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2008-06-30T22:25:00.000+01:00

America Is the Rogue Nation

by Charley Reese | AntiWar.com

One gets the impression that there are some people in Washington who believe that Israel or the U.S. can bomb Iran's nuclear reactors, fly home, and it will be mission complete.

It makes you wonder if perhaps there is a virus going around that is gradually making people stupid. If we or Israel attack Iran, we will have a new war on our hands. The Iranians are not going to shrug off an attack and say, "You naughty boys, you."

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2008-06-25T23:43:00.001+01:00

State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq

By Andrew G. Marshall | Global Research

Shining Light on the "Black World"

In January of 2002, the Washington Post ran a story detailing a CIA plan put forward to President Bush shortly after 9/11 by CIA Director George Tenet titled, "Worldwide Attack Matrix," which was "outlining a clandestine anti-terror campaign in 80 countries around the world. What he was ready to propose represented a striking and risky departure for U.S. policy and would give the CIA the broadest and most lethal authority in its history." The plan entailed CIA and Special Forces "covert operations across the globe," and at "the heart of the proposal was a recommendation that the president give the CIA what Tenet labeled "exceptional authorities" to attack and destroy al Qaeda in Afghanistan and the rest of the world." Tenet cited the need for such authority "to allow the agency to operate without restraint -- and he wanted encouragement from the president to take risks." Among the many authorities recommended was the use of "deadly force."

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2008-06-18T22:10:00.001+01:00

Our Government’s Dirty Little Secrets.
House of Commons debates - Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Somalia (Human Rights)

By George Galloway | ICH

A Government ready to rely on those friends of liberty, the Democratic Unionist party, to shred the liberties of our own people are almost by definition unembarrassable, but I hope this evening to add to the issues ventilated in a recent Channel 4 "Dispatches" programme to adumbrate the extent to which the tragedy in Somalia, which so many people are now becoming aware of, is another of our Government's dirty little secrets.

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2008-06-18T22:04:00.002+01:00

Warlords Next Door?
Channel 4 Video Documentary

ICH

Dispatches reveals how key politicians at the heart of the vicious fighting in Somalia - described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis - enjoy incredibly close links to Britain. They have British or EU passports, their families live here and they commute between Somalia and homes in English cities. British taxpayers are financing them in the name of democracy - yet in Somalia they are linked to allegations of mass murder, torture, extortion and corruption.
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2008-05-20T23:43:00.001+01:00

"This Advice Mr , Bush Shut The Hell Up"

Special Comment

By Keith Olbermann

Anchor, 'Countdown' - MSNBC

The war in Iraq, your war, Mr. Bush, is about how you accomplished the derangement of two nations, and how you helped funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to lascivious and perennially thirsty corporations like Halliburton and Blackwater, and how you sent 4,000 Americans to their deaths for nothing.

Posted 16/05/08

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2008-05-20T23:40:00.000+01:00

Rumsfeld: "Why Not another 911"

by Larry Chin | Global Research

In a newly-released tape of a 2006 neocon luncheon meeting featuring former War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, attended by ex-military "message force multiplier" propaganda shills Lt. General Michael DeLong, David L. Grange, Donald W. Sheppard, James Marks, Rick Francona, Wayne Downing, Robert H. Scales and others, Rumsfeld declared that the American people lack "the maturity to recognize the seriousness of the ‘threats’" -- and need another 9/11.

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2008-05-20T23:27:00.001+01:00

Military or Market-Driven Empire Building: 1950-2008

by Prof. James Petras | Global Research

Introduction

From the middle of the 19th century but especially after the Second World War, two models of empire building competed on a world scale: One predominantly based on military conquests, involving direct invasions, proxy invading armies and subsidized separatist military forces; and the other predominantly based on large-scale, long-term economic penetration via a combination of investments, loans, credits and trade in which ‘market’ power and the superiority (greater productivity) in the means of production led to the construction of a virtual empire.

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2008-05-20T23:10:00.005+01:00

Bush's Capital Crimes

The Existentialist Cowboy Blog

I have yet to see a complete list of Bush's crimes. Here are just a few main categories in which Bush has outdone Nero.

Election Theft

Bush Goes Rogue

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2008-05-20T22:50:00.000+01:00

Was 10:45 a.m. the Originally Planned Demolition Time of WTC 7?

By Shoestring | 911Blogger.com

At 11:07 a.m. in the morning of September 11, 2001, a CNN correspondent in New York reported that a third tower had possibly collapsed. While this report was incorrect, it is interesting to note that the reporter's description could have applied to World Trade Center Building 7. This huge skyscraper was indeed the third tower to collapse on 9/11. However it did not come down until late in the afternoon, more than six hours after this report.

CNN correspondent Allan Dodds Frank reported by phone from Lower Manhattan. He described: "[J]ust two or three minutes ago there was yet another collapse or explosion. I'm now out of sight, a Good Samaritan has taken me in on Duane Street. But at a quarter to 11, there was another collapse or explosion following the 10:30 collapse of the second tower. And a firefighter who rushed by us estimated that 50 stories went down. The street filled with smoke. It was like a forest fire roaring down a canyon." [1]

WTC 7 was a 47-story tower, so would have fitted the description of the estimated "50 stories" described by Frank. And it did indeed collapse completely. One could in fact accurately describe its demise with Frank's words: "The street filled with smoke. It was like a forest fire roaring down a canyon." However, this collapse did not happen until 5:20 that afternoon.

What could have led Frank to make his incorrect report?

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2008-04-28T22:22:00.000+01:00

‘Western Leaders Are War Criminals’

By Mick Meaney | RINF

The former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, has echoed calls for Western leaders to be charged with war crimes over the invasion of Iraq.

Speaking at Imperial College in London Mahathir, who was in office from 1981 to 2003, singled out US President George Bush, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australia’s former prime minister John Howard as he wants to see them tried “in absence for war crimes committed in Iraq”.

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2008-04-21T22:20:00.001+01:00

Financial Collapse will End the Occupation:
And it won't be "A time of our choosing"

By Mike Whitney | InformationClearingHouse

“Come and see our overflowing morgues and find our little ones for us...
You may find them in this corner or the other, a little hand poking out, pointing out at you...
Come and search for them in the rubble of your "surgical" air raids, you may find a little leg or a little head...pleading for your attention.
Come and see them amassed in the garbage dumps, scavenging morsels of food...
Come and see, come..." "Flying Kites” Layla Anwar

The US Military has won every battle it has fought in Iraq, but it has lost the war. Wars are won politically, not militarily. Bush doesn't understand this. He still clings to the belief that a political settlement can be imposed through force. But he is mistaken. The use of overwhelming force has only spread the violence and added to the political instability. Now Iraq is ungovernable. Was that the objective? Miles of concrete blast-walls snake through Baghdad to separate the warring parties; the country is fragmented into a hundred smaller pieces each ruled by local militia commanders. These are the signs of failure not success. That's why the American people no longer support the occupation. They're just being practical; they know Bush's plan won't work. As Nir Rosen says, “Iraq has become Somalia”.

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2008-04-20T23:15:00.001+01:00

TV News: Pimping for the Pentagon!

By Reggie | TVNewslies.org

Is it a still a conspiracy theory when the entire plot is exposed on the front page of the Sunday NY Times? Today’s story blows the lid off the myth that television is an any way fair and balanced, in any way trustworthy, and in any way real news.

Most Americans will never see the NY Times story because the TV news networks will not expose their own lies on their own news programs. Just imagine CNN, FOX News or NBC, ABC or CBS featuring this headline:

Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

Courting Officers Tied to Military Contractors

Records and interviews show how the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse — an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks.

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2008-04-20T23:09:00.000+01:00

The Darkness that Feeds on the Darkness in Itself

Smoking Mirrors Blog

The chief by product of religion is hypocrisy along with profit and perpetuating the organism. Survival is as much a priority of soulless enterprise as it is in any life form capable of recognizing threat. So it is that you get the obfuscator in chief of the pedophile scandal now operating as Pope and wringing his hands about what a tragedy it was while he was the main force behind its continuance. Religion gives us many terrible ironies and this is only one of them. Yackety yack, don’t look back.

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2008-04-20T22:48:00.000+01:00

The Voice of the White House - April 18, 2008

TBRNews.org

Washington, D.C., April 17, 2008 : “The one subject never touched upon in the American media is the control of high level American political institutions by Israel and her American supporters. There is no question that Israel knew to the day when the 9/11 attacks were to happen and who, to the man, were involved in them. There is no question that Israeli businessmen, tipped off by their Mossad, rushed to stock markets all over the world to benefit from what they knew was coming.

