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The Risk and Reward of Bitcoins
The official description of Bitcoin states: Bitcoin is an experimental, decentralized digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority managing transactions and issuing money carried out collectively by the network. Purported myths and ground rules on how the alternative currency operates, provides calculated reading. Whether this accounting system can or would be accepted as a credible medium of exchange on any large scale is certainly an open question.
The need for an alternative currency to fiat debt created tender is apparent. However, establishing faith and acceptance in a competing and digital method of payment for transactions is almost inconceivable to the average consumer. http://www.batr.org/negotium/041713.html
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Secession Fever Sweeping Europe Meaningless Without Debt Repudiation
The first nations to repudiate sovereign debt will have the advantage; this is why restored nations should repudiate these debts and not burden their new national economy and citizens with this junk debt. In addition, these nations should repudiate their existing politicians and representatives, controlled by the financial elites who supported the debt accumulation; because once independence is restored there is nothing to stop politicians on the take from doing the same thing again. http://www.thedailybell.com/28196/Ron-Holland-Secession-Fever-Sweeping-Europe-Meaningless-Without-Debt-Repudiation
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Three Loose Shingles to Blow the Roof Off Global Corporate Oligarchy
Imagine increasing global awareness of the disparity and injustice purveyed by global corporate oligarchy as a storm, and imagine the roof of this oligarchy’s house covered in workers trying to tack down these weakest points. Where are they?Where do they fear the wind blowing hardest? http://theintelhub.com/2012/10/23/3-loose-shingles-to-blow-the-roof-off-global-corporate-oligarchy/
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How to Identify the True Enemies of Freedom
Even the most successful battles against despotism, like the American Revolution, often only had a distant sense of who they were really fighting against. This is what makes the 21st Century extraordinarily unique in the annals of civilization. For the first time in human record, the common man has all the information necessary to examine and define the real culprits behind his subjugation. The truth is at our fingertips, all we have to do is reach out and take it. Because of the decentralized nature of information flowing through the alternative web media, our ability to generate opposition to organized elitism has never been greater. However, this also means the stakes have never been higher. The establishment understands well that their criminality is clearly visible, and eventually, they will be personally subject to the rage of the people. The next fight could very well be the last for them. Their playbook may be old, but the tactics they use can always be applied on a grander and more terrible scale. Not only will they pursue whatever menacing distractions necessary to occupy the attentions of the public, they will also attempt to pose as guiding lights in the darkness they themselves created. They will hide behind broad generalized target groups; fabricated boogie men, branded and prepackaged like franchise coffee shops on every street corner of America’s collective psyche. Terrorists, traitors, saboteurs, whatever ethnic group happens to be convenient at the moment, whoever is easiest to present as a target for our projected malice; false enemies will be rolled out like a nightmare buffet. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-10/guest-post-how-identify-true-enemies-freedom
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Americans Reject the ‘Values’ of Ruling Elite
Billionaire Mortimer Zuckerman’s The Atlantic has conducted a poll with the Rockefeller and Ford (CIA) Foundation funded Aspen Institute and Penn, Schoen & Berland, a Bill Clinton connected market research and Democrat propaganda outfit. Not surprisingly, the poll “finds widespread mistrust of governing elites and an aversion to spreading U.S. norms abroad,” according to Conor Friedersdorf. “51 percent said America should neither try to spread its values nor learn from the values of other countries” and should basically mind its own business, as Ron Paul has advocated for decades. The Atlantic finds this mindset “intriguing” and recites the establishment litany claiming America saved the world following the Second World War and engaged in an “unprecedented effort to deliberately spread American values” far and wide. http://www.infowars.com/good-news-americans-reject-the-values-of-ruling-elite/
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More Icelandic Bankers Arrested
Little Iceland is the only country with the gumption to stand up to the international bankster-gangsters who are openly looting the world. http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2011/01/20/more-icelandic-bankers-arrested/
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Look Back for the Future in Europe and America
History is getting ready to repeat itself and peoples and nations will once again be devastated by a depression born out of hidden excesses by banking elites and an unbearable level of sovereign debt created by “bought off” politicians. Whether the effects of a worldwide depression will again be countered by another world war is the only real question facing the world today. I believe the failed European Union is going down and this will be only a precursor to an identical economic collapse by the American Union. Of course the power elites will attempt to use the real or manufactured crisis as a pretext to expand the EU but I don’t believe they will succeed. The speed of events and flow of alternative news renders their old style propaganda powerless to keep up with and control public opinion today. http://lewrockwell.com/holland/holland63.1.html
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Estonia to Paul Krugman: You Needs to Chill
The ex-Soviet satellite state of Estonia is home to slightly over a million people and is smaller than Vermont and New Hampshire combined. Yet in the contentious debate between “austerity” and “stimulus”—i.e., ceasing to spend far more than you have versus further indenturing your citizen-vassals for generations—it’s becoming the mouse that roared. http://takimag.com/article/estonia_to_krugman_yall_needs_to_chill/print#axzz1xbvmNfo4
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The ‘Solution’ is Collapse
The basic idea is that when the carrying costs of the society exceed its output, the whole contraption collapses. The political adjunct to this systemic implosion is that the productive people just stop supporting the Status Quo because it’s become too burdensome. The calculus of self-interest shifts from supporting the bloated, marginal-return Status Quo to abandoning it. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-solution-collapse
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Is This the End of ‘One Europe’?
