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category national | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis author Thursday December 01, 2011 16:39author by MPG Report this post to the editors

Its hard to keep up with all the devious moves going on in the great game. Here's a roundup, some links and some analysis for anyone interested.
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9 Final Ways The Bankster Occupied U.S. Government Is Waging War Against America
 ---  http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2011/11/9-fina....html
Special Note - A quote...."There is a dictatorship of the mind and spirit in America. The official ideology of the U.S. totalitarian state is counter-terrorism and national security. All domestic and foreign crimes are justified under the umbrella of security and defense. The false flag September 11 attacks served as the catalyst that brought this totalitarian ideology into being on a world stage."
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Empires Not Built For ‘Small People’, Built By ‘Small People’
 ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/24/empires-are-not...ople/
Special Note - A quote...."All the meaningless words that the politicians toss at people to elicit their emotional support of war; ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’, ‘justice’, and ‘honour’ come at a very high price on the road to, and sustainment of, an empire."
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The boys who cry “Holocaust”  ---  http://www.salon.com/2011/11/22/the_boys_who_cry_holoca...eton/
Special Note - A quote...."We’ve been through this before. As one of the most disastrous wars in our history is coming to an inglorious end, the same neoconservative hawks who dreamed it up are agitating for a new war that would make Iraq look like the invasion of Grenada — and using the ultimate trump card in American politics to silence debate over it.  --  When hawks begin beating the drums for war in the Middle East, Israel is usually a big reason why. That was true in the run-up to the war in Iraq, and it is doubly true with the current  hysteria over Iran. Despite disingenuous claims to the contrary, the only reason the U.S. is even talking about war with Iran is Israel. As the invaluable M.J. Rosenberg, who knows the working of the Israel lobby as only a former card-carrying member can, notes, “It is impossible to find a single politician or journalist advocating war with Iran who is not a neocon or an AIPAC cutout. (They’re often both.)”"
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More on the Domestic Situation...

Senate To Vote On Legislation That Allows U.S. Military to Detain Americans Without Charge or Trial
 ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/11/25/alert-senate-to-vote-...rial/
Police State & Action Alert - A quote...."While Americans enjoy the Thanksgiving weekend and join the annual running of the bulls celebration at malls and retail outlets, something sinister is taking place in Congress – and it should scare the hell out of you. -- If the President and Senate have their way, your front lawn will soon become a battlefield, and you’ll be subjected to military, not criminal, law."
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Senator Lieberman Urges Google to Increase Censorship of Anti-West Blogs
 ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/11/senator-lieberman-u....html
Police State & Traitor Alert - A quote...."U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman sent a letter (PDF) to Google this week urging them to censor anti-West, violent jihadist content on their Blogger platform. -- The letter, formally from the Committee on Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs which Lieberman chairs, cited the blog of recent "lone wolf" terrorist patsy Jose Pimentel."    
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Lieberman works DIRECTLY for Israel, is a long standing Jewish member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium and is a traitor to this nation, it's people and the constitution of the United States. He has promoted every single piece of repressive legislation ever proposed in Congress during the last decade, (most of which were instigated by obvious false-flag events, such as the Anthrax attacks,  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/anthrax... ; ---  which led to the Passage of the "Patriot Act", the Detroit Lap Bomber,  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falsefl... ; ---  which led to the TSA's, and the dual-Israeli-citizen / Ripiscan- share-holder, Michael Chartoff's "cancer gates").  He has also backed every single war that ever promoted Israel's PNAC Protocols.
 ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-pla... ;

