transcripts of hearings obtained by The Associated Press. Fewer than one in five of detainees allowed a hearing last year even bothered to show up for it."

Candidates for Sale  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070911_candidates_for_sale/
A quote...."Real debate over the war is being submerged in the mush of the campaign.  The hottest phrase among Democrats has been “change,” whatever that harmless word means.  In Sen. Clinton’s first New Hampshire commercial, the war was briefly mentioned in a litany about how “we will end this war, we will give health coverage to everyone, we will be energy independent. ... If we’re ready for change, she’s ready to lead.” In Sen. Obama’s first Iowa  commercial, entitled “Change,” he promised, “We’re going to take our country back.”

Down to Their Last Billion  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070909_satire_down_to_their_last_billion/
A quote...."Demanding further intervention from the Federal Reserve to protect their endangered fortunes, thousands of the nation’s leading hedge-fund managers marched on Washington today. - Dubbed “The Million Mercedes March,” the protest was said to be the largest chauffeur-driven demonstration in the capital’s history."
Tuesday September 11th 2007 - links page

War and the "New World Order"  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6577
Must Read - A quote...."War is the ultimate means of attempting to change societies and reshape nations. It is through war that national economies and political structures can be forcibly restructured. War is, potentially, the ultimate economic shock therapy. The wars in the Middle East are stepping stones towards establishing a vision of global order that has been in the hearts and minds of the Anglo-American establishment for years. That vision is global ascendancy."

Iraq, Iran and the Moral Rot Infecting the Soul of America  ---  http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/Reviews/rot.html
A quote...."The more I read history, the more I'm convinced that the United States, far from being God's appointed beacon for all mankind, was always a big talking, poor performing country in which the massive and willful stupidity of the majority engendered a moral rot incapable of withstanding manipulation and seduction by self-serving business/political interests. Thus, columnist Richard Cohen was merely acknowledging the latest example of such rot among the majority, when he asserted the Iraq War "was no mere failure of intelligence. This was a failure of character."

The Truth behind 9/11: Who Is Osama Bin Laden? - Article first published on September 12th, 2001
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060910&articleId=3198
A quote...."Little did the public realize that a large scale theater war is never planned and executed in a matter of weeks. The decision to launch a war and send troops to Afghanistan had been taken well in advance of 9/11. The "terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event" as it was later described by CentCom Commander General Tommy Franks, served to galvanize public opinion in support of a war agenda which was already in its final planning stage."

9-11, Six Years Later  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18353.htm
A quote...." 09/11/07 "ICH" -- -- On Sept. 7, National Public Radio reported that Muslims in the Middle East were beginning to believe that the 9-11 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon were false flag operations committed by some part of the U.S. and/ or Israeli government."

Sibel Edmonds case: The real culprits of 911  ---  http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=4362
A quote...."Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has made a number of disturbing claims about the 911 attacks, but perhaps the most disconcerting is her oft-repeated statement that the US authorities have covered up an entire organizational layer within al-Qaeda."

9/11 Families Slam Government Over Anniversary  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4232
A quote...."The decision to hold Iraq war commander Gen. David Petraeus' testimony to the Congress on the sixth anniversary of 9/11 has been condemned by families of the victims of the attacks as another crude attempt by government officials to link the event to the war in Iraq despite the fact prior intelligence reports have dismissed any such notion."

Something Wicked This Way Came  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mary_lyo_070911_something_wicked_thi.htm
A quote...."Six years later, how far have we come, really? Or perhaps the question should be - how far back have we fallen? It's hard to watch. And it's not just the memory of a world-class kick in the teeth. What hurts the worst is where I know this tragedy led."

BBC: Debunked "Pancake Theory" Caused Towers To Collapse  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4230
A quote...."The BBC has been caught in another 9/11 faux pas on the anniversary of the attacks, lending credence to a study that validates the pancake theory as the cause of the twin towers' collapse, despite the fact that this explanation was dismissed by NIST itself years ago and it violates the fundamental laws of physics."

"Blackbeard" Bin Laden and the Great American Protection Racket: Can We Be Fooled Again?
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rosa_sch_070910__22blackbeard_22_bin_lad.htm
A quote...."In the new video, "Blackbeard" [bin Laden] says the US is losing in Iraq. He speaks fondly of the Democrats and Noam Chomsky. If you ask me, the people "bin Laden" really loves are Bush Sr., Dick Cheney, and Bush Jr. . . . [T]he bearded boogeyman sure seems to want to help the American Far Right. This is at least the third time he or al Qaeda has emerged like an evil genie from a magic lantern just in time to restore citizen support for the neoconservative agenda. . . ."

Is the U.S. Responsible for a Million Iraqi Deaths?  ---  http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=13745
A quote...."In October 2006 researchers from Johns Hopkins University published a peer-reviewed article in The Lancet, one of Europe's most important and respected medical journals, estimating that 650,000 Iraqis had been killed due to the U.S.-led invasion of their country, 601,000 violently. [1] The report was quickly marginalized in public debate in the United States.  -  The researchers' methods were not to blame. They used the method accepted around the world to measure demographics such as birth and death rates in the wake of natural and man-made disasters: a cluster survey. No one found substantive flaws in the way they conducted their research. Instead, their findings were dismissed because they asked the politically charged question of how many Iraqis have died, and the answer they found was unacceptably high."

US seeks legal expert to oversee plunder of Iraqi oil  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/oili-s12.shtml
A quote...."As Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker testified before Congress on Monday and Tuesday, and US senators and representatives quibbled over the tactics of the US occupation of Iraq, there was no mention of the real material interests underlying the war.  -  An article by Walter Pincus in the September 10 edition of the Washington Post, headlined “Commerce Seeks Adviser for Iraq Oil Interests,” focused attention on a central objective that has motivated the four-and-a-half year colonial occupation: the plunder of Iraq’s vast oil wealth."

Brit Hume and the Bush administration take propaganda to a new level
  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/11/petraeus_interview/index.html
A quote..."Just as George Bush and Dick Cheney have done on politically important occasions, Gen. David Petraeus (along with Ambassador Ryan Crocker) last night selected Fox News' Brit Hume as the "journalist" rewarded with an exclusive "interview." Whereas Hume, in the past, at least has pretended to play the role of journalist when interviewing high Bush officials -- doing things like asking (extremely respectful) questions about sensitive areas (with no follow up) -- he dispensed entirely with the pretense here. This "interview" took government propaganda to a whole new level, and really has to be seen to be believed (the full video is here)."