How Europe’s crisis resolves itself as yet remains unknown. But with Sunday’s returns from France and Greece, the mega-trends on the Old Continent are unmistakable. And for the European Union, they are ominous. Nationalism — be it economic nationalism or ethnic nationalism — is ascendant. Transnationalism and multiculturalism are in headlong if not irreversible retreat. The European project is itself imperiled. http://buchanan.org/blog/is-this-the-end-of-one-europe-5072
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Saudi Arabia: House of Saud, Falling House of Cards
Saudi rulers are struggling to contain a new wave of public protests that has erupted across the Arabian kingdom as security forces open fire on unarmed civilians. The big question: is the House of Saud finally beginning to collapse like the fragile house of cards that this creaking, ruling monarchy represents? The irony is rich indeed. For the past year, the Saudi rulers have done their utmost to crush the slightest dissent in their country, while at the same time they have backed Western interference, aggression and regime change in Libya and Syria – under the guise, wait for it, of advocating democratic freedom and human rights. http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29934
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Winning
We track dominant social themes here at the Daily Bell, and the spectacular implosion of the “Stop Kony 2012″ campaign is a further example of how these memes are disintegrating under the pressure of what we call the Internet Reformation. We commented on this in this past week, in “Kony 2012 Debunking Shows How Far Alternative Media Has Come.” But we wrote that article before the spectacular implosion of the “artistic creator” of the video, who apparently had a nervous breakdown due to the reception of the video and was sent to a psychiatric facility. http://lewrockwell.com/wile/wile48.1.html
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Corporations Have No Use for Borders
The decay of Canada illustrates two things. Corporate power is global, and resistance to it cannot be restricted by national boundaries. Corporations have no regard for nation-states. They assert their power to exploit the land and the people everywhere. They play worker off of worker and nation off of nation. They control the political elites in Ottawa as they do in London, Paris and Washington. This, I suspect, is why the tactics to crush the Occupy movement around the globe have an eerie similarity—infiltrations, surveillance, the denial of public assembly, physical attempts to eradicate encampments, the use of propaganda and the press to demonize the movement, new draconian laws stripping citizens of basic rights, and increasingly harsh terms of incarceration. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30390.htm
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Why the Globalist Agenda is Backfiring
Think about it. The more people who lose their homes and material wealth in this manipulated downturn, the more people who stop, think and re-evalute. The more people who realize the financial and political situation is engineered for the good of a very few and not the people, the more wake up. The more people who are directly offended by these draconian new anti-freedom laws and intrusive surveillance methods, the more startled, questioning and activated they will become. And the more people who become aware it’s this way because that’s the way someone wants it, the more come to some alarming yet empowering conclusions. This is what the New World Order is unwittingly precipitating, and they’re seeing it and they’re afraid. Here’s their admission by an Illuminist global strategist and a hint at their sinister solution. http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-globalist-agenda-is-backfiring.html
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This is What Revolution Looks Like
Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak. They are as dead and useless to us as the water-soaked books, tents, sleeping bags, suitcases, food boxes and clothes that were tossed by sanitation workers Tuesday morning into garbage trucks in New York City. They have no ideas, no plans and no vision for the future. http://www.opednews.com/articles/This-Is-What-Revolution-Lo-by-Chris-Hedges-111115-828.html
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It’s the End of the Eurozone as We Know It
Stick a fork in it, the eurozone as we know it is done. That’s the message we’re hearing from every media outlet and talking head this morning. But whether the EU survives in its current incarnation or takes on a new form, the agenda remains the same, the evisceration of all national sovereignty and the centralization of power into a dictatorial federal superstate. Words like “depression,” “collapse,” and “apocalypse,” are not normally uttered by people in positions of power, but such terms have become the staple of this week’s news diet, as the deepening of the euro crisis begins to make headlines about Greece look like they should be consigned to the “and finally” segment. http://www.infowars.com/its-the-end-of-the-eurozone-as-we-know-it/
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Gadhafi’s Gold-Money Plan Would Have Devastated Dollar
It remains unclear exactly why or how the Gadhafi regime went from “a model” and an “important ally” to the next target for regime change in a period of just a few years. But after claims of “genocide” as the justification for NATO intervention were disputed by experts, several other theories have been floated. Oil, of course, has been mentioned frequently — Libya is Africa‘s largest oil producer. But one possible reason in particular for Gadhafi’s fall from grace has gained significant traction among analysts and segments of the non-Western media: central banking and the global monetary system. According to more than a few observers, Gadhafi’s plan to quit selling Libyan oil in U.S. dollars — demanding payment instead in gold-backed “dinars” (a single African currency made from gold) — was the real cause. The regime, sitting on massive amounts of gold, estimated at close to 150 tons, was also pushing other African and Middle Eastern governments to follow suit. http://thenewamerican.com/economy/markets-mainmenu-45/9743-gadhafis-gold-money-plan-would-have-devastated-dollar
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‘Occupy Boston’ Occupies Israeli Consulate
A contingent from the Occupy Boston protesters marched late Friday to the building that houses the Israeli consulate in Boston and briefly occupied the building’s lobby where they held a sit-in. http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/208548.html
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The Uptown Pepperoni For Your Pizza From Hell
Weird shit has become the order of the day; the house special of the Kali Yuga age. You want flies with that? What else is going on? What other mad, strange exhaust fume highs are fueling the dark behaviors of poisoned men and women, doing the demon tango behind closed doors? We can only imagine and hope not to. How crazy are they? The evidence is in front of you everywhere. They press and press onward into a greater and more uniformed darkness. The transparent lies continue, only occasionally accompanied by the names of authors, because most of the lies are written by shills from the Gollum nation of Israel. Reuters and AP are warehousing factories of nothing but lies for the mass ranks of the sleeping people tossing in fear and nightmare on their burning beds. Wake up you sleepyheads, wake up! http://zippittydodah.blogspot.com/2011/11/uptown-pepperoni-for-your-pizza-from.html
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Thousands of Russian Nationalists March in Moscow
Some 5,000 people, mostly young men wearing medical masks and balaclavas, marched through a working-class neighborhood of gloomy apartment buildings on the outskirts of the capital. They chanted “Russia for Russians” and “Migrants today, occupiers tomorrow,” along with anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic slurs and obscenities. http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-russian-nationalists-march-moscow-103619646.html
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American Anger: 58% Say Are ‘Furious About America’s Politics’ Compared To 49% In January, 37% Support #OWS
As can be expected, “A majority of those protest supporters are Democrats, but the anger about politics in general is much more widespread, the poll indicates.” What is more disturbing is that nearly two thirds of respondents are openly expressing anger with everything that is wrong in America, even if they can’t quite place their affiliation with either the Tea-Party of the #OWS movement. “58 percent say they are furious about America’s politics. The number of angry people is growing as deep reservoirs of resentment grip the country.” http://www.zerohedge.com/news/american-anger-58-say-are-furious-about-americas-politics-compared-49-january-37-support-ows
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Banker Explained ‘Occupy America’ Scam
We are in the final stages of a long-term conspiracy by Cabalist Jewish bankers and their Masonic lackeys to erect a world police state, and to control us by mind control or force. This has been achieved by a contrived “dialectical process” best exemplified by World War Two and the Cold War. “Occupy Wall Street” is but the latest instance of this inexorable march to enslavement. Mass protests would be real if they demanded 1. Nationalizing the Fed, creation of debt-free currency and disowning that portion of the national debt created by book entry. 2. Independent investigation of 9-11 and prosecution of those responsible for the attack and the cover-up. 3. All national political campaigns be publicly funded. For the price of one battle cruiser, we could have real democracy. 4. Media monopolies be broken up. As is, popular resistance is a banker Punch and Judy Puppet Show. http://www.henrymakow.com/geneva_versus_peace.html
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Protests Spread as Thousands Gather in Europe, Asia
Protests against widening income disparity took place across western Europe and Asia today as the Occupy Wall Street movement spread around the globe, with about 1,000 converging in London and 5,000 in Frankfurt. http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/316-20/7897-protests-spread-as-thousands-gather-in-europe-asia
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Is the New World Order Unraveling?
