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 Posted: Sun Jan 27th, 2008 08:45 am
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"The occupation is good for politicians who have made money, militiamen, contractors and opportunists," Teengane said. "These form not more than 5 percent of Iraqi people."
 

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http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/why-bush-wants-to-legalize-the-nuke-trade-with-turkey/

In likely reaction to the London Times report, the Bush Administration quietly announced on January 22 that the president would like Congress to approve the sale of nuclear secrets to Turkey. As with most stories of this magnitude, the U.S. media has put on blinders, opting to not report either Edmonds’ story or Bush’s recent announcement.

 

Edmonds says “several arms of the government were shielding what was going on” which included an entire national security apparatus associated with the neoconservaties who have profited by representing Turkish interests in Washington. As Justin Raimondo [url=rhttp://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12166]recently reported[/url] in Antiwar.com:

…this group includes not only Grossman, but also Paul Wolfowitz, chief intellectual architect of the Iraq war and ex-World Bank president; former deputy defense secretary for policy Douglas J. Feith; Feith’s successor, Eric Edelman; and Richard Perle, the notorious uber-neocon whose unique ability to mix profiteering and warmongering forced him to resign his official capacity as a key administration adviser … Edmonds draws a picture of a three-sided alliance consisting of Turkish, Pakistani, and Israeli agents who coordinated efforts to milk U.S. nuclear secrets and technology, funneling the intelligence stream to the black market nuclear network set up by the Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan. The multi-millionaire Pakistani nuclear scientist then turned around and sold his nuclear assets to North Korea, Libya, and Iran.
Is the Bush Administration seeking to exonerate these “officials” with its plea to allow Turkey to obtain U.S. nuclear secrets? Besides Grossman, who else was involved in Edmonds’ grim tale of the nuke-for-profit underground? As the news that U.S. officials have allegedly been supplying Turkey with nuclear technology begins to creep in to the mainstream media, the Bush team appears to be moving to legalize the whole shady operation.

 

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Antonia Juhasz of the group Oil Change International told IPS the issues of oil and permanent military bases are related.

"We've got the Bush administration pushing aggressively for an (Iraqi) law that would give oil companies 20- to 25-year contracts for oil in Iraq and if they were to be at work for an extended length of time, they would need security," she said.

"If the U.S. military is going to stay in Iraq for 20 or 35 years, they're going to need bases," she added.

 

Why invade Iraq (had nothing to do with 911 and did not have 'weapons of mass destruction) if not for the coveted 'oil law'?

Why kill off 1,000,000 innocent people for profit?

Why destroy the lives of as many Americans?

Why torture for profit?

I think the answer is self-evidently hidden in plane site.

 

 

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/401909.html

Human Rights Watch said Venezuela was actually more democratic than many nations, contrary to some popular U.S. perceptions.

 

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http://www.therawfeed.com/2008/02/third-cable-cut-now-iran-has-no.html

I told you early Wednesday morning that much of the Middle East and most of India lost Internet access when an undersea cable was cut (it turns out that two cables were cut). Now, a third cable or possibly a fourth has apparently been severed, and the entire nation of IRAN HAS ZERO INTERNET ACCESS. UPDATE 10:52 AM 2/2/2008: Note that Iran is currently online -- the questions, still unresolved, are: 1) Did Iran experience an outage yesterday; 2) were 2, 3 or 4 cables cut; and 3) was it sabotage or accident?

 

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/02/01/ST2008020102523.html

In a way, it is a political tale -- for, amazingly, these leftists came to power by finding their way into the right, after a long pilgrimage (Heilbrunn uses the biblical term "exodus") that brought them from 1950s anti-communism to Scoop Jackson centrism to their "redemption" under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush (but pointedly not under George H.W. Bush, who called them the "crazies in the basement").

 

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There is evidence that the preëmptive raid on Syria was also meant as a warning about—and a model for—a preëmptive attack on Iran.

 

Why not go solar?

 

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http://www.progressive.org/mag_rothschild0308

Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to “shoot to kill” in the event of martial law.

