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about.” - Mark Twain

“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.” - Oscar Wilde

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you were born in it.” - George Bernard Shaw

September 04/05, 2012

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Why America and Israel Are the Greatest Threats to Peace

By Noam Chomsky

The war drums are beating ever more loudly over Iran. Imagine the situation to
be reversed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32361.htm [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyJmUGMQLJsofJ6PjaDs-lymfAc8zKO01lc5bpp2WKkwilahe3kyAoEL-j3RF5w3fglylg4qgAi-PfeyoUDhxVkmpy5sEEK-s5qwLoqp2CIO-jhnMzCoq5f2eV4JYgVg0b_lIk-LInfWwm5uXBDu16KE]

Hillary Reinforces US-China Mistrust

By Global Times

It seems that the US is trying to realize two goals, namely renewing domestic economic
vigor and checking China’s rise, so as to maintain its world hegemony, which is
its ultimate strategic goal. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32357.htm
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Soap Opera Over Kabul

By Fred Reed

There is no honor in going to someone else’s country and butchering people you
don’t know because some political general, which is to say some general, told you
to; A hit man for the Mafia is exactly as honorable. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32359.htm
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We’re One Crucial Step Closer to Seeing Tony Blair at The Hague

By George Monbiot

Blair will now find himself shut out of places where he was once welcome. One day
he may find himself shut in. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32355.htm
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The Republicans Cross The Rubicon

By Paul Craig Roberts

The Democrats have acquiesced to Republican election theft. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32356.htm
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California Passes Resolution Defining Criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism

By Tom Carter

The resolution was drafted by Republican Linda Halderman and passed without public
discussion. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32358.htm [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyL-LSzmaQmUZQvLcIA3wSOrC61C4mVqctTIWz9faAzZ0AW2C0B7LF_e5lKdHGRuzC3ZhuzDOOJgRRh4-kprigtQPS0vpCVMXCImChhknN-hg07F6aJCcyLLDLXndKCOdOLa4ULfVz-9lxM3m4r5SwiA]

’Managing’ the Plaza:
America’s Secret Deal with Mexican Drug Cartels

By Tom Burghardt

As the global financial crisis deepens, - they have inflated their balance sheets
with a veritable tsunami of hot cash generated by the Narco-Industrial Complex.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32360.htm [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyLP_iV_dxT6hmBQjcx5olRiPs35LFbaIRpJpoQnjo-FCN7a2BxTwUZV0hF0dmFhwkBu75gEjKBsvGm8FAZgjO8k3sGT9Tv-G6cl08mBZHvj_lkVELvCNmeW1u1q_9WG9JqEsaWPiJN2VRJ82xwjsOEq]
 

Hard News

27 Taliban Insurgents Killed In Afghanistan In Last 24 Hours:
Afghan police and army backed by NATO-led coalition forces have eliminated 27 armed
Taliban insurgents during operations within the last 24 hours.
http://is.gd/cXUGzk [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyLoXgUJ6uq60e92ZR3opt_Tm6LcGFF797BrdGuOD7NBn9tId-Lhh1a2OBeIP1V6CPEihWp4oZQYMxX36jh0UlKX8-1TSCb5RS4=]

Afghanistan: 20 Civilians Killed, 50 More Injured in Nangarhar Suicide Attack:
At least 20 civilians were killed and more than 50 others were injured in a suicide
bomb attack in eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday afternoon, the Ministry of
Interior (MOI) said.
http://is.gd/ng0ry6 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyKTBy0SKPzatyB0XbgP9ZfljovczjgFNtwJSHVHMBKF8ZHuGgKBJ_ptHTXKRl_reQmjBQn4IFBPTnn7erglFO___nfQ-22Bf88=]

30 killed as Kurdish rebels clash with Turkish forces : Kurdish rebels wielding
rocket launchers and machine-guns attacked a security base in southeast Turkey,
triggering a firefight that left 30 people dead, local officials said on Monday.
http://is.gd/g0cH6J [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyICmXVsUxrCGg-S848AHd_gv21AqRZjKsc5O71Vu4tYknN9Up_KL4HaK7sJ-M4CGLivjxmjZ7mHow2S9jij-vteslFP8A5Z3xI=]

US Kills 13 Civilians, Including Three Women In Yemen: Families of the victims
closed main roads and vowed to retaliate. Hundreds of angry armed gunmen joined
them and gave the government a 48-hour deadline to explain the killings, which
took place on Sunday.
http://is.gd/tQBOa5 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyI_uXanAj6FjbTRthzXosN-KD7bnNe5nCPa3cSVrMkpm0kKesRyyIum9C3GkEJxbc7Xv0iBVFnTdXbGw5HLfIrrhysEqDBnTLc=]

Yemenis protest botched US drone strikes:
Hundreds of Yemenis including youth activists on Monday rallied in the southeastern
province of Hadramout against US drone strikes in the country, demanding the government
take actions to halt the killing of civilians in botched air raids, witnesses told
Xinhua.
http://is.gd/VGI8DF [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyJ7beRzKe240dLcZ2cSZwRYgxCnsNruiA0Yr9OK68SB_96iz1iaahxQzczVdoGIodzwsT0PW6bLLERYsAD8XCSj7YCH4paMUlo=]