Why is the New World Order suddenly going in reverse? A primary reason is the resurgence of nationalism. Nations are putting national interests ahead of any perceived global interests. A second reason is the decline of a West whose project this was. We no longer dictate to the world, and the world no longer marches to our tune. The deficits and indebtedness of Western nations preclude more of the big wealth transfers in foreign aid that once bought us influence. A third reason is demography. Not one European nation has a birth rate sufficient to replace its population. Europe’s nations are aging, shrinking, dying. A depopulating Germany cannot carry forever the deficit-debtor nations of Club Med. The oldest nation, Japan, is on schedule to lose 25 million people by 2050, as is neighbor Russia. http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan189.html
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Armed Chinese Troops in Texas!
Great video by Ron Paul supporters, must viewing for misled conservatives who support Washington’s attempt to rule the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKfuS6gfxPY
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Why Iceland Should Be in the News But Isn’t
An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were mentioned only in passing, and since then, this little-known member of the European Union fell back into oblivion. As one European country after another fails or risks failing, imperiling the Euro, with repercussions for the entire world, the last thing the powers that be want is for Iceland to become an example. Here’s why. http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2011/08/25/why-iceland-shold-be-in-the-news-but-is-not/
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New World Order ‘Breaking Down’
What has been achieved is a downfall of an order that was established at the end of the Second World War and America and its allies tried to develop a framework that would see them through into the 21st century, they called it the ‘New World Order’. This is now breaking down because the system that they have established is inherently predatory and it is destructive under the guise of freedom and democracy; it rubs and plunders countries for its own benefit. http://presstv.com/detail/203140.html
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Jon Stewart Spoofs Anthony Bologna, Pepper-Spraying Wall Street Cop
Jon Stewart took a break from his “Indecision 2012″ coverage Thursday night to focus on a local problem currently grabbing the nation’s attention: the ongoing NYC protest known as Occupy Wall Street. But it wasn’t the spirit of the young people organizing for democracy or even Michael Moore’s drop-in that caught Stewart’s attention the most. Instead it was the actions of one pepper-spray happy NYPD cop, Anthony Bologna (or, to Stewart, “Tony Baloney”). http://12160.info/page/jon-stewart-spoofs-anthony-bologna-pepper-spraying-wall-street-co
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This Economic Collapse is a ‘Crisis of Bigness’
The crisis currently playing out on the world stage is a crisis of growth. Not, as we are regularly told, a crisis caused by too little growth, but by too much of it. Banks grew so big that their collapse would have brought down the entire global economy. To prevent this, they were bailed out with huge tranches of public money, which in turn is precipitating social crises on the streets of western nations. The European Union has grown so big, and so unaccountable, that it threatens to collapse in on itself. Corporations have grown so big that they are overwhelming democracies and building a global plutocracy to serve their own interests. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/25/crisis-bigness-leopold-kohr
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Iceland’s Ongoing Revolution
An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. We may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were mentioned only in passing, and since then, this little-known member of the European Union fell back into oblivion. As one European country after another fails or risks failing, imperiling the Euro, with repercussions for the entire world, the last thing the powers that be want is for Iceland to become an example. Here’s why. http://www.newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-news/3057-a-story-missing-from-our-media-icelands-on-going-revolution.html
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Group Wants to Occupy Wall Street on September 17th
The antiglobalization movement was the first step on the road. Back then our model was to attack the system like a pack of wolves. There was an alpha male, a wolf who led the pack, and those who followed behind. Now the model has evolved. Today we are one big swarm of people. http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/occupywallstreet
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We’ve Been Warned: The System is Ready to Blow
A crisis that has been four decades in the making will not be solved overnight. It will be difficult to recast the global monetary system to ensure that the next few years see gradual recovery rather than depression. Wall Street and the City will resist all attempts at clipping their wings. There is strong ideological resistance to the policies that make decent wages in a full employment economy feasible: capital controls, allowing strong trade unions, wage subsidies, and protectionism. But this is a fork in the road. History suggests there is no iron law of progress and there have been periods when things have got worse not better. Together, the global imbalances, the manic-depressive behaviour of stock markets, the venality of the financial sector, the growing gulf between rich and poor, the high levels of unemployment, the naked consumerism and the riots are telling us something. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/aug/14/larry-elliott-global-financial-system
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Economic Uncertainty Leading to Global Unrest
Great Britain and other parts of the world are experiencing unrest at a time of global economic uncertainty and stock market volatility. Here’s a look at what’s happening around the world and how economic downturns are bringing protestors into the streets. http://www.cnbc.com/id/44073673
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Spanish Riot Police ‘Indignant’ Over Protests
Spanish riot police said Thursday that the long hours they have been required to work this week to prevent protesters from gaining access to Madrid’s main square “is not tolerable for much longer”. Over 200 police were deployed Thursday for the third straight day to close the Puerta del Sol square and prevent demonstrators angered over the government’s handling of Spain’s economic crisis from occupying it again. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/04/spanish-riot-police-indignant-over-protests/
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Iceland’s Loud ‘No’
The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other economies? http://mondediplo.com/2011/08/02iceland
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Rupert Murdoch Dogpaddles Over the Cosmic Sewer
Rupert Murdoch is going down. He’s going down planetary wise and he is going down soul wise; ‘down, down to the bottom’. Israel’s main agent in the satanic hierarchy is dogpaddling over the suckhole of the cosmic sewer. Ordinarily, the status quo would be in quid pro quo mode but Rupert has made too many enemies among the other bad guys and that brings me to Anonymous and LulzSec (please do not hack me for telling the truth). Rupert, chief demon freak from the bathhouses of Hell is only one part of the equation; CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, MSN and a host of other lying, disinfo spewing, sewer rat enclaves are equally culpable, as are the majority of world governments and their administrative, legislative and judicial branches; which is the same thing, now that I think about it. http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2011/07/rupert-murdoch-dogpaddles-over-cosmic.html
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Occupy Wall Street — Tahrir Style