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2008-04-20T22:36:00.000+01:00

UN Human Rights Official Wants Investigation Into US Government Role In 9/11
John Bolton: "This is exactly why we voted against the new human rights council."

Steve Watson | Infowars.net

An official in the newly formed UN Human Rights Council has called for a fresh investigation into the events of 9/11 in order to examine the possible role that neoconservatives may have played in the attacks.

The New York Sun picked up the story today, explaining that Richard Falk, a professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, and an expert on human rights was assigned to a new position within the council on March 26.

His role is to report on human rights in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs.

Two days prior to the announcement, Falk appeared on former University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett's radio show and spoke of how he is keen to see a fresh investigation into 9/11 in order to address inconsistencies in the official account of what happened.

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2008-04-10T21:12:00.002+01:00

You Can't Handle the Truth

The Existentialist Cowboy

Two truths denied by nation and media: 1) Bush and Cheney are war criminals; 2) 911 was an inside job. In the meantime, unless something is done, Bush will have led this nation into another bloody, criminal war crime: an attack --possibly nuclear --upon Iran. It is the nature of evil that Bushco has compromised many otherwise good Americans now powerless to act because they have fallen into the spider's web.

As the US economy slips inexorably into a black hole from which they may be no escape, Bush plots another ruinous war. Some 232,000 jobs have been lost in the past three months and still the American people, the media, the Congress kowtows to the worst administration in American history. Nero is said to have fiddled while Rome burned. Deck chairs were re-arranged on the Titanic. Cowards whistle past grave yards. Americans cower in the suburbs.

The US Congress --both parties --have failed their Constitutional responsibilities and in doing so betrayed the nation. That includes every court and every judge who winked and nodded and re-wrote the laws disingenuously to accommodate the revolutionary criminals who have seized what seems now to be absolute power, absolute dictatorship, a 'Big Brother' of Orwellian imagination. Worst of all, it includes the American people, many of whom still support the junta. It also includes anyone still stupid enough to drive an SUV, still stupid enough to enrich the war mongering oil barons with gasoline purchases.

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2008-04-08T22:30:00.000+01:00

THE BANKING 'CRISIS' ...IT'S A BIG CLUB AND YOU AIN'T IN IT...

By greenfloyd | Folsom

After nearly 20 years of full time research into the true workings of the world, the last few weeks have been real head-shakers for me. Talk about watching a movie.

And it's not even a new movie - just a remake of endless of its kind over hundreds of years. They were once in silent black and white and now in full-blown computer-enhanced digital colour. The movie is called 'The Banking Crisis' and among its many sequels and spin-offs are 'The Recession', 'The Slump', 'The Crash', and, in it's latest version, 'The Credit Crunch'.

All of them star the insider actors and actresses from the same elite families and all have but one prime objective: human control. Everything else is decoration, diversion and camouflage.

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2008-04-08T22:19:00.004+01:00

Bush Lies About 911: A Primer

The Existentialist Cowboy

As FBI Director Robert Mueller had said, there is no evidence to connect the 'said' 19 'hijackers' with the events of 911. That's 'no' as in 'none', 'nada' and 'zip'! And there is STILL no evidence to connect the 'Arab hijackers' with the crime of mass murder called '911'. Those who assert must prove. Bush asserted a theory in which the 19 hijackers crashed US buildings and all died. Show me the bodies! Show me a valid and verifiable autopsy report.

Show me the evidence! FBI Director Robert Mueller had said that there was none -- no evidence connecting the 19 'said' hijackers with 911. He was right about that if he was wrong about almost everything else.

While there is no verifiable evidence to support the absurd Bush version of this capital crime of mass murder, there is, however, probable cause to indict George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleeza Rice for the crimes of mass murder and treason. Let Cheney give his side of the story --under oath --to a federal grand jury! My critics should not complain if there is no evidence in support of the Bush/Cheney fairy tale! The evidence that might have exonerated the Bush/Cheney gang --if there ever was any --has all been destroyed.

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2008-04-08T22:08:00.000+01:00

Feith: We Invaded Iraq Because We Were Afraid They'd Attack Us

David Edwards and Muriel Kane | The Raw Story

During an interview to be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith was asked why the US chose to go after Saddam Hussein instead of Osama bin Laden.

CBS's Steve Kroft asked Feith, "Why was the decision made to go after him after 9/11? Because we knew even then, he didn't have anything to do with it."

"What we did after 9/11 was to look broadly at the international terrorism network from which the next attack on the United States might come," Feith replied, "and we did not focus narrowly only on the people who were specifically responsible for 9/11. Our main goal was preventing the next attack."

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2008-04-01T23:06:00.000+01:00

A Third American War Crime in the Making

By Paul Craig Roberts | InformationClearingHouse

The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran.

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2008-04-01T22:55:00.001+01:00

Call For New 9/11 Investigation Reaches Crescendo
Public figures increasingly speaking out while media ignores professionals and experts

Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet

Calls for a new 9/11 inquiry are reaching a crescendo, with well-respected authorities and celebrities alike adding their voices to the cause, as the official 9/11 story crumbles under the weight of revelations of White House ties to the 9/11 Commission, and other cover-ups on behalf of authorities staffed with investigating the attacks.

The corporate media's insistence on ignoring hundreds of professional experts who are calling for a new 9/11 investigation has spurred many celebrities to use their public platforms to speak out, knowing that the press will at least have to address the issue.

The latest to do so is top comedian Margaret Cho, who told the Alex Jones Show yesterday that the public were going to become very angry when it was fully disclosed that the attacks were a conspiracy, concurring with fellow comedian George Carlin who also questioned the official story last year.

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2008-04-01T22:44:00.002+01:00

Is an International Financial Conspiracy Driving World Events?

By Richard C. Cook | Global Research

"They make a desolation and call it peace." -Tacitus

Was Alan Greenspan really as dumb as he looks in creating the late housing bubble that threatens to bring the entire Western debt-based economy crashing down?

Was something as easy to foresee as this really the trigger for a meltdown that could destroy the world’s financial system? Or was it done, perhaps, "accidentally on purpose"?

And if so, why?

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2008-04-01T22:13:00.001+01:00

Was Hitler an Illuminati Agent? (Encore)

By Henry Makow Ph.D.

Greg Hallett's book "Hitler Was A British Agent" depicts war as a ghoulish illusion conjured by occult magicians in order to degrade and eventually enslave humanity in world government.

Hallett's claim that Hitler was a "British" agent is based on the testimony of a shadowy network of retired intelligence agents. While he fails to provide documentary proof, Hallett does offer persuasive circumstantial evidence.

For example, Adolph Hitler was in England in 1912-1913, a fact supported by his sister-in-law's book: "The Memoirs of Bridget Hitler"(1979). Many historians including Hitler biographer John Toland have ignored this startling information. (If Hallett is right, historians like Toland are guilty of sanitizing Hitler and actually making him more credible than he was.)

Hallett says Hitler spent February to November 1912 being brainwashed and trained at the British Military Psych-Ops War School at Tavistock in Devon and in Ireland. "War machines need war and [that means they need] funded, trained and supported double agents to be their patsies, their puppets and their puppet enemies," Hallett writes (38).

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2008-03-25T22:00:00.001Z

The Probable Cause to Charge Dick Cheney With Mass Murder, Terrorism, and High Treason

The Existentialist Cowboy

There is probable cause to indict Dick Cheney for the crime of supervising the events of 911, a capital crime consisting of high treason and mass murder. Both Bush and Condoleeza Rice would state that they could not have foreseen the crashing of airliners into buildings. In fact, just such a 'scenario' was the basis for security when Bush attended the G8 Summit in Italy, July 23, 2001 [See: "Italy: Bush Targeted at G8." New York Newsday 19 Sept 2001, unsigned; "Extremists 'Planned Genoa Attack on Bush'", BBC News, 27 Sept 2001]. Secondly, Dick Cheney supervised precisely that scenario on the very day that it happened in fact --a highly improbable coincidence' that would repeat later in Britain on 7/7. Cheney supervised what are called 'exercises' within a bunker --the Presidential Emergency Operations Center --located under the White House. There is damning testimony against Cheney from former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta who contradicts 9/11 Commission Report’s Account of Dick Cheney’s timetable.

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2008-03-25T21:11:00.001Z

Over 70,000 Deaths, And Over 1 Million Disabilities Among American Soldiers Attributed To Iraq Wars Says U.S. Government Data

By Peter Tremblay and Libertyforlife.com researchers

Iraq War veterans protest as U.S. Republican Presidential campaign seeks to help support corporate media spin about the Iraq War.