USAID to double its “aid” to Yemen:
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administrator said Tuesday
that it would double its aid to Yemen.
http://is.gd/g55VqL [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyJ4D-7LZInwzuwH_knz8g4hE54wyRB6_bF2bD0ZXDhiDV8-X0BjdItQr9NGr81S94PlSgK1tLmubUXLuRKxXXhwlLmFNYGS60g=]

Syria says envoy can only succeed if rebels lose outside support: Syria said on
Monday new U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi could only make headway if outside
countries ceased helping rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad and instead
declared support for a U.N.-backed peace plan.
http://is.gd/WkvbYi [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyL7t9c_vPW_uFs6qlI6NeI1Q7bQQjnGN3Sd1bxg73Z_WaO-4XTgwKmx7gKrBhRumDgZRSbL5TXTxF801cRCuwq8jVUIVoaR1i4=]

Syria: “Rebels” with Surface to air missiles. Video - Rebel fighter shows off
a captured Surface to air missile after rebel forces overran a weapons stockpile
in Abu Kamal. 8-31-12.
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Record 100,000 refugees flee Syria civil war in August alone: The U.N. refugee
agency says 100,000 refugees fled Syria in August alone, the highest monthly total
since the uprising began.
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Senior U.S. intelligence official: Israel won’t strike Iran before November: U.S.
House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, who visited
Israel last week, told a breakfast panel at the Republican National Convention
in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday that he believes the Israeli government is likely
to wait until after the elections.
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To Calm Israel, U.S. Offers Ways to “Restrain” Iran: With Israel openly debating
whether to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming months, the Obama
administration is moving ahead with a range of steps short of war that it hopes
will forestall an Israeli attack
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US downgrades anti-missile drills with Israel; send CIA’s Petraeus instead to ease
tensions: Petraeus, the 59-year-old former commander of the International Security
Assistance Force in Afghanistan, arrived in Israel on Monday to deal with what
the Jewish state’s Debka news agency calls the “flames of discord” that have been
fanned feverishly in recent days
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Former CIA Head: Iran Attack Will Push Iranians Toward A Bomb: “There is no absolute
certainty that all targets are known,” he added. “They will have to be revisited
 which only the U.S. Air Force would be able to do - and the operation will only
set the Iranians back some time and actually push them to do that which it is supposed
to prevent, getting nuclear weapons.”
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Iran completes 30 percent of missile defense system, says military official: Iran’s
air force commander tells local media air defense system, to be completed within
a year, being developed in place of the Russia S-300 array that Moscow refused
to sell to the Islamic Republic.
http://is.gd/tfPYwR [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyLbxUKGY3LysgD_pM2AE_SuvU1rH9NVpYjzAdstwqy_4gJy0r_ga2U_J27StwYtDEn5dkbTD0DULgHQ3Zoc-DB0YeZtEb-itLg=]

Democrats Remove Pro-Israel Language from Platform: The Democrat Party has removed
a section of its 2008 Party Platform in the 2012 version recently released online
— some key language in expressing support for the state of Israel.
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Israeli Ambassador Rebukes DNC Chair: The Israeli ambassador to America, Michael
Oren, has released a statement rebuking the chair of the Democratic National Party.
http://is.gd/969D94 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyJi-PkrCvVVrnJst3wjJZ9sE3oTJQ8Iha_v--q0Bd37DImYbVgOCDqaKh7NBgv7TNNVmwX3zMEpzUMtuJszJ4ITIDQRzt7nmXU=]

Australian Zionists fear Israeli group Breaking the Silence and its message on
IDF immorality: This is an in struc tive story of how main stream Aus tralian
Jew ish groups are pet ri fied that a) the pub lic will hear crit i cal and truth ful
views about Is raeli be hav iour in the West Bank and b) a de sire to “pro tect”
Jews from even un der stand ing what Is raeli oc cu pa tion means.
http://is.gd/DU5R78 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyL9Xb5_hkrnDvyAvAKCzKi9YkrTmYdiSq7FU7SfDI3wHZF0XASmuVDlNhjgkuivq_L-DZVXJqbGXE-Lo3qpSudVt720bVssIRw=]

Australia moves to buy $3b spy drone fleet: The Australian Defence Force is quietly
resurrecting plans to buy seven huge intelligence and surveillance drones that
could cost up to $3 billion. The unmanned aerial vehicles will be used for maritime
surveillance and intercepting asylum seeker boats.
http://is.gd/LJJEqz [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyKB2X2BJIGrxSYNeH1mVg4uEyyHkdUD3TmlGCBIUxDvOGyA6YgoayF5NGddwbYodHDubhF5hQWxPB0BzcP5Tb0knO20QHIoXOo=]