The "Pimentel the Patsy" hoax has ALREADY been thoroughly discredited.  The FBI wouldn't even touch the case and said so MONTHS before Pimentel was even arrested, the NYPD "informant" supplied everything Pimentel needed to carry out the hoax including encouragement, funding, materials and ideology. Bloomberg, another stalwart Jewish member of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium, was instrumental in pushing the publicity of the entire affair across the mass-media.  He may even have been involved in the affair much earlier than is publicly known.  To say that this is another set-up would be to state the obvious. - mpg    
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Another New York Bomb Plot: Real or Fake?  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/25/another-new-yor...fake/
Related Article - A quote...."On November 20, New York Times writers Joseph Goldstein and William Rashbaum headlined, “Man Arrested and Charged in Bomb Plot,” saying.... NYPD authorities arrested Pimentel on Saturday. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., and New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly “announced the charges against (him) at a Sunday evening news conference at City Hall.”
Source:  SteveLendman  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/11/another-new-york-....html
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Do We Still Have A Constitution?  ---  http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?vid...ution
FOXVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C27FFe2O5AA ; ---  (FOXYuTb - 4min53sec - Nov 25, 2011) - Source:  JudgeNapolitanoFTW  --- http://www.youtube.com/user/JudgeNapolitanoFTW ; ---  A quote...."Originally aired 11/24/11 on "Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano" on Fox Business Network." -- Outstanding, because Judge Napolitano presents a very thorough and comprehensive list of what has  ALREADY happened to the laws and governing institutions of this nation. - mpg
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The Return of Debtors Prisons
 ---  http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/return-debt...l?l=1
Contains Video -- A quote...."Judges typically grant arrest warrants when the debtors have failed to show up for court dates or failed to make court-ordered payments. -- Of course, the reason debtors have failed to make court-ordered payments is often the same reason they didn't pay their debts in the first place: They don't have any money."
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Feds Admit Water Pump Failure Was Not Cyber Attack  ---  http://www.infowars.com/feds-admit-water-pump-failure-w...tack/
Fed Propaganda Exposed - A quote...."Despite a Department of Homeland Security advisor hastily telling the Washington Post that foreign hackers were responsible for the failure of a pump at an Illinois water plant earlier this month in a bid to drum up support for more government control over the Internet, federal authorities have been forced to admit that there is no evidence to support the claim." - also posted at DProgram  --- http://dprogram.net/2011/11/24/feds-admit-water-pump-fa... ; ---  bold by website editor
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It is Time for State Governments to Recall US Senators and Members of Congress Back to be Accountable
 ---  http://lonestarwatchdog.blogspot.com/2011/11/it-is-time....html
A quote...."When we have loose cannons like Sen John McCain and Carl Levin drafting laws for the US Military to snatch up US citizens in the name of the war on terror with no due process or the right of habeas corpus. There is no public danger, it is about them holding onto power.These people need to be recalled back to their states and a special election convened to vote in a new person who will be mindful of their oath."
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Now is the Time to Realize More Than Ever, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is is Not Just for Our Liberty, But Our Very Survival
 ---  http://lonestarwatchdog.blogspot.com/2011/11/now-is-tim....html
A quote...."The American people are not looking for a fight with the government at all. But for years we have seen the erosion of our liberties ever since September 11, 2001. The government now has taken their focus off the Muslims in the middle east now turning the barrel on the American people. With a the Passage of the Patriot Act in the fall of 2001 shreds our bill of rights. The Federal government is now more of a threat to the safety and security of its own citizens more than the phony radical Islamic terrorist threats."
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Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair (1988)  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23621.htm
Video - From the History File - Dec 12, 2008 - IranContra(1/8)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35KcYgMPiIM ; ---  IranContra(2/8)  --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITcdoRWPt8 ; ---  IranContra(3/8)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNxbfaoFfys ; ---  IranContra(4/8)  --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLffJKLMYE0 ; ---  IranContra(5/8)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrBPCgt0h8s ; ---  IranContra(6/8)  --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRAaupKY70 ; ---  IranContra(7/8)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPmFKMhJpI ; ---  IranContra(8/8)  --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haRI3z1dd2E ; ---  (YuTb - 10/15min - 12/07/08) - Source:  ThisWeekInFascism  --- http://www.youtube.com/user/ThisWeekInFascism ; ---  A quote...."Coverup exposes a tale of politics, drugs, hostages, weapons, assassinations, covert operations and the ultimate plan to suspend the US Constitution. -- Accusations are levied that a "shadow government" regularly carries out covert
activities at home and abroad, and the CIA is implicated in dealing in huge shipments of cocaine and with the profits supplying weapons to the right-wing activities of the Nicaraguan Contras. Also examined are the actions of Oliver North, who willfully ignored the Constitution in masterminding covert weapons deals with Middle-Eastern governments to additionally fund the Nicaraguan Contras. This documentary raised more questions than answers in a post-Watergate political climate where the public had become desensitized to scandal."
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US Bid [Obama's Bid] to Destroy Cluster Bomb Ban Fails  ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/25/us-bid-to-destroy-cl...ails/
All you ObamaTrolls out there must be really sad, less civilians getting their limbs blown off, less children picking up that round, shiny, toy-like object and being blinded, killed or having their face ripped off. The whole thing must be really up-setting for you all. - mpg  - A quote...."President Obama’s effort to effective emasculate the international ban on cluster bombs failed today, when at least 50 nations including Britain filed objections. Human rights campaigners had been condemning the US effort, saying that it would be a major back-track from the formal ban."
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Interview 416 – F. William Engdahl  ---  http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-416-f-william-en...dahl/
Must Listen CRAudio - (CRMp3 - 1hr2min10sec - Nov 25, 2011) - Source:  CorbettReport  ---  http://www.corbettreport.com ; ---  Download:  Mp3 Audio  --- http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2011-11-25%20William%2... ; ---  A quote...."Today The Corbett Report is joined from Germany by F. William Engdahl, a political analyst, writer and researcher who has authored such books as A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order and Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century. We discuss the Anglo-American involvement in triggering the ongoing Eurozone collapse, the rise of China and Russia as growing threats to American hegemony, and the growing importance of Eurasia as the key geostrategic region of the 21st century."
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Know Thy Enemy – Charlie McGrath  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/11/24/know-thy-enemy-charlie-m...rath/
Must View Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uADoeaVWUsE ; ---  (YuTb - 4min36sec - Nov 23, 2011) -- Source:  crabbydogtrix
 ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/crabbydogtrix
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The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens....

Occupy LA Teach In William K Black  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_AuvLTJNh0
Must View OLAVideo - (OLAYuTb - 15min56sec - OccupyLAMedia) - Source:  OccupyLAMedia  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/OccupyLAMedia ; ---  A quote...."Full speech, high quality."    

Under William K Black, during the "Savings & Loan Crisis", there were 10,000 criminal referrals and over 1,100 convictions of bank officials.  In this present crisis, which Black says is seventy times greater than what occured during the S&L crisis, there has been effectively no convictions. (Bernie Madoff doesn't count, we ALL know why he went to jail.) - mpg
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Keiser Report: Corruptify! (E214)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/13/l4T0gf9KnOE
Must View RTVideo - Alt   ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4T0gf9KnOE ; ---  (RTYuTb - 25min45sec - Nov 24, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  --- http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday ; ---  Producer:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV ; ---  (RussiaToday) -- A quote...."This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss taxpayers in the West being pepper-sprayed with toxic debts while in China fraudsters receive five fingers of death. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Gregor Macdonald about Warren Buffett's investment in Japan and the cost benefit analysis of the energy policy of invading resource rich nations in order to liberate their oil." -- Contains Quote of the Day....."Capitalism without Bankruptcy, is like Christianity without Hell.....you've gotta accept the total package if you're gonna be a free marketeer, you've gotta accept that people are going to go bankrupt!" -- *Max Keiser*    