According to U.S. media reports, there are well below 5,000 U.S. soldiers who have been killed in Iraq. However, this data appears to be very misleading. Why? Because many tens of thousands of American soldiers have apparently been killed to-date, as a result of being exposed to radiation poisoning from the indiscriminate killing machines of U.S. military weaponry. Ironically, the only Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) that Americans soldiers have found in Iraq are "Made in America".

U.S. investigative researchers have discovered an official U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs official, but not well publicized count, of 73,846 U.S. soldiers who have perished as an apparent result of Depleted Uranium based bio-chemical warfare exposure. This exceeds an estimate of 58,000 U.S. soldiers who had been killed in relation to the Vietnam War.

Well over 200,000 American soldiers could be killed by 2010, as a result of the after effects of exposure to U.S. dirty bombs.

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2008-03-21T20:59:00.000Z

Like it had Eyes... and Fangs... and Claws

Smoking Mirrors Blog

Neither I, nor any legitimate blogger believes that every Israeli and every American and every Englander is supportive of the ugliness their countries are producing. On the other hand there are not nearly enough of you objecting either.

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2008-03-21T20:45:00.001Z

This Is The War That Started With Lies, And Continues With Lie After Lie After Lie

By Patrick Cockburn | The Independent

RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP/Getty Images

A US Marine drapes a flag over the face of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad on 9 April 2003

It has been a war of lies from the start. All governments lie in wartime but American and British propaganda in Iraq over the past five years has been more untruthful than in any conflict since the First World War.

The outcome has been an official picture of Iraq akin to fantasy and an inability to learn from mistakes because of a refusal to admit that any occurred. Yet the war began with just such a mistake. Five years ago, on the evening of 19 March 2003, President George Bush appeared on American television to say that military action had started against Iraq.

This was a veiled reference to an attempt to kill Saddam Hussein by dropping four 2,000lb bombs and firing 40 cruise missiles at a place called al-Dura farm in south Baghdad, where the Iraqi leader was supposedly hiding in a bunker. There was no bunker. The only casualties were one civilian killed and 14 wounded, including nine women and a child.

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2008-03-20T23:14:00.001Z

WARNING SIGNS OF IMMINENT
FALSE FLAG TERROR
EVENT IN EUROPE

"Terror is theatre."
-Khalil in The Little Drummer Girl
by John Le Carre (1982)

Christopher Bollyn

The warning signs are now very clearly indicating that a major false flag terror attack in Europe is in the works, as I previously warned in my March 10 posting below. The latest warning comes through an audio tape of Osama Bin Laden interpreted by Israeli channels for the Associated Press. See "Bin Laden Slams EU Over Prophet Cartoons" AP story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080320/ap_on_re_mi_ea/bin_laden_message

The Israelis are evidently setting the stage for a major false flag terror attack in Europe.

The reason for the planned false flag terror attack is quite clear. The fighting morale among Europeans for the fraudulent "War on Terror" is flagging. Nobody seems eager to help the clueless Canadians who are threatening to pull out of Kandahar if they don't get help, but nobody else is that stupid.

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread," and the Canadians are obviously quite foolish. They say they will stay in Afghanistan until the Parliament calls them home, but what did the Canadians lose in Afghanistan, except whatever common sense God might have given them?

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2008-03-20T23:09:00.000Z

RIGHT ON TIME! BIN LADIN "THREATENS" WHOLE OF EUROPE...

By FarSight3 | RumorMillNews

On time for the Iraq-anniversary.

This time the emerging tape from the phantastic collections of the deep-frozen nemesis named Bin Ladin "threatens" all of Europe.

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2008-03-19T21:11:00.001Z

Today is March 19th, step away from the Machine

Smoking Mirrors

Today is March 19th. We celebrate five years of bloody war and torture based on lies. These lies came from Michael Ledeen and various neo-con insurgents like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle, Douglas Feith and Dick Cheney, operating in the United States government at various agencies. Well… the Afghan war began on October 7th, 2001 and that was also based on a lie so actually we have had around 6.5 years of bloody war and torture.

The Afghan war came about because America was attacked on September the 11th at several locations. It was said that the attack was orchestrated by Bin Laden who was residing in Afghanistan at the time. It seemed reasonable to attack the country hosting him. But Bin Laden denied attacking the United States. This made no difference in the face of a concerted propaganda effort by the same neo-con operatives already mentioned. None of the alleged perpetrators were ever apprehended. The Afghan war was for geo-political advantage and to liberate the opium trade; nothing more.

As time passed it became clear, to anyone who was interested enough to inquire, that the 9/11 attack was engineered by the same neo-cons who blamed the attack on Bin Laden. They have since used this non-existent threat from a small group of rag tag, Stone Age Arabs to justify plunging the United States into fear and fascism while looting the countries coffers. As brief as this may be, it is the truth, just as nearly everything reported by the government and collaborating media is a lie.

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2008-03-18T20:58:00.001Z

Winter Soldier Mike Prysner Testimony

YouTube

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2008-03-18T14:13:00.005Z

The Crunch Bites Deeper In The US

Analysis
By Stephanie Flanders
Economics Editor, BBC News

A glut of unsold homes is depressing US house prices.

"We're all sub-prime now"

Kevin Logan, Dresdner Kleinwort

The credit crunch has hit the US economy hard. From Wall Street to Main Street, loans that looked rock-solid a year ago now look shaky.

And the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, is throwing away the rule book to contain the effects.

Kevin Logan of Dresdner Kleinwort, one of the less gloomy New York economists, summarises the state of play as the credit crunch has spread to different types of assets as follows: "We're all sub-prime now".

The Fed will almost certainly cut its main interest rate on Tuesday for the fifth time since September - possibly by as much as one percentage point, to 2%.

That would be a big deal: it would mean that interest rates were actually negative in real terms.

But amid the drama of the past few weeks, it almost seems par for the course.

Whether it's rate cuts or special funding arrangements for Wall Street, the more the Fed does, the more the markets seem to need.

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2008-03-18T14:07:00.000Z

America was conned - who will pay?
The South Sea Bubble ended in riots as trust was lost. Wall Street also duped the public

Larry Elliott, economics editor The Guardian

Bear Stearns marks the moment when the global financial crisis went critical. Up until last Friday, it had been possible - just about - to believe that the worst was over and that things were about to get better. That pretence was stripped away when JP Morgan, at the behest of the Federal Reserve, stepped in when the hedge funds pulled the plug on the fifth-biggest US investment bank.

It is now clear that no end is in sight to the turmoil, and the reason for that is that the Fed and the US treasury are no closer to solving the underlying problem than they were eight months ago. The crisis will only end when house prices stop falling and banks stop racking up huge losses on their loans. Doing that, however, will require the US government to intervene directly in the real estate market to end the wave of foreclosures. Ideologically, it is ill-equipped to take that step and, as a result, property prices will fall and the financial meltdown will go on and on.

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2008-03-17T21:53:00.004Z

"Bernankerupted”
Bear Stearns Fire-sale sends Global Markets Plunging; Dollar Routed

By Mike Whitney | ICH

Bear's travails are just the beginning of Wall Street's woes. Now there's talk of Lehman Brothers going under. According to the Wall Street Journal:

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2008-03-17T21:22:00.001Z

Why George W. Bush Should Stand Trial for Capital Crimes

ExistentialistCowboy Blog

There is probable cause now to try George W. Bush for capital crimes in connection with the US program of torture at Abu Ghraib as well as the war of aggression against Iraq. There is evidence that George W. Bush ordered this program which most certainly resulted in numerous violations of the Geneva Conventions and the Nuremberg Principles.

(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.More...

2008-03-16T19:12:00.000Z

Which bank is going to follow the Bear?

Suzy Jagger, Christine Seib and Miles Costello | TimesOnline

So who is next? As advisers to Bear Stearns struggle to find a buyer or funding in the next 28 days, Wall Street, the City and the financial district in Tokyo were scrabbling to find out who is the most exposed to Bear Stearns, either through loans or trading positions.

Traders in all three centres were panicking even for those banks not directly exposed to Bear. They feared that the problems experienced at the stricken bank signalled that the credit crisis has deteriorated to a new level.

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2008-03-16T19:07:00.000Z

Breakdancing Drunks on the Edge of a Cliff.

Smoking Mirrors

Looking behind the news...or deeper into the news, as you prefer, it starts to look like a video of extreme skateboarders and off road bikers on cheap wine and PCP. Sometimes it looks like an army of crazed suits, chasing gold dust in a windstorm across the desert of the Sierra Madre. In the meantime, entire nations are displaced or forced behind high walls and razor wire and used for target practice. At the same time we are treated to endless details of the vainest and emptiest lives anyone can imagine.

