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Archive for July, 2009

US ‘Not Happy’ as Iraq Announces Plans to Close MEK Camp

Posted by seumasach on July 31, 2009

Having gone to all that trouble in invading Iraq the US can’t even use it to subvert neighbouring Iran using one of their favourite terrorist organisations.

antiwar.com

29th July, 2009

US officials are reportedly “not happy” with the situation unfolding in the MEK’s Camp Ashraf, following yesterday’s deadly raids by Iraqi forces. Today, the Iraqi government says that it plans to close the camp down entirely.
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L’administration Obama fait interdire le témoignage du FBI sur le 11-Septembre

Posted by seumasach on July 31, 2009

Voltairenet

19 July, 2009

Click here to see Bin Laden not being listed by FBI as a suspect for 9/11

Poursuivies en Justice par des familles de victimes des attentats du 11 Septembre 2001, les compagnies d’aviation ont fait valoir que, même si elles avaient multiplié les mesures de sécurité, les attentats auraient réussi.

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UK soldier to Gordon Brown: why I won’t return to Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on July 31, 2009

This is primarily a war for NATO  which they are trying to keep alive as a means to global domination. It should have been disbanded years ago- Disband NATO Now! Bring the troops home!

stopwar.org.uk

Gordon Brown
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street

30 July 2009

Dear Prime Minister,

I am writing to you as a serving soldier in the British army to express my views and concerns on the current conflict in Afghanistan.

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Ron Paul What Are They So Afraid Of? House Floor 07-30-09

Posted by smeddum on July 31, 2009

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Ahmadinejad DID NOT threaten to “wipe Israel off the map.”

Posted by smeddum on July 31, 2009

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A Spiritual Conspiracy

Posted by smeddum on July 30, 2009

From the Examiner

A spiritual conspiracy
The word conspiracy (con + spire) actually means to breathe together. The poetic essay below is an inspiring reminder that we are being deliciously enveloped by a growing spiritual conspiracy.
Increasing numbers around the globe are breathing together. As old structures crumble around us, we are conspiring to breath new life and a new way of living into our world.
We know that no matter how crazy things may look on the surface, the universe is conspiring to shower us with blessings. Enjoy the rich flow of conscious conspiracy as you breathe in the soul-touching words below. Read the rest of this entry »

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Another anti-coup national strike in Honduras

Posted by smeddum on July 30, 2009

Another anti-coup national strike in Honduras
Granma

TEGUCIGALPA, July 30.—Another national strike in the state sector, marches, and the taking of highways and public institutions characterize Honduras today on the 33rd day of popular resistance to military coup. Read the rest of this entry »

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Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire And Ten Steps to Take to Do So

Posted by smeddum on July 30, 2009

Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire

And Ten Steps to Take to Do SoBy Chalmers Johnson

July 30, 2009 “TomDispatch” — However ambitious President Barack Obama’s domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with other countries and the vast, potentially ruinous global empire of bases that goes with it. The failure to begin to deal with our bloated military establishment and the profligate use of it in missions for which it is hopelessly inappropriate will, sooner rather than later, condemn the United States to a devastating trio of consequences: imperial overstretch, perpetual war, and insolvency, leading to a likely collapse similar to that of the former Soviet Union. Read the rest of this entry »

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Statistical Deceptions How Fake is the “Recovery”?

Posted by seumasach on July 30, 2009

Paul Craig Roberts

Counterpunch

30th July, 2009

Last week on NPR a professor in the Sloan School of Management at MIT explained that what is really at stake in the health care bill is the US government’s ability to borrow. In other words, the bill is about cutting health care costs, not about providing hard-pressed Americans with health care.

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USGovt Yuan Bond Threat

Posted by smeddum on July 30, 2009

USGovt Yuan Bond Threat

by Jim Willie, CB. Editor, Hat Trick Letter |

July 29, 2009

Financial Sense

The tables are fast turning against the deeply indebted USGovt officials. USA Inc is in deep trouble. Its productive engines in both finance and industry are either wrecked or sputtering, even as its debt burden grows exponentially. Debt default litters the landscape. Next its sovereign bonds will be have to be sold to some extent outside the US$ Sphere, which will put at great risk its stock, namely the USDollar itself. Let’s call them USGovt Dragon Bonds. The custodians desperately seek creditors to supply much needed capital in order to fund the gigantic and growing USGovt debts, which by the way are grossly understated. The last resort is to monetize the USTreasury Bond issuance, a process well along. With the aid of the USDollar Swap Facility, the USFed has been able to secretly bid on USTBonds from foreign soil, have it appear like foreign bids, and conceal the continued and broadening monetization initiative. The United States is boldly defying the creditor nations, printing money, and buying its own debt. When more fully revealed, the USDollar will suffer the consequences. A sense of betrayal will surely come, much like discovery that the CIA has been flooding the globe with counterfeit $100 bills, or Wall Street has been flooding the globe with counterfeit Fannie Mae Bonds. Closer to home, it is akin to selling lemonade has been secretly watered down, or putting lawn mower clippings into the reefer batch before sale. Read the rest of this entry »

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Russia and Iran join hands

Posted by seumasach on July 29, 2009

This is the logical outcome of Obama’s brilliant foreign policy of threatening both Russia and Iran

Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Asia Times

30th July, 2009

The United States may think of Russia as a strategic partner when it comes to Iran. In reality, the geostrategic tensions between Washington and Moscow are still powerful enough to warrant a common approach by Russia and its eastern neighbor Iran with respect to a deterrent strategy towards the intrusive Western superpower.

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