1. “Who Deactivated The Pentagon’s Missile Shield On 9/11?
ZERO is the only documentary to showcase the existence of the anti-aircraft missile batteries at the Pentagon reservation on 9/11. Actually ZERO shows the sixth missile battery that was hidden at ground level. The Pentagon had five other missile batteries (as recounted by Barbara Honegger, John Judge and Thierry Meyssan ) on the roof hidden in fake A/C housing.“
http://www.911blogger.com/node/19453
2. Maybe we should consider it, also:
“Iceland Defense Agency to Be Shut Down?
Minister for Foreign Affairs Össur Skarphédinsson said he is looking closely into matters concerning the Iceland Defense Agency, which began operations on June 1, 2008, and that it will possibly have to be shut down.
“I believe there are many possibilities to save money by merging different operations of the agency with that of other institutions,” Skarphédinsson told Fréttabladid. “I’m in the same position as other Icelanders who now have to think about every penny and do everything they can to save and rationalize.”
http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16567&ew_0_a_id=320325
3. “Iran: the friendliest people in the world
Beaming smiles, gel and a joke about lavatory brushes and weapons of mass destruction – Iran overturns all expectations“
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/middle_east/article5768065.ece
4. “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will announce at the Gaza donor’s conference next week that the US will give $900 million to help rebuild the Gaza Strip. That is about a billion dollars.
It is obvious why Clinton is making this gesture. The United States’s name is mud in much of the Muslim world because Washington supported to the hilt Ehud Olmert’s brutal assault on the people and civilian infrastructure of the Gaza Strip. Gaza was already a blockaded and abused slum before the war, where 15% of the children were undernourished. Bush urged Olmert on, and Obama has been silent.
So at least the US can spend some money to restore to the Gazans the basic prerequisites for a decent life.
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So people are asking where the US government is going to get a billion dollars to give to the Gazans. That’s easy. The US should take it out of the over $3 billion a year it gives to Israel. Israel aggressively launched that war, which it planned out for six months beforehand, even while Olmert was ostensibly indirectly negotiating a truce with Hamas. The war was fruitless and accomplished none of its goals. There is no reason for the US government to be giving the Israelis, who have a per capita income of $17,000 a year, money in the first place. But it certainly makes no sense to reward them for bad behavior, especially given that we are living through the great crash and incipient depression of 2009.
Amnesty International is going further and urging that the UN institute a weapons ban on both Israel and the militant Palestinian factions.”
http://www.juancole.com/
5. This sounds good – and if it is anything like Britain’s 1979 ‘Winter of Discontent’, we should get some great punk music out of it!
“Britain faces summer of rage – police
Police are preparing for a “summer of rage” as victims of the economic downturn take to the streets to demonstrate against financial institutions, the Guardian has learned.
Britain’s most senior police officer with responsibility for public order raised the spectre of a return of the riots of the 1980s, with people who have lost their jobs, homes or savings becoming “footsoldiers” in a wave of potentially violent mass protests.
Superintendent David Hartshorn, who heads the Metropolitan police’s public order branch, told the Guardian that middle-class individuals who would never have considered joining demonstrations may now seek to vent their anger through protests this year.
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Police were said to have been heavy-handed at Greek solidarity marches in London in December and, last month, at protests against Israel’s invasion of Gaza. In August 1,000 officers, helicopters and riot horses were drafted to Kent from 26 UK police forces to oversee the climate camp demonstration against the Kingsnorth power station. The massive operation to monitor the protesters cost £5.9m and resulted in 100 arrests. But in December the government was forced to apologise to parliament after the Guardian revealed that its claims that 70 officers had been hurt in violent clashes were wrong.“
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12431
6. “As part of that New York Times online discussion in which I participated yesterday regarding whether Obama should continue to pursue “bipartisanship,” I wrote:
In 2006, the Democrats ran on a platform of opposing — not embracing — the Republican agenda, and American voters handed them a resounding, even crushing, victory. In 2008, much the same thing happened: Democrats ran on platform of “change” from the Republican approach to governance — not replicating it – and resoundingly won again.
What possible reason is there, then, to argue that Democrats ought to adopt Republican ideas — regardless of what those ideas are — simply for the sake of “bipartisanship”? Americans elected Democrats to implement Democratic ideas and will hold Democrats responsible for the success or failure of their policies. Democrats should therefore use their majority power to carry out the polices that they think are the best ones for the country, not dilute those ideas and incorporate discredited Republican approaches in order to fulfill some vague bipartisan ideal.
Shortly thereafter, the NYT released a new poll (.pdf) which included findings showing what Americans think about “bipartisanship” — and it is the exact opposite of what harmony fetishists continuously claim about Americans’ supposed desire for “bipartisanship.”
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By a 17 point-margin, Americans think it’s more important that Obama “stick to his policies” than try to dilute them in order to attract Republican support in pursuit of “bipartisanship.” It’s not surprising that 39% want Obama to pursue bipartisanship. There are still many people who prefer Republican policies and naturally want Obama to embrace those policies in the name of “bipartisanship” — but the group that wants that is in the clear minority. That’s why Republicans lost so decisively in the last two elections.
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That’s actually an amusing result: a huge majority of Americans want Congressional Republicans to be “bipartisan,” but don’t want Obama to be. Overwhelmingly, then, Americans favor “bipartisanship” only to the extent that it means that Republicans support Democratic policies and abandon their own.
Put another way, the reason that Americans voted overwhelmingly in favor of Democrats in the last two elections and overwhelmingly against Republicans is because they want Democratic policies and not Republicans policies. They drove Republicans out of office in massive numbers because they don’t want Republicans and their policies governing the country. They want something different than Republican policies, meaningfully distinguishable from those policies — “change.” Everywhere but the Beltway, that proposition would be self-evident.
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Of course, nobody embraces this bipartisanship myth more than Democrats do, even when (perhaps especially when) they’re in the majority. When Republicans controlled the White House and Congress during most of the last eight years, demands for “bipartisanship” — even from Democrats — were virtually impossible to find. Instead, Democrats were more than happy to meekly assume the complicit posture for which they became known, using their minority status as an all-purpose excuse as to why they couldn’t stop — and usually supported — even highly unpopular Bush policies (such as the Iraq War). Yet now that they’re in the majority, “bipartisanship” suddenly becomes not only the supreme Beltway religion, but the battlecry of Democrats as well — the phrase that justifies everything from embracing GOP positions to allowing flagrant Bush war crimes and other lawbreaking to go unpunished (as but one example: it’s rather difficult to listen to Robert Gibbs and conclude anything other than that the administration is strongly considering the type of “Social Security reform” which people like Ponnuru have long advocated).”
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
7. Sure sounds like he got it right:
“Did Vladimir Lenin Predict The Banking Disaster Of 2008?
“Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism”
Lenin enumerated the following five features characteristic of the epoch of imperialism:
The epoch of imperialism opens when the expansion of colonialism has covered the globe and no new colonies can be acquired by the great powers except by taking them from each other, and the concentration of capital has grown to a point where finance capital becomes dominant over industrial capital. Lenin enumerated the following five features characteristic of the epoch of imperialism:
(1) the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life;
(2) the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy;
(3) the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;
(4) the formation of international monopoly capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and
(5) the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed. Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed. [Lenin, Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism, LCW Volume 22, p. 266-7.] “
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20946.htm