When you really look at it, really look at it, it is madness at all levels. It is mad to engage in it. It is madness to be entertained by it. It is madness to go whistling past it when there is no end to it. Between derivatives and the sub-prime swamp, between the casual mass murders and increasing police presence, between the confusion and the chaos there is no hiding place. Everything touches everything.

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2008-03-16T18:17:00.001Z

More evidence of Pre-9/11 Inside Trading: Follow the Money? God forbid
Why was the cashing out of billions of dollars just before 9/11 never investigated?

by Jim Hogue | Global Research

Baltimore Chronicle

Had an investigation been done into the crime of failing to file the “currency transaction reports” in August 2001, then we would know who made the cash withdrawals in $100 bills amounting to the $5 billion surge.

When reviewing the record of July and August of 2001, Bill Bergman noticed a $5 billion surge in the currency component of the M1 money supply—the third largest such increase since 1947. Bergman asked about this anomaly—and was removed from his investigative duties.

It's been over six years since 9/11, but U.S. regulatory entities have been slow to follow through with reports about the complex financial transactions that occurred just prior to and following the attacks. Such research could shed light on such questions as who was behind them—and who benefited—and could help lay to rest the rumors that have been festering.

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2008-02-05T22:45:00.000Z

How an Iranian 'Oil Bourse' Threatens the American Empire

The Existentialist Cowboy

It's been over seven years since the US had real or competent leadership and now a neo-ape man may precipitate our return to the cave! Iran's planned oil bourse threatens not only Bush's simplistic view of the world, it strikes at the the coffers of "big oil". Isolated by mysteriously cut internet cables, Iran --if it is not nuked --will this month begin trading oil in currencies other than the dollar. Bush's cave man response: Nuke Iran! Kill, kill!

Gore Vidal, Chapter Three of Imperial America (Nation Books, 2005)

Bush's response to Iran's "Oil Bourse", his response to the end of American empire, is pre-stonge age in nature. Indeed, the US empire will collapse when the dollar collapses. Because we have an ape-man and not a real President, the consequences will be tragic.

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2008-02-05T22:37:00.000Z

Did They Reveal the Absence of Confessions?
Why Were the 9/11 Tapes Destroyed?

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS | CounterPunch.org

Many Americans are content with the 9/11 Commission Report, but the two chairmen of the commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton are not. Neither was commission member Max Cleland, a US Senator who resigned from the 9/11 Commission, telling the Boston Globe (November 13, 2003): "This investigation is now compromised." Even former FBI director Louis Freeh wrote in the Wall Street Journal (Nov. 17, 2005) that there are inaccuracies in the commission's report and "questions that need answers."

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2008-02-05T22:15:00.000Z

Willie Nelson Fears Election Could Be Cancelled
"We could have George in there ten years longer," says country music star

Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet

Country music legend Willie Nelson fears the 2008 presidential election could be cancelled due to a national state of emergency and that George W. Bush could occupy the White House for another decade.

"It's a long time until election day and some sort of national crisis could put off the elections and we could have George in there ten years longer," Nelson told the Alex Jones Show today.

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2008-02-04T23:35:00.000Z

Talk of Imminent War Against Iran Amid an Attack of 'Coincidences'

The Existentialist Cowboy

The "coincidences":

A series of internet disruptions due to cut telecom cables that has cut Iran off the Internet!
Israel is not affected.
An Iranian Oil Bourse, where oil, petrochemicals and gas will be traded in various non-dollar currencies, is set to open this month.
Israelis have been told to prepare for war, presumably with Iran

Before leaving the Middle East, Bush is reported to have promised Benjamin Netanyahu that the US would join Israel in a nuclear strike on Iran. In Israel, there is talk of "...a rain of missiles" for which Israelis must prepare now.

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2008-02-04T22:50:00.000Z

’Blair Government under police investigation for war crimes.’ Press Conference

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Press Release: Scotland Yard to investigate Tony Blair and ex-Attorney General Peter Goldsmith for war crimes

Press Conference, Room C, ... all » 1 Parliament Street Tuesday 15th January 2008 3pm

John McDonnell MP, Chris Coverdale: International War Law Expert and Annie Machon of the Campaign to Make War History brief MPs and the media on allegations of war crimes committed against the people of Iraq by Britain’s former Prime Minister and former Attorney General.

Officers from Scotland Yard have commenced a criminal investigation into the deaths of Iraqi citizens killed during the armed invasion and occupation of Iraq. The Metropolitan Police are acting in response to crimes reported by peace activists from We Are Change UK and The Campaign to Make War History. In an unprecedented step, the case was handed to the War Crimes division of the Counter Terrorism branch who are now investigating allegations of 14 criminal offences committed by Tony Blair, Lord Goldsmith and others. The offences are under the International Criminal Court Act 2001, which came into effect under English common law, just two days before 9/11.

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2008-02-04T22:40:00.000Z

War in Iraq

Defeat Without End

By Robert C. Koehler | InformationClearingHouse

We’ve already failed in Iraq, and throughout the Middle East and Central Asia — failed with consequences beyond reckoning. God knows someone will have to take a swig of political courage and acknowledge it one of these days, simply to stop the lie — the lies, a governmental cluster bomb of them — from doing further harm.

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2008-02-03T22:57:00.000Z

There's Something Wicked in the Wind.

Smoking Mirrors Blog

There’s a lot of hysteria jumping off of the internet right now; what portion of the internet is still operating. Let’s face it, previous severance of communications links have proven to be a prelude to war. There are all manner of theories chasing this event. Some of them are dark and dreadful if true.

I’ve been given some credible alternatives to the cutting of major communication cables in recent days. One of them is because gold is soaring. Markets in India, Hong Kong and Tokyo were all geared for major trading which would have precipitated a huge flight from the dollar.

Another story I’ve been given is that it’s connected to the opening of the Iranian oil bourse with much the same intention of forestalling economic free fall.

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2008-02-03T22:32:00.000Z

Cutting Cables, Lighting Fuses

WakeUpFromYourSlumber.com

A third undersea cable has been cut, effectively eliminating the Internet in the Middle East, http://www.spiderednews.com/Internet_I.htm?url=@http://www.iht.com/artic... But according to CNN that cable outage does not extend to Israel, Lebanon and Iraq. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/index.html
Is it a coincidence that these three countries, who represent the next phase of the war on terrorism, were spared in the communications blackout that is affecting the rest of the Middle East? With the reemergence of the shadowy Fatah Al Islam organization, which has been linked to Saudi Prince Bandar, Saad Al-Hariri, the Mossad and neocon Elliot Abrams, http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2008/01/24/lebanon-fatah-al-islam-is-the-moss... it becomes clear that the pre-invasion of Lebanon scenario from last summer has nearly been reset. Bush laid claim to Lebanon with his recent executive order criminalizing criticism of US/Israeli actions in Lebanon, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070802-1.html just as he did with the previous one on Iraq. These two orders claimed that the entire war of terror hinged on these sideshows, declaring that failure in either represents “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”

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2008-02-03T22:23:00.000Z

Hold that Thought, I've got to go to the Al Qaeda.

Smoking Mirrors Blog

The first thing I want to say is that there is no Al Qaeda; not in the way we understand it to be. The only Al Qaeda ever found is this one here and given the fact that there are now more Al Qaeda outlets than there are McDonald’s makes it all the more absurd. On Friday, unknown gunman attacked the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania and once again it was Al Qaeda. A bystander said the colors were melting from the flag flying from the getaway car.

Al Qaeda means The Toilet ...think a little people and add this in to what we know about 9/11.

Over the last several days four underground cables have been cut in the Middle East. You can read about it here. One was also cut that linked UAE and Oman so this gives us four cables. Guess what? Ships dragging anchors caused this in every case. At no time in the past did four major cables get cut at the same relative time by dragging ship’s anchors and now four have been cut just like that. Can you say “three high rise buildings tumbling into their own footprints in one day?” I thought you could.

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2008-02-03T22:09:00.000Z

Stagflation is Here

By Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay | Global Research

-- Samuel B. Pettengill

-- James Madison, 4th U.S. President (April 20, 1795)

-- Nathan Rothschild, 1791

Last summer, I observed that there was a "solvency crisis" underneath the ongoing subprime mortgage liquidity squeeze. Central banks can alleviate a "liquidity crisis", but they cannot solve a solvency crisis.

Last year also, before the events, I warned that the U.S. was heading toward stagflation.

This was due to three fundamental factors.