A worldwide shift in revolutionary tactics is underway right now that bodes well for the future. The spirit of this fresh tactic, a fusion of Tahrir with the acampadas of Spain, is captured in this quote:”The antiglobalization movement was the first step on the road. Back then our model was to attack the system like a pack of wolves. There was an alpha male, a wolf who led the pack, and those who followed behind. Now the model has evolved. Today we are one big swarm of people.” http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/qrswave/occupy-wall-street-tahrir-style
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Uh Oh – Italy Is Coming Apart Like a 20-Dollar Suit
Did anyone really think that Italy would be able to get through this thing without needing a bailout? Just when you thought that things in Europe could get back to normal for a little while, here comes Italy. On Friday, there was a bit of a “mini-panic” as investors started dumping Italian financial assets. European officials are concerned that the sovereign debt crisis that has ravaged Greece, Ireland and Portugal will now put the Italian economy through the wringer. http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/italy-coming-apart.html
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PASOK: Pan Hellenic Socialist Kleptocrats
A self-proclaimed “Socialist” Government in Greece is imposing by ballots and clubs the most far reaching reversals of wages, pensions, jobs, educational, health and tax programs in the history of Western Europe. http://centurean2.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/pasok-pan-hellenic-socialist-kleptocrats/
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A World Overwhelmed by Western Hypocrisy
Perhaps the height of lawlessness was attained when the Obama regime announced that it had a list of American citizens who would be assassinated without due process of law. One would think that if law any longer had any meaning in Western civilization, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, indeed, the entire Bush/Cheney regime, as well as Tony Blair and Bush’s other co-conspirators, would be standing before the International Criminal Court. Yet it is Gadaffi for whom the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants. Western powers are using the International Criminal Court, which is supposed to serve justice, for self-interested reasons that are unjust. What is Gadaffi’s crime? His crime is that he is attempting to prevent Libya from being overthrown by a US-supported, and perhaps organized, armed uprising in Eastern Libya that is being used to evict China from its oil investments in Eastern Libya. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28431.htm
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The Greek Tragedy Could Engulf Many More European States
Greece and Europe are still in crisis as the European countries scramble for a solution. The fact is that ultimately Greece has to default. The banks and other nations of the euro zone should have never allowed the situation to progress to its current stage. As we have said over and over again for 13 years, one interest rate can never fit all, because each country is at a different stage of development. The very creation of the European Union and the euro zone flies in the face of anthropological and cultural history reaching back thousands of years. That said, the leaders of the EU cannot possibly save Greece and the other five nations in serious financial trouble and save the euro and the European Union simultaneously. http://www.theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/The_Greek_Tragedy_Could_Engulf_Many_More_European_States
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‘Athens Police Worse Than Anything We’ve Seen Before’
While Americans continue their deep sleep, Greeks are raging in the streets against the banksters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoxxmGpp6HI
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Young Europeans Are Rejecting the EU and Bankster-Run Economics
The European Union is in bad shape. Not only is the common currency in a shambles and the economies of many member states moribund, but young Europeans no longer see how the EU helps them. Millions of them are taking to the streets to demand a future. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,769831,00.html
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World Revolution Not Seen on TV- Rallies Around the World
Worldwide rallies cry for peace and gather in solidarity. Western media ignores these peaceful gatherings and if they report, they focus on a few who act out (negatively). They don’t show you the thousands of videos taken by real people around the world chanting for peace and freedom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS91BaRaqZw&feature=youtu.be
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Thousands of Protesters Occupy Puerta Del Sol Square in Madrid
With tents, mattresses, a kitchen, a workshop and even a pharmacy, a protest camp in Madrid has grown into a real ‘urban village’ for thousands of young people. Under blue plastic tarpaulins, demonstrators have gathered in the landmark Puerta del Sol square in the centre of the Spanish capital,. Many of them have spent several days and nights there, to decry politicians who left Spain with a 21 per cent unemployment rate. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8525938/Thousands-of-protesters-occupy-Puerta-del-Sol-square-in-Madrid.html
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Greek State Starting to Lose Grip on Functions of State
There is a social crisis under way and I think it is different from the one our history books teach us to expect. It’s not like the cracking of the state, or mass unrest, but simply that the Greek state – whose reach was never far into society – is beginning to lose its grip slightly on the actual functions a state should do. It cannot decide its economic policy; it can’t convince its own people of any good intent; the rule of law is imposed hard here – with the impounding of yachts bought through tax evasion – only to break down somewhere else, as people begin to pledge non-payment of bills for the privatised utilities. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13783420
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Even Bill Clinton Knows It’s Over
Bill Clinton – the examplar of truth in modern America – has proposed the establishment of a government “ministry of truth” – to be run by either the United States government or the United Nations – that would supervise the content of the Internet, requiring individuals and websites to conform to agency factual standards. Such a proposal is consistent with Hillary Clinton’s long-standing interest in establishing a government “gatekeeper” for the Internet; one that would prevent just anyone from putting their opinions out into the world. Apart from the obvious 1st Amendment/fascist/1984 Orwellian/marketplace of ideas implications of such an offering – a discussion which, I trust, needs no explication on this website – I am partially encouraged by Clinton’s suggestion. It demonstrates just how desperately and feverishly the political Establishment must go in futilely trying to resist its own demise. Like the erstwhile USSR, the American Empire is in a terminal condition; some of its constituents actively considering secession and/or nullification alternatives to national (and even international) hegemony. It is not surprising, therefore, that Bill would propose a similar state-run system of mind-control with which Soviet officials sought refuge from the irresistible forces of change. http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer238.html
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Madness at the Break of Dawn
I can see the power of the malefactors diminishing by the moment. I can see Israel moving toward deserving trouble and loss. I see Israelis leaving Israel in droves and I have prayed that the location would be increasingly distasteful to them and so it is. It’s as if some force is doing exactly this. The madness, oh the madness; things like this are routine. Congressman Weiner was sending pictures to a porn actress. When she was asked why she was involved in this she said, “I felt like I was slumming”. Now, that says it all. http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/