And Hell is where we used to send Banksters behaving badly, with Bubba as a cellmate.  So far however, during this crisis, not one single Bankster has been sent to Hell.  --  Therefore it appears it's finally time we as a people should seriously contemplate using the "Chinese" method of deterring bank crime and TRULY send all these Banksters to Hell. - mpg
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Gerald Celente with Tony Cruise – November 21st, 2011  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/11/24/gerald-celente-with-tony...2011/
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHrCyhDiMwE ; ---  (YuTb - 9min54sec - Nov 23, 2011) - Source:  GeraldCelenteChannel
 ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/GeraldCelenteChannel
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“I Will Never Do Business In The United States Of America Again”
 ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/i-will-never-do-....html
A quote...."A poll last month from Rassmussen found...."  ---  http://www.kxlf.com/news/rasmussen-reports-survey-says-... ;

"Two-out-of-three Americans (66%) believe the federal government has not been aggressive enough in pursuing possible criminal behavior by some Wall Street bankers
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"Top economists and financial experts agree that our economy will never recover unless Wall Street fraud is prosecuted. See this  ---  and this.  ---    Libertarian, free market economists agree.  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/real-free-market... ; ---  Trust is necessary for a stable economy, and fraud prosecutions are necessary to restore trust.   --- http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/top-economists-t... ; ---  But – because D.C. politicians are prostitutes (pimps, technically)  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/chairman-of-the-... ; ---  the government has made it official policy not to prosecute fraud, and instead to do everything necessary to cover up for Wall Street  ---  http://www.w
ashingtonsblog.com/2011/08/real-reason-sec-has-been-shredding.html  ---  Indeed, Obama is prosecuting fewer financial crimes  --- http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/obama-prosecutin... ; ---  than under Reagan or either Bush." - also posted at PrisonPlanet  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/%E2%80%9Ci-will-never-do-bu....html
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Why Did The Fed Inject Banks With A Record Amount Of "Other" Cash In The Past Week?
 ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/why-did-fed-inject-banks-...-week
A quote...."In today's one-day delayed issue of the Fed's H.4.1, literally the very last number on the very last subpage in the weekly update reveals something quite disturbing. Namely the Fed's "other" non-reserve based factors absorbing liquidity. And specifically, the actual number, which rose by an unprecedented $88 billion in one week to an all time high of $115 billion for the week ended November 23!"
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Moody's threatens US downgrade  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Moody%27s_threatens_US_d....html
A quote...."Could another downgrade of America’s credit rating be on the way? Moody’s Investor Service on Wednesday warned that that might exactly be the case. -- The rating agency issued a statement today saying that while the congressional supercommittee’s failure to come to a compromise on the US deficit dilemma won’t necessarily trigger a downgrade, a change to the automatic cuts that are now set to go into play in 2013 will."
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Europe liquidity crisis has a number: $30 trillion according to [Olivier] Sarkozy
 ---  http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/eu...rkozy
A quote...."On November 23rd. Olivier Sarkozy, brother of French President Nicholas Sarkozy, and head of the Carlyle Financial Group, spoke on CNBC and laid out the cost of the liquidity crisis that is overtaking Europe.  The total numbers are staggering, with $30 Trillion being the overall debt holding the Euro Zone hostage." - bold/underline by website editor - My, oh my, the same 'well connected' people and the same really 'well connected' institutions keep popping up over and over again. - mpg
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'UK govt. in blind panic over strike'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/211942.html
A quote...."The chief of UK's leading civil service union has accused the government of being in 'blind panic' after Home Office asked some government employees to work as border officers during pension strikes planned for next week." - also posted at AlethoNews
 ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/uk-governmen...rike/
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Hungary's debt slashed to junk - Moody's  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8914....html
A quote...."Moody's has cut Hungary's government bond rating to "junk", citing high debt levels, weak growth prospects and uncertainty about its ability to meet fiscal goals, in what the government called part of "financial attacks" against the country."
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S&P's lowers sovereign credit rating on Belgium  ---  http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/
E/EU_BELGIUM_DOWNGRADE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-11-25-14-16-41
A quote...."BRUSSELS (AP) -- Standard & Poor's lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating for Belgium on Friday, citing the country's lack of a permanent government and a looming European recession that threatens the country's exports."
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Italy's borrowing rates skyrocket, Monti scrambles  ---  http://m.yahoo.com/
w/news_america/italys-borrowing-rates-skyrocket-monti-scrambles-160735801.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=us&.lang=en-us
A quote...."ROME (AP) — A week into his new job, Premier Mario Monti is running out of time to reassure nervous investors that his government has a strategy to deal with Italy's crippling debts. -- The nation's borrowing rates skyrocketed Friday after a grim set of bond auctions, with a new auction looming Tuesday. Another borrowing debacle could ratchet up fears that Italy has entered a debt spiral driving it toward bankruptcy and the 17-nation eurozone into its most acute crisis yet."
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Spanish Treasury Cancels New 3Y Auction  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/spanish-treasury-cancels-...ction
A quote...."Given the recent market reaction to short- and mid-dated bond auctions in the European sovereign space, it seems the Spanish have blinked and decided to cancel the planned 3Y auction for next week."
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Market Already Pricing In Greek 25% NPV 'Haircut'  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/greece-shuns-iif-and-seek...ircut
A quote...."As we just reported, Reuters has broken news that Greece is starting to grow a pair and negotiate directly with debtholders on a much larger haircut on its debt than Dallara's IIF is hoping for."
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Currency Wars - Russia Officially Adds 19.5 Tonnes of Gold Reserves in October Alone  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/145509
If they bought their gold from the US-NRE, Britain, Israel or France, or any banks or brokerage firms associated with these countries, one would hope they assayed every bar and gold coin. - mpg -- A quote...."Russia bought 19.5 metric tons of gold in October bringing their total gold reserves to 871.1 tons according to IMF data released today."
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Venezuela Gets First Shipment Of Physical Gold Today  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/venezuela-gets-first-ship...today
A quote...."Back in August, the news that Venezuela ruler Hugo Chavez had decided to repatriate his gold from London vaults made headlines and was one of the key catalysts sending gold to its all time highs north of $1900/oz. Since then the story died down with no updates. Until today: Bloomberg has reported that Venezuela will receive the first shipment of gold reserves being repatriated from U.S., Canadian and European banks today." - also posted at PoorRichardsBlog -- Chavez MUST assay each and every single bar BEFORE taking delivery!! - mpg
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Germany Sells 150,000 Troy Ounces Of Gold In October
But Not Why You Think  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/
Germany_Sells_150%2C000_Troy_Ounces_Of_Gold_In_October%E2%80%A6_But_Not_Why_You_Think/16716/0/38/38/Y/M.html
A quote...."Earlier this morning the anti-gold brigade was foaming in the mouth on the news that the German central bank had for the first time in a year sold gold. As it turns out they were half right: the bank indeed sold gold: a ‘whopping’ 150,000 toz or about $250 million worth
But not in the open market, and not even to natural buyers of physical like Sprott and everyone else not infatuated with voodoo theories of infinite repoability of debt. They sold it to the German ministry of Finance
to mint commemorative coins. Coins which we are now confident will be promptly mopped up by the general public. Following the sale Germany will be left with a modest 109,194,000 troy ounces, enough to allow the country to gladly tell Europe to do some anatomically impossible things and to fall back to a hard asset baked currency if and when it should so desire." - Source:  ZeroHedge
 ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/germany-sells-150000-troy...think
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"Occupy Wall Street" & Other "Occupy" News....