The "Surge" Without the Bush/Petraeus Smoke and Mirrors  ---  http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/Reviews/surge.html
A quote...."According to the latest evaluation by the highly respected defense analyst, Anthony Cordesman, "America has no good options in Iraq." That observation alone should expose the fraud behind the recent blustering in Anbar province -- and the subsequent lie,"We're kicking ass." -- by our phony Panglossian swaggerer and grossly incompetent fool, President George W. Bush. But Cordesman's message is even more worrisome, because he conditions America's last-chance options upon the ability of Iraq's leaders "to move forward to achieve a significant degree of political conciliation and compromise." [Cordesman, "America's Last Chance in Iraq: Changing US Strategy to Meet Iraq's Real Needs," Sept. 4, 2007, p. 2]"

Tomgram: The Petraeus Moment  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174835/the_petraeus_moment
A quote...."....We've had to bear with the bloviating of almost every member of Congress, the full-blast PR apparatus of the White House, and two endless days of congressional testimony from General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, not to speak of the flood of newspaper, radio, and TV stories about all of the above and the bevy of experts who are hustled out to do the horse-race assessments of how the general and ambassador performed, whether they "bought" time for the President, and the like. - And -- count on it -- that's just the beginning. The same cast of characters will be talking, squabbling, spinning, and analyzing stats of every sort for weeks to come -- with a sequel promised next spring."

B-52 Bomber Incident & Insider Trading – Was Someone Trying to Profit from a Nuclear Attack Against Iran Before Sept 21? 
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070909_b_52_bomber_incident.htm
A quote..."A B-52 bomber loaded with five (increased to six in later reports) nuclear weapons fitted on the pylons under its wings was discovered after sitting for ten hours on a tarmac at Barksdale AFB on August 30. Three anonymous Air Force officers leaked the news of the incident to the Army Times newspaper which announced the discovery on September 5."

Daily Telegraph: US Officers Have Regular Meetings with PKK Terrorists  ---  http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=48368
A quote...."British Daily Telegraph claimed that the US officers have regular meetings with the PKK terrorists in Northern Iraq. Damien McElroy in his report mentioned “US army helicopters are reportedly used to shuttle officers to regular meetings with Kurdish fighters”. Mr. McElroy interview with the head of the PKK terrorists, Murat Karayilan (means ‘Black Snake’ in Turkish language). Mr. Karayilan accepted the US assistance to the PKK yet argued that the US did very little for the Kurds and can do more."

When We Try to Explain the Rout of the Press under George W. Bush  ---  http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2007/09/04/grnwl_rove.html
A quote...."From this point of view, the reason Washington journalists don’t “call them on it” (to use a phrase heard a lot in these discussions) is not that they identify with the GOP, or want to maintain their access, or cannot bear to lose their ticket to Washington cocktail parties, or have to obey corporate masters who naturally favor the pro-business Republicans; rather, it’s that “calling them on it” in any consistent way would require such a dramatic departure from known methods of Washington journalism—methods a Gloria Borger has mastered to get where she is—that it would effectively demand a new playbook."

Ending the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/11/3756/
A quote...."Lying about the nuclear threat of Saddam Hussein and the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is closer to the constitutional standard of “high crimes and misdemeanors” than engaging in a sexual act, yet our congressional representatives refuse to open an impeachment inquiry. Sanctioning torture, illegally wiretapping American citizens and illegally using the Justice Department as a political weapon, are other issues that should be investigated in an impeachment inquiry of Bush and Cheney."

Dyncorp Contracted Mercenaries Want To Police The Southern Border  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4233
A quote...."DynCorp International is a a private international security contractor that has sent more than 5,000 private security personnel and police trainers to 11 different countries for the U.S. State Department.  -  Now the officials at DynCorp have another bright idea -- why not train and deploy 1,000 private "agents" to bolster Border Patrol forces along the Mexican border until the Patrol is able to achieve its mandate of hiring and training thousands of new agents. -  That's a really bad idea."

Guantanamo medics 'fail patients'  ---  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6983858.stm
A quote...."US military doctors have been accused of turning a blind eye to abuse at Guantanamo Bay prison camp, in a letter published in a British medical journal."

Russia tests world's most powerful vacuum bomb  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070911/78058645.html
A quote...."MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has tested a thermobaric bomb that is the most powerful in the world, a top military official said Tuesday.  -  Known as a vacuum bomb, it uses a fuel-air explosive and can create overpressures equal to an atomic bomb, said Alexander Rukshin, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces."

Monday September 10th 2007 - links page

Five Easy Pieces to Iran  ---  http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=658
Must Read - War Warning - A quote...."Yeah, folks, you can bet the ranch: were going in. I've heard all the arguments from the nay sayers, so let that go. We're going in. - This is daja vu time, for sure, as we look back on the months before Shock and Awe, when so many of us tried to warn the nation about the coming catastrophe in Iraq. But those of us who shouted went unheard and those of us who marched in protest went unseen. Yet in the end we were right on the mark"

From al-Qaeda to al-Quds  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II07Ak05.html
A quote...."PARIS “In 2002, in the runup to the war against Iraq, the George W Bush administration changed the subject from its failure to destroy al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan to Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction. - In 2007, in the run-up to the coming war against Iran, the administration has changed the subject from its abject failure in Iraq to Iran's also non-existent nuclear weapons"

Good inside look at Iran's preparations for the upcoming war. - mpg

Regarding the "the shrill Pentagon-concocted blitzkrieg about made-in-Iran explosive devices and roadside bombs", see....
Fake Intel - I.E.D'S & E.F.P'S  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IEDS__EFPS
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Democrats And The Iron Law Of Institutions  ---  http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001705.html
A quote...."Let me gently suggest that John, in his understandable frustration, [with the Democrats] is not perceiving this situation clearly. What he's overlooking is that the Democrats operate according to the Iron Law of Institutions. The Iron Law of Institutions is: the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution.  -  This is true for all human institutions, from elementary schools up to the United States of America. If history shows anything, it's that this cannot be changed. What can be done, sometimes, is to force the people running institutions to align their own interests with those of the institution itself and its members."

The Imperator Reports:Let the Blood Flow On  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1279/135/
A quote...."After all, this was the gist of the general's testimony, the blazing brand he brought from the field of battle in token of our all-conquering might: Because the surge has made "major progress" toward bringing peace and stability in Iraq, by this time next year we might be able to bring down U.S. troop levels to where they were when the surge began. In other words, after an immense expenditure of blood and treasure over a course of more than 18 months, we will be right back where we started. Even the crazed, vainglorious Caligula would have required something more substantial than that to throw himself a laurel shindig in the streets of Rome.

'Swear Him In' Provokes Expulsion  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/091007a.html
A quote...."House Democrats were on edge over any possible affront to Gen. David Petraeus during his Iraq War testimony. So much so that when former CIA officer Ray McGovern made the vocal suggestion -- during a technical delay to fix a microphone -- that the witness be sworn in, McGovern was forced to leave the hearing room. In this first-person account, McGovern notes that Petraeus then gave his pro-escalation testimony without ever swearing to tell the whole truth. September 10, 2007"

The REAL Iraq report  ---  http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/09/real-iraq-report.html
A quote...."Well, we received some important truths about Iraq today. Not from General Petraeus. From other sources -- including, and especially, the Iraqis themselves"

The 'Surge' is Failing  ---  http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1670
A quote...."The 'surge' in Iraq isn't going well ... nothing has changed. The Associated Press, McClatchy Newspapers and the Government Accounting Office -- every agency and organization not associated with George W. Bush -- have researched the situation and found there to be NO CHANGE in Iraq's violence. If anything, violence may have actually increased."