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2008-01-31T23:02:00.000Z

Truth or Terrorism: The Real Story Behind Five Years of High Alerts
A history of the Bush administration's most dubious terror scares — and the headlines they buried

TIM DICKINSON | RollingStone

"Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. There were times when some people in the administration were really aggressive about raising the threat level, and we said, 'For that?!'" — Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, May 2005

The Bush administration has never shied from playing the fear card to distract the American public from scandal or goad them into supporting a deeply flawed foreign policy. Here a history of the administration's most-dubious terror alerts — including three consecutive Memorial Day scare-a-thons — all of which proved far less terrifying than the screamer headlines they inspired.

February 12, 2002

The Threat: Yemenite terrorist set to attack U.S. — today! "I want, to encourage... all Americans everywhere to be on the highest state of alert," warns Attorney General John Ashcroft.

The Reality: The threat hadn't been corroborated by U.S. intelligence agencies — and the evidence actually pointed to an attack not in the U.S., but in Yemen.

The Real News: Announced the same day that Enron CEO Ken Lay appeared before Congress, and a week after the White House was instructed not to destroy its Enron-related documents.

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2008-01-31T22:52:00.000Z

'It's going to be much worse'
Famed investor Jim Rogers sees hard times ahead for the United States - and a big opportunity looming in China.

By Brian O'Keefe, senior editor | Fortune Magazine

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- You might expect Jim Rogers to be gloating a little bit. After all, the famed investor has been predicting a recession in the U.S. economy for months and shorting the shares of now-tanking Wall Street investment banks for even longer. And with fears of a recession sparking both a worldwide market sell-off and emergency action from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, Rogers again looks prescient - just as he has over the past few years as the China-driven commodities boom he predicted almost a decade ago began kicked into high gear. But when I reached him by phone in Singapore the other day there was little hint of celebration in his voice. Instead, he took a serious tone.

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2008-01-31T22:41:00.000Z

9-11 - Bush Was Behind Silencing of Dr. Steven E. Jones on Thermite

By Christopher Bollyn | RumorMillNews

Christopher Bollyn and physicist Steven E. Jones discussing the evidence of Thermite at the World Trade Center in June 2006.

When I met with 9-11 researcher and scientist Professor Steven E. Jones at Brigham Young University in the winter and spring of 2006, I tried to impress upon him that there were people in the 9-11 movement who were dangerous and who were not at all interested in finding the truth about what happened on September 11, 2001. The 9-11 movement was infested with agents, as one should expect.

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2008-01-31T22:35:00.000Z

Staying Sane in an Insane World

By Henry Makow Ph.D.

When we see a man talking to himself and gesticulating, we think he is nuts. But the main difference between him and us is that we mute our voices and gestures.

Like crazy men, we are always talking to ourselves: analyzing, planning, remembering, rehearsing, rejoicing, grousing or fantasizing.

According to Eckhart Tolle, 59, our habit of identifying with this voice in our head is the root of our spiritual bondage. His bestselling book The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1999) draws on many religious traditions to proclaim that spiritual liberation is detaching our identity from our thoughts and instead identifying with our soul, which he calls "Being."

This skill is more important than ever in an increasingly precarious world. Planet Earth is run by sell-outs and perverts who serve the central bankers' plan to hijack humanity for their own bizarre, greedy and occult ends. They use the mass media and education to manipulate, distort and degrade us.

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2008-01-31T22:28:00.000Z

The 'war on terror' licenses a new stupidity in geopolitics
The language loved by Bush and Musharraf has translated into a global disaster bringing death and misery to millions

Simon Jenkins | The Guardian

Nothing and nobody can stop bombs going off. No citizen, no police force, no army, no government and no global military alliance can prevent a determined suicide bomber from blowing himself up. It will happen and innocent people will die as a result, horribly, as they do on the roads, from drugs and alcohol, or from natural disasters - again without responsible authority being able to stop it.

What is recent is the admission of this truism into the mainstream of government under the rubric of "terrorism". This week two outgoing presidents, America's George Bush and Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf, defined their terms of office in relation to terror. Bush did so in his final state of the union message on Monday and Musharraf that same day in London during a charm offensive prior to next month's elections.

To Bush, the "war on terror" is the ruling mantra of his politics of fear. Since 9/11 gave a prop to his weakening presidency, his language has scaled new heights of alarmist rhetoric. It has validated every internal repression and every external war. "He who is not with us is against us," he cries. Terrorists everywhere are "opposing the advance of liberty ... evil men who despise freedom, despise America and aim to subject millions to their violent rule".

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2008-01-28T21:14:00.000Z

Unimaginable Intentional Human Suffering

By Peter Chamberlin | InformationClearingHouse

Humans tend to submit to those who claim authority, since it is easier to believe in symbols of power, than it is to personally submit to the tedium of the reasoning process. As a people, we tend to follow the natural order of things along the path of least resistance. By taking the easy way out, we give our blessing to the law of the jungle.

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2008-01-28T21:04:00.000Z

Gilad Atzmon - Two Jewish Jokes (and a Hain in the Middle)

PeacePalestine Blog

A story is told of a Londoner, a Jewish man who was riding on the London Underground reading an Arab newspaper. A friend of his, who happened to be riding in the same underground car, noticed this strange phenomenon. Very upset, he approached the newspaper reader.

"Moishe, have you lost your mind? Why are you reading an Arab newspaper?" Moishe replied, "I used to read the Jewish newspaper, but what did I find? Jews being persecuted, Israel being attacked, Jews disappearing through assimilation and intermarriage, Jews living in poverty. So I switched to the Arab newspaper. Now what do I find? Jews own all the banks, Jews control the media, Jews are all rich and powerful, Jews rule the world. The news is so much better!"

Truth must be said, Moishe, is telling the truth here. The Jewish press in Britain is panicking lately and they have good reason, too. While the British papers are filling their mouths with water hiding the real story behind the huge Labour donation sleaze, the UK Jewish press is overwhelmingly concerned with the unveiling saga. We have already learned about Lord ‘cash machine’ Levy who acted as ‘No 1 Labour fund raiser’. We have learned recently about David Abrahams who donated his money to the party by proxy. Both Levy and Abrahams were overwhelmingly active at the time Britain was taken into an illegal war by the Labour government. David Abrahams already admitted in an interview to the Jewish Chronicle that he donated money by proxy to “to quell conspiracy fears”.

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2008-01-28T20:58:00.000Z

Chomsky On World Ownership

By Michael Shank | InformationClearingHouse

Chomsky on how the U.S. government’s belief in its ownership of the world shapes its foreign policy.

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2008-01-28T20:48:00.000Z

How They Control The World

By Henry Makow Ph.D. | TheTruthSeeker

To understand current events, we need a new paradigm.

The paradigm fostered by the mass media of a 'balanced' world consisting of competing interests, nations, ideologies and religions only gives us false confidence and traps us in a false matrix of "good guys vs. bad guys."

As my readers know, I suspect that most “competing” groups/ideologies actually have been created or subverted by a single force: a satanic cult, the Illuminati (Sabbatean-Frankist Jews and cabalistic Freemasons.) This clique is empowered by a cartel of cartels, beginning with world central banking, based in London. It uses MI-6, the CIA, the Mossad and other “Intelligence” agencies as instruments and controls the media and most politicians.

The Sabbatean-Frankists were a Jewish heresy that captured half the Jewish world in the 17th and 18th Century. They eschewed all morality preaching that good is evil and vice- versa. They believe that chaos and devastation will hasten the return of the Messiah. They went underground and prospered by intermarrying with non-Jews and assuming conventional Jewish or non-Jewish identities. The "Catholic" half-Jewish John Kerry or Madelaine Albright are examples.

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2008-01-23T23:57:00.000Z

George W Bush, White House told 935 lies after September 11

By staff writers | NEWS.com.au

The fish was this big ... George W Bush and his officials reportedly told 935 blatant lies about Iraq, WMDs and al-Qaeda after September 11 / AFP

US President George W Bush and other top officials issued almost one thousand false statements about the national security threat from Iraq following the September 11 attacks, according to a study by two not-for-profit organisations.

The Associated Press reports the study, published on the website of the Centre for Public Integrity, concluded the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanised public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretences”.

According to the study, 935 false statements were issued by the White House in the two years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

In speeches, briefings and interviews, President Bush and other officials stated “unequivocally” on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had links to al-Qaeda, or had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to get them.

