" ... No "terrorist" gene is known to exist or is likely to be found... Surely the(y), and their supporters were afflicted by something that caused their metamorphosis from normal human beings capable of gentleness and affection into desperate, maddened, fiends with nothing but murder in their hearts and minds. What was that? Simple logic says that we must go to the roots of terror. Only a fool can believe that the services of a suicidal terrorist can be purchased, or that they can be bred at will anywhere: Ouch Borith: Permanent Representative Of The Kingdom Of Cambodia To The UN: 10/03/2001
So, the President May Kill Anybody He Pleases, Right? By Robert Higgs The president's use of this remote-control-execution device apparently has no geographical limits, because, as he assures us, the "war on terror" has none. Today, a dirt road in Waziristan; tomorrow, the Santa Monica Freeway. It will be interesting to see, when drone attacks are carried out in this country, whether the American public gives a damn. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20781.htm === Bolivia Versus the Empire Morales Sí, Secession No By Patrick Irelan Evo Morales is a patient man. After he was elected president of Bolivia in 2005, he set about in a peaceful and democratic way to liberate his country's oppressed majority. That majority includes indigenous South American Indians, who make up over 55 percent of the population, plus a large proportion of the country's mestizos, who constitute a total of 30 percent of the population. Morales himself is an Aymara Indian, the first indigenous president in the history of Bolivia. The remaining 15 percent of the population is as white as the faces you recently saw at the Republican National Convention. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20783.htm ==== War Pundits Telling U.S. Allies to Commit National Suicide? By Gary Brecher I'd hate to be Georgia right now. So many American pundits have plans for the Georgians, brilliant schemes designed to get Georgia into a big war with the Russians. "Here's what you oughta do." It's like listening in on bar talk -- some drunk trying to talk a 98-pound weakling into a rematch with the hulking thug who just put him on the floor. Funny thing, they never want to prove their theory themselves. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20780.htm === How the Masters of the Universe Ran Amok and Cost us the Earth By Bill Jamieson SLAM. Slam. Slam. Slam. Like a scene from a gathering of Mafia dons, the doors of 30 black Lincolns slammed shut as their besuited occupants stepped out into a Manhattan downpour - and into a global financial storm. That storm broke yesterday, with stock markets tumbling around the world. In London, the FTSE 100 plunged almost 4 per cent to 5204.2. - In the US, the Dow Jones industrial average suffered its biggest fall since 9/11. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20778.htm ==== Bank of America, Merrill Bailout Disguised as Buyout? By: Mike Stathis It appears as if we are witnessing government bailouts using taxpayer money that are being deceitfully disguised as buyouts. Not just with the Merrill buyout but also this newly established $70 billion emergency bank fund, set aside to help out banks with future problems. Where do you think this money is coming from? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20777.htm === US Economy: Rudderless and Reeling From Direct Hits A raid on private pensions? By Paul Craig Roberts Most Americans, including the presidential candidates and the media, are unaware that the US government today, now at this minute, is unable to finance its day to operations and must rely on foreigners to purchase its bonds. The government pays the interest to foreigners by selling more bonds, and when the bonds come due, the government redeems the bonds by selling new bonds. The day the foreigners do not buy is the day the American people and their government are brought to reality. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20771.htm === Fed Funds Spread Signals Crash By iTulip Administrator The Fed tries to manage the economy and inflation by influencing short term interest rates. It does that by buying and selling government bonds in the bond market in what are called "open market operations." They set a target rate, such as 2%, then buy or sell bonds as needed until the effective rate in the bond market matches the target rate objective. Problem is, this process does not always work in times of crisis because the bond markets themselves may be dis-functional, as is the case today. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20773.htm ==== How Safe Is Your Bank? Top Economist: Americans Should Worry About Bank Deposits if Congress Doesn't Act By Aaron Task Americans are justified to be worried, says Nouriel Roubini, of NYU's Stern School and RGE Monitor, who notes there is already a "slow-motion run on retail banks" occurring nationwide. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20779.htm ==== In Case You Missed It The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke By Chalmers Johnson The neoconservatives in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19817.htm ==== More Wars, More Deaths, More Profits By Rev. Richard Skaff The Georgian conflict seems to have a major awakening effect on the Russian bear to reclaim its geostrategic power and to take stand against the unilateral empire of the Anglo-American establishment. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20768.htm === Federal Corruption and Meaningless Elections By Timothy V. Gatto The United States is much like the Titanic, listing to one side and ready to take the long dive to the bottom. We have a 9.5 Trillion Dollar deficit that is being held by foreign countries. The biggest part of our economy, home ownership that makes up approximately half of the assets of our country in mortgages sold to trust funds, retirement plans and government bonds and other investment vehicles is quickly going "bottom up". http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20770.htm === Stop, In the Name of God By Mamoon Alabbasi Earlier this month, the Iraq war, arguably the biggest mass murder expedition of the twenty-first centaury, was branded by Republican vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin as a "task that is from God." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20769.htm === Is Sarah Palin's God a Liar and a War Criminal? By Ed Ciaccio I doubt any Christian, or any believer in God, for that matter, would claim that the supreme international war crime of waging aggressive war, especially one based on lies, was "a task that is from God." So is Sarah Palin deluded, ignorant, or just pandering to the worst, most extreme elements in our country? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20772.htm ==== America is Now Rome An Open Letter to Christian Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan By Stan Goff In your military chapels hang American flags. But God's Creation does not stop at the border of the United States; and God's love is not extended exclusively to Americans. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20782.htm ==== The Almighty and U.S. Elections By P. SAINATH For all its world leader status and excellence in scientific research, far more people in this country believe in the Devil than in Darwin, as one late 2007 poll put it. Belief in (literal) Hell and the Devil was firm amongst 62 per cent of those surveyed. Darwin, complete with evolution / 'natural selection' clocked in with a poor 42 per cent. (About the same as Obama's rating in his latest polls.) http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20775.htm ==== Generating Mountains of False Hope By: Peter Chamberlin The roots of the two-party system run through generations of families, workplaces and affiliations, binding unsuspecting sheeple with imaginary bonds of loyalty to lying politicians. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20774.htm ==== End Game By John S. Hatch What if a candidate pledged to stop wasting trillions on the military and instead began improving American infrastructure, education, health care, the environment and began to address the issue of homelessness? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20776.htm === The Draft Iraqi Oil Law:: The proposed oil law creates a Federal Oil and Gas Council on which would sit representatives of Exxon-Mobil, Shell, BP, etc., whose tasks include approving their own contracts. Instead of Iraqi central government decision-making on oil, the legislation authorizes regional authorities to individually sign contracts with foreign companies, promoting bidding wars between regions that could lead to breaking Iraq into three states. http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2008/0915draftlaw.htm ==== more here: http://tinyurl.com/dy6yy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
