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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

How an Iranian 'Oil Bourse' Threatens the American Empire

The Existentialist Cowboy

It's been over seven years since the US had real or competent leadership and now a neo-ape man may precipitate our return to the cave! Iran's planned oil bourse threatens not only Bush's simplistic view of the world, it strikes at the the coffers of "big oil". Isolated by mysteriously cut internet cables, Iran --if it is not nuked --will this month begin trading oil in currencies other than the dollar. Bush's cave man response: Nuke Iran! Kill, kill!
    On September 16 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire was as dead, theoretically, as its predecessor, the British. Our empire was seventy-one years old and had been in ill financial health since 1968. Like most modern empires, ours rested not so much on military prowess as on economic primacy.

    -- Gore Vidal, Chapter Three of Imperial America (Nation Books, 2005)
Bush's response to Iran's "Oil Bourse", his response to the end of American empire, is pre-stonge age in nature. Indeed, the US empire will collapse when the dollar collapses. Because we have an ape-man and not a real President, the consequences will be tragic.

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Posted by Me at 2/05/2008 10:45:00 pm | | Comments

Did They Reveal the Absence of Confessions?
Why Were the 9/11 Tapes Destroyed?

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS | CounterPunch.org

Many Americans are content with the 9/11 Commission Report, but the two chairmen of the commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton are not. Neither was commission member Max Cleland, a US Senator who resigned from the 9/11 Commission, telling the Boston Globe (November 13, 2003): "This investigation is now compromised." Even former FBI director Louis Freeh wrote in the Wall Street Journal (Nov. 17, 2005) that there are inaccuracies in the commission's report and "questions that need answers."

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Posted by Me at 2/05/2008 10:37:00 pm | | Comments

Willie Nelson Fears Election Could Be Cancelled
"We could have George in there ten years longer," says country music star

Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet

Country music legend Willie Nelson fears the 2008 presidential election could be cancelled due to a national state of emergency and that George W. Bush could occupy the White House for another decade.

"It's a long time until election day and some sort of national crisis could put off the elections and we could have George in there ten years longer," Nelson told the Alex Jones Show today.

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Posted by Me at 2/05/2008 10:15:00 pm | | Comments

Monday, February 04, 2008

Talk of Imminent War Against Iran Amid an Attack of 'Coincidences'

The Existentialist Cowboy

The "coincidences":
  • A series of internet disruptions due to cut telecom cables that has cut Iran off the Internet!
  • Israel is not affected.
  • An Iranian Oil Bourse, where oil, petrochemicals and gas will be traded in various non-dollar currencies, is set to open this month.
  • Israelis have been told to prepare for war, presumably with Iran
Before leaving the Middle East, Bush is reported to have promised Benjamin Netanyahu that the US would join Israel in a nuclear strike on Iran. In Israel, there is talk of "...a rain of missiles" for which Israelis must prepare now.

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Posted by Me at 2/04/2008 11:35:00 pm | | Comments

’Blair Government under police investigation for war crimes.’ Press Conference

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Press Release: Scotland Yard to investigate Tony Blair and ex-Attorney General Peter Goldsmith for war crimes

Press Conference, Room C, ... all » 1 Parliament Street Tuesday 15th January 2008 3pm

John McDonnell MP, Chris Coverdale: International War Law Expert and Annie Machon of the Campaign to Make War History brief MPs and the media on allegations of war crimes committed against the people of Iraq by Britain’s former Prime Minister and former Attorney General.

Officers from Scotland Yard have commenced a criminal investigation into the deaths of Iraqi citizens killed during the armed invasion and occupation of Iraq. The Metropolitan Police are acting in response to crimes reported by peace activists from We Are Change UK and The Campaign to Make War History. In an unprecedented step, the case was handed to the War Crimes division of the Counter Terrorism branch who are now investigating allegations of 14 criminal offences committed by Tony Blair, Lord Goldsmith and others. The offences are under the International Criminal Court Act 2001, which came into effect under English common law, just two days before 9/11.