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2008-01-23T23:47:00.000Z

Showdown with Iran: Government Accountability Office (GAO) deals Blow to Bush's anti-Iran Sanctions Policy

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach | Global Research

If the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report hammered a nail into the coffin of the Bush-Cheney Iran war policy, a new report may do similar damage to the same duo's anti-Iran sanctions policy. Just as the NIE stated that Iran has no nuclear weapons program, and implied, therefore, that this could not be used as a casus belli, so a report issued on December 18, by the Government Accountability Office, said that sanctions of the type Washington is pushing would be worthless. The GAO report sports a somewhat understated, yet unambiguous, title: "Iran Sanctions: Impact in Furthering U.S. Objectives Is Unclear and Should Be Reviewed"

(www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-08-58 for PDF file).

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2008-01-23T23:40:00.000Z

MUST IT TAKE GAS CHAMBERS TO DECLARE THE EVENTS IN GAZA A HOLOCAUST?

DesertPeace

Image ‘Copyleft’ by Carlos Latuff

How far does Israel have to go to prove to the world that they are conducting a holocaust against the people of Gaza? How many deaths, and by what method are required to fit that particular definition?
No, there are no gas chambers in Gaza. No, there are no crematorium in Gaza. But YES, there have been mass murders, targeted assassinations, starvation, deprivation of every essential needed to survive… including food,the lack of water, electricity, medical supplies, medical facilities, heating oil for homes, and diesel for transportation.
The worst possible is happening NOW… Don’t wait to speak out against this holocaust…. don’t wait till the numbers of dead reach the millions… ONE DEATH BY MURDER IS ONE DEATH TOO MANY….

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2008-01-23T23:17:00.000Z

The “Brutal World”
How did Western Civilization get a monopoly on “moral conscience” when it has no morality?

By Paul Craig Roberts | InformationClearingHouse

“The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.”

-- Five Western military leaders.

I read the statement three times trying to figure out the typo. Then it hit me, the West has now out-Owellled Orwell: The West must nuke other countries in order to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction! In Westernspeak, the West nuking other countries does not qualify as the use of weapons of mass destruction.

The astounding statement comes from a paper prepared for a Nato summit in April by five top military leaders--an American, a German, a Dutchman, a Frenchman, and a Brit. It can be found here: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/nato/story/0,,2244782,00.html]

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2008-01-23T23:12:00.000Z

One Step Closer to a Cheney Impeachment
More than a third of the House Judiciary Committee's Democratic members want to see Cheney ousted.

By Marjorie Cohn | AlterNet

Nine out of 23 Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee favor starting impeachment hearings against Vice President Dick Cheney. Six of the nine are co-sponsors of H.R. 799, which contains three articles of impeachment.

Articles I and II of H.R. 799 accuse Cheney of purposely manipulating intelligence to deceive Congress and the American people about a fabricated threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, respectively. Article III charges Cheney with openly threatening aggression against Iran absent any real threat to the United States. All three articles say Cheney's actions have damaged our national security interests.

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2008-01-22T23:47:00.000Z

Soros predicts worst recession for 50 years

The First Post

Amid collapsing stock prices worldwide, the billionaire investor George Soros has told an Austrian daily, the Standard, that the United States is threatened with recession and the world is facing the worst financial crisis in half a century. "The situation is much more serious than any other financial crisis since the end of World War II," Soros was quoted as saying.

He said over the past few years politics had been guided by some basic misunderstandings stemming from something that he called "market fundamentalism" - the belief that financial markets tended to act as a balance. "This is the wrong idea," he said. "We really do have a serious financial crisis now."

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2008-01-22T23:41:00.000Z

Proof of One World Government Conspiracy

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2008-01-22T23:24:00.000Z

There Is No “War on Terror”

By Edward S. Herman and David Peterson | Global Research

Znet -- One of the most telling signs of the political naiveté of liberals and the Left in the United States has been their steadfast faith in much of the worldview that blankets the imperial state they call home. Nowhere has this critical failure been more evident than in their acceptance of the premise that there really is something called a "war on terror" or “terrorism”[1]—however poorly managed its critics make it out to be—and that righting the course of this war ought to be this country's (and the world’s) top foreign policy priority. In this perspective, Afghanistan and Pakistan rather than Iraq ought to have been the war on terror's proper foci; most accept that the U.S. attack on Afghanistan from October 2001 on was a legitimate and necessary stage in the war. The tragic error of the Bush Administration, in this view, was that it lost sight of this priority, and diverted U.S. military action to Iraq and other theaters, reducing the commitment where it was needed.

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2008-01-21T20:39:00.000Z

7/7 Ripple Effect

J For Justice

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2008-01-21T20:17:00.000Z

UN transformation proposed to create 'new world order'

By Andrew Grice in Delhi | The Independent

Gordon Brown has begun secret talks with other world leaders on far-reaching reform of the United Nations Security Council as part of a drive to create a "new world order" and "global society".

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2008-01-20T18:43:00.000Z

Al Qaeda and the "War on Terrorism"

By Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research

The following text was first published in Italian in: Giuletto Chiesa (Editor), Zero, Perché la versione ufficiale sull' 11/9 è un Falso [Zero: Why the Official Version on 9/11 is a Falsehood], Piemme, Casale Monferrato, 2007.

A detailed analysis of the relevant issues covered in this article is also contained in the author's book America’s "War on Terrorism", Global Research, 2005

Introduction

One of the main objectives of war propaganda is to "fabricate an enemy". The "outside enemy" personified by Osama bin Laden is "threatening America".

Pre-emptive war directed against "Islamic terrorists" is required to defend the Homeland. Realities are turned upside down. America is under attack.

In the wake of 9/11, the creation of this "outside enemy" has served to obfuscate the real economic and strategic objectives behind the war in the Middle East and Central Asia. Waged on the grounds of self-defense, the pre-emptive war is upheld as a "just war" with a humanitarian mandate.

As anti-war sentiment grows and the political legitimacy the Bush Administration falters, doubts regarding the existence of this illusive "outside enemy" must be dispelled.

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2008-01-20T18:37:00.000Z

White House Study Found 473 Days of E-Mail Gone

By Dan Eggen and Elizabeth Williamson | Washington Post Staff Writers

The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according to the summary of an internal White House study that was disclosed yesterday by a congressional Democrat.

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2008-01-20T18:29:00.000Z

WARNING SIGNS
U.S. economy teeters on the brink
Bush, Bernanke endorse $100-billion package in effort to prevent recession as housing mess hammers banks, consumers and investors

By BARRIE MCKENNA | ReportOnBusiness.com

WASHINGTON -- In a bid to save the world's largest economy from recession, U.S. President George W. Bush and central bank chief Ben Bernanke yesterday endorsed a $100-billion stimulus package as the spreading housing mess continued to hammer banks, consumers and investors.

The rare plug for fiscal action comes as a growing number of economists say the United States is either in recession or perilously close to it. "The United States has now effectively entered into a serious and painful recession," said economist Nouriel Roubini of New York University.

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2008-01-20T18:17:00.000Z

George Galloway vs Neocon David Frum

InformationClearingHouse

As President Bush began his last big tour of the Middle East - and threatens US sanctions on Iran - George Galloway and David Frum debate the issues.

BBC Broadcast 10/01/08

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2008-01-16T22:54:00.000Z

Our "Leaders" – Whose Sick Joke?

By Henry Makow Ph.D. | HenryMakow.com

George W. Bush has returned to menacing Iran like a Tourette's patient prone to making embarrassing ill-timed outbursts.

He called Iran “the major sponsor of terrorism” when a mirror would reveal the true holder of that title, and the biggest mass murderer of the fledgling 21st century.

His Arab hosts rolled their eyes as he maligned their Iranian friends and trading partners. The US national debt has more than doubled on his watch; the US economy and dollar are tanking; and all he can do is plot another gratuitous war?

How did a man whom we wouldn't trust to run a convenience store end up as the “leader of the free world?” Whose sick joke is our political leadership?

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2008-01-16T22:43:00.000Z

Bush: "People view me as a warmonger":

By Katie Escherich | ABC

The president said he was surprised by the "deep concern that people won't welcome Middle-Eastern investments into the United States. & And I found that in most of my stops, not the Israeli-Palestinian stops, of course, but in the Gulf, I found that to be the case. And it's disturbing to me."

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2008-01-16T22:33:00.000Z

The New Al-Qaeda: Blonde Haired, Blue Eyed Westerners
Fox News hysteria labels Caucasians as new breed of terrorists

Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet

Echoing the much derided 2003 FBI warning that a good way to spot potential terrorists is to check if they are carrying an almanac, Fox News went beyond the pale this morning in suggesting that Al-Qaeda's most likely acolytes are blonde haired, blue eyed Caucasian westerners with no criminal record.