The Power Elite Playbook, Promoting War - Part I  ---  http://muckrakerreport.com/id499.html
A quote...."September 4, 2007 -- Ever since Lincoln's Civil War,� America has been transformed from a limited, constitutional government to a highly centralized welfare-warfare state. [i] War is allegedly initiated for national security reasons “newspeak for resource seizure and/or control by multinational corporations/banks through their financial grip on governments. What! You think the United States would not participate in or condone plunder? The government plunders your pocket for interest payments (AKA income tax) on their loans from the Federal Reserve to finance all war-like activities, whether subversive or public!"

Uh, uhhm: Say no more, Iraq is a slam dunk  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II11Ak03.html
A quote...."On August 24, Miss Teen South Carolina, Lauren Caitlin Upton, in the Miss Teen USA beauty pageant, had no choice but to ignore Abraham Lincoln's sage advice: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." In between the skimpy-bikini and clingy-evening-dress competitions, the contestants were tasked to answer questions based on current events to prove that their minds and intellects were as well"

Click here for the video - (YouTube - 48 sec - Added:  August 24, 2007)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
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Damn, it's 'Nam  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18352.htm
A quote...." 09/10/07 "Toronto Sun" --- - We all know what "deja vu" is. But I recently read of a condition psychiatrists call "jamais vu." That's where one sees something very familiar, but cannot identify it. - Both the White House and U.S. military seemed gripped by jamais vu. - Many of the same mistakes made in the Vietnam War are being repeated in Iraq and Afghanistan, but neither the White House, Pentagon, nor U.S. field commanders seem to recognize or understand them."

UPDATE 1-Iraq Kurdish region signs oil deal with U.S. Hunt
  ---  http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL0865925320070908
A quote...."DUBAI, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The government of Iraq's Kurdish region said on Saturday it had signed a gas and oil production sharing contract with a unit of U.S.-based Hunt Oil Co. and with Impulse Energy Corp."

U.S. threatens Turkey over energy support to Iran  ---  http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=549782
A quote...."TEHRAN, Sept. 10 (MNA) -- The United States has suggested that Turkey could come under sanctions for its energy cooperation with Iran.  -  The State Department has criticized Turkey for its agreement for natural gas cooperation with Tehran. A senior official pointed out that the Congress was working on legislation that would sanction Ankara or others that help develop Iran's energy sector, The World Tribune reported."

Turkey asks for clarification over Israeli fuel tanks  ---  http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3448001,00.html
A quote...."Foreign Minister Ali Babacan demands quick explanation from Israel over fuel tanks found in Turkey near its border with Syria that were allegedly dropped by Israeli aircraft, calling incident 'unacceptable'"

Nobel Prize author: Iraq war 'major disaster' for West  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/140827
A quote...."Turkish author Orhan Pamuk says prestige of Western civilisation ruined by 'horrors and injustice' of war."

Russian President on first UAE visit  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/140790
A quote...."Russian President Vladimir Putin, heading a large business delegation, held talks on boosting economic links with the oil-rich United Arab Emirates on Monday. - On the first visit by a Russian head of state since the UAE won independence from Britain in 1971, the Russian leader met his Emirati counterpart President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan."

Painful 9/11 Truth  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/hirschhorn100907.htm
A quote...."Many technical analyses cast doubt on the official explanation of the collapse of three World Trade Center buildings, including those presented by an impressive new group: Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. More difficult than discovering the truth, however, is convincing most of the public to accept the bitter truth."
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9/11 - From The History File...Marvin Bush: mysterious death - connections to 9/11?
  ---  http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/10-16-03/discussion.cgi.16.html
‘Frauds-R-Us’ - The Bush Family Saga
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3336.htm
Bush Jr. - not so incognito
  ---  http://fussmaker.blogspot.com/2006/02/bush-jr-not-so-incognito.html
Trimming the Bushes - Family Business at the Watergate
  ---  http://www.washingtonspectator.com/articles/20050215bushes_1.cfm
UQ Wire: Security, Secrecy and a Bush Brother
  ---  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0301/S00032.htm
Update on that Bush-linked security contractor for the WTC, Dulles and UAL
  ---  http://www.margieburns.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/30/2076703.html
Alito helped Stratesec
  ---  http://www.margieburns.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/26/1784217.html
Marvin Dips into the Security Pie
  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/burns1205.html
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Israeli Connected SITE Institute Hypes Dead Grecian Formula Terrorist  ---  http://adereview.com/blog/?p=32
Must Read  - A quote...."As Marc Parent writes on his blog, since the Mossad asset MEMRI has been discredited by its phony transcripts of alleged ˜al-CIA-duh recordings, there now appears a group that is doing translations called SITE. SITE is credited with the transcripts behind the latest video of BL. Has any independent organization translated the recent BL video or will we be forced to rely on SITE? Good question, but not one that will be asked by Fox News or CNN. It was telling that CNN, when airing the latest video from BL, never mentioned once who performed the translation. Guess they didn't want to get into sticky details, like the one that the head of SITE, Rita Katz's father, was executed for being an Israeli spy. Or that Katz has been receiving money from the FBI. And that Bin Laden. The last time he appeared, the Republicans were needing help in the 2004 presidential elections. Now he appears just as the Republicans are needing help in continuing the war against Iraq and selling the next war against Iran. Boy oh boy, is that BL clever or what?

New Bin Laden Video: 100% Forgery  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/september2007/100907BinLaden.htm
Related article - A quote...."The newly released Osama Bin Laden video is a an iron clad forgery, and not even a good one at that. All references to current events made by the figure said to be Bin Laden occur at a point in the video where the picture freezes and only audio is present. Bin Laden also presents a pre recorded martyrdom video of one of the alleged 9/11 hijackers, Waleed al Shehri, who was reported by the BBC as still alive and well in Saudi Arabia."

I love the smell of propaganda in the morning...  ---  http://www.atlargely.com/2007/09/i-love-the-smel.html
Related article - A quote...."Osama Bin Laden's widely publicized video address to the American people has a peculiarity that casts serious doubt on its authenticity: the video freezes at about 1 minute and 36 58 seconds, and motion only resumes again at 12:30. The video then freezes again at 14:02 remains frozen until the end. All references to current events, such as the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan, and Sarkozy and Brown being the leaders of France and the UK, respectively, occur when the video is frozen!"
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Private Carlyle Group suffers a rare public humiliation  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4225
A quote...."Carlyle Group isn't accustomed to failure. Over the past 15 years, it has built itself into one of the world's biggest and most successful private-equity funds by seeing value where others didn't. For most of that time, its risks have been carefully calculated, its timing nearly impeccable."