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Greek Government Has Hired Foreign Workers to Clean Out Underground Tunnel in Preparation for an Evacuation of MPs
The situation here is getting completely out of control. I really don’t know how much longer the people will be willing to wait this thing out. The mood here in Athens is one of intense disillusionment with a government that seems increasingly detached from its own people. http://coveringdelta.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/the-greek-government-has-hired-foreign-workers-to-clean-out-the-underground-tunnel-leading-from-the-parliament-to-the-sea-port-of-piraeus-in-preparation-for-an-evacuation-of-all-mps/
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Bilderbergers Build Wall to Hide Attendees
Irked by growing coverage of their formerly secret event, the Bilderbergers are erecting a veil around the hotel at St. Moritz in the Engadine valley of Switzerland. http://www.infowars.com/bilderbergers-build-wall-to-hide-attendees/
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A European Generation Takes to the Streets
There is a feeling that unites young people throughout Europe, namely the belief that they will not be able to attain the same level of prosperity as their parents did. They feel that they have no future. They are well-trained, and yet they are not finding any jobs. This feeling has been smoldering for years, affecting the generation of “crisis children,” who grew up in a world shaped by economic and other crises, but who never took to the streets to fight for their interests. But a fundamental change is taking place. On March 12, 200,000 people marched down the Avenida de Liberdade, or Avenue of Freedom, in Lisbon. It was the biggest demonstration in Portugal since the 1974 Carnation Revolution, a march of the lost generation. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,767032,00.html
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Welcome to the Violent World of Mr. Hopey Changey
When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed … murdered … I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt”. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in 1951, should be driven “into the gutter from which they should never have emerged”. The language of colonialism may have been modified; the spirit and the hypocrisy are unchanged. A new imperial phase is unfolding in direct response to the Arab uprising that began in January and has shocked Washington and Europe, causing an Eden-style panic. The loss of the Egyptian tyrant Mubarak was grievous, though not irretrievable; an American-backed counter-revolution is under way as the military regime in Cairo is seduced with new bribes and power shifting from the street to political groups that did not initiate the revolution. The Western aim, as ever, is to stop authentic democracy and reclaim control. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28194.htm
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In The Arab World And Elsewhere, People Are Resisting Washington’s One-Worldism
Today, nations seem everywhere to be coming apart. Is the future more likely to bring deepening global integration, or continued disintegration, as we saw with the collapse and breakup of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia into 24 nations, separated along the lines of ethnicity, culture and faith? What America has on offer to the world is democratic pluralism. Unlike the Founding Fathers and every generation before 1960, all of which sought to keep us European and Christian, we declare to the world that diversity—religious, racial, ethnic, cultural, the more the better—is now the American ideal. In 1960, 97 percent of all Americans spoke English. Today, we take pride in the fact that Americans speak hundreds of languages. http://vdare.com/buchanan/110526_democratic_dawn.htm
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Lebanese Party Warns Against West’s Military Intervention in Syria
The head of Lebanon’s Towhid Party Wa’am Wahhab warned the western countries against a military intervention in Syria, and vowed that in case the West wages an attack on the Arab state, thousands of rockets and missiles will rain down on Israel. http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9003022477
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Riders of the Storm
The tides of history are moving fast, these days. It’s hard for the average human being – who, after all, has a life to live, filled with troubles that are small in scale but no less earthshaking to the individuals experiencing them – to make sense of it all. Indeed, even the so-called “experts” are baffled, at this point – with U.S. policymakers among the most clueless, and the most resistant to the great sea change enveloping much of the world. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/05/15/riders-of-the-storm/
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Syrian Tinderbox
As Europe headed toward the first world war, lining up rival blocs of states and massing armies on borders, the focus of their escalating rivalry was centered in the Balkans. Indeed, after the Great War, the word “balkanization” was coined to indicate a hopelessly divided region seething with sectarian and nationalist tensions, and the “Balkan tinderbox” was a phrase often invoked by historians to describe the précis to the bloody slaughter. The Balkans of today’s world are undoubtedly the Middle East, and specifically the region once known as Greater Syria, which encompasses not only Syria but also Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and parts of Iraq. Here is the crossroads of the world, where the three great religions – Christianity, Judaism, and Mohammedanism – meet and merge in conterminous contention, elbowing and quarreling with one another in a multi-family feud that – more often than not – ends in bloodshed. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/04/24/syrian-tinderbox/
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The System Is A Social Disease
Western culture developed in its subjects a self-centered pursuit of personal gain and disrespect for social organization. Beyond wars, when community is identified as nation, the western program teaches i-me-mine to the exclusion of we-us-ours, unless addressing identity groups not yet fully market incorporated. Older cultures were treated as primitive for their communalism, their attachment to place and their lack of individualist obsession. But the development of personal ego and private property that was progressive to some was socially regressive to others. http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/category/strip-mine-science/
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Is Tribalism the Future?
Czechoslovakia was an artificial nation, its borders drawn up by Allied mapmakers to compensate the Czechs who had risen up against the Habsburg Empire and helped to defeat the Kaiser. The world today is like Czechoslovakia 1938, only infinitely more so. In this young century, America has gone to war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Pakistan. Belatedly, in all four, we discovered that, before we plunged in, we knew nothing of the complexity of these countries. http://vdare.com/buchanan/110407_tribal.htm
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Al Qaeda: Pawns of CIA Insurrection from Libya to Yemen
After two weeks of imperialist attack, Libya is being mangled by Al Qaeda terrorists, civil war, NATO air raids, cruise missiles, Predator drones, and C-130 gunships – all made possible by the CIA-backed Al Qaeda rebels of Cyrenaica. US, British, French, and Dutch commandos have taken leadership of the rebel forces, and are arming them with modern weapons in flagrant violation of the arms embargo specified in UN Security Council resolution 1973. Al Qaeda is also stealing heavy weapons on its own, as the president of Chad has reported. The singing tomorrows of the fatuous US-UK color revolution rhetoric have dissolved, exposing the hideous reality of a brutal, cynical, imperialist drive to destroy the modern nation-state itself. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27819.htm
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The Arab Awakening, Hijacked?