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http://democracyandsocialism.com/Articles/ASillyPretext.html#top

No Arab or Islamic country armed even with the smallest of  atomic bombs will be ready to hit Israel. And that, is because Israel is a small country interwoven and surrounded by Palestinian and Arab nations.

The explosion of an atomic bomb will kill the Palestinians and Arabs too. The radio-active fallout will reach the entire Middle-East including Iran itself.

Thus the brawl surrounding the danger of the atomic Iran against Israel is silly and is only a pretext to attack that country, similar to the lies about the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq before colonizing it.

 

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On the afternoon of February 1, 2008, I was stopped yet again at a suspicionless internal Homeland Security checkpoint on SR86 in Southern Arizona near mile post 146. The location is over 40 miles North of the border.

This was the fifth time in three weeks I've been stopped & seized at this checkpoint absent reasonable suspicion. This time however, Homeland Security rolled out the red carpet.

Normally, there are three or four agents manning the checkpoint with two patrol vehicles parked nearby. This time the scenario were dramatically different.

Present were no less than twelve agents visible at any given time along with six Homeland Security vehicles lining the entry to the checkpoint. There was also a large United States flag flying over one of the trailers - something that hasn't been present before. Perhaps the agents figured the large American flag would somehow mask their un-American activities.

As I first came to a stop at the checkpoint, several agents converged on my vehicle and one can be heard pounding on the truck near time marker 01:15. About nine seconds later, another agent to the rear of my vehicle can be heard yelling, "Hi Terry". This of course clearly indicates the agents knew exactly who I was and, by extension, that I wasn't an illegal alien. Nonetheless, the agents continued to detain me at the checkpoint for several minutes in order to harass and intimidate.

As the suspicionless seizure of my person continued, a Homeland Security agent can be seen waving at me near 02:09 while several high(er) ranking agents can be seen near 02:13 standing in the background looking on with satisfaction. Whether or not they were also onscene to make sure things didn't get out of hand during the staged confrontation is unknown.

As time progressed, another agent wearing blue 'inspection' gloves and carrying a sprint camera phone (service issue?) can be seen walking around the vehicle methodically taking photographs. His name tag indicates he is 'J. Gonzalez'. The tags appear to be attached with velcro however and are easily removed. As such, I give little credence to the validity of a name displayed on a tag - especially when the agents refuse to verify their identity.

Near 02:39, one of the agents who initially waved at me can be seen shaking hands with another agent. Finally, near 03:22, the same agent who yelled my name during the initial stop, yelled 'Bye Terry' after I was given permission to go on my way after Homeland Security finished having its fun.

I also note the stopping agent, 'K. June' according to her name tag, refused to face me after directing me to stop. Instead, she pressed herself up against the cab of the vehicle between the two side doors just out of view. This was the same agent who stopped me on January 8th and during a night stop with drug dogs on January 23rd. Another male agent also hid from me while pressing himself up against the passenger side of the cab between the front and rear doors.

Approximately thirty minutes after I passed through the checkpoint, only four or five agents remained on-scene to conduct operations. This means the rest of the gang with guns left the scene quickly after the staged show of force was over.

While watching the video, please consider the professionalism of these so-called 'Border Patrol' agents that are more interested in harassing individuals absent reasonable suspicion than patrolling the border. Also ask yourself how much illegal traffic crossed the border forty miles to the South while over 12 Homeland Security agents played domination games along a public highway that never intersects the border at any point.

The 4th amendment was specifically created to protect us against this type of arbitrary enforcement activity by over-reaching federal agencies. It would seem however that the 'writ of assistance' is alive and well in modern day America and everyone is now considered a suspect (less)

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Energy security continues to absorb us. The supply and demand of individual nations and the weakening of the international market infrastructure for energy distribution make the situation more precarious than ever.

 

Clearly the enemy is US or Dollar Hegemony (Petro-Dollars).

 

 

 

 

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Oil and petrochemical products will be traded in Iranian Rials, as well as all other hard currencies, the statement quoted Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari as saying. About 20 brokers are already active in the market, it said.