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of jerks. - mpg
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ACC orders command-wide stand-down on Sept. 14  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4214
A quote...."On Sept. 14, flight lines will be very quiet at Air Combat Command bases. - The entire command” about 100,000 active-duty airmen” is standing down training flights and many other operations as part of a command-wide safety day."

Another GOP gay scandal brews in murder-suicide case?  ---  http://www.americablog.com/2007/09/another-gop-gay-scandal-brews-in-murder.html
A quote...."There is a bizarre story swarming blogtopia, laced with unconfirmed (and confirmed) sources that could lead to another Republican Sexual Hypocrite "outing" and scandal. First, some facts about the weird murder suicide in Orlando in late August that kicked off the whole matter:"

Ahhhh.....more juicy stories from America's Neo-Roman Empire. - mpg
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American Economy: R.I.P.  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18350.htm
A quote...." 09/10/07 "ICH' -- -- The US economy continues its slow death before our eyes, but economists, policymakers, and most of the public are blind to the tottering fabled land of opportunity."

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/757
A quote...."BuzzFlash.com's Book Review (excerpt)  -  Naomi Klein has smashed the padlock of secrecy and revealed the violent contents within. She masterfully exposes the dark roots of the staples of today's borderless bloody war: torture, economic terror, disaster profiteering and international conquest. Klein traces the doctrine of shock, applied across the globe from Latin America to the Soviet Union to Africa and the Arab world, through more than half a century of refining by evil geniuses who have used the poor of the world as their lab rats.
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The Shock Doctrine Short Film  ---  http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/short-film
A quote...."A Film by Alfonso Cuarn and Naomi Klein, directed by Jons Cuarn"

Also known as "Constructive Instability",  ---  http://mondediplo.com/2005/07/07instability
"The Method 05-07-07 mpg"---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/themethod-blog-mpg-050707
or  "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor"  ---  http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/PNAC-Primer.htm
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Arctic Ice Continues Record Melting  ---  http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=3582433&page=1
A quote...."An area of Arctic sea ice the size of Florida has melted away in just the last six days as melting at the top of the planet continues at a record rate."

Sunday September 9th 2007 - links page
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Back from vacation - 09-09-07 - mpg

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The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18327.htm
Must Listen - A quote...."Audio Interview With Naomi Klein  -  Klein argues that instability is being both fostered and used as a way to engage in policies of economic engineering around the world whether in Pinochet's Chile or today, in Iraq"

The Stupidest People On Earth  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18338.htm
Must Read - Some quotes...." It's really no wonder that there's been little in the way of turning up actual terrorists in our own country.  There are simple facts like, there aren't many terrorists here to begin with, if any.  As of yet, all these years after 9-11, not a single credible terrorist has been discovered and taken out of operation.  No one has been held accountable for 9-11 and of course, the infamous Osama Bin Laden, an intelligence operative, has vanished into thin air, and is all but forgotten.  He seems only to turn up at those times when his prerecorded threats against us seem to serve the government's will to a "T", supporting their assertions and plans, providing justification for the continuing need for their uncomfortable way of doing things."  --  " Government has separated itself from us.   It has abandoned the people and now seeks only to exert unlimited control over us, and to do with us as it will.  Just as it can dismiss the law, it has dismissed the notion of the people being of consequence.  This country has become their own property to do with as they choose, and we seem only to be standing in their way, along with our rights and the laws we once had that protected us."

PJB: Phase III of Bush’s War  ---  http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=835
Must Read - A quote...."Those who hoped that“ with the victory of the antiwar party in 2006, the departure of Rumsfeld and the neocons from the Pentagon, the rise of Condi and the eclipse of Cheney“ America was headed out of Iraq got a rude awakening. They are about to get another."

Why Is This Man Smiling?  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070904_scheer_sept_5_why_is_this_man_smiling/
Must Read - A quote...."In the effort to retaliate against terrorists who hijacked planes six years ago with an arsenal of $3 knives, this year's overall defense budget has been pushed to $657 billion.  We are now spending $3 billion a week in Iraq alone, occupying a country that had nothing to do with the tragedy that sparked this orgy of militarism.  The waste is so enormous and irrelevant to our national security that a rational person might embrace the libertarian creed if only for the sake of sanity."

Will the US Really Bomb Iran?  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn09082007.html
Must Read - War Warning - A quote....""They're about taking out the entire Iranian military." - This particular spine-chiller comes from Alexis Debat, excitingly identified as "director of terrorism and national security" at the Nixon Center. According to Debat, the big takeout is what the U.S. Air Force has in store, as opposed to mere "pinprick strikes" against the infamous nuclear facilities."

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

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

See red war warning shown below.


Special Note - Red War Warning - False Flag Alert - A quote...."In an irony of history, traders in the Chicago futures pits have been complaining to CNBC about the abolition, only a few weeks ago, of the 1934 New Deal era rule
  ---  http://www.usatoday.com/money/markets/2007-08-09-volatility_N.htm
which had required short sellers to wait for an uptick in the stock they were targeting before they could complete their trade.
 The rule change  ---  http://www.themoneyblogs.com/steve/my.blog/abolishment-of-the-short-uptick-rule-how-will-it-affect-your-trading-.html  ---
had produced disruptions and uncertainty, the trader complained on CNBC. The New Deal rule, one of the final vestiges of the regulations introduced after the Great Crash of 1929, was one of the last factors saving today's finance oligarchs from themselves. Once the uptick rule was gone, the death agony of the current system entered a new phase." - links added by website author. - 
quote from Fed attempts to bail out [Wall Street] - part 2  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2310.shtml  ---  posted - 08-15-07
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US trashes Iran agreement at own peril  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II07Ak03.html
War Warning - A quote...."This week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was thoroughly trashed by the Western media over its recent agreement with Iran, an agreement that, ironically, was warmly embraced by the majority of nations that are members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). The North-South gap has turned ballistic, and there is no bridge over this troubled water."

U.S. preps NORTHCOM for domestic emergencies  ---  http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56245
War Warning - A quote...."The military is transforming the Cheyenne Mountain Directorate in Colorado" the famous Cold War surveillance and command center “ by moving important functions to nearby Peterson Air Force Base in order to improve operations for NORTHCOM, the United States Northern Command, a top official tells WND columnist Jerome Corsi in an interview published today."

The News Drones  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/brasch09032007.html
Must Read - A quote...."Fake Photos Helped Lead US to War in Iraq - Add faked photos to the list of lies told by the Bush­Cheney Administration before its invasion of Iraq."

For more on this see.....Fake Intel - Drone Aircraft  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#DRONE_AIRCRAFT
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Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction  ---  http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/index_np.html
Must Read - Related Article - A quote...."On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam's inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again."