451 at Zuccotti Park  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/25/451-at-zuccotti-...park/
A quote...."The cowardly, nocturnal destruction of more than 5,000 volumes of “the People’s Library” last week, a repository of knowledge gathered by the Occupy Wall Street assembly at Zuccotti Park requires the most vigorous push-back.   Mayor Bloomberg of New York ordered the destruction which was certainly coordinated with Wall Street and the White House."
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OWS plans to stage Christmas protests - action alert
 ---  http://hamsayeh.net/society/1378-us-police-attack-oakla... ;
US police attack Oakland protesters - contains video
 ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212094.html  &nb... ;
Police dismantle 'Occupy Montreal' camp
 ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212173.html  &nb... ;
UC Davis’ Chancellor Katehi Claims Police Defied Orders by Using Pepper Spray
 ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/11/23/uc-davis%E2%80%99-cha... ;
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More On The International Situation....

Nuke carrier leads US strike force into Syria waters  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz8jil1qIuQ
Must View RTVideo - (RTYuTb - 5min21sec - Nov 25, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday ; ---  A quote...."It's thought the U.S. has redeployed its newest aircraft carrier from the Persian Gulf to the Syrian coast. Washington is also urging American citizens to leave Syria immediately. Patrick Henningsen, a political analyst from America's 'Infowar.com' online magazine, says we are seeing initial steps of a repeat of what we saw in Libya."
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French Bloodthirst: Sarkozy wants Syria  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/6/KJStWuU1gfU
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJStWuU1gfU ; ---  (RTYuTb - 5min21sec - Nov 25, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  --- http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday ; ---  Sarkozy is a "made-man" of the US-NRE's AIPAC / Israeli Consortium.  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/judeoch... ; ---  While France GOES DOWN IN ECONOMIC FLAMES, he's going to use the last of France's resources to help advance the PNAC Protocols  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-pla... ; ---  and the fortunes of the Banksters! - What a traitor to the French people he is!  (and yes, both he and his brother, who just happens to be head of the Carlyle Financial Group -- see article posted above in the "The Anglo-Euro-Banks Credibility Crisis Deepens...." section of this website --  come from a "Jewish" family) - mpg
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Libya’s new rulers offer weapons to Syrian rebels
 ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/sy....html
A quote...."Syrian rebels held secret talks with Libya's new authorities on Friday, aiming to secure weapons and money for their insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad's regime, The Daily Telegraph has learned." - A comment shown below....mpg    