Western attempts to hijack the Arab Awakening are necessarily limited to those countries – few in number – where Washington isn’t allied with the local tyrant. From the steppes of Central Asia, where US-supported potentates sit atop a growing proportion of the world’s oil supply, to the mouth of the Mediterranean, the American eagle has sheltered dozens of emirs, kings, and presidents-for-life under its overstretched wings. If the US winds up trading Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, and some of the Gulf states for Libya and possibly Syria, that’s a net loss by any accounting. Hillary Clinton’s State Department, a prime mover behind this war, is determined to reverse this trend. The idea is to turn the crisis into an opportunity for the expansion of US influence, and give the empire a much-needed buttressing. The President, confronted with the full-bore self-righteousness of the “humanitarian” crowd on his left, and amid rising cries of “Who lost Libya?” on his right, realized he was politically boxed in, and retreated from the field. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/04/03/the-arab-awakening-hijacked/
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Jihad Hunters vs. the Neo-Cons
When David Horowitz starts throwing around the label “neoconservative” as if it were a four-letter word, you know a real schism is at hand. That’s because right-wing jihad hunters like Horowitz, Caroline Glick and others are reaching levels of near hysteria over the prospect of Islamic movements gaining political power in a post-revolution Middle East, particularly right now in Egypt. Sure, they believe everyone has the inalienable right to freedom, but not if they live on “hostile soil” or when it is not in America’s “core regional interests.” Under those circumstances, the despots and dictators—as long as they are pro-western and maintain vital security agreements with Israel—are always preferred. http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2011/03/28/jihad-hunters-vs-the-neocons/
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Obama Doesn’t Get It
Barack Obama, the US president, has still not fully grasped the essence of the revolutions underway in the Arab world. He genuinely seems to believe that the people rallying for democracy in the region are making a pro-Western, if not pro-Israeli, statement. “All the forces that we’re seeing at work in Egypt are forces that naturally should be aligned with us, should be aligned with Israel – if we make good decisions now and we understand sort of the sweep of history,” Obama recently told a group of Democrats in Florida. I am not sure how Obama drew this conclusion, but he is either terribly misinformed or engaged in a serious bout of wishful thinking. His statements, however, echo the assessments of many American pundits, some of whom have been celebrating the fact that anti-Israeli or American slogans have not dominated the recent and ongoing uprisings. It is true that the protesters are not focusing on Israel. But to say that these forces could be natural allies of Israel and the West is to take a huge leap into a highly inaccurate assessment of the situation. The US president is misreading the message of the protesting Arab masses. http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/20113911948670383.html
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‘Libya’ Does Not Exist
The fiction of “Libya” is falling by the wayside. What will succeed it remains an open question. However, Western intervention, if and when it occurs, cannot bring stability to a “nation” that never really existed in the first place. The great Arab Awakening now sweeping North Africa and the Middle East is not only bringing down the old order of Western-supported dynasties, and tinpot dictators of Gadhafi’s ilk – it is also erasing arbitrary borders drawn by Western colonizers and Ottoman caliphs, and redrawing them to reflect underlying realities more accurately. Any attempt by the West to intervene, and favor one outcome over another, is bound to draw the ire of indigenous peoples – and redirect their anger away from local despots, and towards us. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/03/13/libya-does-not-exist/
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America’s Secret Plan to Arm Libya’s Rebels
Desperate to avoid US military involvement in Libya in the event of a prolonged struggle between the Gaddafi regime and its opponents, the Americans have asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi. The Saudi Kingdom, already facing a “day of rage” from its 10 per cent Shia Muslim community on Friday, with a ban on all demonstrations, has so far failed to respond to Washington’s highly classified request, although King Abdullah personally loathes the Libyan leader, who tried to assassinate him just over a year ago. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/americas-secret-plan-to-arm-libyas-rebels-2234227.html
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How the So-Called Guardians of Free Speech are Silencing the Messenger
As the United States and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is familiar. Colonel Gaddafi is “delusional” and “blood-drenched” while the authors of an invasion that killed a million Iraqis, who have kidnapped and tortured in our name, are entirely sane, never blood-drenched and once again the arbiters of “stability”. http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=237264
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U.S. Contracting Tech Firms for Revolutions
As previously reported, the U.S. State Department manages a vast array of extra-legal networks of NGOs, propaganda outlets, and organizations like Movements.org that are literally recruiting and training foreign protesters and supporting their efforts as they return home to incite unrest and regime change. It was described how Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was literally sitting on the Broadcasting Board of Governors which oversees “news agencies” like Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Free Asia. Washington Post has now revealed that the US State Department, Department of Defense, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors are all funding technology companies and NGOs (amusingly referred to as “human rights groups”) who are providing protesters across the Middle East and North Africa with means to facilitate their online activities including circumventing cyber-security measures employed by target nations. http://www.activistpost.com/2011/03/us-contracting-tech-firms-for.html
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The Embarrassments of Empire
From Egypt to Pakistan, February 2011 will be remembered as a month unusually full of the embarrassments of empire. Americans were enthralled by a spectacle of liberty in which we felt we should somehow be playing a part. Here were popular movements toward self-government, which might once have looked to the United States as an exemplar, springing up all across North Africa and the Middle East. Why did they not look up to us now? The answer became clearer with every equivocal word of the Obama administration, and every false step it took in trying to manage the crisis. A person suffers embarrassment when something true about himself emerges in spite of reasonable efforts to conceal it. It is the same with nations. Sovereign nations are abstract entities, of course — they cannot have feelings as people do — but there are times when they would blush if they could. http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog//175365/
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Fed Monetization is a Political Power Tool
The result of Western intervention in the Middle East has been and will continue to be a collective general collapse of current regimes. The replacement will supposedly be populist governments, when in fact that will not be the case. From behind the scenes will emerge leadership tied to the CIA, MI6 and the Mossad. These new governments will look like they are anti-west and anti-capitalist, but that will not be the case. Their overthrows have been in the works for years and all the new players are in place. Unrest will probably continue over several months perhaps for a year. A solution will be found for Libya and the West hopes their puppet regime in Saudi Arabia stays in place. Nigeria has its own problems and seems calm except for the ongoing civil war between Christians and Muslims. That has been progress for 50 years between the Ibo and the Hunza tribes. The Christians have learned to live with the majority Muslim government. Iraq has its own set of problems politically, but the country is still guarded by 50,000 or more US troops, as Western oil interests pump their oil as fast as possible. http://www.theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/Fed_Monetisation_is_a_Political_Power_Tool
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Iraqi Protests Make Washington Squirm
Unlike Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and other Arab states for which the United States has been blamed for giving dictators aid and comfort over the years, Washington is much more directly responsible for the conditions Iraqis are fighting against today. It helped now-embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki into office in 2006, and strengthened his hand by using superior American firepower to pacify his enemies during the 2007 Surge. It armed and trained Iraqi security forces to look just like American security forces. It turned a blind eye to the building corruption, prisoner abuse, sex trafficking, and blatant civil injustice over the last two years, and now that those same security forces are turning against protesters and journalists, Washington is again, silent. http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2011/03/07/why-the-iraq-protests-are-so-hard-to-watch/