For more on this see....Fake Intel - Intell Process  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#INTELL_PROCESS
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NYT's Friedman's Addiction to War  ---  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/090707a.html
Related Article - A quote...."Editor's Note: One of the remarkable features of the Iraq War is how few of the Washington pundits who cheered on the invasion in 2002-2003 suffered any serious career consequences. With only a couple of exceptions, these go-with-the-flow "experts" are still floating along, even though they now bemoan the war's poor execution."

IRAQ:  Samarra Under U.S. Attack  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39164
A quote...."New defiance is rising against U.S. forces following military "crimes", fleeing residents say. - "On Sunday the 26th of August, there was fierce fighting between armed men and American forces in the Armooshiya district, and I saw Americans evacuate many of their soldiers by stretchers," a man who fled Samarra for Baghdad, speaking on condition of anonymity, told IPS. "As usual, Americans took revenge by bombing the district."

Democratically Controlled Congress Stands on the Brink of Irrelevance on Iraq  ---  http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/61506/
A quote...."Next week, Ryan Crocker, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, and General David Petraeus, the army's counter-insurgency guru, will brief Congress on the Bush administration's claims of progress in Iraq. At stake is not only the upper hand in the political debate over the continuing occupation, but an enormous amount of money -- $147 billion -- that was supposedly conditioned on tangible measures of progress, specifically 18 "benchmarks" attached to the 2007 supplemental spending bill."

Reporting From Baghdad  ---  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070907_reporting_from_baghdad/
A quote...."It should come as no surprise that the Bush administration's newest military-man-of-substance-turned- political lapdog, General Petraeus, maintains that the situation in Iraq is not only salvageable, but actually improving, due to the surge� of U.S. combat troops into Iraq over the past year.  All the president and his collection of GI Joe hand-puppets ask for is more time, more money and more troops."

The shrinking Bush bubble  ---  http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-brooks7sep07,0,1169726.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
A quote...."The president is a lonely man. Once, he was surrounded by admirers and acolytes. There was Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell and Alberto Gonzales and Condi Rice and Karl Rove -- many of them better known inside the White House by the affectionate but often unprintable nicknames assigned by their playful president. (Rove, you'll recall, was "Turd Blossom.") Yale University forgave Bush's mediocre student record and gave him an honorary degree in 2001, and bright young Yale law graduates at the Justice Department struggled to acquire Texas drawls and develop legal rationales for White House criminality.  -  Those were the days."

Tomgram: Ruth Rosen, Shutting Down the Information Society, Bush-Style
  ---  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174833/ruth_rosen_shutting_down_the_information_society_bush_style
A quote...."We live with an administration whose concept of domestic "freedom" went out with those "freedom fries," briefly sold at the cafeterias of the House of Representatives. The Bush team has quite literally been a force for darkness. For those who remember the "memory hole" down which the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Truth dumped all uncomfortable or inconvenient documents in Orwell's famed dystopian novel 1984, this administration has created its functional equivalent."

Israel 'prepared' for possibility of conflict after Syria alleges IAF violated its airspace
  ---  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1188392553869&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
A quote...."Israel is "fully prepared" for the possibility of a conflict in the North, defense officials said late Thursday, after Syria alleged it had fired on a pre-dawn IAF flight over the coastal city of Latakia.

Rights group: IDF indiscriminately struck Lebanon civilians  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/901620.html
A quote...."In its harshest condemnation of Israel since the Second Lebanon War, Human Rights Watch charged that most of the Lebanese civilian casualties came from indiscriminate Israeli air strikes, according to a report to released Thursday."

Lawsuit demands US reveal civilian deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan  ---  http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwQFcB6E1AA97nJgGBEuVv3UP5OA
A quote...."WASHINGTON (AFP)” A US civil rights group filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding the American military release documents about civilians killed by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, accusing the government of trying to hide the human cost of war"

Basra: The soldiers' tales  ---  http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2927085.ece
A quote...."The soldiers of the 4 Rifles Battle Group spoke for the first time yesterday about their night-time evacuation from the palace and also how, for five months, they had been living under a state of siege with attacks around the clock and patrols being hit by roadside bombs."

The Great Iraq Swindle  ---  http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle
A quote...."How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins -- he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq."

Billions over Baghdad  ---  http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/iraq_billions200710
Must Read - Related article - A quote...."Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency”much of it belonging to the Iraqi people”was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Some of the cash went to pay for projects and keep ministries afloat, but, incredibly, at least $9 billion has gone missing, unaccounted for, in a frenzy of mismanagement and greed."

Death Squads Still Operating  ---  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39143
A quote...."SAN SALVADOR, Sep 4 (IPS) - Recent arrests of police officers in El Salvador accused of committing extrajudicial executions have encouraged human rights activists and experts who have long reported the continued existence of death squads in this Central American country."

More of America's sick, sadistic, "help"....still operating after all these years in El Salvador. Congratulations to all the Neo-Romans still plying the torture trade in the School of the America's, you must be really proud of your handiwork.“ - mpg
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Psychological "torture bible" published in 1961 reappears online  ---  http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/05/psychological-tortur.html
A quote...."If you were to begin researching interrogation, interviewing, and brainwashing techniques, you would eventually notice that one particular interesting-sounding volume appears over and over again in the relevant bibliographies: something called The Manipulation of Human Behavior, published in 1961 [by John Wiley & Sons]."

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

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

See also....Group (or Gang) Stalking, a Growing Menace
  ---  http://educate-yourself.org/cn/groupstalking17aug05.shtml
See also....The FBI's Vendetta Against Martin Luther King, Jr.
  ---  http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/NSA/Vendetta_MLK_LS.html
See also....
Steep Price Paid by Those Who Blew Whistle on Iraq Fraud
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/25/3410/
See also....FBI Whistleblower Describes Government Muscle Tactics
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/27/2142/
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U.S. holding 22,000 Iraqi prisoners  ---  http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2007-09-04/kurd.htm
A quote...."Azzaman, September 4, 2007  -  U.S. invasion troops detain more than 22,000 Iraqis in their prisoner camps across the country, senior government officials say.  -  The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said many of those languishing in U.S. jails are innocent and have been incarcerated for long periods without trial or charges."

Doctors accuse US of 'unethical practices' at Guantanamo Bay  ---  http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2938962.ece
A quote..."More than 260 doctors from around the world have launched an unprecedented attack on the American medical establishment for its failure to condemn unethical practices by medical practitioners at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba."

Eight Iraqi Resistance groups announce formation of unified front  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/140573
A quote...."In a dispatch posted at 11:39am Makkah time Friday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that eight Iraqi Resistance organizations had come together to form a new umbrella group called the Front for Jihad and Change, according to an announcement on the Internet signed by representatives of the groups."

Dallas Oil Company Signs Deal With Kurds  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/140594
A quote...."HOUSTON (AP) - Texas' Hunt Oil Co. and Kurdistan's regional government said Saturday they've signed a production-sharing contract for petroleum exploration in northern Iraq, the first such deal since the Kurds passed their own oil and gas law in August."