The "US" won't invade Syria, it'll be Turkey handling most of the ground operations to support hordes of al-CIA'da irregulars and other mercenary Wahhabist types from the Arabian Peninsula and parts of Libya. They will be flown in and deposited in "safe zones" on the borders of Syria. The "US" will follow the same "game plan" they carried out so "successfully" in Libya, they'll provide close air support and logistics.  What they promised Abdullah Gül of Turkey to join them in their little PNAC scheme and how they turned him against his supposed "friend", Bashar al-Assad of Syria, is totally unknown to this website editor.  We'll just have to wait and see how the geo-political spoils are divided to figure that one out. - mpg - posted 12/23/11 - Topix  ||  An African Base of Operations for More Terror - 10-26-11 - mpg ||  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs...error
-mpg-reficultnias-102611 
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Media Lies Used to Provide a Pretext for Another "Humanitarian War": Protest in Syria: Who Counts the Dead?
 ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&a...27785
A quote...."According to numerous reports from the Western media, human rights organisation, as well as the UN, countless peaceful civilians have been killed by the Syrian forces since the beginning of the unrest in the country in mid March. But where do the numbers come from? -- Many media reports on the alleged deadly repression by the Syrian government fail to mention the sources of their information, which are very often referred to solely as "human rights groups" or "activists":"
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New Line of Propaganda about Syria: Won’t Somebody Think of the Children!!!!
 ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/new-line-of-...dren/
A quote...."As I read these articles I notice several things: Not only is there no link to the CAT report claiming Syria is torturing children, but many of them make the claim in the headlines of the articles then go on to offer absolutely nothing in terms of even quotes from the supposed report dealing with child torture. Take the Reuters Africa article as an example. Or the MSNBC story. Not a word actually from this alleged report about child torture to be found anywhere in the articles. -- That’s because there is no such report. I checked the UN Committee Against Torture’s website and no such report exists."
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Reports say Russian ships in Syrian waters delivered advanced anti-aircraft missile system and technicians
 ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/11/reports-say-russian....html
A quote...."The Russian warships that arrived in Syrian territorial waters in recent days were reportedly carrying technical advisors who will assist the Syrian government in setting up an array of the super-advanced S-300 missiles."
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Libyan Rebels Fought the Globalists' War: How the Devil Paid  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/11/libyan-rebels-fough....html
A quote...."After it was revealed that the newly unelected "PM" of Libya, Abdurrahim el-Keib, is in fact a long-time servant of Western powers, in particular, oil giants British Petroleum (BP), Shell, France's Total, the Japan Oil Development Company, and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, it is now revealed that his government is moving swiftly to exclude the most vicious fighters involved in his NATO-backed ascension to power. The Guardian has reported this week that Al-Qaeda/LIFG commander Hakim Bilhaj has been excluded as defense minister from el-Keib's cabinet in favor of Osama al-Juwali, chief of the Zintan military council." -- See the editor's comments, they're spot-on! - mpg
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'UK, French spies meet Syrian dissidents'
 ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212125.html  &nb... ;
BRICS warns against Syria intervention
 ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212082.html  &nb... ;
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Syria & Libya NGOs Weapons Parallels - Moeen Raoof - part 1  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/3/UQKXBQecqZw
Must View M108Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108 ; ---  (M108YuTb - 8min47sec - Nov 24, 2011) - Source:  108morris108  --- http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108 ; ---  A quote...."Moeen has visited Libya many times and works with charity organisations. He chronicles some of their dirty deeds."
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Libya - TNC Leadership all Abroad - Moeen Raoof - part 2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/2/XjsUWivQulo
Must View M108Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjsUWivQulo ; ---  (M108YuTb - 2min55sec - Nov 24, 2011) - Source:  108morris108  --- http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108 ; ---  A quote...."TNC Leadership cannot remain in Tripoli, because of BelHaj's Alqaeda, and they're not even safe in Benghazi - So they are to be found in Malta or Turkey! - There will be a major battle in Tripoli in the next few weeks. And that is why there is a news blackout."
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Libyan Rebels Fought the Globalists' War --- http://www.blacklistednews.com/Libyan_Rebels_Fought_the....html
Special Note - A quote...."After rebel leader Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi [aka Hakim Belhaj] admitted to being trained in Afghanistan and subsequently fighting American troops there, and admitting many of the rebel fighters now joining him in Libya had similarly returned from Afghanistan as well as Iraq, it must strike them as tremendous irony that the same Americans they were filling pine boxes with overseas, are now protecting their lives and handing them an entire country to rule over." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/260877
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Inside the jails home to Libya's 'enemies'  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/inside-t....html
A quote...."Mr Tahir is just one of more than 7,000 "enemies of the state" believed to have "disappeared" in a dysfunctional system, according to a report by the UN Security General due to be released on Monday. Thousands of people, including women and children, it states, are reportedly being illegally detained by rebel militias in Libya where many are subject to torture, beatings and systematic mistreatment in private jails run by the Western-backed revolutionaries who now rule Libya." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m83402&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Libyan prisoners tortured by rebels in Khoms
 ---  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/libyan-priso...69194
A quote...."They burnt people with cigarettes, beat their feet, hung men by their arms - look here," he said, showing dark swollen rings and scars around his and other prisoners' wrists and arms. -- "They put people in single cells. This man had his toenails pulled out," the jailed doctor said. -- Doctor Mussa's testimony makes uncomfortable listening, as it describes the treatment meted out not by Muammar Gaddafi loyalists, but by Libya's new Western-backed revolutionaries." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m83399&hd=&size=1&l=e
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The “Decent Left” and the Libya Intervention
 ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/25/the-%E2%80%9Cdec...tion/
A quote...."A Reply to Michael Bérubé  & [Juan Cole] -- Even as NATO celebrates its victory over the Gaddafi dictatorship, there is growing unease about the operation. The Libyan intervention was supposed to be a model of legality, but ended up exceeding the terms set forth in Security Council Resolution 1973, which authorized a no fly zone but not regime change. US involvement violated the War Powers Resolution. The intervention was presented as a truly international operation, but ended up being directed by Britain and France, the two main powers from the heyday of colonialism, thus adding to the unsavory appearance of the whole enterprise. The intervention was supposed to prevent a massacre in Benghazi, but ended up enabling one in Sirte, where there have been numerous executions of pro-Gaddafi loyalists. It was supposed to dissuade other tyrants from oppressing their own people, but in reality had no such effect.[1] Political repression in Syria actually increase
