"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John Hay - (1838-1905) American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln
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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,800www.icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,792
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US Kills Over 120 People In 2 Days
By Press TV
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US Killed Over 1,500 Afghan Civilians in 10 Months
By Gareth Porter
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Murder as Instrument of Foreign Policy
By Liaquat Ali Khan
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It Doesn't Matter To Them If It's Untrue. It's a Higher Truth.
By William Blum
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Innocence No Impediment For Imprisonment In US Gulag
Guantanamo Court Can't Free Bomb Suspect Even if Found Not Guilty
By Jane Sutton
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Western Democracy: A Farce And A Sham
By Paul Craig Roberts
Western "civilization" is totally corrupted by American money.
There is no integrity anywhere. For a decade Washington has been
murdering women, children, village elders, and journalists in the name
of the hoax "war on terror."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29606.htm
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US Planning Iran Attack?
Tehran Ready For Worst
By AFP
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MF Global Client Theft Estimate Doubled To $1.5 Billion?
By Tyler Durden
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Jobs Now, Stop the Foreclosures, Jail the Banksters
By Bill Black - Real News
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Poorest Poor in U.S. Hits New Record
By AP
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Occupy Oakland Strike vs Tear Gas, Fashbangs, Rubber Bullets
By RT
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Occupy and the Militarisation of Policing Protest
By Ayesha Kazmi
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Thirty Of America's Most Profitable Companies Paid
'Less Than Zero' In Income Taxes In Last 3 Years:
By Jillian Berman
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Gates Backs the Wall Street Tax at the G20 Summit
By Sarah Anderson
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The Powerful Know We Are Right
Occupy Demands: Let's Radicalise our Analysis
By Robert Jensen
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32 people killed in twin bombing in Iraq:
Up to 32 people, mostly members of "Al-Sahwa" paramilitary squad
and government regular forces, died in a twin suicidal bombing that
targeted the irregular force a medics in the province of Diyala
northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, police said in an updated report.
http://tinyurl.com/3we9ocy
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Basra bomb attack killed 'at least eight': -
At least eight people were killed and dozens more injured by three
bomb blasts in Basra, the centre of Iraq's oil industry 420 kilometres
south of Baghdad.
http://tinyurl.com/4yqzx77
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Four killed in Baghdad bombs:
Police say a roadside bomb exploded around 6:30 p.m. Thursday in
the upscale and mostly Shiite neighborhood of Karradah, killing two
passers-by.
http://tinyurl.com/43oca37
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Afghanistan: 7 Killed in Foreign Construction Company Attack in Herat:
At least five suicide bombers and two security guards were killed
on Thursday morning when insurgents attacked a foreign construction
compound in western Herat province, local officials said.
http://tinyurl.com/4xvscyj
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Murder Inc - US kills 3 in NW Pakistan:
The CIA-operated spy plane fired two missiles at the house in Dande
Darpakhel area along the border with Afghanistan, TV news channels
quoted officials as saying. The house was destroyed in the attack.
http://tinyurl.com/3j7b2g5
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Syria: At least 12 dead as number of army defectors reaches 15,000:
Rights activists said at least 12 Syrian civilians were killed
Thursday by security forces, one day after Damascus announced its
acceptance of the initiative put forward by the Arab League to resolve
the crisis.
http://tinyurl.com/3na5ol9
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Syrians rally in support of Assad govt.:
Tens of thousands of people on Thursday took to the streets of
Tartous, northwest of Damascus, chanting slogans in support of the
government and holding pictures of President Assad.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/208191.html
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Iranian Commander: Attack on Syria will put an end to U.S. existence:
Chairman of Iran's Joint Chiefs of Staff Hassan Firouzabadi warned
on Wednesday that any possible attack on Syria will put an end to the
existence of the United States and the Zionist regime.
http://www.abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=276191
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Israeli troops 'kill two in Gaza':
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Egypt: "We Will Not Allow Israel To Attack Gaza":
Egyptian security leaders stated that they believe Israel still
intends to conduct a large-scale military offensive against the Gaza
Strip, despite extensive Egyptian efforts to maintain calm, and added
that Egypt will not allow Israeli to cross "Red Lines".
http://www.imemc.org/article/62424
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Israel sending signals of attack on Iran:
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Israel attack on Iran military suicide:
There is a strong speculation that Israel is bound to mount an
attack on Iranian nuclear sites, a threat which the Zionist regime has
frequently repeated and an idea which, if translated into action, will
bring about apocalyptic consequences for the Zionist entity.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/208047.html
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Israel ready to stop Gaza-bound ships:
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Kick them out:
Israel freezes UNESCO funding after Palestinian membership:
Netanyahu decides to hold $2 million Israel transfers to UN
cultural body yearly; Israel decided Tuesday to expedite illegal
settlement building in West Bank in response to PA's UNESCO membership.
