news sampling - 24 June 2009
Richard Moore
David Swanson answers: "How's Obama doing so far?"
Let's talk about the disparity between Peace Candidate Obama and
President Obama. Those who supported Obama for his promise to get us
out of ill-advised adventures overseas have been sorely disappointed.
Is the President caught in a quagmire that would have caught anyone
who succeeded Bush? No. The President is caught in a quagmire he is
actively engaged in worsening and prolonging.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/2599f3509cd85b97?hl=en
Tom Eley: NSA monitors millions of American e-mails
Several current and former agents within the National Security Agency
(NSA), speaking on condition of anonymity, have told the New York
Times that the spy agency likely monitors millions of e-mail
communications and telephone calls made by Americans. The new
revelations follow the disclosure in April that the NSAs monitoring
of domestic e-mail traffic broke the law in 2008 and 2009.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/272eb5797bbd3caa?hl=en
Tom Leonard: US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive
The government is looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint,
one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts
and returning the land to nature. The radical experiment is the
brainchild of Dan Kildee, treasurer of Genesee County, which includes
Flint.
Having outlined his strategy to Barack Obama during the election
campaign, Mr Kildee has now been approached by the US government and a
group of charities who want him to apply what he has learnt to the
rest of the country.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/e620611ae94761a5?hl=en
CDC plans massive swine flu immunization
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday
released numbers showing the extent of the swine flu outbreak in the
United States, one day after the World Health Organization officially
declared the illness - also called H1N1 - to be a worldwide pandemic.
Americans should anticipate a massive immunization campaign in late
September.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/07b3e42cf8e122ff?hl=en
President, CFR: Sovereignty is out of date (2006 article)
Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty is not only becoming
weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker. States would be
wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves, because
they cannot insulate themselves from what goes on elsewhere.
Sovereignty is no longer a sanctuary.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/5b6d73a90dd1053b?hl=en
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Planned destruction of US economy continues
Kurt Nimmo: Bankster Holiday Planned for September?
Bob Chapmans influential International Forecaster is reporting on the
possibility of a so-called bank holiday planned for late August or
early September. According to Chapmans sources, U.S. embassies around
the world are selling dollars and stockpiling money from respective
countries where they operate.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/e912614404e9b4ad?hl=en
Ellen Brown: Deflation and not Inflation is the Order of the Day
The Retreat of the Shadow Lenders, Why Deflation and not Inflation is
the Order of the Day By Ellen Brown Global Research, June 18, 2009
webofdebt.com
While contrarians are screaming hyperinflation!, the money supply
is actually shrinking. This is because most money today comes into
existence as bank loans, and lending has shrunk substantially. That
means the Fed needs to monetize debt just to fill the breach.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/f48130dba5f16b3f?hl=en
New World Order: the Chinese-Russian version
Pointing to the necessity of updating the existing financial system as
soon as possible, SCO nations also called for the creation of a new
supranational currency to handle mutual transactions. In Moscow,
finance expert Dmitry Smyslov believes that the move reflects the
dollar starting to lose its clout as the worlds top reserve currency.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/644d990614bc8a1e?hl=en
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US crimes against humanity continue
Stephen Lendman: Afghanistan's Operation Phoenix
McChrystal is a hired gun, an assassin, a man known for committing war
crime atrocities as head of the Pentagon's infamous Joint Special
Operations Command (JSOC) - established in 1980 and comprised of the
Army's Delta Force and Navy Seals, de facto death squads writer
Seymour Hersh described post-9/11 as an "executive assassination wing"
operating out of Dick Cheney's office.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/e2ffdab1b0dced66?hl=en
Yet another mass murder by US killer drones
There have been more than 35 US strikes since last August - killing
over 340 people - and most have landed in the North and South
Waziristan tribal regions.
Pakistan has been publicly critical of drone attacks, arguing that
they kill civilians and fuel support for militants like Baitullah
Mehsud.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/7e5a6650f81d5dd7?hl=en
William Engdahl: The Eurasian Pipeline Calculus
The Eurasian Pipeline Calculus By F. William Engdahl Global Research,
A Turkish accord with Armenia would change the balance of power in the
entire region. Since the August 2008 Georgia-Russia conflict the
Caucasus, a strategically vital area has been unstable. Russian troops
remain in South Ossetia. Russia also has troops in Armenia meaning
Russia has Georgia surrounded.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/b551ab78acd71a85?hl=en
Itar Tass: Towards a China Russia Axis?
The leaders of the countries were also attending the signing
ceremony of the plan of Russian-Chinese investment cooperation, as
well as the protocol to the June 27, 1997 intergovernmental
agreement on the creation and organizational matters of the
mechanism of regular meetings between the prime ministers of Russia
and China.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/32aefe609084e0c0?hl=en
Russia to give 'asymmetric' answer to possible U.S. space militarization
"There is no great problem in shooting down a spacecraft."
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/a438403f824db1b4?hl=en
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CIA 'colored revolution' in Iran fails
James Petras: Iranian Elections: The Stolen Elections Hoax
What is astonishing about the Wests universal condemnation of the
electoral outcome as fraudulent is that not a single shred of evidence
in either written or observational form has been presented either
before or a week after the vote count. During the entire electoral
campaign, no credible (or even dubious) charge of voter tampering was
raised.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/f67e5418e70f3648?hl=en
Andrew Beatty: No evidence of fraud in Iran election
Experts see no smoking gun for Iran election fraud By Andrew Beatty,
Global Research, June 19, 2009 Agence-France Press - 2009-06-17
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/dbec71042218d69b?hl=en
Eric Margolis: Seeing Through All the Propaganda About Iran
The US has laid economic siege to Iran for 30 years, blocking
desperately needed foreign investment, preventing technology
transfers, and disrupting Iranian trade. In recent years, the US
Congress voted $120 million for anti-regime media broadcasts into
Iran, and $60-75 million funding opposition parties, violent
underground Marxists like the Mujahidin-i-Khalq, and restive ethnic
groups like Azeris, Kurds, and Arabs under the so-called "Iran
Democracy Program."
We also hear lot of hypocrisy from Western capitals. Washington,
Ottawa, London and Paris piously accused Iran of improper electoral
procedures while utterly ignoring the total lack of democracy in their
authoritarian Mideast allies such as Egypt, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia,
that never hold elections and throw political opponents into prison
and torture them. Compared to them, Iran, for all its faults, is
almost a model of democratic governance.
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/fa735fd4dc78ecac?hl=en
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