d after the intervention. The intervention has generated significant dangers to global security: The character of Western policy toward the Libyan despot – by first persuading Gaddafi to give up his nuclear weapons development program and then overthrowing him – has discouraged other countries from abandoning their own nuclear weapons programs."
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Outgoing NTC PM: Libya’s New Cabinet an ‘Unelected Elite’
 ---  http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/24/outgoing-ntc-pm-liby...lite/
A quote...."New Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib’s cabinet seems to have pleased NATO’s member nations, but it is drawing some loud criticism from the National Transitional Council (NTC)’s former PM, Ali Tarhouni."
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5 NATO-RAT commanders killed  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/260913
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Target Iran: Washington's Countdown to War
 ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Target_Iran%3A_Washingto....html
War Alert - A quote...."The Iranian people know what it means to earn the enmity of the global godfather. -- As William Blum documented in Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II,  ---  http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Iran_KH.html ; ---  1953's CIA-organized coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, guilty of the "crime" of nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, may have "saved" Iran from a nonexistent "Red Menace," but it left that oil-rich nation in proverbial "safe hands"--those of the brutal dictatorship of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. -- Similarly today, a nonexistent "nuclear threat" is the pretext being used by Washington to install a "friendly" regime in Tehran and undercut geopolitical rivals China and Russia in the process, thereby "securing" the country's vast petrochemical wealth for American multinationals."
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Escobar: No war with Iran before 2012 elections  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/16/xbUCgHKz2Mg
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbUCgHKz2Mg ; ---  (RTYuTb - 4min06sec - Nov 24, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday -- A quote...."Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar says that America's missile shield in Europe targets Russia - and is part of Washington's strategic plan of global dominance."
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Iranian lawmaker says 12 CIA agents working with Mossad arrested  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/11/iranian-lawmaker-sa....html
A quote...."According to the Iranian state news agency IRNA, Parviz Sorouri reports that Iran has arrested 12 agents of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that were operating in concert with the Israeli Mossad."
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CIA arrests in Iran? Allegations point to smoldering covert war with US.
 ---  http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2011/1125/C...th-US
Related Article - A quote...."A smoldering covert war pitting the United States against Iran took a new turn this week as Iranian officials announced the arrests of a dozen “CIA spies” they said were targeting the country’s nuclear program."
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Dirty Dozen: Iran Claims Arrest of 12 CIA Agents  ---  http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/iran-arrests-cia-spies.html
Related Article - A quote...."Parviz Sorouri, from the powerful committee on foreign policy and national security, reported the arrest of the spy ring to the official IRNA news agency. -- He said the agents were co-operating with Israel’s Mossad and posed a threat to Iran`s security, military forces and nuclear program."
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Mysterious explosions pose dilemma for Iranian leaders
 ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/mysteri....html
A quote...."Despite the official denial of foreign involvement in the latest blast, suspicions have been raised in Iran by what industry experts say is a fivefold increase in explosions at refineries and gas pipelines since 2010."
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The Good, the Bizarre and the Ugly - AF-PAK Sitrep  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/25/af-pak-sitrep/
Special Note - A quote...."It is becoming increasingly clear that the AF-PAK war will end in yet another grand strategic defeat for the United States. To date, President Obama, has been able to distract attention from this issue, but given the stakes in 2012, that dodge is unlikely to last. Get ready for an ugly debate over “who lost the Afghan War.” -- To those readers who disagree with my opening line, I urge you to study Anthony Cordersman’s most recent situation report on the AF-PAK War, THE AFGHANISTAN- PAKISTAN WAR AT THE END OF 2011: Strategic Failure? Talk Without Hope? Tactical Success? Spend Not Build (And Then Stop Spending) - PDF?  ---  http://csis.org/files/publication/111115_Afghanistan_at... ; ---  It was issued by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on November 15.  Reading the report is heavy slogging but I urge readers to download and examine it — at the very least, take a few minutes  to read the executive summary
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Moment Of Reckoning For Pakistan  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/25/moment-of-recko...stan/
US-NRE Coup Plans Exposed - (The US-NRE was going to use the fake rumor of a coup, to stage a real coup, against Pakistan's military. - mpg) -- Some quotes...."The popular anger and outrage that the Memogate has provoked should be channelized to build a new, truly free Pakistan."  --- "The now infamous memo, purportedly put together on behalf of Zardari by Pakistan’s US ambassador Husain Haqqani, who has been booted out since, sought the US help in preempting a military takeover in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing.  As Ijaz, a powerbroker and fixer with ties to the CIA, explains in his FT piece, “he (Zardari) needed an American fist on his army chief’s desk to end any misguided notions of a coup – and fast.” -- In return, Washington was promised total cooperation and an upside down transformation of the land of the pure in the image of the master.  Suggesting the complicity of the Army in the sheltering of Bin Laden and other top Al Qaeda and Taleban lead
ers [NOW we know WHY the Obama administration faked Osama's death!  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/osamabi... ; ---  When the administration first concocted this story, many websites pointed out how convenient it would be to further the administration's, and Israel's, long-planned elimination of Pakistan as a nuclear power -- This is the proof that these conjectures were correct. - mpg] and much else, the authors of the memo apparently offered to take out the top guns of the Army and bring about what academic eggheads love to call a ‘paradigm shift’ in Pakistan’s political and security priorities and goals."
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Nato helicopters 'kill [25] Pak checkpoint soldiers' - Now THAT's a way to start a war, gun down Pak troops!
 ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15901363
BREAKING:  26 November 2011 Last updated at 02:58 ET  -- A quote...."Pakistani officials have accused Nato helicopters of firing on a military checkpoint near Pakistan's Afghan border, killing 25 soldiers."
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Pakistan closes key NATO supply route to Afghanistan after alliance’s airstrike  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20111126/169051277.html
A quote...."Islamabad authorities said on Saturday they were closing one of NATO’s key supply routes to Afghanistan after the alliance’s airstrike in Pakistan, which killed 25 people, Pakistani TV channels said."
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10 Afghans die in Taliban ambush on Nato convoy
 ---  http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-engl...onvoy
A quote...."HEART (AFP) - At least 10 Afghan security guards were killed Thursday when Taliban militants ambushed a logistics convoy destined for US-led Nato forces in western Afghanistan, a local official said."