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Posted by Me at 2/04/2008 10:50:00 pm | | Comments

War in Iraq

Defeat Without End

By Robert C. Koehler | InformationClearingHouse

We’ve already failed in Iraq, and throughout the Middle East and Central Asia — failed with consequences beyond reckoning. God knows someone will have to take a swig of political courage and acknowledge it one of these days, simply to stop the lie — the lies, a governmental cluster bomb of them — from doing further harm.

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Posted by Me at 2/04/2008 10:40:00 pm | | Comments

Sunday, February 03, 2008

There's Something Wicked in the Wind.

Smoking Mirrors Blog

There’s a lot of hysteria jumping off of the internet right now; what portion of the internet is still operating. Let’s face it, previous severance of communications links have proven to be a prelude to war. There are all manner of theories chasing this event. Some of them are dark and dreadful if true.

I’ve been given some credible alternatives to the cutting of major communication cables in recent days. One of them is because gold is soaring. Markets in India, Hong Kong and Tokyo were all geared for major trading which would have precipitated a huge flight from the dollar.

Another story I’ve been given is that it’s connected to the opening of the Iranian oil bourse with much the same intention of forestalling economic free fall.

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Posted by Me at 2/03/2008 10:57:00 pm | | Comments

Cutting Cables, Lighting Fuses

WakeUpFromYourSlumber.com

A third undersea cable has been cut, effectively eliminating the Internet in the Middle East, http://www.spiderednews.com/Internet_I.htm?url=@http://www.iht.com/artic... But according to CNN that cable outage does not extend to Israel, Lebanon and Iraq. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/index.html
Is it a coincidence that these three countries, who represent the next phase of the war on terrorism, were spared in the communications blackout that is affecting the rest of the Middle East? With the reemergence of the shadowy Fatah Al Islam organization, which has been linked to Saudi Prince Bandar, Saad Al-Hariri, the Mossad and neocon Elliot Abrams, http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2008/01/24/lebanon-fatah-al-islam-is-the-moss... it becomes clear that the pre-invasion of Lebanon scenario from last summer has nearly been reset. Bush laid claim to Lebanon with his recent executive order criminalizing criticism of US/Israeli actions in Lebanon, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070802-1.html just as he did with the previous one on Iraq. These two orders claimed that the entire war of terror hinged on these sideshows, declaring that failure in either represents “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”

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Posted by Me at 2/03/2008 10:32:00 pm | | Comments

Hold that Thought, I've got to go to the Al Qaeda.

Smoking Mirrors Blog

The first thing I want to say is that there is no Al Qaeda; not in the way we understand it to be. The only Al Qaeda ever found is this one here and given the fact that there are now more Al Qaeda outlets than there are McDonald’s makes it all the more absurd. On Friday, unknown gunman attacked the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania and once again it was Al Qaeda. A bystander said the colors were melting from the flag flying from the getaway car.

Al Qaeda means The Toilet ...think a little people and add this in to what we know about 9/11.

Over the last several days four underground cables have been cut in the Middle East. You can read about it here. One was also cut that linked UAE and Oman so this gives us four cables. Guess what? Ships dragging anchors caused this in every case. At no time in the past did four major cables get cut at the same relative time by dragging ship’s anchors and now four have been cut just like that. Can you say “three high rise buildings tumbling into their own footprints in one day?” I thought you could.

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Posted by Me at 2/03/2008 10:23:00 pm | | Comments

Stagflation is Here

By Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay | Global Research
    War—after all, what is it that the people get? Why—widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

    -- Samuel B. Pettengill

    "Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

    -- James Madison, 4th U.S. President (April 20, 1795)

    "Let me issue and control a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws".

    -- Nathan Rothschild, 1791

Last summer, I observed that there was a "solvency crisis" underneath the ongoing subprime mortgage liquidity squeeze. Central banks can alleviate a "liquidity crisis", but they cannot solve a solvency crisis.

Last year also, before the events, I warned that the U.S. was heading toward stagflation.

This was due to three fundamental factors.

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Posted by Me at 2/03/2008 10:09:00 pm | | Comments

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