"The bourse provides an economic opportunity for Iranians, other countries and foreign customers," Nozari was quoted as saying.

Iran produces more than 20 million tons of petrochemical products per year.

Iran has already registered for another oil bourse, in which it has said it hopes to trade oil in Euros instead of dollars, to reduce any American influence over the Islamic Republic's economy.

 

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The hypocrisy of US government officials is boundless.

 

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Actaully: The Constitution is a partisan document. Those who enforce involuntary taxation over-power those who want no part of it, by law, according to The Constitution.

See these:

http://www.amazon.com/Proceedings-Debates-Convention-Constitution-Philadelphia/dp/0942301005/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204059958&sr=1-2

The Nationalist Hamilton, and others, usurped the power to issue fraudulent currency. They won the partisan issue against liberty.

Here is the before and after affects of that usurpation:

http://www.amazon.com/Shayss-Rebellion-American-Revolutions-Battle/dp/0812218701/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204060104&sr=1-1

The illegal supression of a rebellion against illegal fraudulent currency was 'called' Shays's Rebellion as "Insurgents" fought a Standing Army and the former "Rebels" (actual former members of the "Rebel" Army) lost. The illegal State Agents won the battle but lost their fraudulent currency scheme.

In order to regain the power to make fraudulent 'legal' currency and Nationalize that POWER the legal criminals had to change the voluntary association of separate States under the Articles of Confederation into The Constitution.

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http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html#section8

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

SUPPRESS INSURRECTIONS

See here:

http://www.amazon.com/Whiskey-Rebellion-Frontier-Epilogue-Revolution/dp/0195051912/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204060474&sr=1-2

People were forced to pay taxes with gold despite a situation whereby no gold was available due to 'Gresham's Law' which is simple. When fraudulent currency is issued the gold leaves the place where that fraudulent currency is issued. The 'insurgents' and the 'rebels' adapted to the situation by making whiskey and using whiskey as currency. When the legal criminals demand gold as a tax on the only remaining currency (whiskey) the people know by then that the government has turned rotten. They 'smell a rat' and they fight back. They fight back with protests first.

Here is what happend:

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/whiskey/text.html

That is George the first (first after 'the revolution') suppressing a fraudulent currency revolt, which later became known as "The Whiskey Rebellion".

Here is how Franklin puts it:

http://www.perfecteconomy.com/pg-parable-of-perfect-economy.html

"We would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters, had it not been that they took from us our money, which created great unemployment and dissatisfaction. Within a year, the poor houses were filled. The hungry and homeless walked the streets everywhere."

The shame of having this Dooms Day enforced upon America is contrasted by how much more POWERFUL  The People have become since those early fights for liberty (where The People lost).

See:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free

Now look here:

http://www.groundreport.com/Politics/Confusion-on-Money_1

Currency is POWER. The greater the accuracy of the currency the greater will be the POWER of currency. The greater the accuracy of the currency the lower will be the cost of the currency. The lower the cost of the currency the greater will be the purchasing POWER of the currency. This is the opposite of 'inflation'. Please see how many people are duped.

Think about this:

As the supply of POWER (currency in the form of electricity and fuel) increases the cost of power decreases while purchasing power increases since POWER reduces the costs of production.

If that is difficult to understand do something simple. Do the formula in reverse. Imagine what happens when electricity and gas PRICE goes up. What happens?

When the price of gas and electricity doubles in one month what happens to your costs? When the price of gas and electricity goes up by ten (another zero is added to the old price) what happens to your pay check? Does the employer say: "You are going to get a raise since the price of electricity and the price of fuel has gone through the roof."?

Use your own brain - please.

Use it or lose it.

 

 

 

 

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“Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. …Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

 

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This “Iran - American” deal raised concerns in Israel therefore they invited McCain, the Republican candidate to visit Tel Aviv and asked him to visit Baghdad to be informed about what has been achieved talking with the Iranians, promised him that if the mission is successful, then he will get the support of Tel Aviv and the Zionist lobby in America presidential election.
 

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