So much for the idea of a "national" Iraqi government.  This was the Neocons' plan all along. - mpg
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Study: US Jews distance themselves from Israel  ---  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3446492,00.html
A quote...."Feelings of attachment to Israel declining among non-Orthodox American Jews, and are replaced by indifference and even alienation, study finds. Only 48% think Israel's destruction would be a personal tragedy for them, only 54% 'comfortable with the idea of a Jewish state'"

Report: Norway diplomats urge Oslo to criticize Israel over torture  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/901673.html
A quote...."Norway's embassy in Tel Aviv has urged the government to criticize Israel for the alleged use of torture in prisons, the state radio network NRK reported Thursday."

Russian bombers launch missiles over Arctic  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/03/warctic103.xml
A quote...."Twelve Russian strategic bombers are taking part in military exercises above the Arctic involving the launching of tactical cruise missiles."

Is China quietly dumping US Treasuries?  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/09/05/bcnchina105.xml
A quote...."A sharp drop in foreign holdings of US Treasury bonds over the last five weeks has raised concerns that China is quietly withdrawing its funds from the United States, leaving the dollar increasingly vulnerable."

Are The Banks In Trouble?  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18335.htm
A quote...."09/07/07 "ICH"- -- -About a month ago, I wrote an article “Stock Market Brushfire: Will there be a run on the banks?�
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18164.htm  ---  which showed how the collapse in the housing market and the deterioration in mortgage-backed bonds (CDOs) in the secondary market was creating difficulties for the banking system.  Now these problems are becoming more apparent.

Part 1: The rise of the non-bank financial system & PART 2: Bank deregulation fuels abuse  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/II07Dj01.html
A quote from Part II...."US Federal Reserve data show that the outstanding stock of US commercial paper has fallen by US$255 billion or 11% over the past three weeks, a sign that many borrowers have been unable to roll over huge amounts of short-term debt at maturity. Asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP), which accounted for half the commercial-paper (CP) market, tumbled $59.4 billion to $998 billion in the last week of August, the lowest since December. Total short-term debt maturing in 270 days or less fell $62.8 billion to a seasonally adjusted $1.98 trillion. The yield on the highest-rated asset-backed paper due by August 30 rose 0.11 percentage point to a six-year high of 6.15%."
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Thursday August 30th -- September 8th 2007 - links page

Off on vacation to Colorado from 08-30-07 to 09-09-07 -  If there's to be any blogging, it will be occasional if at all - mpg
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Wednesday August 29th 2007 - links page
 
Yes, Mr. President, there are parallels to Vietnam  ---  http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/28/opinion/edgreenway.php
Must Read - Some quotes...."BOSTON: It ill behooves an administration led by two who assiduously avoided the Vietnam War to lecture the nation now on the lessons of its consequences. President George W. Bush said last week that those who succumbed to calls to end the war would be responsible for the same tragedies that the end of Indochina wars unleashed."  --  "For those of us who spent some years in Indochina, living through that drawn-out catastrophe, there are indeed parallels with today. The president's rousing claim that "a free Iraq" is within our reach is the same drivel as was the "light at the end of the tunnel" to a previous generation."

Bush to request $50 billion more for Iraq war: report  ---  http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2007-08-
  ---  29T045216Z_01_N28301321_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-BUSH-FUNDS.xml
Some quotes...."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush is preparing to ask Congress for as much as $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a White House official."  -  "The additional funds would come on top of about $460 billion in the fiscal 2008 defense budget and $147 billion in a pending supplemental bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Post said."

U.N. reports cholera outbreak in northern Iraq  ---  http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/29/iraq.cholera/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
A quote...."(CNN) -- More than 2,000 Iraqis in the northern part of the country have contracted cholera, U.N. officials said Wednesday, citing local authorities. - The outbreak is thought to be the result of poor water quality, the U.N. officials said."

For more on this see....Child Abuse  ---  ../cachedfiles/childabuse-cf-moscowtms-cached-062405
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New steps in the war dance over Iran  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH30Ak02.html
War Warning - A quote...."A day after French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner apologized to Iraq for his inappropriate call for a leadership change in that country, President Nicolas Sarkozy added his own blunder by tacitly endorsing the military option on Iran. Clearly, the new US-friendly leader in Paris has much to learn about international diplomacy and Middle East politics, or he risks taking France down a path where only the dogs of war and clashing civilizations prowl. "

Bush's brand-new poodle  ---  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH30Ak03.html
A quote...."PARIS - With former British prime minister Tony Blair out of the picture, there's now a newer, leaner, meaner, adrenaline-packed "Made in France" version. Thanks to his unrelenting support for President George W Bush's war on Iraq, Blair used to be derided in all corners of the globe as Bush's poodle. Now the new self-appointed lap dog is French President Nicolas Sarkozy."

Given the two articles shown above, it appears that anyone who is against the war might want to consider halting anymore purchases of French produced goods. - mpg
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OMG, Part 2  ---  http://www.atlargely.com/2007/08/omg-part-2.html
War Warning - War Provocation - A quote...."Okay, this is not good folks... not good at all:    "Iran says it will make a formal protest to Iraq on Wednesday over the apparent arrest and detention of seven of its nationals by US troops in Baghdad"

Study: US preparing 'massive' military attack against Iran  ---  http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Study_US_preparing_massive_military_attack_0828.html
War Warning - A quote...."The United States has the capacity for and may be prepared to launch without warning a massive assault on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities, as well as government buildings and infrastructure, using long-range bombers and missiles, according to a new analysis."

Bush Calls for the Mass Murder of Iranians  ---  http://adereview.com/blog/?p=16#more-16
War Warning - A quote...."Thus we are told Iran is not only supplying IEDs to Iraqi Shiites, but the Sunni insurgency as well. The U.S. military has concluded that Sunni insurgents have acquired weapons from Iran, the World Tribune reports. U.S. commanders said Sunni insurgents, including operatives from Al Qaida, have received Iranian-origin weapons. The commanders said many of these weapons were believed to have been acquired through the black market,â€� never mind a paucity of evidence ”but then neocons don't need evidence, as fabrication and lies will suffice, especially when they are behind in their plan to reduce Iran to a smoldering ruin.

Regarding any mention of IED's or EFP's in this article see....Fake Intel - I.E.D'S & E.F.P'S
   ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IEDS__EFPS

Bush threatens to militarily “confrontâ€� Iran  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6652
A quote...."In his second foreign policy speech in less than a week, President Bush Tuesday portrayed the ongoing US military occupation in Iraq as part of a broader regional struggle to defend vital US interests against radicals and extremists. - Contained in this speech was the explicit threat of widening the US war in the Middle East, directed in the first instance against Iran"

War and the "New World Order"  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6577
A quote...."Referring back to Robert Kagan and William Kristol: “this war will not end in Afghanistan. It is going to spread and engulf a number of countries in conflicts of varying intensity. It could well require the use of American military power in multiple places simultaneously. It is going to resemble the clash of civilizations that everyone has hoped to avoid. And it is going to put enormous and perhaps unbearable strain on parts of an international coalition that basks in contented consensus.� [26] The international coalition� being referred to is NATO and the international military network based around the U.S. and the unbearable strain� is war, but of an unknown scale.  On August 10, 2007 Lieutenant-General Douglas Lute, the War Czar overseeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and any expanded theatre, publicly talked about restoring a mandatory military draft. [27] The march to war is not waning, but driving the world towards the abyss."