http://tinyurl.com/6cpvdx8
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Much blood will yet be shed in Libya:
Days after Gaddafi was buried, the flag of Al Qaeda is flying in
Libya and sharia law has been imposed. Now, many rebel fighters fear
the rise of a hardline Islamist state - and will fight to the death to
stop it
http://tinyurl.com/4yqjrd5
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Rape in progress:
IMF to meet with Libya''s TNC officials:
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Greece backs away from bailout referendum: Papandreou signals retreat as party rebels: reports
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Occupy Oakland protesters, police injured in violent clash:
Three protesters were hospitalized and several officers received
minor injuries after Occupy Oakland protesters took over a downtown
office building and police in riot gear fired tear gas at them
http://tinyurl.com/3l5mwa2
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In Pictures Occupy Oakland November 02, 2011 -
The Oakland general strike called by Occupy Oakland drew thousands
Wednesday for rallies and marches. The mostly peaceful event turned
chaotic early Thursday after protesters took over a vacant building and
police moved in, firing tear gas and flashbang grenades.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_19247017
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Thousands of Kids Taken From Parents In U.S. Deportation System:
Clara's eldest kid was 6 years old and her youngest just a year
old when it happened. Josefina's baby was 9 months. All three children
were ripped from their mothers and sent to live in foster homes with
strangers.
http://tinyurl.com/3uuc2oq
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No End to the Shameful Treatment of Omar Khadr:
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"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
Western Democracy: A Farce And A Sham
By Paul Craig Roberts
Updated Below
November 03, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Every day that passes adds to the fraudulent image of what is called Western democracy.
Consider that the entire Western world is outraged
that the Greek prime minister announced that he is going to permit the
Greek people to decide their own fate instead of having it decided for
them by a handful of banksters, politicians, and bureaucrats living it
up at taxpayer expense at “talks” in the French resort of Cannes on the
Mediterranean.
The Greek economy is facing its fourth year of
decline and lacks the revenues to service its national debt held by
private European banks. The banks don’t want to lose any money, so a
handful of power brokers reached an agreement with representatives of
the Greek government to write off some of the debt in exchange for EU
capital subsidies to be financed by inflicting severe austerity on the
Greek population. Wages, salaries, pensions and medical care are being
cut while the rate of unemployment rises to depression levels.
Government employees are laid off. Valuable public properties are to be
sold to private parties for pennies on the dollar. In short, Greece is
to be looted.
Large numbers of Greeks have been in the streets
protesting the austerity policy and have reached the point of anger of
throwing Molotov cocktails at the police. Greece is disintegrating
politically. The Greek people sense that the EU “bailout” is not bailing
out Greece. It is bailing out the French, Dutch, and German banks at
the expense of the Greek people.
The Greek prime minister, watching his party’s
support and power crumble, announced that he would let the people decide
in a referendum. After all, allegedly that’s what democracies do. But
it turns out that “we have freedom and democracy” is not supposed to be
taken literally. It is merely a propagandistic slogan behind which
people are ruled through back-room deals decided by powerful private
interests.
The Greek prime minister’s announcement that he
would put the back-room bailout deal to a referendum shocked the EU
hierarchy, Washington, and investors. Who does this Greek guy think he
is permitting the people, who bear the cost of the deal, to have a say
in it? Who let this Greek guy out of his cage? This is not the way
democracies are ruled.
The EU power brokers are outraged over the Greek
prime minister’s departure from normal procedure. But the Greek PM is
relying on the Greek people to approve the deal, and not without reason.
The Greek people have been brainwashed for decades
as to the importance of “being part of Europe.” That means being a
member of the European Union. When the Greeks realize that voting down
the bailout of the banksters means being thrown out of the European
Union, which is what they will learn between now and the referendum,
they will vote for the back room deal.
Polls already indicate this. A poll for a Greek
newspaper indicates that whereas 46% oppose the bailout, 70% favor
staying in the EU, which the Greeks see as a life or death issue.
If this poll is a reliable indicator, the Greek PM
has made a brilliant political decision. The Greek people will vote in
favor of what they have been protesting violently in the streets. As the
Greek people will do themselves in, the politicians are off the hook.
This is the bet that the Greek PM has placed.
Whatever the outcome, keep in mind that the entire
Western political and investor world was shocked that a politician,
instead of simply imposing a back room deal, said he would let the
people decide. Letting the people decide is a no-no in Western
democracies.
If you need more evidence of this mythical
creature called “Western democracy,” consider that Western governments
are no longer accountable to law. Contrast, for example, the sexual
harassment charges that are plaguing US presidential candidate Herman
Cain’s campaign with the pass given to high government officials who
clearly violated statutory law.