Fox and Friends' ever ready Neo-Con slug Brian Kilmeade, who in November called on Americans to support terrorist car bombings in Iran, as well as funding for terrorist groups to "create havoc in Iran", interviewed ex-CIA spook Mike Baker, whose company Diligence LLC has close ties to the Bush administration and just happens to butter its bread with the aid of a steady supply of global unrest and terror hype.

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2008-01-15T12:39:00.000Z

Unraveling the Myth of Al Qaida

By Peter Chamberlin | GlobalResearch

The myth of "al Qaida" is built on an expansive foundation of many half-truths and hidden facts. It is a CIA creation. It was shaped by the agency to serve as a substitute "enemy" for America, replacing the Soviets whom the Islamist forces had driven from Afghanistan. Unknown American officials, at an indeterminate point in time, made the decision to fabricate the tale of a mythical worldwide network of Islamic terrorists from the exploits of the Afghan Mujahedeen. The CIA already had their own network of Islamic militant "freedom fighters," all that was needed were a few scattered terrorist attacks against US targets and a credible heroic figurehead, to serve as the "great leader."

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2008-01-15T12:24:00.000Z

We Are Trained Killers

InformationClearingHouse.info

4 Minute Video

US in Iraq: Are We Humane?

WARNING

This video should only be viewed by a mature audience

Click here for the video...

In June, the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health acknowledged "daunting and growing" psychological problems among our troops: Nearly 40 percent of soldiers, a third of Marines and half of National Guard members are presenting with serious mental health issues.

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2008-01-15T12:17:00.000Z

The CIA Created Al Qaeda and there is 'Probable Cause' to Charge George W. Bush with High Treason!

The Existentialist Cowboy

Bush's War on Terrorism is a treasonous fraud, a war on US citizens waged by the people's own government. "Terrorism", moreover, continues to be fraudulently cited in support of a war of naked aggression in which well over one million civilians have died. It is a clear violation of US Codes which bind the US to international conventions.

Now --high treason is a serious charge, in most societies, a capital offense. On June 19th in 1953, the US executed Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. They had been accused of spying for the Russians. Though there is little doubt that Julius Rosenberg spied for the Russians, the charges against his wife were most certainly specious. In any case, neither Rosenberg had done anything remotely resembling the heinous crimes for which there is probable cause now to try the person of George W. Bush, traitor to the US Constitution and the people of the United States against whom he has waged war with the apparatus of state, specifically the CIA, et al.

Recently, The Guardian's Jason Burke reported from the Middle East a truth that Bush doesn't want you to know: al Qaeda is a creation of the US CIA.

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2008-01-13T19:02:00.000Z

Gulf Shenanigans: No Laughing Matter

By Ray McGovern | Information Clearing House

When the Tonkin Gulf incident took place in early August 1964, I was a journeyman CIA analyst in what Condoleezza Rice refers to as “the bowels of the agency.” As current intelligence referent for Russian policy toward Southeast Asia and China, I worked very closely with those responsible for analysis of Vietnam and China.

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2008-01-11T17:11:00.000Z

The "Good Good War" Is A Bad War

InformationClearingHouse

John Pilger describes how the invasion of Afghanistan, which was widely supported in the West as a 'good war' and justifiable response to 9/11, was actually planned months before 9/11 and is the latest instalment of 'a great game'.

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2008-01-11T16:23:00.000Z

Pentagon Backtracks On Naval Confrontation With Iran, Says Threat May Not Have Come From Iranians

By Faiz | ThinkProgress.org

Earlier this week, the Pentagon said that three of its Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz had been harassed and provoked by Iranian speedboats. The Navy said it had felt so threatened that it was about to open fire on the boats. A four-minute video of the episode provided to the public by the Pentagon contained one particularly harrowing moment:

“I am coming to you,” a heavily accented voice says in English. “You will explode after a few minutes.”

Some bloggers were immediately skeptical, noting the voice did not sound Iranian. Iran released its own video, arguing the footage did not show any Iranian boats approaching the U.S. vessels, nor any provocation. Today, the Navy acknowledged that the verbal threat made in the tape may not have been Iranian:

“We’re saying that we cannot make a direct connection to the boats there,” said the spokesperson.

I guess we’re not saying that it absolutely came from the boats, but we’re not saying it absolutely didn’t.”

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2008-01-11T16:13:00.000Z

Iran releases its own tape on Hormuz ship incident

Borzou Daragahi and Julian E. Barnes Los Angeles Times – January 11, 2008

Courtesy of TheTruthSeeker.com -- Iran released a videotape Thursday to support its side of an ongoing propaganda battle with Washington over a weekend naval confrontation in the narrow waterway leading into the Persian Gulf.

The videotape, broadcast on Iran's state-owned English-language Press TV channel, was meant to bolster Iran's contention that nothing more than routine contact took place between speedboats of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and three U.S. warships attached to the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet.

U.S. officials, including President Bush, have alleged that the Iranian boats harassed the ships in what they described as a dangerous provocation in the Strait of Hormuz. They released a four-minute, 20-second videotape this week purporting to show snippets of the incident with the Iranian boats sailing too close to the U.S. ships and making threats by radio during what was described as a 20-minute confrontation.

Iran has called the U.S. tape a fake. Its own version, also brief and heavily edited, shows the Revolutionary Guard naval forces making radio contact with the warships, and the Americans calmly replying in what Iranians describe as everyday interaction.

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2008-01-09T22:58:00.000Z

Iran says US navy video is 'clumsy fake'

AFP – January 9, 2008

Still from the video.

Courtesy of TheTruthSeeker - Iran on Wednesday accused the United States of "clumsily" fabricating footage claiming to show Iranian speedboats harassing US ships, as tensions rose amid President George W. Bush's visit to the region.

"The pictures that the Pentagon broadcast of the naval incident are file pictures and the voices have all been fabricated," the Fars news agency quoted a senior commander in the Revolutionary Guards as saying.

The Pentagon released a video and audio tape on Tuesday that it said confirmed US charges that Iranian speedboats swarmed around US warships in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday and radioed a threat to blow them up.

"The voices and pictures broadcast by the Pentagon about the latest incident have been fabricated so clumsily that the pictures and voices in the video are not even synchronized," added the source.

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2008-01-08T23:54:00.000Z

Welcome to the Grand Guignol.

Smoking Mirrors Blog

The only question to be asked is, “Are the American people as stupid as they have shown themselves to be in recent times?” What have we here? Five little motorboats appear- or so we’ve been told- to have threatened 3 United States Navy warships. I’m waiting to hear about another related but under-reported event which involved a handful of Iranian schoolboys throwing rocks at a Navy submarine. This event seems to have resulted in the submarine coming within minutes of launching a Tomahawk missile at the boys. The ship’s commander, who remains anonymous as does everyone reporting on everything concerning all of these incidents, said that the crew of the submarine felt gravely threatened by the boys and that several of them had to receive onboard counseling.

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2008-01-08T23:21:00.000Z

If you believe Iran "harassed" US ships, you have forgotten USS Vincennes

Presscue

The US navy claimed yesterday that Iranian fast boats harassed them in the Straits of Hormuz. On July 3, 1988, USS Vinceness shot down Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) killing 290 innocent civilian from six nations including 66 children.

The US navy initially claimed that they mistakenly identified the passenger liner as an Iranian fighter, and denied that they were not inside Iranian territorial waters.

But the official ICAO investigation found that the US Navy guided missile cruiser's attempts to contact Iran Air 655 were sent on the wrong frequency and addressed to a non-existent "Iranian F-14".

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2008-01-07T21:15:00.000Z

Why I Believe Bush Must Go
Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse

By George McGovern | Washington Post

As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president.

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2008-01-06T20:57:00.000Z

Sean Penn: "George Tenet, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and George Bush oughta be in fckin' jail" and the indictment that might put them there!

The Existentialist Cowboy Blog

Democrats must stop trying to run this campaign like Business as usual. Sean Penn and a handful of others have dared to speak out but big corporate media has reduced you and me to numbers.

Our Outrageous Government

The media figure that they can censor the news --as BBC censored Benazir Bhutto --and get away with it. FOX has bet that no matter how angry you get, enough of you will still tune in to their swill to keep Rupert Murdoch in cavier and champagne.

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2008-01-06T20:45:00.000Z

How Britain became party to a crime that may have killed a million people
Not having a written constitution allowed Blair and his advisers to go to war without reference to parliament or the public

George Monbiot | Guardian Unlimited

If you doubt Britain needs a written constitution, listen to the strangely unbalanced discussion broadcast by the BBC last Friday. The Today programme asked Lord Guthrie, formerly chief of the defence staff, and Sir Kevin Tebbit, until recently the senior civil servant at the Ministry of Defence, if parliament should decide whether or not the country goes to war. The discussion was a terrifying exposure of the privileges of unaccountable power. It explained as well as anything I have heard how Britain became party to a crime that may have killed a million people.