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This Time We’re Taking the Whole Planet With Us
The unrest in the Middle East, the implosion of national economies such as those of Ireland and Greece, the increasing anger of a beleaguered working class at home and abroad, the growing desperate human migrations and the refusal to halt our relentless destruction of the ecosystem on which life depends are the harbingers of our own collapse and the consequences of the idiocy of our elite and the folly of globalization. Protests that are not built around a complete reconfiguration of American society, including a rapid dismantling of empire and the corporate state, can only forestall the inevitable. We will be saved only with the birth of a new and militant radicalism which seeks to dethrone our corrupt elite from power, not negotiate for better terms. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27627.htm
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Morally Indignant Sharks Circle Libya
The U.S. media, perfectly described by Israeli thinker Uri Avnery as “a mixture of propaganda, news and entertainment,” is steaming with righteous indignation over the awfulness of Libya’s wicked Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, and is once again baying for his blood. “On to Libya! Down with the Tyrant of Tripoli!” That’s the latest hue and cry from North America’s lynch mob of right wingers, jingoistic media, and neoconservative jackals. Once again there’s talk of war against a small, almost defenseless nation that can’t seriously fight back. What Imperial Britain used to call, “a jolly little war.” War fever over Libya is gripping the United States. After a hiatus of nine years, in which he was a useful ally to western interests, Col. Muammar Gadaffi is once again the monster we love to hate. It’s damned hard trying to keep track of when we love him and when we hate him. Not so long ago he was our bosom buddy in the “war on terror.” Now, he’s a devil all over again. http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis230.html
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Gaddafi: Crackdown Modeled After Israel
Embattled Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi has compared his brutal crackdown on protesters with Israel’s 2009 war on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Gaddafi, whose crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators have so far left thousands of people dead, said what is going on in Libya is the same as what Israel has done against “al-Qaeda terrorists” in the Gaza Strip. “Even the Israelis in Gaza, when they moved into the Gaza Strip, they moved in with tanks to fight such extremists. It’s the same thing here,” France 24 quoted Gaddafi as saying. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/168680.html
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The Creeping Militarization of the Libyan Crisis
The howling hypocrisy of the American response to the uprising in Libya has been so jaw-dropping and nauseating that I’ve hardly been able to address it. Fortunately, Seamus Milne is on the case, and voices much of my thinking about the matter: The same western leaders who happily armed and did business with the Gaddafi regime until a fortnight ago have now slapped sanctions on the discarded autocrat and blithely referred him to the international criminal court the United States won’t recognise. Yes, does this not, as they say, take the cake … and the plate and the forks and the napkins too? The United States pushing through a measure to refer Libyan leaders to an international court which the United States resolutely refuses to recognize — lest its own leaders and their underlings find themselves in the dock for the most monstrous war crimes of this century? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27614.htm
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Israel Intervening in Libya
In a move that surprises all but Middle East experts, Israel has promised Libya’s dictator of over 40 years, Colonel Gaddafi, 50,000 troops to aid in crushing rebels set on overthrowing his his murderous rule. According to news sources inside Israel, “troops” are being hired across Africa, Uganda, Sudan, Chad and the Central Africa Republic, including Al Qaeda fighters, to be deployed against demonstrators and rebel forces currently involved in heavy fighting in a two week old attempt to overthrow the Libyan ruler that has left thousands dead. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/03/gordon-duff-israel-intervenes-in-libya-for-gaddafi/
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Uncle NED Comes Calling
It is difficult to conceive of how a nation that was founded to defend individual rights and liberties has moved so far from its moorings that it has now embraced exporting democracy and nation building worldwide as its principal raison d’etre. Common sense and human decency together dictate that Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya, having suffered so much, should be allowed to establish their own forms of government. But if you had hoped that the United States would just let the Egyptians and others get on with the process and elect a representative parliament, you would be wrong. http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2011/03/02/uncle-ned-comes-calling/
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Roots of the Arab Revolts and Premature Celebrations
Most accounts of the Arab revolts from Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq and elsewhere have focused on the most immediate causes: political dictatorships, unemployment, repression and the wounding and killing of protestors. They have given most attention to the “middle class”, young, educated activists, their communication via the internet and, in the case of Israel and its Zionists conspiracy theorists, “the hidden hand” of Islamic extremists. What is lacking is any attempt to provide a framework for the revolt which takes account of the large scale, long and medium term socio-economic structures as well as the immediate ‘detonators’ of political action. The scope and depth of the popular uprisings, as well as the diverse political and social forces which have entered into the conflicts, preclude any explanations which look at one dimension of the struggles. http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/03/roots-of-the-arab-revolts-and-premature-celebrations/
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The Protocols of the Learned Elders of OPEC
The latest neocon nonsense: those Ay-rabs are behind the financial collapse. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/03/01/the-protocols-of-the-learned-elders-of-opec/
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Report: U.S. Special Forces Arrive In Libya
U.S. Special Forces have reportedly landed in Libya to train anti-Gaddafi rebels as a western-backed coup d’état in the oil-rich nation nears, with British and French “defense advisors” also arriving to set up training bases in the rebel-controlled eastern region of the country. According to a report in the Pakistan Observer, hundreds of special forces personnel from the U.S., Britain and France arrived on February 23 and 24 in “American and French warships and small naval boats off Libyan ports of Benghazi and Tobruk.” http://www.infowars.com/report-us-special-forces-arrive-in-libya/
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Celente: Blood in the Streets if Economy Continues to Deteriorate
Trend forecaster Gerald Celente, of the Trends Research Institute, says that the further expansion of government austerity measures and impoverishment of the majority of the world’s populace will lead to more violence, riots and revolutions. http://www.shtfplan.com/gerald-celente/celente-when-the-money-stops-flowing-down-to-the-man-in-the-street-the-blood-starts-flowing-in-the-streets_02252011
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Farrakhan: Mideast Uprisings Will Come to U.S.
Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan predicted on Sunday that America faces imminent uprisings that mirror those in the Middle East. “What you are looking at in Tunisia, in Egypt, Libya, in Bahrain what you see happening there you’d better prepare because it will be coming to your door,” Farrakhan said in a booming voice, thousands of followers cheering in his wake. http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2011/02/farrakhan_midea.php
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Their Rebellions and Our Wars
Right now, at the invaluable Antiwar.com website — overflowing with blazing headlines — you can see two worlds of trouble awkwardly intertwined. The first is a Middle East newly afire, one in which Muammar Qaddafi’s rotting, mad regime is shrinking to the size of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, while the rest of the region continues to light up with protest. In Iraq, tens of thousands of demonstrators ignored government warnings and curfews to attend a nationwide “day of rage” for a better life, “storming provincial government offices in several cities” and forcing government officials to resign, even as they faced tear gas, batons, and in some cases real bullets. Elsewhere nervous rulers were moving to placate their restless, angry populations, including 87-year-old Saudi King Abdullah, a sclerotic, American-backed autocrat who just announced a massive $36 billion package of benefits (think: bribe) aimed at his own people, lest they, too, get out of hand. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/01-1
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How Will America Handle the Fall of Its Middle East Empire?