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Karzai says NATO strike killed seven Afghan civilians
 ---  http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Karzai_says_NATO_strike....html
A quote...."Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday accused NATO-led international forces of killing up to seven civilians, most of them children, in an air strike in the south."
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Egypt's 'Last Chance': Tahrir braces for chaos  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/11/MU2pOW3Yf3M
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU2pOW3Yf3M ; ---  (RTYuTb - 3min37sec - Nov 25, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  --- http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday ; ---  A quote...."Egyptians have packed into Cairo's Tahrir Square, the centre-point for violent clashes which have killed more than forty people since Saturday. It comes as a former Prime Minister in the Mubarak regime agrees to form a new cabinet, after Egypt's ruling military council asked him to lead a national government. But as RT's Paula Slier reports, it's having little impact on public sentiment."
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Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel attacked  ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/11/egypts-ga....html
A quote...."An explosion has hit an Egyptian pipeline supplying natural gas to Israel, making it the eighth assault on the energy route since February. -- Witnesses said several masked saboteurs planted explosives under the pipeline, which is located around 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of the town of al-Arish in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, before fleeing, AFP reported on Friday. "
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Fierce Tahrir: Hundreds injured after tear gas outrage  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/18/feL3XQcrhOs
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feL3XQcrhOs ; ---  (RTYuTb - 5min05sec - Nov 25, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  --- http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday ; ---  A quote...."Three more people have reportedly been killed in Cairo street battles. Clashes between protesters and police near Tahrir Square have flared up with renewed intensity as clouds of tear gas linger overhead."
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Banned neuro-toxic nerve gas 'poisons' Tahrir  ---  http://rt.com/news/nerve-gas-egypt-protest-199/
A quote...."After almost a week of protests against the ruling military junta left some 41 people dead, several sources claim scores have died from gas asphyxiation, while thousands more have received medical treatment after possibly being exposed to an agent known as CR gas."
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Protesters dig in to keep pressure on Egypt army
 ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/25/us-egypt-prot... ;
Egyptians Angry Over Military's Choice of Prime Minister
 ---  http://www.thestreet.com/story/11323181/1/egyptians-ang... ;
People are Angry Cairo 25 Nov - Citizen Report - vid
 ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/1/wj3Ij9V0... ;
Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj3Ij9V0b5w -- (YuTb 3m19s 112511)  - Src 108morris108 -- http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108  &nb... ;
Millions demand downfall of US-backed Egyptian junta
 ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/nov2011/egyp-n26.shtml&nb... ;
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Iraq, Afghanistan:  [US-NRE] Casualties Approach 5,000 Mark  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/Iraq-Afghanistan-Casualties-App...-Mark
A quote...."23 Nov 2011 The number of Americans killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan is approaching the 5,000 mark, putting new weight on President Barack Obama's exit strategy and the foreign policies of the Republican presidential candidates. As of Nov. 22, the number of Americans killed in action in both wars came to 4,984, according to the U.S. Department of Defense."
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'US-led copter shot down, 33 killed'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/211914.html
A quote...."Taliban militants say they have shot down a helicopter operated by the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the troubled eastern Afghanistan, Press TV reported."
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The Under-Examined Story of Fallujah  ---  http://original.antiwar.com/hannah-gurman/2011/11/25/th...ujah/
A quote...."The United States did not expect to encounter resistance in Fallujah, nor did it initially face any in the early days of the war. The first sign of serious hostility appeared in April 2003, after U.S. soldiers from the 82nd Airborne division fired into a crowd of protesters demonstrating against the occupation and the closure of their local school building, killing 17 civilians and injuring 70. The following February, amid mounting tensions, a local militia beheaded four Blackwater employees and strung their bodies from a bridge across the Euphrates River. U.S. forces temporarily withdrew from Fallujah and planned for a full onslaught."
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Saudi officials: 4 killed in Shiite protests  ---  http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/wire-news/saudi-offici....html
A quote..."Riyadh, Nov 24 (AP) Saudi Arabia's minority Shiite Muslims have staged protests in an eastern city, and four were shot dead, the Interior Ministry said today. The ministry statement did not say who fired the fatal shots in the city of Qatif...."
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US to install new Bahraini king: Report  ---  http://www.legitgov.org/US-install-new-Bahraini-king-Re... ; ---  Title says it ALL....mpg
A quote...."23 Nov 2011 The US administration is reportedly planning to replace the Bahraini ruler, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, over his failure to end months of protests in the country. According to a report published by Islam Times, Washington has urged King Hamad to restore peace and stability to the country by end of 2011 even at the price of his resignation. The report also says that Washington wants to replace King Hamad with a Sunni ruler upon agreement with Saudi Arabia."
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Protesters Reject Yemen Power Transfer  ---  http://www.theweekly.com/news/2011/November/25/Yemen_Po....html
A quote...."SANAA, YEMEN (OfficialWire) - November 25, 2011 - A U.S.-backed deal for Yemen's authoritarian president to step down fell far short of the demands of protesters who fought regime supporters on the streets of Sanaa Thursday in clashes that left five dead."
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US Senator asks US and NATO to support Kenya's Somalia incursion  ---  http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?
id=2000047277&cid=4&ttl=US%20Senator%20asks%20US%20and%20NATO%20to%20support%20Kenya%E2%80%99s%20Somali
A quote...."Pressure mounted on the US and NATO to recognize and support Kenya’s incursion into Somalia to root out the Al Shabaab terrorist network in southern Somalia when a US Senator rose on the floor of the senate to applaud Kenya’s move."
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Activists Want [Mexico's] President and Drug Lords Tried for War Crimes  ---  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105952
A quote...."MEXICO CITY, Nov 24, 2011 (IPS) - Activists are hoping that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will take up a case against Mexican President Felipe Calderón, government officials and drug traffickers and indict those responsible for the violence wracking the country. But this is likely to be a complex and lengthy process."
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Russia, Germany launch Nord Stream pipeline  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/nov2011/nord-n26.shtml
A quote...."On November 8, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and German chancellor Angela Merkel launched the first line of the new Nord Stream pipeline. It will deliver gas directly from Russia to Germany—bypassing traditional transit countries Ukraine, Poland and Belarus—and from Germany on to other western European countries."
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere....