Given the five articles shown above, it appears as predicted that the PNAC plan, never ever talked about by our illustrious mass-media, nor sanctioned or discussed by the US's civilian population....is still on track. - mpg
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Warmongers Won't Be Pleased - Study: Safe and Stable Iraq Withdrawal Possible In One Year
  ---  http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/morenews.php?id=2893
A quote...."Most U.S. troops can be withdrawn safely from Iraq in roughly one year and the Bush administration should begin planning the pullout immediately, according to a study released Wednesday."

More Shame, More Sorrow  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08292007.html
A quote..."The Republicans have bogged America down in a gratuitous and illegal war. The war has destroyed Iraq, killed between 650,000 and 1,000,000 Iraqi civilians, displaced 4,000,000 Iraqis, and littered the country with depleted uranium. Bush's war remains unwon despite its five year duration and $1 trillion in out-of-pocket and incurred future costs. -  Bush's invasion of Iraq is a war crime under the Nuremberg standard, a direct counterpart to Hitler's invasion of Poland. Both were based on lies and deception, and the declared reasons for both were masks for secret agendas."

911 General Strike Gains Momentum - Paging the Mainstream Media - strike911
  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070829_911_general_strike_g.htm
Must Read - Action Alert - A quote...."No Work, No School, No Shopping “ Hit the Streets  -  "The 911 General Strike called by a coalition of antiwar, 911 Truth, and pro impeachment groups is gaining strength with gatherings scheduled across the country and rapidly expanding activity on the Internet, where the idea originated."

Forget About the Politicians, Remember the Streets  ---  http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ron_jaco_070827_forget_about_the_pol.htm
Action Alert - A quote...."In the coming months, Washington DC, San Francisco, New York and several other cities will be the sites of a number of actions against the US war in Iraq. These protests, which include and encampment and march the week of September 22 - 29, a protest on September 15th in DC and Los Angeles, and a number of regional protests around the date of October 27th, are being called by a number of national organizations, including UFPJ, Troops Out Now, and ANSWER. In addition, the Iraq Moratorium Project is calling for nationwide locally organized actions across the country every month beginning on September 21st.

Who is the US Fighting in Iraq?  ---  http://www.juancole.com/2007/08/who-is-us-fighting-in-iraq.html
A quote...."The odd tendency of the US military and press to refer to all guerrillas in Iraq as "al-Qaeda" is obviously not justified by their own subsequent interrogations of captured suspects. Readers should write and complain when they see al-Qaeda used indiscriminately to describe Sunni Arab fighters."

Miliband: US will not dictate our pullout from Iraq  ---  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article2339989.ece
A quote...."The decision to pull troops out of Iraq will be independent of the United States and based only on the "British national interest," the Foreign Secretary said today."

Hezbollah to file lawsuits against Israel for damage caused in war  ---  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/898467.html
A quote...."Hezbollah is planning to file a host of lawsuits against Israel over the damages it caused during the Second Lebanon War. Lebanese individuals with dual citizenship will file the suits in the countries where they hold citizenship. "

Exclusive: EU officials holding talks with Hamas  ---  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1188197180657&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
A quote...."EU security officials have been conducting secret talks with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks, Palestinian Authority officials told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. - The PA officials did not reveal the identity of the visitors, except to say that they belonged to three EU intelligence services"

Abbas and the Abyss  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/baroud08282007.html
A quote...."The rash and self-defeatist behaviour emanating from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his close circle in the West Bank cannot possibly be intended for the benefit of the Palestinian people or for their internationally sanctioned struggle for human rights, freedom and equality. Abbas, and his self-serving Palestinian elites seem hell-bent on exploiting the unfolding Palestinian drama to further cement their status and position, even if such an attitude will lead to the total decimation of any little hope of recovering Palestinian rights."

Google  Censors Another 9/11 Documentary  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/august2007/290807Google.htm
A quote...."Google Video is once again censoring one of Alex Jones' documentary films after it received a huge jump in viewings last week and briefly entered the top ten on the back of heightened warnings of an impending terror attack."

Gonzales resigns, but torture, spying, and round-ups continue  ---  http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2357.shtml
A quote...."What's up with a country where a torturer -- and let's call a spade a spade -- an architect of a police state and fascist laws can be forced to resign and no one in a position of power calls for the reversal of everything he's done and for his and his boss's indictment for war crimes? - What's up is a system that is so hell-bent on extending and preserving its empire that a police state that tortures is the program of the whole lot of them? That's why the Democrats grandstand and garner political advantage over Gonzales's resignation but have not and will not oppose the essence of his program"

American Idols  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/tennant/tennant25.html
A quote...."Furthermore, the Ephesians passage is blatantly misapplied to a flesh-and-blood struggle for power in the physical world. The passage is, in fact, part of the Apostle Paul's description of the "full armor of God" (Ephesians 6:11), which he clearly states is not for use "against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms" (Ephesians 6:12). Turning that passage into an endorsement of the U.S. military’s imperial adventures is to make a liar of Paul and, by extension, God." - bold/italics by website author

How Did News Outlets Miss Senator's Arrest for Nearly Three Months?
  ---  http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003632075
A quote...."NEW YORK The revelation late Monday that Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was arrested nearly three months ago for allegedly making sexual advances in a men's room raises the issue of how such an action could occur without the press reporting it."

The whole world knows exactly how....because there's hardly any difference between the fawning supplicants who try to please their wealthy RepubDemos masters, and the people who staff the institutional purveyors of mass-media garbage in this country.  If you really think about it, you'd have a hard time being able to distinguish any difference between the two groups“ mpg
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On Market Predictions In The Current Chaotic Environment  ---  http://www.countercurrents.org/cook290807.htm
War Warning - Must Read - A quote...."No one can predict how deep the decline in Western economies that is underway will go, because there is so little transparent information. Within the U.S., the government is hiding the severity of the crisis in order to prevent a collapse of consumer confidence. - Realize that the problem does not lie on the side of production. Global industry has the capacity to produce a huge quantity of goods and services. There is even a glut in some sectors, such as automobiles, textiles, IT, and other consumer products. - Rather the problem, as with the Great Depression, is that purchasing power at the consumer level is lacking. In the U.S., purchasing power, as measured by M1, is already in a recession-level decline. The causes are the high level of consumer debt, high cumulative levels of taxation on the dwindling middle class, and the tragic erosion of wages and salaries from job outsourcing."