Revealed: US flew spy drone missions from Australia: The United States flew highly
classified Global Hawk spy drone missions from the Royal Australian Air Force base
at Edinburgh in South Australia from late 2001 until at least 2006.
http://is.gd/mWmcPM [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyIx8JORPsdO2iQszJ3HT7oK9ZkuN-5UTTiIKfjpaCPwnNIKXN-Dii3zYWSf4fGIG9fMrBkhDSqI85yBexIvEXgdLs9BlX_Bdvo=]

Epoch of ’computer virus wars’ starts?: The US is going to arm itself with computer
viruses in order to destroy the “enemy’s” computer networks. Until now, the US
has been denying that it had any plans of developing “computer weapons”.
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Nowhere to Hide: Secret Spy Sat Agency Plans Unblinking Array: America’s future
spy satellites could be more numerous, autonomous, maneuverable and cooperative,
smarter and much, much more effective - together forming a sort of high-tech, unblinking
eye in space capable of finding and tracking terrorists, insurgents, enemy ships
and, well, pretty much anything else on the Earth below.
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Anonymous claims FBI spying on millions of Apple customers: Hackers said Monday
night they caught the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) red-handed spying on
Apple customers, and published over 1 million unique device identification numbers
they allegedly pulled out of an FBI database.
http://is.gd/0DAw9D [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyKyqErS1NXEupYCqGM5RSaW2TTTQW6kVhBXkfeyWUnuw9JkXmTEjofvivCe9u568VOaCURIrl38zNVaAKlaVYuaNczxwADbFrc=]

Here’s how to check if your Apple device UDID has been compromised by the AntiSec
leak: If you’re worried that you might own one of the 1 million Apple devices
that have had their UDIDs leaked by AntiSec, reportedly from a breach of an FBI
agent’s laptop, our rockstar tech team has put together a tool to help you check.
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EU funding ’Orwellian’ artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for “abnormal
behaviour”: The European Union is spending millions of pounds developing “Orwellian”
technologies designed to scour the internet and CCTV images for “abnormal behaviour”.
http://is.gd/P0q5mJ [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyLsFvClJ9BVnHQYoikPVaMxzGvYo3oL8KjYxuivlhsjJWXvPzJbR8M2a3LJI68XqKWB2sbLYM9mFqUynBfIMJZIywJ2he73orE=]

Barclays makes £500m betting on food crisis: Outrage as bank revealed to be major
speculator while millions face starvation
http://is.gd/vaALss [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyJF7xOxrEYnV1Y6CPnquXEEGzTKfhd_y5HqfhE8ViUaC98xROTeXW9TkmSa9aK9WotXteelNfPY-k3PY9Wz_tOAM-jeHXl0n9Y=]

Depression, Suicides Rise as Euro Debt Crisis Intensifies: Europe is approaching
a crisis as the region’s debt crisis and austerity measures increase the rates
of depression, suicide and psychological problems - just as governments cut healthcare
spending by up to 50 percent
http://www.cnbc.com/id/48883704 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyJoAlh0i1VzIQAMuvyZeUl-q7RTnFKnLPGjGUjTTZJW2dxVVQgNV0wlRmF0bjOGnGCqC_uvJYwRUfouZxgYy47Y6wdWLf8IwQeeBljOw1Rn4WcAjc39Lki4]

Fears Rising, Spaniards Pull Out Their Cash and Get Out of Spain: In July, Spaniards
withdrew a record 75 billion euros, or $94 billion, from their banks - an amount
equal to 7 percent of the country’s overall economic output - as doubts grew about
the durability of Spain’s financial system
http://www.cnbc.com/id/48889555 [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyK5jYm_4uer6epF_VKn0ZqMNX-aJcz9gJaU6o0OWhb9XkucpqnPojmuhSU2mKbc3H5ATU8kn5Q9-TH1yVHAm-OVKs_ssveGyh7BrOpb5yIt9prTcRllRJx8]

US: June Foodstamp Recipients Hit All Time High : Three Times As Many Americans
Enter Poverty As Find Jobs
http://is.gd/g989Cf [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyJ-J6-MpiQoOICDEP42hILuXD5fAqLOSae9Vtq6fkGVLsSFEx5Hv5aA-FbJC4YH_Dlox3XEIMax58yiYzBhfK2aGaBfwt7SFok=]

Majority of New Jobs Pay Low Wages, Study Finds: While a majority of jobs lost
during the downturn were in the middle range of wages, a majority of those added
during the recovery have been low paying, according to a new report from the National
Employment Law Project.
http://is.gd/WMcIZa [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyJIQlTVmmojJyxidSsD1y-3QAyiRu7ci7afLxcvAq6mAirZ8o55Bl_7nFRIjmPqNffbRZdy_bOGvjnb0BUtj-HyDux1PrPbJGM=]

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“Let us be peace and joy”

Tom Feeley
 

Cost Of War
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: 4,883
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,170
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,369,462,205,921
http://www.costofwar.com/ [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001fnqq7GsdfyL9gpk4rprcAa_ZlfuMDN-X-qJQAaZrKHVYN8mmYUEgtPqJmUvxAWBmGsYJ0uGKtM8GzpYIxIaT6olL791c7G7hqrQ42rsEVfrMb2uJkEQ6SA==]
 

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