Ex-Ambassador Exposes Government Cover-Up -- Is Britain Plotting With Israel to Attack Iran?
 ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/25/is-britain-plott...iran/
War Alert - The Adam Werritty / Liam Fox Affair - A quote...."Last February Britain’s then defense minister Liam Fox attended a dinner in Tel Aviv with a group described as senior Israelis. Alongside him sat Adam Werritty, a lobbyist whose “improper relations” with the minister would lead eight months later to Fox’s hurried resignation. -- According to several reports in the British media the Israelis in attendance at the dinner were representatives of the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, while Fox and Werritty were accompanied by Matthew Gould, Britain’s ambassador to Israel. A former British diplomat has now claimed that the topic of discussion that evening was a secret plot to attack Iran."
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Gould-Werritty: A Real Conspiracy, Not a Theory  ---  http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/11/gould-we...eory/
The Adam Werritty / Liam Fox Affair - A quote...."There is a huge government cover-up in progress over the Werritty connection to Mossad and the role of British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould, and their neo-con plan to start a war with Iran. -- Yesterday at 22.15pm I submitted by email a Freedom of Information request for...."    

"All communications in either direction ever made between Matthew Gould and Adam Werritty, specifically including communications made outside government systems."    

"At 23.31pm I was astonished to get a reply from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The request was refused as it was..."    

   “likely to exceed the cost limit”.    

"Now it is plainly nonsense that to gather correspondence between two named individuals would be too expensive. They could just ask Gould." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/gould-werrit...eory/
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Coins from 17AD found under Jerusalem's Western Wall hints sacred site NOT built by Herod
 ---  http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/11/coins-fro....html
Another Zionist Lie Exposed -- A quote...."They show that construction of the Western Wall had not even begun at the time of Herod’s death. Instead, it was likely completed only generations later by one of his descendants."
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Pal Journalist - Israel & Saudi Hidden Hands  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108#p/u/0/JmAZc3wOG28
M108Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmAZc3wOG28 ; ---  (M108YuTb - 11min37sec - Nov 25, 2011) - Source:  108morris108  --- http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108 ; ---  A quote...."Sammi Ibrahem a Palestinian journalist when asked about controlled opposition - Explains The Middle east, The Saudis, Palestinians acting as agents and more."
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More On The Palestinian Situation....

Officials suspect French megabank BNP Parisbas pulled out of Israel due to boycott pressure - Hip Hip Hooray!!
 ---  http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/officia...ZTBkh
Boycott, Divest and Sanction the ENTIRE state of Israel!  Because it's the right thing to do, and because  it's easy to do. (All you have to do is look at the label and NOT buy their products, now WHAT could be more simple than that?) -- AND, it's working!!  - mpg -- A quote...."Israeli officials suspect that France-based megabank BNP Parisbas has pulled out of Israel due to pressure from Palestine solidarity groups, even though the bank itself has denied this." - For more on how to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel see the upper-left-corner of the "Front Page"  --- http://www.reficultnias.org/ ; ---  of this website.
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Israel Demolishes Mosque in South Hebron Hills, Homes in Beit Hanina, Arrest Two Teenage Girls
 ---  http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&...10908
A quote...."Israeli forces carried out a demolition campaign across West Bank on Thursday, destroying a mosque and several other buildings in the village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills, as well as several Bedouin homes in the town of Beit Hanina, near Ramallah. Soldiers also arrested two girls and demolished a cave dwelling with a woman still inside it, breaking her leg."
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Israeli Forces Demolish Car Shop in West Bank Village  ---  http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18120
A quote...."RAMALLAH, November 24, 2011 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Thursday demolished a car repair shop owned by two Palestinian brothers in the village of Um Safa, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah, claiming it was built without permit, according to witnesses."
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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (03 Nov -16 Nov 2010)
 ---  http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_...ports
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Every single week of the year, for sixty years.  It never stops, nor does the complete indifference of those who call themselves Amerikans. - mpg    

   * 4 Palestinians, including a civilian, a member of the Palestinian Marine Police and two resistance activists, were killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.    
         o 14 Palestinians, including 6 civilians and 5 members of the Palestinian Marine Police, were wounded by IOF in the Gaza Strip.    
         o The site of the Palestinian Marine Police in al-Soudaneya area, north of the Gaza Strip, was totally destroyed.    
   * IOF have continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.    
         o 2 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded in a peaceful demonstration in al-Nabi Saleh village.    
   * The Israeli Navy has continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.    
         o Israeli naval troops arrested three Palestinian fishermen and confiscated their fishing boat.    
   * IOF conducted 91 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the Gaza Strip.    
         o IOF arrested 14 Palestinians.    
         o IOF wounded a Palestinian civilian in his house in Hebron city before arresting him.    
         o IOF raided the houses of many Palestinians who were released recently from Israeli jails, delivered them notices to appear before the Israeli intelligence and threatened some of them    
   * Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.    
         o Israeli soldiers arrested at least one Palestinian civilian at a checkpoint in the West Bank.    
   * IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.    
         o Four houses were bulldozed in 'Ein al-Dyouk al-Tahta, northwest of Jericho.    
         o IOF destroyed electricity poles between al-Twana village and Kherbet al-Mafqara, south of Hebron.    
         o IOF bulldozed lands in Azzoun 'Etma, southeast of Qalqilya, to establish a security wall around "Oranit" settlement.    
         o Israeli settlers uprooted 25 olive trees in Madma village, north of Hebron.    
         o Three civilian vehicles set alight in Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron.    

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More On The Economic Situation....

25 Bitter And Painful Facts About The Coming Baby Boomer Retirement Crisis That Will Blow Your Mind
 ---  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/25-bitter-a...-mind
A quote...."For decades we were warned that when the Baby Boomers started to retire that this country would be facing a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude.  Well, that day has arrived ladies and gentlemen.  Back on January 1st, the Baby Boomers began to retire and more than 10,000 of them will be retiring every single day for years to come.  Most of them have not saved up nearly enough money for retirement.  At the same time, private sector pension plans are failing all over the place, hundreds of state and local government pension plans from coast to coast are woefully underfunded, and the Social Security system is on the road to complete and total disaster." - Topix ||  Please Don't Whine or Complain....Ever - 11-17-11 - mpg  ||
 ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs...11711
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   this seems am appropriate place..     opus diablos    Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:32 
   as the stain spreads..     opus diablos    Wed Jul 18, 2012 21:59 
   and now 4 sum1 compleetli...     opus diablos    Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:19 


 
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