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2007-12-28T22:28:00.000Z

BHUTTO SACRIFICED AT THE MOMENT WHEN DEAL WAS CUT BETWEEN U.S.MILITARY&MUSHARRAF

By FarSight3 | RumorMillNews.com

Yesterday the "plan-B" was put aside. Pakistan's opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated with two shots in her neck and head. That powerful bomb blast that killed about twenty Pakistani nationals was ignited shortly afterwards some twenty meters from the vehicle that Bhutto was in when she was shot at close range at Rawalpindi near Islamabad...

According to some interview with Bhutto from November one can conclude that certain circles inside the U.S.admin had their plans with Bhutto: Either she was used as a "Plan-B" (if Musharraf wouldn't act as desired) or else.

Finally we have arrived at this "else" now - as you can read from this WP piece where you can read that finally a deal was cut to make it officially possible that U.S. troops may "return" into Pakistan:

...Beginning early next year, U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan, as part of an effort to train and support indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units, according to defense officials involved with the planning...

Now, as this new agreement has been finalized, the first U.S. personnel could be on the ground in Pakistan by early 2008, according to Pentagon sources.

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2007-12-28T16:14:00.000Z

Frost over the World - Benazir Bhutto (RIP) - 02 Nov 07

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Sir David speaks to former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto about her controversial return to Pakistan, who she thinks is behind the deadly bombing of her convoy in Karachi last month, and whether she and Musharraf can forge a powersharing agreement.

Interestingly, at 6min 12sec into the interview Bhutto states that Omar Sheik murdered Osama Bin Laden!

Besides the fact Sir David never bothers to ask re, the above statement, this "Omar Sheik", if as Bhutto says, "he murdered Osama bin Laden", the question begs, for who's sake did he murder bin Laden?

And, considering her statements in the video and the fact she was aspiring to be the Pakistan leader again, another puzzling question just begs to be asked...how could she, Musharraf or this "Omar Sheik" not understand that, at the very least, every Pakistani being "played as pawns" in a "game", which is more than likely, controlled from outside of Pakistan...? If however, they're aware of these "games" being played out in Pakistan, then they're part of Pakistan's problems!! In which case, it made Bhutto's assassination an inevitability...

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2007-12-28T16:05:00.000Z

The torture tape fingering Bush as a war criminal

Andrew Sullivan | TimesOnline

Almost all of the time, the Washington I know and live in is utterly unrelated to the Washington you see in the movies. The government is far more incompetent and amateur than the masterminds of Hollywood darkness.

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2007-12-22T21:42:00.000Z

Bill Moyers Journal: America on Steroids

Nicole Belle | CrooksandLiars.com

Bill Moyers finds parallels with the degradation of rampant steroid use in baseball to how degraded our country has become by those seeking quick ways to short cut and short circuit level playing fields.

You don’t get a level playing field with performance enhancing drugs, any more than you get an honest government with political action committees and bundled contributions, or a fair economy with some derivatives, hedge funds, and private equity managers taxed at rates lower than their janitors.

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2007-12-22T21:33:00.000Z

BUSTED! SO-CALLED WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUP EXPOSED AS ISRAELI PROPAGANDA OPERATION!

WhatReallyHappened.com

Every time the Israeli lobbyists in the United States demand more money or more special legal protections, they wave about these so-called "Neo-nazi" or "White Supremacist" groups like Stormfront and the American Nazi Party. AIPAC, ADL, JDL, and their ilk raise tons of money by waving these boogie-men around as a real imminent threat and danger!

Yet no matter what laws get passed and no matter how many millions ADL, JDL, etc. raise, Stormfront and the American Nazi Party remain strangely unmolested by either criminal or civil actions.

How very strange!!!

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2007-12-17T22:03:00.000Z

Agenda-driven Intelligence

Xymphora

In these days when the Israelis are offering to ‘help’ the Americans by providing lies about Iran which are in direct contradiction to the unanimous conclusion of 16 (!) American intelligence agencies, it is worthwhile to remember that Israel has a long and undistinguished history of providing lies to the United States (Abingdon is a former American diplomat):

General Shlomo Brom, a former senior Israeli military intelligence officer, reported to the Israeli government that Israel was a ‘full partner’ in American and British intelligence failures that described Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The Israelis actually had a secret unit attached directly to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s office which fed disinfo directly to Feith’s Office of Special Plans.

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2007-12-17T21:56:00.000Z

Staring into the Abyss
The Collapse Of The Modern Day Banking System

By Mike Whitney | InformationClearingHouse

“In past financial crises... the Fed has been able to wave its magic wand and make market turmoil disappear. But this time the magic isn’t working. Why not? Because the problem with the markets isn’t just a lack of liquidity — there’s also a fundamental problem of solvency.” Paul Krugman

Stocks fell sharply last week on news of accelerating inflation which will limit the Federal Reserves ability to continue cutting interest rates. On Tuesday the Dow Jones Industrials tumbled 294 points following the Fed's announcement of a quarter point cut to the Fed Funds rate. On Friday, the Dow dipped another 178 points when government figures showed consumer prices had risen 0.8% last month after a 0.3% gain in October. The stock market is now lurching downward into a “primary bear market”. There has been a steady deterioration in retail sales, commercial real estate, and the transports. The financial industry is going through a major retrenchment losing more than 25% in aggregate capitalization since July. The real estate market is collapsing. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced on Friday that he will declare a "fiscal emergency" in January and ask for more power to deal with the $14 billion budget shortfall from the meltdown in subprime lending. Economists are beginning to publicly acknowledge what many market analysts have suspected for months; the nation's economy is going into a tailspin which will inevitably end in a hard landing.

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2007-12-15T22:19:00.000Z

CIA Torture Jet wrecks with 4 Tons of COCAINE

By redstatehatemonitor | Daily Kos

This Florida based Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA crash landed on September 24, 2007 after it ran out of fuel over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula it had a cargo of several tons of Cocaine on board now documents have turned up on both sides of the Atlantic that link this Cocaine Smuggling Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA that crashed in Mexico to the CIA who used it on at least 3 rendition flights from Europe and the USA to Guantanamo's infamous torture chambers between 2003 to 2005.

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2007-12-13T22:20:00.000Z

Resistance and Hope

By Charles Sullivan | InformationClearingHouse

If we Americans are nothing more than hopelessly addicted consumers who think of ourselves as an exceptional people with special entitlements; if we see ourselves as god’s morally superior chosen people; if we are selfish and greedy beyond redemption—then we are complicit in all of the horrible crimes that government commits in our name.

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2007-12-11T23:20:00.000Z

New Countdown Segment: Bushed!

By Logan Murphy | CrooksandLiars.com

Keith Olbermann has a new segment on Countdown called Bushed! that keeps track of past Bush scandals you may have forgotten about — because of all the new Bush scandals.

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2007-12-11T23:08:00.000Z

Terror detentions 'like apartheid-era'

By Correspondent in Cape Town | News.com.au

ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu has accused the United States and Britain of pursuing policies like those of South Africa's apartheid-era government by detaining terrorism suspects without trial.

At an event to commemorate the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDR) today, the Nobel laureate said the detention of suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban members at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was a "huge blot on a democracy".

"Whoever imagined that you would hear from the United States and from Britain the same arguments for detention without trial that were used by the apartheid government," Archbishop Tutu said.

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2007-12-11T23:00:00.000Z

Countdown: CIA Agent Involved In Torture Tapes Now Says Waterboarding Is Torture

By Logan Murphy | CrooksandLiars.com

The #5 story on Monday’s Countdown delivered a bombshell - John Kiriakou, a former CIA agent who actually led the team of agents who appeared on the destroyed torture tapes has come forward in an interview with ABC to confirm the tapes DID show waterboarding and that while he believes the technique was effective, he now believes it is torture and is wrong. It’s becoming more and more difficult for President Bush to convince the world that he hasn’t committed war crimes.

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2007-12-11T00:07:00.000Z

White House, Press Spinning Iran’s Centrifuges

By Ray McGovern | InformationClearingHouse

Those who know about the centrifuges used to refine uranium tell me they must spin at an almost unrivaled velocity—almost unrivaled, because Bush administration statements are being spun at equivalent speed by White House and corporate media spiders. Without Spinmeister Karl Rove and former spokesman Tony Snow, it is amateur hour at the White House. And the theater would be as funny as The Daily Show, were the subject not so serious.

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