Today, it is reasonable to ask whether the United States, seemingly invincible a decade ago, will follow the same trajectory. America has suffered two convulsive blows in the last three years. The first was the financial crisis of 2008, whose consequences are yet to be properly felt. Although the immediate cause was the debacle in the mortgage market, the underlying problem was chronic imbalance in the economy. For a number of years, America has been incapable of funding its domestic programmes and overseas commitments without resorting to massive help from China, its global rival. China has a pressing motive to assist: it needs to sustain US demand in order to provide a market for its exports and thus avert an economic crisis of its own. This situation is the contemporary equivalent of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), the doctrine which prevented nuclear war breaking out between America and Russia. Unlike MAD, this pact is unsustainable. But Barack Obama has not sought to address the problem. Instead, he responded to the crisis with the same failed policies that caused the trouble in the first place: easy credit and yet more debt. It is certain that America will, in due course, be forced into a massive adjustment both to its living standards at home and its commitments abroad. This matters because, following the second convulsive blow, America’s global interests are under threat on a scale never before seen. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100077625/how-will-america-handle-the-fall-of-its-middle-east-empire/
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War Uber Alles
The United States government cannot get enough of war. With Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s regime falling to a rebelling population, CNN reports that a Pentagon spokesman said that the U.S. is looking at all options from the military side. http://original.antiwar.com/paul-craig-roberts/2011/02/25/war-uber-alles/
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Americans Should Support the Public Unions’ Fight Against Occupying Economic Imperialists
The sad truth is that most people are still fighting yesterday’s war. The Republican vs. Democrat charade — good cop, bad cop nonsense — is a mere smokescreen. Don’t be confused by obsolete preconceptions and propaganda. There is one war being fought, The Global Economic Elite Vs. The People. A global banking cartel has looted nation after nation, the world over, the United States is no exception. They’ve looted trillions from the US public and now they are trying to cut the throat of the public unions. While in the process of attacking private-sector workers and small businesses throughout the country, they are also cracking down on the last layer of worker protections within the public-sector. http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/02/overcoming-divide-and-conquer.html
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Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak
As the Washington historian William Blum has documented, since 1945, the US has destroyed or subverted more than 50 governments, many of them democracies, and used mass murderers like Suharto, Mobutu and Pinochet to dominate by proxy. In the Middle East, every dictatorship and pseudo-monarchy has been sustained by America. In “Operation Cyclone,” the CIA and MI6 secretly fostered and bankrolled Islamic extremism. The object was to smash or deter nationalism and democracy. The victims of this western state terrorism have been mostly Muslims. The courageous people gunned down last week in Bahrain and Libya, the latter a “priority UK market,” according to Britain’s official arms “procurers,” join those children blown to bits in Gaza by the latest American F-16 aircraft. The revolt in the Arab world is not merely against a resident dictator but a worldwide economic tyranny designed by the US Treasury and imposed by the US Agency for International Development, the IMF and World Bank, which have ensured that rich countries like Egypt are reduced to vast sweatshops, with half the population earning less than $2 a day. The people’s triumph in Cairo was the first blow against what Benito Mussolini called corporatism, a word that appears in his definition of fascism. http://www.lewrockwell.com/pilger/pilger92.1.html
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It’s Not an Arab Revolution, It’s a Global Revolution
While the revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other North African countries may seem like an “Arab revolt”, it’s actually worldwide. Protests involving thousands of protesters have recently been held in: Greece, India, North Korea, China, Halabja, Kut, Sulaimaniya and other Iraqi towns, Iran, and elsewhere. The worldwide riots are not mysterious or unforeseeable. They’ve been predicted for years, and are a direct result of the bad policy choices made by most nations worldwide. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/02/its-not-arab-revolution-its-global.html
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The Israeli Fallacy is Over
Regardless of how it all ends, (the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt) they have exposed the fallacies of Israel as never before. What is at stake is the fallacy that Israel is a stable, civilised western island in the stormy sea of barbarism and Arab Islamic fanaticism. The “danger” for Israel is that the mapping is the same, but the geography changes. The country would still be an island, but of barbarity and fanaticism in a sea of democratic and egalitarian States recently formed. http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/19-02-2011/116945-The_Israeli_fallacy_is_over-0/
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Bahrain: Uprising Against the U.S.-Backed Regime Gains Critical Mass
Men, women and children have lost their fear. After a brutal crackdown by the state last week, which resulted in seven civilians murdered and hundreds injured, failed to crush the uprising, the people are now increasingly emboldened and determined to demand the overthrow of the Al Khalifa regime. http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23348
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Troopers Would ‘Absolutely’ Use Force on Wisconsin Protesters if Ordered, Police Union President Says
Amid the largest protests Madison, Wisconsin has seen in decades, newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker last week issued a stark message to public labor unions occupying the capitol building: we have options, and using the National Guard against protesters is among them. Since then, a myrad of rumors have circulated through crowds gathered at the state capitol, united in protest of a bill that would strip public unions of their collective bargaining rights. One rumor, which had not yet come to pass, even suggested that like Egypt’s former dictator did in Tahrir Square, Gov. Walker may call in police to forcibly clear out the capitol. And according to a Wisconsin police union president, whether the police agree or disagree with their governor’s politics, they would “absolutely” carry out any order given to them … even if that order included using force against their fellow Americans gathered in peaceful protest. http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=127394
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Budget Deficits, Pension Plans, and the Seeds of Rebellion
“Is the world finally cracking up?” we wondered aloud in these pages earlier this week. From the look of events unfolding across the volatile Middle East and North Africa region, it certainly seemed so. Governments are toppling, buildings are ablaze and protesters are “speak-to-tweeting” their way to freedom…of a sort. But what about closer to home, back in the belly of the empire? It’s one thing for far-flung outposts to collapse, for the “uncivilized,” “unwashed” masses beyond the gates to storm their capital buildings and raise hell. But surely that couldn’t happen here, could it? Of course it could. The existence of the state virtually guarantees it! http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig12/bowman-joel1.1.1.html
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They’re Doing It Without Us
The ongoing upheaval in the Arab world (and in Iran) has rendered a definitive judgment on U.S. policy over the last decade. Relying on their own resources and employing means of their own devising, the people of the Middle East intent on transforming that region have effectively consigned the entire “war on terror” to the category of strategic irrelevance. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bacevich-war-20110220,0,1400493.story
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Bolivian President Evo Morales Flees Town Ahead of Speech After Angry Miners Throw Dynamite in Protest at Food Shortages
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has abruptly abandoned a mining town after protesters angered by rising prices booed him and set off dynamite. Morales was due to speak on the anniversary of a colonial uprising in Oruro but canceled plans to participate in a march yesterday after demonstrations against rising food prices and shortages. There were also protests in the Bolivian capital of La Paz, and the cities of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356018/Bolivian-President-Evo-Morales-flees-town-angry-miners-throw-dynamite-protest-food-shortages.html#ixzz1Dl9CCFul
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