Regarding this article see....Standard Disclaimer  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207
See also....No Visibility - posted 08-12-07  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/rapsheetarch/mpgrap-080507-081207#No_Visibility
See also....Market Crash Forecast Suggests New 9/11 - posted 08-27-07  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4117
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How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?- posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://zaiusnation.blogspot.com/2007/08/just-remember-that-republican-party-is.html
A quote...."The Republican Party is the Party of Ideas - Really, Really Bad Ideas."
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Tuesday August 28th 2007 - links page

Computer down for technical updates, reconfigurations and program uploads - no posts. - mpg

Monday August 27th 2007 - links page

Washington continues propaganda barrage against Iran  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6627
War Warning - A quote...."As it prepares for a diplomatic offensive against Iran at the UN next month, the Bush administration is maintaining a steady barrage of threats and propaganda” in particular, over so-called Iranian interference in US-occupied Iraq and Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons programs.

Regarding any mention of IED's or EFP's in this article see....Fake Intel - I.E.D'S & E.F.P'S
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IEDS__EFPS
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Market Crash Forecast Suggests New 9/11  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4117
Red War Warning - A quote...."A mystery trader risks losing around $1 billion dollars after placing 245,000 put options on the Dow Jones Eurostoxx 50 index, leading many analysts to speculate that a stock market crash preceded by a new 9/11 style catastrophe could take place within the next month."

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

See....Standard Disclaimer  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/disclaimer-blog-mpg-070207
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US Opposition Political Leaders Issue Urgent False Flag Terror Warning  ---  http://infowars.net/articles/august2007/270807Warning.htm
Red War Warning - A quote...."A group of former government officials along with current Congressional candidates, authors and activists has issued an urgent warning that a faction of the US government allied with Dick Cheney is planning to stage a terror event or provocation as a pretext for launching military attacks against Iran and implementing emergency powers in America.

Evidence Suggests CIA Spiked Investigations  ---  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/print.html?path=HL0708/S00326.htm
Must Read - Related article - A quote...."It appears that Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar were being protected by higher ups in the CIA. Respected author Joe Trento has reported that they were working for Saudi Intelligence. Others reported the two were removed from the watchlist two days before 9/11. I don't know if either was the case. It is clear however that there was a concerted effort to protect them similar in some respects to the way authorities in FBI HQ refused to allow Rowley and company in Minnesota to go into Mousaoui's laptop computer or how higher ups prevented Robert Wright in Chicago from going after the money trail of Yassin Al-Kadi (Qadi) who financed the software company Ptech and the terrorist group Hamas and who was later named a /Specially Designated Global Terrorist/ by President Bush in October of 2001."

Many Take Army's 'Quick Ship' Bonus  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/26/AR2007082601266_pf.html
Red War Warning - A quote...."More than 90 percent of the Army's new recruits since late July have accepted a $20,000 "quick ship" bonus to leave for basic combat training by the end of September, putting thousands of Americans into uniform almost immediately."

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

Regarding any mention of IED's or EFP's in this article see....Fake Intel - I.E.D'S & E.F.P'S
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/fakeintell-weblist-mpg-090206#IEDS__EFPS
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Sinking ship leaves rat  ---  http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/michael_tomasky/2007/08/sinking_ship_leaves_rat.html
A quote...."Alberto Gonzales lived up to his nickname of Fredo - the sycophantic Mafia sidekick, always trying to please the Don."  --  "Back when George Bush, in the picture presented by the US media, was a visionary leader who was protecting us from evil, and a swell guy you'd like to have a beer with to boot, the press corps in Washington used to devote far too much attention to the president's penchant for bestowing on those around him little nicknames."

Bush Drops Another Crony  ---  http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=11513
A quote...."Civil liberties advocates and Democrats hailed Monday's resignation by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as a major victory, while most Republicans, for whom Gonzales' performance had increasingly become a source of embarrassment, kept their comments to a minimum."

ALP Lead Keeps Increasing in Australia  ---  http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/17004
A quote...."(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has extended its lead over the governing Coalition of Liberals and Nationals, according to a poll by Roy Morgan International. 51 per cent of respondents would back the ALP in this year’s election to the House of Representatives, up 1.5 points since early August."  --  John Howard (another Bush buddy) is having a few problems down under. - mpg

Conviction of Padilla is Bad News for All Americans--Including Journalists  ---  http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/081707Lindorff.shtml
A quote...."8/16/07”With habeas corpus a thing of the past, with arrest and detention without charge permitted, with torture and spying without court oversight all the rage, with prosecutors free to tape conversations between lawyers and their clients, and with the judicial branch now infested by rightwing judges who would have been at home in courtrooms of the Soviet Union or Hitler's Germany, for all they seem to care about common law tradition, the only real thing holding the line against absolute tyranny in the U.S. has been the jury."

Empire or Freedom?  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger133.html
A quote...."The 9/11 attacks exposed what has been going on for many decades and continues to occur at an ever-increasing pace“ the movement of our nation away from its founding principles of a republic and in the direction of empire, militarism, and intervention. Equally important, the reality is that such federal programs as the war on terror,� the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the impending attack on Iran, along with the omnipotent powers that the president, the CIA, the NSA, and the Pentagon now wield against the American people, are inherent, integral, inescapable parts of that foreign policy."

U.S. has second worst newborn death rate in modern world, report says - posted at BuzzFlash  ---  http://www.buzzflash.com/
  ---  http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/parenting/05/08/mothers.index/index.html
A quote...."(CNN) -- An estimated 2 million babies die within their first 24 hours each year worldwide and the United States has the second worst newborn mortality rate in the developed world, according to a new report."

Welcome to the New Roman...ahem...Third World Empire. - mpg
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Russia says Politkovskaya murder ordered from abroad  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL2760124420070827
A quote...."MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors said on Monday they had detained 10 suspects in the murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya, but that the killing was masterminded from abroad by anti-Kremlin forces trying to discredit Russia."

The Fed’s Subprime Solution
  ---  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/opinion/26grant.html?ex=1345780800&en=d4d4b39cfa3a5aa1&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
A quote...."THE subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 is, in fact, a credit crisis” a worldwide disruption in lending and borrowing. It is only the latest in a long succession of such disturbances. Who's to blame? The human race, first and foremost. Well-intended public policy, second. And Wall Street, third ” if only for taking what generations of policy makers have so unwisely handed it."

Peterson’s Law of Inflation  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/peterson/peterson16.html
A quote....""Funny money," commented a visitor in our earshot at the Chase Manhattan Bank Museum of Moneys of the World in New York Rockefeller Center. The visitor, a Texan we surmised from his drawl, height, and wide-brim Stetson, was referring to a display of Yap stone money. One Yap specimen measures some thirty inches in diameter and weighs about 175 pounds. It is worth ten thousand coconuts or one wife, or so the sign read."