What follows is not a defense of Cain. I take no
position on the charges. The real point is different. In America the
only thing that can ruin a politician is his interest in sex. A
politician, for example, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, B. Omama, cannot
be ruined by violating United States and international law or by
treating the US Constitution as a “mere scrap of paper.” Bush and Cheney
can take America to wars based entirely on lies and orchestrated
deceptions. They can commit war crimes, murdering large numbers of
civilians in the cause of “the war on terror,” itself a hoax. They can
violate US and international laws against torture simply “because the
president said so.” They
can throw away habeas corpus, the constitutional
requirement that a person cannot be imprisoned without evidence
presented to a court. They can deny the right to an attorney. They can
violate the law and spy on Americans without obtaining warrants. They
can send due process to hell. In fact, they can do whatever they want
just like Hitler’s Gestapo and Stalin’s secret police. But if they show
undue interest in a woman or proposition a woman, they are dead meat.
Very few commentators have said a word about this.
The House of Representatives did not impeach President Bill Clinton for
his war crimes against Serbia. They impeached him for lying about a
sexual affair with a White House intern. The US Senate, which had too
many sexual affairs of its own to defend, didn’t bother to try to
convict.
This is Amerika today. A president without any
authority whatsoever, not in law and certainly not in the Constitution,
can assassinate US citizens based on nothing except an assertion that
they are a “threat.” No evidence is required. No conviction. No
presentation of evidence in any court. Just a murder. That is now
permissible to the Amerikan president. But let him try to get a woman
who is not his wife into bed, and he is a cooked goose.
In Amerika there is no such thing any longer as
torture; there is only “enhanced interrogation.” A mere word change has
eliminated the crime. So torture is permissible.
In Amerika today, or in the UK and the EU, anyone
who tells the truth is a “threat.” Julian Assange of Wikileaks, who made
public information leaked to him by US government sources horrified by
the criminal actions of the United States government, is now, as a
result of Amerikan pressure on UK courts, being turned over to Sweden,
which, for favors from the “world’s only superpower,” will turn him over
to the US regardless of law to be prosecuted on trumped-up charges.
Western “civilization” is totally corrupted by
American money. There is no integrity anywhere. For a decade Washington
has been murdering women, children, village elders, and journalists in
the name of the hoax “war on terror.”
What terror does the world actually see? The world
sees the terror that Israel, protected by Washington, inflicts on the
Palestinians. The world sees the terror that the US inflicts on Serbia,
Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Latin America and
now Africa, with Syria, Lebanon, and Iran waiting in the wings. The “war
on terror” is nothing but an orchestrated invented excuse for
Amerika-Israel to achieve hegemony while enriching their armaments
industries.
In Greece, at least the PM committed to giving the
people a say in their fate. In America the people have no voice
whatsoever. The sheeple are content to be protected by “security,”
porno-scanners, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, and
sexual groping. To carry on the hoax “war on terror,” the US government
has elevated itself above the law.
The American effort to achieve accountability to
law, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, if not shut down by cold
weather, ice, and snow, is likely to be shut down by police violence.
One riot begun by provocateurs is all it takes to transform protesters
into “domestic extremists,” the number one concern of Homeland Security.
The presstitute media will make the case against the rioters, and the
sheeple will buy it.
The police have been militarized by Washington. Community police forces no
longer represent the local public that pays their
salaries. Local police represent Washington’s war against America.
American citizens are all suspects. Anyone who
goes through airport security knows this. The only law that the US
government obeys is not even a law. It is a bureaucratic regulation that
prevents, even in dire wartime, any profiling of suspects by
ethnicity or country of origin.
Consequently, all native born, flag-waving,
American super-patriots are suspects when they board commercial
airliners. Americans who have a life time of security clearances are
subject to being porno-scanned or sexually groped. Airport Security
cannot tell a “terrorist” from a CIA analyst, a Marine general or a US
Senator.
Well-connected members of the ruling elite, such
as Michael Chertoff, can become rich from selling the porno-scanners to
taxpayers in order “to protect the public from terrorists.”
The only terrorists Americans will ever experience
are those funded by their own tax dollars within their “own”
government. A people incapable of perceiving its real peril has no
chance of surviving. America might be a military superpower, but it no
longer exists as a free country with accountable government and a rule
of law.
November 04, 2011 - Addendum:
The Greek prime minister has been forced to withdraw the referendum on
the bailout that he promised the Greek people. Europe’s rulers made it
clear to the Greek PM that democracy has no role to play in the
decision. Greece was told to vote the deal that was handed to you or
Greece is out of the EU. The chastened PM warned the Greek parliament
that the only way to remain in the EU is to submit to the dictate.
Paul
Craig Roberts was an editor of the Wall Street Journal and an Assistant
Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He can be reached at:
PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com
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